The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is pleased to announce the SIAM Fellows Class of 2009 and the inauguration of the SIAM Fellows Program. Fellowship is an honorific designation conferred on members distinguished for their outstanding contributions to the fields of applied mathematics and computational science. During this inaugural year of the program, SIAM will confer Fellows status on 183 noteworthy professionals who will be recognized during the 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado.

"The announcement of the first class of SIAM Fellows is an important milestone for the applied mathematics and computational science community," said SIAM President Douglas N. Arnold. "Reflecting the diversity of the SIAM membership, these men and women come from five continents, and work in academia, industry, and government laboratories. Advancing the frontiers of research in branches of mathematics as distinct as number theory and partial differential equations, these professionals have applied their work to endeavors ranging from mining to medicine. They have designed algorithms to make computing possible and written textbooks to train the next generation of mathematicians. Their contributions are truly outstanding."

The distinction of SIAM Fellow in 2009 is bestowed upon members who meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Members of select national academies in countries where SIAM members constitute at least 1% of total SIAM membership;
• Recipients of select SIAM and International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) prizes;
• Present and past fellows of select corporate and laboratory programs at SIAM institutional member organizations (programs whose selection procedures are well-correlated with the goals of the SIAM Fellows Program);
• Editors-in-Chief of SIAM journals since 1998; and
• Former and current presidents of SIAM.

Following 2009, the anticipated number of fellowships conferred annually will be approximately 0.3 percent of the number of regular SIAM members. For additional information about the SIAM Fellows Program and for nomination information, please visit http://www.siam.org/prizes/fellows/index.php.

Newly announced 2009 SIAM Fellows and their affiliations at the time of designation are listed below and can also be found at http://fellows.siam.org.

George E. Andrews, Penn State University

Stuart S. Antman, University of Maryland, College Park

Douglas N. Arnold, University of Minnesota

Michael Artin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Richard A. Askey, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ivo M. Babuska, University of Texas at Austin

John Baillieul, Boston University

Andre D. Bandrauk, University of Sherbrooke

H. Thomas Banks, North Carolina State University

Michael N. Barber, Flinders University

John B. Bell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Alain Bensoussan, University of Texas at Dallas