CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 04 Number 2 April 22, 2004 Editor: Sue Ann Campbell (sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca) CONTENTS Society News 1. Travel grants for Toulouse Mathematics Meeting News from the Institutes 2. The Fields Institute appoints new director. Other News 3. Message from the President of ICIAM Conferences 4.* International Congress on Medical and Care Compunetics 5.* The 2004 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering 6.* World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Conferences 7. CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information * Links to the web pages for these and other conferences can be found by clicking on "Upcoming Meetings and Workshops" at the CAIMS*SCMAI home page: www.caims.ca. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 1 ====== From: "Christiane Rousseau" Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:41:14 -0400 La date limite a ete reportee au 30 avril. The deadline has been changed to April 30. REMINDER: the deadline is approching RAPPEL: la date limite approche Student-postdocs travel awards This program is sponsored by CMS, CAIMS, SSC, CRM, the Fields institute and PIMS. Around 15 travel Grants of $500 will be awarded to graduate students and postdocs attending Toulouse-2004 and presenting a poster in the poster session. Applicants must be graduate students or postdocs, at a Canadian University or Institute. To apply for this funding, please have a letter written by your Supervisor or departmental Graduate Advisor, briefly answering the following: Name of Student, Area of study and level, How will the student benefit from the meeting? Will the student be presenting a poster? Please have this emailed before April 30 2004 to gradtravel-toulouse@cms.math.ca. Applicants will be notified early in May of the funding decision. If successful, the student or postdoc will receive the cheque on showing the receipt for registration at the Toulouse meeting. _________________________________________________ Programme de bourses de voyages etudiants-postdocs Ce programme de bourses est finance par la SMC, la SCMAI, la SSC, le CRM, l'Institut Fields et le PIMS. Une quinzaine de bourses de voyages sont disponibles pour les etudiants de cycles superieurs et les postdocs qui participeront a Toulouse 2004 et feront une presentation par affiche. Les demandeurs doivent etre des etudiants de deuxieme ou de troisieme cycle ou des postdocs inscrits dans une universite canadienne ou un institut mathematique. Toute demande de bourse doit etre accompagnee d'une lettre du superviseur de l'etudiant ou de la personne responsable des etudes superieures de son departement, dans laquelle il ou elle indiquera brievement le nom de l'etudiant, son domaine et son niveau d'etudes, en quoi le congres sera profitable a l'etudiant, si l'etudiant fera une presentation par affiche et si l'etudiant a acces a d'autres sources de financement de son universite (bourses, subventions, etc.). Cette lettre doit etre envoyee par courriel avant le 30 avril 2004 a (subventions-toulouse@smc.math.ca). Les decisions seront annoncees autour du 1er mai 2004. Si une bourse est accordee a l'etudiant, elle sera versee a ce dernier sur presentation du recu d'inscription a Toulouse 2004. Christiane Rousseau Departement de mathematiques et de statistique Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3J7 Tel: (514) 343-7729, Fax: (514) 343-5700 rousseac@dms.umontreal.ca Presidente de la societe mathematique du Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 2 ====== From: Laura Gass Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:34:06 -0500 PRESS RELEASE March, 2004. TORONTO, ONTARIO - Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Professor of Mathematics, of the University of Houston, has been appointed Director of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, beginning July 1, 2004. Barbara Keyfitz has made profound and original contributions to applied mathematics, particularly in the study of nonlinear partial differential equations such as those arising in the study of fluid flow or transonic shock waves. She has a distinguished record of research, mentoring, and service to her profession. Her undergraduate training took place at the University of Toronto, and she obtained her PhD from New York University's Courant Institute, prior to holding positions at Columbia University, Princeton University, and Arizona State University. She continues as the John and Rebecca Moores Professor at the University of Houston. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is chair elect of their Mathematics section. She is an officer of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and has made numerous contributions as a reviewer and advisor to the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Council. She was recently awarded the Canadian Mathematical Society's Krieger-Nelson Prize, has served as a Vice President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and is incoming President of the Association for Women in Mathematics. The Fields Institute is a centre for mathematical research activity - a place where mathematicians from Canada and abroad, from universities, industry and financial institutions, can come together to carry out research and formulate problems of broad mutual interest. The institute's mission is to provide a supportive and stimulating environment for mathematics innovation and education. The Fields Institute promotes mathematical activity in Canada and helps to expand the application of mathematics in modern society. Major funding is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU) and by the federal Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). The Fields Institute counts as corporate sponsors Algorithmics, General Motors, Generation 5, the IFID Centre, Sigma Analysis and Management, and TmBioscience. The institution is a collaboration of six principal sponsoring universities - McMaster University, the University of Ottawa, the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, the University of Western Ontario, and York University, and is located on the campus of the University of Toronto. Other affiliated universities are Carleton University, Iowa State University, Queen's University, the University of Guelph, the University of Manitoba, the University of Maryland, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Saskatchewan. For more information, call or e-mail the Fields Institute at geninfo@fields.utoronto.ca or 416-348-9710, or consult www.fields.utoronto.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 3 ====== From: Ian Sloan Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 02:47:32 -0400 Dear Colleague: On May 22 the Board of ICIAM (consisting of representatives of ICIAM's member societies) will have its annual meeting in Zurich. This is the opportunity for member societies to help shape the future of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, as well as to hear the final reports of the last Congress (ICIAM 2003 in Sydney), discuss the plans for the next Congress (ICIAM 2007 in Zurich), and to begin the bid selection process for ICIAM 2011. I shall write another message after the meeting to tell you some of its highlights. In this message I want to focus on electronic issues. While ICIAM now has a web site of which we can be proud (see www.iciam.org), it is our friends in the International Mathematical Union (IMU) who are setting the pace in the electronic communication of mathematics. First, the IMU has developed a "Best Practices" document (see www.ceic.math.ca/Publications/Recommendations/3_best_practices.html) on the electronic communication of mathematical research. This document contains fifteen recommendations, variously directed at mathematicians, librarians and publishers. The recommendations concern matters such as format of scientific papers (logical structure is encouraged), versions of papers (successive versions of papers should be given a separate number), archiving and personal homepages (standardised home pages are strongly encouraged, see www.ceic.math.ca/Publications/Recommendations/5_mathnet_page.html). The ICIAM Board, at its Sydney meeting in July 2003, has endorsed the IMU's Best Practices document. In the spirit of that endorsement, I want now to encourage all member societies, and through them the applied mathematics community generally, to consider carefully the Best Practices document, and to encourage implementation of its recommendations. (Of course you might disagree with some of the recommendations. In that case I would be very pleased to hear your views.) The second commendable initiative of the IMU is the launch of an electronic newsletter, called IMU-Net. The fourth edition of IMU-Net, just issued, contains several articles of interest to the ICIAM community -- for example "What can you do about journal prices" -- and mathematical news items, such as the just-announced winners of the Abel Prize. (One of the two Abel Prize winners, Michael Atiyah, is well known to the ICIAM community through his inspiring leadership of the Organising Committee for ICIAM 1999 in Edinburgh). I commend IMU-Net to you. To find how to subscribe, go to www.mathunion.org/IMU-Net. I look forward to meeting many of you in Zurich. (If the nominated representative cannot attend, please do consider the option of nominating another person, even if just for the one meeting. If all else fails, you can even nominate someone not belonging to your society.) Until next time, Ian H. Sloan President of ICIAM April, 2004 P.S. Feel free to reprint this message in your member society's Newsletter. Professor Ian H Sloan School of Mathematics University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Australia Email: I.Sloan@unsw.edu.au Fax: +61 2 9385 7123 (international), 02 9385 7123 (national) Telephone: +61 2 9385 7038 (international), 02 9385 7038 (national) Home page: http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~sloan Scientia Professor, University of New South Wales President, International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics http://www.iciam.org Chief Investigator, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems, http://www.complex.org.au *** Editor's Notes: *** * CAIMS*SCMAI will be represented at the May 22 ICIAM Board Meeting by our President, Ken Jackson. * If you have opinions about the IMU's "Best Practices" document please forward them to a CAIMS*SCMAI Board member or to the Society (caims@caims.ca). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 4 ====== From: ICMCC Conference Secretary Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:25:03 +0200 (CEST) ********************************************************************* * ICMCC 2004 * International Congress on Medical and Care Compunetics * NCC, The Hague, The Netherlands * June 2-4, 2004 * * http://www.icmcc.com ********************************************************************* Registration is open for the International Congress on Medical and Care Compunetics 2004 (www.icmcc.com). ICMCC is a yearly event aimed at all those involved in medical and care ICT, from scientists to doctors, to patients. It is an international platform for scientific developments, industrial innovation as well as policy discussions. It also is a platform for established international groups and institutions. ICMCC is endorsed by the IFMBE and the EC and backed by outstanding scientists from IEEE, IFMBE, EHTEL, EAMBES and HL7. This unique platform event will take place from June 2-4 in The Hague, The Netherlands. This year’s ICMCC offers 18 workshops and presents results from 12 EC IST projects. During the event there will be assistance for those who seek partners or funding for EC fp6 projects. For the full program see: http://www.icmcc.com/php/show.php?p=workshoplist For registration: http://www.icmcc.com/php/show.php?p=icmccregistration Please note that early registration will be valid till April 19. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 5 ====== From: Hamid Arabnia Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:54:15 -0400 Call For Papers: Post-Conference Proceedings (Due Date: May 4, 2004) The 2004 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering (Joint Int'l Conferences) Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 21-24, 2004 This is a Call For Papers for publications in post-conference proceedings/books; if accepted, papers would be published in the proceedings AFTER the conferences. This announcement is ONLY for those who missed the opportunity to submit their papers in response to earlier announcements (authors who have already been notified that their papers have been accepted should ignore this announcement.) We have received a large number of requests for permission to submit papers to be considered as RRR, SRP, or PST papers (see below for categories of accepted papers.) I am happy to report that we now have the infrastructure to consider all such submissions if received by May 4, 2004. You are invited to submit a draft paper (see instructions below.) All accepted papers submitted in response to this Call For Papers will be published in the respective Post-Conference proceedings/books. The Post-Conference proceedings will be available after the conferences. We expect to have about 1500 attendees for the whole event. The Joint Conferences are: O. The 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'04) O. The 2004 International Symposium on Web Services and Applications (ISWS'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PCC'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on VLSI (VLSI'04) O. The 2004 International Conference on Algorithmic Mathematics and Computer Science (AMCS'04) (a link to each conference's url can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org ) You are requested to submit your paper for consideration to the following site (in electronic form): http://ww2.ucmss.com/cr/main/papersPostConf/first_html SUBMISSION OF PAPERS (for consideration for publication in Post-Conference proceedings): Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers (about 5 pages - single spaced and font size of 10 to 12 - all reasonable typesetting format is acceptable) to http://ww2.ucmss.com/cr/main/papersPostConf/first_html by May 4, 2004. The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, and Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the conference the paper is being submitted to. All submissions will be reviewed by two people and if accepted will be published in the post-conference proceedings/books. IMPORTANT DATES: May 4, 2004: Submissions Due May 14, 2004: Notification of acceptance June 1, 2004: Camera-Ready papers & Registration June 21-24, 2004: Joint Int'l Conferences PRESENTATION FORMATS / PAPER CATEGORIES: The Accepted Paper Categories are (in response to this Call For Papers): RRR papers (Regular Research Report) will be a maximum of 7 IEEE style pages in Camera-Ready form (will be published in the proceedings). RRR papers will be presented in Discussion Sessions. Authors of these papers are expected to bring with them to the conference a maximum of 10 pages describing their paper. These pages will be pinned to presentation boards during the Discussion Sessions. Please use large fonts so that the paper can be read from about 1.5 meter distance - any reasonable typesetting format is acceptable. Authors of RRR papers are expected to be present during these sessions to answer any questions that readers might have (scheduled times for Discussion Sessions will be emailed to you in June. Please note that you are still required to send us the Camera-Ready of your paper by the due date for publication in the post-conference proceedings. Your Camera-Ready paper should not exceed 7 IEEE style pages. SRP papers (Short Research Paper): Same as RRR papers (above) except SRP papers will be a maximum of 4 IEEE style pages in Camera-Ready form (will be published in the proceedings). PST papers (Poster Paper): Same as RRR papers (above) except PST papers will be a maximum of 2 IEEE style pages in Camera-Ready form (will be published in the proceedings). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 6 ====== From: "WSEAS Newsletter on BIOLOGY, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOINFORMATICS and BIOMEDICINE" Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:17:42 -0500 World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Conferences * COMPUTERS FOR BIOMEDICAL PURPOSES Special Session at 8th WSEAS International Conference on Computers, 12 - 15 July 2004, Vougliameni, Greece. Committee: Professor Yianni Attikiouzel, Murdoch University, Western Australia. Professor Martin Cala, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Youngstown State University, Ohio, U.S.A. Professor Lesley Cala, Australian Research Centre for Medical Engineering, Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia. 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