Prize History

Citation

The 2026 Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded to Fatih Dinc for his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Extracting fundamental principles of computation in the mammalian brain from large scale neural recordings,” which has developed a remarkable bridge between applied mathematics and neuroscience, with the intellectual traffic flowing in both directions.

Selection Committee

• Henry Cohn (Chair)
• Philipp Birken
• Julianne Chung

Citation

The 2024 Richard C. DiPrima Prize is awarded to John C. Urschel for his outstanding contributions to fundamental problems in applied linear algebra developed in his Ph.D. dissertation entitled ‘Graphs, Principal Minors, and Eigenvalue Problems’. 

Selection Committee

• Matthias Heinkenschloss (Chair)
• Luca Formaggia
• Jennifer Scott

Citation

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.

Selection Committee

• Béatrice Rivière (Chair)
• Jonathan Rubin
• Stefan Ulbrich

Citation

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.

Selection Committee

• Chad Topaz (Chair)
• Janet Best
• Jun Zou

Citation

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.

Selection Committee

• Hans Kaper (Chair)
• Paul A. Martin
• Michael Hintermueller

Citation

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.

Selection Committee

• George Yin (Chair)
• Lora Billings
• William D. Henshaw

Citation

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.

Selection Committee

• John Lowengrub (Chair)
• Francisco Marcellan
• Karen Willcox

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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.

Selection Committee

• Robert D. Skeel (Chair)
• Liliana Borcea
• Alan R. Champneys
• Bengt Fornberg
• Daan Huybrechs

Selection Committee

• James H. Curry (Chair)
• Patricia E. Bauman
• Philip Maini

Selection Committee

• Jaroslav Stark (Chair)
• Gerda de Vries
• Sharon R. Lubkin

2006 Xinwei Wu

Selection Committee

• Marshall Slemrod (Chair)
• Yuriko Y Renardy
• Daniel B. Szyld

2004 Diego Dominici

Selection Committee

• Andrew J. Wathen (Chair)
• Emmanuele DiBenedetto
• Suzanne M. Lenhart

2002 Gang Hu

Selection Committee

• Joseph E. Flaherty (Chair)
• Russel E. Caflisch

2000 Keith Lindsay

1998 Bart De Schutter

1996 David Paul Williamson

1994 Stephen Jonathan Chapman

1992 Anne Bourlioux and Robin Carl Young

1988 Mary E. Brewster