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Professor Mary F. Wheeler has been selected the winner of the 2009 SIAM Theodore
von Kármán Prize, one of SIAM's most distinguished prizes. But there's more, she will also be receiving the 2009 SIAM SIAG/GS Career Prize.
In awarding the von Kármán Prize, which is given once every five years, the committee wrote:
"The prize committee particularly cited your seminal research in numerical methods for partial differential equations, your leadership in the field
of scientific computation and service to the scientific community, and your pioneering work in the application of computational methods to the
engineering sciences, most notably in the geosciences. They noted your place at the forefront of efforts forging connections between mathematics
and engineering, and between academia and industry, and your work over the last decade developing and applying state-of-the-art algorithms and
computational science tools to problems of societal importance in energy and the environment."
Dr. Wheeler will be the first recipient of the Career Prize, which will be awarded every two years. With regard to the Career Prize, the following was stated:
"Together with your selection for the SIAM SIAG/GS Career Prize, this is truly an extraordinary recognition. The Career Prize recognizes your
achievements in geosciences as judged by your closest peers, while the von Kármán Prize emphasizes the breadth of regard for your work across
applied mathematics. Taken together it is hard to imagine a clearer statement of the regard in which you are held our community."
The von Kármán Prize will be awarded at the SIAM annual meeting in Denver in July. The SIAM/GS Career Prize will be awarded at the
SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences in Leipzig Germany in June.
Congratulations on this impressive pair of awards!
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