The Royal Society awarded UCLA Professor Terence Tao the 2014 Royal Medal for his “many deep and varied contributions to mathematics.” The Society’s fundamental purpose is to “recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the […]

At the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, Korea, Stanley Osher received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics, which is granted jointly by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and the German Mathematical Society. The prize citation says that Osher received the […]

The National Science Board awarded Richard Tapia the 2014 Vannevar Bush Award which recognizes “exceptional, lifelong leaders in science and technology who have made substantial contributions to the welfare of the nation through public service activities in science, technology and public policy.” Since the late […]

A number of IPAM participants, speakers, organizers and board members were honored at the 2014 SIAM meeting. Weinan E (Princeton) received the Theodore von Karman Prize. John Lowengrub (UC Irvine) was awarded the Julian Cole Lectureship. Irene Gamba (Univ. of Texas) gave the AWM-SIAM Sonia […]