John von Neumann Prize

The John von Neumann Prize (until 2019 named John von Neumann Lecture Prize) was funded in 1959 with support from IBM and other industry corporations, and began being awarded in 1960 for "outstanding and distinguished contributions to the field of applied mathematical sciences and for the effective communication of these ideas to the community". It is considered the highest honor bestowed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The recipient receives a monetary award and presents a survey lecture at the SIAM Annual Meeting.

Selection process

Anybody is able to nominate a mathematician for the prize. Nominations are reviewed by a selection committee, consisting of members of SIAM who serve two-year appointments. The committee selects one recipient for the prize nine months before the SIAM Annual Meeting and forwards their nomination to SIAM's Executive Committee and Vice President for Programs.

Past lecturers

1960: Lars Valerian Ahlfors

1961: Mark Kac

1962: Jean Leray

1963: Stanislaw M. Ulam

1964: Solomon Lefschetz

1965: Freeman Dyson

1966: Eugene P. Wigner

1967: Chia-Chiao Lin

1968: Peter D. Lax

1969: George F. Carrier

1970: James H. Wilkinson

1971: Paul A. Samuelson

1974: Jule Charney

1975: Sir James Lighthill

1976: Rene Thom

1977: Kenneth J. Arrow

1978: Peter Henrici

1979: Kurt O. Friedrichs

1980: Keith Stewartson

1981: Garrett Birkhoff

1982: David Slepian

1983: Joseph B. Keller

1984: Jurgen Moser

1985: John W. Tukey

1986: Jacques-Louis Lions

1987: Richard M. Karp

1988: Germund Dahlquist

1989: Stephen Smale

1990: Andrew J. Majda

1991: No award was made

1992: R. Tyrrell Rockafellar

1993: No award was made

1994: Martin D. Kruskal

1995: No award was made

1996: Carl de Boor

1997: William Kahan

1998: Olga Ladyzhenskaya

1999: Charles S. Peskin

2000: Persi Diaconis

2001: David L. Donoho

2002: Eric S. Lander

2003: Heinz-Otto Kreiss

2004: Alan C. Newell

2005: Jerrold E. Marsden

2006: George C. Papanicolaou

2007: Nancy Kopell

2008: David Gottlieb

2009: Franco Brezzi

2010: Bernd Sturmfels

2011: Ingrid Daubechies

2012: Sir John M. Ball

2013: Stanley J. Osher

2014: Leslie F. Greengard

2015: Jennifer Tour Chayes

2016: Donald E. Knuth

2017: Bernard J. Matkowsky

2018: Charles F. Van Loan

2019: Margaret H. Wright

2020: Nick Trefethen

2021: Chi-Wang Shu

2022: Leah Keshet

2023: Yousef Saad

See also

List of mathematics awards

References

Awards of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Awards established in 1960

Lecture series

1960 establishments in Pennsylvania

Lists of mathematicians by award

Recurring events established in 1960

Science communication awards