CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 02 Number 6 October 11, 2002 Editor: Sue Ann Campbell (sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca) CONTENTS 1. New section of the CAIMS*SCMAI web page - Employment Opportunities 2.* Update on ICIAM 2003 - Impending Deadlines 3.* International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications 4.* Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute at the CMM 5.* Alcala 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Ecology 6.* BIFURCATIONS: The Use and Control of Chaos 7. New England Complex Systems Institute 8. Journal: Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory 9. Tenure track position at University of Victoria 10. CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information * Links to the web pages for these and other conferences can be found by clicking on "Upcoming Meetings and Workshops" at the CAIMS*SCMAI home page: www.caims.ca. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 1 ====== From: Sue Ann Campbell Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:10:33 -0400 (EDT) New section of the CAIMS*SCMAI web page - Employment Opportunities I would like to call your attention to a new section the CAIMS*SCMAI web page. If you go to our main page (www.caims.ca) and click on "Employment Opportunities" you will find a listing of positions available in Industrial and Applied Mathematics. If you are interested in posting an ad on this page, please contact the CAIMS*SCMAI secretary (sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca). The cost is $100. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 2 ====== From: Sue Ann Campbell Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:38:23 -0400 (EDT) Update on ICIAM 2003 - Impending Deadlines Just a reminder that the deadline for submission of minisymposia proposals and for submission of abstracts for contributed talks is OCTOBER 31, 2002. Guidelines on how to prepare and submit minisymposium proposals can be found by going to www.iciam.org and clicking on "Minisymposia". Information on submission of abstracts for contributed talks can be found by going to www.iciam.org and clicking on "Contributed Talks and Posters". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 3 ====== From: C. J. K. Tan Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 04:52:55 +0500 THE 2003 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ITS APPLICATIONS ICCSA 2003 Montreal, Canada May 18, 2003 -- May 21, 2003 Introduction ------------ The 2003 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2003) will be held at the Delta Centreville Hotel, Montreal, Canada, from May 18, 2003 till May 21, 2003. ICCSA 2003 is subsequent to the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) series of events, which were held in San Francisco, USA (2001) and Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2002). Computational Science is increasingly becoming a vital part of many scientific investigations, affecting researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from aerospace and automotive, to chemistry, electronics, geosciences, to mathematics, and physics. Due to the shear size of many challenges in computational science, the use of supercomputing, parallel processing, and sophisticated algorithms, is inevitable. The concentration of this Conference is in the realms of computational science in parallel and distributed environments, encompassing the facilitating theoretical foundations and the applications of such large scale computations. The Conference offers the opportunity to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, and to shape future directions for research, as well as to help industrial users apply techniques of large scale parallel and distributed computations. We invite you to submit a: o full paper of 6 to 10 pages (Letter or A4 paper) for oral presentation, o proposal to organize a technical session. Submitted papers have to be original, containing new results that were not previously published. Full version of accepted papers will appear in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS), Springer-Verlag. Conference Themes ----------------- There are five major conference themes planned: o Computational Methods, Algorithms and Applications o Scientific Visualization and Image Processing o Computational Number Theory, Partial Differential Equations and Optimization o Information Systems and Technologies o Computational Science Education o Open Theme You are invited to submit a paper presenting an original research in one of the conference themes. Paper Submission ---------------- The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS. See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for formatting information. For all details with respect to the electronic submission see http://www.ucalgary.ca/iccsa/. The paper must present an original work, not published elsewhere. Each paper will be refereed by at least three independent reviewers. Paper submission indicates the intention of the author to present the paper at ICCSA 2003. Proposal for Organizing Technical Sessions ------------------------------------------ We invite proposals for technical sessions in one of the conference themes. Each technical session will have at least 6 paper presentations. Sessions with a large number of papers may be approved as workshops. The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including soliciting, reviewing, and selecting the papers. Some financial assistance may be available for the session chairs. After the Conference, some sessions will be considered for publication in appropriate journals as Special Issues with the session proposer as the Guest Editor of the journal. Proposals to organize technical sessions should include the following information: o title of the technical session o name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address of the proposer(s) o description of the topic of the session (not exceeding 100 words) o a short description on how the session will be advertised The deadline for proposal submission is January 6, 2003. Please send your proposal to iccsa@sharcnet.ca. Important Dates --------------- January 6, 2003: Deadline for paper submission (full papers) and event proposals. February 13, 2003: Notification of acceptance. February 28, 2003: Camera Ready Papers and Pre-registration. May 18 -- 22, 2003: ICCSA 2003 Conference in Montreal, Canada. Proceedings ----------- The proceedings of the Conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A selected number of papers will be published as special issues in appropriate journals (such as International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Journal of Supercomputing, International Journal of Mathematical Algorithms). Conference fees ---------------- For all details with respect to the conference fees see http://www.ucalgary.ca/iccsa/. Special discounts for students and participants from some academia/research institutions may be available. Best Student Paper Award ------------------------- The Best Student Paper Award will be provided to the most original and innovative submission. One of the authors should be a full time graduate student at the time of the paper submission. Organization ------------ Honorary Chair: Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota, USA) Conference Chair: C. J. Kenneth Tan (Heuchera Technologies, Canada and SHARCNET, Canada) Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada) Local Organizing Chair: Pierre L'Ecuyer (University of Montreal, Canada) International Steering Committee: Michael Bauer (SHARCNET, Canada) J. A. Rod Blais (University of Calgary, Canada) Alexander V. Bogdanov (Institute for High Performance Computing and Data Bases, Russia) Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada) Andres Iglesias (University de Cantabria, Spain) Benjoe A. Juliano (California State University at Chico, USA) Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota, USA) Renei S. Renner (California State University at Chico, USA) C. J. Kenneth Tan (Heuchera Technologies, Canada and SHARCNET, Canada) Jerzy Wasniewski (Danish Computing Center for Research and Education, Denmark) Contact Information ------------------- URL: http://www.ucalgary.ca/iccsa/ (N. American mirror) http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/iccsa/ (European mirror) http://www.optimanumerics.com/iccsa/ (European mirror) http://www.sharcnet.ca/iccsa/ (N. American mirror) E-mail address: iccsa@sharcnet.ca Mailing address: ICCSA 2003 C/O Marina Gavrilova Department of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N 1N4 Telephone: 1-519-694-2581 (in Canada) Facsimile: 1-519-850-2500 (in Canada) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 4 ====== From: pasi2003 Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 18:26:54 -0400 Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute at the CMM The Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) on Partial Differential Equations, Inverse Problems and Non-Linear Analysis will be held, January 6-18, 2003, at the Centro de Modelamiento Matematico (CMM), Facultad de Ciencias Fmsicas y Matematicas, Universidad de Chile. The interaction between Partial Differential Equations (PDE), Inverse Problems (IP), and Non-Linear Analysis (NLA) has produced remarkable developments in the last couple of decades or so. One of the main objectives of the PASI on PDE, IP and NLA is to bring many of these developments to advanced graduate students, postdocs and other scientists in the Americas interested in these fields and their applications. Another important objective of the PASI is to foster international cooperation throughout the Americas by bringing different areas of expertise in PDE, IP and NLA in one event. The PASI will consist of a series of intensive mini-courses during the first week followed the second week by a WORKSHOP focused on latest developments. During the workshop there will be invited plenary lectures of 45 minutes, half hour talks, and short communications. For more information please see the website http://www.dim.uchile.cl/pasi2003/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 5 ====== From: Sue Ann Campbell Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:30:12 -0400 (EDT) Alcala 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Ecology September 12-17, 2003. Alcala de Henares (Madrid), Spain. First Announcement. Call for Papers. The conference will feature recent advances in mathematical ecology, using new but also classical approaches, in a variety of topics including (but not limited to) the following: population ecology, behavioral ecology, ecotoxicology, evolutionary dynamics, management of living resources, population grouping, spatial aspects of ecology, stochastic models in ecology, individual based models, multiple scaling, etc.. Proposals for organizing sessions on these topics or other related ones are encouraged. Deadline for Session Proposals: December 1, 2002 Deadline for Abstracts: May 1, 2003 All information can be found on the WWW-server: http://www2.uah.es/matema/Aicme/aicme.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 6 ====== From: Marian Wiercigroch Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:18:43 +0100 BIFURCATIONS 2003 Between 28 and 30 July 2003 the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (http://www.ima.org.uk) is organising an intentional conference on BIFURCATIONS: The Use and Control of Chaos to be held in the Institute of Sound and Vibration, The University of Southampton. More information can be found at http://www.eng.abdn.ac.uk/~eng373/BIFS2003/index.htm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 7 ====== From: Yaneer Bar-Yam Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:38:07 -0400 NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE ANNOUNCEMENTS -> One Day Course: Introduction to Complex Systems MIT, October 6 -> Managing Complex Organizations Boston, MA, November 14-15 -> One Day Course: Introduction to Complex Systems University of Nevada, Reno, November 19 with USGS workshop including lectures by Stuart Kauffman and Stephen Wolfram -> One Week Intensive Course: Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems - MIT, January 2003 -> New NECSI publications online -> Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities -> Traveling Seminars for Fall and Spring -> Academic Year 2002-2003 Memberships -> NECSI Discussion Group -> NEW NECSI PUBLICATIONS ONLINE For more information see http://necsi.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 8 ====== From: TV-project Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:03:46 +0400 Journal: Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory, ISSN 1562-8363 Dear Madam, Dear Sir: We would like inform you that full information about the Journal mentioned above you can find to the address: http://www.sciencearea.com.ua We would like to find new subscribers to the Journal in your country. We would appreciate it very much if you could recommend our Journal to some libraries in your country. Yours faithfully, A.A.Martynyuk (Editor-in-Chief) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 9 ====== From: Jennifer Duggan Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:18:47 -0700 University of Victoria Department of Mathematics and Statistics The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level to commence on July 1, 2003. Applicants for the position should have a Ph.D. in Mathematics or Statistics. Preference will be given to applicants with specialization in one of the following areas: Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Modeling, Scientific Computation, Applied Probability, or Statistical Genetics. The successful applicant should be able to interact with the existing groups representing Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and is expected to participate in the activities of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and the Banff International Research Station (BIRS). A demonstrated record of excellence in research is expected from all applicants, and a strong commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching is essential. Information about the department, including descriptions of courses offered, can be found at its website: http://www.math.uvic.ca/ should submit a curriculum vitae and a teaching dossier (or equivalent documentation) that outlines their teaching experience, philosophy and effectiveness. They should also request three letters of reference be sent. Applications and reference letters should be directed to: Dr. John Phillips, Chair Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Victoria PO Box 3045 STN CSC Victoria BC V8W 3P4 CANADA Telephone: (250) 721-7436 FAX: (250) 721-8962 E-mail: acme@math.uvic.ca The CLOSING DATE for applications is December 31, 2002. The University of Victoria is an equity employer and encourages applications from women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, aboriginal peoples, people of all sexual orientations and genders, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of the University. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed in the first instance to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 10 ======= 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. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Board or Membership of CAIMS*SCMAI. The editorial policy of this publication is to encourage the discussion of issues and facilitate the dissemination of information relevant to Canadian applied and industrial mathematics. 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