Alumni of the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAAM) were honored at the recent Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Three doctoral graduates in CAAM (now computational applied mathematics and operations research) were named SIAM Fellows:
Richard Lehoucq, ’95, technical staff, Sandia National Laboratories; Luis Nunes Vicente ’96, Timothy J. Wilmott Endowed Chair Professor and chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University; Chao Yang ’98, senior scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Jorge Nocedal ’78, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University, delivered the von Neumann Lecture. Nocedal was awarded the 2024 John von Neumann Prize, the highest honor given by SIAM.
Rujeko Chinomona, ’16 M.A., research assistant professor at Temple University, was among the winners of a Student Paper Prize for doctoral research she did at Southern Methodist University. There she was advised by Daniel Reynolds ’03, professor of mathematics.
This year, Carol Woodward started her term as president-elect of SIAM and will serve as its president in 2025-26. Woodward earned her Ph.D. in CAAM from Rice in 1996 and now serves as a distinguished member of the technical staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting was held July 8-12 in Spokane, Wash.