----------------------------------------------------------------------- CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 10, Number 1, January 27, 2010 Editor: Abba Gumel (gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENT --------------- Society News 1. CAIMS-PIMS Eary Career Prize in Applied Mathematics 2. CAIMS-MITACS Industrial Research Prize 3. CAIMS*SCMAI 2010 Annual Meeting 4. CAIMS*SCMAI Online Membership Application and Renewals Other News 5. MITACS International Focus Period on Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications: Canada 2010 6. Summer Scool in Nonlinear Dynamics in Biological Networks (McGill University) 7. Conférence CRM-GIREF, du 25 au 27 Mai, à Québec 8. Annual Meeting of the Prairie Network for Research in Mathematical Sciences (University of Manitoba) 9. PhD Opportunities at Guelph 10. CAIMS*SCMAI E-news Information = = = = Item 1 = = = = CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics The prize is to be awarded to a researcher less than ten years past the date of Ph.D. at the time of nomination. The prize recognizes exceptional research in any branch of applied mathematics, interpreted broadly. The nominee's research should have been conducted primarily in Canada or in affiliation with a Canadian University. Nominations Nominations must be submitted by January 31 to CAIMS/PIMS by a sponsor who is responsible for providing the following information: a curriculum vitae a publication list a cover letter explaining the basis of the nomination a maximum of three additional letters of support Unsuccessful nominations which continue to meet the eligibility criteria will be automatically considered for a second year. Advisory Committee The recipient of the prize will be decided by an advisory committee consisting of four experts, who will serve for two-year terms. Two of them will be appointed by the President of CAIMS and two will be selected by the PIMS Director. Decisions will be announced by April 1. The Award The award will consist of a cash prize of $1,000 and a commemorative plaque that will be presented at the CAIMS Annual Meeting. The recipient will be invited to deliver a plenary lecture at the CAIMS Annual Meeting in the year of the award. A travel allowance will be provided. Submit nominations to: nominations@pims.math.ca Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Tel.: (604) 822-3922 = = = = Item 2 = = = = CAIMS-MITACS Industrial Mathematical Prize. The CAIMS-MITACS annual industrial mathematics prize is to be awarded to a researcher in recognition of exceptional research in any branch of industrial mathematics, interpreted broadly. The nominee's research should have been conducted primarily in Canada. This Prize would not only be a high honour to bestow upon an individual, but also an acknowledgement of industrial mathematics as a fundamental and vibrant discipline within the research culture of Canada. Nomination: Nominations must be submitted by January 31 to CAIMS/MITACS by a sponsor who is responsible for providing the following information: a curriculum vitae a publication list a cover letter explaining the basis of the nomination a maximum of three additional letters of support Unsuccessful nominations which continue to meet the eligibility criteria will be automatically considered for a second year. Prize Selection Committee: The recipient of the prize will be decided by a prize selection committee consisting of four experts, who will serve for two-year terms. Two of them will be appointed by the President of CAIMS and two will be selected by the MITACS Scientific Director. Decisions will be announced by April 1. The Award: The award will consist of a cash prize of $1,000 and a commemorative plaque that will be presented at the CAIMS Annual Meeting. The recipient will be invited to deliver a lecture at the CAIMS Annual Meeting in the year of the award. A travel allowance will be provided. Nominations should be mailed to: The CAIMS-MITACS Industrial Prize Committee c/o Prof. Nilima Nigam Dept. of Mathematics Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Nominations can also be emailed to Dr. Nilima Nigam at nigam@math.sfu.ca or to Dr. Jianhong Wu at wujh@mathstat.yorku.ca. = = = = Item 3 CAIMS*SCMAI 2010 Annual Meeting = = = = The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Applied Mathematical and Industrial Society will be hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University, in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada on July 17-20, 2010. The themes of the meeting are: Dynamical Systems Fluid Dynamics (CSFD-2010) Mathematical Biology and Medicine Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Ocean Modeling and Technology Scientific Computing Statistical and Population Genetics There will be eight plenary lectures and numerous invited talks (20 minutes) on the above themes, and two special invited lectures. Plenary Speakers: Anthony Bloch (University of Michigan) Marianna Braza (L'Institut de Mcanique des Fluides de Toulouse) William F. Langford (University of Guelph) Robert M. Miura (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Bernard Molin (Ecole Centrale Marseille) Bruno Nachtergaele (University of California at Davis) Robert D. Russell (Simon Fraser University) Elizabeth A. Thompson (University of Washington, Seattle) Michael J. Ward (University of British Columbia) In addition to these, we also call for minisymposia on any topics in applied mathematics with a deadline being May 1, 2010. If you wish to organize a Minisymposium, please send the name of the organizer(s) and participants, their affiliation and e-mail contact information and titles of the talks to one of the co-chairwomen of the CAIMS*SCMAI 2010 Scientific Program by the address given below. There will also be several contributed sessions, as well as a poster session for graduate students to present their research results. In the meeting, the annual CAIMS*SCMAI Research Prizes and CAIMS Doctoral Dissertation Award will be presented to the recipients. In addition, student poster prizes will also be selected and awarded. For more information about this meeting, please visit the website: www.caims2010.ca which will be updated in a timely fashion, or contact one of the co-chairwomen of the CAIMS*SCMAI 2010 Scientific Program Serpil Kocabiyik (serpil@mun.ca), Sharene Bungay (sharene@mun.ca) We hope that you are able to participate and will make the CAIMS*SCMAI 2010 meeting a successful one. We look forward to seeing you and welcoming you at Memorial University of Newfoundland. = = = = Item 4 CAIMS*SCMAI Online Memberships and Renewals (by Lucy Campbell) = = = = We are pleased to announce that we now have an online facility to allow CAIMS membership renewals and new membership applications to be done online through a secure server. We invite you to renew your membership for 2010 through this facility and to encourage potential new members to use it to sign up for membership. There is a link to the online system on the CAIMS main pages www.caims.ca and www.scmai.ca and it can be accessed directly at www.regonline.ca/CAIMS The first time you sign in, even if you are already a member of CAIMS, you will have to create a profile and password for the online system, which you will use for subsequent sign-ins. Once you finish the registration to join or renew your membership, a link will be sent to you so you can print out an invoice. If you have any questions concerning the functionality of the system, please direct them to the email address given on the first page, with cc to the chair of the membership committee, Lucy Campbell We are grateful to MITACS for providing us with this facility and helping us to set it up. Thanks also to Joshua Dobbs of MITACS and our treasurer Paul Muir who have put a lot of work into it in the past few months. = = = = Item 5 = = = = MITACS International Focus Period on Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications: Canada 2010 Dear colleagues, First Call for Participation (apologies for cross posting) Web: www.mitacsfocusperiods.ca Starting in May 2010, MITACS (www.mitacs.ca) plans to hold an international focus period in Canada entitled, "Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications". The focus period will be run over one year and will consist of a number of scientific events including workshops, summer schools, industry-academic forums, short courses and public lectures around the topic of network analysis. MITACS would like to invite you to attend and participate in what will be a stimulating and productive series of events. Focus Period Topics: -Financial networks for risk assessment -Network security and cryptography -Social Networks -Biological networks and systems biology -Wireless and mobile computing -Internet and network economics Lead Organizer: Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University Focus Period Steering Committee: Allan Borodin, University of Toronto Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University Peter Glynn, Stanford University Ron Graham, University of California San Diego Kurt Mehlhorn, Max Planck Institute William Pulleyblank, IBM D. Sivakumar, Google Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University Preliminary Program of events (more to be added): -Workshop on Financial Networks and Risk Assessment - 17th - 21st of May 2010, Toronto, Canada -2010 Summer School through IGTC - May 10, 2010 - Jun 2, 2010, Victoria, Canada -The 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Network Coding - June 9 — 11, 2010 Toronto, Canada -Workshop on Network Security & Cryptography - 21st-15th of June 2010, Toronto -CAMBAM-MBI Summer School 2010 - Nonlinear Dynamics in Biological Networks May 17, 2010 - May 28, 2010 -Workshop on Social Networks - 9th-14th of August 2010, Vancouver -Workshop on Biological Networks and Systems Biology – December 2010, Vancouver -Workshop on Wireless & Mobile Computing - May 2011, Ottawa -Workshop on Internet & Network Economics - August 2011, Vancouver For details on specific topics, registration for events, speakers, submission of abstracts and locations, please visit our website - www.mitacsfocusperiods.ca. We look forward to meeting you there. Nilima Nigam CRC Tier II in Applied Mathematics Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics Simon Fraser University = = = = Item 6 = = = = Summer School on Nonlinear Dynamics in Biological Networks (McGill University) Dear Colleague, Between May 17th and 28th 2010, the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine (CAMBAM) in collaboration with the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI), will host a joint summer school under the theme "Nonlinear Dynamics in Biological Networks" at the McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Summer School 2010 aims to prepare students to satisfy the increasing demand in academia, government, and industry for people with cross-disciplinary training who, with various degrees of competence, can speak the languages of the mathematical, physical and biological sciences. Students and postdoctoral fellows who register for the session will have the opportunity to benefit from the instruction of international experts in the field of mathematical modeling, nonlinear dynamics and biological networks. Topics to be covered include Nonlinear Dynamics of Biological Oscillations, Structure and Dynamics in Simple Gene Nets, Dynamics in Simple Neural Nets, Dynamics in Locomotion, Large Gene Regulatory Networks, Dynamics in Large Neural Networks, Dynamics in Ecological Networks and Dynamics in Epidemiological Networks. Instructors include Maurice Chacron, McGill University; Brent Dorion, University of Pittsburgh; Leon Glass, McGill University; Marty Golubitsky, The Ohio State University & MBI; Michael Guevara, McGill University; Michael Mackey, McGill University; Ted Perkins, Ottawa Health Research Institute; David Pike, Memorial University; Jianhong Wu, York University. For more information and registration please visit our website at http://www.mcgill.ca/cambam/cambam_events/cambam-mbi-summer_school/ or contact Jo-Ann Kwadzo, Tel. 514-398-3047 or info.cambam@mcgill.ca. = = = = Item 7 = = = = Conférence CRM-GIREF, du 25 au 27 Mai, à Québec Conférence CRM-GIREF, du 25 au 27 Mai, à Québec Adaptation de maillages et estimation d'erreurs (25 et 27 mai). Journée spéciale en hommage à Michel Fortin (26 mai) Conférenciers invités: Adaptation de maillages et estimation d'erreurs Youssef BELHAMADIA, Université de l'Alberta, Canada Thierry COUPEZ, École des mines de Paris, France Julien DOMPIERRE, Université Laurentienne, Canada Michel FORTIN, Université Laval, Canada Wagdi HABASHI, Université McGill, Canada. Frédéric HECHT, Université Paris VI, France. Dominique PELLETIER, École polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Marco PICASSO, EPFL, Suisse. Conférenciers invités: Journée en hommage à Michel Fortin Collaborateurs: Franco BREZZI, Université de Pavie, Italie. Michel DELFOUR, Université de Montréal, Canada Ancien(ne)s étudiant(e)s Rajae ABOULAICH, École Mohammadia d'ingénieurs, Rabat, Maroc François BERTRAND, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Yves BOURGAULT, Université d'Ottawa, Canada Mohamed FARHLOUL, Université de Moncton, Canada Robert GUÉNETTE, Université Laval, Canada Hassan MANOUZI, Université Laval, Canada Zoubida MGHAZLI, Université Ibn Tofail, Kénitra, Maroc Abdellatif SERGHINI, Université Laurentienne, Canada Azzedine SOULAÏMANI, École de technologie supérieure, Montréal, Canada Soumission de résumés : Les personnes intéressées sont invitées à soumettre un résumé (maximum une page) en format pdf avant le 1 mars 2010. Pour les détails et les inscriptions en ligne : http://www.giref.ulaval.ca/conference-CRM-GIREF/ = = = = Item 8 = = = = 2010 Annual Meeting of the Prairie Network for Research in Mathematical Sciences (University of Manitoba) This is the first announcement, and a call for contributed talks, for the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Prairie Network for Research in Mathematical Sciences (PNRMS), scheduled at the University of Manitoba April 30-May 2, 2010. The meeting, jointly organized by the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg, will also feature a Students' Workshop. Further details about the meeting are available at the website: http://mathstat.uwinnipeg.ca/pnrms2010.html Deadline for submission of title and abstract for contributed talks : March 12, 2010. Deadline for Registration: March 31, 2010. For further information, contact the Local Organizing Committee: Robert Craigen (University of Manitoba; craigenr@cc.umanitoba.ca) Melody Ghahramani (University of Winnipeg; m.ghahramani@uwinnipeg.ca) Abba Gumel (Manitoba; gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca) Anna Stokke (University of Winnipeg; a.stokke@uwinnipeg.ca) = = = = Item 9 = = = = Dear Colleagues: Please circulate to interested students. Exciting opportunities exist for suitably qualified students to join the doctoral program in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Guelph. Students study either mathematics or statistics and the program has an applied emphasis, although more theoretical projects are also available. All interested students are encouraged to apply. Annual stipends at a minimum of $25,000 will be offered, on a competitive basis, to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Our faculty members are committed to providing a personalized approach to learning for their graduate students. In addition to making themselves readily available for consultations with students, faculty members conduct leading-edge research, use innovative teaching methods, are well connected within their respective professional communities, and are committed to student success. Their dedication creates a personalized, positive and well-rounded academic environment for our graduate students. See www.mathstat.uoguelph.ca for further information. Applications will be considered until all positions are filled. Best regards, Brian Allen, Chair = = = = Item 10 = = = = CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information CAIMS*SCMAI E-News is distributed electronically several times a year by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society/Societe Canadienne de Mathematiques Appliquees et Industrielles (http://www.caims.ca). 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