--------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 09, Number 6, October 5, 2009 Editor: Abba Gumel (gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENT Society News: --------------- 1. CAIMS*SCMAI 2010 Elections: Call for Nominations 2. CAIMS*SCMAI 2010 Annual Meeting Other News: ------------- 3. Position for Deputy Director, Fields Institute 4. Tenure Track Position at McGill University 5. Some Upcoming Activities at PIMS 6. Computational Optimization, Modeling and Simulation (COMS 2010, Amsterdam) 7. Waves Phenomenon IV: University of Alberta 2010 8. Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh Prize 9. CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information = = = = Item 1 = = = = CAIMS*SCMAI 2010 Election: Call for Nominations (by Jianhong Wu) CAIMS*SCMAI will be holding an election next winter (March 2010) for: * Treasurer * Two Members-at-Large on the Board of Directors to fill the positions to be vacated, respectively, by Paul Muir, Dhavide Aruliah and Ian Frigaard. All members of CAIMS/SCMAI are invited to suggest names of candidates for these offices. Nominations should reach the Chair of the Nominations Committee, Jianhong Wu by January 15, 2010. = = = = Item 2 = = = = 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 3 = = = = Position for Deputy Director, Fields Institute This is a call for applications or nominations for the position of Deputy Director of the Fields Institute for a term of three to five years beginning July 1, 2010. The deputy director works closely with the director on all aspects of the Institute's oversight and program development. Qualified candidates should be mathematical scientists with good management skills, an excellent research record, and a strong interest in developing the programs of the Institute. Women and members of under-represented groups are encouraged to apply. In the past, this position has been filled by a mathematical scientist seconded from a local university, but we are also open to other strategies, such as using this as an opportunity to recruit new faculty to Ontario. Inquiries can be addressed to any member of the search committee: Edward Bierstone (bierston@fields.utoronto.ca), Tom Salisbury (salt@pascal.math.yorku.ca) and Mary Thompson (methomps@uwaterloo.ca) A brief letter of application or nomination and a CV should be sent to: Edward Bierstone, Director The Fields Institute 222 College Street, 2nd floor Toronto, Ontario Canada M5T 3J1 For more information visit www.fields.utoronto.ca = = = = Item 4 = = = = Tenure Track Position at McGill University The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University invites applications for a tenure-track position in applied mathematics. While appointments are expected to be made at the Assistant Professor level, more senior applicants would be considered. The appointment is expected to be in numerical analysis within the broad area of differential equations and scientific computing. Applicants should have expertise in both analytical and computational aspects, and an active interest in problems driven by applications. Candidates must have a doctoral degree at the date of appointment and a strong background in mathematics. They are expected to have demonstrated the capacity for independent research of excellent quality. Selection criteria include research accomplishments, as well as potential contributions to the Department's educational programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Applications should be made through MathJobs.Org (Position ID: McGill-APNUM) and must include a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a research outline, a teaching statement which includes an account of teaching experience, and at least four references (with one addressing the teaching record). Candidates are also encouraged to provide web links for up to three selected reprints or preprints, or to upload them to MathJobs.Org. Candidates must ensure that letters of reference are submitted (preferably through mathjobs.org, though in exceptional circumstances they may be mailed to Professor A.R. Humphries, Applied Mathematics Search Committee, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke St. W. Montreal, QC H3A 2K6, Canada). To ensure full consideration, complete applications including letters of reference should be received by 8th January 2010, but later applications may be considered. McGill University is committed to equity in employment and diversity. It welcomes applications from indigenous peoples, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, women, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities and others who may contribute to further diversification. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. = = = = Item 5 = = = = Some Upcoming Activities at PIMS 2009 Pacific Northwest Numerical Analysis Seminar http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/general-event/2009-pacific-northwest-numerical-analysis-seminar West Coast Optimization Meeting http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/general-event/2009-west-coast-optimization-meeting Wave Phenomena IV: Waves in Fluids from the Microscopic to the Planetary Scale http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~waves/ Summer School on Computer Models and Geophysical Risk Analysis: To be scheduled in August 2010. = = = = Item 6 = = = = Computational Optimization, Modelling and Simulation (COMS 2010) Amsterdam, May 31-June 2, 2010 The workshop "Computational Optimization, Modelling and Simulation (COMS 2010)" will be a part of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2010). It intends to provide a forum and foster discussion on the cross-disciplinary research and development in computational optimization, computer modeling and simulations. It will focus on new optimization algorithms, new trends, and latest developments in numerical techniques as well as application studies of optimization in science, engineering and industry. Topics include (but not limited to): - Computational optimization; - Engineering optimization and design; - Optimization of computationally expensive objective functions; - Surrogate- and knowledge-based optimization algorithms; - Integrated approach to optimization and simulation; - Multiobjective optimization; - New optimization algorithms; - New modelling techniques related to optimization; - Application case studies. Scientific Program Committee: - D. Echeverría, Stanford University, USA - Z. W. Geem, IGlobal University, USA - L. Leifsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland - R. S. Parpinelli, University of Santa Catarina State, Brazil - B. Protas, McMaster University, Canada - J. Sklenar, University of Malta, Malta - Q. J. Zhang, Carleton University, Canada Selected papers will be considered for a post-conference special issue of Int. J. Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimization (IJMMNO), to be published in Nov 2010 (Vol. 1, No. 4). Authors wishing to have their contribution considered for the workshop should submit the paper before January 1, 2010, using the online submission system of the ICCS 2010 conference (select "Computational Optimization, Modeling and Simulation (COMS 2010)" in the "Workshop" field). Information about paper format and submission procedure can be found on the conference website at http://www.iccs-meeting.org/. Workshop organizers: Dr. Xin-She Yang Mathematical and Scientific Computing National Physical Lab Teddington, London TW11 1LW England E-mail: xin-she.yang@npl.co.uk Slawomir Koziel Engineering Optimization & Modeling Center School of Science and Engineering Reykjavik University Kringlunni 1 IS-103 Reykjavik, Iceland E-mail: koziel@ru.is ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bartosz Protas Department of Mathematics & Statistics McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8S 4K1 Phone: +1 (905) 525 9140 ext. 24116 Fax: +1 (905) 522 0935 Email: bprotas@mcmaster.ca URL: www.math.mcmaster.ca/bprotas = = = = Item 7 = = = = Wave Phenomena IV: Waves in fluids from the microscopic to the planetary scale University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, June 14-18, 2010 Dear Colleagues, The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, University of Alberta, and the Applied Mathematics Institute are pleased to announce that Wave Phenomena IV: Waves in Fluids from the Microscopic to the Planetary Scale will be held June 14th - 18th, 2010 on the campus of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, CANADA. This conference is another in the highly successful series of Wave Phenomena meetings held in 1983,1992, and 2001. The 19 plenary speakers are: Mark Ablowitz, Dept. Applied Mathematics, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO David Benney, Department of Mathematics, MIT,` Cambridge, MA John Bush, Department of Mathematics, MIT,` Cambridge, MA Roberto Camassa, Department of Mathematics, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC Colm-cille Caulfield, BP Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Hsueh-Chia Chang, Dept. Chemical and Biomolecular Eng., U. Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN Richard Craster, Dept. Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, U. Alberta, Edmonton, AB Roger Grimshaw, Dept. Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK Darryl Holm, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, London, UK Tom Hou, Applied Mathematics, CalTech, Pasadena, CA Paul Linden, Dept. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD, San Diego, CA Chris Linton, School of Mathematics, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK John Lister, Dept. Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Andrew Majda, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU New York, NY Alan Newell, Dept. of Mathematics, U. Arizona, Tucson, AZ Richard Peltier, Dept. Physics, U. Toronto, Toronto, ON Colin Rogers, Dept. Mathematics, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Harvey Segur, Dept. Applied Mathematics, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO Patrick Weidman, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO For further information about Abstract submission, Registration and Accommodation visit the conference URL: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~waves/ Sincerely, Conference organizers: Bryant Moodie bmoodie@ualberta.ca Andrew Bush andrew.bush@ualberta.ca Richard Craster craster@ualberta.ca Bruce Sutherland bruce.sutherland@ualberta.ca Gordon Swaters gordon.swaters@ualberta.ca = = = = Item 8 = = = = Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh Prize The English version follows the French one Cher ami, chere amie Le Prix « Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh » est créé pour que la mémoire de notre collègue reste vivante et pour poursuivre son engagement en faveur des mathématiques en Afrique. Il sera attribué tous les ans à un jeune mathématicien ou une jeune mathématicienne d'Afrique subsaharienne par un comité scientifique mis en place par le CIMPA. Il financera un séjour scientifique de quelques mois. Nous sommes plus de 3000 à avoir signé la Pétition sur « Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh ». Nous espérons que nous seront nombreux à participer à la souscription internationale permettant de mettre en place le Prix « Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh ». Vous pouvez contribuer à la souscription sur le site http://smf.emath.fr/SouscriptionSaleh/ Vous pouvez aussi diffuser l'information sur le prix, l'appel à candidatures est ouvert jusqu'au 15 novembre. http://smf.emath.fr/SouscriptionSaleh/candidatures.html Amities Aline Bonami, Alain Godinot, Marie-Francoise Roy ********* Dear friend, The Prize "Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh" is created in memory of our colleague and to continue its commitment to Mathematics in Africa. The prize will be awarded annually to a young mathematician from subsaharan Africa by a scientific committee set up by ICPAM. It will fund a scientific visit. There are more than 3000 of us who have signed the Petition on "Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh". We hope that there will be many of us contributing to the international subscription for the Prize "Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh". You can contribute to the subscription at the web site http://smf.emath.fr/en/SouscriptionSaleh/ You can also disseminate the information about the prize, the call for candidates is opened until 15 November. http://smf.emath.fr/en/SouscriptionSaleh/candidatures.html Best wishes Aline Bonami, Alain Godinot, Marie-Francoise Roy = = = = Item 9 = = = = 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). Past issues are available on the web at http://www.caims.ca/Society/pub.html Submissions are welcome and should be sent in plain text format to: Abba Gumel, CAIMS-SCMAI Secretary, Email: gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Board or Membership of CAIMS*SCMAI. 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