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David Silvester

David James Silvester (born 26 December 1958 in Dumfries, Scotland) is a British numerical analyst. He has a Chair in Numerical Analysis and is the Head of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.
== Early Life and Education ==
Silvester was educated at Ysgol Ardudwy (Wales) and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), from which he gained his B.Sc. in Mathematics (1980) and Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis (1983). His Ph.D. thesis (An Analysis of Finite Element Approximation for Swirling Flow) was supervised by Ronald Thatcher. He was appointed lecturer in Mathematics at UMIST in 1984, and later promoted to Senior Lecturer and Reader. In 2003 he was promoted to a personal Chair of Numerical Analysis. Silvester held visiting positions in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 1991 (as a Fulbright Senior Fellow) and in 1999, at the University of Maryland (1994), the University of the Littoral Opal Coast (2009), and the University of Heidelberg (2019).
Silvester is best known for his work on finite element methods, fast iterative solvers for fluid dynamics, and uncertainty quantification. He has more than 65 refereed publications on topics such as iterative solution of Stokes and Navier–Stokes systems, preconditioning, and error estimation in finite element methods. Silvester's books include Finite Elements and Fast Iterative Solvers: With Applications in Incompressible Fluid Dynamics and Essential Partial Differential Equations.
Silvester has served as the elected President of the UK and Republic of Ireland section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009–2011). He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Scientific Computing.
Category:1958 births
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Category:British mathematicians
David Skoczen

David Brian Skoczen (born January 25, 1978) is an American sports broadcaster who is currently the radio play-by-play voice of Akron Zips football and Akron Zips men's basketball.
He has also been the permanent play-by-play voice of the Canton Crocodiles, Visalia Oaks and West Michigan Whitecaps. Over the course of his career, Skoczen has served a variety of roles at WKNR in Cleveland, Ohio and WHBC in Canton, Ohio.
==Early Life==
Skoczen was born in Sylvania, Ohio, grew up in Woodville, Ohio and graduated from Woodmore High School.
==Broadcasting Career==
While attending the University of Akron, Skoczen was an active participant in student-run WZIP. He was hired by WHLO to be the first studio producer for the Akron Aeros (now the Akron RubberDucks) upon their move to Akron in 1997. Later that summer he was hired as a news reporter at WHBC and at age 20 was promoted to a full-time reporter. 
Skoczen filled a variety of on-air positions at WHBC and became the last play-by-play voice of the Canton Crocodiles who moved at the end of the 2011 season and became the Washington Wild Things
In 2002, Skoczen was named the voice of the Visalia Oaks, who are now called the Visalia Rawhide. He was named play-by-play voice of the West Michigan Whitecaps in 2005, a position he held for four years. 
During his time in Visalia, Skoczen also called high school football games for KTIP and KJUG as well as basketball games for Porterville College and was a fill-in on Fresno State baseball broadcasts.
Beginning in 2012, Skoczen filled a variety of on-air positions at WKNR, most notably hosting ESPN Cleveland Tonight and calling games at the Mid-American Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments.
==Personal Life==
Skoczen married the former Lisa Couto in 2003 and the couple have two children together.
Category:1978 births
Category:American sports journalists
Category:People from Sylvania, Ohio
Category:American people
David Steven Simon

David Steven Simon is an American writer-producer who is best known for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Mad About You, Full House, The Wayans Brothers, Sister, Sister, My Two Dads, Charles in Charge, The Royal Family, Kirk, Everything's Relative, Hearts Afire, Together We Stand, Fernwood Tonight and There's Johnny.
Simon began his career as a New York-based publicist for United Artists where he helped launch three Academy Award-winning films: Rocky 1, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Network, plus Carrie, That's Entertainment Part 2, James Bond films, Woody Allen films, and The Return of the Pink Panther. He appeared as The Pink Panther in the Annual Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade, cutting the ribbon and riding on the Cootie float.
He has been under exclusive contract with Walt Disney Studios, Universal Studios, and Columbia. He co-wrote the story for the feature film In The Mood with Robert Kosberg, which was directed by Phil Alden Robinson for Lorimar Films. Simon also wrote the story for the Disney TV film "17 Again."
In television, he rose up the ranks beginning with Charles In Charge which was followed by Together We Stand, My Two Dads, Full House, and The Royal Family. He was a co-executive producer of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and executive producer of Hearts Afire and Sister, Sister. He co-created The Wayans Brothers, was a consulating producer on Mad About You and co-created the series There's Johnny with actor-writer Paul Reiser which played on Hulu and Peacock in 2016. He co-wrote the NBC pilot Viki, for producer Fred Silverman.
Simon wrote and directed the comedy short Dante and Beatrice, which won Tracey Brooks Swope Avildsen a Best Actress award at the annual SOFI Awards in New York City and the comedy short That's News To Me starring Caroline Rhea, Jay Potter, and Chip Zien which appeared in festivals all over the world.
Simon wrote original comedy material for Smokey Robinson who hosted The Rythym and Blues Foundation Awards Dinner for two consecutive years.
He was a regular contributor to Huffington Post and also appeared as a television commentator on New York PBS radio station WFUV.
His play Grave Doubts, A play about long buried secrets, had its premiere at Theater Harrisberg in 2017.
Category:American producers
Category:American people
David Stow Adam

David Stow Adam (9 February 1859 – 31 January 1925) was a Scottish minister and professor.
David was born in near Langside in Glasgow to George Adam and Jane , both of whom were schoolteachers. He would matriculate to the University of Glasgow in 1874, getting a Master of Arts degree in 1881 and a Bachelor of Divinity in 1884. He would also study at Erlangen University. Between 1881 and 1884, he would teach logic and metaphysics at the University, later teaching Hebrew at Free Church Training College between 1885 and 1886.
In 1886, Adam was ordained a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He would marry Grace Paterson in 1890, having five sons and one daughter with her. In 1907, Adam was appointed chair of systemic theology and church history at Ormond College, being inducted on 11 March. Following his appointment, the college would adopt a more progressive approach. While chair, he would become a pioneer in Australian ecumenism, being president of the National Council of Churches in Australia in 1910. He would be awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Glasgow on 25 June 1912.
In 1916, Adam served as a Chaplain 4th Class of the Hospital Transport Corps in the First Australian Imperial Force. In 1924, he would leave Australia with his wife in order to see his daughter in China; he also planned to see Christianity in Asia first hand. While in Canton, China, he would contract typhoid fever and pneumonia, dying on 31 January 1925.
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David T. Mitchell

David T. Mitchell (born January 6, 1962) is an American disability studies professor. He has written several books and has also made films as a part of his academic research.
==Biography==
Originally from Newark, New Jersey, Mitchell currently resides in Princeville, Kauai.
David T. Mitchell is a professor of English & Cultural Studies at George Washington University. He has published six scholarly books in disability studies and is widely recognized as an international scholar of importance in the field. His co-edited collection (with Sharon Snyder), The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability (1997) , was the first humanities-based collection of academic essays in the field. The influence of that collection led directly to appointment as a series co-editor of "Corporealities: Discourses of Disability" at the University of Michigan Press which has published more than 35 books under its brand to date. 
In 2001, he co-authored, Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse, which forwarded a field-defining theory of disability representation that remains one of the most cited concepts in Disability Studies. His most recent publications include: Cultural Locations of Disability (2006), The Biopolitics of Disability (2015), and The Matter of Disability (2019). These works have extended the range of his expertise from literary, cultural, and film studies to political economics, disability history, climate change, animal studies and posthumanism. At the center of his work are questions of disability embodiment as providing alternative ethical maps of living. He is currently completing a new feature-length film with his son, Cameron S. Mitchell, on Nazi mass murders in psychiatric institutions titled, Disposable Humanity.
Category:1962 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Newark, New Jersey
Category:American people
David Thomas

David Thomas OBE (born 1990 in Bristol) is a British educationalist and former headteacher. He is currently CEO of Mathematics Education for Social Mobility and Excellence, a UK-based maths education charity. He is also the Conservative Party's prospective parliamentary candidate for Norwich South.
== Early life ==
Thomas was born in Bristol in 1990. He attended Collegiate School on a scholarship and then studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Exeter College, University of Oxford. As an undergraduate he won the Kaneda Prize for the best paper and participant Carroll Round conference in international economics. at Georgetown University.
== Career ==
Thomas joined Teach First after leaving university. He taught maths at Westminster Academy before joining McKinsey & Co as a strategy consultant. In 2018 Thomas became headteacher at Jane Austen College in Norwich, part of the Inspiration Trust. He was 27 years old at the time. Under his leadership Jane Austen pupils achieved the best A-level results of any state school in the city.
During the Covid-19 pandemic Thomas co-founded Oak National Academy. He was awarded an OBE for services to education in 2020. He was one of a group of local leaders who turned on the Norwich Christmas lights that year.
Thomas became Senior Policy Advisor to Nadhim Zahawi at the Department for Education in 2021. He served Michelle Donelan, James Cleverly, Kit Malthouse and Gillian Keegan in the same role.
Thomas left the DfE to become CEO at Mathematics Education and Social Mobility for Excellence (MESME), a maths education charity focused on disadvantaged pupils. MESME is funded by Alex Gerko, the founder of XTX Markets.
== Politics ==
Thomas was selected to contest Norwich South for the Conservative Party in August 2023. He has spoken out in favour of building housing and infrastructure to boost economic growth in the city
Category:1990 births
Category:British people
Category:English people
David Thornell

Ralph David Magnus Thornell, Born september 5 1984 in Lidköping, Sweden, is a swedish photographer. 
== Career ==
In 2010 David Thornell started to visit and photograph every state in the United States. He later on made wrote articles for swedish magazine Expressen Allt Om Resor, Tidningen RES and swedish retro magazine Riksettan.
== References ==
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* Lifestyle- Swedish Photographer David Thornell
* Photos from customers | David Thornell Photography
* David Thornell on linkedin
* Sweden, 2010. | David Thornell | Flickr
Category:1984 births
Category:Swedish photographers
Category:People from Lidköping Municipality
Category:Swedish people
Category:Swedish-language magazines
David Tikoian

David Tikoian is an Armenian-American Politian and retired police chief from Smithfield, Rhode Island 
==Early life and education==
Tikoian was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island on July 9th, 1968. In 1986 he graduated from Smithfield High School. After high school he obtained an associates degree from the Community College of Rhode Island in 1988, and in 1990 he graduated from Bryant University with a BS in Business Administration. He finished his education two years later in 1992 after completing his training at the Rhode Island State Police Academy.
==Career==
Tikoian had a long career with the Rhode Island State Police spanning 25 years. In his first 22 years in the force he worked his way to becoming a Major where he oversaw a budget of nearly 100 million dollars. After which he was appointed as Police Chief of North Providence where he turned the department around earning it an accreditation.
In 2020 Tikoian Started his political career when he ran for election on the Smithfield Town Council. Tikoian won his bid and served a 2 year term on the Council. After his time on the Town Council Tikoian decided to continue his political career by running for the 22nd district's seat in the Rhode Island Senate. Tikoian successfully won his bid by a margin of 800 votes, and started his 4 year term on January 3rd 2023.
Category:American politicians
Category:1968 births
Category:People from Smithfield, Rhode Island 
Category:Armenian people
David Tudehope (businessman)

David Tudehope (born 2 August 1967) is an Australian entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder and Chief executive officer of Macquarie Telecom Group.
== Early life ==
Tudehope was born on August 2, 1967 in Sydney, New South Wales. He attended the Waverley College in Sydney and received a bachelor's degree in commerce from the University of New South Wales in 1990.
== Career ==
In 1992, David Tudehope co-founded Macquarie Telecom with his brother Aidan Tudehope. The company was founded during the recession and shortly after the telecommunications deregulation. The company was privately run until it was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange|Australian Stock Exchange in 1999.
Tudehope has been described by The Australian as "a pioneer in the liberalisation of Australia’s telecommunications market". Tudehope served as a member of the government's B20 Leadership Group and Australian School of Business Advisory Council. He was a board member of Service Providers' Industry Association and member of Minister for Communications, IT and the Arts Information Economy Advisory Council.
Tudehope is an early adopter of the Net promoter score (NPS) scoring system. During his tenure as CEO, the company went from initially providing only voice services to becoming a fully integrated carrier which transmitted voice, mobile and data networks, as well as a managed data center and hosting solutions to business and government customers across Australia and Asia.
Tudehope has been described in The Australian in 2018 as "a pioneer in the liberalisation of Australia’s Telecommunications in Australia|telecommunications market".
== Awards ==
In 2011, Tudehope received the Charles Todd Medal, his Industry Association’s top award, for his contributions to the Australian Telecommunications Industry.
Tudehope received the Communications Ambassador Award at the ACOMM Awards in 2018.
In 2020, Tudehope was awarded CEO of the Year at the World Communication Awards.
Category:1967 births
Category:Australian businesspeople
David Uy

David Uy (; born 27 February 1971) is a Chinese American advocate, historian, and founding director of the Chinese American Museum in Washington, DC. Formerly, he was the lead principal of the marketing and public relations firm, Brand Bureau, primarily working on nonprofit and corporate strategy and campaign development. In 2018, he and several founding members developed and launched the first and only museum in Washington, DC dedicated to Chinese American history, culture, and achievementhttps://www.chineseamericanmuseum.org/david-uy-executive-directorhttps://thedcpost.com/chinese-american-museum-dchttps://www.severnaparkvoice.com/stories/severna-parks-david-uy-directs-opening-of-chinese-american-museum-in-dc,26602?>
==Early Life and Education==
Uy was born in Jamaica,_Queens Queens, New York City. His father, retired physician Gregorio Uy, is a Chinese American immigrant from the Philippines with family ties to Xiamen,China in Fujian Province. His mother, Madeline (née Lupo) is a retired nurse from Brooklyn, New York and is of Italian descent. David Uy spent the majority of his childhood in Virginia Beach, Virginia and attended the Norfolk Collegiate School. He attended the College of William & Mary earning an undergraduate degree in Fine Art and Art History and an MBA in Marketing Strategy. 
==Recognition==
In 2022, Uy received the College of William & Mary Asian Centennial Alumni Award for his work in Asian Pacific Americans] advocacyhttps://news.wm.edu/2022/04/25/inaugural-wm-asian-centennial-awards-honor-influential-alumni/.
Category:1971 births
Category:People from Jamaica, Queens
Category:Chinese American
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David Veale

David Mikael William Veale Royal College of Psychiatrists, British_Psychological_Society, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies FBABCP is a British Psychiatrist born 1956. He is a visiting professor in cognitive behavioural psychotherapies at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London and a consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He has conducted a range of clinical research especially in body dysmorphic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, emetophobia and depression.
== Education ==
Professor Veale studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London, from which he graduated in 1980, after doing an intercalated degree in Psychology at Bedford College. He subsequently trained in psychiatry on the Royal Free Hospital rotation and the Maudsley Hospitals. 
== Initiatives ==
He has been part of a number of initiatives that have improved mental health care, including:
* Member, NICE guidelines on OCD and BDD
* Chair, NICE Evidence Update on OCD and BDD 
* Member of the World Health Organization, revision of the ICD-11 edition of ICD for obsessive compulsive and related disorders
== Affiliation ==
He is a founding Trustee of various UK charities: OCD Action, the BDD Foundation, EmetAction and Friends of the Anxiety Disorders Residential Unit. 
== Fellowships ==
* Past President and Honorary Fellow the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 
* Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 
* Fellow of the British Psychological Society
== Clinical Expertise ==
His main clinical expertise is in treatment of OCD, BDD, emetophobia and depression. He has developed and evaluated protocols for BDD and emetophobia that are used by other cognitive behaviour therapists. 
== Research and teaching and other activities ==
He is the first author or been a co-author on the first RCT on CBT v a wait list in Body Dysmorphic Disorder (Veale et al, 1996); the first RCT on CBT v anxiety management control in BDD (Veale et al, 2010); the first RCT on CBT for BDD in adolescence (Mataix-Cols, 2015); the first RCT on CBT for emetophobia (Riddle-Walker et al, 2016) and the first RCT on triple chronotherapy in out-patients with depression (Veale et al 2021)
He lives in North London and plays the saxophone for Bedlam. 
== Publications ==
Veale is the author or editor of 6 books and more than 150 chapters, articles, books, including:
David Vilchez

David Vilchez (1978) is a Spanish biochemist and molecular biologist. He is a professor at the Institute for Integrated Stress Response Signaling and the Cluster of Excellence CECAD at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany. His research primarily focuses on proteostasis, aging, and the cellular stress responses that affect organismal health and longevity.
==Life==
Vilchez studied biology at the University of Barcelona from 1996 to 2001, where he earned his bachelor's degree. He continued his education at the same institution, obtaining a master's degree in biochemistry and molecular biology between 2003 and 2005. He completed his doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Joan Guinovart at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) from 2003 to 2008. His academic career has taken him to research institutions, including the Salk Institute for Biological Research and the University of California, Berkeley.
==Research Focus ==
Vilchez's research aims to understand how cellular stress responses regulate proteostasis and influence aging and age-related diseases. He investigates the mechanisms by which cells maintain protein homeostasis and how dysregulation can lead to diseases, including neurodegenerative disorders. His work includes exploring the implications of proteostasis in plant biology and its relevance to improving human health.
==Career==
Vilchez has held various academic positions, including Research Group Leader at the Institute for Genetics and CECAD at the University of Cologne from 2014 to 2021. In 2021, he was appointed a permanent professor at the same university. He has also been involved in numerous institutional responsibilities, such as spokesperson for a DFG Research Unit initiative and Coordinator for research areas at the Cologne Excellence Cluster CECAD. His postdoctoral training included a fellowship at the Li Ka Shing Center, University of California, Berkeley.
==Awards and honors==
Throughout his career, Vilchez has received awards, including the ERC Starting Grant, the Josep Trueta Award for the best research from L’Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears in 2008, and the Award for Young Scientists from the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM). He has also been recognized with the IRB Alumni Excellence Award and ranked number one in the Ramon y Cajal grant in Life Sciences by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain.
Category:Spanish people
Category:University of Barcelona alumni 
Category:Spanish biochemists
Category:Molecular biologists
David Vujić

David Vuich (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејвид Вујић; born in Midland, Pennsylvania, United States of America, in 1935) is an American scientist of Serbian origin and the last living member of the "Serbian Seven" that participated in the Apollo space mission. He was a NASA Project Coordinator.
While working on the Apollo project, Vujić befriended cosmonaut Neil Armstrong (the first man to walk on the moon) and taught him a few Serbian words.
He led a humanitarian organization that helped those in danger after the NATO aggression against Serbia-Montenegro in 1999.
On 23 July 2019, the President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, received David Vujić during his stay in Serbia. On the same day, he gave a lecture at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
On the Day of Serbian Statehood on 15 February 2020, the President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, awarded Vujić with the Order of Karađorđe's Star, first class. Vujić was unable to attend the awarding ceremony, but he sent a letter of thanks in which he said, among other things:
"When I was still a boy, my father often reminded me how lucky I was to be born an American, but also to never forget my Serbian heart, which must always be ready to pass on the knowledge of our glorious heritage, customs, traditions, folklore and religion, and to help those who need help."
==Decorations==
* Order of the Star of Karađorđe, first degree (15 February 2020)
Category:1935 births
Category:American scientists