Ralph E. Kleinman Prize to be awarded to Weinan E

Weinan E, professor in the Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University will be awarded the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in Denver, Colorado, July 6-10.

Professor E is being honored for his extraordinary interdisciplinary contributions and for his exemplary record in mentoring students and postdocs. He has had a profound impact on research in stochastic partial differential equations and turbulence, numerical solutions of multiscale problems, dynamics of interacting dislocations, liquid crystals and polymers, metastability, protein folding, gas dynamics, epitaxial growth, micromagnetics, and superconductivity.

Weinan E received his Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles and is currently a professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. His research interests include multiscale modeling, density functional theory for electronic structure analysis, theory and modeling of rare events with applications in chemistry and material sciences, stochastic partial differential equations, and the mathematical theory of solids, from atomic to macroscopic scales. Professor E is a member of the American Mathematical Society, American Physical Society, and SIAM. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and is among the inaugural class of SIAM Fellows.