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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) named 35 academics and professionals to its 2012 Class of Fellows for exemplary contributions to applied mathematics and computational science. The individuals are recognized for outstanding research in the field as well as their service to the larger community. Please find their names and affiliations below:

Tamer Başar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Michele Benzi, Emory University

Anthony M. Bloch, University of Michigan

Pavel B. Bochev, Sandia National Laboratories

Richard A. Brualdi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Emeritus

Gui-Qiang G. Chen, University of Oxford

G. Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh

Richard S. Falk, Rutgers University

Lisa J. Fauci, Tulane University

David R. Ferguson, Applied Mathematical Analysis and The Boeing Company, Retired

M. Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Susan Friedlander, University of Southern California

Irene M. Gamba, The University of Texas at Austin

Walter Gautschi, Purdue University, Retired

Donald Goldfarb, Columbia University

Sven Hammarling, Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd, Semiretired, and University of Manchester

Pavol Hell, Simon Fraser University

Bruce Hendrickson, Sandia National Laboratories

Kirk E. Jordan, IBM Corporation

Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley

James P. Keener, University of Utah

Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University

Philip Kumar Maini, University of Oxford

Geoffrey B. McFadden, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Edward Ott, University of Maryland, College Park

Tamar Schlick, New York University

David B. Shmoys, Cornell University

Mary Silber, Northwestern University

Barry F. Smith, Argonne National Laboratory

Tao Tang, Hong Kong Baptist University

Edriss S. Titi, Weizmann Institute of Science and University of California, Irvine

Robert J. Vanderbei, Princeton University

Richard S. Varga, Kent State University, Emeritus

Jan C. Willems, K.U. Leuven

Thaleia Zariphopoulou, University of Oxford and The University of Texas at Austin

You can read further details about their accomplishments and reasons for recognition.  A full list of 2012 Fellows can also be found on the Fellows page here.

The 2012 Class of Fellows was nominated by the SIAM community and will be recognized at the 2012 SIAM Annual Meeting to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July.