SIAM Awards Princeton's Salvatore Torquato Its Kleinman Prize

May 14, 2007

Researcher Salvatore Torquato, in Princeton University's Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, has been selected by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to receive its Ralph E. Kleinman Prize. The prize is awarded biennially to an individual doing outstanding work connecting mathematics and applications.

Torquato's work encompasses applied and computational mathematics and makes use of both theoretical and computer simulation techniques. It has focused on the behavior of large groups of particles that make up disordered, heterogeneous materials (whether liquid, glass, or biological in nature) and the modeling of tumor growth.

SIAM will present the award to Torquato for his "many and deep contributions" to mathematical modeling, analysis, and computation in the study of materials, at its annual conference on applications of dynamical systems on May 28, in Snowbird, Utah.

Source: News@Princeton