The Theodore von Kármán Prize in

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematics, mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and Industrial sector, industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a ...

is awarded every fifth year to an individual in recognition of his or her notable application of mathematics to mechanics and/or the engineering sciences. This award was established and endowed in 1968 in honor of

Theodore von Kármán Theodore von Kármán ( , May 11, 1881May 6, 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics. He was responsible for crucial advances in aerodynamics characterizing ...

by the

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific soci ...

(SIAM).

List of recipients

*1972

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE (7 March 1886 – 27 June 1975) was a British physicist and mathematician, who made contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory. Early life and education Taylor was born in St. John's Wood, London ...

*1979

George F. Carrier George Francis Carrier (May 4, 1918 – March 8, 2002) was an engineer and physicist, and the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus of Harvard University. He was particularly noted for his ability to intuitively model a ...

and Joseph B. Keller *1984 Julian D. Cole *1989 Paul R. Garabedian *1994 Herbert B. Keller *1999 Stuart S. Antman,

John M. Ball Sir John Macleod Ball (born 19 May 1948) is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2003 to 2006 and a Fellow of ...

, Zuccher Simone *2004

Roland Glowinski Roland Glowinski (9 March 1937 – 26 January 2022) was a French-American mathematician. He obtained his PhD in 1970 from Jacques-Louis Lions and was known for his work in applied mathematics, in particular numerical solution and applications of ...

*2009 Mary F. Wheeler *2014

Weinan E Weinan E (; born September 1963) is a Chinese mathematician. He is known for his pathbreaking work in applied mathematics and machine learning. His academic contributions include novel mathematical and computational results in stochastic differ ...

and Richard D. James *2020

Kaushik Bhattacharya Kaushik Bhattacharya is an Indian American mechanician and material scientist. He is currently the Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Professor of Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He is also vic ...

*2024

Karen Willcox Karen Elizabeth Willcox is an aerospace engineer and computational scientist best known for her work on reduced-order modeling and the study of multi-fidelity methods. She is currently the director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engin ...

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{{Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Awards established in 1968 Awards of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1968 establishments in the United States

List of recipients

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