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Garabedian Awarded 1983 Birkhoff Prize The George David Birkhoff Prize is awarded Antman, David Gilbarg, chairman, and Werner every five years to a recipient selected, by a C. Rheinboldt. joint committee of the American Mathematical The material which follows consists of the Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied selection committee's citation, the remarks of Mathematics, for outstanding contributions to Professor Garabedian at the Prize Session in "applied mathematics in the highest and broadest Denver on the presentation of the award, a brief sense." The 1983 recipient is Paul R. Garabedian biography of Garabedian and an essay in which of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Peter Lax sketches Garabedian's contributions to of New York University. applied mathematics. The Birkhoff Prize Fund was originally created by the Birkhoff family in 1967. The award is Citation supplemented by an award from the Steele Prize Fund of the American Mathematical Society in The George David Birkhoff Prize for 1983 is the name of the Birkhoff Prize (the Steele Prize presented to Paul R. Garabedian for his important Fund was presented to the Society for prizes in contributions to partial differential equations, honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg to the mathematical analysis of problems of Osgood and William Caspar Graustein). In 1983 transonic flow and airfoil design by the method the award is $1500. of complexification, and to the development and Previous recipients of Birkhoff prizes are Jiirgen application of scientific computing to problems of K. Moser (1968), Fritz John (1973), James B. fluid dynamics and plasma physics. Serrin (1973), Garrett Birkhoff (1978), Mark Kac (1978) and Clifford A. Truesdell III (1978). The Birkhoff Prize for 1983 is awarded by the Response Council of the American Mathematical Society I am very grateful to have been awarded the and the Executive Committee of the Council of the Birkhoff Prize. It is an additional satisfaction Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, that the award is supplemented from the Steele on the recommendation of the joint AMS-SIAM Fund honoring G. D. Birkhoff, W. F. Osgood and Committee to Select the Winner of the Birkhoff W. C. Graustein. This is especially true because Prize for 1983, whose members are Stuart S.