Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) was founded by a small group of mathematicians from academia and industry who met in Philadelphia in 1951 to start an organization whose members would meet periodically to exchange ideas about the uses of mathematics in industry. This meeting led to the organization of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The membership of SIAM has grown from a few hundred in the early 1950s to more than 10,000 as of 2005. SIAM retains its North American influence, but it also has East Asia, UK, and Ireland sections.
SIAM is one of the three parts of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM).
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[edit] Members
See main article: list of SIAM academic members.
[edit] Focus
The focus for the society is applied and industrial mathematics, and the society oftentimes promotes its acronym as "Science and Industry Advance with Mathematics." It is composed of a combination of people from a wide variety of vocations. Members include engineers, scientists, industrial mathematicians, and academic mathematicians. The society is active in promoting the use of analysis and modeling in all settings. The society also strives to support and provide guidance to educational institutions wishing to promote applied mathematics.
[edit] Special Interest Groups
The society includes a number of special interest groups:
- Analysis of partial differential equations
- Computational Science and Engineering
- Control and Systems Theory
- Discrete Mathematics
- Dynamical systems (SIAG)
- Financial Mathematics and Engineering
- Geometric Design
- Geosciences
- Imaging Science
- Life Sciences
- Linear algebra
- Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures
- Optimization
- Orthogonal polynomials and special functions
- Supercomputing
[edit] Journals
As of 2005 SIAM publishes 13 research journals:
- Multiscale Modeling and Simulation
- SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
- SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
- SIAM Journal on Computing
- SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
- SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
- SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
- SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
- SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
- SIAM Journal on Optimization
- SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
- SIAM Review
- Theory of Probability and Its Applications
all available electronically by subscription.
[edit] Prizes
- Germund Dahlquist Prize: Awarded to a young scientist (normally under 45) for original contributions to fields associated with Germund Dahlquist (numerical solution of differential equations and numerical methods for scientific computing).[1]
- Ralph E. Kleinman Prize: Awarded for "outstanding research, or other contributions, that bridge the gap between mathematics and applications...Each prize may be given either for a single notable achievement or for a collection of such achievements."[2]
- J.D. Crawford Prize: Awarded to "one individual for recent outstanding work on a topic in nonlinear science, as evidenced by a publication in English in a peer-reviewed journal within the four calendar years preceding the meeting at which the prize is awarded"[3]
- Richard C.DiPrima Prize: Awarded to "a young scientist who has done outstanding research in applied mathematics (defined as those topics covered by SIAM journals) and who has completed his/her doctoral dissertation and completed all other requirements for his/her doctorate during the period running from three years prior to the award date to one year prior to the award date".[4]
- George Polya Prize: "is given every two years, alternately in two categories: (1) for a notable application of combinatorial theory; (2) for a notable contribution in another area of interest to George Pólya such as approximation theory, complex analysis, number theory, orthogonal polynomials, probability theory, or mathematical discovery and learning."[5]
- W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize: Awarded for research in and contributions to areas of differential equations and control theory. [6]
- Theodore von Kármán Prize: Awarded for "notable application of mathematics to mechanics and/or the engineering sciences made during the five to ten years preceding the award". [7]
- James H. Wilkinson Prize: Awarded for "research in, or other contributions to, numerical analysis and scientific computing during the six years preceding the award". [[8]]
