Prize History

Citation

The 2024 AMS-SIAM Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics is awarded to Robert McCann in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to optimal transport theory, and for pioneering deep applications to economics and physics.

Selection Committee

• Amir Dembo (Chair)
• Bonnie Berger
• Leslie Greengard

Citation

The 2022 AMS-SIAM Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was awarded to Eitan Tadmor for his original contributions to applied and numerical analysis with applications in fluid dynamics, image processing, and collective dynamics. The prize also recognizes the significant impact of his fundamental work in theory and computation of nonlinear partial differential equations.

Selection Committee

• Bruce Boghosian (Chair)
• Suncica Canic
• Ingrid Daubechies

Citation

The 2019 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was awarded to Marsha Berger for her fundamental contributions to adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and to Cartesian mesh techniques for automating the simulation of compressible flows in complex geometry.

Selection Committee

• Emmanuel Candes (Chair)
• James Demmel
• Charles Doering

Citation

The 2019 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was awarded to Professor Arkadi Nemirovski for his fundamental contributions to high-dimensional optimization and for his discovery of key phenomena in the theory of signal estimation and recovery.

Selection Committee

• Emmanuel Candes (Chair)
• James Demmel
• Charles Doering

Citation

The 2016 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was awarded to Constantine M. Dafermos for his foundational work in partial differential equations and continuum physics.

Selection Committee

• Charles L. Epstein (Chair)
• Walter Craig
• Ronald A. DeVore

Citation

The 2013 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was awarded to Andrew Majda for his groundbreaking work in theoretical fluid mechanics and its application to problems in atmospheric science and oceanography.

Selection Committee

• Jerry L. Bona
• Roger M. Temam

Selection Committee

• James G. Glimm
• Roland Glowinski
• Nancy J. Kopell

Selection Committee

• Philip J. Holmes (Chair)
• David B. Mumford
• Stanley J. Osher

Selection Committee

• Thomas M. Liebling (Chair)
• Martin Groetschel
• Philip J. Holmes

2000 Alexandre J. Chorin, Arthur T. Winfree

1995 Hermann Flaschka, Ciprian Foias

1990 Michael Alzenman, Jerrold E. Marsden

1985 Clifford S. Gardner

1980 Tosio Kato, Gerald B. Whitham

1975 Peter D. Lax

70 Richard E. Bellman