Karen Willcox, professor of aerospace ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 and ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 mechanics and the director of theOden Institute for Computational ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 and Sciences,won the 2024 Theodore vonKármánPrize from the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Willcoxwas selected for “important contributions to computational science and ラーメンベット 入金反映時間. Professor Willcox has pioneered the development and use of model reduction methods for optimal design, optimal control, uncertainty quantification, decision-making, and digital twins. Her fundamental work has had broad impact in many application areas including inverse problems, optimal design, aerospace ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 and precision medicine.”
In addition to her role asOden Institutedirector, she leads the Willcox Research Group, and is professor of aerospace ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 and ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 mechanics. Willcox is also an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. She was elected to the National Academy of ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 in 2022 and is a Fellow of SIAM.
“How fitting it is for Karen, whose main work is at the interfaces of aerospace ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 and applied math, to receive a prize named for Theodore von Kármán. Karen richly deserves this prestigious prize. Her pioneering work in model reduction methods and their use in optimal control, optimal design, uncertainty quantification, and inverse problems has had a significant impact on aerospace ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 and, more broadly, computational science and ラーメンベット 入金反映時間,” saidOmar Ghattas, director of the OPTIMUS Center at the Oden Institute and professor of mechanical ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 at UT.
Citing examples, Ghattas said Willcox’s reduced order modeling and multifidelity methods have been adopted by Boeing for Blended-Wing-Body Aircraft design, Lockheed Martin for aerostructural analysis in support of vehicle design processes, the Air Force ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 Laboratory to accelerate their combustion simulations in support of rocket engine design, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for design of the James Webb space telescope.
“Moreover,her work has opened up new opportunities to realize practical digital twins for large scale systems,” said Ghattas. Willcox recently chaired a National Academies of Sciences, ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 and Medicine study examining the future of digital twins. The study consensus report, “Foundational ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 Gaps and Future Directions for Digital Twins,” highlighted the need for an integrated agenda across sectors and how to tackle responsible development of digital twin technology.
“Karen joins an illustrious list of prior awardees, including such notable figures as Geoffrey Taylor, George Carrier, Julian Cole, and our own Mary Wheeler,” added Ghattas, saying that the prize has been awarded just 11 times since its inception.
Established in 1968 the prize is awarded every five years for a notable application of mathematics to mechanics or mechanics or ラーメンベット 入金反映時間 in the five to ten years preceding the award andcommemorates Theodore vonKármán’swork in aerodynamics. A Hungarian American mathematician, vonKármánwas an aerospace engineer and physicist who was responsible for crucial advances in aerodynamics characterizing supersonic and hypersonic airflow. The human-definedthreshold of outer space is named the "Kármán line" in recognition of his work.
The prize will be awarded at the SIAM Annual Meeting taking place July 8 – 12, 2024, in Spokane Washington, where Willcox will deliver the prize lecture.SIAMfosters the development of applied mathematical and computational methodologies needed in various application areas. The mission of SIAM is to build cooperation between mathematics and the worlds of science and technology.
