Emeritus Professor Olvi Mangasarian and Professor Steve Wright of the Computer Sciences Department were recently elected as Fellows of The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Class of 2011.
SIAM is the main professional society in applied, computational, and industrial mathematics.
Mangasarian and Wright join UW-Madison Computer Sciences Emeritus Professors Carl de Boor, Seymour Parter, and Stephen Robinson, and Affiliate Professor Grace Wahba, who becames Fellows when SIAM inaugurated its Fellow program in 2009.
Fellowship is an honor currently reserved to fewer than 250 of SIAM's 12,000 members world wide.
More information can be found at www.siam.org/prizes/fellows/