CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 06 Number 7 December 19, 2006 Editor: Rod Edwards (edwards@math.uvic.ca) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS Society News: 1. CAIMS 2007 - Deadlines for abstracts, registration and accommodation 2. CAIMS 2007 Election - Call for Nominations 3. CAIMS Membership renewal reminder Other News: 4. Applied Mathematician on NSERC Council Summer Schools: 5. Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems and Applications (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Conferences and Workshops: * 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. 6.* International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) 7.* Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD2) (Campinas City, Brazil) - session proposals 8.* Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD2) (Campinas City, Brazil) - call for abstracts 9.* Joint EUROPT-OMS Meeting (Prague, Czech Republic) 10.* International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC 2007) (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) 11.* Special Track on Data Mining STDM-CBMS 2007 (Maribor, Slovenia) 12.* 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development (BIRD'07) (Berlin, Germany) 13.* 8th Hellenic European Research on Computer Mathematics and its Applications Conference (HERCMA 2007) (Athens, Greece) 14.* Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Networks Security (MMM-ACNS-07) (St. Petersburg, Russia) 15.* 6th International Conference on Lattice Path Combinatorics and Applications (Johnson City, Tennessee, USA) 16.* Netherlands Bioinformatics Conference (NBIC)/International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics (ISNB) (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 17.* 13th Czech-French-German Conference on Optimization (Heidelberg, Germany) 18.* International Conference in Modeling Health Advances (ICMHA 2007) (San Francisco, California, USA) 19.* Unconventional Computation 2007 (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) 20.* Conference on Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics (Newark, New Jersey, USA) 21.* Adaptive Dynamics Workshop (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) 22.* 16th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2007 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 23.* International Conference on Reaction-Diffusion & Viscosity Solutions (Taichung, Taiwan) 24.* International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2007) (Porto, Portugal) 25. CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 1 ====== From: "Rod Edwards" Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:56:00 -0700 CAIMS*SCMAI Annual Meeting, Banff, May 20-24, 2007 Important Deadlines: Reduced fee for early registration: Feburary 28, 2007 Room reservation at Banff Centre: Feburary 23, 2007 Registration (with name on program): April 15, 2007 Abstracts for presentations: Feburary 28, 2007 Abstracts for posters: March 31, 2007 Go to http://www.math.ualberta.ca/ami/caims2007.html for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 2 ====== From: Bob Russell Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:32:16 -0700 (PDT) CAIMS*SCMAI 2007 Election - Call for Nominations CAIMS*SCMAI will be holding an election in March 2007 for * President-Elect * Secretary * Two Members at Large on the Board of Directors All members of CAIMS*SCMAI are encouraged to suggest names of candidates for these offices. Nominations should reach the Chair of the Nominations Committee, Bob Russell by 31 December 2006. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 3 ====== From: "Rod Edwards" Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:01:00 -0700 If you have not yet renewed your CAIMS membership for 2007, please take a minute to do that. You should have received an Application form for 2007 with your Annual Newsletter, but you can also print it from the web at http://www.caims.ca/Society/subscribe.html . Please also make sure your department renews its institutional membership. Remember that these come with free associated memberships for students or post-doctoral fellows. The Institutional Application form is available at the same web site. Finally, remember that new faculty members qualify for a one-year free membership in CAIMS*SCMAI. Please encourage them to take advantage of this by printing an Individual Application form from the web site above and writing 'New Faculty' over the fee payment part of the form. All Application forms should be sent to our treasurer, Paul Muir, at Dept. of Mathematics and Computing Science St. Mary's University Halifax, NS B3H 3C3 Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 4 ====== From: Bill Langford Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:28:59 -0500 Bill Langford draws attention to the recent (Oct. 31) appointment of Dr. Christopher Essex of the University of Western Ontario to NSERC Council. He points out that it could be useful for CAIMS members to know there is now an applied mathematician on the Council. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 5 ====== From: Chair of Math and Stats Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:53:49 -0800 SÉMINAIRE DE MATHÉMATIQUES SUPÉRIEURES 2007 NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE HAMILTONIAN DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS SYSTÈMES DYNAMIQUES HAMILTONIENS ET APPLICATIONS Université de Montréal June 18-29 juin 2007 SPEAKERS/CONFÉRENCIERS : Kam Theory : Eliasson, Hakan, Université de Paris VII, France Yuan, Xiaoping, Fudan University, People Republic of China. Stolovich, Laurent, Université de Toulouse, France. Hamiltonian PDE and small divisors : Poeschel, Jurgen, Stuttgart, Germany. Bourgain, Jean, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), USA. Hamiltonian PDE and Nekhoroshev theory : Bambusi, Dario, Università di Milano, Italy. Variational methods in Hamiltonian dynamics : Rabinowitz, Paul, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Berti, Massimiliano, SISSA/ISAS, Italy. Arnold diffusion : Cheng, C.-Q., Nanjing University, People Republic of China. De la Llave, Rafael, University of Texas – Austin, USA. Hamiltonian dynamical systems : Treschev, Dimitry, Moscow State University, Russia. Applications to celestial mechanics : Chenciner, Alain, Observatoire de Paris / CNRS, France. Applications to control theory : Agrachev, Andrei, SISSA / ISAS, Italy. Applications to PDE : Wayne, C. Eugene, Boston University, USA. Applications to averaging methods and adiabatic invariants : Neistadt, Anatoly, Space Research Institute, Russia. This summer school is aimed primarily at postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students and junior faculty. Financial support available. Application Deadline/Date limite des candidatures : February 28 février 2007. www.dms.umontreal.ca/sms/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 6 ====== From: Yi Pan Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:39:17 -0500 (EST) CALL FOR PAPERS International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications May 6-9, 2007, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia http://www.cs.gsu.edu/ISBRA/ The International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. ISBRA is the successor of the International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IWBRA), held on May 22-25, 2005 in Atlanta, GA and on May 28-31, 2006 in Reading, UK in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science. The two editions of IWBRA have enjoyed a great success, with special issues of Springer LNCS Transactions on Computational Systems Biology and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics being devoted to full versions of selected papers. The proceedings of ISBRA 2007 will be published in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series, and it is anticipated that a special issue of a major bioinformatics journal will be devoted to expanded versions of the best symposium papers. Authors are invited to submit papers that demonstrate original unpublished research in all areas of bioinformatics, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Surveys of important recent results and directions are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Biomedical image processing * Bio-ontology and data mining * Computational genetics * Comparative genomics * Databases and data integration * Gene expression and microarrays * Gene identification and annotation * Immunoinformatics * Molecular evolution and phylogeny * Molecular modeling and simulation * Parallel bioinformatics algorithms * Pathways and systems biology * Protein structure prediction * Sequence analysis Paper submission must be made electronically by following the instructions at http://www.easychair.org/ISBRA07. Submissions must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 12 pages in length. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the symposium. The submission website is already open. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: December 20, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2007 Final Version Submission: February 21, 2007 General Chairs: Dan Gusfield, University of California, Davis Yi Pan, Georgia State University Program Chairs: Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut Alexander Zelikovsky, Georgia State University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 7 ====== From: "Paulo F. A. Mancera" Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:02:38 -0200 Dear colleague, It is our pleasure to invite you to submit session proposal at the II Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD2), which will be held at Campinas City, Brazil, July 16 - 20, 2007. The topics of session proposals are for instance in ecology (including epidemic spread), cell population dynamics (including immunology, tumor growth) and molecular biology (including molecular evolution and genetics, genomics). The proposal must include research area (topic), title, brief summary and potential participants. All proposals must be sent to cmpd2@ime.unicamp.br , writing in the message subject SESSION PROPOSAL. We remeber you that dadline for Session Proposals is February 28, 2007. Additionally deadline for submission of Abstract for oral or poster presentations is March 31, 2007. More information avaiable at www.cmpd2.me.unicamp.br We look forward to seeing you in July, 2007 to attend to II Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics. Paulo F. A. Mancera On behalf of Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 8 ====== From: "Paulo F. A. Mancera" Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:06:58 -0200 Dear colleague, It is our pleasure to invite you to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentation at the II Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD2), which will be held at Campinas City, Brazil, July 16 - 20, 2007. The topics of sessions are for instance in ecology (including epidemic spread), cell population dynamics (including immunology, tumor growth) and molecular biology (including molecular evolution and genetics, genomics). All proposals must be sent to cmpd2@ime.unicamp.br , writing in the message subject ABSTRACT SUBMISSION. We remeber you that dadline for submission of Abstracts for oral or poster presentation is March 31, 2007. More information avaiable at www.cmpd2.ime.unicamp.br We look forward to seeing you in July, 2007 to attend to II Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics. Paulo F. A. Mancera cmpd2@ime.unicamp.br On behalf of Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====== ITEM 9 ====== From: Oleg Burdakov Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:21:55 +0200 (MEST) FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT, CALL FOR PAPERS AND ORGANIZING SESSIONS A Joint EUROPT-OMS Meeting, July 4-7, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic (supported by SIAM and SIAG/OPT) http://cio.umh.es/europt-oms/ The conference aims to review and discuss recent advances and promising research trends in continuous and discrete optimization theory, methods, applications and software development. TOPICS INCLUDE: * Linear and Nonlinear Optimization * Integer and Combinatorial Optimization * Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization * Global Optimization * Semi-definite Programming * Semi-infinite Programming * Multi-objective Optimization * Stochastic Optimization * Complementarity and Variational Inequality Problems * Derivative-free Optimization * Network Optimization * Scheduling Problems * Optimization in Technological, Bio- and Social Systems * Financial Optimization * Optimal Control * Automatic Differentiation * Optimization Software This international conference is the first joint Meeting organized by the journal Optimization Methods and Software (OMS) http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10556788.html and the Working Group on Continuous Optimization (EUROPT) http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/ of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO). It is organized in cooperation with EURO, SIAM and SIAG/OPT. The EUROPT-OMS Conference will be held prior to the 22nd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXII) in Prague http://euro2007.vse.cz/ and the 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2007) in Zurich http://www.iciam07.ch/index INVITED SPEAKERS: Frederic Bonnans (France) Yury Evtushenko (Russia) Komei Fukuda (Switzerland) Luigi Grippo (Italy) Dorit Hochbaum (USA) Tibor Illes (Hungary) Adrian Lewis (USA) Michal Kocvara (Czech Republic) Alexander Martin (Germany) Florian Potra (USA) Liqun Qi (China) Philippe Toint (Belgium) Stefan Ulbrich (Germany) Stephen Wright (USA) Yinyu Ye (USA) Ya-xiang Yuan (China) DATES AND DEADLINES: Deadline for abstract submissions: April 30, 2007. Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2007. Deadline for early registration: May 31, 2007. CONFERENCE WEB AND EMAIL ADDRESSES: Web address: http://cio.umh.es/europt-oms/ Email address: europt-oms2007@uhk.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 10 ======= From: "ISSAC 2007" Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:07:42 +0000 (GMT) ISSAC 2007 Second Announcement and Call for Papers The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) is the premier annual conference to present and discuss new developments and 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. Important Dates ISSAC 2007 will be held from July 29 to August 1, 2007 in Waterloo, Canada. Deadline for submissions: January 17, 2007 (Midnight [24:00 EST]) Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 28, 2007 Camera-ready copy to the publisher: April 27, 2007 Please note that the refereeing and publication schedule does not permit any delays in these dates. Conference topics include, but are not limited to: Algorithmic Mathematics Algebraic, symbolic and symbolic-numeric algorithms. Simplification, function manipulation, summation, integration, polynomial/differential/difference equations, linear algebra, number theory, group and invariant theory, geometric computing. Computer Science Theoretical and practical problems in symbolic computation. Systems, problem solving environments, user interfaces, software, libraries, parallel/ distributed computing and programming languages, concrete analysis, benchmarking, theoretical and practical complexity, automatic differentiation, code generation, mathematical data structures and exchange protocols. Applications Problem treatments using algebraic, symbolic or symbolic-numeric computation in an essential or a novel way. Engineering, economics and finance, physical and biological sciences, computer science, logic, mathematics and education. The ISSAC 2007 web site is http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/issac2007/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 11 ======= From: "Mykola Pechenizkiy" Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:59:19 +0200 (EET) **************************************************** Special Track on Data Mining STDM-CBMS 2007 (http://www.win.tue.nl/~mpechen/conf/cbms2007/) At 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems CBMS 2007 (http://cbms2007.uni-mb.si/) Maribor, Slovenia, 20-22 June 2007 **************************************************** *** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** Data mining has become a popular and effective technology for discovering new knowledge from large and complex data sets, and in particular, from medical data. Advances in data mining research and practice have made it possible to solve many important problems in medical diagnostics and health care. As part of the symposium, the Data Mining track invites original and high-quality submissions addressing all aspects of data mining with application to the medical context. The topics of special interest include, but are not restricted to: * Machine learning tools in medical applications * Supervised, unsupervised, and semisupervised learning * Feature selection and feature transformation * Data streams and longitudinal data analysis * Mining medical data with time- and context-changing patterns and data distributions * Visualisation of data and data mining results * Evaluation and interpretation of data mining results * Knowledge-driven data mining approaches * Cost-sensitive data mining Also we encourage papers that describe case studies based on large medical databases. * IMPORTANT DATES * 31 January 2007 Paper submission 15 March 2007 Acceptance notification 15 April 2007 Camera-ready paper 20-22 June 2007 Symposium * SUBMISSION PROCEDURES * Submissions (6 pages max, IEEE 2-column format, including figures and references) will be done electronically via the CBMS 2007 web submission system. Each accepted paper will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE CS Press. For more details please see: http://cbms2007.uni-mb.si/ and http://www.win.tue.nl/~mpechen/conf/cbms2007/. * TRACK CHAIRS * Mykola Pechenizkiy Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands Seppo Puuronen University of Jyväskylä, Finland Alexey Tsymbal Siemens Corporate Research, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 12 ======= From: "Prof. Roland Wagner" Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:03:40 +0100 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development (BIRD'07) http://www.birdconf.org Technical University of Berlin, Germany March 12-14, 2007 Keynote Talk: Josef Penninger, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) "From Flies to human disease" Scope of the conference: The primary focus of BIRD '07 is to provide researchers and users in the field of bioinformatics a forum in which to interact about new research directions, developments, and software/web services. It encompasses the methods of solving biological, medical, or chemical problems by computer science, machine learning, or information processing tools. The conceptual level of the methods range from theoretical approaches through the design of algorithms, models, and information processing systems through to the development of software packages and web services. The program committee seeks contributions, which topics include, but are not limited to: * Algebraic Biology * Databases & Data Integration * Drug Design * Ontologies & Textmining * Evolution and Phylogenetics * Genomics * Gene and Splice Site Recognition * Machine Learning and Data Analysis * Gene Expression/Regulation & Microarrays * MicroRNA and RNAi * Molecular Diagnostics and Treatment Support * Molecular Dynamics * Pathways, Networks, Systems Biology * Phylogenetics & Molecular Evolution * Protein & RNA Structure and Function * Proteomics * Sequence Analysis & Alignment * SNPs and Haplotyping * Systems Biology and Modelling General Chair: Roland Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria Program Chair: Sepp Hochreiter, University of Linz, Austria Registration of Participation: https://www.birdconf.org/registration/bird/register Early registration: before 31 January 2007 For the scientific program, registration, and Social Events please refer to the BIRD-website http://www.birdconf.org For further inquiries, please contact the BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office@birdconf.org ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 13 ======= From: eal@aueb.gr Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:58:42 +0200 CALL FOR PAPERS THE EIGHTH HELLENIC EUROPEAN RESEARCH ON COMPUTER MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE (HERCMA 2007) 20-22 September 2007, Athens, Greece Framework-Objectives: The 8th Hellenic European Research on Computer Mathematics & its Applications (HERCMA) Conference will be held in the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB) on September 20-22, 2007, in Athens, Greece. This biennial Conference is following the success of the HERMIS and HERCMA Conference series, which has been held respectively in 1992-94-96-98-2001-2003-2005 in Athens. The HERCMA 2007 Conference is jointly organised by the Department of Informatics of AUEB and the Research Group for Advanced Computational Mathematics & Parallel Processing. The main theme within the Conference will be Computer Mathematics and its Applications and special emphasis will be given to Computational Mathematics, High Performance Computing, Operational Research and Statistics, Mathematics in Economics and Industry. Call for Papers: Papers on all aspects of Computer Mathematics and Scientific Computing are solicited. Plenary lectures by distinguished Scientists, who have played a significant role in the advancement of Computer Mathematics and its Applications will be scheduled in the scientific program of HERCMA 2007. Non plenary lectures will be held in several parallel sessions, spanning a broad range of Computer Mathematics topics. The Authors should list areas to which their papers belong. The HERCMA 2007 Proceedings will be available in electronic form during the Conference and will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Mini-Symposia (Session) Organisers: Persons interested in organising a mini-symposium (technical session) in the framework of the HERCMA 2007 should submit a proposal using the suitable form (which can be found in the HERCMA web pages). If the proposed session is accepted for presentation at the conference, the Session Organiser will become member of the Organising Committee, and he will be authorised to make the final selection of papers for his session. Conference Chairman: Professor Elias A. Lipitakis, Department of Informatics, AUEB, Director of the Research Group for Advanced Computational Mathematics and Parallel Processing (RG-ACMPP). Important Dates Deadline for the submission of the extended abstract: 20 February, 2007 Deadline for mini-symposia proposals: 20 February, 2007 Notification of acceptance: 10 April, 2007 Deadline for the submission of the complete paper: 30 May, 2007 Deadline for the early payment: 30 May, 2007 Schedule: Updated information about HERCMA 2007 may be retrieved from our web site at http://www.aueb.gr/conferences/hercma2007/ Conference Secretariat: For further information please write to: ______________________________________________ HERCMA Secretariat Department of Informatics Athens University of Economics and Business 76 Patission Street, Athens 10434, Greece _______________________________________________ Phone: +3 -210- 8203 187 Fax: +3- 210-8203 187 / 8226 204 / 8676 265 E-mail us to: eal@aueb.gr, hercma@aueb.gr, pek@aueb.gr, or look at the HERCMA home page at Web: http://www.aueb.gr/conferences/hercma2007/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 14 ======= From: mmmacns@comsec.spb.ru Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:44:13 +0300 International Conference "Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Networks Security" (MMM-ACNS-07) September 16-18, 2007, St. Petersburg, Russia http://www.comsec.spb.ru/mmm-acns07/ Sponsors: 1. Office of Naval Research Global, USA 2. European Office of Aerospace Research and Development USAF, USA 3. Russian Foundation for Basic Research Organizers: * St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) * St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences * Binghamton University (State University of New York) Title and scope: The First, Second and Third International Workshops (MMM-ACNS-2001, MMM-ACNS-2003 and MMM-ACNS-2005) were very successful. These workshops demonstrated the high interest of the international scientific community to the theoretical aspects of the computer network and information security and the need for conducting of such workshops as on-going series. The proposed MMM-ACNS-2007 Conference is intended as a next step in this series and will be focused on theoretical problems in the area under consideration. Its objectives are to bring together leading researchers from academia and governmental organizations as well as practitioners in the area of computer networks and information security, facilitating personal interactions and discussions on various aspects of information technologies in conjunction with computer network and information security problems arising in large-scale computer networks engaged in information storing, transmitting, and processing. Topics of interest: Papers offering novel research contributions to the theoretical aspects of the computer network and information security are solicited for submission. Papers may present theory, technique, and applications on topics including but not restricted to: * Adaptive security * Authentication, Authorization and Access Control * Computer and network forensics * Covert channels * Data and application security * Data mining, machine learning, and bio-inspired approaches for security * Deception systems and honeypots * Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures * Digital Rights Management * eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment Security * Firewall Technologies * Formal analysis of security properties * Information warfare * Internet and web security * Intrusion detection and prevention * Language-based security * Network survivability * New ideas and paradigms for security * Operating system security * Risk analysis and risk management * Security and Privacy in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing * Security for Grid Computing * Security of emerging technologies (sensor, wireless/mobile, peer-to-peer and overlay networks) * Security of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems * Security modeling and simulation * Security policies * Security protocols * Security verification * Software protection * Trust management * Viruses, worms, and other malicious code * Vulnerability assessment Important dates For submission: Paper drafts: March 15, 2007 Acceptance/rejection notification: April 25, 2007 Camera ready papers: May 25, 2007 For registration: Early registration deadline: August 10, 2007 On site registration: September 15-18, 2007 Hotel reservation request: August 10, 2007 All materials concerning MMM-ACNS-2007 preparation, program, and other arrangements will be posted on a regularly updated web site http://www.comsec.spb.ru/mmm-acns07/. Local contact person Irina Podnozova Phone 7-(812)-328-44-46 Fax: +7(812)-328-06-85 E-mail ipp@mail.iias.spb.su ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 15 ======= From: Elizabeth Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:49:59 GMT Dear Colleague: This is to bring to your attention the 6th International Conference on Lattice Path Combinatorics and Applications to be held July 12—14 at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. Please bring this to the attention of your faculty members, particularly those in graph theory, combinatorics, algebra, statistics, and probability. The conference website is at http://www.etsu.edu/math/godbole/lattice/index.htm Questions can be directed to Anant Godbole, godbolea@etsu.edu Sincerely, Elizabeth Harris, Conference Coordinator ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 16 ======= From: Jaap Kaandorp Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:01:56 +0100 The NBIC/ISNB 2007 is a joint event that includes: The 2nd edition of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Conference (NBIC) The 4th edition of the International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics (ISNB) April 16-19, 2007 Amsterdam, De Rode Hoed NBIC The Netherlands Bioinformatics Conference is an initiative of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC). NBIC aims to create a lively bioinformatics community in the Netherlands through the initiation of programmes that consist of experts from multiple research groups. For example the research programme BioRange, in which computer scientists and biologists cooperate in projects related to genomics themes, such as bioinformatics for micro array technology, proteomics and metabolomics. In the first edition in 2006, the NBIC conference focused on this research programme. In 2007 NBIC does not focus on a specialized theme, but aims to offer an internationally appealing conference programme for the bioinformatics community at large. ISNB The focus of 4th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics will be on biological networks such as metabolic, signal transduction pathways and genetic regulatory networks. Understanding of these networks is crucial for understanding molecular and cellular processes in the organism or system under study. This field is subject of lively research and both experimental and computational approaches are used to elucidate the biological networks. The bioinformatics of biological networks involves a broad range of research and approaches. Research includes the identification of regulatory elements in DNA, developmental biology, genome context analysis, modelling and simulation of pathways, reconstruction of pathways from experimental data, visualization of pathways, and the representation of pathways in database, graphs and mark-up languages. WEBSITE For more program, registration details and previous editions of NBIC / ISNB http://www.nbic.nl/NBIC-ISNB2007/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 17 ======= From: Sebastian Sager Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:42:24 +0100 (CET) ********************************************************************* 13th CZECH-FRENCH-GERMAN CONFERENCE ON OPTIMIZATION Heidelberg, Germany, September 17-21, 2007 http://cfg07.uni-hd.de cfg@uni-hd.de ********************************************************************* The conference is the 13th of the series of French-German meetings which started in Oberwolfach in 1980. This time, it is organized jointly with Czech optimizers, and takes place in the historical center of Germany's oldest university town, Heidelberg. The conference will consist of invited plenary, invited minisymposium and regular talks on all aspects of optimization. INCLUDED TOPICS: - continuous optimization (smooth and nonsmooth) - numerical methods for mathematical programming - optimal control and calculus of variations - robust optimization - mixed integer optimization - optimization with PDE - differential inclusions and set-valued analysis - stochastic optimization - multicriteria optimization - optimization techniques for industrial applications CONFERENCE VENUE: Heidelberg is an ancient university town in the south west of Germany, located just where the quiet Neckar river flows out of the mountains into the broad and warm valley of the Rhine. Among its attractions is a castle that inspired romanticists since over two centuries. The conference will take place in the traditional university buildings right in the middle of the old town, and September is an attractive month for visiting Heidelberg. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: - talk abstract submission: march 31st, 2007 - early registration fee: may 25th, 2007 - poster submission: june 1st, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 18 ======= From: "B. D. Aggarwala" Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:56:07 -0700 International Conference in Modeling Health Advances (ICMHA'07) San Francisco, USA, 24-26 October, 2007 Parent Event: The World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS'07) Organizer: Prof. B.D. Aggarwala, University of Calgary, Canada Important Dates: Last date of submission of manuscripts: 6 July, 2007 Last date for sumbission of final camera-ready paper: 30 July, 2007 Pre-registration due: 30 July, 2007 A host of new diseases, like HIV/AIDS, BSE, Avian Flu, West Nile Virus and others have appeared on the scene during the last twenty five years and undoubtedly, more will come in the coming years. To tackle these illnesses, the cooperation of modelers, mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, and others, and of researchers from the medical community is absolutely essential. Modeling is important because it gives important insight into the method of treatment. In the case of HIV/AIDS, for example, mathematical modeling indicated that a combination of both protease inhibitors and reverse transcriptase inhibitors would be far more effective than any one of these two drugs. For more information, see: http://www.iaeng.org/WCECS2007/ICMHA2007.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 19 ======= From: Kai Salomaa Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:54:24 -0500 (EST) --------------------------------------------- UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTATION 2007 --------------------------------------------- School of Computing, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada August 13-17, 2007 http://www.cs.queensu.ca/uc07/ --------------------------------------------- - Call for Papers --------------------------------------------- Original papers are solicited in all areas of unconventional computation. Papers dealing with theory as well as with experiments and applications are welcome. Typical, but not exclusive, topics are: natural computing including quantum, cellular, molecular, neural and evolutionary computing; chaos and dynamical systems based computing; and various proposals for computations that go beyond the Turing model. For submission details, see: http://www.cs.queensu.ca/uc07/call4paper.htm --------------------------------------------- - Workshops --------------------------------------------- Language Theory in Biocomputing Unconventional Computational Problems For submission details, see: http://www.cs.queensu.ca/uc07/workshop.htm --------------------------------------------- - Tutorials --------------------------------------------- Quantum Information Processing Sensor Networks --------------------------------------------- - Conference History --------------------------------------------- UC'07 is the 6th Conference in the Series Unconventional Computation. The first venue of the International Conference on Unconventional Computation (formerly called Unconventional Models of Computation) was Auckland, New Zealand in 1998; subsequent sites of the conference were Brussels, Belgium in 2000, Kobe, Japan in 2002, Sevilla, Spain in 2005, and York, U.K. in 2006. By coming to Kingston in 2007, the International Conference on Unconventional Computation makes its debut in the Americas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 20 ======= From: Robert M Miura Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:53:18 -0400 (EDT) Conference on Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics (Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, Electromagnetics/Waves, and Acoustics) New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA May 15-16, 2007 This conference is the fourth in a series of annual conferences that have been organized by the Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics at NJIT and supported by a University Strategic Initiative. Our first two conferences were major applied and computational mathematics conferences and were held in May 2004 and May 2005. Our third conference in May 2006 was focused on Mathematical Fluid Dynamics (see http://m.njit.edu/Events/FACM04/ for the 2004 program, http://m.njit.edu/Events/FACM05/ for the 2005 program, http://m.njit.edu/Events/FACM06/ for the 2006 program). At this conference, one major area of focus will be Mathematical Biology, including Mathematical Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Ecology, and Biostatistics. Other areas of focus will be Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, Electromagnetics/Waves, and Acoustics. As further details become available, they will be posted on the conference website: http://m.njit.edu/Events/FACM07 There will be parallel invited minisymposia and poster sessions. People interested in presenting a poster or participating in the conference can e-mail Susan Sutton at suttons@njit.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 21 ======= From: Frithjof Lutscher Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:10:26 -0500 Adaptive Dynamics Workshop, May 7-9, University of Ottawa This is the first announcement of a 3-day Fields Institute workshop on Adaptive Dynamics, held at the University of Ottawa, May 7-9, 2007. Confirmed invited speakers are Martin Ackermann (ETH Zürich) Troy Day (Queens University) Michael Doebeli (UBC Vancouver) Richard Law (York, UK) Details can be found online at http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~fluts037/FIELDS/fieldsworkshop.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 22 ======= From: cnsorg@cnsorg.org Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:32:09 -0700 CALL FOR PAPERS, CNS*2007 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 9, 2007 SUBMISSION OPEN: January 15, 2007 Sixteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2007 July 8 - July 12, 2007 Toronto, Canada http://www.cnsorg.org CNS*2007 will be held in Toronto, Canada from Sunday, July 8 to Thursday, July 12, 2007. The main meeting will be July 8-10 followed by two days of workshops on July 11 and 12. The main meeting will take place in downtown Toronto at 89 Chestnut, a University of Toronto conference facility (http://89chestnut.com/) close to lots of shopping, dining, theatre and entertainment. The workshops will take place on the University of Toronto downtown campus (www.utoronto.ca), which is walking distance from 89 Chestnut. A harbor cruise and dinner is planned for July 10. Submissions can include experimental, model-based, as well as more abstract theoretical approaches to understanding neurobiological computation. We especially encourage research that mixes experimental and theoretical studies. We also accept papers that describe new technical approaches to theoretical and experimental issues in computational neuroscience or relevant software packages. INVITED SPEAKERS: Larry Abbott ( Columbia University) Karen Davis (Toronto Western Research Institute) Andre Longtin ( University of Ottawa) CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: We are accepting proposals for workshops (Half-day to two days in length). If you want to propose a workshop please contact the workshop coordinator at workshops@cnsorg.org. SHORT COURSE: Parallel Simulations with NEURON (separate materials fee) (Hines, Carnevale, Calin-Jageman) This one day course focuses on the use of NEURON in a parallel simulation environment. We will review key concepts of distributed computing as they relate to computational modeling in neuroscience, describe their implementation in NEURON, and present strategies for implementing, debugging, and productive use of distributed models of networks and cells. This course will run in parallel with the Workshops. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 23 ======= From: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:12:36 +0800 (CST) International Conference on Reaction-Diffusion Systems & Viscosity Solutions 3 - 6 January 2007 Dep. of Applied Math., Providence University, Taiwan http://www3.emath.pu.edu.tw/rds/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 24 ======= From: aao Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:05:39 -0000 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks; ICANN 2007 9-13 September 2007, Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal Web page: http://www.icann2007.org 1st Call for Papers The 17th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2007, will be held from September 9 through September 13 at the Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal. ICANN is an annual conference organized by the European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society, and is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. Deadlines 16 Feb End of submission of special session and workshop proposals. 23 Mar End of submission of full papers. Conference Proceedings Published by Springer-Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Neural Networks Special Issue An extended version of selected ICANN 2007 papers will be published in a Special Issue of Elsevier's journal Neural Networks. Sponsors: ENNS, INNS, JNNS, EURASIP, INEB, ISEP, UBI Student support available (please see web page) ICANN 2007 Secretariat Gabriela Afonso, INEB, Campus FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Porto, Portugal (gafonso@fe.up.pt) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======= ITEM 25 ======= 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. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Board or Membership of CAIMS*SCMAI. 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