Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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SIAM is an acronym for Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

The society was founded by a small group of mathematicians from academia and industry who met in Philadelphia in 1951 to start an organization whose members would meet periodically to exchange ideas about the uses of mathematics in industry. This meeting led to the organization of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The membership of SIAM has grown from a few hundred in the early 1950s to more than 10,000 as of 2005. SIAM still retains a heavy North American influence, but it also has an East Asia section and a UK and Ireland section.

Members

See main article: list of SIAM academic members.

Focus

The focus for the society is applied and industrial mathematics, and the society often times promotes its acronym as "Science and Industry Advance with Mathematics." It is composed of a combination of people from a wide variety of vocations. Members include engineers, scientists, industrial mathematicians, and academic mathematicians. The society is active in promoting the use of analysis and modeling in all settings. The society also strives to support and provide guidance to educational institutions wishing to promote applied mathematics.

Special Interest Groups

The society includes a number of special interest groups:

• Analysis of partial differential equations
• Computational Science and Engineering
• Control and Systems Theory
• Discrete Mathematics
• Dynamical systems
• Financial Mathematics and Engineering
• Geometric Design
• Geosciences
• Imaging Science
• Life Sciences
• Linear algebra
• Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures
• Optimization
• Orthogonal polynomials and special functions
• Supercomputing

Journals

As of 2005 SIAM publishes 13 research journals:

• Multiscale Modeling and Simulation
• SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
• SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
• SIAM Journal on Computing
• SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
• SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
• SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
• SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
• SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
• SIAM Journal on Optimization
• SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
• SIAM Review
• Theory of Probability and Its Applications

all available electronically by subscription.

Prizes

• Germund Dahlquist Prize: Awarded to a young scientist (normally under 45) for original contributions to fields associated with Germund Dahlquist (numerical solution of differential equations and numerical methods for scientific computing).[1]

• Ralph E. Kleinman Prize: Awarded for "outstanding research, or other contributions, that bridge the gap between mathematics and applications...Each prize may be given either for a single notable achievement or for a collection of such achievements."[2]

External links

• SIAM.org