SIAG Geosciences Prizes
From SIAG-GS
The SIAM Geosciences Activity Group awards two prizes at the SIAM Geosciences conference: the Career Prize and the Junior Scientist Prize. The first prizes were given in 2009.
CAREER PRIZE
The SIAG/GS Career Prize is awarded to an outstanding senior
researcher who has made broad and distinguished contributions to
the field of geosciences. The award may be given to any scientist
who has held a PhD or equivalent degree for at least 15 years.
The award consists of a plaque and a certificate containing the
award citation. The recipient is invited to present a plenary
lecture at the conference. The recipient is reimbursed for
travel expenses to attend the meeting to accept the award and
give the lecture.
Detailed descriptions of the prizes can be found at
[1] and
[2].
The first Career Prize was awarded to Mary Wheeler. Over a long career of nearly 40
years, she has made fundamental and sustained contributions in numerical analysis and
scientific computing (including error estimates for parabolic problems, superconvergence,
discontinuous Galerkin methods, mixed finite elements, characteristic methods for transport,
and domain decomposition methods), as well as in applications to multiphase flows in porous
media, reservoir modeling, shallow water flows, and geomechanics. She has trained ~55 PhD
students and postdocs, many of whom have had notable careers in research and industry. She
has had a substantial impact on industry through her center’s industrial affiliates program.
Moreover, beyond these widespread contributions, she played a central role in the creation of
the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences, served as the SIAG’s first president from 1991-1995
and was vice-president from 1995-1998, and served on the organizing committee of the first four
SIAM Geosciences conferences. She has been a central figure in the mathematical and
computational geosciences for several decades, and is clearly most deserving of the first SIAM
SIAG/Geosciences Career Prize.
Congratulations, Mary
The first Young Scientist Prize was awarded to Jan Nordbotten for important contributions to mathematical and numerical analysis of problems in carbon dioxide injection and leakage, soil-water-plant dynamics, and monotonicity of control volume methods. Jan is an exceptionally bright researcher with a very strong publication record who despite his young age has already made substantial contributions in a wide range of application areas.
Congratulations, Jan
Nominations for the next prizes, to be awarded at the Geosciences Conference in 2011, will be solicited mid 2010.
On behalf of the prize selection committee:
- Omar Ghattas (Chair), University of Texas at Austin
- Michael Celia, Princeton University
- Margot Gerritsen, Stanford University
- Thomas Russell, NSF
- Carol Woodward, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Nominations, including a letter describing the contributions
and a CV, should be sent by October 31, 2008, preferably by e-mail to:
Professor Omar Ghattas Chair, SIAG/GS Career Prize Selection Commmittee
c/o J. M. Littleton
SIAM
3600 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688
USA
E-mail: littleton@siam.org
Telephone: +1-215-382-9800 ext. 303
Fax: +1-215-386-7999
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JUNIOR SCIENTIST PRIZE
The SIAG/GS Junior Scientist Prize will be awarded to an
outstanding junior researcher in the field of geosciences
for distinguished contributions to the field in the three
calendar years prior to the year of the award.
The recipient's work must be a significant research
contribution to geosciences. At least one of the papers
containing this work must be published in English in a
peer-reviewed journal bearing a publication date within
the three calendar years prior to the award. The recipient
must be a graduate student or the paper's publication date
must be no more than three calendar years later than the
year in which the author received the PhD or equivalent
degree.
The award will consist of a plaque and a certificate
containing the award citation. The recipient will be
invited to present a brief plenary talk at the conference.
The recipient will be reimbursed for travel expenses to
attend the meeting to accept the award and give the talk.
Nominations, including a letter describing the contributions
and giving bibliographic citations, should be sent by
October 31, 2008, preferably by e-mail to:
Professor Omar Ghattas Chair, SIAG/GS Junior Scientist Prize Selection Commmittee
c/o J. M. Littleton
SIAM
3600 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688
USA
E-mail: littleton@siam.org
Telephone: +1-215-382-9800 ext. 303
Fax: +1-215-386-7999
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