Photo Highlights from CSE19 and GS19

Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory receives the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering at the 2019 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, which took place earlier this year in Spokane, Wash. Dongarra’s prize lecture was titled “The Singular Value Decomposition: Anatomy of an Algorithm, Optimizing for Performance.” SIAM photo.

Jack Dongarra (left) of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory receives the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering from SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAG/CSE) chair Karen Devine at the 2019 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, which took place earlier this year in Spokane, Wash. Dongarra delivered a prize lecture called “The Singular Value Decomposition: Anatomy of an Algorithm, Optimizing for Performance.” SIAM photo.

From left to right: Julia Computing, Inc. co-founder Alan Edelman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology joins fellow co-founders Stefan Karpinski, Jeffrey Bezanson, and Viral Shah as the latter three receive the James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software at the 2019 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, held in Spokane, Wash., earlier this year. Later that day, Karpinski, Bezanson, and Shah delivered a prize lecture entitled “Solving the Two Language Problem in Scientific Computing and Machine Learning with Julia.” SIAM photo.

SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAG/CSE) chair Karen Devine (right) presents Steven Brunton of the University of Washington with the SIAG/CSE Early Career Prize during the 2019 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, which took place in Spokane, Wash., earlier this year. Brunton then delivered a lecture on “Data-Driven Discovery and Control of Complex Systems: Uncovering Interpretable and Generalizable Nonlinear Models.” SIAM photo.

Omar Ghattas (left) of the University of Texas at Austin accepts the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences (SIAG/GS) Career Prize from SIAG/GS chair Béatrice Rivière at the 2019 SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, held this March in Houston, Texas. Ghattas presented a lecture about “Large-scale Bayesian Inversion for Geoscience Problems.” SIAM photo.

Olav Moyner of SINTEF Digital presents the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences (SIAG/GS) Early Career Prize Lecture, entitled “Multiscale Simulation of Porous Media Flow: Obstacles, Opportunities, and Open-source,” during the 2019 SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, which took place in Houston, Texas, this March. SIAM photo.