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Chi-Wang Shu is the 2021 John von Neumann Prize Lecturer

Chi-Wang Shu will deliver this flagship lecture at the 2021 SIAM Annual Meeting, happening virtually July 19- 23, 2021.

Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University, is the 2021 recipient of the John von Neumann Prize, the highest honor and flagship lecture of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Chi-Wang Shu obtained his B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1982 and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986. He came to Brown University as an Assistant Professor in 1987, moving up to Associate Professor in 1992 and Full Professor in 1996. He was the Chair of the Division of Applied Mathematics between 1999 and 2005 and has been the Theodore B. Stowell University Professor of Applied Mathematics since 2008.   

His research interest includes high order finite difference, finite element and spectral methods for solving hyperbolic and other convection dominated partial differential equations, with applications to areas such as computational fluid dynamics, semi-conductor device simulations and computational cosmology. He has served on editorial boards of several computational mathematics and scientific computing journals as associate editor, co-chief editor, or chief editor, including Mathematics of Computation, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Journal of Computational Physics, and Journal of Scientific Computing. His honors include the First Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing in 1995 and the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering in 2007. He is a SIAM Fellow, an AMS Fellow, an AWM Fellow, and an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Seoul in 2014.

SIAM awards the John von Neumann Prize annually to an individual for outstanding and distinguished contributions to the field of applied mathematics and for the effective communication of these ideas to the community. It is one of SIAM’s most distinguished prizes as well as an important Prize Lecture at the SIAM Annual Meeting. The selection committee wishes to recognize Chi-Wang Shu for fundamental contributions to the numerical solution of partial differential equations. Their statement continues, “His work on finite difference essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) methods, weighted ENO (WENO) methods, finite element discontinuous Galerkin methods, and spectral methods has had a major impact on scientific computing.”

The John von Neumann Prize Lecture was established in 1959 to honor von Neumann, a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist, whose seminal work helped lead to the founding of modern computing. Learn more about SIAM’s John von Neumann Prize.

Chi-Wang Shu will be awarded the John von Neumann Prize and deliver the John von Neumann Lecture at the 2021 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN21), happening virtually July 19 – 23, 2021. Pre-register for AN21 before July 16, 2021.

The talk, titled High Order Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Equations, will be given virtually on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 3:15 p.m. EDT. as part of AN21.

This post was last updated July 16, 2021.
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