CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 03 Number 1 January 17, 2003 Editor: Sue Ann Campbell (sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca) CONTENTS Society News: 1. Membership renewal reminder 2. 2002 CAIMS*SCMAI Doctoral Dissertation Award - Call for Nominations 3. 2003 CAIMS*SCMAI Research Prize - Call for Nominations 4.* CAIMS*SCMAI 2003 in Montreal - Joint with the SIAM Annual Meeting -- Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 23, 2003 -- 5. CAIMS*SCMAI 2004 in Halifax - Joint with the CMS Summer Meeting 6. Update on ICIAM 2003 - Deadline for submission of abstracts and minisymposium proposals: January 31, 2003 News from the Institutes: 7. Second Annual Summer School of the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences Conferences: 8.* Seventh Colloquium on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations 9.* Twelfth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2003 10.* Workshop: "Modelling and Computers in Cancer Therapy" 11.* Conference on Problem Solving Environments and the Information Society: Advanced Environments and Tools for High Performance Computing. 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, 14 Jan 2003 15:35:40 +0000 Just a gentle reminder to renew your CAIMS*SCMAI membership if you haven't done so already. A few things to note: * It is now possible to pay your membership fee using Mastercard or Visa. * Membership forms are available on the web at http://www.caims.ca/Society/subscribe.html Just down-load it, fill it in and mail it to: Dr. M. Foreman Treasurer, CAIMS*SCMAI Institute of Ocean Science P.O. Box 6000 Sidney BC V8L 4B2 * Wondering what to do with the rest of your Professional Development Allowance? Why not take out a lifetime membership in CAIMS*SCMAI? Its only $600. * Retired members: Lifetime membership is only $240! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 2 ====== From: stockie@unb.ca Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:29:29 +0000 2002 CAIMS Doctoral Dissertation Award Dear Colleague, On behalf of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, I would like to bring to your attention the "Doctoral Dissertation Award" competition for the year 2002. The Award is meant to recognize an outstanding PhD thesis in Applied Mathematics that is defended at a Canadian university during the calendar year 2002. The award consists of a trophy, monetary prize, and a free society membership. The winner will also be invited to present a plenary talk at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Society to be held in Montreal (see http://www.siam.org/meetings/an03/index.htm). This year's meeting is also the first joint meeting between CAIMS and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Details of the award competition, judging, and nomination requirements are available on the CAIMS web page at http://www.caims.ca/Awards/DDaward.html The deadline for completed applications is January 31, 2003. Please pass on this information to your eligible graduate students, as well as any of your colleagues who you think might have students who would be excellent candidates for the award. Yours sincerely, John Stockie Coordinator, CAIMS Doctoral Dissertation Award (2002) Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of New Brunswick P.O. Box 4400 Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3 Canada email: stockie@unb.ca phone: (506) 458-7324 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 3 ====== From: peirce@math.ubc.ca Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:30:30 +0000 2003 CAIMS*SCMAI Research Prize - Call for Nominations The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society solicits nominations for the CAIMS Research Prize. The recipient of the award will be selected based on her/his innovative research contributions in an emerging area of applied or industrial mathematics. Eligible nominees should hold a permanent position within Canada or be a CAIMS member of at least four years standing. Nominations should reach: Anthony Peirce Department of Mathematics #121-1984 Mathematics Road Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2 peirce@math.ubc.ca no later than January 31, 2003 and should include four copies of each of: a title for the nomination designating research contributions in a specific area; a summary of the contributions in the form of a five-line press release; a detailed description (no longer than two pages) of the research contributions of the nominee in the specified area; a CV including the list of publications; and four reprints. A prize of $1,000 and a commemorative plaque will be presented to the recipient at the CAIMS Annual Meeting. The recipient will be invited to give a plenary lecture at the CAIMS Annual Meeting in the year of the award. CAIMS will provide a travel allowance of $500. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 4 ====== CAIMS*SCMAI 2003 June 16-20, 2003 Fairmont, Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal joint with the SIAM 2003 Annual Meeting ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Canadian Chair: Jacques Belair, Universite de Montreal * U.S. Chair: Ilse Ipsen, North Carolina State University Members: Anne Bourlioux, Universite de Montreal Russel Caflisch, University of California, Los Angeles Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Cornell University Carolyn Cho, Physiome Sciences Claude Crepeau, McGill University Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston Norden E. Huang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center William Newman, University of California, Los Angeles George Papanicolaou, Stanford University Robert Russell, Simon Fraser University Sam Shen, University of Alberta CONFERENCE THEMES * Fluid Dynamics * Environment * Mathematical Biology * Nanosciences * Quantum Computing * Numerical Methods INVITED SPEAKERS Invited Plenary Speakers * Michel Delfour Universite de Montreal, Canada * Raymond Laflamme Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada * Eli Yablonovitch University of California, Los Angeles Invited Topical Speakers * Walter Craig McMaster University, Canada * Ary L. Goldberger Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center * James F. Kaiser Duke University * Suzanne Lenhart University of Tennessee * Mark Lewis University of Alberta, Canada * William A. Massey Princeton University * James C. McWilliams University of California, Los Angeles * Nico M. Temme CWI, Netherlands Von Neumann Lecturer Heinz-Otto Kreiss University of California, Los Angeles DEADLINE DATES * Minisymposium proposals: January 3, 2003 * Minisymposium abstracts and contributed abstracts: January 23, 2003 * Contributed papers in lecture or poster format: January 23, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 5 ====== From: Paul Muir Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:56:34 -0400 (AST) June 2004 will be an excellent time to be an applied mathematician and an excellent time for an applied mathematician to be in Halifax, Nova Scotia! Planning began over six months ago for a joint annual meeting involving the CAIMS/SCMAI, the Canadian Mathematical Society, and the Canadian Symposium for Fluid Dynamics to be held June 13,14,15, 2004, hosted by Dalhousie University. The themes for the meeting will include: Non-linear dynamics in Biology and Medicine Mathematics and the Web Fluid Dynamics Numerical algorithms for differential equations and dynamical systems Applications of Invariant Theory to Differential Geometry Topos Theory Algebra In addition, MITACS (Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems) (www.mitacs.ca) will be holding its annual meeting at Dalhousie on the preceding three days, June 10,11,12, 2004. Further information will be available in the near future from the CAIMS/SCMAI website, (www.caims.ca, www.scmai.ca). Co-organizers: Richard Wood, Pat Keast (Dalhousie University), Paul Muir (Saint Mary's University) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 6 ====== From: Sue Ann Campbell Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:06:40 +0000 Update on ICIAM 2003 July 7-11, 2003, Sydney Australia ** Registration is available at http://www.iciam.org/ *** It is not too late to organize a minisymposium! Late proposals are accepted until January 31. Guidelines on how to prepare and submit a minisymposium proposal can be found by going to www.iciam.org and clicking on "Minisymposia". Submission deadlines * 31 January 2003 - late submission date for minisymposium proposals; - deadline for minisymposium abstract submissions; - late submission date for abstracts for contributed talks; - final deadline for abstract submissions to poster sessions. Registration categories (Regular/Student rate) (At time of writing, AUD 1 = CAD 0.90) * 7 March 2003 deadline for regular registration fee (AUD 715/AUD 297) (Beware: speakers not yet registered will have their talks rejected.) * 20 June 2003 deadline for late registration fee (AUD 825/AUD 352) (on-site registrations will still be accepted for all delegates.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 7 ====== From: "Edgar G. Goodaire" Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:47:33 -0330 The second annual Summer School of the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences will take place at Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, from July 21 through August 15, 2003. The school is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduate students from around the world. While most students are expected to cover their own transportation costs, all expenses in St. John's will be covered by the school (accommodation, meals, textbooks). There are no registration fees. This year, we are planning courses in cryptography, financial mathematics, mathematical biology and partial differential equations. An advanced workshop in financial mathematics will take place immediately after the School. For more information, or to express interest in enrolling, contact edgar@math.mun.ca or visit http://www.math.mun.ca/~aarms/summerschools/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 8 ====== From: Geza Makay Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:50:24 +0100 Dear Colleagues, The Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged is organizing the Seventh Colloquium on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Szeged, Hungary, July 14-18, 203). If you are interested in participating in our Colloquium, then please register on the WWW page http://www.math.u-szeged.hu/confer/qtdifequ/ On behalf of the Organizing Committee: Sincerely yours, Tibor Krisztin Chairman of the Organizing Committee ------------------------------------ Scientific Committee: K. Balla, M. Farkas, B. Garay, I. Gyori, L. Hatvani, T. Krisztin, R. Kersner, M. Ronto, L. Simon Organizing Committee: M. Bartha, L. Hatvani, J. Hegedus, J. Karsai, T. Krisztin, G. Makay, J. Terjeki Mailing address: Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged Aradi vertanuk tere 1., H-6720, Szeged, Hungary Fax: +36 62 544-548 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 9 ====== From: Erik De Schutter Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:59:05 +0100 CALL FOR PAPERS: APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 16, 2003 midnight Twelfth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2003 July 5 - July 9, 2003 Alicante, Spain http://www.neuroinf.org/CNS.shtml Info at cp@bbf.uia.ac.be CNS*2003 will be held in Alicante from Saturday, July 5, 2003 to Wednesday, July 9. The main meeting will be July 5 - 7 at the Hotel Melia (poster sessions) and at the CAM Cultural Center (oral presentations). The main meeting consists of 6 oral sessions (one each morning and afternoon) and 3 early evening poster sessions. Workshops will be held at the University Miguel Hernandez (Medical School Campus) July 8 - 9. New is that some workshops will be mini-symposia or tutorials, a list of currently planned workshops can be found at the website. The conference dinner will take place in the Santa Barbara castle overlooking the city and the sea on Sunday, July 6. For tourist information see http://www.alicanteturismo.com, more specific practical information will be made available through the conference website. Papers can include experimental, model-based, as well as more abstract theoretical approaches to understanding neurobiological computation. We especially encourage papers that mix experimental and theoretical studies. We also accept papers that describe new technical approaches to theoretical and experimental issues in computational neuroscience or relevant software packages. The paper submission procedure is again completely electronic this year. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers for the meeting can be submitted ONLY through the web site at http://www.neuroinf.org/CNS.shtml Electronic paper submission will be opened mid January. Papers can be submitted either as a 1000 word summary or as a full paper (max 6 typeset pages). Full papers stand a better chance of being accepted for oral presentation. You will need to submit the paper in pdf format (if necessary Elsevier can help in converting your paper to pdf) and the 100 word abstract as text. You will also need to select two categories which describe your paper and which will guide the selection of reviewers. In addition we encourage you to also submit your paper to the Elsevier preprint server (http://www.computersciencepreprints.com). All submissions will be acknowledged by email. THE REVIEW PROCESS All submitted papers will be first reviewed by the program committee. Papers will be judged and accepted for the meeting based on the clarity with which the work is described and the biological relevance of the research. For this reason authors should be careful to make the connection to biology clear. We reject only a small fraction of the papers (~ 5%) and this usually based on absence of biological relevance (e.g. pure machine learning). We will notify authors of meeting acceptance before end of March. The second stage of review involves evaluation of submissions which requested an oral presentation by two independent referees. In addition to perceived quality as an oral presentation, the novelty of the research and the diversity and coherence of the overall program will be considered. To ensure diversity, those who have given talks in the recent past will not be selected and multiple oral presentations from the same lab will be discouraged. All accepted papers not selected for oral talks as well as papers explicitly submitted as poster presentations will be included in one of three evening poster sessions. Authors will be notified of the presentation format of their papers by begin of May. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS The proceedings volume is published each year as a special supplement to the journal Neurocomputing. In addition the proceedings are published in a hardbound edition by Elsevier Press. Only 200 papers will be published in the proceedings volume. If more than 200 papers are submitted (which is likely) the following rules will apply: each presenting author (who has to register for the meeting) can publish at most one paper in the proceedings book. In case of multi-author papers the same rule applies: one of the authors is considered presenting author and this person has to register at the meeting and cannot publish another paper. If more than 200 presenting authors wish to publish their papers in the proceedings volume the ranking based on the review process will be used to select the top 200 papers. Paper submissions to the conference proceedings are a process separate from the current call for papers: a new submission will need to be done in the early fall of 2003 for which authors will receive detailed instructions. For reference, papers presented at CNS*99 can be found in volumes 32-33 of Neurocomputing (2000), those of CNS*00 in volumes 38-40 (2001) and those of CNS*01 in volumes 44-46 (2002). INVITED SPEAKERS: Yang Dan (University of California Berkeley, USA) Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, London, UK) Henry Markram (Brain Mind Institute Lausanne, Switzerland) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Program chair: Erik De Schutter (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Local organizer: Albert Compte (University Miguel Hernandez, Spain) Workshop organizer: Maneesh Sahani (University of California, San Francisco, USA) Government Liaison: Dennis Glanzman (NIMH/NIH, USA) and Yuan Liu (NINDS/NIH, USA) Program Committee: Upinder Bhalla (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India) Victoria Booth (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) Alain Destexhe (CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France) John Hertz (Nordita, Denmark) Hidetoshi Ikeno (Himeji Institute of Technology, Japan) Barry Richmond (NIMH, USA) Eytan Ruppin (Tel Aviv University) Frances Skinner (University Toronto, Canada) Todd Troyer (University of Maryland, USA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 10 ======= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:13:18 -0500 From: Sue Ann Campbell Announcement of Workshop "Modelling and Computers in Cancer Therapy" Politecnico di Torino, Italia, 3-4 March 2003 Chairmen Nicola Bellomo, Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico, Torino, Italy Federico Bussolino, Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment, Candiolo, Italy Invited Lectures R.K. Jain, Boston, USA: A journey through the world of solid tumors A. Deutsch, Dresden, Germany: Cellular automaton modelling of tumor growth: possibilities and perspectives G. Forni, Torino, Italy: Vaccines to prevent a tumor: a new prospect R. Giavazzi, Milano, Italy: Combining antiangiogenics with chemotherapy in cancer treatments H.Levine, Ames, U.S.A.: A biochemically based model for angiogenesis P. Maini, Oxford, U.K.: Modelling vasculature A. Mantovani, Milano, Italy: Polarization of macrophage function in tumor growth and progression L. Preziosi, Torino, Italy: Modelling tumor growth and angiogenesis K.R. Rajagopal, College Station, U.S.A.: Mathematical modeling of growth and adaptation B.D. Sleeman, Leeds, U.K.: Angiogenesis at the cell level For further information: http://calvino.polito.it/~biomat/workshop.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 11 ======= From: ICCS Conference Secretary Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:17:44 +0100 (CET) With this email we call for participation in the conference on Problem Solving Environments and the Information Society: Advanced Environments and Tools for High Performance Computing. (Maximum 100 participants) Dates: 14 - 19 June 2003 Applications by 24 March 2003 Location: Albufeira (Algarve), Portugal See website: http://www.esf.org/esf_euresco_conference.php?language=0&domain=1 &conference=139&meeting=3 Supported by the European Commission, Research DG, Human Potential Programme, High-Level Scientific Conferences (Contract No: HPCF-CT-2000-00153). Summary There is a clear trend in modelling and simulation technology away from rigid simulation codes treating a fixed aspect towards sophisticated problem-solving environments (PSEs). These environments are widely considered an essential, emerging technology with high impact across all fields of science and engineering. PSEs will be especially important to successfully address all kinds of multidisciplinary phenomena such as fluid-structure coupling and rapidly developing fields such as bio-informatics and other application fields where vast amounts of data need to be managed and processed to discover patterns and knowledge contained within it. By integrating the latest research results into easy-to-use environments and utilizing grid computing infrastructure, PSEs will also help to make them easier to exploit for larger user communities. The conference program addresses the state-of-the-art in infrastructure, standards, and core technologies (i.e. data mining, intelligence, virtual interfaces, grid computing) for PSEs and reviews PSE developments in health, bio-informatics, engineering, marketing and finance, environment, and education and training. Dates 14 - 19 June 2003 Applications by 24 March 2003 Location Albufeira (Algarve), Portugal Chair: Elias Houstis - EL, University of Thessaly and Purdue, Volos, EL Vice-chair: Peter Sloot - NL, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL Organising Committee: Jose Cunha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, P) - Christoph Domain (EDF, P) - Efstratios Gallopoulos (University of Patras, EL) - Wolfgang Gentzsch (SUN Microsystems, US) - Rolf Hempel (NEC Europe Ltd., D) - Domenico Laforenza (CNUCE, I) - Thierry Priol (IRISA/INRIA, F) - Karl Solchenbach (Pallas GmbH, D) - Domenico Talia (ISI/CNR, I) - David Walker (University of Cardiff, UK). Maximum 100 participants. Fees Eur to be announced. Grants available for young scientists from European Community countries and Associated States. To apply, fill in an application form - 2003 application forms will soon be available! (Remember to select your conference in the scroll down menu of the form). Contact: Dr. Josip Hendekovic or Rachid Adghoughi for more information. + 33 388 76 71 35 + 33 388 36 69 87 radghoughi@esf.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= 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). 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: sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca. 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