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CAIMS*SCMAI Research Prize 2005
Winner and Citation
Dr. Michel Fortin, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université Laval
Michel Fortin is an outstanding numerical analyst and specialist of fluid
mechanics with the rare talent of successfully and convincingly combining
mathematical and computational skills and intuitions. His seminal
work and quiet leadership have deeply influenced the whole field of
computations in partial differential equations. He is the father with
Franco Brezzi of the mixed and hybrid methods in finite elements.
He has been an exceptional leader who has trained a large number of
students who are now in universities, governments, and industry. He made
the effective transition from excellent mathematics to concrete useful
applications. He has worked in partnership with industry (e.g. Dassault
Aviation in France, Pratt and Whitney in Canada) where his scholarship,
opinions and skills have always been sought-after and highly regarded.
He was the founder in 1996 of GIREF (Groupe interdisciplinaire de
recherche en éléments finis) where he engaged in truly multidisciplinary
research in the field of numerical modeling and simulation.
He has served the mathematical community in a tireless fashion. At NSERC,
he was member of the Grant Selection Committees in 1987-1989 and 1999-2001
when GSC 16 split into two committees. He was a member of the CMS Research
Committee in 1980-82 and 1993-95 at a time when francophones and applied
mathematicians were very scarce in the Society and was one of the plenary
speakers at the 50th anniversary of the CMS. He was elected Fellow of
the Royal Society in 1999. He is also member of the editorial boards of
several prestigious journals.
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