Photos From the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings

Marsha Berger of New York University and the Flatiron Institute (right) accepts the 2025 John von Neuman Prize—SIAM’s highest honor and flagship lecture—from SIAM President Carol Woodward at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings (AN25), which were held this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Berger, who was recognized for her foundational work in adaptive mesh refinement and embedded boundary methods for partial differential equations, presented an engaging talk at AN25 titled “Thirty Years of Cartesian Cut-cell Methods: Where Are We Now?” SIAM photo.

During the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings, which took place this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada, SIAM President Carol Woodward (left) and Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) President-Elect Raegan Higgins (right) acknowledge Yongjie Jessica Zhang of Carnegie Mellon University for her receipt and delivery of the 2025 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture. Zhang is widely known for her pioneering research in computational geometry and finite element methods, with profound impacts across biomedical and engineering applications. Her prize lecture was titled “From Neurological Disorders to Additive Manufacturing: Integrating Isogeometric Analysis With Deep Learning and Digital Twins.” SIAM photo.

SIAM President Carol Woodward (left) congratulates Timothy Davis of Texas A&M University on his receipt of the 2025 I.E. Block Community Lecture at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings, which took place this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada. The lecture is named for I. Edward Block—cofounder and former managing director of SIAM—and is meant to foster public appreciation of the excitement and vitality of science. Davis delivered a visually and auditorily appealing talk titled “An Unexpected Journey: From Music to Art Via Math.” SIAM photo.

Richard Allen of Pfizer (right) was the inaugural recipient of the newly established SIAM Industry Prize during the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings, which took place this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He accepted the award from SIAM President Carol Woodward, who applauded Allen for his outstanding contributions to the effective application of mathematical sciences to industry — specifically his creation of quantitative systems pharmacology models for drug development to treat diseases such as COVID-19. Allen later spoke about “Bringing Medicines to Patients with Mathematical Biology” at the conference. SIAM photo.

At the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings, which took place this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada, SIAM President Carol Woodward (left) presents Tamara Kolda of MathSci.ai with the 2025 SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession. Kolda—a SIAM Fellow, current SIAM Vice President for Publications, and chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion—received the award “in recognition of her extensive leadership and service to multiple applied mathematics communities, including SIAM and the National Academies, and promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusion.” SIAM photo.

During the Honors and Awards Luncheon at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings, which were held this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada, members of the 2025 class of SIAM Fellows gathered for a group photo to commemorate their outstanding contributions to areas of study that are served by SIAM. From left to right: Frank Sottile of Texas A&M University, Lior Horesh of IBM Research, Steven Lee of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Thomas Hagstrom of Southern Methodist University, Wei Kang of the Naval Postgraduate School, Lili Ju of the University of South Carolina, Lars Grüne of the University of Bayreuth, Eric Chung of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Serkan Güğercin of Virginia Tech, Luis Chacon of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Jonathan Mattingly of Duke University, David Gleich of Purdue University, Gianluigi Rozza of Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Andrea Walther of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Matthias Heinkenschloss of Rice University, and SIAM President Carol Woodward. SIAM photo.

At the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings, which were held this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada, Marius Tucsnak of the University of Bordeaux (right) receives the 2025 W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize from SIAM President Carol Woodward. The Reid Prize honors contributions to differential equations and control theory, and Tucsnak was recognized for “his fundamental work on the mathematical analysis and control of fluid-structure interaction and for his deep contributions to control theory and partial differential equations.” He delivered a corresponding lecture during the meeting titled " PDE Systems Describing the Motion of Rigid Bodies in an Incompressible Fluid: Wellposedness, Control, and Long-time Behaviour.” SIAM photo.

Mason Porter of the University of California, Los Angeles (right) accepts the 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition from SIAM President Carol Woodward at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings, which were held this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Porter was acknowledged as an accomplished expositor of the mathematical sciences — specifically for “his outstanding exposition of the mathematical sciences to audiences at all levels and interests, including review articles in networks, complex systems and dynamics.” SIAM photo.

During the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings, which took place this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada, SIAM President Carol Woodward (left) congratulates Alfio Quarteroni of Politecnico di Milano and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne for his receipt of the 2025 Ralph E. Kleinman Prize. This award recognizes an individual for exceptional research that bridges the gap between mathematics and applications, and Quarteroni was honored for “his exceptional contributions to mathematical modelling, scientific computing, computational fluid dynamics, machine learning, profound impact on a wide range of applications, and outstanding leadership in bringing mathematics into practice.” SIAM photo.

Sergio Conti of the University of Bonn (right) accepts the 2025 Jerald L. Ericksen Prize from SIAM President Carol Woodward during the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings, which took place this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Conti—along with collaborators Stefan Müller and Michael Ortiz, both of the University of Bonn—jointly received the prize for their 2018 paper titled "Data Driven Problems in Elasticity," which published in the Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis and influenced a new direction for applied mathematics. At the conference, Conti delivered a related prize lecture about “Variational Analysis of a Data-driven Formulation of the Theory of Elasticity.” SIAM photo.

At the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings (AN25), which were held this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada, SIAM President Carol Woodward (left) awards the 2025 SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory Best SICON Paper Prize to Paul Manns of the Technische Universität Dortmund. Manns and his collaborator Annika Schiemann of the Technische Universität Dortmund jointly earned the award for their paper titled “On Integer Optimal Control with Total Variation Regularization on Multidimensional Domains,” which published in the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization in 2023. The prize citation mentioned the paper’s “innovative research, mathematical difficulty, and interest in its potential applications.” SIAM photo.

Ethan Epperly of the University of California, Berkeley (left) and Peter Whalley of ETH Zürich (right) are honored by SIAM President Carol Woodward with the 2025 SIAM Student Paper Prize at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings (AN25), which took place this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada. This prize is awarded annually to up to three student authors of outstanding papers. Epperly was acknowledged for his paper titled “A Theory of Quantum Subspace Diagonalization”—coauthored with Lin Lin of the University of California, Berkeley and Yuji Nakatsukasa of the University of Oxford—which published in the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications in 2022, while Whalley was recognized for his paper titled “Contraction and Convergence Rates for Discretized Kinetic Langevin Dynamics”—coauthored with Benedict Leimkuhler of the University of Edinburgh and Daniel Paulin of Nanyang Technological University—which published in the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis in 2024. Third recipient Carles Falcó of the University of Oxford—who coauthored a 2024 paper titled “A Local Continuum Model of Cell-Cell Adhesion” in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics with Ruth Baker and José A. Carrillo, both of the University of Oxford—is not pictured. SIAM photo.