Photos from the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting

SIAM President Nicholas Higham (left) presents The John von Neumann Lecture to Charles F. Van Loan of Cornell University at the Prizes and Awards Luncheon during the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting, held in Portland, Ore., this July. After the luncheon, Van Loan gave a talk about “Untangling Random Polygons and Other Things.” SIAM photo.

SIAM President Nicholas Higham (left) awards Volker Mehrmann of the Technische Universität Berlin with the W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting, held in Portland, Ore., this July. Mehrmann’s prize lecture was titled “Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Differential-Algebraic Port-Hamiltonian Systems.” SIAM photo.

SIAM President Nicholas Higham (left) and Association of Women in Mathematics (AWM) President Ami E. Radunskaya (right) present the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture to Éva Tardos of Cornell University during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place in Portland, Ore., this July. The previous day, Tardos spoke about “Learning and Efficiency of Outcomes in Games.” SIAM photo.

SIAM Past President Pam Cook (right) of the University of Delaware receives the Julian Cole Lectureship from current SIAM President Nicholas Higham at the Prizes and Awards Luncheon during the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place in Portland, Ore., this July. The following day, Cook gave a lecture entitled “Modeling of Complex Fluids: Wormlike Micellar Solutions, Polymers, and Mucins.” SIAM photo.

The Class of 2018 SIAM Fellows were recognized at the Business Meeting during the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting, held in Portland, Ore., this July. First row (from left): Juan M. Restrepo (Oregon State University), J.A.C. Weideman (Stellenbosch University), Helen Moore (AstraZeneca), Madhav V. Marathe (Virginia Tech), and Alex Pothen (Purdue University). Second row (from left): Helmut Pottmann (Technische Universität Wien), Margot Gerritsen (Stanford University), Bojan Mohar (Simon Fraser University and IMFM), Homer F. Walker (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), and Panayot S. Vassilevski (Portland State University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). Third row (from left): Ralph C. Smith (North Carolina State University), David A. Field (General Motors Corporation), Tamas Terlaky (Lehigh University) and John N. Shadid (Sandia National Laboratories and University of New Mexico). SIAM photo.

Peter Gangl (right) of the Technische Universität Graz accepts the Richard C. DiPrima Prize from SIAM President Nicholas Higham during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting, held in Portland, Ore., this July. SIAM photo.

SIAM President Nick Higham (left) presents John Hopcroft of Cornell University with the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession at the Prizes and Awards Luncheon during the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting, held in Portland, Ore., this July. SIAM photo.

Thomas Hales of the University of Pittsburgh delivers the I.E. Block Community Lecture, entitled "How Paradoxes Shape Mathematics and Give Us Self-Verifying Computer Programs," at the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting, held in Portland, Oreg. this July. SIAM photo.