Prize History

Citation

The 2024 AMS-SIAM George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics is awarded to Ronald Coifman for his profound impact on pure and applied harmonic analysis, and for the introduction of tools developed from these areas to address modern challenges of data science.

Selection Committee

• Irene Fonseca (Chair)
• Peter Constantin
• Chi-Wang Shu

Citation

The 2021 AMS-SIAM George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics is awarded to Gunther Uhlmann for his fundamental and insightful contributions to inverse problems and partial differential equations, as well as for his incisive work on boundary rigidity, microlocal analysis and cloaking.

Selection Committee

• Irene Gamba (Chair)
• Douglas Arnold
• Aaron Fogelson

Citation

The 2018 AMS-SIAM George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics is awarded to Bernd Sturmfels for his instrumental role in creating the field of applied algebraic geometry.

Selection Committee

• Michael C. Reed (Chair)
• Andrea Bertozzi
• Kenneth Golden

Citation

The 2015 AMS-SIAM George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics is awarded to Emmanuel Candès for his work on compressed sensing that has revolutionized signal processing and medical imaging and his related work on computational harmonic analysis, statistics and scientific computing.

Selection Committee

• Russel Caflisch
• Bjorn E. Enquist
• Avi Wigderson

Citation

The 2012 AMS-SIAM George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics is awarded to Bjorn Engquist for his contributions to a wide range of powerful computational methods over more than three decades.

Selection Committee

• James Sethian (Chair)
• Andrew J. Majda
• Michael S. Waterman

Selection Committee

• Peter W. Jones (Chair)
• George C. Papanicolaou
• Terence C. Tao

Selection Committee

• Gunther Uhlmann (Chair)
• Barbara L. Keyfitz
• Charles S. Peskin

Selection Committee

• Donald G. Saari (Chair)
• Douglas N. Arnold
• Paul H. Rabinowitz

Selection Committee 

• Ivo M. Babuska
• Jurgen Moser
• Srinivasa Varadhan

Citation

The 2015 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture is awarded to Linda J. S. Allen for outstanding contributions in ordinary differential equations, difference equations and stochastic models, with significant applications in the areas of infectious diseases and ecology.

1994 Ivo Babuska and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

1988 Elliot Lieb

1983 Paul R. Garabedian

1978 Garrett Birkhoff, Mark Kac, and Clifford A. Truesdell

1973 Fritz John and James Serrin

1968 Jurgen Moser