Marsha Berger Awarded the 2025 John von Neumann Prize

Marsha Berger, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Mathematics, has been awarded the 2025 John von Neumann Prize – the highest honor of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Professor Berger will receive this prize "in recognition of her foundational work in adaptive mesh refinement and embedded boundary methods for partial differential equations (PDEs)" at the SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting in Québec this summer. She will also deliver the spotlight lecture at that event.

Professor Berger received her PhD from Stanford University in 1982 then joined the Courant Institute, where she taught in our Mathematics and Computer Science departments for four decades. She retired as a Professor Emeritus in 2022, and then joined the Center for Computational Mathematics at the Flatiron Institute.

This prize was established in 1959 to honor John von Neumann, a Hungarian American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist, whose seminal work helped lead to the founding of modern computing.

“I'm excited and grateful to be recognized by my peers,” Professor Berger told SIAM News. “Knowing that my work has been used and helpful to others is a big motivator for me.” You can read more about this honor on their website.