Honors and Awards

1  Awards

• Recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017.
• 2016 Outstanding Philanthropic Partner Award, Colorado School of Mines Foundation.
• NATO Research Fellowships (supporting postdoctoral visits to the U.S.A.), September 1985-July 1986, and September 1983-July 1984.
• Prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature and Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, 1985.
• Special Prize for Mathematics, City Council of Lokeren, Lokeren, Belgium, 1972.
• Special Prize for History, City Council of Lokeren, Lokeren, Belgium, 1972.

2  Honors

• Benefactor of the Professor Willy Hereman Endowed Scholarship Fund, 2018-present.
• President of the Colorado School of Mines Chapter of Sigma Xi -- The Scientific Research Honor Society, 2021-present.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Education in Colorado, 2020.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in America, 2020.
• Vice-President and President-Elect of the Colorado School of Mines Chapter of Sigma Xi --The Scientific Research Honor Society, 2019-2020.
• Honored by former MS Douglas Baldwin with the establishment of the Professor Willy Hereman Endowed Scholarship Fund, 2018-present.
• Elected Full Member of Sigma Xi -- The Scientific Research Honor Society, 2018.
• Received Professor Emeritus status, December 2016.
• Listed in American Men and Women in Science, Gale Cengage Learning, 2016.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in America, 70th Platinum Anniversary Edition, 2016.
• Listed in Marquis International Who's Who in America, 69th Edition, 2015.
• Listed in Marquis International Who's Who in America, 68th Edition, 2014.
• The paper "An introduction to diffusion maps" by J. de la Porte, B. M. Herbst, W. Hereman, and S. J. van der Walt (Proceedings of the 19th Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa - PRASA 2008, Ed.: F. Nicolls, Univ. Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (2008), pp. 15-25) was a key reference for Patent No. US 8,629,872 B1 System and Method for Displaying and Analyzing Financial Correlation Data by Wesley Phao, The Capital Group Companies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA.
• The paper "Symbolic computation of exact solutions expressible in hyperbolic and elliptic functions for nonlinear PDEs" by D.E. Baldwin, Ü. Göktas, W. Hereman, L. Hong, R. Martino, and J. C. Miller (Journal of Symbolic Computation, vol. 37, issue 6, pp. 669-705, 2004) is in the journal's top five of most downloaded papers in the first semester of 2013
• The paper "The tanh method II. Perturbation technique for conservative systems" by W. Malfliet and W. Hereman (Physica Scripta 54(1), pp. 569-575, 1996) was featured by Elsevier Publising in the article "Section 4: Expert Opinion. Sleeping Beauties or delayed recognition: When old ideas are brought to bibliometric life," Research Trends, Issue 21, January 2011, pp. 9-11. See: http://www.researchtrends.com/category/issue21-january-2011.
• Listed in Marquis International Who's Who in America, 65th Edition, 2011.
• Listed in Marquis International Who's Who in America, 64th Edition, 2010.
• Listed in Marquis International Who's Who in America, 63rd Edition, vol. 1, p.\ 2168, 2009.
• Listed in the Madison Who's Who in America, ?th Edition, 2009.
• Listed in the Marquis Who's Who in America, 63rd Edition, vol. 1, p. 2168, 2009.
• Listed in the Who's Who in Engineering Education, 2005, http://engineering.academickeys.com/index.php.
• Visiting Lecturer, Program of Visiting Lecturers, The Mathematical Association of America (MAA), 1996-1998.
• Listed in Dictionary of International Biography, Year 1994-1995, 24th Edition, Fall 1995.
• Listed in International Who's Who of Intellectuals, 11th Edition, 1994.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in America, Special Index Section, 47th Edition, vol. 2, 1992-1993, p. 3966 and p. 3793.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in America, Special Index Section, 48th Edition, vol. 2, 1994, p. 3889 and 4060.
• Marquis Who's Who in America, Regional and Topical Register, 49th Edition, vol. 2, 1995, p. 4180.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the West, 26th Edition, 1997-1998.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the West, Silver Anniversary 25th Edition, 1996-1997, p. 370.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the West, 24th Edition, 1994-1995, p. 364.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the West, 23rd Edition, 1992-1993, p. 311.
• Listed as International Man of the Year 1992-1993, Men of Achievement', 16th Edition, 1993.
• Listed as International Man of the Year 1995-1996, Men of Achievement', 17th Edition, 1996.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, 12th Edition, 1995-1996.
• Listed in International Who's Who of Professionals, ?th Edition, 1995-1996.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2nd Edition, 1993-1994.
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1st Edition, 1992-1993.
• Listed in The National Faculty Directory, Gale Research Inc., Detroit, 27th Edition, vol. 2 (1997) p. 1469; 23rd Edition, vol. 2 (1993) p. 1450, 22nd Edition, vol. 2 (1992) p. 1505.
• Listed in Dictionary of International Biography, Biographical Record of Contemporary Achievement, 24th Edition, Fall 1995.
• Listed in Dictionary of International Biography, Biographical Record of Contemporary Achievement, 23rd Edition, 1993-1994.
• Listed in The Faculty White Pages, Gale Research Inc., Detroit, p. 1363, 1992.