CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 02 Number 2 March 8, 2002 Editor: Sue Ann Campbell (sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca) CONTENTS 1. Election Reminder 2. CAIMS*SCMAI Membership Drive 3. CAIMS*SCMAI 2002 in Calgary - June 8-10 4. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Top Story 5. Math Awareness Month - April, 2002 6. Post-doctoral Research Position in Applied Math at Waterloo 7. Canada Research Chair in Applied and Computational Math at Simon Fraser 8.* SIAM 50th Anniversary and Annual Meeting: July 8-12, 2002 9.* Dynamics Days Europe: July 15--19, 2002 10.* IMACS Workshop on Adaptive Methods for PDE'S: August 6-9, 2002 11.* International Congress of Mathematicians: August 20-28, 2002 12.* Fourth Butler Memorial Conference: June 17-21, 2003 13.* ICIAM 2003: July 7-11, 2003 14. CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information * Links to the web pages for these and other conferences can be found by clicking on "Related Links" at the CAIMS*SCMAI home page www.caims.ca. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 1 ====== Election Reminder All members in good standing should have recently received a ballot for the election. Please be sure to return it by March 28, 2002 to Sue Ann Campbell Department of Applied Mathematics University of Waterloo Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 2 ====== CAIMS*SCMAI Membership Drive As you may know, at the 2001 Annual Meeting in Victoria, CAIMS/SCMAI decided to launch a membership drive. The Membership Committee consists of Mike Foreman, Martin Gander, Abba Gumel, Ken Jackson (chair), Paul Muir and Steve Ruuth. We have had some success so far, but there is more to be done. Therefore, we are asking for your help with the membership drive. We would greatly appreciate your taking any opportunity you can to encourage your colleagues and students to join CAIMS/SCMAI. In many institutions, the membership fee can be reimbursed from your professional allowance. One of our goals is to increase the number of life-members. The cost is only $600 and it saves you the trouble of paying the annual fee. Junior faculty members benefit the most from this option. Please consider becoming a life-member of CAIMS/SCMAI. Also, please check if your department is an institutional member of CAIMS/SCMAI. If not, please encourage your department head to join. Some of the benefits of being a CAIMS/SCMAI member include: * Free subscription to the CAIMS/SCMAI Newsletter and the CAIMS/SCMAI Membership Directory. The CAIMS/SCMAI Newsletter, E-news and webpage help to keep you up-to-date on Applied Math News in Canada. * Registration for the CAIMS/SCMAI Annual Meeting at reduced rates. The CAIMS/SCMAI Annual Meeting is an excellent opportunity to present research, hear about significant new work, and meet colleagues. CAIMS/SCMAI plans to introduce a proceedings for the Annual Meeting. This will give members an opportunity to publish their work in a respected forum. * Cost-effective membership in a Society devoted to the support and development of Applied Mathematics as a distinct discipline in Canada. CAIMS/SCMAI represents Canadian Applied Mathematicians within Canada, to such agencies as NSERC, and also internationally, to such organizations as ICIAM. * Support for CAIMS/SCMAI prizes recognizing significant contributions to Canadian Applied Mathematics. For many years, we've awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Award. We're planning to introduce a CAIMS/SCMAI Research Award soon and possibly a CAIMS/SCMAI Junior Research Award (for young researchers) after that. * Subscription to The Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly at a discounted rate. (Only $40 per year!). * Affiliated membership in Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM) at two-thirds the current GAMM subscription rate. Membership forms (both individual and institutional) can be found on the CAIMS/SCMAI webpages http://www.caims.ca/ http://www.scmai.ca/ - Ken Jackson, CAIMS*SCMAI President-Elect ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 3 ====== CAIMS*SCMAI 2002 Annual Meeting June 8-10, 2002 University of Calgary Plenary Speakers: Anne Bourlioux, Universite de Montreal Nira Dyn, Tel Aviv Robert Elliott, University of Calgary Ann Gargett, Old Dominion University Jerrold Marsden, Caltech Hilary Ockendon, University of Oxford Paul Sullivan, University of Western Ontario Gordon Swaters, University of Alberta Sessions: Computational Finance (Ali Lari-Lavassani, Organizer) Hamiltonian Systems (Larry Bates, Organizer) Environmental Mathematics (Paul Sullivan and Philip Chatwin, Organizers) Fluid Dynamics (Sam Shen and T. Bryant Moodie, Organizers) Applied Mathematics Education (Indy Lagu, Organizer) Mathematical Aspects of Graphics and Visualization (Len Bos, Organizer) Modelling (Rex Westbrook, organizer) Poster Session Local Organizing Committee: Profs. Paul Binding and Tony Ware Department Mathematics and Statistics University of Calgary emails:binding@ucalgary.ca, aware@ucalgary.ca, CAIMS@math.ucalgary.ca More details on registration, accommodation etc can be found at the conference web site: http://www.math.ucalgary.ca/~CAIMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 4 ====== NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Top Story Sam Shen's research work was on the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Top Story press release on January 15, 2002. Sam and his collaborators developed a new method that greatly improves U.S. seasonal forecasts. The new technique could raise the bar for predicting seasonal precipitation by 10 to 20 percent for all seasons in the United States. The new method looks at changes in sea surface temperatures in various ocean basins, and then weighs their individual impacts on regional climate to greatly increase predictability of precipitation during all seasons. Changes in sea surface temperatures strongly influence atmospheric winds, climate and weather. The paper presents results applied to the U.S. continent, where we show that the potential predictability can be raised 10 to 20 percent above traditional methods, said William Lau, a senior researcher at Goddard and lead author of the paper. "The scheme can be applied to other regions as well. It raises the bar for seasonal and inter-annual climate forecasts." The paper was presented on January 15 at the American Meteorology Society meeting in Orlando, Fla. The study will also be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters. W.K.M. Lau, K.M. Kim and S.S.P. Shen, Potential predictability of seasonal precipitation over the United States, Geophys. Res. Lett. (2002). Samuel Shen was responsible for developing the statistical algorithms of the forecasting. See S.S.P. Shen, K.M. Lau, K.M. Kim and G. Li, A canonical ensemble correlation prediction model for seasonal precipitation anomaly, NASA Technical Memorandum, NASA-TM-2001-209989, 2001. Samuel Shen is a member of the CAIMS/SCMAI and a professor of mathematical and statistical sciences at the University of Alberta. For the complete press release and the article about the use of sea surface temperatures to forecast seasonal precipitation, go to: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020115forecast.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 5 ====== MATH AWARENESS MONTH, 2002 THEME: "MATH AND THE GENOME" April, 2002, is the annual Math Awareness Month this year. It is sponsored by the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (AMS/MAA/SIAM) as a sequence of public awareness events mainly directed at young people (undergrad science majors, e.g.) and the general public to inform them about ways in which mathematics and its uses can be important. This year's theme is "Math and the Genome". There is a web page which gives more information: + a few brief essays about the theme for the general public + some resource materials such as bibliographic and web references + a downloadable poster designed for the Month (hard copy can be ordered) + a rolling registry of events on campuses and in local science institutions around the country focusing on the theme The main URL is http://mathforum.com/mam/02/ Link from there to other features. In particular, you might consider adding a link to your webpage, or to any page where science undergrads or the general public might be likely to see it. The link icon is available at http://mathforum.org/mam/02/icons.html. Consider organizing a local observance to turn young people on to the excitement of this rapidly emerging scientific area! You can check the website for what others will do as this develops. Help others and make a note on the activities bulletin board of anything which you plan to do. For questions and additional suggestions, write to Annette Emerson (awe@ams.org) or the members of this year's advisory committee, who can be e-mailed via: http://mathforum.org/mam/02/about.committee.html. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 6 ====== From: Kirsten Morris Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 Post-doctoral Research Position in Applied Math at Waterloo Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research position in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. The focus of the research will be the computational aspects of control of partial differential equations. The appointment will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year.The starting date of appointment is on or after May 1, 2002. Interested individuals should send a curriculum vitae, two or three selected reprints/preprints and the names of three references to: Kirsten Morris Department of Applied Mathematics University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 Canada Applications will be processed as they are received. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 7 ====== From: Math Chair Secretary Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA V5A 1S6 Tier II Canada Research Chair in Applied and Computational Mathematics The Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University invites applications for a tier 2 Canada Research Chair in applied and computational mathematics. The Canada Research Chair Program is supported by the Government of Canada and was established to enable Canadian Universities to achieve the highest levels of research excellence. Information about the program may be found at http://www.chairs.gc.ca. Candidates should have a PhD, be identifiable as having the potential to lead their fields in research, and have demonstrated interest and ability in teaching. Appointments will be made in accordance with the university's strategic research plan. See our web page at http://www.math.sfu.ca/ for further information on the department. The salary and rank will be based on qualifications and experience. The appointment will be made at the assistant or associate professor level. The start date is expected to be between January 1, 2003, and September 1, 2003. SFU is committed to the principle of equity in employment and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and women. All such candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Applications, including a curriculum vitae and descriptive statements on research plans and teaching activities, should be sent by May 1, 2002, to: CRC Search Department of Mathematics Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada Email: CRCsearch@math.sfu.ca Please arrange for letters of reference to be sent, in confidence, from six referees. We thank all applicants in advance; only those short-listed will be contacted. The position is subject to final budgetary approval. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 8 ====== From: Sam Shen Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 SIAM 50th Anniversary and 2002 Annual Meeting July 8-12, 2002 Philadelphia, PA USA www.siam.org/meetings/ A celebration of SIAM's 50th birthday, this special annual meeting will look at the strides made by industrial and applied mathematics during the past 50 years and will peek as far as we can see into the next 50. The meeting themes cover SIAM's interests, a partial list of which ranges from analysis to applications, from computing to control to computational science, from dynamics to design, from linear algebra to life sciences, from optimization to outreach. The program features plenary lectures, topical presentations, contributed talks, prizes, minitutorials, the community lecture, and, of course, minisymposia, along with diversity day, an evening of professional development, and a gala dinner. Please join us for this remarkable gathering. Invited Plenary Speakers * Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University * Martin Groetschel, ZIB and TU, Berlin * Philip J. Holmes, Princeton University * Cleve B. Moler, The MathWorks * George C. Papanicolaou, Stanford University Organizing Committee Marsha J. Berger, Courant Institute, New York University Heinz Engl, Johannes Kepler Universitat, Linz Martin Golubitsky (co-chair), University of Houston Walter Strauss, Brown University Margaret H. Wright (co-chair), Courant Institute, New York University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 9 ====== From: Sue Ann Campbell Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 Announcement and Call for Extended Abstracts -------------------------------------------- XXII. Dynamics Days Europe 2002 Heidelberg, Germany ---- July 15--19, 2002 www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/dd02/ -------------------------------------------- Dynamics Days Europe is a major international conference with a long tradition aimed at covering the entire field of dynamics and nonlinearity. The XXIInd event in this tradition will take place in Heidelberg, July 15-19, 2002 at the communication center of the German Cancer Research Center on the campus of the University of Heidelberg. SCOPE: The focus of the conference will be on new developments in modelling, mathematical foundations, applications and experiments. The invited sessions cover Computational Physics Patterns and Waves Dynamical Systems Nonlinear Quantum Effects Engineering and Optimization Statistical Physics Fluid Dynamics Stochastics and Applications Life Sciences Structured Devices CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS: W. Achtziger (U Erlangen) K. Mischaikow (Georgia Tech) L. Arnold (U Bremen) M. Moeller (U Ulm) G. Benettin (U Padova) S. Mueller (MPI Leipzig) E. Brener (FZ Juelich) Z. Noszticzius (TU Budapest) J. Eggers (U Essen) R. Phair (NIH Bethesda) M. Eiswirth (FHI Berlin) H. A. Posch (U Vienna) G. Falkovich (Weizmann) I. Procaccia (Weizmann) T. Fukuda (Nagoya U) D. Quere (College de France) E. D. Gilles (MPI Magdeburg) D. Ruelle (IHES Paris) G. I. Goldburg (U Pittsburgh) K. Sacha (U Krakow) M. Inagaki (Toyota CRDL) B. Sandstede (Ohio State) W. Just (TU Chemnitz) B. Schmittmann (Virginia Tech) Y. G. Kevrekidis (Princeton) H. Schomerus (MPI Dresden) P. Kotelenez (CWRU Cleveland) C. Schuette (TU Berlin) G. Leuchs (U Erlangen) A. K. Sood (IISC Bangalore) M. Marek (ICT Prague) A. Stevens (MPI Leipzig) H. Matano (U Tokyo) P. Tabeling (ENS Paris) P. Mendes (Virginia Tech) L.-S. Young (CIMS New York) A. Mielke (U Stuttgart) J. Zhang (CIMS New York) A. S. Mikhailov (FHI Berlin) DEADLINES: deadline for abstracts March 31, 2002 notification of acceptance May 1, 2002 deadline for registration May 15, 2002 reservation of accommodation recommended in the course of April Participants are invited to contribute their recent results in all areas of nonlinear dynamics. Based on a refereeing of extended abstracts (two pages) a limited number of contributions will be selected for oral presentation. By late February details on electronic registration, submission of extended abstracts and booking of accommodation can be accessed at the conference home page http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/dd02 Contributed talks will be scheduled in parallel sessions with two talks at a time. Posters are on display during the whole conference, in addition to special poster sessions. Reviving an old tradition of Dynamics Days there will be awards for the best poster presentations. ORGANIZERS: Jens Starke (U Heidelberg) Juergen Vollmer (MPI Mainz) SCIENTIFIC HOST: Roland Eils (German Cancer Research Center) SPONSORS: Sonderforschungsbereich 359 German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 10 ======= From: Ken Jackson Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 First Announcement and Call for Papers IMACS WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE METHODS FOR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS 6-9 AUGUST 2002 The Fields Institute, Toronto As part of the Fields Institute's year on "Numerical and Computational Challenges in Science and Engineering", we are organizing a Workshop on Adaptive Methods for Partial Differential Equations. This workshop, which is co-sponsored by IMACS and the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, will be held 6-9 August 2002 at the Fields Institute in Toronto. OBJECTIVE Adaptive methods for partial differential equations (PDEs) are the most effective computational approach for a large class of PDEs that arise in many important applications in science and engineering. This area has grown steadily during the past two decades. This workshop will bring together leading researchers from around the world to address both theoretical and computational aspects of adaptive methods for PDEs and to foster stronger collaboration between mathematicians, engineers and scientists. TOPICS * A posterior error estimation * Adaptive H-p refinement * Adaptivity with complex geometry * Implementation of adaptive codes * Moving mesh techniques and applications * Adaptive spectral methods * Nonlinear analysis * Adaptive modeling * Applications of adaptive methods ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Paul Fisher, Argonne National Laboratories, U.S.A * Joseph E. Flaherty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A. * Benqi Guo, University of Manitoba, Canada (Co-Chairman) * Kenneth R. Jackson, University of Toronto, Canada (Co-Chairman) * Robert D. Russell, Simon Fraser University, Canada INVITED SPEAKERS * Mark Ainsworth, Strathclyde University, Scotland * Ivo Babuska, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A. * Martin Berzins, University of Leeds, U.K. * Anne Bourlioux, University of Montreal, Canada * Leszek Demkowicz, University of of Texas at Austin, U.S.A. * Oleg Vassilyev, University of Missouri, U.S.A. * Jinchao Xu, Penn State University, U.S.A. CALL FOR PAPERS The program will consist of invited lectures (45 minutes each), and contributed talks (30 minutes each). If you wish to contribute a talk, please send a one-page abstract, written in English, related to the topics of the conference, by 30 April 2002. The abstract should include: names(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s), as well as the address, e-mail address, phone and fax numbers of the contact person. Authors are kindly requested to submit their abstracts via e-mail in plain LaTeX (or plain AMS Tex) to: Prof. Benqi Guo Mathematics Department, University of Manitoba Email: guo@cc.umanitoba.ca Fax: 204 - 474 7611 For more details about the workshop, please see our webpage http://www.fields.utoronto.ca./programs/scientific/01-02/numerical/adaptive/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 11 ======= From: Sam Shen Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians August 20-28, 2002 Beijing, China The next International Congress of Mathematicians will take place in Beijing, China, from Tuesday, August 20, through Wednesday, August 28, 2002. There will be 20 one-hour Plenary Lectures covering recent developments in the major areas of mathematics and 169 forty-five-minute Invited Lectures. Plenary speakers: * Alon, Noga, Mathematics, Tel Aviv U. , Israel * Arnold, Douglas Norman, IMA, U. Minnesota, USA * Bressan, Alberto, S.I.S.S.A. Italy * Caffarelli, Luis Angel, Mathematics, U. Texas at Austin, USA * Chang, Sun-Yung Alice, Mathematics, Princeton, USA * Donoho, David Leigh, Statistics, Stanford, USA * Faddeev, Ludwig Dmitrievich, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russia * Goldwasser, Shafi, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, USA ; Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel * Haagerup, Uffe, Mathematics and Computer Science, U. Southern Denmark, Denmark * Hopkins, Michael Jerome, Mathematics, MIT, USA * Kac, Victor, Mathematics, MIT, USA * Kesten, Harry, Mathematics, Cornell, USA * Kirwan, Frances Clare, Mathematical Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom * Lafforgue, Laurent, Institut Des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES), France * Mumford, David B, Applied Mathematics, Brown, USA * Nakajima, Hiraku, Mathematics, Kyoto U, Japan * Siu, Yum-Tong, Mathematics, Harvard, USA * Taylor, Richard Lawrence, Mathematics, Harvard, USA * Tian, Gang, Mathematics, MIT, USA; Mathematics, Peking U., China * Witten, Edward, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences, USA Every registered participant (traditionally called Ordinary Member) of the Congress will have the opportunity to give a short presentation, either during a poster session or in the form of a fifteen-minute lecture. More information about the ICM and registration can be found from http://www.icm2002.org.cn/A/general.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 12 ======= From: Joseph So Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 Fourth Butler Memorial Conference We would like to announce the Fourth Butler Memorial Conference which will be held in Edmonton, June 17 - 21, 2003. There is a preliminary website at http://conley.math.ualberta.ca/butler.html Your help in forwarding this announcement to all interested colleagues, postdocs and students will be greatly appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 13 ======= From: Bob Russell Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 ICIAM 2003 July 7-11, 2003 Sydney, Australia * Quarterly Update * Registration The registration circular should be available at the end of March, 2002, and will contain full details of the Congress including registration fees, accommodation, program for accompanying persons, social events and pre-and post-congress tours. Delegates can make presentations in three ways: organising or speaking in a minisymposium making a contributed presentation making a poster presentation Deadlines for submissions will be posted on our web site www.iciam.org. We plan to accept submissions of abstracts on-line by early April 2002. Embedded meetings * an Australian-New Zealand Mathematics Convention, incorporating: the Winter meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, and the New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium * the 2003 Computational Techniques and Applications Conference (CTAC) * the 17th National Congress of the Australian Society for Operations Research * the 2nd National Symposium on Financial Mathematics * the 5th Biennial Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference For more information and updates see www.iciam.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 14 ======= 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.math.uwaterloo.ca/~caims). 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