J.C. Butcher Award

The "J.C. Butcher Award in Theoretical Computer Science" is an annual award offered by the CDMTCS to a stage three student who has demonstrated excellence in Theoretical Computer Science. The name of the award comes from Professor J.C. Butcher, a distinguished mathematician and computer scientist, who was the first HoD of the (then called) Computer Science Department.

• Erin Rothwell Higgins, 2002
• Harris (Tzu-Hao) Lin, 2003
• Nicholas James Hay, 2004
• Owen Charles Auger, 2005
• Stephen David Charles Merriman, 2006
• Matthew Pearson Steel, 2007
• Alastair Avery Abbott, 2008
• Prabhjot Singh Jassal, 2009
• Anna I. Wu, 2010
• Miranda Jane Emery, 2011
• Lee Francis David Penkman, 2012
• Qianyu (Mary) Gao, 2013
• Declan Alexander Liddington Thompson, 2014
• Yat (Jacky) Lo, 2015
• Joseph Harvey, 2016
• Erica Wong, 2017
• Hamish Duncanson, 2018
• Rewi Haar, 2019
• Daniel Liang, 2020
• Luke Polso, 2021
• Hugh Parsons, 2022
• Jack Freeth, 2023