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<p>"Six Princeton faculty members have been elected to the inaugural group of fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).</p>
<p>The 12,000-member organization created the SIAM Fellows Program this year to recognize those who have made outstanding contributions to the field. The fellows include 183 men and women from five continents who work in academia, industry and government laboratories.</p>
<p>The Princeton inductees are:</p>
<p> Rene Carmona, the Paul M. Wythes '55 Professor of Engineering and Finance, for contributions to signals, statistics and mathematical finance.</p>
<p> Ingrid Daubechies, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics, for contributions to the theory of wavelets and computational harmonic analysis.</p>
<p> Weinan E, a professor of mathematics and applied and computational mathematics, for analysis of multiscale and stochastic problems</p>
<p> Simon Levin, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology, for contributions to mathematical biology and ecology.</p>
<p> Robert Tarjan, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science, for the design and analysis of algorithms.</p>
<p> Salvatore Torquato, a professor of chemistry and the Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials, for contributions to the mathematics of packings and materials.</p>
<p>“The announcement of the first class of SIAM fellows is an important milestone for the applied mathematics and computational science community,” said Douglas Arnold, SIAM’s president. “Their contributions are truly outstanding.”</p>
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<p>These are researchers across the world, mostly in universities but sometimes in industry, who are leaders in the field of applied and computational mathematics. Princeton, known as a powerhouse in pure math is less well-known as a center for applied mathematics. The selection of six faculty members for this recognition spotlights the strength of Princeton’s programs in applied math as well. The Courant Institute at NYU is famous for applied math and easily leads the nation in Fellows. Cornell, also with a strong applied math program, leads the Ivies with eight Fellows, while Princeton and Brown follow with six. Harvard had two Fellows and the Ivies were also represented by one each from Columbia and Yale.</p>
<p>Leading Institutions for SIAM Fellows</p>
<p>13–Courant Institute at New York University
8—Cornell
6—Princeton, Brown, U. of Wisconsin-Madison
5—Stanford, Berkeley U. of Maryland, UT Austin
4—Georgia Tech
3—Boston U., MIT, McGill, Australian National, U. of Illinois</p>
<p>The Chair of Princeton’s math department is Professor Andrew Wiles who became famous for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem. For more information on mathematics at Princeton, see:</p>
<p>[Mathematics</a> Department - Princeton University](<a href=“Home | Math”>Home | Math)</p>