CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 06 Number 3 June 7, 2006 Editor: Rod Edwards (edwards@math.uvic.ca) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS Society News: 1. The New CAMQ - Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly 2. Table of Contents of the Latest CAMQ 3. Organizing ICIAM 2011 - Report 4. CAIMS*SCMAI Research Prize 5. Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award Other Events: 6. Science Exhibition 2009 Summer Schools and Workshops: 7. Neural Networks in Classification, Regression and Data Mining (NN2006) (Porto, Portugal) 8. Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics: Analysis, bifurcations and control of piecewise-smooth and hybrid dynamical systems (Naples, Italy) 9. Mathematical Techniques in Modeling Physiological Systems (Sarajevo, Bosnia) 10. Mathematics in Molecular Cell Biology (Linz, Austria) 11. Information Theory, Neurobiology and Cognition (Leipzig, Germany) 12. Biophysics of Biological Circuits (Madrid, Spain) 13. Computational Cell Biology (SCCB2006) (Italy) 14. Comparative Genome Analyses of Bacterial Genomes and Applications (Stanford, USA) 15. Metaheuristics: From Theory to Applications (META'2006) (Hammamet, Tunisia) 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. 16. International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM 2006) (Hersonnisos, Greece) 17. Conference on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE2006) (Spain) 18. 8th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA'07) (Warsaw, Poland) 19. International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC 2006) (Genoa, Italy) 20. 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Toronto, Canada) 21. Computational Neuroscience (CNS 2006) (Edinburgh, UK) 22. 2nd Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD2) (Campinas, Brazil) 23. International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology (BIOMAT 2006) (Manaus, Brazil) 24. CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 1 ====== From: macki jack Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 18:33:36 -0600 Welcome to the new CAMQ! We have a new Editorial Board, we are on-line as well as hardcopy, and all back volumes are available to subscribers (both institutional and individual) on-line. We have raised our rates to reflect our higher level of service and our significantly higher costs for TeX editing and printing. Members of CAIMS still get a very special rate. The Editorial Board Russell Johnson University of Florence, Italy Control, Dynamical Systems Anne Bourlioux Universite de Montreal Numerical PDEs Thomas Hillen University of Alberta Mathematical Biology Lia Bronsard McMaster University PDEs Henry Wolkowicz Waterloo University Applied LInear Algebra and Optimization Neil Balmforth University of British Columbia Earth and Ocean Sciences Jianhong Wu York University Delay DEÕs, Data Mining Odo Diekmann Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Amsterdam Population Dynamics/Epidemiology Jerry Bona University of Illinois at Chicago Fluid Dynamics Karl Hadeler Universitat Tubingen Mathematical Biology Michael Mackey McGill University Mathematical Physiology Robert Miura New Jersey Institute of Technology Mathematical Physiology Pauline van den Driessche University of Victoria Epidemiology Fred Wan University of California Irvine Applied Mathematics Keith Ranger University of Toronto Fluid Mechanics Robert Elliott University of Calgary Mathematics of Finance Luis Seco University of Toronto Harmonic Analysis, Finance Uri Ascher University of British Columbia Scientific Computing Michel Delfour UniversitŽ de Montreal Optimization and Control Michael Ward University of British Columbia Applied Analysis John Hunter University of California Davis Applied Analysis Herb Freedman Univesity of Alberta Mathematical Biology We are presently printing Volume 13 (2005) and should have the journal up to date by Fall, 2006. At that time the information for authors and the cover material will all be bilingual. We will begin with Volume 14(2006) at the new rates: Annual Rates (four issues) Institutions (online and/or paper): $350 CDN or $325 US Individuals (online and/or paper): $150 CDN or $125 US CAIMS/SCMAI Members (online and/or paper): $40 CDN Subscription: Mail cheque/money order with subscription form to CAMQ. Subscription forms can be downloaded from our website: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/ami/camq.html Please support your Canadian journal of applied mathematics by ensuring that your institution subscribes. Jack Macki and Bryant Moodie, Managing Editors ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 2 ====== From: Michael Li Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 23:08:38 -0700 (PDT) Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly (CAMQ) Volume 12, Number 4 (Reports from the 8th PIMS IPSW, 2004) CONTENTS General Statistical Design of an Experimental Problem for Harmonics By Benjamin Akers, Sean Bohun, Peter Gibson, Andreas Hofinger, Michael Lamoureux, Jason Lobb, Bill Mawby and Malcolm Roberts Locating Anomalous Seismic Attenuation: A Mathematical Investigation By Catalina Anghel, Gary Margrave, Nilima Nigam Analyzing Network Traffic for Malicious Activity By Surrey Kim, Song Li, Hongwei Long and Randall Pyke Simple Models for an Injection Molding System By Gregory Lewis, Ian Frigaard, Huaxiong Huang, Tim Myers, Rex Westbrook and Mariana Carrasco-Teja Notes from CAMQ: Full texts of new CAMQ articles can be downloaded free, for a limited time, at the CAMQ website: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/ami/CAMQ/camq_index.html A special $40 CAMQ annual subscription for CAIMS members includes online access to fulltexts of all CAMQ articles. Start your subscription of Volume 13 at http://www.math.ualberta.ca/ami/CAMQ/subscription.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 3 ====== From: Bob Russell Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 20:05:40 -0700 (PDT) Brief update on the planning for ICIAM 2011: At the May 27 ICIAM Council meeting in Shanghai, Ivar Ekeland and Jerry Marsden were formally approved as the Congress Scientific Co-chairs and Co-Chairs of the Scientific Program Committee for ICIAM 2011. This had been the recommendation of the ICIAM Steering Committee, which consists of individuals from MITACS, SIAM and CAIMS (including CAIMS past, present and future Presidents -- Ken Jackson, Bill Langford and myself). There was general agreement that things are proceeding in a timely manner, and it is expected that the recommendations for members of the Scientific Program Committee, which be selected before ICIAM 2007 in July of 2007, will at that time be approved by the Council. As well, progress has been made in selecting various other subcommittees, including the Finance Committee, Fundraising Committee, ICIAM Liaison Committee, Industrial Advisory Committee, Local Arrangements Committee, Public Relations Committee, and Publications and Promotions Committee. Should you desire more information at this preliminary stage in the preparations for ICIAM 2011, please feel free to ask Ken, Bill, or myself. Thanks, Bob Russell, CAIMS representative to ICIAM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 4 ====== From: Wu Jianhong Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:08:18 -0400 The CAIMS*SCMAI Research Prize for 2006 has been awarded to Michael Mackey of McGil University. Michael C. Mackey, Joseph Morley Drake Professor of Physiology at McGill University, is recognized for his seminal contributions to the advancement of biomathematics, in particular for his groundbreaking efforts to model haematopoiesis, and his co-invention of the concept of dynamical diseases (abnormalities in the underlying control mechanisms of a physiological system - from a mathematical point of view, a dynamical disease can be interpreted as a bifurcation induced by a change in the value of one or more of the regulating parameters, not in an anatomical dysfunction). In his groundbreaking 1977 Science paper, co-authored with Leon Glass, he introduced the concept, illustrated it on two specific examples, and also provided numerical evidence for irregular oscillations in a first order delay differential equation: this highly original observation eventually lead to the establishment of the so-called Mackey-Glass equation as a paradigmatic chaotic dynamical system (The related Glass-Mackey attractor appeared in 1979 in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences as an example of a system in a chaotic regime). Building from this phenomenological equation, M. Mackey has been expanding, refining and developing models of growing sophistication, realism and complexity to represent the haematopoietic system, training numerous graduate students and postdoctoral fellows along the way. At each step, physiological considerations were paramount in exploiting the similarities as well as the differences in the three lineages : red blood cells, platelets and white blood cells. In reflecting the underlying physiology, these models take the form of systems of stage-structured differential equations, typically reduced to systems of delay differential equations, often with state-dependent delays. For more than three decades, Dr. Mackey has been keeping a dialogue with experimentalists and clinical investigators to incorporate the most current biological knowledge in his models, most recently, cellular and molecular discoveries on apoptosis and gene regulatory functions. Dr. Mackey is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was an exchange fellow of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a recipient of Forschungspreise by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and the Leverhulm Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 5 ====== From: Matt Davison Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 00:48:16 +0000 (GMT) The two winners of the Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2005 are: Dr. Isabelle Déchène for her thesis "Generalized Jacobians in Cryptography" McGill University Supervisors: Henri Darmon and Claude Crépeau and Dr. Miguel Angel Moyers González for his thesis "Transient Effects in Oilfield Cementing Flows" University of British Columbia Supervisor: Ian Frigaard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 6 ====== From: "Olga Stachova" Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:51:01 -0700 Call for Science Proposals Science Exhibition 2009, Musée de la Civilisation, Quebec City The Musée de la Civilisation in Quebec City, jointly with MITACS Inc. and Université Laval, is proposing Science Exhibition 2009, to showcase cutting edge science. The focus will be on Science and the Future with the intention that patrons will have an interactive, hands-on experience. Topics will range across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including (but not limited to) the life sciences, physical sciences, mathematical and computational sciences, engineering, the health sciences, and the social sciences. While the target audience is high school students and teachers, proposals that reach out to general public are also desirable. The goal is to show connections between science and its applications, to stimulate young explorers to discover the beauty of science, and to inspire students to pursue scientific education and careers. The Museum is proposing to host the Exhibition for approximately 12 months after which it may move to other venues. We are currently soliciting ideas for specific aspects of cutting edge science to be presented at the exhibition. The main criteria for selection will be the novelty of science, relevance of its possible applications, interactive character of the proposal, and the potential to reach out to and excite young people. If your proposal is selected, you may be invited to contribute to the development of the exhibit (although this is not a selection criterion and you are not obliged to help). We will ensure that proposers of selected projects are acknowledged. We welcome you to share your ideas with us on-line at www.mitacs.ca/goto/scientificexhibition2009 . Enquires and proposed ideas can be directed to: Olga Stachova Science Exhibition 2009 Coordinator MITACS East Academic Annex, Room 120 Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6 CANADA 604-291-5477 ostachova@mitacs.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 7 ====== From: Jorge M. Santos Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:08:55 -0000 SUMMER SCHOOL NN2006 NEURAL NETWORKS in CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING July 3-7, 2006, ISEP - Porto, Portugal http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt email: nn-2006@isep.ipp.pt GENERAL INFORMATION The Summer School will be held at Porto, Portugal, jointly organized by the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Porto (ISEP) and the Faculty of Engineering, Porto University (FEUP). COURSE CONTENTS Neural networks (NN) have become a very important tool in classification and regression tasks. The applications are nowadays abundant, e.g. in the engineering, economy and biology areas. The Summer School on NN is dedicated to explain relevant NN paradigms, namely multilayer perceptrons (MLP), radial basis function networks (RBF) and support vector machines (SVM) used for classification and regression tasks, illustrated with applications to real data. Specific topics are also presented, namely Spiking Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, Modular Neural Networks and Data Mining using NN. Classes include practical sessions with appropriate software tools. The trainee has, therefore, the opportunity to apply the taught concepts and become conversant with a broad range of NN topics and applications. A special workshop session will provide a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects. Official language is English. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME A preliminary programme and further information about the classes are available at the school webpage (http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt) IMPORTANT DEADLINES Early Registration: 15 May 2006 Hotel booking: 15 June 2006 Summer School: 3-7 July 2006 All participants are required to register prior to the start of the School - until the June 15 - even if you choose to pay the late registration fee at the registration desk. Please note that only a LIMITED number of participants can be accepted. CONTACT ADDRESS Local Organizing Committee (LOC) - Summer School NN2006 Departamento de Matemática Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida 431 4200-072 PORTO / PORTUGAL Email: nn-2006@isep.ipp.pt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 8 ====== From: "Societa' Italiana Caos e Complessita'" Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:40:36 -0700 ================================================================ 5th International School TOPICS IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICS Analysis, bifurcations and control of piecewise-smooth and hybrid dynamical systems Naples, Italy, 18-20 September 2006 Organized by SICC - Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity ================================================================ The 5th International School "Topics in Non-linear Dynamics: Analysis, bifurcations and control of piecewise-smooth and hybrid dynamical systems", organized by the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity (SICC) in cooperation with the Nonlinear Systems and Control group of the University of Naples Federico II and the EU Project SICONOS, is primarily oriented to young and experienced researchers, PhD students and industrialists interested in the theory and applications of piecewise-smooth, switched and hybrid dynamical systems. Aim of the school is to cover both introductory and advanced topics. The basic theory and methods will be introduced through examples and applications will be described in various fields of Engineering, Physics, Economics and Biology. The main topics of the school include: - Modelling and analysis of nonsmooth Dynamical Systems - Bifurcations of nonsmooth and hybrid dynamical systems - Numerical Analysis and Conti! nuation methods - Control - Applications People regularly registered at the school will be allowed to download papers, manuscripts and teaching materials from a reserved area of the web page. Invited lecturers include: Alan Champneys University of Bristol, UK Arne Nordmark KTH, Sweden Enric Fossas UPC, Barcelona Spain Bernard Brogliato INRIA, France Petri Piiroinen University of Bristol, UK Sergio Rinaldi Politecnico di Milano, Italy Gianluca Setti Universita'di Ferrara, Italy Martin Homer University of Bristol, UK Yuri Kuznetsov University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Piotr Kowalczyk University of Exeter, UK Gerard Olivar Universidad Nacional de Colombia Mario di Bernardo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Kanat Camlibel, Technical U. Eindhoven, The Netherlands Further information on the school and the on-line application form can be found on the school website at http://www.dis.unina.it:8080/pwsschool or by contacting the organizers (E-mail: mario.dibernardo@unina.it). -------------------------------------------- SICC - Societa' Italiana Caos e Complessita' La Presidenza - Professor Marco Gilli Dipartimento di Elettronica Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 I-10129 Torino, Italy Tel +39 011 5644096 Fax +39 011 5644099 e-mail info@sicc-it.org Web http://www.sicc-it.org -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 9 ====== From: Jerry Batzel Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:56:00 +0100 School Title: "Sarajevo Summer School on: Mathematical Techniques in Modeling Physiological Systems" School Dates: September 10-22, 2006. http://www.uni-graz.at/biomath/Sarajevo-06/index.html Overview: The purpose of this summer school is to provide the participants with an in depth introduction to key mathematical techniques needed for the modeling of human physiological control systems for application to biomedical and clinical problems. Courses are designed for Post Doctoral researchers, PhD students, and established scientists who want to gain insight into the area of mathematical modeling of physiological systems. The design of this summer school aims to encourage extensive interaction between teachers and participants by having all participants and teachers accommodated at the same site which will facilitate that interaction both during and after each day of classes. Courses in the summer school are: * The Case for Mathematical Modeling in Physiology * Signal Processing with Application to Heart Rate Variability Analysis * Data Acquisition, Parameter Identification, and Sensitivity Analysis Techniques * Neural Networks and Physiology * Numerical Methods and Modeling Problems * Model Analysis: Dynamical Systems and Functional Differential Equations Extensive information and registration form can be found at the web page: http://www.uni-graz.at/biomath/Sarajevo-06/index.html E-mail: info_school.biomath@uni-graz.at Language: The official language of the school is English Application: Please apply early using the form found at the web page above. Limited financial support is available. The principal organizers for the summer school are : * M. Bachar, J. Batzel and F. Kappel: The Institute for Mathematics and Scientific Computing at the University of Graz * A. Muratovic and M. Avdispahi: The Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Sarajevo Teachers for the school include: B. Beck, S. H. Courellis, A. De Gaetano, S. Ditlevsen, I. Gyori, G. Haase, F. Hartung, F. Kappel, P. McClintock, V. Novak, M. Olufsen, A. Stefanovska, H. Tran, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 10 ======= From: Martin Burger Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:42:47 -0000 EMS Summer School at RICAM, Linz, Austria, Sep 06 http://www.ricam.oeaw.ac.at/emsschool/ An EMS Summer School on "Mathematics in Molecular Cell Biology" will take place at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), in Linz, Austria, September 9-23, 2006. Please indicate the need for financial support in your registration. For applications on financial support please include a CV and a research summary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 11 ======= From: Henry Tuckwell Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:53:50 +0200 Workshop: Information Theory, Neurobiology and Cognition, MPI MIS Juergen Jost and I are organizing a workshop "Information Theory, Neurobiology and Cognition" to be held from July 6-8, 2006 at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstrasse 22, Leipzig 04103, Germany. http://www.mis.mpg.de/ Preliminary details of the meeting can be found at http://www.mis.mpg.de/conferences/InfoTheo/ Topics Any aspects of information processing and modeling in neuroscience, cognition and behavior. Those wishing to attend and give a contributed talk (about 20-25 minutes + question time) please send a title and abstract to Henry Tuckwell tuckwellmis.mpg.de by June 15, 2006. A certain amount of support for travel and accommodation will be available on a merit basis. Please include requests for support with your title and abstract. Proceedings will be published in a refereed dedicated journal issue. Henry Tuckwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 12 ======= From: Juan F. Poyatos Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:03:00 +0000 2006 summer school "BIOPHYSICS OF BIOLOGICAL CIRCUITS: FROM MOLECULES TO NETWORKS" 19-22 September 2006, Residencia La Cristalera, Miraflores de la Sierra (Madrid, Spain) Registration dead-line: June 30th Further information: Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales "Nicolas Cabrera" http://www.uam.es/otroscentros/inc/summerschools/summerschool2006/index.html GOALS The school is planed for participants coming from different disciplines but with strong interest in Biophysics. Our goal is to introduce them to some relevant biological problems for which a physical approach, conceptual as well as experimental, has firmly contributed to their understanding. To this end, we have divided the School in three sections sharing a common framework: the view of biological networks as modular assemblies where the properties of individual elements as well as the behavior of the modules can be studied with present day experimental techniques. The topics included in this course are divided according to the following categories: Biophysics of genetic networks: Design principles of genetic circuits, noise in gene expression, regulation and control of genetic networks. Biophysics of neuronal circuits: Dynamics of neural networks, olfactory processing, problems in visual attention. Biophysics of individual molecules: Biophysics of molecular motors, biomechanics, behavior of single molecules in living cells. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 13 ======= From: Margherita Carletti Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:23:33 +0200 Second International School in Computational Cell Biology - SCCB2006 COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN MULTISCALE PROCESSES FOR PROTEIN INTERACTIONS Department of Mathematics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy September 4-6, 2006 Aims and scope The school is addressed to students and researchers either with an applied mathematics, computer science or engineering background who are interested in cell biology applications or to cellular biologists and biochemists who wish to gain new quantitative insights. In particular, it will focus on multiscale processes for protein interactions. Lecturers * Kevin Burrage, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia * Johan Suykens, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium * Andrew Torda, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Topics Systems Biology will be a significant scientific discipline in the twenty first century. Modelling and simulation will become key components: we will need to understand the interplay between the deterministic and stochastic, between the continuous and the discrete, and between small scale and large scale. This set of lectures attempts to explore these interplays. (Kevin Burrage) The lectures aim at providing a systematic overview of support vector machines and kernel based methods in supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised learning. Applications towards the specific needs for microarray data analysis will be explained. Different case studies will be considered. (Johan Suykens) Protein force fields range from models based on physics to ones based on naive statistics and entertaining optimisation procedures. Here we will discuss how to build, break and apply score functions, when they are fun and when they are tragic. (Andrew Torda) All information available at: http://dm.unife.it/SCCB2006 REGISTRATION DEADLINE: July 31, 2006. Organizing Committee: Margherita Carletti, University of Urbino, Italy. Marco Prato, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Gaetano Zanghirati, University of Ferrara, Italy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 14 ======= From: Jun-tao Guo Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:33:09 -0400 Call for Participation Workshop on Comparative Genome Analyses of Bacterial Genomes and Applications At 2006 LSS Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB2006) Friday, August 18, 2006, Stanford University, CA Please visit the workshop website below for latest information about lecture abstract, speaker's biography, presentation slides and videos. http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/conference/CSB2006/workshop/ Please visit the conference website below for registration and other information. http://www.lifesciencessociety.org/CSB2006/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 15 ======= From: Talbi Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:45:16 +0200 ********************************************************************** META'2006 : School and Workshop Metaheuristics : From Theory to Applications 2-4 Nov 2006 Hammamet, Tunisia http://www.lifl.fr/META2006/english.html ********************************************************************** New Deadline : 15 July 1006 (2 pages) Selected papers in JMMA : Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms Keywords (non exhaustive) : ==================== - Local search metaheuristics : simulated annealing, tabu search, VNS, GLS, ... - Population based metaheuristics: evolutionary algorithms, scatter search, immune systems, neural networks, ... - Greedy algorithms, GRASP, Ant colonies, ... - Hybrid metaheuristics, Parallel and distributed metaheuristicsn software for metaheuristics, ... - Application to combinatorial and continous optimization, multi-objective optimization, data mining, operations research, ... - Application to dynamic problems, stochastic problems, problems with uncertainty, ... - Application to telecommunications, transportation and logistics, bioinformatics, engineering design, routing and assignment, ... Prof. El-Ghazali TALBI ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 16 ======= From: "Professor Dr. T.E. Simos" Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 10:52:24 +0300 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS 2006 (ICNAAM 2006) HOTEL BELVEDERE IMPERIAL, HERSONNISOS, CRETE, GREECE, 15-19 SEPTEMBER 2006. URL address: http://www.icnaam.org/ The aim of ICNAAM 2006 is to bring together leading scientists of the international Numerical & Applied Mathematics community and to attract original research papers of very high quality. The topics to be covered include (but are not limited to): All the research areas of Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics and all the research areas of Applied and Industrial Mathematics: (see http://www.icnaam.org/topics.htm). Chairman and Organizer Prof. T.E. Simos, University of Peloponnese, Greece. Proceedings: Extended abstracts will be published in a Special Volume of Wiley-VCH. We note that the Proceedings of ICNAAM 2004 have been abstracted/indexed in: ISI Proceedings, Zentrablatt fur Mathematik, MathSciNet. Until now, the Proceedings of ICNAAM 2005 have been abstracted/indexed in: Zentrablatt fur Mathematik. Selected Proceedings of ICNAAM 2006 will be published in appropriate journals. Deadline for Sessions Workshops and Minisymposia: June 15, 2006 Deadline for submission of paper: July 10, 2006. SYMPOSIA WHICH HAVE BEEN APPROVED 1) Recent Advances in Neurotechnology: In The Crossroads of Neurology and Engineering (George Vachtsevanos) 2) Unmanned Vehicles (George Vachtsevanos) 3) Applied Clifford Analysis (applications in theoretical physics, mathematical physics, function theory, geometry, robotics, computer science and image processing) (Wolfgang Sproessig, Klaus Guerlebeck) 4) Optimal Control Theory and its Application to the Field of Biology. (D.K.Bhattacharya) 5) Self-validating methods and applications (Siegfried M. Rump) 6) Numerical Techniques in Electrical Engineering (Petrie Meyer, Tom Dhaene) 7) Numerical analysis of flow phenomena (Pawel Kosinski) 8) Computational Partial Differential Equations (Susanne C. Brenner, Ronald Hoppe) Contact information: Secretary ICNAAM, E-mail: icnaam@uop.gr, Postal Address: 10 Konitsis Street, Amfithea Paleon Faliron, GR-175 64, Athens, Greece, Fax: +30210 94 20 091 or + 302710 237 397 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 17 ======= From: "CMMSE 2006" Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 21:29:03 +0200 Call for Papers and Special Sessions: CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Satellite Conference of International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, 2006 http://www.urjc.es/cmmse2006/ September 20-23, 2006 University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain The 2006 Conference on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering Conference (CMMSE2006) is the sixth of this conference series. This conferences aims to be a unifying, cross-cutting, interdisciplinary gathering, where specialists can have exposure to diverse fields, a chance to meet new people in or near their individual areas of research, and participate in special sessions different from, but still close to, their own interests. Topics of Interest: -Computational Biology -Computational Chemistry -Computational Engineering -Computational Mathematics -Computational Physics -Computational Statistics -High Performance Computing -Industrial Mathematics -Mathematical modelling in Economy -Mathematical models in Medicine -Mathematical models for the information society -Space Geodesy and Space Dynamics -Computation in Complex Networks Extended abstracts will be published in the Proceedings of CMMSE 2006 and will be available at the conference. Selected full papers will be considered after peer review for publication in the following journals: -Advances in Quantum Chemistry, Elsevier -International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Wiley -Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (tentative) -Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, Kluwer -Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, Kluwer -Journal of Super Computing, Springer -Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Wiley (tentative) -International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Taylor-Francis Important Dates: Conference: September 20-23, 2006 Deadline for extended abstract submission: July 14, 2006 Acceptance Notification: July 22, 2006 Deadline for early registration: July 31, 2006 Conference registration fee is 400 euros (200 euros for students or=20 participants from developing countries). Further information: Check the web site http://www.urjc.es/cmmse2006/ email to: conference.cmmse2006@urjc.es ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 18 ======= From: "ICANNGA'07" Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:49:15 +0200 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION ICANNGA'07 - 8th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms 11-14 April 2007 Warsaw, Poland http://icannga07.ee.pw.edu.pl IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper Submission: 10 September 2006 Tutorials and Special Session Proposals: 4 June 2006 CONTACT: icannga07@ee.pw.edu.pl TOPICS Contributions are sought in the following topic areas (the list is not exhaustive): ** Neural Networks ** architectures, algorithms, approximation, complexity, associative memory, biological foundations, computational neuroscience, neurodynamics, neurocognition. ** Learning ** kernel methods, support vector machines, supervised and unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, bayesian learning. ** Evolutionary Computation ** genetic algorithms, genetic programming, multi-objective optimization, biological computation, classifier systems, artificial life, artificial immune systems, evolution strategies, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, swarm intelligence, evolvable hardware. ** Soft Computing ** fuzzy systems, rough systems, uncertain systems, hybrid systems, neurofuzzy controllers, embedded computing for intelligent systems, random search methods, probabilistic computing, chaotic computing, symbolic computing. ** Bioinformatics and Computational Biology ** molecular computing, DNA computing, bioinformatics databases, computational genomics, computational proteomics, clustering, mapping gene expression and micro arrays, gene identification and annotation, molecular evolution, molecular sequence analysis, protein structure, protein classification. ** Quantum Computing ** quantum control, supercomputing, autonomic computing. ** Applications ** medicine, environment, quantitative socio-dynamics, pattern recognition, classification, signal processing, control, power systems, simulation, robotics, diagnostics, transport, defence, security, finance and business, data mining and intelligent databases, speech recognition and natural language processing, image processing and computer vision, real-time computational intelligence and games, grid computing. TUTORIALS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS Ideas and nominations for interesting tutorials, special sessions, workshops and experts willing to organize various session tracks are called for. ORGANISERS Warsaw University of Technology Faculty of Electrical Engineering Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics Control Division Conference Chair: Bartlomiej Beliczynski B.Beliczynski@ee.pw.edu.pl SECRETARIAT Ms.Weronika Rechnio (Secretariat) Warsaw University of Technology Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics ul. Koszykowa 75 00-662 Warszawa, POLAND Phone: +4822 6607618 Fax: +4822 6256278 Email: icannga07@ee.pw.edu.pl Web site: http://icannga07.ee.pw.edu.pl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 19 ======= From: Emil Volcheck Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 18:38:21 +0000 ISSAC 2006 Online registration ============================== ISSAC is the yearly premier international symposium in Symbolic and Algebraic Computation. It provides an opportunity to learn of new developments and to present original research results in all areas of symbolic mathematical computation. Planned activities include invited presentations, research papers, poster sessions, tutorial courses, vendor exhibits and software demonstrations. ISSAC 2006 will be held from July 9 to 12 in Genoa, Italy. The ISSAC 2006 web site is http://issac2006.dima.unige.it/ . On line registration for ISSAC 2006 is now active at the conference web site and will be possible until *June 25* (inclusive), after which registration at the conference will include an additional charge of 50 euros regular or 25 euros for students. The regular registration fee is 360 euros, while ACM/SIGSAM members are entitled to a discounted fee of 310 euros. Registration fees include reception on Sunday evening (light dinner) lunch and refreshments on Monday through Wednesday banquet proceedings Extra banquet tickets are available at 63 euros each. Student registration fees 155 euros which includes lunches and reception but not the banquet. 180 euros with banquet for students who are authors of accepted papers. 210 euros with banquet for other students. Tutorials On Sunday July 9 there will be three tutorials. Triangular Decompositions of Polynomial Systems: from Theory to Practice Marc Moreno Maza CoCoA: A System for Computations in Commutative Algebra Anna Bigatti and Lorenzo Robbiano Hybrid Symbolic-Numeric Computation Erich Kaltofen and Lihong Zhi Lunch is included on Sunday for people registering for tutorials. 1 tutorial: 75 euros (students 45 euros) 2 tutorials: 95 euros (students 55 euros) 3 tutorials: 115 euros (students 65 euros) Sincerely, Barry Trager General Chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 20 ======= From: Chris Bauch Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:03:44 -0400 Call for Papers 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Toronto, Ontario, September 28-29. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, hosts the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. This international symposium brings together top researchers, practitioners and students from around the world on September 28-29, 2006 to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in bioinformatics and the biosciences. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies (evolutionary computation, neural computation, fuzzy systems, and other emerging techniques) in the following or similar areas: microarray analysis, phylogeny, feature selection in biological data, motif and pattern discovery, taxonomy, high-throughput biotechnology, sequence analysis and alignment, ecological modelling, cell simulation and modelling, molecular computing, and associated theory. Please see http://eldar.mathstat.uoguelph.ca/dashlock/CIBCB2006/CIBCB06CFP.pdf for details and submission instructions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 21 ======= From: CNS Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:33:21 -0700 The annual Computational Neuroscience meeting (CNS 2006) will be held in Edinburgh, UK from July 16th - 20th, 2006. The main meeting will start with an oral session at 9am on Sunday, July 16th and end on Tuesday, July 18th with an evening session. Workshops will start Wednesday, July 19th at 9am and end Thursday, July 20th in the evening. CNS 2006 Registration and lodging reservations are now open. Please note that in order to receive special accommodation rates for the meeting you MUST make your reservations before May 31st, 2006. Please visit www.cnsorg.org to make reservations. Early registration rates are available before June 15th, 2006. Please www.cnsorg.org to register for the meeting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 22 ======= From: Fabio A Milner Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 16:30:32 -0400 (EDT) Second Conference on Computational & Mathematical Population Dynamics FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT The Second Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD2) will take place in Campinas, Brazil, from July 16 to 20, 2007. This Conference is the second joint meeting of the Conference on Mathematical Population Dynamics (MPD) and the Conference on Deterministic and Stochastic Models for Biological Interactions (DeStoBio), with a 20-year history of international meetings with ever-increasing participation. As in the previous conferences from both series, aim of the meeting is to bring together people from different fields (applied mathematicians, statisticians, engineers, computer scientists, biologists, clinicians, epidemiologists, biomedical scientists, ecologists...) interested in (deterministic and/or stochastic) models for population dynamics and interactions. Population dynamics here is intended in a very wide sense, including everything from populations of animals and plants, to populations of cells or molecules. Hence, topics of the conference will include ecology (including epidemic spread), cell population dynamics (including immunology, tumor growth) and molecular biology (including molecular evolution and genetics, genomics). The meeting will focus on modeling of quantitative data in these fields, analysis of models, and their applications. There will be approximately 12 plenary lectures and several parallel sessions organized by thematic interest. Further information will be available at _www.cmpd2.ime.unicamp.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 23 ======= From: Rui Dilão Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 01:08:48 +0100 BIOMAT 2006, UFAM, 25--30 November, Manaus Dear Colleague, We would like to invite you to participate in the BIOMAT 2006 International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology(http://www.biomat.org), to be held at Manaus, AM Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), from 25th to 30th November 2006. The first two days (Saturday and Sunday, 25-26th November) will be reserved for tutorials and mini-courses addressed to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. This introduction will be followed by four days of plenary sessions with Keynote Speakers talks and technical sessions (oral and poster) with contributed papers. The BIOMAT International Symposia assemble together professionals from several scientific and technological formations, with a special interest in biological phenomena and the mathematical and Computational modelling of Biosystems. These conferences have a unique character at promoting the integrated participation of these professionals. Prospective participants should fulfill the requirements for inscription to be found at http://www.biomat.org. Abstracts submission should be done with a LaTeX or a Word templates available at http://www.biomat.org . The abstracts will be selected in a blind reviewing process by members of the Editorial Board of BIOMAT, which will invite you to submit your full contribution. This contribution will be reviewed as a regular paper of any indexed journal. Like in previous symposia, accepted papers will be published by an international publisher (http://www.biomat.org/biomat/index.html and http://www.worldscibooks.com/lifesci/6098.html). Also, for the first time in the BIOMAT Symposia, that we are negotiating with an international publisher the publication of the tutorial lectures. If you have any queries about the BIOMAT 2006 Symposium, please do not hesitate to write us. Scientific Committee: http://www.biomat.org/biomat6/committee2006.html Rubem P. Mondaini Chairman of the BIOMAT Consortium / BIOMAT 2006 Scientific Program Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 24 ======= 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: caims@caims.ca. 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