----------------------------------------------------------------- CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 10, Number 6, July 15, 2010. Editor: Abba Gumel (gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENT --------------- Society News 1. CAIMS*SCMAI 2010 Annual Meeting 2. CAIMS*SCMAI Online Membership Application and Renewals Other News 3. News from Fields Institute 4. CAIMS*SCMAI E-news Information = = = = Item 1 = = = = CAIMS*SCMAI 2010 Annual Meeting (Serpil Kocabiyik and Sharene Bungay) 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 2 = = = = 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 3 = = = = News from the Fields Institute (by Carl Riehm) Some future activities which may be of interest to members of the CAIMS: - 2010 (Summer) Thematic Program on the Mathematics of Drug Resistance in Infectious Diseases. www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/10-11/drugresistance Weeks 1-2 (July 5-16): Theme Weeks on Emergence and Spread of Drug Resistance This two week block will open the thematic program, and will focus on introducing the mathematics of drug resistance, highlighting current modeling challenges and unresolved issues. First week: Short introductory course (3-4 hours); 4-day workshop on mathematics; 1 day workshop on applications Second week: Research Time (4-5 resident faculty); Friday Colloquium invited speakers include Marc Lipsitch and Ram Laxminarayan. Weeks 3-4 (July 19-30): Theme Weeks on Mathematical Immunology Sub-theme First week: Short introductory course (3-4 hours); 4-day workshop on mathematics; 1 day workshop on applications Second week: Research Time (4-5 resident faculty); Friday Colloquium Weeks 5-6 (Aug. 3-Aug. 13): Theme Weeks on Transmission Heterogeneity First week: Short introductory course (3-4 hours); 4-day workshop on mathematics; 1 day workshop on applications Second week: Research Time (4-5 resident faculty); Friday Colloquium Also, 1-day symposium in the Second Week: Spatio-temporal Patterns - 2011 (Winter/Spring) Thematic Program on Dynamics and Transport in Disordered Systems www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/10-11/disorderedsys The program will be divided into three parts each concentrated around a week long workshop: the topic of first part of the program (January, February) is stochastic processes and random walks, the second topic is the heat transport and Fourier law (March-April), and the third is instabilities in the Hamiltonian systems (roughly May-June). Some further Fields supported events: June 11,12, 2010 Workshop on Optimization and Data Analysis in Biomedical Informatics www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/CMM/09-10/biomedinfo June 17 - 19, 2010 14 International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/09-10/IME2010l June 22-26, 2010 6th World Congress of the Bachelier Society www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/09-10/bachelier July 3 – August 28, 2010 Fields-MITACS Undergraduate Summer Research Program This program will provide support for up to thirty undergraduate students to take part in research programs supervised by leading researchers from the Fields Institute sponsoring universities as well as visiting researchers at the Institute. It is planned to be the first in a continuing series of such summer undergradute programs. Out of town students accepted into the program will receive student residence housing on the campus of the University of Toronto from July 3 to August 28; financial support for travel to Toronto; a per diem for meals, and medical coverage for non-Canadian students during their stay. www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/10-11/summer-research July 4 - 6, 2010 Joint Fields - Perimeter Institute Workshop on Random Matrix Techniques in Quantum Information Theory www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Events/Random_Matrix_Techniques_in_Quantum_Information/ Random_Matrix_Techniques_in_Quantum_Information_Theory/ July 29-31, 2010 Workshop on Hybrid Dynamic Systems www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/10-11/hybridynamics August 9-13, 2010 Workshop on Fluid Motion Driven by Immersed Structures www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/10-11/fluid_motion August 12-15, 2010 CIAA 2010, 15th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/10-11/CIAA August 16-20, 2010 Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop (FMIPW10) www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/10-11/FMIPW10 August 18-21, 2010 Workshop on Approximations, Asymptotics and Resource Management for Stochastic Networks www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/10-11/networks September 26-29, 2010 Variability Round Table www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/CMM/10-11/variability October 9-10, 2010 RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/CMM/10-11/compgeonomics October, 2010 2010 IFID Conference on Lifecycle Theory www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/cim/10-11/lifecycle Dec. 8-10, 2010 First Joint North American Meeting on Industrial and Applied Mathematics SMM-SIAM-CAIMS www.smm.org.mx/namiam10 There are also regular seminars, such as - Centre for Mathematical Medicine Seminar Series - Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics - Toronto Quantum Information Seminars - Actuarial Science & Financial Mathematics Group Meetings - PRMIA Risk Management Seminars - Fields Industrial Optimization Seminar - Seminar Series on Quantitative Finance - Infectious Disease Epidemiology Afficionados Links to these seminars can be found at www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific Deadlines and information for proposals and financial assistance can be found at www.fields.utoronto.ca/proposals/ For more information on all activities at the Institute, please see www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/ To be informed directly of upcoming Scientific Activities, please subscribe to our emailing list at www.fields.utoronto.ca/maillist = = = = Item 4 = = = = 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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