International Association for
Computational Mechanics

IACM Medals and Awards
The IACM Congress Medal (Gauss-Newton Medal) is the highest award given by IACM. It honors
individuals who have made outstanding, sustained contributions in the field of computational mechanics
over periods representing substantial portions of their professional careers. The Award is called Newton Gauss in recognition of the synergy between mathematics, numerical analysis, and mathematicalmodeling of physical events that underpin much of the broad field of computational mechanics.
Conferred every two years. Maximum number of awards: one.
The IACM O.C. Zienkiewicz Award is given in recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions
to the broad field of computational mechanics. These contributions shall generally be in the form ofimportant research results that significantly advance the understanding of theories and methods impacting
computational mechanics. However, special individual contributions in leadership and administration,industrial applications, and engineering analysis that advance computational mechanics shall also
represent accomplishments worthy of recognition.
Conferred every two years. Maximum number of awards: one.
The IACM Computational Mechanics Award is given primarily for contributions to traditional areas
such as computational structural/solid mechanics, or computational fluid dynamics. However, it may also
be given to recognize contributions outside these specific areas. For example, the Award may be given inrecognition of accomplishments in software development, scientific computing, research contributions incomputational electromagnetics, semi-conductor device simulation, biomechanics or other areas that are
not traditionally embraced by computational structural/solid mechanics or computational fluid dynamics,
but which have general applicability to computational mechanics.
Conferred every two years. Maximum number of awards: one.
The IACM John Argyris Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments, particularlyoutstanding published papers, by researchers 40 or younger. Eligibility requires that the nominee notturn 41 in the year the award is presented. Flexibility on age eligibility may be accepted in the following
cases:a) Maternity: Female researchers providing or having provided childcare will have an extension of 18
months per child. The eligibility period may be extended for a maximum of six years in total.
b) Any long-term leave of absence (over ninety days) duly justified.
The Chair of the Awards Committee may require any extra documentation.
The IACM John Argyris Award for Young Scientists is sponsored by Elsevier to honor Professor
John Argyris' significant contributions in the field.
Conferred every two years. Maximum number of awards: one.
The IACM Fellows Award recognizes up to 8 individuals with a distinguished record ofresearch accomplishment and publication in areas of computational mechanics, and demonstrated
support of the IACM through membership and participation in the Association, its meetings andactivities. A particular emphasis is placed on individuals who have contributed to IACM through theorganization of World Congresses, Thematic Conferences, and Special Interest Conferences.
Conferred every two years. Maximum number of fellow awards: before each WCCM theExecutive Council will establish the exact number based on the report of the Secretary General on thenumber of members of the affiliated societies. In any case, eight is always a maximum and thisnumber can only decrease.

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Rules and guidelines of the 2024 IACM awards
The IACM awards will be given at the 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCMXVI) and PANACM 2024, Vancouver, Canada, 21-26 July, 2024.
The Awards Committee. There are two awards committees in 2024: the Major Awards
Committee (MAC) and the General Awards Committee (GAC).
• MAC is responsible for the IACM Congress Medal (Gauss-Newton Medal), the IACM O.C.
Zienkiewicz Award, the IACM Computational Mechanics Award, and the IACM Fellows Award;
Members of MAC: Y. Bazilevs, J. Bonet, F. Chinesta, J. Dolbow, S. Ghosh, P. Ladevèze, X.
Oliver, JN.Reddy, K.Willcox.
• GAC is responsible for the IACM John Argyris Award for Young Scientists.
Members of GAC: MAC members + I. Arias, D. Kochmann, W.Sun.
For the 2024 edition of IACM Awards, the IACM Executive Council has appointed Prof. P. Ladévèze asChair.
Voting. The Awards Committees shall select the awardees among the received nominations in asecret vote. The number of votes each Committee member has for each of the Awards will dependon the amount of nominations received and is yet to be decided by the Awards Committees. Maximum
number of awards in each category is indicated in the Awards description above; in case of a draw inany of the categories an additional voting round(s) will take place.

Nominations.
 The IACM Awards Committees solicits nominations from the IACM Membership (and othermembers of the computational mechanics community).
 Each of the nominators may nominate no more than one individual for each of the awards, withthe exception of the Fellows Award in which case two individuals may be nominated, upon theopen call is launched.
 Self-nominations are not accepted.
 Nominators are invited to submit a two-page nomination form with 3 support letters and a CV ofthe nominee.
 There is no restriction on the number of reference letters a person can write.
 All members of the Awards Committees are ineligible for any IACM Award during their periodof service.
 IACM Award Committee Members should not be requested to send nominations or writing
support letters.
 It is suggested to all country associations to refrain from interfering in the voting process in any
official or unofficial form.
 IACM EC members are ineligible during their time in office.
Awards. The maximum number of awards in each of the categories is one, except for the IACM Fellows
Award where there will be 8 awardees.
Call for Nominations. All members of IACM (and other members of the computationalmechanics community) are invited to submit nominations to the Awards Committee Chairman:
Professor P.Ladévèze.
Pleasesend
yournominations
tothefollowing
e-mail:secretariat@iacm.info, before 22 February 2024.