The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has announced the SIAM Fellows Class of 2016. Prof. Bao Gang, Dean of the College of Mathematics Science, Zhejiang University, is honored to become a SIAM fellow.
Founded in 1952, SIAM is currently the most influential organization in applied mathematics and computational science in the world. The membership of SIAM has grown to more than 14,000. It publishes 16 peer-reviewed journals and holds a series of academic conferences every year.
SIAM has adopted a fellows class system as of 2009 in order to commend noteworthy professionals who have made significant contributions to the fields of applied mathematics and computational science. Prof. Bao Gang is selected into the SIAM Fellows Class of 2016 for his significant and lasting contributions to inverse problems in wave phenomena and electromagnetics applied to optics.