Established in 1967, the prize honors Norbert Wiener, a founder of the field of cybernetics. The prize is awarded every three years by SIAM and the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for an outstanding contribution to applied mathematics. Nominations can be submitted via the AMS website.
The Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics recognizes outstanding contributions to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense. The prize is administered by the AMS and awarded jointly by AMS and SIAM.
A candidate must be a member of AMS or SIAM.
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The Norbert Wiener Prize includes a $5,000 monetary prize and a certificate containing the citation.
The Norbert Wiener Prize will next be awarded at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings.
The award will be presented at the Prize Session and Reception during the Joint Mathematics Meetings. The announcement of the award will appear in SIAM News, the SIAM website, and appropriate electronic media.
The initial funds for the prize were donated by the Mathematics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The funds are held and managed by AMS.
The 2022 AMS-SIAM Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was awarded to Eitan Tadmor for his original contributions to applied and numerical analysis with applications in fluid dynamics, image processing, and collective dynamics. The prize also recognizes the significant impact of his fundamental work in theory and computation of nonlinear partial differential equations.
Bruce Boghosian (Chair)Suncica CanicIngrid Daubechies
The 2019 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was awarded to Marsha Berger for her fundamental contributions to adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and to Cartesian mesh techniques for automating the simulation of compressible flows in complex geometry.
Emmanuel Candes (Chair)James DemmelCharles Doering
The 2019 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was awarded to Professor Arkadi Nemirovski for his fundamental contributions to high-dimensional optimization and for his discovery of key phenomena in the theory of signal estimation and recovery.
The 2016 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was awarded to Constantine M. Dafermos for his foundational work in partial differential equations and continuum physics.
Charles L. Epstein (Chair)Walter CraigRonald A. DeVore
The 2013 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was awarded to Andrew Majda for his groundbreaking work in theoretical fluid mechanics and its application to problems in atmospheric science and oceanography.
Jerry L. BonaRoger M. Temam
James G. GlimmRoland GlowinskiNancy J. Kopell
Philip J. Holmes (Chair)David B. MumfordStanley J. Osher
Thomas M. Liebling (Chair)Martin GroetschelPhilip J. Holmes
2000 Alexandre J. Chorin, Arthur T. Winfree1995 Hermann Flaschka, Ciprian Foias1990 Michael Alzenman, Jerrold E. Marsden1985 Clifford S. Gardner1980 Tosio Kato, Gerald B. Whitham1975 Peter D. Lax1970 Richard E. Bellman
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