Congratulations to these five members of the SIAM community who were recently awarded the James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, SIAG/CSE Early Career Prize, and SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.


Jeff Bezanson, Stefan…

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