CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 05 Number 2 April 28, 2005 Editor: Sue Ann Campbell (sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca) CONTENTS Society News 1. Update on the Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly Institute News 2. Upcoming events at the PIMS 3. Fields Institute Activities Other News 4. Book Announcement - Collocation Methods for Volterra Integral and Related Functional Equations by Hermann Brunner 5. New England Complex Systems Institute Announcements Position Announcements ** Links to these and other position announcements can be found at http://www.caims.ca/Positions 6. Memorial University of Newfoundland - Two tenure track positions in Mathematics 7. Memorial University of Newfoundland - Two three-year contractual positions in Mathematics Conferences ** 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. 8. Workshop and Spring School: Mini-invasive procedures in medicine and surgery: mathematical and computational challenges 9. High dimensional Partial Differential Equations in Science and Engineering 10. IMACS Conference on Iterative Methods and Scientific Computing 11. PDE-Based Image Processing and Related Inverse Problems 12. High Performance Computing and Communications 13. Complexity and Fractals in Nature - 9th International Multidisciplinary Conference 14. The 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 15. International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks 16. Sixth International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics 17. CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 1 ====== From: jack macki Date: The CAMQ website is been completely revamped. Have a look at the draft version at http://www.math.ualberta.ca/ami/CAMQ/camq_index.html Tables of contents and abstracts of recent issues are becoming available on-line, and we hope to fill this out right back to Volume 1 in the months ahead. We are in the process of making the articles themselves available on-line for subscribers, but we are still testing our password access system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 2 ====== From: jack macki Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:31:38 -0700 UPCOMING EVENTS AT PIMS Members of CAIMS and their graduate students are encouraged to participate in the 9th annual PIMS Graduate Math Modeling Camp (GMMC), followed by the PIMS Industrial Problem Solving Workshop (IPSW). The GMMC will be a four day workshop for graduate students in the art of attacking industrial problems. Students will work in small groups on specific model problems. Each problem is presented by a mentor, who works with the students on that problem (students choose which problem they want to attack). The GMMC will be at the University of Lethbridge (a 45 minute drive from Waterton Park, May 7-11, followed by the MITACS annual meeting May 11- 14 at the University of Calgary, which would interest most members of CAIMS (visit http://www.mitacs.ca/AC2005/ for more information). The IPSW will be at the University of Calgary May 15-19. Students and participating faculty will work on problems proposed by industrial participants, each group with a full time industrial mentor and a full time academic mentor. Details of this year's choice of problems can be found at http://www.pims.math.ca/industrial/2005/05ipsw/problems.html and include ice jams, running shoes and dinosaurs. All interested academics are encouraged to participate, and graduate students are especially encouraged to join in. Full details on how to register and apply for support are available at http://www.pims.math.ca/industrial/2005/05ipsw/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 3 ====== From: Carl Riehm Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:13:59 -0400 (EDT) FIELDS INSTITUTE ACTIVITIES One of the newest initiatives at the Fields Institute is the CENTRE FOR MATHEMATICAL MEDICINE, whose aim is to bring together research expertise in mathematics and medicine to address the multitude of mathematical questions arising in medicine. Its directors are Amit M. Oza (Ontario Cancer Institute) and Siv Sivaloganathan (University of Waterloo). In March Kristin R. Swanson of the University of Washington delivered a CMM seminar "Clinical applications of quantitative modeling for invasive brain tumors (gliomas)" at the Fields Institute. The next seminar, "Rational Drug Design for Cancer Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations" is being given by Jack Tuszynski of the University of Alberta at the Institute on July 8 at 4:15 p.m. An abstract of his talk can be seen at http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/CMM/04-05/seminars/ . The homepage of the CMM is at http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/CMM/ Some further events of possible interest to CAIMS members which are coming up during the next few months at the Fields Institute are: COXETER LECTURE SERIES: Renata Kallosh (Stanford University), on string cosmology and stabilization of moduli in string theory, May 9 to May 11. The first and third lectures will be held at the Fields Institute, and the second at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. More details at http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/04-05/string-theory/coxeter/kallosh.html FIELDS OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR: Andrew Conn and Chandu Visweswariah (both of IBM) will speak on May 3 at the Institute, beginning at 5pm. Their respective titles are "Optimization at Watson; Derivative Free Optimization and Not An Introduction and New Results" and "Mathematics and Engineering: A Clash of Cultures?". See http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/cim/04-05/optimization_seminar/ FIELDS-CARLETON WORKSHOP ON NUMERICAL AND ANALYTIC METHODS IN FLUID DYNAMICS This will take place at Carleton University, May 5 to May 7. The invited speakers are Yves Bourgault (Ottawa), Dale Durran (Atmospheric Sciences, Washington), Sherwin Maslowe (McGill), Raymond Spiteri (Saskatchewan). See http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/04-05/fluid_dynamics/ 7TH IMACS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ITERATIVE METHODS IN SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING The conference, to be held May 5 to May 8 at the Institute, will feature invited lectures, minisymposia, selected contributed papers and a paper competition for students and new PhDs. Confirmed speakers include Tony Chan (UCLA), Tom Coleman (Cornell), Andy Conn (IBM), Paul Fischer (Argonne), Ilse Ipsen (NCSU), Van Henson (LLNL), Tim Kelley (NCSU), Kees Oosterlee (Delft), Andy Wathen (Oxford). See http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/04-05/IMACS/index.html WORKSHOP ON MODELING THE RAPID EVOLUTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND TREATMENT STRATEGIES This workshop, to be held May 14 to May 17 at the University of Western Ontario, will focus on incorporating the evolution of pathogenic microbes into models of infectious disease. Some of the issues of current public health concern to be addressed are treatment strategies for HIV, epidemiology of tuberculosis, influenza, and antiviral drug resistance. Currently, confirmed speakers are Sally Blower (UCLA),Troy Day (Queens), David Earn (McMaster), Zhilan Feng (Purdue), Fabio Milner (Purdue), Patrick Nelson (Michigan), Pauline van den Driessche (Victoria), Hulin Wu (Rochester), and Jianhong Wu (York). See http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/04-05/infectious_diseases/index.html WORKSHOP ON FOREST FIRES AND POINT PROCESSES To be held at the Fields Institute May 24 to May 28, with the purpose of bringing together forest fire researchers and point process modellers and other interested statisticians. The objective is for members of each group to inform the other group of open problems and possible solutions. See http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/04-05/forest_fires/ WORKSHOP ON MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING IN DATA MINING AND MACHINE LEARNING To be held June 1 to June 4 at McMaster University, with the aim of bringing together a diverse group of experts from data mining, machine learning and mathematical programming, working on both theoretical and applied aspects, to ignite new collaborations and expose new possibilities. Invited speakers are Kristin P. Bennett (RPI) "Optimization Challenges in Capacity Control"; Peter Hammer (Rutgers) "Discrete Optimization Problems in the Logical Analysis of Data"; Pierre Hansen (GERAD HEC Montreal) "A Mathematical Programming Approach to Discovery in Graph Theory"; John MacGregor (McMaster) "Latent Variable Methods for Process Analysis, Monitoring and Design"; Alex Rubinov (University of Ballarat, Australia) "Unsupervised and Supervised Classification via Nonsmooth Optimization"; Yong Shi (University of Nebraska) "Data Mining Techniques via Multiple Criteria Optimization Approaches"; Martin Wainwright (Berkeley) "Mathematical Programming and Statistical Models Based on Graphs"; Stephen Wright (Wisconsin) "A Review of Some Optimization Techniques in Machine Learning and Statistics"; Stanley Young (National Institute of Statistical Sciences) "Identifying and Solving Important/Complex Problems". See http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~mpdm/ CLAY MATH INSTITUTE PUBLIC LECTURE This special lecture entitled "Physmatics" will be given by Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University) at the Institute at 4pm on Wednesday, June 1. See http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/04-05/string-theory/CMI/ 11TH INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON DNA COMPUTING CONFERENCE This conference will be held June 6 to June 9 at the University of Western Ontario. See http://www.csd.uwo.ca/dna11/ WORKSHOP ON LARGE DEVIATIONS AND RARE EVENTS IN NETWORKS To be held July 4 and July 5 at the University of Ottawa. Invited speakers are Robert Foley (GeorgiaTech), Peter Glynn (Stanford), Irina Ignatiouk-Robert (Cergy-Pontoise), A. Mogulski (Novosibirsk), Masakiyo Miyazawa, (Science University Tokyo), Phil Pollett, (Queensland), Sean Meyn (UIUC), Tomasz Rolski (Wroclaw), Hui Wang (Brown). See http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/05-06/rare_events/ 5TH ANNUAL MOPTA CONFERENCE MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS To be held July 25 to 27 at the University of Windsor, with the purpose of bringing together people from both discrete and continuous optimization, working on theoretical and applied aspects, as well as the theoretical and applied communities who do not usually get the chance to interact in the framework of a medium-scale event. Confirmed invited speakers are Venkataramanan (Ragu) Balakrishnan (Purdue) "On the modeling and simulation of large-scale systems"; Brenda L. Dietrich (T. J. Watson Research Centre) "COIN-OR: Open-source software for Operations Research -- What, Why and How"; Eva K. Lee (Georgia Tech) title TBA; Jorge More (Argonne) title TBA; Dominique Pelletier (Ecole Polytechnique Montreal) "The Sensitivity Equation Method: characterisation and optimisation of flow systems"; Florian A. Potra (Maryland- Baltimore County) "Interior-point methods in large neighborhoods of the central path"; Nick Sahinidis (UIUC) "Global Optimization with Branch-and-Reduce". See http://athena.uwindsor.ca/mopta Two events of possible interest in early fall are the CARLETON APPLIED PROBABILITY DAY (at Carleton, of course) on September 17, and the WORKSHOP ON MEDICAL IMAGING at the University of Waterloo October 21 to October 23. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 4 ====== From: Valerie J Yaw Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:22:37 -0500 New Book: Collocation Methods for Volterra Integral and Related Functional Equations Hermann Brunner, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada This is the first comprehensive introduction to collocation methods for the numerical solution of initial-value problems for ordinary differential equations, Volterra integral and integro-differential equations, and various classes of more general functional equations. It guides the reader from the "basics" to the current state-of-the-art level of the field, describes important problems and directions for future research, and highlights methods. The analysis includes numerous exercises and applications to the modelling of physical and biological phenomena. Contents: 1. The collocation method for ODEs: an introduction; 2. Volterra integral equations with smooth kernels; 3. Volterra integro-differential equations with smooth kernels; 4. Initial-value problems with non-vanishing delays; 5. Initial-value problems with proportional (vanishing) delays; 6. Volterra integral equations with weakly singular kernels; 7. VIDEs with weakly singular kernels; 8. Outlook: integral-algebraic equations and beyond; 9. Epilogue. Series: Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics $120.00 / 0-521-80615-1 / November 2004 / Hardback / 612 pages / 70 line diagrams / 158 exercises / 57 worked examples Please visit www.cambridge.org/0521806151 to order. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 5 ====== From: NECSI Programs Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:15:42 -0500 New England Complex Systems Institute Announcements New Scheduled Programs (see details below) -> Summer School 2005: June 6-10 & 12-16, 2005 -> Independent Study Program: June 20-24, 2005 -> Mastering Complexity in Healthcare: June 27, 2005 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NECSI SUMMER SCHOOL 2005 - Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems - Modeling, Networks and Evolution of Complex Systems Each program is the equivalent of a one semester course in a one week format. They may be taken independently or consecutively. If desired, arrangements for credit at a home institution should be made in advance. WEEK ONE: Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems Dates: June 6-10, 2005 Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA This course offers an introduction to the essential concepts of complex systems and related mathematical methods and simulation strategies with application to physical, biological and social systems. The course will particularly focus on the use of multiscale representations as a unifying approach to complex systems concepts, methods and applications. Concepts to be discussed include: emergence, complexity, networks, self-organization, pattern formation, evolution, adaptation, fractals, chaos, cooperation, competition, attractors, interdependence, scaling, dynamic response, information, and function. Methods to be discussed include: statistical methods, cellular automata, agent-based modeling, pattern recognition, system representation and informatics. WEEK TWO: Modeling, Networks and Evolution of Complex Systems Dates: June 12-16, 2005 Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA This course offers a systematic study of three key complex systems areas. Modeling: "how to" build models of complex systems (physical, biological, social and engineering). Networks: network models of complex systems: nodes and links, connectivity; topologies: small worlds, scale free, modular; dynamics of networks. Evolution: evolution in biology, social and engineered systems, altruism and selfishness, speciation, diversity, and spatial models. TARGET AUDIENCE: These courses are intended for faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and others who would like to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of complex systems, and develop methodological tools for conducting research in their respective fields. For more information and registration: http://necsi.net/education/school/summer05.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM Dates: June 20-24, 2005 Location: NECSI, Cambridge, MA This program is designed as a follow-on to the summer school. It is intended for those who would like to continue work on research projects, including quantitative or qualitative development and application of complex systems concepts to specific problems in the physical, biological, social and engineered systems. It will run as a faculty supervised directed study. If you are interested in this study program send an e-mail to programs@necsi.org. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MASTERING COMPLEXITY IN HEALTHCARE Date: June 27, 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Mastering complexity saves lives in healthcare. This is a one day practical workshop on how to improve the quality of care and reduce medical errors. This program is intended for all medical professionals and administrators. Registration is limited. For more information and registration: http://necsi.net/education/healthcare/summer05.html Yaneer Bar-Yam President New England Complex Systems Institute http://necsi.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 6 ====== From: "Wall, Mary" Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:48:28 -0500 MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland invites applications for two tenure-track positions (subject to budgetary approval) at the Assistant Professor level in Mathematics, starting January 1, 2006. Applications from all areas of Pure and Applied Mathematics will be considered. A completed earned doctorate is required at the time of appointment, along with evidence of outstanding research and excellent teaching. Review of applications will begin September 1, 2005, and continue until suitable candidates have been identified. Candidates should submit a Curriculum Vitae, a description of research interests and academic goals, a description of their teaching interests, experience and philosophy. They should also arrange for the names and addresses of three referees to be sent to: Interim Head of Department Department of Mathematics & Statistics Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NL, A1C 5S7 Canada E-mail: mathstat@math.mun.ca Internet: www.math.mun.ca The appropriate code MUST be used on all correspondence: Applied Mathematics VPA-MAST-2005-001 Pure Mathematics VPA-MAST-2005-002 Memorial University is the largest university in Atlantic Canada. As the province's only university, Memorial plays an integral role in the educational and cultural life of Newfoundland and Labrador. Offering diverse undergraduate and graduate programs to almost 18,000 students, Memorial provides a distinctive and stimulating environment for learning in St. John's, a very safe, friendly city with great historic charm, a vibrant cultural life, and easy access to a wide range of outdoor activities. Memorial University is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from qualified women and men, visible minorities, aboriginal people and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. Partners of candidates for positions are invited to include their resume for possible matching with other job opportunities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 7 ====== From: "Wall, Mary" Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:48:28 -0500 MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland invites applications for two three-year contractual positions (subject to budgetary approval) at the Assistant Professor level in Mathematics, starting September 1, 2005. Applications from all areas of Pure and Applied Mathematics will be considered. A completed earned doctorate is required at the time of appointment, along with evidence of outstanding research and excellent teaching. Review of applications will begin June 1, 2005, and continue until suitable candidates have been identified. Candidates should submit a Curriculum Vitae, a description of research interests and academic goals, a description of their teaching interests, experience and philosophy. They should also arrange for the names and addresses of three referees to be sent to: Interim Head of Department Department of Mathematics & Statistics Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NL, A1C 5S7 Canada E-mail: mathstat@math.mun.ca Internet: www.math.mun.ca The appropriate code MUST be used on all correspondence: Applied Mathematics VPA-MAST-2005-004 Pure Mathematics VPA-MAST-2005-005 Memorial University is the largest university in Atlantic Canada. As the province's only university, Memorial plays an integral role in the educational and cultural life of Newfoundland and Labrador. Offering diverse undergraduate and graduate programs to almost 18,000 students, Memorial provides a distinctive and stimulating environment for learning in St. John's, a very safe, friendly city with great historic charm, a vibrant cultural life, and easy access to a wide range of outdoor activities. Memorial University is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from qualified women and men, visible minorities, aboriginal people and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. Partners of candidates for positions are invited to include their resume for possible matching with other job opportunities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 8 ====== From: Michel Delfour Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:30:50 -0500 Mini-invasive procedures in medicine and surgery: mathematical and computational challenges http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Med05/ Dates: May 16-27, 2005 a) Spring School/minicourses - May 16-20, 2005 b) Workshop May 23-27, 2005 Place: Centre de recherches mathematiques Universite de Montreal, Montreal (Quebec), Canada Scientific Committee: Michel Delfour (CRM and DMS, Universite de Montreal, Canada) Andre Fortin (GIREF, Universite Laval, Canada) Andre Garon (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada) Charles Peskin (Courant Institute, New York, USA) Marc Thiriet, MD (CNRS, Labo Jacques-Louis Lions and INRIA, Paris, France) Local Coordinator: Louis Pelletier, CRM (pelletl@crm.umontreal.ca) Sponsors: CRM (Universite de Montreal), INRIA (France), MITACS (Canada) 1. General description. The objective of this tandem School-Workshop is to explore several facets of mini-invasive procedures in medicine and surgery, identify issues, problems, trends, and mathematical and computational challenges in their modeling, simulation, and integration in the medical and surgical processes. It will be structured around the following themes: medical imaging and geometrical modeling, fluid-structure interactions in health problems, static/dynamical design and control of (implantable) medical devices, finite element based computer aided design/manufacturing. We are planning to offer local support (lodging and meals) to a minimum of 15 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from outside the region of Montreal to attend the two weeks of activities. 2. Spring School. The Spring School will be organized around two main lecturers: Charles Peskin (Courant Institute of New York) for the mathematical modeling and computational aspects and Pierre Savard (Institut de Genie Biomedical, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal) for the physiological aspects. The main lectures will be complemented by the following lecturers and "animators": Andre Garon (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal), Gerard Plante MD (director of the "Institut de Pharmacologie de Sherbrooke") and Marc Thiriet MD (CNRS, LJLL, and INRIA, France). Preliminary program (tentative): - background in anatomy and physiology - patho-physiology, medical and surgical aspects of physiological flows - main medical imaging techniques and geometrical modeling - physical modeling: Navier-Stokes equations and shell theory - physiological flow dynamics, wave propagation - experiments for validation of simulations and bio-tissue characterization - mathematical modeling of bio-fluid flows and bio-solid rheology - main methods of numerical analysis applied to health problems - biofluid-biosolid interaction - mass transport in vessel wall - multiscale modeling 3. Workshop. The multidisciplinary workshop will bring together around 25 experts who will each deliver a 45 to 60 minute lecture. The objective is to cover the following topics: - image processing and 3D reconstruction, meshing - experimental and numerical design of prostheses - FE-based computer-aided manufacturing of implantable medical devices - mathematical modeling of mass transport. - multiscale modeling for the cardiovascular system - reduced-basis element method and homogenization for the respiratory tract - non-newtonian modeling for blood rheology in the microcirculation - fluid-structure interaction in physiology List of speakers at the workshop Yves Bourgault (U. Ottawa) - confirmed Greg W. Burgreen (Mississippi State University) - confirmed Laurent Cohen (CEREMADE, Paris, France) - confirmed Michel Delfour (CRM and DMS, Montreal) - confirmed Christopher Ross Ethier (Toronto) - confirmed Aaron Fogelson (University of Utah) Andre Fortin (GIREF, Laval) - confirmed Andre Garon (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal) - confirmed Roland Glowinski (U. Houston) Rainald Lohner (U. George Mason) - confirmed Mette Sofie Olufsen (North Carolina State University) - confirmed Robert Owens (Montreal and EPFL) - confirmed Benoit Ozell (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal) - confirmed Joaquim Peiro (Imperial College of London) - confirmed Dominique Pelletier (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal) - confirmed Charles Peskin (Courant Institute of New York) - confirmed Pierre Savard (Institut de Genie Biomedical, Polytechnique) - confirmed Michel Sorine (INRIA, France) - confirmed David Steinman (John P. Robarts Research Institute) - confirmed Marc Thiriet (CNRS, LJLL and INRIA, France) - confirmed Jose Urquiza (CRM, Montreal) - confirmed Keith Worsley (U. McGill) - confirmed Jean-Paul Zolesio (CNRS and INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France) - confirmed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 9 ====== From: Michel Delfour Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:30:50 -0500 High-dimensional Partial Differential Equations in Science and Engineering August 7-12, 2005 Centre de recherches mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal (Quebec), Canada Scientific Program Committee Andre Bandrauk, CRC, Chemistry, Universite de Sherbrooke Michel Delfour, CRM/DMS, Universite de Montreal, Canada Claude Le Bris, CERMICS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, France Sponsors CERMICS (ENPC, France), CRM (U. de Montreal), IBM, RQMP, U. de Sherbrooke Coordinator. Louis Pelletier, CRM, Universiti de Montrial (pelletl@crm.umontreal.ca) Website. www.crm.umontreal.ca/Dimension05/ Scope. High dimensional spatio-temporal partial differential equations are a major challenge to scientific computing of the future. Up to now deemed prohibitive, they have recently become manageable by combining recent developments in numerical techniques, appropriate computer implementations, and the use of computers with parallel and even massively parallel architectures. This opens new perspectives in many fields of applications. Kinetic plasma physics equations, many body Schrvdinger equation, Dirac and Maxwell equations for molecular electronic structure and nuclear dynamic computations, options pricing equations in mathematical finance, and Fokker-Planck and fluid dynamics equations for complex fluids, are examples of equations that can now be handled. The objective of the workshop is to bring together experts of international stature in that broad spectrum of areas to confront their approaches and possibly bring out common problem formulations and research directions in the numerical solutions of high dimensional partial differential equations in various fields of science and engineering with special emphasis on chemistry and physics. Invited speakers Andre Bandrauk, Chimie, Sherbrooke, Canada Thomas Brabec, Center for Research in Photonics, Ottawa, Canada Eric Cances, CERMICS, ENPC, France Goong Chen, Mathematics, Texas A&M, USA Michel Cote, Physique, Montreal, Canada Pierre Degond, CNRS, Laboratoire MIP Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Michel Delfour, CRM et DMS, Montreal, Canada Matthias Ernzerhof, Chimie, Montreal, Canada Maria J. Esteban, CEREMADE, Paris-Dauphine, France Andre Fortin, GIREF, Laval, Canada Michael Griebel, IAM, Bonn, Germany Wagdi Habashi, Mechanical Engineering, McGill, Canada Tom R. Hurd, Mathematics, MacMaster, Canada Raymond E. Kapral, Lash Miller Chemical Labs, Toronto, Canada Bernard Lapeyre, CERMICS, ENPC, France Claude Le Bris, CERMICS, ENPC, France Yvon Maday, LJLL, Pierre et Marie Curie, France David A. Mazziotti, Chemistry, Chicago, USA William H. Miller, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, USA Robert G. Owens, DMS, Montreal, Canada Anthony T. Patera, Mechanical Eng., MIT, USA Gilles H. Peslherbe, CERMM, Concordia, Canada Andreas Savin, Lab. Chimie Theorique CNRS et Pierre et Marie Curie, France Luis Seco, RiskLab, Toronto, Canada Tobias von Petersdorff, Mathematics, Maryland, USA (to be confirmed) Robert E Wyatt, Chemistry, Texas at Austin, USA Support for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows A limited budget is reserved for lodging and living expenses of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Application must be made on the website (www.crm.umontreal.ca/Dimension05). A short CV and two references are required. The deadline for application is May 31, 2005. Time has been set aside for short presentations by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 10 ======= Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:17:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christina C. Christara" The program for the IMACS conference on iterative methods in scientific computing is out at http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ccc/imacs05/program.html To register see http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/04-05/IMACS/ See you in Toronto, May 5-8, 2005. Christina Christara ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 11 ======= From: Ola Marius Lysaker Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:17:43 +0100 An international conference on "PDE-Based Image Processing and Related Inverse Problems", August 8-12, 2005 in Oslo, Norway. http://www.cma.uio.no/conferences/2005/imageprocessing_workshop.html The purpose of this conference is to have international experts to come to Oslo and exchange new ideas and results in this field. The conference will focus on, but will not be limited to the following topics for image analysis and processing: * Noise analysis and removal * Image inpaiting * Image segmentation * 3D image analysis including shading, motion, shape and edge detection * Analysis and processing of MR images and brain mapping * Diffusion-tensor image analysis * Simulation and image techniques for ECG and other medical techniques * Image processing and data mining for Internet communication and information technology. Inverse problems for partial differential equations have large areas of applications. One widely studied application is for oil reservoir simulations. Although image analysis and PDE inverse problems seem to be unrelated at a first glance, there are many techniques used in one of these two areas that are useful for the other. For example, many of the regularization techniques and segmentation ideas used for image processing have found interesting applications in inverse problems within oil reservoir modeling. We shall use this conference to highlight some of the recent efforts in merging some of the techniques for these two research areas. Invited Speakers: Raymond Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong Tony F. Chan, University of California at Los Angeles Stanley Osher, University of California at Los Angeles Guillermo Sapiro, University of Minnesota Joachim Weickert, Saarland University Registration: No fee will be charged for participating in the conference. However, registration is needed to plan the scale for the conference. The total number of participants will be limited. Please use our electronic registration page, http://www.cma.uio.no/conferences/2005/imageprocessing_registration.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 12 ======= From: "Laurence T. Yang" Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:13:06 -0400 ==================== HPCC-05 CALL FOR PAPERS ========================== The 2005 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-05) SORRENTO (Naples), ITALY, September 21-23, 2005 http://www.hpcc05.unina2.it/ http://www.hpcc-conference.org/ With the rapid growth in computing and communication technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever-increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communication (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. The HPCC-05 conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address all resulting profound challenges, and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communication. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Network protocols, routing, algorithms 2. Languages and compilers for HPC 3. Parallel/distributed system architectures 4. Parallel/distributed algorithms 5. Wireless, mobile and pervasive computing 6. Web services and internet computing 7. Peer-to-peer computing 8. Grid and cluster computing 9. Reliability, fault-tolerance, and security 10. Performance evaluation and measurements 11. Tools and environments for software development 12. Distributed systems and applications 13. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 14. Database applications and data mining 15. Biological/molecular computing SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions should include an abstract, 5-10 keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 30 pages, including tables and figures, with PDF, PostScript, or MS Word format. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the work. Submissions to HPCC-05 will be conducted electronically on the conference website. SPECIAL SESSIONS Special sessions are planned for the duration of the conference. Each technical session will have at least 5-6 paper presentations (from different authors). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, etc. Proposals to organize technical sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ E-mail) of the chair, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session chairs solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session chair). Send your proposal to one of the program co-chairs. E-mail submissions are preferred. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: 01 May 2005 Acceptance notification: 21 June 2005 Camera-ready due: 04 July 2005 Author registration: 04 July 2005 Conference: 21-23 September 2005 PUBLICATIONS The accepted papers have to be presented orally within 25 minute included discussion at the conference and will be published in proceedings of the HPCC-05 conference by Springer's Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS). The selected best papers will be published in special issues of International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN). BEST PAPER AWARDS The program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible) and one winner for the Best Student Paper Award (only the regular papers whose first author is a full-time student are eligible). Each winner will be presented at the conference with a certificate and US$300. CONFERENCE WEB SITE: http://www.hpcc05.unina2.it/ http://www.hpcc-conference.org/ GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universita' di Napoli, Italy PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS Network Protocols, Routing, Algorithms Geyong Min, University of Bradford, U.K Languages and Compilers for HPC Jos(& E. Moreira, IBM Research, USA Parallel/Distributed System Architectures Michael Gerndt, Technical University Munich, Germany Embedded Systems Shih-Wei Liao, INTEL, USA Parallel/Distributed Algorithms Jose Cunha, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Wireless and Mobile Computing Yang Xiao, University of Memphis, USA Pervasive Computing and Communications Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy Web services and Internet Computing Dieter Kranzlmueller, John Kepler University Linz, Austria & CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Peer-to-peer Computing Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Grid and Cluster Computing Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Reliability, Fault-tolerance, and Security Antonino Mazzeo, Universit($ degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy Performance, Evalutation and Measurements Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Tools and Environments for Software Development Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Distributed Systems and Applications Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA High-Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing Luciano Tarricone, University of Lecce, Italy Database Applications and Data Mining Domenico Talia, DEIS, Italy Biological/Molecular Computing Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 13 ======= From: novak@kingston.ac.uk Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:20:49 -0500 FRACTAL 2006 Complexity and Fractals in Nature 9th International Multidisciplinary Conference 12 - 15 February 2006, Vienna, Austria ===== Paper submission deadline: 17 June 2005 ===== The latest information is available on http://www.kingston.ac.uk/fractal/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 14 ======= From: Chengqi Zhang Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 04:33:16 -0400 CALL FOR PAPERS The 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Sydney, Australia, 5-9 December 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/ai05 SCOPE AND TOPICS The 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI05) is a leading Australian conference that focuses on all aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) that entirely intends a timely, in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying AI. The Program Committee of AI05 invites technical papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence. This conference attempts to meet the needs of a large and diverse community, which includes practitioners, researchers, educators, and users. Topics of AI05 include, but are not limited to: o Abduction o Agent o AI foundations o artificial life o automated reasoning o Bayesian networks o case-based reasoning o cognitive modeling o computational complexity o conceptual graphs o constraint satisfaction o customer relationship management o data mining o data quality management o decision theory o discourse modeling o distributed AI o evolutionary computation o e-commerce and AI o environment sensing o expert systems o game playing o geometric reasoning o heuristics o human computer interaction o information enhancement o information retrieval o intelligent databases o Internet / WWW intelligence o knowledge acquisition o knowledge discovery o knowledge engineering o knowledge representation o logics (inductive / descriptive / fuzzy, etc.) o machine learning o machine translation o mobile / Wearable o multimedia and AI o music, Art and AI o natural language processing o neural networks o ontology o planning o problem solving o reasoning about actions and change o robotics o search o simulation o social intelligence o spatial/temporal reasoning o speech processing o theorem proving o virtual reality o vision o web mining PAPERS SUBMISSION Papers are limited to 12 single-spaced, single-column pages including all tables, figures, and references but excluding an extra cover page. Fonts should not be smaller than 10 pt. Paper submissions using Springer's LNAI style available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html is recommended. PUBLICATION Papers accepted for presentation at AI05 will be published in LNAI, the series of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, from Springer-Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES 1st July 2005: Submission deadline for papers 20th August 2005: Paper notification due 15th September 2005: Camera-ready paper due 5 - 9 December 2005: Conference Conference General Co-Chairs: Prof. Tharam Dillon (University of Technology, Sydney) and Prof. Paul Compton (University of NSW) Program Committee Co-Chairs: Dr Shichao Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney) and Prof. Ray Jarvis (Monash University) Organizing Committee Chair: A/Prof. Jie Lu (University of Technology, Sydney Sponsorship Chair: Prof. John Debenham (University of Technology, Sydney) Publicity Chair: Dr Hussein Abbass (University of NSW, Canberra) Workshop Chair: Prof. Brijesh Verma (Central Queensland University, Queensland) Tutorial Chair: Dr Fei Liu (La-Trobe University, Melbourne) CONTACTS ai2005-organiser@it.uts.edu.au, AI2005 Conference Secretariat Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney Sydney NSW 2007, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 15 ======= From: Weifa Liang Delivery-date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 23:08:21 -0400 International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN) 13-15 Dec 2005, Wuhan, China http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~msn05 This conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange research results and share development experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks: - Network architecture and protocols - Software platforms and development tools - Self-organization and synchronization - Routing and data dissemination - Failure resilience and fault isolation - Energy management - Data, information, and signal processing - Security and privacy - Network planning, provisioning, and deployment - Network modeling and performance evaluation - Developments and applications - Integration with other systems Publications: Original and previously unpublished technical papers are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. The proceedings will be published as Springer-LNCS series. Selected papers will be published at journal special issues. Important Deadlines: Paper submission: 1 June 2005, Acceptance notification: 15 Aug 2005, Camera ready: 10 Sept 2005 Steering Committee Co-Chair: Lionel Ni, Hong Kong Univ of Sci and Technology Jinnan Liu, Wuhan University General Co-Chair: Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh Yanxiang He, Wuhan University Program Co-Chair: Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University Xiaohua Jia, City Univ of Hong Kong Program Vice Chairs: Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa Jang-Ping Sheu, National Central University, Taiwan Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Publicity Chairs: Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Weifa Liang, The Australian National University Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Local Organization Chair: Chuanhe Huang, Wuhan Univeristy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 16 ======= From: Matiur Rahman Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:36:35 -0400 CALL FOR PAPERS AFM 2006 8 - 10 May 2006, Skiathos, Greece Organised by: Wessex Institute of Technology, UK Dalhousie University, Canada Sponsored by: WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences ============================================================= Dear Colleague On behalf of the International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC), we are pleased to inform you of the Sixth International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics. The meeting will take place from 8 - 10 May 2006 at the Hotel Princess in Skiathos, Greece. Conference papers will be reviewed by members of the ISAC and other colleagues, and if selected, will be published in hard book form by WIT Press and will be available to delegates at the time of registration. In addition, the proceedings will be widely distributed after the conference through the international book trade and by direct announcement to readers and librarians. All papers will be permanently archived in the Transactions of the Wessex Institute on our eLibrary site, which is available to the Further details about the conference follow this message. Alternatively click on the web address below to access the conference website, which has full details about the conference objectives, topics and submission requirements: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/afm2006/cfp.html If you are not the right point of contact for this material we apologise, and would appreciate you forwarding this to the correct person or providing us with the contact details. Best regards, M Rahman, Dalhousie University, Canada C A Brebbia, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK Conference Chairmen ================================== AFM 2006 ================================== INTRODUCTION ============================================================= AFM 2006 is the sixth international conference in the successful series "Advances in Fluid Mechanics". The conference is being reconvened following the success of previous meetings and that of the well established associated book series, of which many of the Editorial Board members serve on the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the conference. The objective of the meeting is to provide a forum for discussing new work in fluid mechanics and in particular for promoting the interchange of new ideas and the presentation of the latest applications in the field. The basic formulations of fluid mechanics and their computer modelling will be discussed, as well as the relationship between experimental and analytical results. The conference covers a wide range of topics, with emphasis on new applications and research currently in progress. The first conference in this series took place in New Orleans (1996) followed by Udine (1998), Montreal (2000), Ghent (2002) and Lisbon (2004). CONFERENCE TOPICS ============================================================= Convection, heat and mass transfer Experimental versus simulation methods Computational methods in fluid mechanics Multiphase flow Boundary layer flow Non-Newtonian fluids Material characterisation in fluids Fluid structure interaction Hydrodynamics Coastal and estuarial modelling Wave studies Industrial applications Biofluids Applications in ecology Molecular mechanics and dynamics Large scale modelling CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================= Papers are invited on the topics outlined above and others falling within the scope of the meeting. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted by mail, fax, email or via our website as soon as possible. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION We strongly encourage the submission of abstracts electronically. Please complete the ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM on our website at: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/afm2006/cfp.html OR submit your abstract via email to the Senior Conference Co-ordinator at: rgreen@wessex.ac.uk. Please insert AFM 2006 in the subject line and also include your name, full address and conference topic in the main body of your email. For further instructions on paper submission, please see: http://www.witpress.com/author_instruction.html TIME SCHEDULE Please submit abstracts as soon as possible. The final paper deadline will be advised upon acceptance of your abstract. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS ============================================================= All papers presented at AFM 2006 will be published by WIT Press in a volume of WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences (ISSN 1743-3533). In addition to being available to delegates at the time of registration, the hardcover volume will be publicised directly to researchers and institutional libraries and distributed widely through the international book trade. The papers will also be archived online in the Transactions of the Wessex Institute Collection. The collection provides the international scientific community with immediate and permanent access to individual papers presented at WIT conferences. WIT Press is committed to offering authors the option to make their work freely accessible to colleagues through their Open-View service. Coverage of WIT proceedings appears regularly in notable publications and databases, including Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR), Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Ei Compendex, INSPEC, ISI's Index to Proceedings, Mathematical Reviews, Scitech Book News, Zentralblatt f|r Mathematik as well as the Directory of Published Proceedings. CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT ============================================================= Rachel Green Conference Secretariat AFM 2006 WESSEX INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst Southampton, SO40 7AA, UK Tel: + 44 (0) 238 029 3223 Fax: + 44 (0) 238 029 2853 Email: rgreen@wessex.ac.uk VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE AT: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/afm2006/cfp.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 17 ======= 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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