Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( SIAM ), based in Philadelphia, is an American society for applied mathematics . It was founded in 1951 in Philadelphia by industrial mathematicians. Today it has over 11,000 members, organizes scientific conferences and publishes books and 18 professional journals (including SIAM Review , Theory of Probability and its Applications , SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics ). It awards the George Pólya Prize , the Norbert Wiener Prize (with the American Mathematical Society ), the James H. Wilkinson Prize , the Theodore von Kármán Prize and the George David Birkhoff Prize . SIAM is also a co-organizer of the four-year International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), the largest international conference for applied mathematics.

President

William E. Bradley , Jr. (1952-1953)
Donald Houghton (1953-1954)
Harold W. Kuhn (1954–1955)
John William Mauchly (1955-1956)
Thomas Southard (1956-1958)
Donald Thomsen, Jr. (1958-1959)
Brockway McMillan (1959-1960)
F. Joachim Weyl (1960–1961)
Robert Rinehart (1961–1962)
Joseph P. LaSalle (1962–1963)
Alston Householder (1963-1964)
J. Barkley Rosser (1964-1966)
Garrett Birkhoff (1966–1968)
J. Wallace Givens (1968-1970)
Burton Colvin (1970-1972)
CC Lin (1972–1974)
Herbert Keller (1974–1976)
Werner Rheinboldt (1976–1978)
Richard C. DiPrima (1979–1980)
Seymour Parter (1981-1982)
Hirsh Cohen (1983-1984)
Gene H. Golub (1985-1986)
C. William Gear (1987-1988)
Ivar Stakgold (1989–1990)
Robert E. O'Malley (1991-1992)
Avner Friedman (1993-1994)
Margaret H. Wright (1995-1996)
John Guckenheimer (1997-1998)
Gilbert Strang (1999-2000)
Thomas A. Manteuffel (2001-2002)
James Hyman (2003-2004)
Martin Golubitsky (2005-2006)
Cleve Moler (2007-2008)
Doug Arnold (2009-2010)
LN Trefethen (2011–2012)
Irene Fonseca (2013-2014)
Pamela Cook (2015-2016)
Nicholas Higham (2017-2018)