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Managing Editor
C. Sean BohunUniversity of OntarioInstitute of TechnologyFaculty of Science2000 Simcoe St. NorthOshawa, ON, Canadae-mail: [email protected]
Editor-in-Chief
Barbara Lee KeyfitzThe Ohio State UniversityDepartment of Mathematics231 West 18th AvenueColumbus, OH 43210-1174e-mail: [email protected]
Editorial Board
James M. CrowleySIAMe-mail: [email protected]
Thierry HorsinCNAM, Paris, FranceDépartement IngénierieMathématiquee-mail: [email protected]
Pammy ManchandaGuru Nanak Dev UniversityAmritsar, Punjab, IndiaDepartment of Mathematicse-mail: [email protected]
Roberto NataliniConsiglio Nazionale delleRicerche, Rome, Italy,Istituto per le Applicazionidel Calcolo “M. Picone”e-mail: [email protected]
Timo ReisUniversity of HamburgDepartment of Mathematicse-mail: [email protected]
Zdenek StrakošCharles University in PragueFaculty of Mathematics andPhysicse-mail: [email protected]
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On the cover: Two of themost iconic buildings in Va-lencia are El Museu de lesCiències Príncipe Felipe onthe left and L’Hemisfèric, onthe right. The former is an in-teractive museum of sciencethat resembles the skeleton ofa whale and the latter, a plan-etarium, has been designed toresemble an eye.
ICIAM
The ICIAM DianoiaVol. 4, No. 1, January 2016
Recent activities of the ICSU — Tom Mitsui 2Global change impact on diseases and alien
species expansion 3Announcement of ICIAM 2016 Board Meeting
in Brazil 4News from CIMPA 5Bid Process for ICIAM 2023 6A Global Perspective of Industrial Mathematics
— C. Sean Bohun 8News from the Council 10MCA2017 11Volume 3: Table of Contents 12About ICIAM 13
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Recent activities of the ICSU
Recent activities of the ICSUby Tom Mitsui
ICIAM is an International Scientific Associate of the In-ternational Council for Science, ICSU. The ICSU has re-cently announced several new activities it is developing,which are summarized below.
Open Data: This issue has attracted much attentionand interest not only in scientific communities but also inother public sectors. The digital revolution has created anunprecedented explosion in the data available for analy-sis by scientists, policymakers and others. Extremely largedata sets, or ‘big data,’ are the engine of this revolution.They help researchers to recognize subtle but powerfulpatterns in areas ranging across the sciences, from secu-rity to genetic research and human behaviour. Such datawill be critical to analyzing and achieving the UN’s newSustainable Development Goals.
The “privatization of knowledge,” however, could con-strain this research. From this point of view, four ma-jor international science organizations, ICSU, the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), the International Social Sci-ence Council (ISSC) and The World Academy of Sci-ences for the advancement of science in developing coun-tries (TWAS), gathered for the ‘Science Forum SouthAfrica’ in Pretoria, South Africa, in December last year.They launched a campaign for “Open Data in a Big DataWorld,” an accord including a set of guiding principleson open access to big data, For more details, please visitwww.icsu.org/news-centre/news/top-news/
Disaster Risk Reduction: As you may recall, theUN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction washeld in Sendai, Japan in March last year. It adopteda 15-year global agreement, The Sendai Framework forDisaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, to curb deaths andeconomic losses from natural and human-made hazards.Then, hundreds of scientists and policymakers pledged tostep up action on the Sendai Framework in gathering atthe UNISDR (UN International Strategy for Disaster Re-duction) Science & Technology (S&T) conference held inGeneva on 27-29 January, 2016. The conference identifiedneeds and knowledge gaps, launched the UNISDR S&TPartnership for Disaster Risk Reduction, DRR to addressthose gaps, and discussed the S&T roadmap to supportthe implementation of the Sendai Framework. ICSU tookpart in the organization of the conference alongside other
partners. For more details, visit www.icsu.org/news-centre/news/top-news/
ICIAM believes that mathematical approaches are es-sential in this issue and is trying to strengthen its involve-ment with various stages of international activities.
AIMS Workshop: AIMS (African Institute of Math-ematical Sciences), a pan-African network of centres ofexcellence for postgraduate education, research and out-reach in mathematical sciences, hosts the internationalworkshop entitled the Global change impact on diseasesand alien species expansion in May in Cape Town, SouthAfrica. It is supported by ICSU. The AIMS workshopapproached the ICSU and IMU as well as other inter-national scientific organizations for support. The mainobjectives of the workshop are to network communitiescoming from different backgrounds (biology, mathemat-ical sciences, medicine, social sciences and global envi-ronment change) and different parts of the world, whohave an interest in the study and control of epidemicdiseases and invasive species, and to contribute to thetraining of young researchers. The ICSU has previouslycontributed to the workshop by sending Mario Primice-rio, former Officer-in-Large, as a member of its Scien-tific Committee. Those who are interested in the work-shop can find further information on the AIMS websitewww.aims.ac.za/en/research-centre/workshops-conferences/currentfuture/
Taketomo (Tom) Mitsuiis Professor Emeritus ofNagoya University, Nagoya,Japan. He received his doc-toral degree from Kyoto Uni-versity and has been engagedwith several universities, thelast one was Doshisha Uni-versity, Kyoto, Japan. Hismain research interest is nu-merical analysis of ordinarydifferential equations and re-lated topics. He is a Fellow ofthe Japan Society for indus-trial and Applied Mathemat-
ics, and is currently servingICIAM as Officer at large.
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Global change impact on diseases and alien species expansion A capacity building workshop supported by
AIMS, Cape Town, May 2-6 2016
INTRODUCTION This international, interdisciplinary, educational and capacity building workshop will bring together the two subjects of infectious diseases and invasive species and the context of climate change, thus allowing sharing the methods and building partnerships. The workshop will address the whole range of topics, from field-work and collecting of data to the building and validating of models, to the adjustment of models to take into account the changing environment and the social characteristics, and to the design and implementation of strategies to fight infectious diseases and invasive species. This will be done through lectures, practical training and round table discussions. Special emphasis will be put on African diseases and invasive species, as well as the characteristics of changing environment in Africa. The workshop is mostly aimed to young researchers and postgraduate students, with a majority coming from Africa. International experts from around the world will give the mini-courses and lectures and will lead the working groups. There will be a limited number of contributed talks and a poster session. GOALS OF THE CONFERENCE The main objectives of the workshop are to network communities coming from different backgrounds (biology, mathematical sciences, medicine, social sciences and global environment change) and different parts of the world, and having an interest in the study and control of epidemic diseases and invasive species, and to contribute to the training of young researchers. An important feature of the workshop is its location in Africa, which unfortunately, is the centre of several pandemic diseases threatening not only the economy and social cohesion of the continent but also seriously affecting other parts of the world. Thus, central to the workshop is the participation of this new generation of young African scientists from different backgrounds, including doctoral students and female scientists, to expose them to modern cutting edge scientific techniques and methods in the field, to put them in contact with world leading experts in different relevant fields, and have them taking part in the interdisciplinary discussions. This workshop, the first activity bringing together IMU, IUBS, IUIS, IUMS, ICIAM, ISSC, ecoHEALTH Alliance (Future Earth), ICSU ROA, ISB and UNESCO has the important objective of building a lasting collaboration and enriching expertise in the different organizations.
MAIN THEMES
• Epidemic diseases in the context of changing environment • Invasive species in the context of changing environment • Socio-economic adaptation to new epidemic diseases and invasive species
APPLICATION Website:http://www.aims.ac.za/en/research-centre/workshops-conferences/currentfuture/global-change-impact-on-diseases-and-alien-species-expansion Applications: the website will be open for applications in October 2015. The workshop is planned for 50 participants. The participants from Africa will receive full funding. Scientific Committee
Pablo Fernandez de ArroyabeHernaez (Spain, ISB), JacekBanasiak (South Africa, AIMS), YuryDgebuadze (Russia, IUBS), Charles Ebikeme (ISSC), Jorge Kalil (Brazil, IUMS), Mark Lewis (Canada), Jean Lubuma (South Africa), Alberto Martinelli (Italy, ISSC), Mariagrazia Pizza (Italy, IUMS), Mario Primicerio (Italy, ICIAM), Daya Reddy (South Africa, ICSU), Christiane Rousseau (Canada, IMU)
Organizers JacekBanasiak (South Africa) [email protected] Christiane Rousseau (Canada) [email protected]
Confirmed speakers and leaders of working groups
• Peter Daszak (medicine and disease
ecology), University of Columbia, USA
• Kristie Ebi (environmental health), University of Washington, USA
• Abba Gumel (mathematics),Arizona State University, USA
• John Hargrove (biomathematics, epidemiology, insect physiology), Center of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), South Africa
• Mark Lewis (mathematics), University of Alberta, Canada
• Andrea Pugliese (mathematical and theoretical population biology), University of Trento, Italy
• Judith Omumbo (epidemiology), African Academy of Science
• David Richardson (botany and zoology), University of Stellenbosch and Director of Centre for Invasion Biology, South Africa
Bid Process for ICIAM 2023
CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
News from CIMPAThe following is a call for Administrative Council candidates from the membership of CIMPA.
Nice, December 3, 2015
Dear members of CIMPA,
The administrative Council (CA) will be renewed in a little more than one year. It seems to us appropriate to holdthe election for the members of the CA during the General Assembly (AG) of 2016, to be held on 10 June (to beconfirmed), at the Institut Henri Poincare in Paris.
According to the Statutes and the By-laws of CIMPA, the CA consists of, in addition to the 7 ex-officio institutionalmembers, 7 individual members who are elected by the AG. Among these 7 members are the members of the Bureau.The Bureau is composed of the President, possibly one or two Vice-Presidents, a General Secretary and a Treasurer.
In view of the dates of these meetings, we suggest the following calendar:-The AG elects 7 individual members during its meeting which should be on 10 June, 2016.-The new CA (the ex-officio members whose number is fixed by the Statutes, plus the 7 individual members electedpreviously), shall meet in a special session in January 2017, to elect the Bureau.-After this meeting, the new CA and the new Bureau shall assume their function.
By this letter we launch a call for candidates for these 7 individual members of the next CA. We shall reflect carefullytogether on this crucial election, and we shall be happy to receive your comments on possible candidates. The term ofoffice for members of the Bureau being four years, renewable once, three of the four members of the present Bureau(the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary) are not eligible for re-election.
It was decided by the AG of 2014 that all CIMPA actions must be preceded by an open call. This implies that, inorder to be submitted to a vote, all declaration of candidacy must be made after sending out this message, whoseaim is precisely this call for candidacy. Furthermore, any member of CIMPA can present his or her candidacy duringthe AG until the election itself.
We remind you equally that the Statutes of CIMPA require than an individual member of the CA must be a memberof CIMPA. If you wish to propose a colleague who is not a member of CIMPA, then he or she must seek to becomea member (according to the usual procedure advertised on our website), and he or she must be presented by the CAand approved by the AG. His or her candidacy can then be considered during the election.
The Bureau shall consult widely in order to enlist the best candidates. Before the meeting of the AG in June 2016,it shall communicate to you the names of the candidates for the new CA which it has so far received after this callfor candidacy.
Sincerely,
TSOU Sheung Tsun, PresidentAlian DAMLAMIAN, Vice-PresidentJean-Marc BARDET, General SecretaryMarc AUBRY, Treasurer.
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Bid Process for ICIAM 2023
Bid Process for ICIAM 2023International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) — December 2015
Member societies are invited to apply to hold the TenthInternational Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathe-matics in 2023.
Rules and resolutions concerning the pro-cess
The application process is governed by the “Rules,” givenbelow, and by the following resolution of the ICIAMBoard at its meeting in Helsinki in May 2001.
a) Prior to deciding about the location of each ICIAMCongress, the Council, at its Annual Board meeting,will decide on the amount of a financial compensa-tion for the use of ICIAM’s name.
b) The amount has to be decided for each Congress.c) The payment must be transferred at the latest by
the end of the Congress.d) Should there be other smaller conferences where
ICIAM’s name is to be used, a similar policy willbe implemented.
The ICIAM Board, at its next meeting in SãoPaulo (Campinas), Brazil on Saturday, 7 May, 2016,will set the license fee for the Tenth Congress in 2023(as a reminder, the license fee for ICIAM 2019 wasset at USD 37,000). In addition the local expenses,including registration fee and travel expenses, of thefive prize winners and the Olga Taussky-Todd lec-turer, are to be covered by the Congress organizers.
Timetable for applications
§1. The first of the rules below specifies that the pre-proposal should be submitted, in written form, tothe ICIAM Board seven years in advance. In thepresent circumstances this is interpreted to meanthat the pre-proposal should be submitted to themeeting of the Board in São Paulo (Campinas),Brazil on Saturday, 7 May, 2016. While applicationssubmitted at the meeting itself will be admitted, theOfficers request that if possible applications shouldbe submitted to the ICIAM President, Maria J. Es-teban, no later than 31 March, 2016. In this respect
“written form” will be considered to allow submis-sions to be made via email.
At this stage the required amount of documenta-tion is small, but do please note the requirement tospecify both the location and a preliminary budget.
§2. The second of the rules below is expected to be in-terpreted by the meeting of the Board in São Paulo(Campinas), Brazil on Saturday, 7 May, 2016 in thefollowing way:
Some of those who submit an applicationas above will be invited to submit a moredetailed application by 31 October, 2016.At this second stage it is important thata more detailed budget be presented, andthat a Congress Director be nominated.This is a person who is willing and ableto devote considerable time and effort tothe project until the Congress in 2023.Past precedent suggests that the Boardwill also be expecting to see detailed con-sideration given to the question of howthe expected high scientific level is to beachieved.
The early date for the detailed submission, namely theend of October, 2016, is to allow the Officers to arrangesite visits to each of the remaining candidate sites, andfor the reports of the site visits to be consolidated, be-fore the Board meeting anticipated to be held in 2017. Ofcourse no Officer who may be perceived to have a conflictof interest will take any part in the selection process.
The final decision on the site of the 2023 Congress willbe made by the Board at its meeting in 2017.
Approved by ICIAM in Helsinki, May 2001Distributed to member societies, December 2015.Maria J. EstebanPresident, ICIAM
Rules concerning the application for anICIAM congress
§1. An application for hosting and organizing anICIAM congress should be submitted to the ICIAMBoard seven years in advance. This application is to
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be submitted in written form and should propose alocation and a budget outline.
§2. Six years in advance a Congress Director should benominated and a more detailed budget submitted.On the basis of this information the ICIAM Boardwill make its decision on the applicants.
§3. Five years in advance the hosting society makesa proposal for the chair of the Scientific ProgramCommittee (SPC) to the ICIAM Board which hasthe final say and appoints the SPC Chair at thistime.
§4. Four years in advance the SPC Chair submits to theICIAM Board a proposal concerning the SPC mem-bers. Again, the final decision on the composition ofthe SPC is made by the ICIAM Board (four years inadvance). Members of the SPC are individual mem-bers and cannot delegate this membership to otherrepresentatives. The SPC should be of reasonablesize (15–20 members) and of exceptional scientificqualification. The member societies should be in-volved in the selection of SPC members.
§5. Two and a quarter years in advance the ICIAMBoard will approve/disapprove (not modify) the listof invited speakers submitted by the SPC. The in-vitations of the invited speakers should be signedby the Congress Director and the SPC Chair.
§6. The organizers of ICIAM Congresses are urged tostick to the successful structure of previous ICIAMCongresses. At all these Congresses the scientificprogramme consisted of:
• invited lectures;• minisymposia;• contributed presentations in lecture form; and• contributed presentations in poster form.
All types of presentations have to be included, allbeing weighted equally. Contributed papers have tobe accepted to the extent practically possible (a fac-tor to be considered in the choice of a conferencevenue).
In the composition of the minisymposia programthe member societies, invited by the ICIAM Pres-ident, are asked to take an active role. The SPCshould make sure that all fields, especially those notcovered by invited speakers, are represented at theICIAM Congress and are of highest possible quality.
Approved by CICIAM in Sydney, 29 July 1997.Revised December 2003 to change ‘CICIAM’ to ‘theICIAM Board’, and ‘CICIAM Chair’ to ‘ICIAMPresident’.Reinhard MennickenICIAM Board
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A Global Perspective of Industrial Mathematics
A Global Perspective of Industrial Mathematicsby C. Sean Bohun
The following is an accounting of a variety of the ses-sions of the Industrial Minisymposium Series on Indus-trial Mathematics Around the World held at the 8th In-ternational Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathe-matics on August 13, 2015 in Beijing, China.
Wednesday Activity
On Wednesday afternoonthe focus was on Indus-trial Mathematics (IM)activities in East Asia andthe West Pacific Region(besides China). Collec-tively, this region is cov-ered by the Asia Pa-cific Consortium (APC)of Mathematics for Indus-try (MfI). There is strong support for this group acrossthe Asian Pacific region and encouragement from col-leagues in China, Hawaii, Korea, Malaysia and Singaporeas well as Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Presentedduring this session were summaries on the initiatives inAustralia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Japan. This was aninteresting discussion and contrasted the traditional coop-erative environment of the Australian and New Zealandefforts with the relatively new initiatives in Japan andMalaysia. Graeme Wake (Massey University) pointed outthat there is still much opportunity in the region forgrowth especially in regions even further to the east.
The session opened with Masato Wakayama fromKyushu University with a talk entitled “Mathematics-for-Industry and Industry-for-Mathematics.” There was a bitof discussion about the use of the word ‘for’ rather than‘in,’ which is preferred by many of the other participants.One of the challenges to having a sustainable presenceof IM within any given country is tangible support withindustry and with the local mathematics community. Itwas clear from the discussion that Japanese industry ismonetarily supporting these efforts but work still needsto be done within the mathematics community.
The emphasis then shifted south to Australia whereMark McGuinness (Victoria University of Wellington)substituted for Troy Farrell (Queensland University), pre-senting “The Mathematics in Industry Study Group -Problems Solved” which summarized a number of prob-lems considered by the Australian industrial camps. Alsoincluded was a history of the Australian effort which be-gan in 1998 and has continued develop over the years, be-
coming a vibrant nexus for IM workshops in this globalregion.
A report from Malaysia entitled “The Dawn ofMalaysian Mathematics in Industry” was next and therepresentative, Zainal Abdul Aziz, gave a run down of therecent problems and their history. The Malaysian initia-tive is very integrated and the style of the workshop hasbeen tuned to the needs of this particular region and theunique funding constraints in which they find themselves.
The final report from this particular session wasgiven by Graeme Wake substituting for Winston Sweat-man (Massey) and presenting “Mathematics-in-industryprojects from New Zealand.” New Zealand has recentlybegun to organize their own independent IM workshopand as well as detailing these efforts, it was revealed thatthe New Zealand and Australian annual workshops willcontinue to be six months out of phase with each other.This cooperation is seen as an integral part of success ofthe whole APC activity.
John Ockendon (Oxford), Graeme Wake (Massey) andMasato Wakayama (Kyushu).
—Image used with permission.
More information on the Asian Pacific global regioncan be found at apcmfi.org and a much more detailedaccount of the activity in New Zealand can be found inthe December 2015 issue of the ICIAM Dianoia iciam.org/newsletter/15/12/15.
Thursday Morning Activity
The next session, held early Thursday morning, shiftedthe emphasis to the North American efforts and the ef-fective blending of graduate training with the workshopactivity. Also briefly mentioned was the use of internships
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and how particularly dedicated graduate students at aworkshop can be identified and supported by the indus-trial participants.
The session opened with Activities on Industrial-Mathematics in North America and was hosted by Huax-iong Huang (York University). Both the USA and Canadahave been strong supporters of IM and this formed muchof the backdrop of the discussions. The first talk by C.Sean Bohun (UOIT) was entitled “Limitations of the Ro-tating Disk Reaction Vessel.” It illustrated the globalreach of IM with a particular workshop problem initi-ated in Saudi Arabia and finding its way to Spain andeventually Canada, at every stop training and inspiring anew cohort of students. Many of the problems that beginat workshops can take on a life of their own and one suchexample was given in the second talk given by Odile Mar-cotte (HECMontreal) with her presentation of “Modellingand Optimizing a System for Testing Electronic CircuitBoards.”
The next two talks were from Peter Kramer (RPI)with “Enhanced Training in the Mathematical Sciences:The GSMM Camp” and Richard Moore (NJIT) offer-ing “The Year of Light in Industrial Mathematics: CaseStudies from MPI” respectively. Peter and Richard spokeabout the graduate training camp (GMMC in the USA)held at RPI and how this blended with the full work-shop (MPI in the USA). This latter event moves annuallybetween Delaware, WPI, RPI and NJIT. In 2016 a newparticipant, Duke, will host the event. It was identifiedduring this discussion that one of the remaining signifi-cant challenges is finding sources of sustainable funding,both for the graduate training component and for the IMworkshop itself. The current technique is to treat theseissues as they arise in an ad hoc way that takes advan-tage of the varying political environment for this activity.Current information for the upcoming MPI workshop atDuke and the graduate camp at RPI can be found atmath.duke.edu/conferences/mpi2016 and homepages.rpi.edu/~schwed/Workshop respectively.
To close the session Huaxiong reflected on contrast-ing Canadian experiences of graduate training and work-shop activity. The first Canadian IM workshop (IPSW inCanada) was held in Vancouver in 1997 and the premiergraduate training workshop (GIMMC in Canada) beganthe following year in 1998. Over the following 20 years,the proponents of these two activities separated geograph-ically. As a result, these two activities drifted apart butsome recent funding from NSERC (Innovation Platform)may allow them to be coordinated together once again.Other activities to promote interaction between indus-trialists and academics were also identified and includelunch activities at the Fields Institute and leveraging theintern program which began with MITACS and continueswith the formation of MPrime. More information on theupcoming Canadian workshop is found at www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/workshops.
Thursday Afternoon Activity
To conclude the Thursday activity, issues concerningother regional groups were presented.
The first of the presentations was given by Jose Al-berto Cuminato (Poti) (São Paulo) where he spoke aboutthe next Brazilian study group to be held three weeksafter the ICIAM conference. The organization CeMEAI(Centro de Ciências Matemáticas Aplicadas à Indústria)was created in 2011 to help fund this activity and in thelast 12 months they have produced in excess of 100 pa-pers.
A common difficulty when organizing an industrialproblem solving workshop concerns the serendipity offinding appropriate problems. One of the most challeng-ing aspects of any such event is the timely procurementof just enough appropriate problems to satisfy the bud-getary restrictions. Many problems arrive just weeks be-fore the event and this can cause significant stress. TheBrazilian study group experienced this as well, and in theend, six problems were chosen. The rational for choosingthe problems was strategic in that each of them couldact as an initiator for the group activities of each of theongoing research programs. At the time of the presenta-tion, 100 people had applied to attend, and since moneywas allocated to pay for the workshop itself, the indus-try participants were not charged for their participation.
Next to present wasKarina Piwarska, speak-ing about the Polish Cen-tre for Industrial Appli-cations of Mathematicsand Systems Engineer-ing. With the motto ‘Wesolve problems,’ this ini-tiative was started morethan ten years ago withKamil Kulesza. The ac-tivity is based on the Ox-ford model blended withhigh-tech entrepreneur-ship with an emphasis onindustrial mathematics.With respect to summerresearch, the format is similar to the European StudyGroups with Industry (ESGI) but with a few twists. Thecentre started modestly, but has built itself up quickly,as evidenced by it handling 12 projects with a total of 20participants by its second year (2006). To date, spanning2005–2014, there have been 10 years of Summer ResearchPracticums, corresponding to 40 commercial projects and50 academic projects.
Over the last ten years, the centre has been spread-ing the spirit of industrial mathematics and developinga robust flexible organizational structure. The intern-
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ships have been used in numerous instances as an ef-fective icebreaker for relations between companies andinstitutions of higher learning. With this success, thediversity of topics and problems has dramatically in-creased and the centre is expecting to continue to buildon this strong foundation of the previous 10 years.This IM activity provides unique opportunities for in-tellectual stimulation and in this success, building anew model of research/problem solving as a lifestyle.
In the question pe-riod that followed, HilaryOckendon (Oxford) askedfor specific details of theprogram and Poul Hjorth(DTU) inquired if therewere any plans to extendthis activity into other re-gions of Poland. Karinaexplained that the stu-
dents come for 8 weeks with some choosing to stay longerand that a few of the students are selected for intern-
ships with participating companies. Also, depending ontheir level of interest, a student may just work on a singleproblem or multiple problems. With respect to expansion,the centre sends postdocs to many of the other regions ofPoland, but they can still work with the centre in Warsaw.
What followed was an extended panel discussion onthe global initiatives and the details of this discussion isbeing prepared for the next issue of the Dianoia. Staytuned!
C. Sean Bohun is a Professorof Mathematics at the Uni-versity of Ontario Instituteof Technology. He receivedhis PhD from the Univer-sity of Victoria (Canada),and works in Industrial andApplied Mathematics with aparticular interest in partialdifferential equations thatarise in natural processes.His research themes include:
semianalytical techniques,chemical processes and crys-tal growth.
News from the Council• THE NEW ICIAM WEBSITE
You can update the information concerning yoursociety online!
The big development in ICIAM’s infrastructure inAutumn 2015 has been the launch of a renovatedwebsite. The website has the same address, but ev-erything else is new.
As previously detailed by the President, Maria J.Esteban, in a message sent to all presidents and rep-resentatives of member societies, each society cannow name an “editor” who is authorized to make allchanges concerning his/her society on the website.These changes include:
– Names and contact information of the presi-dent and of the representative(s)
– Pictures of the same
– Contact information for the society itself.
At the launch of the website, the president of eachsociety was nominated as “editor,” but this can ofcourse change. Please see all details of how to pro-ceed at the address iciam.org/faq-members.
• SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT OF MAYBOARD MEETINGFurther information about this meeting appearselsewhere in this issue. Representatives who antici-pate that they will need a letter of invitation to ob-tain a visa for travel to Brazil should contact JoseCuminato ([email protected]).
• CALL FOR PRE-BIDS FOR ICIAM 2023This is a reminder to societies that are consideringmaking a bid for ICIAM 2023 that the Council willmake a decision about site visit candidates at theBoard meeting in May 2016. A full description ofthe bid process can be found in this edition of theDIANOIA.
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Volume 3: Table of Contents
Volume 3: Table of ContentsIssue 1: January 2015EDITORIAL: Who Pays for Interdisciplinary Research?— Barbara Lee Keyfitz 2ICIAM 2015 Update 4Press Release: Dr. Heide Hackmann to be ICSUExecutive Director and Dr. Lucilla Spini, Head ofScience Programmes 4Call for Nominations of Candidates for The Felix KleinPrize 5Report on ICWM 2014 — Sunsook Noh 5Call for Nominations for ICIAM Officers:Secretary, Treasurer, Officers-at-Large 6Announcement of MCA-2017 8The SMAI Journal of Computational Mathematics— Douglas N. Arnold & Thierry Goudon 8BioDynamics 2015 10Announcing MATHESIA — Luca Formaggia 10Invited Speakers of ICIAM 2015 11ICIAM 2015 Mini-symposia — Extended deadlines 12Save the Date! 13About ICIAM 14
Issue 2: April 2015Ready for ICIAM 2015 — Barbara Lee Keyfitz 2Möbius — Jim Talamo 2Lezioni Leonardesche 3Invited Speakers of ICIAM2015: Profiles Part II 4ICIAM Foundations: Remembering Ed Block— Jim Crowley & Gail Corbett 7Announcing MATHESIA — Luca Formaggia 7CIMPA: Call for Director 8PDEs: Analysis, Numerics and Applications to Floodsand Tsunamis — Jose Ernie C. Lope, Patrizia Donato& Marian P. Roque 9Announcement of MCA-2017 11Press Release: Americans Nash and Nirenberg share the2015 Abel Prize 12SAMM 2015: Materials with Discontinuities 13EU-MATHS-IN, Year 1 — Maria J. Esteban & ZdeněkStrakoš 142017 CIMPA Research Schools Call for Projects 16Call for Nominations for The Felix Klein Prize 16Call for Nominations for ICIAM Officers 17Mathematics Research and the Economy— Barbara Lee Keyfitz 17Save the Date! 18About ICIAM 19
Issue 3: July 2015EDITORIAL: Mathematics and Money, PR andProfessionalism — Barbara Lee Keyfitz 2Systems Anaylsis 2015 4Abel Prize 2016 Call for Nominations 5Report from CAIMS*SCMAI — Raymond Spiteri 5Announcement of MCA-2017 6Silver Jubilee of the Indian Society of Industrial andApplied Mathematics 7A Research School in Morocco— Mohammed Rhoudaf 8Call for Nominations for The Felix Klein Prize 9CIMPA, an opportunity — Maria J. Esteban 9Call for Nominations for ICIAM Officers 11Car — Jim Talamo 11The ICIAM Officers Meeting: May 2015— Barbara Lee Keyfitz 12Recent News from the International Council forScience 13About ICIAM 14
Issue 4: October 2015ICIAM and the Future: An Exchange 2A Word from the President — Maria J. Esteban 3The ICIAM 2015 Congress — Barbara Lee Keyfitz 4Announcement of MCA-2017 5Applied and Industrial Mathematics in Spain:An Overview — Tomás Chacón Rebollo 6ICIAM Announcements 7Announcement of ICIAM 2016 Board Meeting inBrazil 8A Call to CIMPA Members 9Mathematics-in-Industry New Zealand (MINZ)Study Group — Winston L. Sweatman 10News from CIMPA 11News from the International Council for Science 12Bid Process for ICIAM 2023 12Silver Jubilee of the Indian Society of Industrial andApplied Mathematics 14Global change impact on diseases and alien speciesexpansion 15About ICIAM 16
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About ICIAM
About ICIAMThe International Council for Industrial and AppliedMathematics (ICIAM) is a worldwide organization forprofessional applied mathematics societies. Its membersare national and regional societies dedicated to appliedand industrial mathematics, and other societies with asignificant interest in industrial or applied mathematics.
ICIAM is governed by a Board comprising representa-tives of its member societies. Programs run by ICIAM,and the By-Laws of the organization, can be found onthe ICIAM web page, www.iciam.org.
The Full Members and their representativesANZIAM (Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Ap-plied Mathematics): Ian H. SloanASAMACI (Asociación Argentina de Matemática AplicadaComputacional e Industrial): Rubén Daniel SpiesCAIMS-SCMAI (Canadian Applied and Industrial Math-ematics Society, Société Canadienne de MathématiquesAppliquées et Industrielles): Raymond SpiteriCSCM (Chinese Society for Computational Mathematics):Xuejun XuCSIAM (China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe-matics): Pingwen Zhang and Guiying YanECMI (European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry):Michael GüntherESMTB (European Society for Mathematical and Theoret-ical Biology): Andrea De GaetanoGAMM (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik undMechanik): Peter Benner and Sergio ContiIMA (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications): IainS. Duff and David AbrahamsISIAM (Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathemat-ics): Abul Hasan Siddiqi and Pammy ManchandaJSIAM (Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe-matics): Shin’ichi Oishi and Hiroshi KokubuKSIAM (Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe-matics): Chang Ock LeeMOS (Mathematical Optimization Society): William (Bill)CookROMAI (Societatea Română de Matematică Aplicată şiIndustrială): Costica MorosanuSBMAC (Sociedade Brasiliera de Matemática Aplicada eComputacional): Paulo Fernando de Arruda ManceraSEMA (Sociedad Española de Matematica Aplicada):Tomás Chacón RebolloSIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics):Pam Cook and Cynthia PhillipsSIMAI (Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Indus-triale): Alessandro Speranza and Giovanni RussoSMAI (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Indus-trielles): Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira and Alain DamlamianSPMAC (Sociedad Peruana de Matemática Aplicada yComputacional): Obidio Rubio Mercedes
VSAM (Vietnamese Society for Applications of Mathemat-ics): Lê Hùng Són
The Associate Members and their representativesAIRO (Associazione Italiana di Ricerca Operativa): AnnaSciomachenAMS (American Mathematical Society): Don McClureAWM (Association for Women in Mathematics): Jill PipherChinaMS (Chinese Mathematical Society): Xiaoshan GaoCMS-SMC (Canadian Mathematical Society, Société Cana-dienne de Mathématiques): Elena BravermanCzechMS (Czech Mathematical Society): Zdeněk StrakošDMV (Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung): GüntherLeugeringEMS (European Mathematical Society): Franco BrezziENBIS (European Network for Business and IndustrialStatistics): Rainer GöbFMS-SMY-FMF (Finnish Mathematical Society, Suomenmatemaattinen yhdistys, Finlands matematiska förening):Samuli SiltananIMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics): Hans RudolfKünschIMU (Israel Mathematical Union): Amy Novick-CohenKMS (Korean Mathematical Society): Yong Hoon LeeLMS (London Mathematical Society): Stephen HuggettMSJ (Mathematical Society of Japan): Yoichi MiyaokaNMF (Norwegian Mathematical Society): Elena CelledoniÖMG (Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft):Alexander OstermannPTM (Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne (Polish Mathe-matical Society)): Łukasz StettnerRSME (Real Sociedad Matemática Española): María ElenaVázquez-CendónSingMS (Singapore Mathematical Society): Weizhu BaoSMF (Société Mathématique de France): Bernard HelfferSMG-SMS (Schweizerische Mathematische Gesellschaft -Société Mathématique Suisse - Swiss Mathematical Soci-ety): Jean-Paul BerrutSMM (Sociedad Matemática Mexicana): Mayra Nuñez-LopezSPM (Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática): FernandoPestaña da CostaSvMS (Swedish Mathematical Society, Svenska matematik-ersamfundet): Åke BrännströmUMI (Unione Matematica Italiana): Pierangelo Marcati
The current officers of ICIAMPresident: Maria J. Esteban, FrancePast President: Barbara Lee Keyfitz, USASecretary: Sven Leyffer, USATreasurer: Jose Alberto Cuminato, BrazilMembers-at-Large: Taketomo (Tom) Mitsui, Japan andVolker Mehrmann, Germany
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