Stanford Report, July 26, 2006

Honors & Awards

PETER GLYNN, the Thomas W. Ford Professor in the School of Engineering, has been appointed director of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, succeeding founding director PARVIZ MOIN. WALTER MURRAY, research professor of management science and engineering, will direct student affairs for the institute, whose members develop sophisticated algorithmic and mathematical tools for a broad array of disciplines.

GEORGE PAPANICOLAOU, the Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics, was selected to deliver the John von Neumann Lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Papanicolaou was awarded the lectureship "in recognition of his wide-ranging development of penetrating analytic and stochastic methods and their application to a broad range of phenomena in the physical, geophysical and financial sciences." Delivered in Boston, his July 11 lecture was titled "Imaging in Random Media."