Former SIAM President Receives Prestigious Blaise Pascal Medal

Susanne C. Brenner, a Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University who served as SIAM President in 2021 and 2022, received the prestigious 2025 Blaise Pascal Medal in Computational and Information Sciences from the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc). The prize, which also recognized Brenner as a member of EurASC, honors “an outstanding and demonstrated personal contribution to science and technology and the promotion of excellence in research and education.”

“It is an honor to receive the Blaise Pascal Medal,” Brenner said. “I look forward to participating in events organized by the European Academy of Sciences.”

A longtime member of SIAM, Brenner has served the Society in multiple capacities both before and beyond her time as president. She currently sits on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis and SIAM’s Classics in Applied Mathematics book series; she has been editor-in-chief of the latter since 2018. Brenner became a SIAM Fellow in 2010, later served on the SIAM Fellows Selection Committee, and was awarded the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture in 2011.

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