February 23, 2007 – The 2007 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering was awarded February 20 to Dr. Chi-Wang Shu, Professor of Mathematics in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University.
Dr. Shu accepted the prize "for the development of numerical methods that have had a great impact on scientific computing, including TVD temporal discretizations, ENO and WENO finite difference schemes, discontinuous Galerkin methods, and spectral methods."
The prize is presented jointly by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) every two years at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, held this year at the Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa in Costa Mesa, California.
The prize, established in 2002 and first conferred in 2003, is awarded in the area of computational science in recognition of outstanding research contributions to the development and use of mathematical and computational tools and methods for the solution of science and engineering problems; it consists of a hand-calligraphed certificate with the citation and a cash prize of $5,000.
The members of the selection committee for the 2007 award were John B. Bell (Chair), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Anthony Ralston, State University of New York at Buffalo; and Mary F. Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Shu received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1986 from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the Managing Editor of Mathematics of Computation, the co-Chief Editor of the Journal of Scientific Computing, and a former editor of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. Between 1989 and 2002, he was a consultant at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), NASA Langley Research Center. Dr. Shu’s research is concentrated on the design, analysis, implementation, and application of high order nonlinearly stable numerical schemes for solving convection-dominated partial differential equations.