Prize History

Citation

The 2023 Ralph E. Kleinman Prize is awarded to Thomas Yizhao Hou for highly original and pioneering research contributions positioned at the meeting point between analytical and computational approaches to partial differential equations with multiscale or singular behavior.

Selection Committee

• Alejandro Aceves (Chair)
• Todd Arbogast
• Qiang Du
• Boyce Griffith
• Joerg Schroeder

Citation

The 2021 Ralph E. Kleinman Prize is awarded to Thomas J.R. Hughes for his influential and profound contributions to computational science and engineering and their impact on engineering design and simulation, while creating entirely new fields of mathematical research.

Selection Committee

• Deborah Lockhart (Chair)
• Alejandro Aceves
• Boyce Griffith
• Anette Hosoi
• Chris Kees

Citation

The 2019 Ralph E. Kleinman Prize is awarded to Andrea L. Bertozzi for her groundbreaking research in partial differential equations, image processing, numerical analysis, scientificcomputing, mathematical data science, and the application of mathematics to problems in the physical, life, and social sciences.

Selection Committee

• Russell Luke (Chair)
• Bart De Moor
• George Em Karniadakis
• W. R. B. Lionheart
• Chrysoula Tsogka

Citation

The 2017 Ralph E. Kleinman Prize is awarded to Emmanuel Candès for fundamental breakthroughs in information theory, signal processing, imaging, computational harmonic analysis, and their applications to daily life problems in engineering and in physical and biomedical sciences.

Selection Committee

• George Karniadakis (Chair)
• D. Russell Luke
• Chrysoula Tsogka
• Karen Willcox

Citation

The 2015 Ralph E. Kleinman Prize is awarded to George Em Karniadakis for his many outstanding contributions to Applied Mathematics in a broad range of areas, including computational fluid dynamics, spectral methods and stochastic modeling.

Selection Committee

• Gunther Uhlmann (Chair)
• Richard J. Braun
• Weinan E
• Geoffrey B. McFadden
• Karen Willcox

Citation

The 2013 Ralph E. Kleinman Prize is awarded to Anna C. Gilbert for her creative and deep contributions to the mathematics of signal processing, data analysis and communications. Her bold and interdisciplinary work combines techniques from computer science, harmonic analysis and probability in the best traditions of the Kleinman Prize.

Selection Committee

• Peter Monk (Chair)
• Weinan E
• Richard Lehoucq
• Geoffrey B. McFadden
• Gunther Uhlmann

Selection Committee

• Peter Monk (Chair)
• Margaret Cheney
• Thomas Y. Hou
• Richard Lehoucq
• Graeme Milton

Selection Committee

• Graeme Milton (Chair)
• Margaret Cheney
• Michael Miksis
• Michael Miksis
• Rosemary Renaut
• William Symes

Selection Committee

• Gregory A. Kriegsmann (Chair)
• Max Gunzburger
• Ioannis Kevrekidis
• Michael Miksis
• Rosemary Renaut

2005 Stanley J. Osher

Selection Committee

• William W. Symes (Chair)
• Martin Grötschel
• Max Gunzburger
• Gregory A. Kriegsmann
• Paul Van Dooren

2003 Graeme W. Milton

Selection Committee

• M. Gregory Forest (Chair)
• Mark Levi
• Mary Silber
• Harry Swinney

2001 William W. Symes

Selection Committee

• Michael Vogelius (Chair)
• Douglas Arnold
• Robert V. Kohn
• Nicholas J. Higham
• Jean-Claude Nedelec
• Ivar Stakgold

1999 Robert V. Kohn

Selection Committee

• Michael Vogelius (Chair)
• George Papanicolaou
• Ivar Stakgold