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Sam Howison is an Associate Professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, where he has served in various capacities, including Director of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM) and head of the Mathematical Institute from 2011 to 2015. His research interests are rooted in applied mathematics, focusing on physical applications of differential equations, free moving boundary problems, heat and mass transfer, fluid dynamics, and mathematical finance. He has made significant contributions to derivatives pricing, asymptotic methods, and models related to energy markets and the optimal production of exhaustible resources. Additionally, he investigates models utilizing networks, specifically community detection within networks. He has authored several noteworthy publications, including 'Practical Applied Mathematics' and 'Mathematics of Financial Derivatives'.
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