The SIAM Outstanding Paper Prizes

Principal Guideline

SIAM will award three prizes each year, beginning in 1999, for outstanding papers published in SIAM journals. The Prize Committee should seek papers that exhibit originality—for example, papers that bring a fresh look at an existing field or that open up new areas of applied mathematics. The Committee is urged to give special consideration to younger authors.

Prize Committee

The SIAM President, upon consultation with the Vice President-at-Large and the Vice President for Publications, will each year appoint a Prize Committee of three SIAM members. The Committee will submit its recommendations for the prizes not later than four months before the date of the Annual Meeting (except that recommendations for the 1999 prizes will be submitted by March 30, 1999).

Selection Procedures

Eligibility
The eligible papers will be those published in SIAM journals during the three years prior to the year of the award, using the date of electronic publication for papers from 1998 onward.

Nominations
In seeking nominations, the Prize Committee is encouraged to consult with journal editors and with the Vice President for Publications. The Committee will have freedom to solicit other nominations and to determine its choices within the framework of outstanding papers published in SIAM journals early in the recipients' careers. The Committee should briefly describe the significance of each paper chosen, and the prizes must be approved by the President, Vice President-at-Large, and Vice President for Publications.

Prize Award Date

The prizes are awarded annually.

Description of the Award

The amount of the award will be $500 to each recipient, and an additional $500 as a contribution to expenses in coming to the Annual Meeting.

Award Presentation

The awards to the authors will be presented at the SIAM Annual Meeting.

Prize History

The first award of the prizes was made in 1999.

Prizes Awarded in 1999

• Tobin A. Driscoll, Eigenmodes of Isospectral Drums, SIAM Review, 39 (1997), pp. 1-17.
• Wim Sweldens, The Lifting Scheme: A Construction of Second Generation Wavelets, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 29 (1998), pp. 511-546.
• Virginia Torczon, On the Convergence of Pattern Search Algorithms, SIAM J. Optim., 7 (1997), pp. 1-25.

• Ralf Hiptmair, Multigrid Method for Maxwell's Equations, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 36 (1998), pp. 204-225.
• David R. Karger, A Randomized Fully Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for the All-Terminal Network Reliability Problem, SIAM Journal on Computing, 29 (1999), 492-514.
• Arnd Scheel, Bifurcation to Spiral Waves in Reaction-Diffusion Systems, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 29 (1998), pp. 1399-1418.

• Alan Edelman, Tomás A. Arias, and Steven T. Smith, The Geometry of Algorithms with Orthogonality Constraints, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 20 (1999), pp. 303-353.
• Michele Benzi and Miroslav Tuma, A Sparse Approximate Inverse Preconditioner for Nonsymmetric Linear Systems, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 19 (1998), pp. 968-994.
• Pedro Morin, Ricardo H. Nochetto, and Kunibert G. Siebert, Data Oscillation and Convergence of Adaptive FEM, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 38 (2000), pp. 466-488.

• Johan Hastad, Russell Impagliazzo, Leonid A. Levin, and Michael Luby, A Pseudorandom Generator from any One-way Function, SIAM Journal on Computing, 28 (1999), pp. 1364-1396
• David D. Yao, Shuzhong Zhang, and Xun Yu Zhou, Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Control via Semidefinite Programming, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 40 (2001), pp. 801-823
• Stefan Henn and Kristian Witsch, Iterative Multigrid Regularization Techniques for Image Matching, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 23 (2001), pp. 1077-1093

• Gérard Cornuéjols and Bertrand Guenin, Ideal Binary Clutters, Connectivity, and a Conjecture of Seymour, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 15 (2002), pp. 329-352
• Feimin Huang and Zhen Wang, Convergence of Viscosity Solutions for Isothermal Gas Dynamics, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 34 (2002), pp. 595-610
• Alfio Quarteroni, Alessandro Veneziani, and Paolo Zunino, A Domain Decomposition Method for Advection-Diffusion Processes with Application to Blood Solutes, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 23 (2002), pp. 1959-1980

Prizes Awarded in 2005

• Adrian Lewis, Active Sets, Nonsmoothness, and Sensitivity, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 13 (2002), pp. 702-725
• Karen Braman, Ralph Byers, and Roy Mathias, The Multishift QR Algorithm. Part II: Aggressive Early Deflation, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 23 (2002), pp. 948-973
• Uriel Feige and Robert Krauthgamer, A Polylogarithmic Approximation of the Minimum Bisection, SIAM Journal on Computing, 31 (2002), pp. 1090-1118
  

Prizes Awarded in 2006

• Girish N. Nair and Robin J. Evans, Stabilizability of Stochastic Linear Systems with Finite Feedback Data Rates, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 43 (2004), pp. 413-436
• Jean-Michel Coron and Emmanuel Trélat, Global Steady-State Controllability of One-Dimensional Semilinear Heat Equations, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 43 (2004), pp. 549-569
• Michael Hintermüller, Kazufumi Ito, and Karl Kunisch, The Primal-Dual Active Set Strategy as a Semismooth Newton Method , SIAM Journal on Optimization, 13 (2003), pp. 865-888

Prizes Awarded in 2007

• Benny Applebaum, Yuval Ishai, and Eyal Kushilevitz, Cryptography in NC⁰, SIAM Journal on Computing, 36 (2006), pp. 845-888
• Björn Sandstede and Arnd Scheel, Defects in Oscillatory Media: Toward a Classification, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 3 (2004), pp. 1-68
  
• Gabriel Robins and Alexander Zelikovsky, Tighter Bounds for Graph Steiner Tree Approximation, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 19 (2005), pp. 122-134
  

The 2007 award recipients will be recognized at the 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting.
The next award will be made at the 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting.

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