The prize was established in 1986 in memory of Richard C. DiPrima, who served SIAM for many years and in 1979–1980 as SIAM President. It aims to recognize an early career researcher in applied mathematics and is based on the doctoral dissertation.
The Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded every two years to one early career researcher who has done outstanding research in applied mathematics and who has completed his/her doctoral dissertation and completed all other requirements for his/her doctorate.
The requirements for the doctorate must have been equivalent to those for a U.S. doctorate. The dissertation must represent a topic of applied mathematics (defined as those topics covered by the SIAM journals). The dissertation must be submitted in English. An English translation is acceptable.
Candidates for the prize must have completed their doctoral dissertations and all other requirements for their doctorates during the period running from three to one years prior to the award date, selection is based on the dissertations of the candidates.
For the 2026 award, the candidate must have completed their dissertation and all other requirements between July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2025.
The prize will next be awarded at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN24) in Spokane, Washington, United States.
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The Richard C. DiPrima prize includes a $2,000 monetary prize and a certificate. SIAM will reimburse the recipient for reasonable travel expenses incurred in attending the award ceremony.
The Richard C. DiPrima Prize will next be awarded in at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting.
The prize will be presented by the SIAM President at the Prizes and Awards Luncheon. The announcement of the award will appear in SIAM News, the SIAM website, and appropriate electronic media.
The 2024 Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded to John C. Urschel for outstanding contributions to fundamental problems in applied linear algebra developed in his Ph.D. dissertation entitled ‘Graphs, Principal Minors, and Eigenvalue Problems.’
Matthias Heinkenschloss (Chair) Luca Formaggia Jennifer Scott
The 2022 Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded to Matthew J. Colbrook for the high quality and mathematical innovation of his Ph.D. dissertation on the computation of spectra in infinite dimensions.
Béatrice Rivière (Chair)Jonathan RubinStefan Ulbrich
The 2020 Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded to Anna Seigal for her doctoral dissertation, “Structured Tensors and the Geometry of Data,” and for her exemplary work in multilinear algebra that advances theoretical and applied knowledge, and that serves as a model of mathematical communication.
Chad Topaz (Chair)Janet Best Jun Zou
The 2018 Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded to Peter Gangl for his dissertation entitled “Sensitivity-Based Topology and Shape Optimization with Application to Electrical Machines,” which contains outstanding work in applied mathematics on problems of design optimization arising in electrical engineering.
Hans Kaper (Chair)Paul A. MartinMichael Hintermueller
The 2016 Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded to Blake H. Barker for his dissertation entitled “Numerical Proof of Stability of Roll Waves in the Small-Amplitude Limit for Inclined Thin Film Flow,” that provided a rigorous numerical proof for the stability of a problem in thin-film flow. His work has made novel contributions that will have an important impact on the area of numerical stability and analysis and related fields.
George Yin (Chair) Lora Billings William D. Henshaw
The 2014 Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded to Thomas D. Trogdon for his doctoral dissertation, “Riemann-Hilbert Problems, Their Numerical Solution and the Computation of Nonlinear Special Functions.” His dissertation has made outstanding contributions to the theory of and numerical methods for Riemann-Hilbert Problems and their applications to integrable systems, nonlinear partial differential equations, including the KdV and nonlinear Schrödinger equations, and special functions. The clear and elegant exposition of the subject abounds with new insight, rigorous theory and convergence results for new and powerful numerical methods.
John Lowengrub (Chair) Francisco Marcellan Karen Willcox
The 2012 Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded to Thomas Goldstein for his doctoral dissertation, “Algorithms and Applications for L1 Minimization,” and for devising an algorithm, the split Bregman iteration, which is remarkably effective for L1 minimization, in particular, to applications in compressed sensing and total variation-based image processing.
Robert D. Skeel (Chair) Liliana Borcea Alan R. Champneys Bengt Fornberg Daan Huybrechs
James H. Curry (Chair) Patricia E. Bauman Philip Maini
Jaroslav Stark (Chair) Gerda de Vries Sharon R. Lubkin
Marshall Slemrod (Chair)Yuriko Y Renardy Daniel B. Szyld
Andrew J. Wathen (Chair) Emmanuele DiBenedetto Suzanne M. Lenhart
Joseph E. Flaherty (Chair) Russel E. Caflisch
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