Prize History

Selection Committee

• Rebecca Tyson (Chair)
• Carolyn Cho
• Alicia Dickenstein
• Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem
• Kyle Wedgwood

Selection Committee

• Denise Kirschner (Chair)
• Mark Lewis
• Sharon Lubkin
• Cheng Ly
• Helen Moore

Citation

Professor Anne Greenbaum has had a long lasting and significant impact on many aspects of numerical linear algebra. She was one of the original developers of the LAPACK software that has been a workhorse of scientific computing for several decades. She is an expert in the mathematical behavior of iterative methods and an author of highly respected books on the subject. She is a dedicated and effective teacher and mentor. Professor Greenbaum solved many fundamental problems in convergence theory for linear systems and eigenvalue problems, non-normal matrices and functions of matrices.

Selection Committee

• Malgorzata Peszynska (Chair)
• Rosemary Renaut
• Jennifer Ryan
• Mayya Tokman

Selection Committee

• Linda Allen (Chair)
• Elizabeth Cherry
• Carson Chow
• Karin Leiderman
• Mark Nelson

Selection Committee

Citation

The 2018 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture is awarded to Eva Tardos for her distinguished scientific contributions to the efficient methods for combinatorial optimization problems on graphs and networks, and her work on issues at the interface of computing and economics.

Selection Committee

• Irene Gamba (Chair)
• Heike Fassbender
• Helen Moore
• Yuriko Renardy