Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) was founded by a small group of mathematicians from academia and industry who met in Philadelphia in 1951 to start an organization whose members would meet periodically to exchange ideas about the uses of mathematics in industry. This meeting led to the organization of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The membership of SIAM has grown from a few hundred in the early 1950s to more than 10,000 as of 2005. SIAM retains its North American influence, but it also has East Asia, UK, and Ireland sections.

SIAM is one of the three parts of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM).

Members

See main article: list of SIAM academic members.

Focus

The focus for the society is applied and industrial mathematics, and the society often times promotes its acronym as "Science and Industry Advance with Mathematics." It is composed of a combination of people from a wide variety of vocations. Members include engineers, scientists, industrial mathematicians, and academic mathematicians. The society is active in promoting the use of analysis and modeling in all settings. The society also strives to support and provide guidance to educational institutions wishing to promote applied mathematics.

Special Interest Groups

The society includes a number of special interest groups:

Analysis of partial differential equations
Computational Science and Engineering
Control and Systems Theory
Discrete Mathematics
Dynamical systems
Financial Mathematics and Engineering
Geometric Design
Geosciences
Imaging Science
Life Sciences
Linear algebra
Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures
Optimization
Orthogonal polynomials and special functions
Supercomputing

Journals

As of 2005 SIAM publishes 13 research journals:

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation
SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
SIAM Journal on Computing
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
SIAM Journal on Optimization
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
SIAM Review
Theory of Probability and Its Applications

all available electronically by subscription.

Prizes

Germund Dahlquist Prize: Awarded to a young scientist (normally under 45) for original contributions to fields associated with Germund Dahlquist (numerical solution of differential equations and numerical methods for scientific computing).^*

Ralph E. Kleinman Prize: Awarded for "outstanding research, or other contributions, that bridge the gap between mathematics and applications...Each prize may be given either for a single notable achievement or for a collection of such achievements."^*

External links

SIAM.org

Mathematical societies