Photos from the 2025 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering

At the 2025 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, which was held this past March in Fort Worth, Texas, SIAM President Carol Woodward of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (left) awards the inaugural Ivo & Renata Babuška Prize to Omar Ghattas of the University of Texas at Austin. Ghattas was acknowledged for his “groundbreaking interdisciplinary contributions to the theory and algorithms of Bayesian inverse problems and their high-impact application across the geosciences.” His corresponding lecture at the meeting detailed his research group’s ongoing work in this space. SIAM photo.

From left to right: Julianne Chung of Emory University—chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAG/CSE)—congratulates Elizabeth Newman of Emory University, Misha Kilmer of Tufts University, and Lior Horesh of IBM Research for their joint receipt of the 2025 SIAG/CSE Best Paper Prize. The group—along with coauthor Haim Avron of Tel Aviv University (not pictured)—was honored for their 2021 paper, “Tensor-tensor Algebra for Optimal Representation and Compression of Multiway Data,” which published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Newman gave an associated prize lecture on behalf of her colleagues at the 2025 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, which was held in Fort Worth, Texas, this past March. SIAM photo.

During the 2025 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, which took place in March in Fort Worth, Texas, Julianne Chung of Emory University (left)—chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAG/CSE)—presents the 2025 SIAG/CSE Early Career Prize to Jiequn Han of the Flatiron Institute. Han was recognized for his “outstanding theoretical, algorithmic, and computational software contributions to the fields of deep learning, stochastic control, stochastic differential equations, and molecular dynamics.” At the conference, he delivered a talk that was titled “Solving High-dimensional Partial Differential Equations Using Deep Learning: Original Insights and Recent Progress.” SIAM photo.

Erin Carson of Charles University (right) accepts the 2025 James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing from SIAM President Carol Woodward of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the 2025 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, which took place this past March in Fort Worth, Texas. Per the award citation, Carson was commended for her “impactful contributions to the performance and stability of mixed-precision numerical linear algebra.” In her subsequent presentation, she discussed the challenges of designing mixed-precision algorithms. SIAM photo.

At the 2025 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, which was held in Fort Worth, Texas, in March, the principal authors of the deal.II project receive the 2025 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering for their creation of a highly impactful library that supports finite element calculations. From left to right: Daniel Arndt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Wolfgang Bangerth of Colorado State University, Timo Heister of Clemson University, Guido Kanschat of Heidelberg University, Martin Kronbichler of Ruhr University Bochum, Matthias Maier of Texas A&M University, Peter Munch of the Technical University of Berlin, Bruno Turcksin of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and David Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Not pictured are Bruno Blais of Polytechnique Montréal, Marc Fehling of Charles University, Rene Gassmoeller of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Luca Heltai of the University of Pisa, and consultant Jean-Paul Pelteret. At the conference, Bangerth delivered a presentation that overviewed the deal.II project. SIAM photo.

Recipients of the Best Poster Award at the 2025 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering—which took place in March in Fort Worth, Texas—proudly display their certificates. The meeting featured an engaging two-hour poster session, during which presenters had the opportunity to share their work and network with other attendees. From left to right: Matthew Dallas of the University of Dallas, Benjamin Zastrow of the University of Texas at Austin, Jack Kelley of Virginia Tech, and Sophia Isabel Perez Ferrer of Hood College. Georgia Brooks of the Colorado School of Mines is not pictured. SIAM photo.