Prize History

Citation

The 2025 Germund Dahlquist Prize is awarded to Patrick E. Farrell for broad, creative, and groundbreaking contributions to numerical solutions of partial differential equations, and the design and analysis of algorithms and software for scientific computing. 

Selection Committee

• Poul G. Hjorth (Chair)
• Arjen Doelman
• Carrie Manore
• Irina Tezaur
• Elisabeth Ullmann

Citation

The 2023 Germund Dahlquist Prize is awarded to Yingda Cheng for her outstanding work on discontinuous Galerkin methods, including structure preservation and sparse grid methods for kinetic and transport equations.

Selection Committee

• Anne Kvaernoe (Chair)
• Oscar Bruno
• Richard H. Nochetto

Citation

The 2021 Germund Dahlquist Prize is awarded to Siddhartha Mishra for his outstanding contributions to the theory of numerical methods for nonlinear hyperbolic conservation and balance laws, and their application to problems in physics.

Selection Committee

• Thomas Hagstrom (Chair)
• Inga Berre
• Johnny Guzman
• Elisabeth Larsson
• Becca Thomases

Citation

The 2019 Germund Dahlquist Prize is awarded to Houman Owhadi for his varied, original, and deep work in areas of computational mathematics that include homogenization, stochastic differential equations, game theoretic approaches to numerical analysis, stochastic variational integrators, and uncertainty quantification. His substantial contributions to these challenging topics have had great impact in the broad fields of scientific computing, practical numerical methods, and machine learning.

Selection Committee

• Christopher Budd (Chair)
• Tobin Driscoll
• Robert McLachlan
• Elena Celledoni

Citation

The2017 Germund Dahlquist Prize is awarded to Per-Gunnar Martinsson for fundamental contributions to numerical analysis and scientific computing that are making a significant impact in data science applications. Specific contributions include his development of linear time algorithms for dense matrix operations related to multidimensional elliptic PDEs and integral equations; and he has made deep and innovative contributions to the development of probabilistic algorithms for the rapid solution of certain classes of large-scale linear algebra problems.

Selection Committee

• Randall J. LeVeque (Chair)
• Marlis Hochbruck
• Aslak Tveito

Citation

The 2015 Germund Dahlquist Prize is awarded to Erwan Faou for his excellent research contributions to the longtime analysis of stochastic differential equations, to multiscale expansions, and to molecular simulations. Particularly striking is his work on geometrical numerical methods for Hamiltonian partial differential equations where, like Dahlquist, he relates stability to local accuracy. Faou’s work is characterized by a deep insight in both the mathematical and the physical aspects of the problem under investigation.

Selection Committee

• Tommy Elfving (Chair)
• Selim Esedoglu
• Alfio Quarteroni
• Eric Vanden Eijnden
• Kees Vuik

Citation

The 2013 Germund Dahlquist Prize is awarded to Assyr Abdulle for research contributions to the numerical analysis of stiff differential equations, to multiscale methods for partial and stochastic differential equations and to the implementation of numerical algorithms to problems in chemistry and biology. His work demonstrates the best in numerical analysis, from the design of novel numerical algorithms to their rigorous mathematical analysis to an ingenious implementation in a range of important applications.

Selection Committee

• Arieh Iserles (Chair)
• Uri Ascher
• Susanne Brenner
• Hans Munthe-Kaas
• Steven Ruuth

Selection Committee

• Olof Widlund (Chair)
• John Butcher
• Jesus Sanz-Serna
• Robert Schreiber
• Ragnar Winther

Selection Committee

• Desmond J. Higham (Chair)
• Bo Kagstrom
• Ben Leimkuhler
• Robert Schreiber
• Olof Widlund

Selection Committee

• Sebastian Reich (Chair)
• Desmond J. Higham
• Bo Kagstrom
• Ben Leimkuhler
• Andy Wathen

2005 Desmond J. Higham

Selection Committee

• Christian Lubich (Chair)
• Stephen L. Campbell
• Sebastian Reich
• Gustaf Soderlind

2003 Sebastian Reich

Selection Committee

• Linda R. Petzold (Chair)
• Kevin Burrage
• Gustaf Soderlind
• Andrew Stuart

2001 Christian Lubich

Selection Committee

• C. William Gear (Chair)
• Uri M. Ascher
• John C. Butcher
• Ernst Hairer
• Claes Johnsson

1999 Linda R. Petzold

Selection Committee

• James Varah (Chair)
• Rolf Jeltsch
• Olavi Nevanlinna
• Robert Skeel
• Andrew Stuart

1997 Andrew M. Stuart

Selection Committee

• Robert Skeel (Chair)
• Franco Brezzi
• Olavi Nevanlinna
• Robert E. O'Malley, Jr.
• J. M. Sanz-Serna

1995 J.M. Sanz-Serna

Selection Committee

• Syvert P. Norsett (Chair)
• Wayne H. Enright
• C. William Gear
• Gerhard Wanner