=============================================================================== CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 10, Number 10, December 1, 2010. Editor: Abba Gumel (gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENT --------------- Society News 1. Update on First Joint NAMIAM 2010 (Mexico) 2. CAIMS*SCMAI 2011 Elections: Call for Nominations Other News 3. Computational and Applied Mathematics Postdocs at SFU 4. Butler Memorial Conference on Differential Equations and Population Biology (Alberta) 5. Canada-China International Conference on the Dynamics of Climate Impact and Infectious Diseases (Nanjing, China) 6. CAIMS*SCMAI E-news Information = = = = Item 1 = = = = Update on First Joint NAMIAM 2010 (Bob Russell, Simon Fraser University) As you will hopefully recall from an earlier announcement CAIMS is, with its Mexican and U.S. counterparts the Mexican Mathematical Society and SIAM, organizing the First Joint North American Meeting on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, to be held at the Universidad del Mar in Huatulco, Mexico on December 8-10, 2010. The goal is to bring together applied mathematicians, computational scientists, and students with interdisciplinary interests, from Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Among its purposes is the enhancement and strengthening of the academic relations between the three counties with respect to applied and industrial mathematics. The meeting as planned by our Mexican colleagues is to be centred around a number of invited symposia, with their suggested topics being (1) Applied Probability and Statistics, (2) Numerical Analysis and Linear Algebra, (3) Optimization and Operation Research, (4) Biomathematics, (5) Oil, Weather and Geo-science Modeling, (6) Computational Fluid Dynamics, (7) Financial Mathematics and Economy, and (8) Inverse Problems and Control. The Canadians who have graciously agreed to coordinate CAIMS portion of these minisymposia are (1) David McDonald, (2) Chen Greif and Bob Russell, (3) Patrice Marcotte, (4) Michael Mackey, (5) Nicholas Kevalahan, (6) Eliot Fried, (7) Tom Salisbury, and (8) Uri Ascher and Huaxiong Huang. In addition, there will be a General Session taking place in parallel to these minisymposia and a Poster Session. It is hoped that CAIMS will be well-represented in all of these sessions, and CRM, Fields, MITACS and PIMS have all generously provided funding to help with travel expenses for Canadians. The conference is an ideal opportunity for you, your students and postdocs to highlight research activities and to learn about the state of the art in several active areas of industrial and applied mathematics within North America. You are strongly encouraged to participate. Unfortunately, there is little time before the deadline for submitting abstracts of June 27, 2010. For more information, visit the Conference web pages at: http://www.smm.org.mx/namiam10/home Thanks very much, Bob Russell for the Canadian Steering Committee (which also includes Uri Ascher, Barbara Keyfitz, and Michael Mackey) = = = = Item 2 = = = = CAIMS*SCMAI 2011 Election: Call for Nominations (Jianhong Wu, York University) CAIMS*SCMAI will be holding an election next winter (March 2011) for: * President-elect * Secretary * Two Members-at-Large on the Board of Directors to fill the positions to be vacated, respectively, by Jianhong Wu (who will become President during the 2011 Annual Meeting), Abba Gumel, Lucy Campbell and Rob Corless. 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, 2011. = = = = Item 3 = = = = Computational and Applied Mathematics Postdocs at SFU (Adam Oberman, Simon Fraser University) The Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University (in Vancouver, British Columbia) has a large and active Computational and Applied Mathematics group which is seeking applicants for one or more postdoctoral positions, starting May 1 (or Sept 1) 2011. Potential applicants should have a background compatible with the interests of the Computational and Applied Mathematics Faculty, see http://www.math.sfu.ca/nasc or http://www.math.sfu.ca/research/fluid_dynamics/. They should posses a doctorate (or equivalent) in the appropriate field of study by May 2011. Application materials should be sent via Mathjobs.org. These include: a letter of application, a current curriculum vitae, a research statement, three letters of reference. Applications received by December 1st will be eligible for nomination for Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) postdoc. Later applications will also be considered. = = = = Item 4 = = = = First Announcement and Call for Participation (Michael Li, University of Alberta) The 5th Geoffrey J. Butler Memorial Conference on Differential Equations and Population Biology July 25 – 30, 2011 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada The 5th G. J. Butler International Conference on Mathematical Biology and Differential Equations will be held on the University of Alberta campus, Edmonton, from July 25-30, 2011, shortly after the 2011 ICIAM meeting in Vancouver. This conference in the memory of our late colleague, Geoffrey James Butler, follows four highly successful previous such conferences. The Butler Speaker for 2011 will be Professor Jianhong Wu of York University, who will give three Butler Memorial Lectures throughout the conference. Previous Butler Speakers were Professors Paul Waltman, Jean Mahwin, Jack Hale, and Gail Wolkowicz. One-hour keynote lectures will be delivered by the following speakers: Arno Berger (Alberta) Gerda de Vries (Alberta) Josef Hofbauer (Vienna) Yang Kuang (Arizona State) Yuan Lou (Ohio State) Philip Maini (Oxford) Shigui Ruan (Miami) Yasuhiro Takeuchi (Japan) Horst Thieme (Arizona State) Wendi Wang (China) Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster) Yingfei Yi (Georgia Tech) The scientific scope of the Butler conference series covers two important fields of scientific research. The scope in differential equations covers ODEs, PDEs, FDEs, and abstract dynamical systems. The scope in population biology has grown from the traditional ecology to include epidemiology, physiology, cell biology, systems biology, immunology and other medical applications. By bringing together researchers from two interconnected disciplines, the Butler conference presents a unique opportunity to promote and nurture scientific exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration. There will be a proceedings of the conference published in the Canadian Applied Math Quarterly (CAMQ). All participants who present a paper at the conference are welcome to submit a paper containing original research or of a survey nature to be published in the Proceedings. The deadline for submission will be July 30, 2011. All papers will be refereed. For more information and online registration, please visit conference website: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~irl /butler.html On behalf of the Organizing and Scientific Committee, Michael Li Herb Freedman Hao Wang mli@math.ualberta.ca hfreedma@math.ualberta.ca hwang@math.ualberta.ca = = == Item 5 ===== Canada-China International Conference on the Dynamics of Climate Impact on Infectious Diseases (Huaiping Zhu, York University) Dec. 15-18, 2010 ,Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China It is expected that climate change would have a great impact on the emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, especially on vector-borne and waterborne diseases. It has also become increasingly clear that the dynamics which underpin related infectious diseases systems are inherently nonlinear and stochastic. Yet, while there has been significant progress and development in the theory of nonlinear dynamics and phenomena, much work remains to be done. The impacts of climate change on environment and health are still far from clear. In this conference we will address the impacts of climate change on disease vectors and hosts. This conference will act as a platform to foster further collaborations and networking among epidemiologists, mathematical modelers and health and public health personnel. We hope that the conference will provide a unique opportunity for accelerating international and interdisciplinary cooperation and fruitful research collaboration. The Dynamics of Climate Impact on Infectious Diseases conference is supported by Nanjing Normal University, China; Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Canada; Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) of Canada; Public Health Agency of Canada; MITACS Centre for Disease Modeling (CDM); LAMPS lab of York University; National Institute of Parasitic Diseases; and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This conference is the continuation of the previous one held in 2008 in Nanjing Normal University. For further information, visit the website: http://www.math.yorku.ca ~huaiping/conference/nanjing10/ = = = = Item 6 = = = = 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. The editorial policy of this publication is to encourage the discussion of issues and facilitate the dissemination of information relevant to Canadian applied and industrial mathematics. 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