SIAM Honors Students

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) honored several students with awards and prizes during the society’s annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this past July.

The Junior Scientist Prize was awarded to Sergey Nadtochiy from Oxford University for his contributions to mathematical finance and his original, sophisticated, and rigorous mathematical analysis of challenging problems in volatility modeling and derivative pricing theory.

Also honored were the winners of the 2012 Student Paper Competition:

    Brittany D. Froese (Simon Fraser University, Canada) for “Convergent Finite Difference Solvers for Viscosity Solutions of the Elliptic Monge-Ampère Equation in Dimensions Two and Higher”

    Stefanie Hollborn (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) for “Reconstructions from Backscatter Data in Electric Impedance Tomography”

    Marina Moraiti
    (University of Pittsburgh, USA) for “On the Quasistatic Approximation in the Stokes-Darcy Model of Groundwater-Surface Water Flows”

Winners of the SIAM Student Paper Prize were given $1,000 each; a SIAM Student Travel Award; and a framed, hand-calligraphed certificate.

In addition to the individual student awards, the society awarded the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) to two undergraduate teams judged “outstanding” among hundreds of participants worldwide in the annual MCM, administered by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications.

The 2011 Continuous Problem award for “Snowboard Course” went to Enhao Gong, Rongsha Li, and Xiaoyun Wang of Beijing’s Tsinghua University. Their faculty adviser was Jimin Zhang.

The 2011 Discrete Problem award for “Repeater Coordination” went to California’s Harvey Mudd College students Daniel Furlong, Dylan Marriner, and Louis Ryan. Their faculty adviser was Susan Martonosi.

The 2012 Continuous Problem award for “The Leaves of a Tree” went to Cheng Fu, Hangqi Zhao, and Danting Zhu from the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Their adviser for the contest was Zhiyi Tan.

The 2012 Discrete Problem award for “Camping Along the Big Long River” went to students James Jones, Suraj Kannan, and Joshua Mitchell from the University of Louisville. They were coached by Changbing Hu Kannan.

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