Photos from the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting

SIAM President Sven Leyffer (right) presents Jorge Nocedal of Northwestern University with the John von Neumann Prize: SIAM’s highest honor and flagship lecture. Nocedal—who accepted the award during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting, which was held in Spokane, Wash., in July—was acknowledged for his fundamental work in nonlinear optimization, both in deterministic and stochastic settings. He later delivered an associated prize lecture titled “Exploring the Mysteries of Deep Neural Network Optimization.” SIAM photo.

SIAM’s chief executive officer Suzanne Weekes (right) poses with Caoimhe Rooney of Astroscale and Mathematigals, who delivered the I. E. Block Community Lecture at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting in Spokane, Wash., this July. The lecture is named after I. Edward Block, SIAM’s co-founder and first managing director; it is open to the public and meant to encourage societal appreciation of the excitement and vitality of science. Rooney’s lecture—which was titled “Go Boldly Where No Math Has Gone Before”—highlighted mathematical contributions to some of the world’s greatest challenges and addressed her own work in space exploration and sustainability. SIAM photo.

SIAM President Sven Leyffer (right) and Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) President Talitha Washington (left) congratulate Sunčica Čanić of the University of California, Berkeley, who presented the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting in Spokane, Wash., this July. Čanić’s prize citation praises her as “a highly influential applied mathematician working in the modeling, analysis, and computation of partial differential equations.” She has made profound contributions across a wide spectrum of mathematics, including mathematical analysis of complex physical phenomena and the design and testing of new numerical methods. During her address, Čanić spoke about “Mathematics for Bioartificial Organ Design.” SIAM photo.

During the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place this July in Spokane, Wash., SIAM President Sven Leyffer (right) congratulates John Urschel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his receipt of the Richard C. DiPrima Prize. Urschel was recognized for his outstanding contributions to fundamental problems in applied linear algebra, as evidenced by his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Graphs, Principal Minors, and Eigenvalue Problems.” SIAM photo.

Benedetto Piccoli of Rutgers University–Camden (left) accepts the W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics from SIAM President Sven Leyffer during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting, which was held in Spokane, Wash., this July. The prize celebrated Piccoli’s contributions to the fields of optimal control and conservation laws, with applications to vehicular traffic, robotics, and biology. He gave a corresponding talk during the meeting on “100 Years of Traffic Models: From Road Tolls to Autonomy.” SIAM photo.

SIAM President Sven Leyffer (right) presents the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession to David Brown, who is retired from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place in Spokane, Wash., this July. Brown was honored for his many years of dedication to enriching the computational science community. SIAM photo.

During the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting—which took place in Spokane, Wash., this July—Michael Schmischke of Chemnitz University of Technology (left), Perfect Yayra Gidisu of Eindhoven University of Technology (center), and Rujeko Chinomona of Temple University await the presentation of the 2023 SIAM Student Paper Prize. Schmischke was recognized for his paper on the “Approximation of High-dimensional Periodic Functions with Fourier-based Methods,” which published in the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis in 2021. Gidisu received the prize for her 2022 publication in the SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science titled “A Generalized CUR Decomposition for Matrix Pairs.” Chinomona was recognized for her 2021 publication about “Implicit-Explicit Multirate Infinitesimal GARK Methods,” which appeared in the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. SIAM photo.

Members of the SIAM Fellows classes of 2023 and 2024 were recognized during the Fellows Reception at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place in Spokane, Wash., this July. From left to right: SIAM President Sven Leyffer, Nathaniel Whitaker of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (class of 2024), Daniela Calvetti of Case Western Reserve University (class of 2023), Ulrike Meier Yang of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (class of 2024), Michael Friedlander of the University of British Columbia (class of 2024), Hans De Sterck of the University of Waterloo (class of 2024), and Ron Buckmire of Marist College (class of 2023). SIAM photo.

Prizewinners and SIAM Fellows gather for a group photo during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place in Spokane, Wash., this July. From left to right: Ron Buckmire of Marist College; Caoimhe Rooney of Astroscale; Sunčica Čanić of the University of California, Berkeley; Rujeko Chinomona of Temple University; Michael Schmischke of Chemnitz University of Technology; Heather Lynn Cihak of the University of Colorado Boulder; Jorge Nocedal of Northwestern University; John Urschel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Perfect Yayra Gidisu of Eindhoven University of Technology; Michael Friedlander of the University of British Columbia; David Brown, who is retired from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and SIAM President Sven Leyffer. SIAM photo.