SIAM: SIAM Fellows Program: Eligibility

Eligibility

Any current regular member of SIAM who has been a regular member of SIAM for at least seven of the past ten years (84 of the past 120 months, not necessarily consecutive) is eligible to be nominated to be a SIAM Fellow. For these purposes, a regular member is defined as a non-student, dues-paying member.
Retired former SIAM members are eligible for nomination if they had been a regular member of SIAM for seven of the ten years prior to their retirement.
A nominee is expected to have been a member of the profession for at least fifteen years. In most cases, this will be interpreted to mean fifteen years from PhD.
SIAM Presidents will automatically become Fellows upon election, if they are not Fellows already.
Members of the SIAM Major Awards Committee may not be nominated to be SIAM Fellows while in office.

A current non-student members may nominate up to two colleagues per year for Fellow. This limit does not include nominations from prior years.
Members of the Major Awards Committee and Fellows Selection Committee are not eligible to serve as nominators.

Letters of recommendation (LORs) can be written by non-members.
Members of the Major Awards Committee and Fellows Selection Committee are not eligible to contribute letters of recommendation.
A nominator cannot contribute an LOR for his or her nominee. The letter of nomination is intended to be from the three nominators.
There is no yearly limit on the number of LORs one may contribute.

For more information
Frequently Asked Questions about Nomination Procedures
SIAM Fellows Program Specifications [PDF, 90KB]
Contact the Fellows Team at [email protected]
Contact Executive Director Jim Crowley at [email protected]