Irene Fonseca to be SIAM President

Prof. Irene Fonseca, the Mellon College of Science Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Prof. Fonseca obtained her Ph.D. degree in Mathematics at the University of Minnesota in 1985 under the direction of Prof. David Kinderlehrer, now also at Carnegie Mellon University. SIAM is the leading professional organization for applied and industrial mathematics, with over 13,000 individual members and almost 500 institutional members worldwide.   Dec. 20, 2011

Bobkov and Voronov named Simons Fellows

Professors Sergey Bobkov and Alexander Voronov were both named Simons Fellows in Mathematics for 2012-13 by the Simons Foundation.

Prof. Bobkov's project is on "High Dimensional Phenomena and Information Theory", and will be undertaken at Yale University, University Paris 6, University of Bielefeld, and Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Voronov's project is on "Categorical Foundations of Topological Quantum Field Theory", and will be pursued at the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo, where he has the position of Visiting Senior Scientist, and IHES, France.   Dec. 15, 2011

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