Volume 48 Issue 08 October 2015
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Celebration in Honor of Gil Strang

More than one hundred people gathered at the 8th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2015) in Beijing to honor Gil Strang and celebrate his 80th birthday. The organizers of the event (Alan Edelman and Pavel Grinfeld) had invited select Congress attendees to join in the festivities.

Guests were treated to a sumptuous buffet dinner.  After a champagne toast to Gil, Edelman invited participants to come to the microphone and share a brief story about Gil. It was a wonderful way to celebrate one of SIAM’s most esteemed members and a most memorable event.

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Gil Strang (right) at his 80th birthday celebration at ICIAM 2015 with Alan Edelman, the organizer of the event, posing in front of a birthday cake designed based on the cover of Gil‘s SIAM book Introduction to Linear Algebra, Third Edition.”
Guests of Gil Strang‘s 80th birthday party were treated to a sumptuous buffet dinner.
Guests enjoy each other‘s company at the 80th birthday celebration for Gil Strang.
Gil Strang poses in front of the cake during his 80th birthday celebration at ICIAM 2015.
A birthday celebration for Gil Strang during ICIAM 2015 honored Strang‘s work in the field of mathematics.