Governance & Leadership

SIAM’s Board of Trustees, Council, and other volunteer member leaders work together with our professional staff to advance SIAM’s mission.

Charting Our Course

SIAM Board of Trustees

The SIAM Board of Trustees is responsible for the management and financial oversight of SIAM, taking into account the professional and scientific policies and objectives of SIAM. The Board has full legal and fiduciary responsibility for SIAM.

Board of Trustees

Beatrice M. Riviere, Chair

Rice University

Liliana Borcea

Columbia University

Raymond Chan

Lingnan University

Alina Chertock

North Carolina State University

Ricardo Cortez

Tulane University

Thomas A. Grandine

Boeing Company

Samuel Gubins

Annual Reviews

Jan Hesthaven

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Cynthia Phillips

Sandia National Laboratories

Bonita V. Saunders

National Institute of Standards & Technology

Chi-Wang Shu

Brown University

Carol Woodward

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Ulrike Meier Yang

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Directing Our Organization

SIAM Chief Executive Officer

The Chief Executive Officer is responsible for the administration of the affairs of SIAM, and providing leadership, management, and strategy to the organization. The CEO leads SIAM’s professional staff.

Chief Executive Officer

Suzanne L. Weekes

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Leading the Way

SIAM Officers

SIAM officers hold key leadership roles and are responsible for overseeing various aspects of SIAM's operations, goals, and objectives.

Officers

Carol Woodward, President

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Sven Leyffer, Past President

Argonne National Laboratory

Xiaoye Sherry Li, Vice President-at-Large

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Karen Devine, Secretary

Sandia National Laboratories, Retired

Samuel Gubins, Treasurer

Annual Reviews

Eleanor Jenkins, Vice President for Education

Clemson University

Luis Melara, Vice President for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Shippensburg University

Nessy Tania, Vice President for Industry

Pfizer Incorporated

James G. Nagy, Vice President for Programs

Emory University

Tamara G. Kolda, Vice President for Publications

MathSci.ai

Alejandro Aceves, Vice President for Science Policy

Southern Methodist University

Shaping Our Policy

SIAM Council

The SIAM Council formulates the scientific policies of the organization, monitors its technical activities, proposes new activities, and recommends action to the Board of Trustees as appropriate. The Council is chaired by the SIAM President.

Council

Alejandro Aceves

Southern Methodist University

Inga Berre

University of Bergen

Elizabeth Cherry

Georgia Institute of Technology

Henry Cohn

Microsoft Corporation

Hans De Sterck

University of Waterloo

Karen Devine

Sandia National Laboratories, Retired

Alicia Dickenstein

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Heike Fassbender

TU Braunschweig

Samuel Gubins

Annual Reviews

Johnny Guzmán

Brown University

Judith Hill

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Eleanor Jenkins

Clemson University

Tamara G. Kolda

MathSci.ai

Sven Leyffer

Argonne National Laboratory

Xiaoye Sherry Li

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Luis Melara

Shippensburg University

James Nagy

Emory University

Evelyn Sander

George Mason University

Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb

University of Cambridge

Valeria Simoncini

University of Bologna

Nessy Tania

Pfizer Incorporated

Andrea Walther

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Carol Woodward

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Building Our History

SIAM Executive Leadership

Executive Leadership

James M. Crowley

1994 - 2020

I. Edward Block

1976 - 1994

Dedicated to Our Mission

SIAM Presidents

The SIAM President broadly manages the professional and scientific affairs of SIAM, overseeing the SIAM Council and making appointments to committees.