2020 Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award - Mohammad Farazmand and Themis Sapsis

The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is pleased to announce and congratulate Dr. Mohammad Farazmand, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at NC State University and Dr. Themistoklis Sapsis, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at MIT, as the 2020 recipients of the Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award. The award includes a certificate and an honorarium.

The Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award, is selected in June every even year from among the papers published in Applied Mechanics Reviews during the preceding two‐year period by the members of the Applied Mechanics Reviews Editorial Board and the Applied Mechanics Division Executive Committee Vice‐Chair.

The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the applied mechanics archival literature and pays tribute to the vision and commitment of service that led to the founding of the journal.

Prof. Farazmand and Prof. Sapsis are being recognized for their paper “Extreme events: Mechanisms and prediction”. Applied Mechanics Reviews, 71(5) (2019).

Yuri Bazilevs

Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division