Robert McCann has been awarded 2023 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

February 8, 2023 by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

The W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded annually to one individual for research in, or other contributions to, the broadly defined areas of differential equations and control theory.

The 2023 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Robert McCann for pioneering and fundamental results in the field of optimal transport theory with deep applications to analysis and geometry.

Selection Committee

  • Jean-Michel Coron (Chair)
  • Alina Chertock
  • Robert Lipton
  • Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes
  • Kirsten Morris

Learn more about the W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize.