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SIAM Announces Class of 2018 Fellows

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics recognizes distinguished work through Fellows Program

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is pleased to announce the 2018 Class of SIAM Fellows. These distinguished members were nominated for their exemplary research as well as outstanding service to the community. Through their contributions, SIAM Fellows help advance the fields of applied mathematics and computational science. These individuals will be recognized for their achievements during the SIAM Annual Meeting, happening July 9-13 in Portland, OR. 

SIAM congratulates these 28 esteemed members of the community, listed below in alphabetical order:

Todd James Arbogast, The University of Texas at Austin

Liliana Borcea, University of Michigan

Luis Angel Caffarelli, The University of Texas at Austin

Ronald A. DeVore, Texas A&M University

Stanley C. Eisenstat, Yale University

Michael Elad, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

David A. Field, General Motors Corporation

Margot Gerritsen, Stanford University

Michael B. Giles, University of Oxford

Alain Goriely, University of Oxford

Peter Kuchment, Texas A&M University

Madhav V. Marathe, Virginia Tech

Alison Lesley Marsden, Stanford University

Bojan Mohar, Simon Fraser University and IMFM

Helen Moore, AstraZeneca

Pablo A. Parrilo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alex Pothen, Purdue University

Helmut Pottmann, Technische Universitaet Wien

Juan M. Restrepo, Oregon State University

John N. Shadid, Sandia National Laboratories and University of New Mexico

Arthur S. Sherman, National Institutes of Health

Ralph C. Smith, North Carolina State University

Tamas Terlaky, Lehigh University

Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology

Kim-Chuan Toh, National University of Singapore

Panayot S. Vassilevski, Portland State University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Homer F. Walker, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Karen E. Willcox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Todd James Arbogast, The University of Texas at Austin, is being recognized for contributions to the numerical analysis of partial differential equations, multiscale analysis, and homogenization for flow through porous media.

Liliana Borcea, University of Michigan, is being recognized for the mathematical and computational study of wave propagation and imaging in random media.

Luis Angel Caffarelli, The University of Texas at Austin, is being recognized for seminal contributions in regularity theory of nonlinear partial differential equations, free boundary problems, fully nonlinear equations, and nonlocal diffusion.

Ronald A. DeVore, Texas A&M University, is being recognized for fundamental contributions to the mathematical foundations of information and computational sciences.

Stanley C. Eisenstat, Yale University, is being recognized for development and analysis of fast computational algorithms for linear and nonlinear systems of equations.

Michael Elad, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, is being recognized for contributions to the theory and development of sparse representations and their applications to signal and image processing.

David A. Field, General Motors Corporation, is being recognized for pioneering work founding and organizing the SIAM Great Lakes Section, the first SIAM section integrating industry and academia.

Margot Gerritsen, Stanford University, is being recognized for contributions to numerical methods for compositional and thermal fluid flow processes in porous media, ocean dynamics, and digital stewardship.

Michael B. Giles, University of Oxford, is being recognized for contributions to numerical analysis and scientific computing, particularly concerning adjoint methods, stochastic simulation, and multilevel Monte Carlo.

Alain Goriely, University of Oxford, is being recognized for contributions to nonlinear elasticity and theories of biological growth.

Peter Kuchment, Texas A&M University, is being recognized for fundamental contributions to mathematical physics and inverse problems.

Madhav V. Marathe, Virginia Tech, is being recognized for contributions to high performance computing algorithms and software systems for network science and public health epidemiology.

Alison Lesley Marsden, Stanford University, is being recognized for contributions to the development and clinical translation of cardiovascular patient-specific modeling, optimization, uncertainty and simulation methodology, and open source software development.

Bojan Mohar, Simon Fraser University and IMFM, is being recognized for contributions to graph theory and algorithms, in particular structural, topological, and algebraic graph theory.

Helen Moore, AstraZeneca, is being recognized for impactful industrial application of mathematical modeling in oncology, immunology, and virology, and for mentoring early career mathematicians.

Pablo A. Parrilo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is being recognized for foundational contributions to algebraic methods in optimization and engineering.

Alex Pothen, Purdue University, is being recognized for advances in combinatorial algorithms for scientific applications, and leadership in founding the combinatorial scientific computing community.

Helmut Pottmann, Technische Universitaet Wien, is being recognized for contributions to industrial and applied geometry and pioneering research at the interface of architecture and mathematics.

Juan M. Restrepo, Oregon State University, is being recognized for contributions to the mathematical and computational modeling of the ocean and atmosphere.

John N. Shadid, Sandia National Laboratories and University of New Mexico, is being recognized for contributions to solution methods for multiphysics systems, scalable parallel numerical algorithms, and numerical methods for strongly coupled nonlinear partial differential equations.

Arthur S. Sherman, National Institutes of Health, is being recognized for fundamental discoveries using mathematics in physiology and for training a generation of successful biomathematicians.

Ralph C. Smith, North Carolina State University, is being recognized for contributions to uncertainty quantification and materials science.

Tamas Terlaky, Lehigh University, is being recognized for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of optimization, and for exemplary service to the optimization community.

Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology, is being recognized for contributions to structural graph theory and graph coloring, especially to the four color theorem and its generalizations and a proof of the strong perfect graph theorem.

Kim-Chuan Toh, National University of Singapore, is being recognized for contributions to the development of algorithms and software for semidefinite programming and, more generally, conic programming.

Panayot S. Vassilevski, Portland State University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is being recognized for designing algebraic approaches for creating and analyzing multilevel algorithms.

Homer F. Walker, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is being recognized for contributions to theory and software of iterative methods for nonlinear systems and optimization, as well as application of these methods to scientific simulations.

Karen E. Willcox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is being recognized for contributions to model reduction and multifidelity methods, with applications in optimization, control, design, and uncertainty quantification of large-scale systems.

In addition to raising the visibility of applied mathematics and computational science, the SIAM Fellows Program helps makes SIAM members more competitive for awards and honors as well as leadership positions in the broader society.

Learn more about the SIAM Fellows Program.
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