Marsha Berger Awarded the 2025 John von Neumann Prize

Marsha Berger, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Mathematics, has won the 2025 John von Neumann Prize, the the highest honor given by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Professor Berger received the prize "in recognition of her foundational work in adaptive mesh refinement and embedded boundary methods for partial differential equations (PDEs)."

She accepted the honor at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings (AN25), which were held this summer in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Professor Berger also presented the event's spotlight lecture titled “Thirty Years of Cartesian Cut-cell Methods: Where Are We Now?”