Dear Marty:

It is my pleasure to inform you that you have been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Congratulations!

The creation of the SIAM Fellows program was approved by the membership last year. Fellowship honors SIAM members who have made outstanding contributions to the fields served by SIAM, and you are among the distinguished members of SIAM in the initial class of Fellows.

Using criteria approved by the membership, the initial Fellows were selected from among those SIAM members for which certain previous recognition places them clearly among those intended to be recognized by this program. This included members of certain national academies and corporate and laboratory fellowship programs, recipients of certain SIAM or ICIAM prizes, recent editors-in-chief of SIAM journals, and former SIAM presidents. You can find more information about the program at http://www.siam.org/prizes/fellows/.

As a Fellow you will receive a certificate suitable for framing and will be recognized on the SIAM Fellows website, at the 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting Prizes and Awards Luncheon, in the prizes and awards brochure, in SIAM News, and in a press release issued by SIAM.

We would like to include your picture on the Fellows website. You will receive a separate e-mail from SIAM (from fellowsphoto@siam.org) giving the specifications for the photo and where to send it. In addition, you will be asked to verify information that will appear on the certificate, and you will receive information on how to obtain a complimentary ticket to the luncheon if you are not planning to register for the 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting (although I hope you are).

Once again, congratulations. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions about the SIAM Fellows program.

Sincerely,

Douglas N. Arnold
SIAM President
McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota