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Recipients named for the Seventh Annual SIAM Student Chapter Certificate of Recognition
SIAM Student Chapter certificates of recognition have been awarded to 73 students who have made outstanding contributions to their SIAM student chapters. This program recognizes the importance of student contributions in creating and sustaining exciting chapters, acknowledges students’ efforts within the greater SIAM community, and provides a noteworthy commendation for students to add to their records for career building.
Chris Rowlatt, president of the Cardiff University SIAM Student Chapter, awarded the SIAM certificate of recogntion for outstanding service to the Cardiff chapter.
SIAM congratulates all of the recipients and thanks them for their contributions to the development and growth of SIAM student chapters. Read the rest of this entry »
Recap of Chicago Area SIAM Student Conference
Haley Yaple, Secretary of Northwestern University SIAM Student Chapter gives us a recap of the first annual Chicago Area SIAM Student Conference:
The end of April marked an exciting milestone for SIAM student chapters in the Chicagoland: the first event inviting all applied math students in the area to come together, have some fun, and learn about what’s going on locally in applied mathematics. April 27-28 was the first annual Chicago Area SIAM Student Conference, and it was a great success (see our earlier post about planning this event). Featuring three plenary speakers at the top of their fields, talks from graduate students working in a variety of areas, a poster session, and career panel, there was a little something for everyone. Several dozen students from six local universities participated in the weekend’s activities, which included time for students to get to know one another. In addition to learning about current research and getting career advice, students had the chance to form lasting connections with their peers. Read the rest of this entry »
University of Arizona NCAA Bracket Challenge
Read a post by Jeffrey Hyman, Vice President of the University of Arizona SIAM chapter, about an exciting use of math by their chapter: picking winners in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
This year marked the third annual University of Arizona’s NCAA men’s basketball Tournament Bracket challenge where students in the SIAM chapter created algorithms to pick winners in the NCAA Division-one Basketball tournament. Members generated algorithms that were based on weighted probabilities using the tournament seeds, Markov Chains based on data pulled from previous tournaments, ranking mascots in battles to the death, and distance from their hometown. The only rule was that each bracket be reproducible within the variation provided by a pseudo random number generator. The winner this year created a weighted bracket based upon games during the regular session.
One member said, “the joy of the competition was comparing our picks to those by people following the sport with great vigilance and think they have the upper hand. Turns out, March Madness is a stochastic process where anything can happen, almost surely.”
From down here in the old pueblo, we’d like to encourage other SIAM student chapters to start their own March madness algorithm competitions next year. And perhaps someday we’ll have a national student SIAM competition!
If you have any questions about the competition don’t hesitate to email us at siamchapter@math.arizona.edu.
Chicago-area student chapters visit Argonne National Laboratory
On Friday, April 12, SIAM student chapters from the Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Northwestern University converged 25 miles southwest of Chicago at the Argonne National Laboratory, one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s largest laboratories for science and engineering research. Read the rest of this entry »
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SIAM Unwrapped April 2013
News & announcements for the SIAM membership community
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Dear SIAM members,
If you have any changes to your membership information, including if you are moving or have changes to your position or affiliation, please update your records.
Are you earning your highest anticipated degree this year? Take advantage of SIAM’s postgraduate membership next year. Read the rest of this entry »
Announcing the 2013 Class of SIAM Fellows
Philadelphia, PA –SIAM is pleased to announce the newly selected Class of SIAM Fellows, distinguished members of SIAM nominated for exemplary research as well as outstanding service to the community. Through their contributions, the 2013 Class of Fellows is helping advance the fields of applied mathematics and computational science. SIAM congratulates these 33 members of our community: Read the rest of this entry »
SIAM Unwrapped March 2013
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Dear SIAM members,
If you haven’t already, this is a reminder to renew your membership for 2013.
In this issue, we ask you for your ideas and thoughts on projects and initiatives you would like to see SIAM undertake.
Regards,
Karthika Muthukumaraswamy
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Western University Canada new lecture series
Lecture Series: Numerical Methods in Finance
March 21, 2013
Middlesex College, room MC106
Western University (University of Western Ontario)
Dr. Alexey Kuznetsov
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SIAM Unwrapped February 2013
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Dear SIAM members,
In this issue, we announce winners of our MGAM contest and call for ICIAM prize nominations. You’ll also learn about a couple of milestones with regard to SIAM journals and conferences. Read the rest of this entry »
Supplementary Materials for SIAM journals
SIAM journals have entered a new era and are now considering unrefereed supplementary materials for publication along with the author’s manuscript. The first journals to seize the opportunity, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing and SIAM Review, began taking submissions with accompanying supplemental files in January. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis is next in line, with other journals expected to follow.
Prior to this new initiative, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems and SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences did review refereed supplemental content. SIAM journals that consider supplemental content for publication under the new policy will treat it on an unrefereed basis.
Supplementary materials must be submitted at the same time the article is first submitted. They might include additional figures or examples, animations, data sets used in the paper, computer code used to generate figures or tables, or other materials that are necessary to fully document the research contained in the paper or to facilitate the readers’ ability to understand and extend the work.
Supplementary materials, though not refereed, will be available to referees. The referees will be asked to give the materials at least a cursory look and verify that they are appropriate to accompany the paper. The referees or editor may suggest changes.
If published, they will be linked from the main article webpage and will be clearly marked as unrefereed supplementary materials associated with a particular paper.