Photos from the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting

SIAM President-elect Sven Leyffer (right) and Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) President Kathryn Leonard (left) congratulate Anne Greenbaum of the University of Washington for her receipt of the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture. As one of the original developers of the LAPACK software, Greenbaum was recognized for her long-lasting and significant impacts on many aspects of numerical linear algebra during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place this July in Pittsburgh, Pa. The previous day, she delivered a lecture entitled “Two of My Favorite Problems.” SIAM photo.

SIAM President-elect Sven Leyffer (left) presents James Crowley, the former executive director of SIAM, with the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession at the Prizes and Awards Luncheon during the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place in Pittsburgh, Pa., this July. Crowley, who retired from SIAM in 2020 after 25 years of service, received a standing ovation from SIAM staff, leadership, and conference attendees as he took the stage to accept the award. SIAM photo.

Enrique Zuazua of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (right) accepts the W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics from SIAM President-elect Sven Leyffer during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which was held in Pittsburgh, Pa., this July. Zuazua was honored for fundamental theoretical and computational contributions to the control, numerics, and analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations and multi-physical systems with impactful scientific and industrial applications. He gave a corresponding talk during the meeting about “Control and Machine Learning.” SIAM photo.

Matthew Colbrook of the University of Cambridge (right) accepts the Richard C. DiPrima Prize from SIAM President-elect Sven Leyffer during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which was held in Pittsburgh, Pa., this July. Colbrook was honored for the high quality and mathematical innovation of his Ph.D. dissertation on the computation of spectra in infinite dimensions. SIAM photo.

Rémi Rhodes of the University of Aix-Marseille (right) accepts the George Pólya Prize in Mathematics from SIAM President-elect Sven Leyffer during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which was held in Pittsburgh, Pa., this July. Rhodes received this award jointly with Antti Kupiainen of the University of Helsinki and Vincent Vargas of the University of Geneva for their collective rigorous justification of the DOZZ formula for three-point structure constants in Liouville conformal field theory. SIAM photo.

During the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place this July in Pittsburgh, Pa., SIAM President-elect Sven Leyffer honored Barbara Mahler of KTH Royal Institute of Technology (left) and William Anderson of North Carolina State University (right) with the SIAM Student Paper Prize. Mahler’s paper, “Analysis of Contagion Maps on a Class of Networks that are Spatially Embedded in a Torus,” appeared in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics in 2021, and Anderson’s paper, “Evolution of Nonlinear Reduced-order Solutions for PDEs with Conserved Quantities,” published in the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing in 2022. Both students presented their work during a “Student Days” minisymposium session. SIAM photo.

During the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place this July in Pittsburgh, Pa., Kristin Lauter of Meta AI Research (right) receives an engraved clock from SIAM president-elect Sven Leyffer in honor of her I.E. Block Community Lecture. Lauter spoke about “Artificial Intelligence and Cryptography: Privacy and Security in the AI Era.” SIAM photo.

Kristin Lauter of Meta AI Research delivered the I.E. Block Community Lecture at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place in Pittsburgh, Pa., this July. Her talk was entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Cryptography: Privacy and Security in the AI Era.” The Block Community Lecture, which is meant to encourage public appreciation of the excitement and vitality of applied mathematics, was followed by a community reception for all attendees. SIAM photo.

Members of the SIAM Fellows classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022 were recognized during the Fellows Reception at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place this July in Pittsburgh, Pa. First row (from left): Edmond Chow (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sharon Arroyo (The Boeing Company), SIAM President-elect Sven Leyffer, Kristin Lauter (Meta AI Research), Abba Gumel (Arizona State University), and Rachel Levy (North Carolina State University). Second row (from left): Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh), James Crowley (former executive director of SIAM), Peter Monk (University of Delaware), Chen Greif (University of British Columbia), Amit Singer (Princeton University), Raymond Tuminaro (Sandia National Laboratories), Jie Shen (Purdue University), and Anna Mazzucato (Pennsylvania State University). SIAM photo.

SIAM president-elect Sven Leyffer recognizes 2022 SIAM Fellows Chen Greif of the University of British Columbia (left) and James Crowley, former executive director of SIAM (right), during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place in Pittsburgh, Pa., this July. SIAM photo.

SIAM president-elect Sven Leyffer (left) congratulates Deborah Lockhart, formerly of the National Science Foundation, for her receipt of the 2021 SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place this July in Pittsburgh, Pa. This award recognizes Lockhart’s far-reaching contributions to support and advance applied mathematics and computational science in numerous venues, especially their central role in all of science and engineering. SIAM photo.

Dan Wilson of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (right) accepts the SIAM Activity Group on Life Sciences Early Career Prize from SIAM President-elect Sven Leyffer during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which was held in Pittsburgh, Pa., this July. Wilson was honored for his outstanding work on coupled oscillators and other mathematical applications to the life sciences. He gave a corresponding talk during the meeting on “Model Order Reduction of Limit Cycle Oscillators Far Beyond the Weakly Perturbed Limit.” SIAM photo.

SIAM president-elect Sven Leyffer (left) presents Valerio Lucarini of the University of Reading with the SIAM Activity Group on Mathematics of Planet Earth Prize during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2022 SIAM Annual Meeting, which took place this July in Pittsburgh, Pa. Lucarini was recognized for his novel application of ideas from statistical physics and linear response theory to the analysis of climate predictions and climate change implications. He presented an associated talk during the meeting on “Mathematics for the Climate Crisis.” SIAM photo.