John von Neumann Prize

The John von Neumann Prize (until 2019 named John von Neumann Lecture Prize^[1]) was funded in 1959 with support from IBM and other industry corporations, and began being awarded in 1960 for "outstanding and distinguished contributions to the field of applied mathematical sciences and for the effective communication of these ideas to the community".^[2][3] It is considered the highest honor bestowed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).^[4][5][6] The recipient receives a monetary award and presents a survey lecture at the SIAM Annual Meeting.^[7]

John von Neumann Prize
Awarded for	outstanding contributions to applied mathematical sciences and for effective communication of these ideas to the community
Country	United States
Presented by	Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Reward(s)	USD $5,000
First awarded	1960; 64 years ago (1960)
Website	www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/vonneumann.php

Selection process

Anybody is able to nominate a mathematician for the prize. Nominations are reviewed by a selection committee, consisting of members of SIAM who serve two-year appointments.^[8] The committee selects one recipient for the prize nine months before the SIAM Annual Meeting and forwards their nomination to SIAM's Executive Committee and Vice President for Programs.

Past lecturers

• 1960: Lars Valerian Ahlfors
• 1961: Mark Kac
• 1962: Jean Leray
• 1963: Stanislaw M. Ulam
• 1964: Solomon Lefschetz
• 1965: Freeman Dyson
• 1966: Eugene P. Wigner
• 1967: Chia-Chiao Lin
• 1968: Peter D. Lax
• 1969: George F. Carrier
• 1970: James H. Wilkinson
• 1971: Paul A. Samuelson
• 1974: Jule Charney
• 1975: Sir James Lighthill
• 1976: Rene Thom
• 1977: Kenneth J. Arrow
• 1978: Peter Henrici
• 1979: Kurt O. Friedrichs
• 1980: Keith Stewartson
• 1981: Garrett Birkhoff
• 1982: David Slepian
• 1983: Joseph B. Keller
• 1984: Jurgen Moser
• 1985: John W. Tukey
• 1986: Jacques-Louis Lions
• 1987: Richard M. Karp
• 1988: Germund Dahlquist
• 1989: Stephen Smale
• 1990: Andrew J. Majda
• 1991: No award was made
• 1992: R. Tyrrell Rockafellar
• 1993: No award was made
• 1994: Martin D. Kruskal
• 1995: No award was made
• 1996: Carl de Boor
• 1997: William Kahan
• 1998: Olga Ladyzhenskaya
• 1999: Charles S. Peskin
• 2000: Persi Diaconis
• 2001: David L. Donoho
• 2002: Eric S. Lander
• 2003: Heinz-Otto Kreiss
• 2004: Alan C. Newell
• 2005: Jerrold E. Marsden
• 2006: George C. Papanicolaou
• 2007: Nancy Kopell
• 2008: David Gottlieb
• 2009: Franco Brezzi
• 2010: Bernd Sturmfels
• 2011: Ingrid Daubechies
• 2012: Sir John M. Ball
• 2013: Stanley J. Osher
• 2014: Leslie F. Greengard
• 2015: Jennifer Tour Chayes
• 2016: Donald E. Knuth
• 2017: Bernard J. Matkowsky
• 2018: Charles F. Van Loan
• 2019: Margaret H. Wright
• 2020: Nick Trefethen^[9]
• 2021: Chi-Wang Shu
• 2022: Leah Keshet
• 2023: Yousef Saad^[10]
• 2024: Jorge Nocedal^[11]

See also

• List of mathematics awards

References

1. https://www.siam.org/prizes-recognition/major-prizes-lectures/detail/full-prize-specifications/john-von-neumann-prize, accessed 2021/06/16, on bottom of page
2. "The John von Neumann Lecture". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
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4. "ACM NEWS Donald E. Knuth Awarded SIAM's Highest Honor, Delivers the John von Neumann Lecture". Communications of the ACM. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
5. Fung, Aliza. "Prize Speakers". International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
6. Manteuffel, Tom; Crowley, Jim (March 2002). "SIAM Turns 50" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 49 (3). Retrieved 26 April 2017.
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8. "John von Neumann Prize Specifications". SIAM. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
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10. Mathematics, Society for Industrial and Applied (2023-01-26). "Yousef Saad is the 2023 SIAM John von Neumann Prize Lecturer". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
11. "John von Neumann Prize". SIAM. Retrieved 2024-10-22.