• Appointed as Francis R. and Helen M. Pentz Professor of Science (see Penn State Science)
  • Invited speaker of ICM 2010
  • Ten breakthroughs in computational science by DOE
  • Invited speaker of ICIAM 2007 
  • Humboldt Award
  • Top 25 Highly Cited Institutions and Authors in Mathematics, 1991-2001 (see also ranking by citation rate)
  • Top 300 Highly Cited Authors in Mathematics
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