ICIAM Announces 2015 ICIAM Prizes - Centre national de la ... · PDF fileSPM (Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática) ... trial Mathematics Society Société Canadienne de Math ématiques

http://www.iciam.org/

Associate members: (Associazione Italiana Ricerca Operativa) AIRO (American Mathematical Society) AMS

(Association for Women in Mathematics) AWM (Chinese Mathematical Society)ChinaMS

(Canadian Mathematical Society – Société Canadienne de Mathematiques)

CMS–SMC

(European Mathematical Society) EMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) IMS (Israel Mathematical Union) IMU

(Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung) DMV

(London Mathematical Society) LMS (Mathematical Society of Japan) MSJ (Österreichische Mathematische

Gesellschaft) ÖMG

(Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne) PTM

(La Sociedad Matemática Mexicana) SMM (Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática) SPM

(Real Sociedad Matemática Española) RSME (Singapore Mathematical Society) SingMS

(Société Mathématique de France) SMF (Schweizerische Mathematische

Gesellschaft – Société Mathématique Suisse – Swiss Mathematical Society)

SMG–SMS

(Unione Matematica Italiana) UMI

Full members: (Australia and New Zealand

Industrial and Applied Mathematics) ANZIAM

(Asociación Argentina de Mate- mática Aplicada Computacional e Industrial)

ASAMACI

(Canadian Applied and Indus- trial Mathematics Society – Société Canadienne de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles)

CAIMS–SCMAI

(Chinese Society for Computational Mathematics)

CSCM

(European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry)

ECMI

(European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology)

ESMTB

(Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik)

GAMM

(The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications)

IMA

(Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

ISIAM

(The Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

JSIAM

(China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

CSIAM

(The Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

KSIAM

(Mathematical Optimization Society) MOS

Mathematik) (Nordiska föreningen för

Tillämpad och Industriell NORTIM

(Societatea Românä de Matematicä Aplicatä şi Industrialä)

ROMAI

(Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática Aplicada e Computacional)

SBMAC

(Sociedad Española de Matematica Aplicada)

SEMA

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

SIAM

(Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale)

SIMAI

(Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles)

SMAI

(Sociedad Peruana de Matemática Aplicada y Computacional)

SPMAC

(Vietnamese Society for Applications of Mathematics)

VSAM

I C I A MICIAM Prizes 2015

Press Release, 15 September 2014

ICIAM Announces 2015 ICIAM Prizes

The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics(ICIAM) is pleased to announce the winners of the five ICIAM prizesfor 2015.

ICIAM is a worldwide organization for professional appliedmathematics societies, and for other societies with a significant interestin industrial or applied mathematics. The aims of the Council are:

• to promote industrial and applied mathematics globally;• to promote interactions between member societies;• to promote the goals of these members societies; and• to coordinate planning for periodic international meetings onindustrial and applied mathematics.

The ICIAM Congresses, held every four years, are run under theauspices of the Council. The 2015 Prizes will be presented at the nextICIAM Congress, ICIAM 2015, the Eighth International Congress onIndustrial and Applied Mathematics, which will take place in Beijing,China, 10–14 August 2015.

Prof. Barbara Lee KeyfitzDr Charles Saltzer Professor of MathematicsThe Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH 43210-1174, USA.

President of ICIAMhttp://www.iciam.org/ http://www.iciam2015.cn/

about the prizesPrize winners are selected by the ICIAM Prize Committee.The members of the Committee for the 2015 Prizes were:

Barbara Lee Keyfitz (chair) Takashi KakoPhilippe Ciarlet Donatella MariniL. Pamela Cook Felix Otto.

CollatzThe Collatz Prize was established to provide international recognition to indi-vidual scientists for outstanding work on industrial and applied mathematics.A recipient’s 42nd birthday must not occur before 1 January of the year inwhich the prize is presented. It was created on the initiative of GAMM(Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik), and first awardedin 1999. Carrying a cash award of USD 5000, the Collatz Prize is presentlyfunded by GAMM.

http://www.iciam2015.cn/


http://www.iciam2015.cn/





CMS–SMC




Gesellschaft) ÖMG






SMG–SMS





ASAMACI


CAIMS–SCMAI


CSCM


ECMI


ESMTB


GAMM


IMA


ISIAM


JSIAM


CSIAM


KSIAM





ROMAI


SBMAC


SEMA


SIAM


SIMAI


SMAI


SPMAC


VSAM

I C I A MThe subcommittee for the 2015 ICIAM Collatz Prize was:

Donatella Marini (chair) Mete SonerTom Hou Andrew StuartHisashi Okamoto Steve Wright.

The 2015 ICIAM Collatz Prize is awarded to Annalisa Buffa in recognitionof her spectacular use of deep and sophisticated mathematical concepts toobtain outstanding contributions to the development of computer simulationsin science and industry.Buffa is Director of the Institute for Applied Mathematics and InformationTechnologies (Pavia-Genoa-Milan section).In a relatively short amount of time, Buffa has been able to bring funda-mental contributions to a number of different aspects of scientific computing,with an incredible range both in the type of applications and in the type ofmathematical instruments. The trademark of her work is the use of highlysophisticated mathematical techniques to produce fundamental breakthroughsthat are applied to computer simulations in industry.

LagrangeThe Lagrange Prize was established to provide international recognition to indi-vidual mathematicians who have made an exceptional contribution toapplied mathematics throughout their careers. It was created on the initia-tive of SMAI (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles), SEMA(Sociedad Española de Matematica Aplicada) and SIMAI (Società Italiana diMatematica Applicata e Industriale) and first awarded in 1999. Carrying acash award of USD 5000, the Lagrange Prize is presently funded by the threemember societies SMAI, SEMA and SIMAI.The subcommittee for the 2015 ICIAM Lagrange Prize was:

Felix Otto (chair) Endre SüliPeter Constantin Jean TaylorJesus Sanz-Serna Juan Velazquez.

Andrew J. Majda of the Courant Institute at New York University receivesthe 2015 ICIAM Lagrange Prize in recognition of his ground-breaking, origi-nal, fundamental and pioneering contributions to applied mathematics and, inparticular, to wave front propagation and combustion, scattering theory, fluiddynamics and atmosphere climate science. His research, which has mergedasymptotic and numerical methods, physical reasoning and modeling, alongwith rigorous mathematical analysis, has had an enormous and long lastingimpact on modern applied mathematics, science and engineering (geophysics,seismology, weather prediction, combustion, and more) and remains the stateof the art today.Majda is the Morse Professor of Arts and Sciences at the Courant Institute ofNew York University.

MaxwellThe Maxwell Prize was established to provide international recognition to amathematician who has demonstrated originality in applied mathematics. Itwas created on the initiative of ICIAM member society IMA (The Instituteof Mathematics and its Applications) with the support of the J.C.MaxwellSociety), and first awarded in 1999. Carrying a cash award of USD 5000, theMaxwell Prize is presently funded by IMA.The subcommittee for the 2015 ICIAM Maxwell Prize was:

L. Pamela Cook (chair) Amiya K.PaniJosé A.Cuminato Benoît PerthameJorge Moré Christoph Schwab.

2





CMS–SMC




Gesellschaft) ÖMG






SMG–SMS





ASAMACI


CAIMS–SCMAI


CSCM


ECMI


ESMTB


GAMM


IMA


ISIAM


JSIAM


CSIAM


KSIAM





ROMAI


SBMAC


SEMA


SIAM


SIMAI


SMAI


SPMAC


VSAM

I C I A MThe 2015 ICIAM Maxwell Prize is awarded to Jean-Michel Coron of theUniversité Pierre et Marie Curie for his fundamental and original contributionsto the study of variational methods for partial differential equations and thenonlinear control of nonlinear partial differential equations.Jean-Michel Coron is a Professor in the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions atthe Université Pierre et Marie Curie.Coron has had a deep and profound impact in the study of variational meth-ods for nonlinear partial differential equations. His original work on constantmean curvature surfaces, periodic solutions for nonlinear wave equations, non-linear elliptic equations with critical Sobolev exponents and harmonic mapsfor nematic liquid crystals has had a major impact in these fields.

PioneerThe Pioneer Prize was established for pioneering work introducing appliedmathematical methods and scientific computing techniques to an industrialproblem area or a new scientific field of applications. It was created on theinitiative of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), and wasfirst awarded in 1999. Carrying a cash award of USD 5000, the Pioneer Prizeis presently funded by SIAM.The subcommittee for the 2015 ICIAM Pioneer Prize was:

Takashi Kako (chair) Giovanni GallavottiMarsha Berger Ulrich LangerMichael Dellnitz Dianne O’Leary.

The 2015 ICIAM Pioneer Prize is awarded to Björn Engquist of Univer-sity of Texas at Austin, USA for fundamental contributions in the field ofapplied mathematics, numerical analysis and scientific computing which havehad long-lasting impact in the field as well as successful applications in science,engineering and industry.Engquist is Professor of Mathematics and Computational and Applied Math-ematics at the University of Texas at Austin.He has made fundamental contributions in the field of applied mathematics,numerical analysis and scientific computing which have had long lasting impactwithin the field as well as successful applications in science, engineering andindustry. Some of his most important pioneering contributions include seminalwork on absorbing boundary conditions (ABC), first proposed by Engquist andMajda, for numerical computation of wave propagation.

Su BuchinThe Su Buchin Prize was established to provide international recognition of anoutstanding contribution by an individual in the application of mathematicsto emerging economies and human development, in particular at the economicand cultural level in developing countries. It was created on the initiative ofCSIAM (China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), and wasfirst awarded in 2007. Carrying a cash award of USD 5000. The Su BuchinPrize is presently funded by CSIAM.The subcommittee for the 2015 ICIAM Su Buchin Prize was:

Philippe Ciarlet (chair) George DincaSusanne Brenner Mythily Ramaswamy.Raymond Chan

The 2015 ICIAM Su Buchin Prize is awarded to Li Tatsien, Fudan University,Shanghai in recognition of his outstanding contributions to applied mathemat-ics and to the dissemination of mathematical sciences in developing countries.Li Ta-tsien is a professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at FudanUniversity.

3





CMS–SMC




Gesellschaft) ÖMG






SMG–SMS





ASAMACI


CAIMS–SCMAI


CSCM


ECMI


ESMTB


GAMM


IMA


ISIAM


JSIAM


CSIAM


KSIAM





ROMAI


SBMAC


SEMA


SIAM


SIMAI


SMAI


SPMAC


VSAM

I C I A MNot only is Li Ta-tsien an eminent mathematician. During the past decades,he has been extremely influential in the development of the pure and appliedmathematical community in developing countries. More specifically, a very far-sighted initiaitive was taken in 1998 by Jacques-Louis Lions and Li Ta-tsien,who together co-founded ISFMA, the Institut Sino–Français de MathematiquesAppliquées, or Chinese–French Institute of Applied Mathematics.

about the winnersCollatz

Annalisa Buffa graduated in Computer Engineering at the Uni-versity of Pavia in 1996, and got her PhD in Mathematics at theUniversity of Milan, in 2000. In 2004 she became Research Di-rector at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and InformationTechnologies (Pavia–Genoa–Milan), and (overall) Director of theInstitute in 2013. She has received important grants, includingan ERC Starting Grant in 2008, and prestigious awards, includingthe Bartolozzi Prize and the John Todd Fellowship Prize in 2007.

In a relatively short amount of time she has been able to bring fundamental contri-butions to a number of different aspects of scientific computing, with an incrediblerange both in the type of applications and in the type of mathematical instruments.

One of her major achievements is the characterization of traces of vector fields forSobolev spaces relevant in electromagnetics: in a series of fundamental papers withPatrick Ciarlet she produced a complete characterization of the traces on the boundaryof polyhedral domains. This has been a breakthrough for the understanding of theintegral equation formulation of electromagnetic scattering.

Another masterpiece was the construction, together with Snorre Christiansen, of anoptimal preconditioner for electromagnetic integral equations. This problem was openfor a long time, and the result finally came thanks to the combination of mathematicalknowledge and engineering conception that she had acquired over the years. Thepreconditioner is already widely used in industrial practice.

More recently, with Giancarlo Sangalli she initiated research activity on the mathe-matical understanding of isogeometric analysis, where she played a fundamental rolein providing a mathematical foundation. She studied the mathematical structureof non-tensor-product extensions of multivariate splines addressing deep theoreticalquestions which will impact enormously the development of adaptive isogeometricmethods. She extended the theory of exterior calculus to splines, showing how thisleads to unexpected schemes for several important problems, and she has also pro-moted the development of free software which is now widely used in the isogeometriccommunity.

In brief, the trademark of her work is the use of highly sophisticated mathemati-cal techniques to produce fundamental breakthroughs that are applied to computersimulations in industry. For this she is a worthy recipient of the 2015 Collatz Prize.

Lagrange

Andrew J. Majda is the Morse Professor of Arts and Sciences at theCourant Institute of New York University. Born in East Chicago,Indiana on 30 January 1949, he received a B.S. degree from PurdueUniversity in 1970 and a Ph.D. degree from Stanford Universityin 1973. He began his scientific career as a Courant Instructorat the Courant Institute from 1973–1975. Prior to returning tothe Courant Institute in 1994, he held professorships at Prince-ton University (1984–1994), the University of California, Berkeley

(1978–1984), and the University of California, Los Angeles (1976–1978).

4





CMS–SMC




Gesellschaft) ÖMG






SMG–SMS





ASAMACI


CAIMS–SCMAI


CSCM


ECMI


ESMTB


GAMM


IMA


ISIAM


JSIAM


CSIAM


KSIAM





ROMAI


SBMAC


SEMA


SIAM


SIMAI


SMAI


SPMAC


VSAM

I C I A MHe is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academyof Arts and Science. His work has been honored by the National Academy of Sci-ence Prize in Applied Mathematics, the John von Neumann Prize of the Society ofIndustrial and Applied Mathematics, the Gibbs Prize of the American MathematicalSociety and the Wiener Prize of the American Mathematical Society and the Societyof Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Some of the most fundamental contributionsof Majda and his collaborators in the area of wavefront propagation are the identi-fication and study of the absorbing boundary conditions for numerical computationsof the wave equation in unbounded domains, which has had major impact in the fieldover the last 30 years; the existence and stability analysis of multi-dimensional shockwaves, which is the only available complete and general result to date about multi-dimensional systems; a model for detonation, now named for him, which has served asan important testing ground for both theoretical and numerical studies of detonationwaves; and the theory of turbulent combustion, which has led to a new understandingof the effect of the environment in reaction–diffusion–combustion phenomena.

Majda has worked extensively in the general theory of fluid dynamics, where, to-gether with his collaborators, has made important and far-reaching contributions.Among them are the celebrated Beale–Kato–Majda theorem; a necessary and suffi-cient condition for the regularity of solutions to the 3-D Euler equations; an extensiveanalysis of the behavior of the advection and diffusion of a passive scalar by in-compressible velocity fields whose statistical description involves a continuous rangeof excited scales; a mathematically rigorous equilibrium statistical theory for three-dimensional nearly parallel vortex filaments and the by-now-classical two-dimensionalsurface quasi-geostrophic flow model which is used to predict the formation of sharpfronts between air masses in the atmosphere.

Majda has also made further revolutionary contributions to the development andanalysis of mathematical models in atmosphere and ocean sciences. These includethe multi-scale modeling and analysis of moist fluid dynamics in the atmosphereand, in particular, the tropics; the development of filtering methods for nonlinearchaotic systems; novel mathematical strategies for prediction and data assimilationin complex multi-scale systems, including new techniques for super-parametrization;reduced stochastic and statistical modeling for climate; and the development andexploitation of statistical physics methods in geophysical problems.

Maxwell

Jean-Michel Coron of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie is thewinner of the 2015 ICIAM Maxwell Prize for his fundamental andoriginal contributions to the study of variational methods for par-tial differential equations and the control of nonlinear partial differ-ential equations. Jean-Michel Coron is a Professor in the Labora-toire Jacques-Louis Lions at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie.Born in Paris in 1956, he received an undergraduate Engineeringdegree from the École Polytechnique in 1978, a graduate Engineer-

ing degree from the Corps des Mines in 1981, and a Doctor of Mathematical Sciencesdegree from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 1982.

Jean-Michel Coron has had a deep and profound impact in the study of variationalmethods for nonlinear partial differential equations. His original work on constantmean curvature surfaces, periodic solutions for nonlinear wave equations, nonlinearelliptic equations with critical Sobolev exponents and harmonic maps for nematicliquid crystals has had a major impact in these fields. This work was crucial to theunderstanding of the equilibrium behavior of liquid crystals, and to research on thedynamical behavior of harmonic mappings and liquid crystals.

Jean-Michel Coron is probably best known for his original work on the control ofnonlinear partial differential equations. His work on the global controllability of the

5





CMS–SMC




Gesellschaft) ÖMG






SMG–SMS





ASAMACI


CAIMS–SCMAI


CSCM


ECMI


ESMTB


GAMM


IMA


ISIAM


JSIAM


CSIAM


KSIAM





ROMAI


SBMAC


SEMA


SIAM


SIMAI


SMAI


SPMAC


VSAM

I C I A Mtwo-dimensional Euler equations of incompressible fluids represents a brilliant inter-play of techniques that he developed for control along nonsingular trajectories and thestabilization of finite dimensional control systems. One of the main underlying ideasis that although the linearization of the Euler equations around the trivial solution isnot controllable, it is possible to construct a non-trivial trajectory such that the corre-sponding linearized system is controllable. He has also produced major results on theglobal controllability of Navier–Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids, theKorteweg–de Vries equations, the Saint–Venant equations, and Schrödinger modelsin quantum control. His work on the controllability of the Euler and Navier–Stokesequations is widely hailed as one of the most original results on the controllability ofnonlinear partial differential equations.

Pioneer

The 2015 ICIAM Pioneer Prize is awarded to Björn Engquist (TheUniversity of Texas at Austin, USA). Björn Engquist received hisPhD from Uppsala University in1975. He has been Professor ofMathematics at UCLA, and the Michael Henry Stater UniversityProfessor of Mathematics and Applied and Computational Math-ematics at Princeton University. He was Director of the ResearchInstitute for Industrial Applications of Scientific Computing and ofthe Centre for Parallel Computers at the Royal Institute of Tech-

nology, Stockholm. Currently he is Professor of Mathematics and Computational andApplied Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Björn Engquist has made fundamental contributions in the field of applied mathemat-ics, numerical analysis and scientific computing which have had long lasting impact inthe field as well as successful applications in science, engineering and industry. Someof his most important pioneering contributions include seminal work on absorbingboundary conditions (ABC), first proposed by Engquist and Majda, for numericalcomputation of wave propagation. These boundary conditions can be used at theboundary of the computational domain to reduce the artificial reflection of waves ef-fectively. Owing to its simplicity and efficiency, it has been one of the most successfuland widely used numerical techniques in the past 30 years and has had significant im-pact in practical applications such as geophysics, seismology and petroleum industry.

In a second direction, Engquist, with his collaborators, is responsible for the develop-ment and analysis of shock capturing methods for nonlinear hyperbolic conservationlaws, including the well-known essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) method. These nu-merical methods have been widely used in computational fluid dynamics, aerospaceengineering, combustion and other applications.

For the past twenty years, Engquist has been a leader in the field of multi-scalemodeling and analysis, where his contributions include numerical homogenization,and the heterogeneous multi-scale method (HMM), among other results.

Su Buchin

Professor Li Ta-tsien of Fudan University in Shanghai is awardedthe 2015 ICIAM Su Buchin Prize in recognition of his outstandingcontributions to applied mathematics and to the dissemination ofmathematical sciences by means of an extensive series of summerschools that have had a profound influence on the development ofresearch and teaching in developing countries. Through his far-sighted leadership and broad vision, Li Ta-tsien has considerablycontributed to the promotion and development of “modern” pure

and applied mathematics in developing countries.

Professor Li Ta-tsien is one of the most renowned specialists, worldwide, in the theoryand numerical analysis of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations, a domain

6





CMS–SMC




Gesellschaft) ÖMG






SMG–SMS





ASAMACI


CAIMS–SCMAI


CSCM


ECMI


ESMTB


GAMM


IMA


ISIAM


JSIAM


CSIAM


KSIAM





ROMAI


SBMAC


SEMA


SIAM


SIMAI


SMAI


SPMAC


VSAM

I C I A Mwhere major difficulties abound, as well as a domain of fundamental importancein applications. These include in particular nonlinear elasticity and gas dynamics.Guided by the objective of acquiring a better understanding of the theory and physicsof shocks that occur in gas dynamics, Li Ta-tsien developed a theory of local existencefor classical and discontinuous solutions of the most general quasi-linear hyperbolicsystems in two variables, posing them as problems where a free boundary occurs. Inthis fashion, he was able to specify the local structure of discontinuous solutions. Thispioneering work initiated new directions for research in the subject.

In another series of fundamental contributions, Li Ta-tsien established the existence ofclassical solutions for the Cauchy problem for general quasi-linear hyperbolic systems,with sufficiently small initial data. This work constitutes a double achievement: First,it provides optimal estimates of lower and upper bounds for the life-span of a classicalsolution; second, it can be applied to the system of nonlinear elastodynamics. JeanLeray, one of the most famous mathematicians of the twentieth century, commented,“The work of Li Ta-tsien provides precise and elegant answers to manifold questionsraised by many researchers”.

More recently, Li Ta-tsien was able to obtain the first satisfactory mathematical mod-eling of “resistivity well-loggings”, a method of fundamental importance in petroleumexploitation. This work led him to introduce a new family of boundary value prob-lems, called “boundary value problems with equipotential surface”. He then studiedsuch problems, both theoretically and numerically, in particular by successfully apply-ing homogenization theory to the modeling of an electrode composed of many parts.It is a measure of the success and power of his approach that it is currently used inmore than ten petroleum fields over the world!

Li Ta-tsien is not only an eminent mathematician. During the past decades, he hasbeen extremely influential in the development of the pure and applied mathematicalcommunity in developing countries. More specifically, a very far-sighted initiaitivewas taken in 1998 by Jacques-Louis Lions and Li Ta-tsien, who together co-foundedISFMA, the Institut Sino–Français de Mathematiques Appliquées, or Chinese–FrenchInstitute of Applied Mathematics. Thanks to his tireless efforts, this Institute, whichis beautifully housed on the campus of Fudan University, organizes every year highlysuccessful Summer Schools, with the support of CIMPA (International Centre forPure and Applied Mathematics in Nice, France) and other organizations. TheseSummer Schools regularly attract students coming from Asian countries, such asChina, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and others. At each Summer School,the lecture notes are edited by Li Ta-tsien and published. The summer schools andtheir proceedings have had a profound influence and impact on the dissemination ofcontemporary research in the targeted countries. They have also contributed greatlyto the training of countless teachers from the universities in these countries.

7

Documents

ICIAM Announces 2015 ICIAM Prizes - Centre national de la ... · PDF fileSPM (Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática) ... trial Mathematics Society Société Canadienne de Math ématiques