ICIAM Announces 2023 Prize Recipients

The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) has announced the winners of the six 2023 ICIAM prizes. ICIAM is a worldwide organization for professional applied mathematics societies and other associations with a significant interest in industrial or applied mathematics. It seeks to advance mathematical applications around the globe.

The associated ICIAM congresses are held every four years under the auspices of the Council. The 2023 prizes will be awarded during the Opening Ceremony of the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023), which will take place at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, from August 20-25, 2023. ICIAM President Ya-xiang Yuan (Chinese Academy of Sciences) chaired the Prize Committee, which also comprised the following individuals:

• Kim-Chuan Toh (National University of Singapore), chair of the Collatz Prize Subcommittee
• Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia), chair of the Lagrange Prize Subcommittee 
• Gang Bao (Zhejiang University), chair of the Maxwell Prize Subcommittee 
• Alfredo Bermudez (University of Santiago de Compostela), chair of the Pioneer Prize Subcommittee 
• Lois Curfman McInnes (Argonne National Laboratory), chair of the Su Buchin Prize Subcommittee 
• Nira Chamberlain (SNC-Lavalin Group), chair of the Industry Prize Subcommittee. Collatz Prize

The Collatz Prize

The Collatz Prizewas established to provide international recognition to individual scientists under 42 years of age who have conducted outstanding work in industrial and applied mathematics. It was created by an initiative of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM) and first awarded in 1999. The Collatz Prize is currently funded by GAMM and carries a cash award of USD 5,000.

The 2023 Collatz Prize is awarded to Maria Colombo (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) for her fundamental contributions to regularity theory and the analysis of singularities in elliptic partial differential equations, geometric variational problems, transport equations, and incompressible fluid dynamics.

Lagrange Prize

The Lagrange Prize was established to provide international recognition to individual mathematicians who have made exceptional contributions to applied mathematics throughout their careers. It was created through an initiative of the Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada (SEMA), Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale (SIMAI), and Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI). The Lagrange Prize, which was first awarded in 1999, is presently funded by four of ICIAM’s member societies: SEMA, SIMAI, SMAI, and Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática Aplicada e Computacional. It carries a cash award of USD 5,000.

The 2023 Lagrange Prize is awarded to Alfio Quarteroni (Politecnico di Milano) for his groundbreaking work in finite-element and spectral methods, domain decomposition methods, discontinuous Galerkin methods, numerical solutions of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, and multiphysics and multiscale modeling. Quarteroni’s work finds applications in fluid dynamics, geophysics, the human heart and circulatory system, the COVID-19 pandemic, and improved performance in the America’s Cup sailing competition.

Maxwell Prize

The Maxwell Prize was established to provide international recognition to mathematicians who have demonstrated originality in applied mathematics. It was founded by an initiative of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) with support from the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation. The Maxwell Prize, which was first awarded in 1999, is currently funded by the IMA and James Clerk Maxwell Foundation and carries a cash award of USD 5,000.

The 2023 Maxwell Prize is awarded to Weinan E (Peking University) for his seminal contributions to applied mathematics, particularly the analysis and application of machine learning algorithms, multiscale modeling, modeling of rare events, and stochastic partial differential equations.

Pioneer Prize

The Pioneer Prize was established to acknowledge pioneering work that introduces applied mathematical methods and scientific computing techniques to an industrial problem area or a new scientific field of application. It was created on the initiative of SIAM and first awarded in 1999. The Pioneer Prize is presently funded by SIAM and carries a cash award of USD 5,000.

The 2023 Pioneer Prize is awarded to Leslie Greengard (New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute) for his pioneering work on fast algorithms, including the fast multipole method (one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century), fast Gauss transform, and fast direct solvers. Greengard is also honored for the development of innovative high-order, automatically adaptive algorithms for differential and integral equations.

Su Buchin Prize

The Su Buchin Prize was established to internationally recognize individuals’ outstanding contributions in the application of mathematics to emerging economies and human development, particularly at the economic and cultural level in developing countries. Such contributions include efforts to improve mathematical research and teaching in these countries. The prize was created as an initiative of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM) and first awarded in 2007; it is currently funded by CSIAM and carries a cash award of USD 5,000.

The 2023 Su Buchin Prize is awarded to José Mario Martinez Perez (University of Campinas) for outstanding achievements in research—a combination of theory, practice, software, and applications for the solution of large-scale optimization problems—and for fostering the development of the optimization and applied mathematics communities in Latin America.

Industry Prize

The Industry Prize was established to provide international recognition to scientists who have made outstanding contributions to innovative mathematical techniques with a demonstrated impact in industry. It was created in 2020 and will be presented for the first time in 2023. The Industry Prize is presently funded by the Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and carries a cash award of USD 5,000.

The 2023 Industry Prize is awarded to Cleve B. Moler (MathWorks) for his outstanding contributions to the development of mathematical and computational tools and methods for the solution of science and engineering problems. Moler is acknowledged for his invention of MATLAB, which allows industrial users to harness efficient and reliable numerical methods to execute numerical simulations in ever-expanding domains of science and engineering.

As a founding member of ICIAM, SIAM is proud to support the ICIAM congresses. SIAM’s Annual Meeting is not held during ICIAM years, and SIAM members are instead encouraged to consider presenting their research at the 2023 ICIAM Congress in Tokyo. Submissions for minisymposia and contributed talks are being accepted through December 23, 2022.

As with previous ICIAM congresses, SIAM will maintain and publish a list of accepted ICIAM minisymposia that were organized by members of SIAM Activity Groups (SIAGs). If you wish to have your accepted ICIAM submission identified as sponsored by a specific SIAG, please email Richard Moore, SIAM’s Director of Programs and Services, at moore@siam.org with the minisymposium title, the speakers and individual titles if available, and the SIAG. Please do not send this information until ICIAM has confirmed acceptance of your minisymposium.

SIAM will also offer a limited number of travel awards to the 2023 ICIAM Congress, with priority given to students and early-career researchers. More information will be posted on SIAM’s ICIAM 2023 webpage as it becomes available.

We look forward to seeing many of you in Tokyo next year!