2011-10-09 

　　Emmanuel J. Candes, ICIAM2011 Colatz奖得主

　　Emmanuel J. Candes is a professor of Mathematics and of Statistics at Stanford University. His research areas include Compressive sensing, mathematical signal processing, computational harmonic analysis, multiscale analysis, scientific computing, statistical estimation and detection, high-dimensional statistics. Applications to the imaging sciences and inverse problems. Other topics of recent interest include theoretical computer science, mathematical optimization, and information theory.

　　Candès earned a B.Sc. from the École Polytechnique in 1993. He did his graduate studies at Stanford, where he earned a Ph.D. in statistics in 1998 and immediately joined the Stanford faculty as an assistant professor of statistics. He moved to the California Institute of Technology in 2000, where in 2006 he was named the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics. He returned to Stanford in 2009.

　　Candès received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2001. He was awarded the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing in 2005. In 2006, he received the Vasil A. Popov Prize as well as the National Science Foundation's highest honor: the Alan T. Waterman Award for research described by the NSF as “nothing short of revolutionary.” In 2010 Candès and Terence Tao were awarded the George Pólya Prize.

　　The Collatz Prize was established to provide international recognition to individual scientists under 42 years of age for outstanding work on industrial and applied mathematics. It carries a cash award of USD 1000. This prize was created on the initiative of ICIAM member society GAMM, and was first awarded in 1999. The Collatz Prize is presently funded by GAMM, and was first awarded in 1999.

　　Alexandre J. Chorin, ICIAM2011 拉格朗日奖得主

　　Alexandre J. Chorin is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in applied mathematics. He is known for his contributions to the field of Computational fluid dynamics.

　　Chorin was one of the first to develop an algorithm for the numerical solution of Incompressible Navier-Stokes equation. He developed "Artificial compressibility method" and the immensely popular "Projection method". He is also responsible for the introduction of the vortex method in computational fluid dynamics.

　　Chorin received the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics in 2000. This prize is awarded "for an outstanding contribution to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense". Chorin was a student of Peter D. Lax and teacher of James A. Sethian. Incidentally, both Lax and Sethian also won the Norbert Wiener Prize. Professor Chorin also holds the University of California Professor award, which has been awarded to only a handful of people. The award gives him tenure at all of the University of California Campuses.

　　The Lagrange Prize was established to provide international recognition to individual mathematicians who have made an exceptional contribution to applied mathematics throughout their career. It carries a cash award of USD 3000. This prize was created on the initiative of ICIAM member societies SMAI, SEMA and SIMAI and first awarded in 1999.

　　Vladimir Rokhlin, ICIAM2011麦克斯韦奖得主

　　Vladimir Rokhlin is a professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Yale University. He is a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, of the National Academy of Sciences, and of the National Academy of Engineering. He is co-inventor of the fast multipole method (FMM) in 1987, recognized as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century.

　　Vladimir Rokhlin's research interests include randomized algorithms of numerical analysis, partial differential equations, scattering theory, numerical solution of integral equations, quadrature formulae for singular functions, approximation theory, harmonic analysis.

　　He is a recipient of the 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research, and a recipient of the 2001 Rice University Distinguished Alumnus Award.

　　The Maxwell Prize was established to provide international recognition to a mathematician who has demonstrated originality in applied mathematics. It carries a cash award of USD 1000. This prize was created on the initiative of ICIAM member society IMA (with support also from the J.C.Maxwell Society), and first awarded in 1999. The Maxwell Prize is presently funded by IMA.

　　James Albert Sethian, ICIAM2011先驱奖得主

　　James Albert Sethian is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the head of the Mathematics Group at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He wins the ICIAM Pioneer Prize in 2011 for pioneering work, introducing applied mathematical methods and scientific computing techniques to an industrial problem area and new scientific fields of applications.

　　He received his Ph.D from Berkeley in 1982 under the direction of Alexandre Chorin , who is the recipient of ICIAM2011 Lagrange Prize. Afterward he was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Courant Institute, under Peter Lax. He returned to Berkeley in 1985 where he is now a full professor. He received the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics in 2004, jointly awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematicians (SIAM) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Sethian was elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2008 for the development of efficient methods of tracking moving interfaces. Sethian has acted as Interim Director Research at Thinking Machines Corporation, as well as held visiting positions at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

　　The Pioneer Prize was established for pioneering work introducing applied mathematical methods and scientific computing techniques to an industrial problem area or a new scientific field of applications. It carries a cash award of USD 1000. This prize was created on the initiative of ICIAM member society SIAM, and was first awarded in 1999.

　　Edward Lungu, ICIAM苏步青奖得主

　　Edward Lungu is a professor of mathematics at the University of Botswana, in Gabarone, Botswana. His first degree came in 1975 from the University of Zambia. A Master’s degree and also his 1980 Ph.D. followed, being awarded by the University of Bristol.

　　Edward Lungu has been described as a “fundamental person” in the development of teaching and research in applied mathematics in Southern Africa. As founder and leader of SAMSA (Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association) and later of AMMSI (the Millennium Initiative), he has simply done everything that one person could do: organized, encouraged, supervised, and led by his personal example in teaching and research. For Botswana itself Professor Lungu has developed models in: hydrology; ecology; epidemiology. In choosing these three research areas, he has responded to the greatest needs of his fellow men and women. The series of recent papers in mathematical biosciences model the differential progression of HIV/AIDS based on characteristics of patients and the care they receive.

　　In developing mathematical education and research Edward Lungu has been described as a “giant force” — a force with organizational talent, tireless energy, and a friendly personality. That is a most wonderful combination. His years of work have brought successes for applied mathematics that we are very happy to recognize today.

　　The Su Buchin Prize was established to provide international recognition of an outstanding contribution by an individual in the application of mathematics to emerging economies and human development, in particular at the economic and cultural level in developing countries. It carries a cash award of USD 1000. This prize was created on the initiative of ICIAM member society CSIAM in 2007.

　　About ICIAM.

　　The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is a world body bringing together many of the national and international associations of professional mathematicians concerned with applications. For further information on ICIAM and the ICIAM Prizes, see http://www.iciam.org/.