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I. Edward Block retired as The Richard C. DiPrima Prize Managing Director of was established in December SIAM in September 1994, 1985 to commemorate the and he was replaced by former SIAM president. James Crowley, who was named as SIAM’s The JOURNAL OF THE FOR Executive Director. In January 2001, the society INDUSTRIAL AND APPLIED appointed a representative in By the fall was renamed Washington, DC to act on of 1954, the SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED The Society for Industrial and In , the behalf of its members. SIAM had MATHEMATICS in . SIAM released the Applied Mathematics (SIAM) was society released its The SIAM Journal on The society released 500 members and sections had The society co-sponsored first volume in its incorporated as a non-profit first volume in the Optimization made its debut its Mathematics in been formed in City, San the first Gatlinburg Around 1978, SIAM initiated SIAM co-sponsored the First In July 1989, the society MONOGRAPHS ON organization under the laws of the book , SIAM- in February 1991. Industry report in 1996. Francisco and Washington, DC. symposium on numerical its focused-conference International Congress on moved into its new offices DISCRETE MATHEMATICS State of Delaware on , 1952. AMS Proceedings. SIAM held a record-setting, On December 28, 1954, SIAM held linear algebra in . program to concentrate on In July 1980, SIAM moved its international celebration to mark Industrial and Applied at 3600 Science Center, in In December 1996, a AND APPLICATIONS, and In 1959, the society published the SIAM published the first volume its first national meeting. timely topics in applied and headquarters to 117 South 17th the society’s 30th anniversary on Mathematics (ICIAM) in , Philadelphia, and also /Republic established the Ralph first SIAM REVIEW and translation in its SIMS proceedings in 1974. computational mathematics. Street in Philadelphia. the campus of Stanford University on June 29-July 3, 1987. established an activity of Ireland section of E. Kleinman Prize in of Teoriya Veroyatnostei i ee In 1985, SIAM published the The JOURNAL ON in July, 1982. group on Geometric Design. SIAM was formed. 1998. Primemeniya (Theory of In cooperation with the CBMS, in Rheinboldt Report, FUTURE SIAM added two new APPLIED DYNAMICAL The society instituted the Probability and its Applications). To honor a notable application of 1972, the society printed its first In January 1976, The first volume of DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL activity groups– in Life – SIAM’s An activity group on W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in In , sections of the SIAM published its first book in In , mathematics to mechanics and/or volume in the CONFERENCE BOARD OF I. Edward Block STUDIES IN APPLIED AND MATHEMATICS, ALGORITHMS, AND The SOFTWARE, Beginning in 1997, Sciences and Imaging first, all-electronic Control and Systems Mathematics in 1993. URVEY OF RAINING AND SIAM instituted its In , SIAM developed the JOURNAL the sciences, in 1968, THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-NATIONAL became SIAM’s NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS The society established SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE, which SIAM’s activity group on Science– and also journal– was released society were organized in the 1956– A S T Theory was formed in SIAM’s activity group on ENVIRONMENTS AND TOOLS subscribers to SIAM’s ESEARCH IN PPLIED ATHEMATICS Visiting Lectureship OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND APPLIED SIAM established the Theodore von SCIENCE FOUNDATION REGIONAL Managing was released in 1979. procedures to permit lead to the High Performance Dynamical Systems was instituted the Julian in April 2002. Delaware Valley and Boston/ R A M July 1986. Geosciences was book series premiered journals were able to Cambridge area. IN THE UNITED STATES, prepared by Program. MATHEMATICS SERIES B: NUMERICAL ANALYSIS. Karman Prize. CONFERENCE SERIES. Director. the formation of Computing initiative. organized in July 1988. organized in July 1991. in 1995. receive them Cole Lectureship in 2000. F. Joachim Weyl. activity groups in electronically. November 1980. ▼1952 ▼1954 ▼1956 ▼1958 ▼1960 ▼1962 ▼1964 ▼1966 ▼1968 ▼1970 ▼1972 ▼1974 ▼1976 ▼1978 ▼1980 ▼1982 ▼1984 ▼1986 ▼1988 ▼1990 ▼1992 ▼1994 ▼1996 ▼1998 ▼2000 ▼2002

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SIAM began its CLASSICS IN APPLIED The first issue of the JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS book In October 1952, At the end of 1955, the society had Lars V. Ahlfors SIAM instituted the In March 1972, SIAM The society’s first student chapter was By December 1980, SIAM had SIAM’s first activity SIAM’s activity group on SIAM approved the SIAM hosted the SIAM established its The MPS-SIAM SERIES In 2002, the society THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND series in 1988. SIAM held its first 1,000 members, and another section By 1958, SIAM admitted its presented the first John George Polya Prize released its premier issue of formed at the University of Washington in In 1979, SIAM and the Mathematical close to 5000 members and added group– on Linear Optimization began formal formation of an activity Second ICIAM in website–www.siam.org– ON OPTIMIZATION was formed an activity APPLIED MATHEMATICS SERIES A: election of officers, of SIAM was formed in Baltimore. 2,000th member, and had grown von Neumann Lecture in The JOURNAL OF THE in 1969. the JOURNAL ON COMPUTING. the spring of 1976. Programming Society established student chapters at Clemson Algebra– was formally operations in January, 1986. group on Orthogonal Washington, DC in July in 1994. In October 1995, SIAM held its first begun in 2000. group on CONTROL was released in 1962. trustees and council so much that it had to lease office . SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL the George B. Dantzig Prize. The University, the University of established in July 1982. By the end of 1986, SIAM had Polynomials and 1991. More than 2000 Graduate Student Focus on Diversity Computational members. The first issue of the JOURNAL OF space and hire two secretaries. AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS society also instituted its Prize in Tennessee in Knoxville, admitted over 900 new Geometric Design in , Workshop in Charlotte, NC. Science and The SIAM JOURNAL ON Activity groups in Discrete THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND SERIES A: CONTROL was Numerical Analysis and Scientific Tech and the University of members– a record breaker! 1990. computational , Engineering. MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS was first Mathematics and in APPLIED MATHEMATICS was renamed the SIAM Computing, which was re-named in Tennessee in Chattanooga. engineers and scientists published in . Supercomputing were published in JOURNAL ON CONTROL in 1987 to honor James H. Wilkinson. attended the event. September 1953. 1966. formed in July 1984. In July 1986, I. Edward Block SIAM celebrated The SIAM JOURNAL ON DISCRETE In 1983, SIAM inaugurated its became the first recipient of its 50th anniversary The American Mathematical MATHEMATICS first appeared in book series, FRONTIERS IN APPLIED SIAM’s Distinguished Service to at the 2002 The SIAM NEWSLETTER first Society and SIAM established the Profession Award. February 1988. Annual Meeting appeared in . the Norbert Wiener Prize and MATHEMATICS. in Philadelphia, the George David Birkoff Prize in July. in 1967. The society SIAM’s student chapter at the University of Washington in 1986. In 1995, SIAM established premiered its the I. E. Block Community MATHEMATICAL Lecture and the Germund MODELING AND The society’s Student Travel Dahlquist Prize. COMPUTATION SERIES, and The society first published the Fund was established in 1991. also released the first JOURNAL ON SCIENTIFIC AND book in a collaborative STATISTICAL COMPUTING and the series with the American JOURNAL ON ALGEBRAIC AND Statistical Association DISCRETE METHODS in March 1980. in 1997.