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Brown University’s Chi-Wang Shu, a professor in the division of applied mathematics, has been awarded the 2007 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) today announced. Prof. Chi-Wang Shu The prize includes $5,000 cash and a hand-calligraphed certificate. Sponsored jointly by SIAM and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), it is presented every second year at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, held this year in Costa Mesa, Calif. Shu was selected for his “development of numerical methods that have had a great impact on scientific computing,” SIAM said. He is the managing editor of Mathematics of Computation, co-chief editor of the Journal of Scientific computing, and a former editor of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. From 1989 to 2002, Shu was a consultant at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering at NASA’s Langley Research Center.