The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is an organisation for professional applied mathematics societies and related organisations. The current (2020) President is Ya-xiang Yuan.
History
Until 1999 the Council was known as the Committee for International Conferences on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CICIAM). Formed in 1987 with the start of the ICIAM conference series, this committee represented the leaders of four applied mathematics societies: the
Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik ("Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics"), often referred to by the acronym GAMM, is a German society for the promotion of science, founded in 1922 by the physicist Ludwig Prandtl and th ...
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Barbara Keyfitz
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Professi ...
ICIAM organizes the four-yearly International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the first of which was held in 1987. The most recent congress was in 2019 in Valencia (Spain), and the next will be in 2023 in Tokyo (Japan). It also sponsors several prizes, awarded at the congresses: the Lagrange Prize for exceptional career contributions, the Collatz Prize for outstanding applied mathematicians under the age of 42, the Pioneer Prize for applied mathematical work in a new field, the Maxwell Prize for originality in applied mathematics, and the Su Buchin Prize for outstanding contributions to emerging economies and human development.ICIAM Prizes from the ICIAM web site.
Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik ("Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics"), often referred to by the acronym GAMM, is a German society for the promotion of science, founded in 1922 by the physicist Ludwig Prandtl and th ...
(GAMM), to recognize outstanding contributions in applied and industrial mathematics.
Named after the German mathematician
Lothar Collatz
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The "3''x'' + 1" problem is also known as the Collatz conjecture, named after him and still unsolved. The Collatz–Wielandt formula ...
, it is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious prizes for young applied mathematicians.
E Weinan
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Emmanuel Candès
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Jacques-Louis Lions
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* 2003
* 2007
Joseph Keller
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Early life and education
Born i ...
* 2011
Alexandre Chorin
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Chorin's work involves developing methods for solving ph ...
* 2015
Andrew Majda
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James Clerk Maxwell
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, the prize provides international recognition to a mathematician who has demonstrated originality in applied mathematics. It was created on the initiative of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications with the support of the
James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
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.
Prize Winners
* 1999
Grigory Barenblatt
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Education
Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University, Department of Mec ...
* 2003
Martin David Kruskal
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Jean-Michel Coron
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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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(SIAM).
Prize Winners
* 1999
Ronald Coifman
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Coifman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, ...
and
* 2003
Stanley Osher
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* 2007
Ingrid Daubechies
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Daubechies is recognized for her study of the mathematical methods that enhance i ...
and
Heinz Engl
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Engl was born in Linz. He studied at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, where he earned an engineering diploma in techn ...
Björn Engquist
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Life
He received his PhD ...
The Su Buchin Prize is awarded by ICIAM every four years at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Established in 2003 and named after the Chinese mathematician Su Buchin, the prize provides international recognition to outstanding contributions to applying mathematics to emerging economies and human development, including improving teaching and research. It was created on the initiative of the
China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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(CSIAM), and was first awarded in 2007.
Prize Winners
* 2007
Gilbert Strang
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Giulia Di Nunno
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Olga Taussky-Todd
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, the lectureship is conferred upon an outstanding woman applied mathematician.
Olga Taussky-Todd Lecturers
* 2007
Pauline van den Driessche
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Éva Tardos
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Tardos's research interest is algorithms. Her work focuses on the design and analysis of efficient ...
* 2019
Françoise Tisseur
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at the Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK.
She works in numerical linear algebra and in particular on nonlinear eigenvalue problems and structu ...