ICIAM Announces Major Prize Winners

Osher Receives the ICIAM Pioneer Prize

Stanley Osher of UCLA received the Pioneer Prize, one of four prestigious ICIAM awards, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to applied mathematics and computational science, and in particular for his work in shock-capturing schemes, PDE-based image processing, and the level-set method.

The citation for the prize highlights his work with L. Rudin on image restoration using PDE-based based methods (total variation methods) which led to commercial application through the activities of Cognitech, a company formed by Osher and Rudin. The citation also highlights the joint work with J. Sethian on level set methods and front propagation.

The Pioneer Prize, funded by SIAM, is awarded once every four years and recognizes pioneering work introducing applied mathematical methods and scientific computing techniques to an industrial problem area or a new scientific field of applications. The prize commemorates the spirit and impact of the American pioneers.

ICIAM Maxwell Prize awarded to Martin Kruskal

Martin D. Kruskal of Rutgers University received the prestigious Maxwell Prize, one of four ICIAM prizes, for discovering the particle-like behavior of solitary waves (solitons), for introducing the inverse scattering transform method for solving the KDV equation, and for many other contributions to applied mathematics.

The ICIAM Maxwell Prize is awarded once every four years and recognizes a mathematician who demonstrated originality in applied mathematics. It is funded by the IMA (a society in the UK) and by the Clerk Maxwell Foundation.

ICIAM Collatz Prize Awarded to Weinan E

Weinan E of Princeton University received the prestigious Collatz Prize, one of four ICIAM prizes, for his work in diverse areas of applied mathematics, ranging from fluid dynamics to condensed matter physics, including incompressible flows, turbulence, statistical physics, superconductivity, liquid crystals and polymers, epitaxial growth, and micromagnetics.

The Collatz Prize is awarded once every four years and recognizes individual scientists under the age of 42 for outstanding work on industrial and applied mathematics. It is funded by GAMM.

ICIAM Lagrange Prize Awarded to Enrico Magenes

Enrico Magenes, of the University of Pavia, received the prestigious Lagrange Prize, one of four ICIAM prizes, for his contributions to the development of applied mathematics. The citation highlights his work setting the foundation for a modern treatment of partial differential equations, including a systematic treatment of variational formulations. The citation also highlights his work in free boundary problems using variational inequalities and the application of these methods to flow through porous media and to phase transition.

The Lagrange Prize is awarded once every four years and recognizes individual mathematicians who have made an exceptional contribution to applied mathematics throughout their careers. The Lagrange Prize is funded by SMAI, SEMA and SIMAI.

These prizes were awarded July 7, 2003, at the 5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) in Sydney, Australia.

See the ICIAM Prize site for further details.

Updated: LBH 2/6/03