CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 04 Number 4 August 18, 2004 Editor: Sue Ann Campbell (sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca) CONTENTS Society News 1. Free CAIMS*SCMAI memberships for new hires in Applied Math 2. Position Announcements in the CAIMS*SCMAI Publications 3.* CAIMS*SCMAI 2005 - University of Manitoba Conferences 4.* First International Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Applied Optimization, ICMSAO/05 5.* International Conference on Environmental Fluid Mechanics (ICEFM'05) 6.* 5th WSEAS International Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Biology and Chemistry 7.* International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2005) 8.* Twenty-Eighth Annual Texas Partial Differential Equations Conference 9.* IPSI BgD multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conferences 10.* European Conference for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology 11.* 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA 2005) 12. 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: Sue Ann Campbell Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:41:14 -0400 CAIMS*SCMAI has a new policy of giving free memberships to new hires in Applied Math. If your department has recently hired a new faculty member, please let us know their name and departmental mailing address, so that we can sign them up! Information may be sent to the CAIMS*SCMAI secretary, Sue Ann Campbell, sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 2 ====== From: Sue Ann Campbell Date: Tues, 17 Aug 2004 21:41:14 -0400 Position Announcements in the CAIMS*SCMAI Publications Please encourage your department to advertise position announcements in the CAIMS*SCMAI Publications. Our membership is diverse and our publications reach a different audience than those of other mathematical societies. Advertising rates are as follows: Enews - $50 (one free ad/year for Institutional Members) Newsletter - $300 for one page ad, $500 for ad on backcover (includes posting on the CAIMS*SCMAI web site) Web page - $100 Advertisements for the Fall Newsletter should be sent in electronic format to sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca by September 24, 2004. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 3 ====== From: "Inst. of Industrial Mathematical Sciences" Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:38:27 -0500 CAIMS*SCMAI 2005 June 16-18, 2005 University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba Themes * Dynamical Systems & Mathematical Biology * Signal Processing * Mathematics in Industry * Computational Mathematics * Bioinformatics * Pattern Recognition Organizing Committee Co-chairs: Abba Gumel and Rob McLeod Institute of Industrial Mathematical Sciences University of Manitoba Members: Richard Baumgartner Institute for Biodiagnostics National Research Council Canada Chris Bowman Institute for Biodiagnostics National Research Council Canada John Brewster Dept. of Statistics University of Manitoba Virginie Charette Dept. of Mathematics University of Manitoba Darryl Dormuth Atomic Energy of Canada Witold Kinsner Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Manitoba Kirill Kopotun Dept. of Mathematics University of Manitoba Alex Leblanc Dept. of Statistics University of Manitoba More information can be found at: www.umanitoba.ca/institutes/iims/caims2005.shtml En francais: www.umanitoba.ca/institutes/iims/caims2005fr.shtml A poster is attached. Please feel free to post. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 4 ====== Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 07:56:39 +0400 From: "I. Kucuk ICMSAO-05" ICMSAO'05 FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODELING, SIMULATION, AND APPLIED OPTIMIZATION February 1 - 3, 2005 American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Call for Papers The ICMSAO'05 will provide a forum where engineers, scientists, and mathematicians from academia and industry can meet to share ideas of latest research work in all branches of Science and Engineering involving the modeling and simulation of processes and systems. The conference will be held on February 1 - 3, 2005 at the American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE. Sharjah is 20 minutes from Dubai which is the home of the Dubai Shopping Festival, the largest in the gulf area that will be organized at the same time as the conference. Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts on topics related to, but not limited to, the following topics: - Statistical and probabilistic Modeling - Modeling and identification - Industrial Mathematics - Optimal Control - Structural Optimization - Applications of Optimization - Simulation Tools and Languages - Communications and Networking - Neural Networks and Fuzzy logic - Manufacturing - Medical and Bioengineering - Coding and Cryptography - Numerical methods - Modeling and Control in Smart Materials - Optimization Theory - Optimization Algorithms - Stochastic Optimization - Web-based Simulation - Power Systems - Artificial Intelligence - Robotics - Mechatronics A number of leading researchers in the field of simulation, modeling, and optimization will be invited to deliver keynote lectures. Prospective authors should submit a 300-word Abstract by e-mail to icmsao@ausharjah.edu. The Abstract should clearly state the objectives, results and conclusions of the work undertaken and emphasize the novel aspects of the work. Contact information and affiliation of the corresponding author must be included. Papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings. A six-page camera-ready manuscript of accepted papers should be submitted by the deadline mentioned below. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of The Journal of Franklin Institute. Proposals for half-day (3 -hour) tutorials are solicited in areas related to the conference scope. Proposals should include the topic, expected background of participants, objectives, a short summary, and qualifications of the instructor(s). IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Abstracts: 30 August, 2004 Submission of tutorial proposal: 30 August, 2004 Notification of acceptance: 30 September, 2004 Submission of six-page camera-ready manuscripts: 30 November, 2004 30 Early Registration before: December, 2004 Submission of selected papers to J. of the Franklin Institute: 15 May, 2005 Registration Fee Early (by Dec. 30): $300 On-Site: $325 Students: $140 General Chairman I. Sadek (UAE) Technical Program Chairs M. El -Tarhuni (UAE) M. Anabtawi (UAE) Organizing Committee I. Kucuk (UAE) J. Abdalla (UAE) M. Jarrah (UAE) International Advisory Board S. Adali (South Africa) J. Banasiak (South Africa) H. Banks (USA) M. Bendsoe (Denmark) M. Bennamoun (Australia) J. Bruch, Jr. (USA) A. Cherkaev (USA) A. El-Keib (USA) A. Ghrayeb (Canada) G. Ladde, (USA) X. Liu (Canada) Z. Nashed (USA) M. Obaidat (USA) N. Olhoff (Denmark) P. Papalambros (USA) G. Di Pillo (Italy) G. Rozvany (Hungary) S. Satharanthan (USA) A. Seeger (France) Y. Yuan (China) ICMSAO'05 is organized jointly with the Fifth International Conference on Composite Science and Technology (ICCST/5) that will be held at the same time and venue as ICMSAO'05. One registration fee covers both conferences. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CHECK THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE AT http://www.ausharjah.edu/media/icmsao/ OR CONTACT THE CONFERENCE CHAIR AT sadek@ausharjah.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 5 ====== Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:23:38 +0530 (IST) From: Swaroop Nandan Bora INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS (ICEFM'05) March 3 - March 5, 2005 Organized by Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India in cooperation with SIAM VENUE: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, India TOPICS: Atmospheric and oceanic flows, flow over complex terrains, e.g. hills, wind breaks etc., two and multiphase flows, flow in porous media, flow in continental water bodies, e.g. lakes, rivers, reservoirs etc., any other topic related to environmental fluid mechanics. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Extended Abstract Submission: 15th September 2004 Notification of Acceptance: 15th October 2004 Submission of Camera-ready Full Paper: 30th November 2004 Acceptance of Papers after Revision: 15th January 2005 Registration: 20th December 2004 Late Registration: 15th January 2005 REGISTRATION FEES: before 20th Dec. after 20th Dec. Foreign Delegate US $250 US $300 Accompanying Person US $200 US $250 Registration fees include food and lodging, transfer from and to the airport, conference kit, proceedings, conference dinner. ADVISORY COMMITTEE: N.G. Bhowmik: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA P.C. Chatwin: University of Sheffield, UK Vincent H. Chu: McGill University, Montreal, Canada A.S. Gupta: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India Murli M. Gupta: The George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA Derek B. Ingham: University of Leeds, UK Girija Jayaraman: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Daniel D. Joseph: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Ko-Fei Liu: National Taiwan University, Taiwan B.S. Mazumdar: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Robert N. Meroney: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA Yasutaka Nagano: Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan Roddam Narasimha: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India S. Pal Arya: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA Rashmi S. Patil: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India W. Rodi: University of Karlsruhe, Germany M. Rahman: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada B.R. Sehgal: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden P.J. Sullivan: University of Western Ontario, London, Canada T.G. Theofanous: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Zhao-Yin Wang: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Organizers: DC Dalal (Convener), SN Bora (Organizing Secretary), JC Kalita (Secretary, Academic Programme), S Natesan (Treasurer) For more information contact SN Bora: Email: swaroop@iitg.ernet.in Phone: +91 361 258 2604 (Office), 258 4604/ 269 1117 (Residence) Fax: +91 361 269 0762 CONFERENCE HOME PAGE: http://www.iitg.ernet.in/scifac/maths/public_html/conference/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 6 ====== From: WSEAS Biology Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 02:12:40 -0700 Dear Colleague, We would like to invite you to organize a Session (ABSOLUTELY FREE participation for Successful Session Organizers) in the: 5th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS in BIOLOGY and CHEMISTRY (WSEAS MCBC 2004) (Venice, Italy, November 15-17, 2004) The papers of these Invited Sessions will be also published in the WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine Please, note that the WSEAS conference in Vouliagmeni (Athens, July 2004) attracted more than 800 papers (the anticipated number was 600). The WSEAS conferences in Corfu (Greece) attracted approximately 600 papers (the anticipated number was only 400). Please, note also that WSEAS Publications participate in all the major science citation indexes. ISI, ELSEVIER, CSA, AMS. Mathematical Reviews, ELP, NLG, Engineering Index Directory of the Published Proceedings, INSPEC (IEE) Contact the WSEAS for details (via the WSEAS web site) or the local committee via: wseas_bio@mail.gr (the subject of your email must write: WSEAS Biology) The 5th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY will take place in a luxurious hotel in Venice (Italy) where WSEAS succeeded in having special prices (75 EUR /night) Please, send immediately to the WSEAS now your proposals for Special Sessions in all branches of: * BIOENGINEERING * MOLECULAR BIOLOGY * MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY * BIOCHEMISTRY * BIOPHYSICS * COMPUTER BIOLOGY * BIOLOGICAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS * BIOINFORMATICS and BIOCOMPUTING Send your proposal to us: wseas_bio@mail.gr or via the WSEAS web site. (the subject of your email must write: WSEAS Biology) DEADLINES: Deadline for paper submission: September 10, 2004 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: September 30, 2004 Other Relevant WSEAS Conferences on Biology ************************************************ 2005 WSEAS International Conference on: MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY and ECOLOGY (MABE '05) Udine, Italy, January 20-22, 2005 ************************************************ 6th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY with special emphasis on: BIOENGINEERING MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY BIOPHYSICS COMPUTER BIOLOGY BIOLOGICAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS Buenos Ayres, Argentina, March 1-3, 2005 ************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 7 ====== From: ICCS 2005 Conference Secretariat Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:01:39 +0200 (CEST) ****************************************************** * ICCS 2005 * International Conference on Computational Science * Atlanta, U.S.A. * May 22-25, 2005 * * http://www.iccs-meeting.org/ * ****************************************************** You are invited to submit a paper and/or a proposal to organize a workshop at ICCS 2005, Altanta, USA, May 22-25, 2005. Please see http://www.iccs-meeting.org/ for more information. ICCS 2005 is the fifth in the series of highly successful conferences: ICCS 2004 in Krakow, Poland; ICCS 2003 held simultaneously in Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia, ICCS 2002 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and ICCS 2001 in San Francisco, USA. The theme for ICCS 2005 in Atlanta, USA, is "Advancing Science through Computation", to mark several decades of progress in computational science theory and practice, leading to greatly improved applications science. This conference will be a unique event focusing on recent developments in scientific algorithms, software tools, computational grids, advanced numerical methods, and novel application areas such as complex systems, finance, econo-physics and others. We look forward to welcoming you to this exciting event! ---------------------------------- The ICCS 2005 Proceedings will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Important dates: ---------------- Proposals for Workshops November 1, 2004 Full papers submission December 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance of papers January 31, 2005 Camera ready papers February 14, 2005 Early registration March 30, 2005 Contact: -------- iccs2005@mathcs.emory.edu Vaidy Sunderam....... Scientific Chair Dick van Albada...... Workshop Chair Jack Dongarra........ Overall Co-chair Peter M.A. Sloot..... Overall Chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 8 ====== From: Andras Balogh Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:48:36 -0500 (CDT) Dear Colleague, I would like to announce the following conference and kindly invite all the interested researchers at your organization. Twenty-Eighth Annual Texas Partial Differential Equations Conference, March 19-20, 2005, The University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, Texas. Conference link: http://www.math.panam.edu/txpde05.html Sincerely, ================ Andras Balogh --------------------------------------------------------------------- Department of Mathematics | phone: (956) 381-2119 University of Texas - Pan American | phone: (956) 381-3452 Edinburg, TX 78541-2999 | fax: (956) 384-5091 http://www.math.panam.edu/abalogh | abalogh@panam.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 9 ====== From: IPSI-2005 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:32:43 +0200 Dear potential Speaker: This is an invitation for you to attend two IPSI BgD multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conferences, one in Hawaii, and one in Amalfi, as follows: IPSI-2005 HAWAII Big Island Hawaii (arrival: 06.01.2005. departure: 09.01.2005.) Deadlines: 1 October 2004 (abstract) + 30 October 2004 (full paper) IPSI-2005 AMALFI Amalfi, Italy (arrival: 17.02.2005. departure: 20.02.2005.) Deadlines: 17 October 2004 (abstract) + 7 December 2004 (full papers) All IPSI BgD conferences are non-profit! They bring together the elite of the world science (so far, 7 times a Nobel Laureate was talking at the opening ceremony), and they take place in the leading hotels of the world. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet, Computer Science and Engineering, Management and Business Administration, Education, e-Medicine, Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, Environment Protection, and e-Economy. These conferences are in line with the newest recommendations of NSF and EU to stress multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research, and truly support this type of scientific interaction. Sincerely Yours, Prof. V. Milutinovic, Chairman PS - If you plan to submit an abstract/paper, let us know immediately. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 10 ======= From: Sue Ann Campbell Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 07:46:17 -0400 (EDT) FIRST CALL: ECMTB05, Dresden, Germany, July 18-22, 2005 Dear colleague, we are glad to announce the forthcoming ECMTB05: European Conference for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Dresden, Germany, July 18-22, 2005 www.ecmtb05.org ECMTB brings together scientists from all over the world and will be THE event in 2005 to communicate the recent advances in mathematical and theoretical biology with a focus on ten selected key topics * Cellular biophysics * Regulatory networks * Development * Neural systems and the brain * Evolution and ecology * Immune system * Biomedical applications * Biotechnology * Innovative mathematical methods * Inter-disciplinary education The main conference goal is to show that mathematical and computational approaches are absolutely essential to solving central problems in the life sciences, ranging from the organizational level of individual cells to the dynamics of whole populations. Another important goal is to provide a forum for young researchers by encouraging them to present their work and learn from others in the field. Applications are now invited for contributed talks and poster presentations. In addition, researchers are encouraged to submit proposals for mini-symposia. Submission deadlines are December 1, 2004 for mini-symposia and February 1, 2005 for contributed talks and posters. The conference will also feature selected exhibits by related companies. ECMTB05 is the sixth tri-annual conference of ESMTB and the annual meeting of SMB. You find all relevant information (including scientific committee, invited speakers and application forms) on the conference webpage www.ecmtb05.org which is now online. Best regards Andreas Deutsch (in the name of the local ecmtb05 team) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 11 ======= From: Sue Ann Campbell Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 07:46:17 -0400 (EDT) ICANNGA 2005 - 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms to be held at University of Coimbra, Portugal, March 21st to 23rd, 2005 ICANNGA05 Web page: http://icannga05.dei.uc.pt/ C A L L F O R P A P E R S The focus of ICANNGA is on both the theoretical aspects and also on the practical applications of computational paradigms inspired by adaptive and natural processes, with special emphasis on adaptive and machine learning systems, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy systems, support vector machines, biological computation and quantum computing. It is expected that the conference will be preceded by a day of tutorials on 20th March 2005. SCOPE Contributions are sought in the following topic areas list, which is not exhaustive: - Neural Networks: architectures, algorithms, learning theory, approximation, complexity, biological foundations,computational neuroscience, neurodynamics, associative memory, cognitive science, neurocognition, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, kernel learning, support vector machines, independent component analysis - Evolutionary Computation: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, biological computation, classifier systems, artificial life, artificial immune systems, particle swarm intelligence, evolution strategies, ant colony optimization, swarm intelligence, evolvable hardware - Soft Computing: fuzzy systems, fuzzy dynamical systems, uncertain systems, hybrid systems, neuro-fuzzy controllers, genetic learning of neural networks, embedded computing for intelligent systems, real-time computational intelligence, probabilistic computing, chaotic computing, machine learning - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: molecular computing, DNA computing, bioinformatics databases, computational genomics, computational proteomics, clustering, mapping gene expression and micro arrays, gene identification and annotation, molecular evolution, molecular sequence analysis, protein structure - Quantum Computing: quantum control, supercomputing, autonomic computing, data mining of scientific data, grid computing, advanced algorithms - Applications: medicine, prediction of atmospheric pollution and weather forecasting, quantitative socio-dynamics, pattern recognition, signal processing, control, simulation, robotics, transport, defence, security, environment, finance and business, data mining and Intelligent databases, speech recognition and natural language, intelligence image processing and computer vision The official conference language is English. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (Vienna) following the tradition of its predecessors. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission of tutorials and invited session proposals: 30th July 2004 - Submission of draft papers: 15th September 2004 - Notification of acceptance: 15th November 2004 - Delivery of camera-ready papers: 15th December 2004 - Conference dates: 21st, 22nd and 23rd, March 2005 SECRETARIAT For further information please contact: Paula Mano (Secretariat) Department of Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra, Polo II 3030-290 Coimbra - Portugal Fax: (+351) 239 701266 Email: icannga05@dei.uc.pt Web site: http://icannga05.dei.uc.pt/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 12 ======= 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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