Photos from the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting

SIAM President Nicholas Higham (left) awards Nick Trefethen (University of Oxford) with the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting, held this July in Pittsburgh, Pa. SIAM photo.

AWM President Ami Radunskaya (left) and SIAM President Nicholas Higham (right) present the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture to Liliana Borcea (University of Michigan) at the Prizes and Awards Luncheon during the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting, held in Pittsburgh, Pa., this July. Borcea’s prize lecture was titled “Mitigating Uncertainty in Inverse Wave Scattering.” SIAM photo.

SIAM President Nicholas Higham (right) presents The John von Neumann Lecture to Bernard J. Matkowsky (Northwestern University) at the Prizes and Awards Luncheon during the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting, held in Pittsburgh, Pa., this July. Following the luncheon, Matkowsky presented a talk on “Singular Perturbations in Noisy Dynamical Systems.” SIAM photo.

SIAM President Nicholas Higham (left) poses with Lek-Heng Lim (University of Chicago), who received the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting, held this July in Pittsburgh, Pa. The following day, Lim spoke about “Tensors in Computational Mathematics.” SIAM photo.

The Class of 2017 SIAM Fellows were recognized at the Business Meeting during the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting, held in Pittsburgh, Pa., this July. From left to right: Andreas Griewank (Yachay Tech University), Zhaojun Bai (University of California, Davis), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Mark A. Lewis (University of Alberta), Lois Curfman McInnes (Argonne National Laboratory), Michael Kwok-Po Ng (Hong Kong Baptist University), Daniel B. Szyld (Temple University), and Carol S. Woodward (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). SIAM photo.

SIAM President Nicholas Higham (right) congratulates Emily Shuckburgh (British Antarctic Survey), who gave the I.E. Block Community Lecture at the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting, held this July in Pittsburgh, Pa. Shuckburgh’s talk was titled “From Flatland to Our Land: A Mathematician’s Journey through Our Changing Planet.” SIAM photo.

The Prizes and Awards Luncheon took place during the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting, held in Pittsburgh, Pa., this July. SIAM photo.