Professor Edriss Titi has been elected to be the Program Director for the SIAM Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations. He will serve as Program Director through December 2012. "The Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations fosters activity in the analysis of partial differential equations (PDE) and enhances communication between analysts, computational scientists and the broad PDE community. Its goals are to provide a forum where theoretical and applied researchers in the area can meet, to be an intellectual home for researchers in the analysis of PDE, to increase conference activity in PDE, and to enhance connections between SIAM and the mathematics community. The activity group sponsors the biennial SIAM Conference on the Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, awards the SIAG/APDE Prize, and maintains a Web site."

Professor Titi is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCI and is also appointed on the faculty of the Weizmann Institute in Israel. He has received numerous awards throughout his career. In 2009 he received the highly prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Award for senior scientists. In 2004, Professor Titi was elected a fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK). Professor Titi has also won the prestigious Stanislaw M. Ulam and Orson Anderson visiting scholarships at the Los Alamos National Lab. The Ulam and Anderson awards enable the scholar to pursue research in the Center for Nonlinear Studies and the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, respectively, at the Los Alamos National Lab. Most recently, Professor Titi won the SIAM activity group in Analysis of PDEs Prize!