June 23, 2009
Aerospace engineering professors Ivo Babuska, Thomas J.R. Hughes and J. Tinsley Oden have been elected into the inaugural class of fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The fellows program acknowledges members who have made outstanding contributions to the fields served by SIAM. It also recognizes excellence in industrial work, excellence in educational activities that reach a broad audience, or other forms of excellence directly related to the goals of SIAM. The organization seeks to ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books, and conferences. Fellows will be honored at the prizes and awards luncheon portion of the 2009 SIAM annual meeting in Denver this July.
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