Philadelphia, PA--James M. Crowley has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for a distinguished record as a scientific administrator in the U.S. Air Force and for the past two decades of outstanding leadership as executive director of SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
With Crowley at the helm, SIAM has grown and expanded over the last 20 years through conferences, activity groups and publications that spotlight new areas and cutting edge research, prizes and awards that recognize outstanding work in the field, and a range of projects aimed at improving mathematics education and increasing the impact of the mathematical sciences for the society at large.Prior to SIAM, Crowley served in positions in the US Air Force, including Assistant Chief Scientist at the Air Force Systems Command. He was a program manager for applied and computational mathematics at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and served as the directorate head for Mathematics and Information Sciences at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He was also a tenured associate professor at the US Air Force Academy. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Brown University.
The AAAS has awarded Fellows distinction to 401 of its members this year. These individuals have been elevated to this rank because of their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished. New Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin on Saturday, 14 February, at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, California.###
For more information on the nomination process, visit http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/.
A database of current AAAS Fellows, which does not include Fellows who have not maintained their AAAS membership, is available at http://membercentral.aaas.org/fellows.
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 http://www.siam.org.