Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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Formation 1951
Headquarters Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Membership
>14,000
President
 Pamela Cook
Website www.siam.org

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 14,000 as of 2013. SIAM retains its North American influence, but it also has East Asian, Argentinian, Bulgarian, and UK & Ireland sections.

SIAM is one of the four parts of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics.

Members

Membership is open to both individuals and organizations.

Focus

The focus for the society is applied, computational and industrial mathematics, and the society often promotes its acronym as "Science and Industry Advance with Mathematics". It is composed 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.

Activity groups

The society includes a number of activity groups (SIAGs) to allow for more focused group discussions and collaborations. SIAGs organize domain-specific conferences and minisymposia, and award prizes.[1] Activity group membership is open only to SIAM members and dues are USD $15 per year as of 2017. Student members receive two activity group memberships free.

Unlike special interest groups in similar academic associations like ACM, SIAGs are chartered for a fixed period of time, typically for two years, and require submitting a petition to the SIAM Council and Board for renewal. Charter approval is largely based on group size, as topics that were considered hot at one time may have fewer active researchers later.[2] This serves to keep SIAM research conferences and publications relevant to both academic and industrial partners.

Current SIAGs:

Publications

SIAM publishes books, scholarly journals, and SIAM News, a newsletter focused on the applied math and computational science community (published ten times per year).

Journals

As of 2012, SIAM publishes 16 research journals:[3]

Books

SIAM publishes 20-25 books each year.

Conferences

SIAM organizes conferences and meetings throughout the year focused on various topics in applied math and computational science.

Presidents

The chief elected officer of SIAM is the president, elected for a single two-year term.[4]

The following persons have been presidents of the society:[5]

Prizes and recognition

SIAM recognizes applied mathematician and computational scientists for their contributions to the fields. Prizes include:[6]

SIAM Fellows

In 2009 SIAM instituted a Fellows program to recognize certain members who have made outstanding contributions to the fields SIAM serves[16]

John von Neumann Lecture

The John von Neumann Lecture prize was established in 1959 with funds from IBM and other industry corporations, and is awarded for "outstanding and distinguished contributions to the field of applied mathematical sciences and for the effective communication of these ideas to the community".[17] The recipient receives a monetary award and presents a survey lecture at the Annual Meeting.

Moody's Mega Math (M3) Challenge

Funded by The Moody's Foundation and organized by SIAM, the Moody's Mega Math Challenge is an applied mathematics modeling competition for high school students along the entire East Coast, from Maine through Florida. Scholarship prizes total $100,000.

Students

Publishes outstanding undergraduate research in applied and computational mathematics

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Activity Groups". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Crowley, James; Cook, Pam. "A Closer Look at SIAM Activity Groups". SIAM News. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Journals". SIAM. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  4. ↑ http://www.siam.org/about/pdf/bylaws.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.siam.org/about/more/presidents.php
  6. ↑ "Prizes, Awards, Lectures and Fellows". SIAM. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  7. ↑ "Germund Dahlquist Prize". SIAM. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  8. ↑ "Ralph E. Kleinman Prize". SIAM. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  9. ↑ "J.D. Crawford Prize (SIAG/Dynamical Systems)". SIAM. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  10. ↑ "Jurgen Moser Lecture (SIAG/Dynamical Systems)". SIAM. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
  11. ↑ "The Richard C. DiPrima Prize". SIAM. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  12. ↑ "George Pólya Prize". SIAM. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  13. ↑ "W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics". SIAM. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  14. ↑ "Theodore von Kármán Prize". SIAM. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  15. ↑ "James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing". SIAM. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  16. ↑ "Fellows Program". SIAM. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  17. ↑ "The John von Neumann Lecture". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
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