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Beatrice Riviere re-elected to Board of Trustees of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Rice professor to serve premier society of applied mathematics for a second three-year term.

Beatrice Riviere

Beatrice Riviere, the Noah Harding Chair and professor of computational applied mathematics and operations research at Rice, has been elected to her second three-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

“I am humbled and honored to be able to serve SIAM, the premier society of applied mathematics,” said Riviere, who will serve as chair of the board in 2025. “I look forward to working with the board to promote applied mathematics and interdisciplinary research for tackling societal problems.’’

Founded in 1951, SIAM has more than 14,500 members in 100 countries and publishes 18 peer-reviewed journals. Riviere, a longtime active member of SIAM, was elected president of its Texas/Louisiana Section, and chair and secretary of the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences.

She has served as a member of the SIAM Fellows Selection Committee, the SIAM Financial Management Committee and the SIAM Richard C. DiPrima Prize Committee. She has served on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis and its Journal on Scientific Computing. Riviere is a fellow of SIAM, the International Association for Computational Mechanics and the Association for Women in Mathematics.

She works in the development, theory and implementation of numerical methods applied to problems in porous media and in fluid mechanics. She has published more than 140 articles in numerical analysis and scientific computation, and has advised 20 doctoral students who are now working in academia, national labs and industry.

Riviere is a member of the Ken Kennedy Institute and director of Computational Modeling of Porous Media at Rice, which develops numerical algorithms for use at the pore and Darcy scales.

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