Of all the outstanding research published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the most noteworthy papers from its collection of peer-reviewed journals are selected for the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize each year.
Papers are selected from up to three years prior to the award year for their originality of research, with special emphasis on work that opens up new areas of applied mathematics or offers fresh perspectives on existing ones. The following papers received awards in 2012.
Nir Ailon (Technion, Israel) and Bernard Chazelle (Princeton University) were recognized for their paper, "The Fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform and Approximate Nearest Neighbors" published in the SIAM Journal on Computing in 2009.
"Topological Optimization of Rod-Stirring Devices" published in SIAM Review (2011), by authors Matthew D. Finn (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Jean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin) also received an Outstanding Paper Prize. Thiffeault was present to receive the award from SIAM President Nick Trefethen at the Prizes and Awards Luncheon held Tuesday, July 10, as part of the SIAM Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Bart Vandereycken (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) and Stefan Vandewalle (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) won an award for the paper, "A Riemannian Optimization Approach for Computing Low-Rank Solutions of Lyapunov Equations," which was published in the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications in 2010. Vandereycken accepted the award from Dr. Trefethen.
SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize recipients receive a cash award of $500 accompanied by one travel award per team to attend the SIAM Annual Meeting. The prize has been awarded since 1999.
About SIAM
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an international society of over 14,000 individual members, including applied and computational mathematicians and computer scientists, as well as other scientists and engineers. Members from 85 countries are researchers, educators, students, and practitioners in industry, government, laboratories, and academia. The Society, which also includes nearly 500 academic and corporate institutional members, serves and advances the disciplines of applied mathematics and computational science by publishing a variety of books and prestigious peer-reviewed research journals, by conducting conferences, and by hosting activity groups in various areas of mathematics. SIAM provides many opportunities for students including regional sections and student chapters. Further information is available at www.siam.org.
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