In late April, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced the election of 120 new members—59 of whom are women, the most ever elected in one year—and 30 international members, bringing the total number of active members to 2,461 and the total number of international members to 511. Inductees are honored for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. SIAM offers its sincere congratulations to all inductees, including those SIAM members who were elected this year:
- Peter Constantin, director of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and John Von Neumann Professor, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
- Glenn H. Fredrickson, Mitsubishi Chemical Chair in Functional Materials, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Kenneth Lange, Rosenfeld Professor of Computational Genetics, Department of Computational Medicine and Departments of Human Genetics and Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles
- Randall J. LeVeque, professor emeritus, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle
- Linda Petzold, distinguished professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
A full list of the newly elected members of the NAS is available online.