CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 05 Number 3 September 09, 2005 Editor: Rod Edwards (edwards@math.uvic.ca) CONTENTS Society News 1. Free CAIMS*SCMAI memberships for new hires in Applied Math 2. Position Announcements in the CAIMS*SCMAI Publications 3. CAIMS*SCMAI-MITACS 2006 Joint Annual Meeting - York University Other News 4. News from the Fields Institute 5. Alberta Agriculture press release on climate paper Position Announcements ** Links to this and other position announcements can be found at http://www.caims.ca/Positions 6. University of Waterloo - Tenure Track Position in Mathematical Medicine Conferences 7.* FIELDS WORKSHOP: Grand Mathematical Challenges of Medical Image Processing 8.* 26th Midwest-Pacific Differential Equations Conference 9.* International Workshop on Applied Dynamical Systems: Mechanics, Turbulence, Knots, Cockroaches and Chaos 10.* 5th Georgia Tech - ORNL International Conference on Bioinformatics, in Silico Biology: "Computational Genomics and Evolutionary Biology" 11.* European Conference on Complex Systems 2005 (ECCS'05) 12.* DIMACS Workshop on Economic Epidemiology 13.* Marrakesh 2006 World Conference on Diff Equations and Applications 14.* Mathematical Biology and Dynamical Systems, 2005 15.* First School on Computational Cell Biology - SCCB2005 16.* Workshop on The Modeling of Cancer Progression and Immunotherapy 17.* ACM SAC conference track on Distributed Systems and Grid Computing 18.* First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE) 19. CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information * Links to the web pages for these and other conferences can be found by clicking on "Upcoming Meetings and Workshops" at the CAIMS*SCMAI home page: www.caims.ca. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 1 ====== From: Rod Edwards Date: Thur, 1 Sept. 2005 21:53:45 -0700 CAIMS*SCMAI has a policy of giving free memberships to new hires in Applied Math. If your department has recently hired a new faculty member, please let us know their name and departmental mailing address, so that we can sign them up! We ask them to send us an application form for individual membership with the words "New Faculty" written over the payment section of the form. Information may be sent to the CAIMS*SCMAI secretary, Rod Edwards, edwards@math.uvic.ca. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 2 ====== From: Rod Edwards Date: Thur, 1 Sept. 2005 21:53:45 -0700 Position Announcements in the CAIMS*SCMAI Publications Please encourage your department to advertise position announcements in the CAIMS*SCMAI Publications. Our membership is diverse and our publications reach a different audience than those of other mathematical societies. Advertising rates are as follows: Enews - $50 (one free ad/year for Institutional Members) Newsletter - $300 for one page ad, $500 for ad on backcover (includes posting on the CAIMS*SCMAI web site) Web page - $100 Advertisements for the Fall Bulletin/Newsletter should be sent in electronic format to edwards@math.uvic.ca by September 30, 2005. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 3 ====== From: stockie@cs.sfu.ca Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 03:10:53 +0000 ANNOUNCEMENT: CAIMS-MITACS 2006 JOINT ANNUAL MEETING The 2006 joint CAIMS-MITACS Annual Meeting will be held at York University in Toronto, Canada from June 15-20, 2006. This meeting will be a showcase of Canadian industrial and applied mathematics and the broad range of exciting collaborative research activities conducted by MITACS scientists. The meeting features joint scientific sessions in the areas of: * Fluid Dynamics (the Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics) * Industrial Mathematics * Financial Mathematics * Scientific Computing * Nonlinear Dynamics in the Health Sciences * Data Analysis * Image Processing and Inverse Problems * Operations Research and Optimization * Bioinformatics * Communications, Security and Networks * Symbolic Computation * Visual Mathematics In addition, a poster session for graduate students and industry workshops (with joint industry-academic participation) will be held. Preliminary information can be found at the meeting website: http://www.mitacs.ca/agm2006.html This meeting is sponsored jointly by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS), the Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) NCE, CRM, Fields Institute, PIMS, and York University. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 4 ====== News from the Fields Institute There are several seminars of possible special interest to CAIMS members: 1. The Industrial Optimization Seminar. This series meets once a month, on the first Tuesday in the early evening. Each meeting comprises two related lectures on a topic in optimization; typically, one speaker will be a university-based researcher and the other from the private or government sector. See www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/cim/05-06/optimization_seminar/ for details. 2. The Applied Mathematics Colloquium/Seminar also meets monthly and is intended to be a focal point for mathematicians in the areas of applied mathematics and analysis. The series consists of talks by internationally recognized experts in the field, some of whom reside in the region and others who are invited to visit especially for the colloquium. It meets for one session per month during the academic year. See www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/05-06/applied_math/ for details and the schedule. 3. The PRMIA Risk Management Seminar. This seminar presents talks on issues of current interest to both professionals and academics in the fields of risk management. The first seminar, Risk Management in Canadian Life Insurance Companies - a Regulatory Perspective, on September 14, will be given by Allan Brender, Senior Director, Actuarial Division in the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada. See www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/cim/05-06/PRMIA/ for details and future seminars. 4. The Quantitative Finance Seminar. The mandate of this seminar is to arrange talks on current research in quantitative finance that will be of interest to those who work on the border between industry and academia. The seminar takes place at 5pm on the last Wednesday of every month throughout the academic year. Each seminar is organized around a single theme with two 45-minute talks and a half hour reception. The first seminar this fall (on September 28) will be given by Dmitry Kramkov from Carnegie Mellon University and Mark Reesor from the University of Western Ontario. See /www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/cim/financial_math/finance_seminar/05-06/index.html for further information. A new Fields venture, the Centre for Mathematical Medicine, opened on Friday, September 2. Its progenitors are Amit Oza from Princess Margaret Hospital at the University of Toronto and Siv Sivaloganathan from the University of Waterloo. Its goals are 1. to establish a research centre that will focus on research utilizing mathematics to address therapeutic challenges in medicine, and use mathematical modeling to direct intelligent therapeutic strategies and trials in medicine, 2. to bring together researchers from mathematics and medicine to discuss problems of current interest in the medical sciences, and 3. to establish a teaching program and seminar series - coordinate undergraduate and graduate teaching in mathematical medicine. See www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/CMM/index.htm for more information. Two of the first events sponsored by the CMM will be a workshop on Modeling in Oncology, Problems and Challenges, held at the Institute on October 5, and a workshop at the University of Waterloo Grand Mathematical Challenges of Medical Image Processing on October 21-23. The annual symposium celebrating new Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada will take place on November 14, 2005. The new fellows, in mathematics and related disciplines, will give expository talks on their work. The thematic programs during the fall term this year is Renormalization and Universality in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, concentrating on the physical aspects of renormalization - statistical physics, conformal field theory, the underlying Hopf-algebraic structure, renormalization in PDE - while that during the winter/spring term will be Holomorphic Dynamics, Laminations, and Hyperbolic Geometry with a dynamical flavour: holomorphic and smooth dynamics, KAM theory and renormalization of Hamiltonian flows, conformal invariance and universality in 2D stochastic processes. Oded Schramm of Microsoft will give three lectures on Scaling limits of two dimensional random systems on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 3:30pm, September 13-15, in the Coxeter Lecture Series. On Monday October 4, Leo P. Kadanoff of the University of Chicago will give a Clay Mathematics Institute Public Lecture Making a Splash; Breaking a Neck: The Development of Complexity in Physical Systems. And then on November 23-25, Lai-Sang Young of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences will deliver another set of Coxeter Lectures, with a title to be announced. Next year's thematic programs will be Cryptography during the Fall (2006) term and Geometric Applications of Homotopy Theory during the Winter/Spring (2007) term. A complete listing of all Fields Institute events is available on the Fields homepage www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/, and readers of the CAIMS-SCMAI E-News are reminded that they can subscribe to a weekly emailing of Fields events on www.fields.utoronto.ca/maillist, and that the overheads and/or sound tracks of most lectures can be found on our website at www.fields.utoronto.ca/audio/ . Application Deadlines: For full details, follow "Proposals & Applications" on our homepage www.fields.utoronto.ca. Some of the upcoming deadlines are - General scientific activity (in the form of workshops, seminars, conferences and/or summer schools), October 15. - Nominations for the CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize, October 1. - Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2006/07, December 9. Carl Riehm Fields Institute ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 5 ====== From: Sam Shen Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:06:30 -0600 Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (i.e., the Alberta Ministry of Agriculture) has made a press release on the paper "S.S.P. Shen, H. Yin, K. Cannon, A. Howard, S. Chetner, and T.R. Karl, Temporal and spatial changes of agroclimate in Alberta during 1901-2002, J. Appl. Meteo. 44, 1090-1105 (2005). " You can see the press release at: http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/newslett.nsf/all/agnw7866 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 6 ====== From: Ann Puncher Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:10:36 -0400 UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO Department of Applied Mathematics Tenure Track Position in Mathematical Medicine The Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of mathematical medicine, to begin on or after July 1, 2006. Appointment at the Assistant Professor level is preferred, but extraordinarily strong candidates would be considered for a more senior position. Salary will be commensurate with experience and research record. Current research in this area includes projects being carried out in collaboration with medical practitioners at Princess Margaret Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, which focus on the development of mechanical models that accurately describe a variety of diseases and clinical conditions. Candidates should exhibit potential for outstanding research, and should have a strong mathematical background. We are looking for applicants with enthusiasm for teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae (including a statement of research interests and teaching philosophy) and the names and addresses of at least three referees to J. Wainwright, Chairman, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 (reference letters should not be sent at this stage). Screening of applications will begin on December 15, 2005, and the final deadline for receiving applications is January 15, 2006. Applications received after this date will be considered only if the position has not been filled. The Department of Applied Mathematics, together with the Departments of Combinatorics & Optimization, Pure Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science and the School of Computer Science, form the Faculty of Mathematics, which is a major centre for research in the mathematical sciences. Further information about the Department may be obtained from our webpage at www.math.uwaterloo.ca/AM_Dept/index.html. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, native peoples, and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 7 ====== From: Jeff Orchard Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:39:20 -0400 FIELDS WORKSHOP Grand Mathematical Challenges of Medical Image Processing (A 3-day Advanced Workshop on the Mathematics of Medical Imaging) Friday, October 21 - Sunday, October 23, 2005 University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada WHO SHOULD ATTEND Medical Imaging Researchers, Mathematicians, and Health System Leaders interested in medical imaging. HOW TO APPLY Applications to participate in the workshop may be submitted via the web at: http://hi.uwaterloo.ca/fieldsworkshop Application Deadline: September 15/05 EARLY BIRD FEE $150 - Apply by August 15/05 REGULAR FEE $200 - Apply after August 15/05 Attendance is limited to 75 participants. PURPOSE This workshop is intended to stimulate innovative thinking related to the mathematical aspects of medical imaging, to foster the exchange of information and insights among its participants, and to seed new collaborations in areas of mutual interest. The workshop will culminate in the definition of potential research topics to be pursued. WORKSHOP FORMAT Interactive lectures and panel discussions interspersed with informal working sessions and social activities GRAND CHALLENGE LECTURE A critical overview of the state of diagnostic medical imaging: what's working, what's not. CHALLENGES AND DIRECTIONS LECTURES Presentations giving high-level descriptions and overviews of specific problem domains: > Medical Image Representation > Medical Imaging Modalities MATHEMATICAL TOOLS IN MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING LECTURES Presentations on essential mathematical toolboxes for medical image processing. > Image Transforms > Partial Differential Equations > Statistics > Inverse Problems & Solutions BRAINSTORMING SESSION A concluding forum to define new directions in medical imaging research. Workshop Director: Jeff Orchard, Professor, Computer Science Tel: 519-888-4567, ext. 5037; Email: jorchard@cs.uwaterloo.ca Administrative Contact: Colleen Richardson, WIHIR Tel: 519-888-4004; Fax: 519-746-5422; Email: crichard@csg.uwaterloo.ca University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 Website: http://hi.uwaterloo.ca/fieldsworkshop For more information call: 1-800-860-7901 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 8 ====== From: "Dr. Michael Y. Li" Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:19:17 -0400 This is a update on the preparation of the 26th Midwest-Pacific Differential Equations Conference, October 15-17, 2005, at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. The conference is held in honor of the retirement of Professors Jack Macki and James Muldowney from the University of Alberta. The conference website is at http://www.math.ualberta.ca/ami/mwpde.html. Information on registration, hotels, travel, contacts, and financial support for graduate students/postdocs can be found on the website. Registration and submission of abstract can be done online at http://www.math.ualberta.ca/ami/mwpde/registration.htm. The deadline for abstract is September 15, 2005. Registration fees are $150 Canadian dollars for faculty members, and $60 Canadian dollars for graduate students. Payment can be made by personal checks or credit cards. Social events include: Welcoming reception on October 14, Banquet on October 15, Wine and cheese reception on October 16. The cost for social events are included in the registration fees. A refereed conference proceedings will be published by the Canadian Applied Math Quarterly. Travel assistance for graduate students/postdocs are available through a grant from the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS). We expect average award will be $200 Canadian dollars, depending on the number of applicants. To apply, please go to the conference website for instructions. For questions and assistance please contact the organizers by email at mwpde@math.ualberta.ca (All organizers and secretary) or mli@math.ualberta.ca (Michael Li) or hfreedma@math.ualberta.ca (Herb Freedman). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 9 ====== From: "Sue Ann Campbell" Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:12:09 -0400 International Workshop on Applied Dynamical Systems: Mechanics, Turbulence, Knots, Cockroaches and Chaos October 15-16, 2005 Centre de recherches mathematiques Montreal, Quebec http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Dynamical05/ (French) http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Dynamical05/index_e.html (English) Organizing Committee: Jacques Belair (Montreal) Sue Ann Campbell (Waterloo) Jeff Moehlis (UC Santa Barbara) N. Sri Namachchivaya (UIUC) Steve Shaw (Michigan State) This International Workshop seeks to build bridges between the theoretical and applied communities by bringing together experts with very different backgrounds and expertise within the engineering, science, and applied mathematics communities, and promoting themes of common interest in classical and emerging areas of Applied Dynamical Systems research. For the engineering and and applied science communities, this workshop will provide the opportunity to obtain first-hand information on recent developments in related mathematical areas, and to point out directions where further research is needed to solve important problems. The applied mathematics community will benefit from the opportunity to obtain information on a variety of possible applications. A special aspect of the conference will be a celebration of the 60th birthday of Philip Holmes, including a banquet in his honour. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 10 ======= From: Georgia Tech Conference Announcement Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:49:22 -0400 Online abstract submission, early registration are now open --- 5th Georgia Tech - ORNL International Conference on Bioinformatics, in Silico Biology "Computational Genomics and Evolutionary Biology" November 17-19, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Home Page: http://opal.biology.gatech.edu/conference/ ORGANIZED BY Georgia Tech Oak Ridge National Lab Selected papers will be published in a special issue of BIOINFORMATICS journal (Oxford University Press) IMPORTANT DATES November 17-19, 2005 - Conference time September 30, 2005 - Poster Abstract submissions due October 14, 2005 - Early Registration due ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 11 ======= From: Frangois Kiphs Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:15:07 +0200 DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION: SEPTEMBER 30 European Conference on Complex Systems 2005 (ECCS'05) PARIS (Citi Internationale Universitaire) November 14-18, 2005 11 SATELLITE WORKSHOPS AND 7 AFTERNOON TRACKS NOW ONLINE AT http://complexsystems.lri.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 12 ======= From: Linda Casals Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:35:33 -0400 (EDT) DIMACS Workshop on Economic Epidemiology http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/EconEpid/ October 24 - 25, 2005 DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University Organizers: Dave Smith, NIH, smitdave@helix.nih.gov Ramanan Laxminarayan, Resources for the Future, ramanan@rff.org Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology. Workshop Announcement: The emergence and spread of resistance to antimicrobial agents is a complex interplay between economics, human behavior, and disease ecology. Mathematical models can help make sense of the complexity and vastly improve our understanding of the interplay between these factors. The DIMACS workshop on economic epidemiology is planned as the first of a series of consultations between economists and biologists working on issues of infectious diseases modeling and policy. A special focus of this first workshop will be on the management of antimicrobial resistance. Economic incentives play an important role in determining antibiotic use, infection control and the evolution of resistance. At first glance, one notes that those who use or prescribe antibiotics have few or no incentives to consider the impact of their decisions on the rest of society. On further reflection, it is evident that this problem of missing incentives extends to institutions such as hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry. Hospitals operating in the vicinity of many other medical care institutions that share patients may have fewer incentives to invest in hospital infection control to manage resistance if the benefits of their actions mainly accrue to other institutions. Drug firms that are involved in the manufacture of antibiotics similarly may fail to consider the impact of their aggressive antibiotic marketing campaigns on cross-resistance with other antibiotics that are being used. Understanding the role of incentives in the evolution of drug resistance, and the implications for the management of resistance will form the agenda of the first workshop. The broad purpose of the Workshop is to encourage greater application of economic intuition and analytical methods to mathematical models of disease evolution. Call for Participation: Main speakers are by invitation only. Workshop participants may submit papers by contacting one of the organizers no later than September 2nd, 2005. Registration: Pre-registration deadline: October 17, 2005 Please see website for additional registration information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 13 ======= From: Julien Arino Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:02:13 -0500 Marrakesh 2006 World Conference on Diff Equations and Applications We are writing to announce the Marrakesh World Conference on Differential Equations and Applications, which will take place in Marrakesh in June 2006. At this time, the list of plenary speakers is still being constituted; we would like to invite those interested to take contact with one of the coordinating organizers (J. Arino and M.L. Hbid; see http://euromedbiomath.free.fr/m2006). Dates : June 15-20, 2006 TOPICS Theory of differential equations (ordinary, delay and related, partial differential equations, stochastic differential equations, integral equations, differential inclusions), qualitative aspects, methods of resolution, methods of study, general theory of evolution equations, semigroups, dynamical systems, branching processes, stochastic processes, numerical analysis of evolution equations, control theory. Applications in population dynamics, cellular dynamics, mathematical epidemiology, mathematical biology, mathematical ecology, urban dynamics, resource management. IMPORTANT DATES December, 2005 : Second Announcement. March 31, 2006 : Deadline for the reception of abstracts of contributed talks (one page maximum). April 15, 2006 : Deadline for payment of early fee. April 30, 2006 : Decisions on projects of contributed talks. May 20-31, 2006 : Mailing of the 3rd (and last) Announcement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 14 ======= From: rculshaw@uttyler.edu Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:37:50 -0500 Mathematical Biology and Dynamical Systems The University of Texas at Tyler, October 7 - 9, 2005. (Funded by NSA and The University of Texas at Tyler) This conference aims to bring together experts in various areas of mathematical and theoretical biology. Topics to be covered include DNA, knot theory and computing, theoretical immunology, epidemiology, and population dynamics. List of confirmed speakers includes: Lou Kauffman (UIC), Nelson Hairston (Cornell), Susannah Gal (SUNY Binghamton), DeWitt Sumners (FSU), Jim Lynch (Clarkson), Mary Lou Zeeman (UTSA), Bruce Ayati (SMU), Sophia Jang (Louisiana), Jennifer Mann (FSU), Natasa Macura (Trinity), Yuzuru Sato (Santa Fe Institute), William Romey (SUNY Potsdam), Maia Martcheva (University of Florida). There will also be a poster presentation session. See http://math.uttyler.edu/math/conference/ for details. Organisers: Rebecca Culshaw (UT Tyler Mathematics), Cliff Boucher (UT Tyler Biology), Kazem Mahdavi (UT Tyler), Shigui Ruan (University of Miami). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 15 ======= From: Margherita Carletti Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:42:19 +0200 First School on Computational Cell Biology- SCCB2005 THE ROLE OF STOCHASTICITY IN THE MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES Institute of Biomathematics University of Urbino (Italy), 5th Centenary of Foundation November 7-9, 2005 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 ways in which stochasticity occurs in the modelling and simulation of biological processes, particularly within the cell. Lecturers * Kevin Burrage, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia * Desmond J. Higham, The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK * Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Topics The role of noise in Biological processes with an emphasis on discrete and continuous stochastic modelling of genetic regulatory networks and the importance of spatial modelling in cellular kinetics. (Kevin Burrage) Computational graph theory for clustering and ordering large datasets and for understanding connectivity structures. Use of random graph models to represent such datasets. A protein interaction network model. (Desmond J. Higham) Optimization methods for statistical learning related to biology and genomic applications. (Sayan Mukherjee) All information available at: http://dm.unife.it/SCCB2005 REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 23, 2005. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 16 ======= From: Helen Moore Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:35:39 -0400 Workshop on The Modeling of Cancer Progression and Immunotherapy December 12 to December 16, 2005 at the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), Palo Alto, CA organized by Lisette de Pillis, Ami Radunskaya, and Charles Wiseman This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will bring together a multidisciplinary collection of experts to work on refining mathematical models of cancer growth, therapy delivery, and cancer interaction with the immune system. A central goal of the workshop will be to combine state of the art knowledge of immune-related treatment strategies with mathematical models that can reflect realistic qualitative and quantitative behavior of cancer growth and response to treatment. Space and funding is available for a few more participants. The deadline for applications is September 12, 2005. More information and an online application are available here: http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/tumorimmune.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 17 ======= From: Robert van Engelen Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:55:29 -0400 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing-SAC 2006 Special Track on Distributed Systems and Grid Computing Dijon, France April 23-27, 2006 http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/sac06-dsgc CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------ A special track on Distributed Systems and Grid Computing will be held in ACM SAC'06. This track aims to be a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners in academia, industry and research institutes to share technical ideas, experiences and results and to present their latest findings in any aspects of Distributed Systems and Grid Computing. The DSGC track will emphasize the design, architecture and software of parallel/distributed systems and Grid computing with their scientific and engineering applications. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of parallel/distributed systems and Grid computing. The track solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: - Software environments, middleware, compilers, and programming language support for distributed systems and Grid computing - Parallel and distributed architectures - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Optimizing compilers for high-performance computing - High performance Java - Load sharing and balancing - Task mapping and job scheduling - Resource allocation and management - Architecture and operating system support for parallel systems - Supercomputing applications - Scalable servers - Application studies using distributed systems and Grid computing - Clusters - Data Grids - Peer to Peer (desktop PC Grids) - High performance I/O and file systems - Security, reliability, configuration, policy, and management issues in Grids - Performance analysis, modeling, simulation, and prediction - Design or use of commercial Grid systems Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. This includes three categories of submissions: 1) original and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry; and 3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC^R06 proceedings. Submit your paper electronically to http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/sac06-dsgc in PDF or postscript (see the track web page for details). The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in any cover page or in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Because the review process is blind, authors' names and affiliations should appear only on the electronic submission form. The final version (camera-ready) of the accepted papers should be submitted in PDF format so that they can be included in the proceedings as well as in the ACM Digital Library. For more information contact: sac06-dsgc@cslab.ece.ntua.gr Important Dates -------------------------------- Paper Due: September 3, 2005 Author Notification: October 15, 2005 Camera-Ready Paper Due: November 5, 2005 Track Program Chairs -------------------------------- Robert van Engelen, Florida State University, USA Madhu Govindaraju, Binghamton University, USA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Kleanthis Psarris, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA About the ACM SAC 2006 Conference -------------------------------- For the past twenty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2006 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing. For more information about the ACM SAC'06 conference, please visit http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2006/ Symposium Chair Hisham M. Haddad Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, Georgia, USA hhaddad@kennesaw.edu Symposium Vice Chair Richard Chbeir LE2I-CNRS University of Bourgogne Dijon, France richard.chbeir@u-bourgogne.fr Program Chairs Roger L. Wainwright University of Tulsa Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA rogerw@utulsa.edu Sascha Ossowski University Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain sossowski@acm.org Tutorials Chair Kokou Yetongnon LE2I-CNRS University of Bourgogne Dijon, France kokou@u-bourgogne.fr Publication Chair Lorie M. Liebrock New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, NM, USA liebrock@cs.nmt.edu Local Arrangement Chair Christophe Nicolle LE2I-CNRS University of Bourgogne Dijon, France cnicolle@u-bourgogne.fr Posters Chair Mathew J. Palakal Indiana University Purdue University mpalakal@cs.iupui.edu Treasurer/Webmaster Hisham M. Haddad Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, Georgia, USA hhaddad@kennesaw.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 18 ======= From: Jinli Cao Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:34:04 +1000 First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE) 30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.infoscale.org/ PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS As the data volumes continue to increase and the ways of information dispersion across the globe continue to diversify, new scalable methods and structures are needed for efficiently processing those distributed and autonomous data. Grid computing, P2P technology, distributed information retrieval technology, and networking technology all must be merged to address the scalability concern. This forum focuses on this key merged domain and looks for new integrated solutions for this diversifying world of information. Conference Scope: Parallel Information Retrieval Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval Scalable Grid Information Systems P2P Systems Scalable Mobile/Sensor DB Systems Index Compression Methods Architectures for Scalability Networking for Scalable Information Systems Scalable Information System Applications (medicine, biology, military, etc.) Evaluation Metrics for Scalability VLDB Data Mining Information Security Important Deadlines (tentative): Paper submission: 1 Nov 2005 Notification: 15 Jan 2006 Final version: 15 Feb 2006 Publications: Original and previously unpublished technical papers are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Press and available online through IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be published in journal special issues. General Chair Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong PC Chairs Abdur Chowdhury, AOL Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong Frank Zhigang Wang, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facilities Steering Committee Chairs Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Consortium, Chair Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Co-chair Publicity Chair Jinli Cao, La Trobe University Publications Chair Scott Huang, City University of Hong Kong Workshops Chair Niki Pissinou, Florida International University, Chair Tirthankar Ghosh, Vice Chair Hao Zhu, Vice Chair Local Arrangement Chair Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong Program Committee Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, Wales David Al-Dabass, University of Nottingham Trent, UK Mohand Boughanem, University Paul Sabatier, France Andrei Broder, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA David Carmel, IBM Research, Israel Jose Manuel Garcia Carrasco, University of Murcia, Spain Scott Cost, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK Arjen de Vries, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Netherlands David Doermann, University of Maryland, USA Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China Galal Hassan Galal-Edeen, Cairo University, Egypt Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA Nazli Goharian, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Siegmar Gross, University of Applied Sciences, Germany David Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA David Hawking, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg, Germany Otthein Herzog, University of Bremen, Germany Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, Netherlands Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada George Ioannidis, University of Bremen, Germany Narayana Jayaram, London Metropolitan University, UK Guojun Jin, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK Paul Kantor, Rutgers University, USA Stefan Kirn, University of Hohenheim, Germany Aleksander Kolcz, AOL, USA Peter Komisarczuk, University of Wellington, New Zealand Axel Korthaus, University of Mannheim, Germany Donald Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary University of London, UK Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, P. R. China Tao Li, University of Rochester, USA Andrew MacFarlane, City University London, UK James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University, USA Massimo Melucci, University of Padova, Italy Lingkui Meng, Wuhan University, P. R. 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