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Dear SIAM members,

If you haven’t already, now is the time to register for the 2013 SIAM Annual Meeting! Held jointly with the SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications from July 8-12 in beautiful San Diego, California, it is safe to assume that discussions on cutting-edge research and state-of-the-art applications in the mathematical sciences will not be the only exciting thing about the meeting.

In this issue, get an idea about what to expect at the meeting. And register for the meetings at the link below:

https://my.siam.org/conferences.aspx

Hotel and other meeting-related information can be found through the right-hand navigation bar on the conference websites. We look forward to seeing you in San Diego!

Regards,

Karthika Muthukumaraswamy

Editor

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Contents:

AN13 & CT13 UPDATES

• Chime in at the Annual Business Meeting
• Check out the line-up of invited speakers
• Prize Lectures and Awards Luncheon
• Student activities at AN13
• Scientific and technical sessions by SIAM chapters
• Career and networking events
• Visit our exhibitors and sponsors
• AN13 & CT13: There’s an app for it
• Workshop on Network Science
• What to do in San Diego

OTHER UPDATES

• Mathematical sciences in 2025 Report
• NC13 presentations now available on SIAM Presents
• New SIAM Books

- A Primer on Mathematical Models in Biology

- Recipes for Continuation

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Chime in at the Annual Business Meeting  

The SIAM Annual Business Meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 9, at 6:15 p.m. at the Town and Country room in the Convention Center. Members can attend the business meeting and voice their thoughts and views on a wide range of issues such as SIAM publications, activity groups, student chapters, and outreach activities. The business meeting is held each year as required by SIAM’s bylaws. SIAM officers will give an overview of various programs and activities. Light fare and beverages will be served. The SIAG/CST will also hold its business meeting on Tuesday, July 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the San Diego room.

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Check out the line-up of invited speakers

Electricity market models; technologies for energy-efficient systems; strategic sustainability efforts by companies; modeling of conservation decisions; information sharing in social networks; self-driven particles and traffic jams; and correlation and causality in dynamical systems are just some of the topics to be explored by invited speakers at the SIAM Annual Meeting and Conference on Control and its Applications.

View the full list of plenary speakers at AN13 and CT13 at the links below:

http://www.siam.org/meetings/an13/invited.php

http://www.siam.org/meetings/ct13/invited.php

Check out the entire program for AN13 and CT13.

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Prize Lectures and Awards Luncheon

SIAM’s extensive prize program recognizes outstanding applied mathematicians and computational scientists each year. As is customary, prize recipients this year represent distinguished professionals from a variety of different backgrounds and fields: Margaret Cheney of Colorado State University and Naval Postgraduate School will deliver the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture; Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Anette Hosoi will deliver the I. E. Block Community Lecture; and Stanley Osher from the University of California, Los Angeles, will present The John Von Neumann Lecture. Tyrone Duncan of the University of Kansas will give the lecture associated with the W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics; Stanford University’s Lexing Ying will deliver the James H. Wilkinson Prize lecture. Nick Trefethen of Oxford University will give the Past President’s Address.

During CT13, Ricardo Sanfelice of University of Arizona will deliver the lecture associated with the SIAG/CST Prize. Jean-Pierre Raymond of Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III in France and Jiongmin Yong of University of Central Florida are each recipients of the 2011 SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize, and will both present their winning papers. The two papers awarded the 2013 Best SICON Paper Prize will also be presented.

Recipients will receive their awards at the Prizes and Awards Luncheon to be held Tuesday, July 9, from 12:30-2:30 p.m. in the Golden Ballroom. The Luncheon is free with registration.

Find details on prize lectures for AN13 and CT13 at the links below:

http://www.siam.org/meetings/an13/invited.php

http://www.siam.org/meetings/ct13/prizes.php

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Student activities at AN13

Student events at this year’s Annual Meeting will begin with a student orientation prior to the welcome reception on Sunday, July 7. An industry panel discussing the many facets of using applied math to solve industrial problems will be held on Monday evening from 6:15-7:15 p.m., followed by the career fair. SIAM student chapters will meet with SIAM leadership for a breakfast meeting on Tuesday, July 9. Students can meet with and interact one-on-one with invited speakers at an informal evening session on Tuesday. The Poster Session and Dessert Reception also on Tuesday evening will provide an opportunity for students and other attendees to present their research. SIAM Student Paper Prize winners and SIAM/MCM Award recipients will present their winning papers in morning and afternoon sessions on Wednesday, July 10. Don’t forget to attend the SIAM book giveaway, which will be held in the Exhibit Hall on Thursday afternoon. A student lounge located in the Exhibit Hall will provide an opportunity for students to network with other attendees through the duration of the meeting.

View details on all the above and a schedule here:

http://www.siam.org/meetings/an12/studentday.php

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Scientific and technical sessions by SIAM chapters

For the past ten years, six SIAM student chapters have been invited each year to send representatives to the SIAM Annual Meeting to present their research in a special minisymposium session organized by SIAM Education Committee chair, currently Peter Turner of Clarkson University. The 2013 Annual Meeting will hold two minisymposia featuring chapters, expanding invited chapters to 12 this year. “With the extensive growth of student chapters, and student membership in general, over the past ten years, the expected interval between an individual chapter being invited was around 20 years, so we needed to increase the number of opportunities for chapter representatives to share their research,” said Turner. “These minisymposia give an excellent opportunity to showcase some of our students’ work, and to enable chapter representatives to benefit from the meeting.”

The two minisymposim sessions will be held Monday, July 8 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. and Tuesday, July 9, from 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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Career and networking events

Among the many career development activities at AN13 is the Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Career Fair, to be held 7:15-9:15 p.m. on Monday, July 8. An informational and interactive event, it will offer a forum for employees to speak with prospective employers, as well as discuss opportunities and professional development ideas. Jobseekers will meet government and industry representatives to learn the makeup of an ideal candidate and to hear what each employer has to offer. Find details at http://www.siam.org/meetings/an13/career.php.

Employers who wish to participate in the career fair can visit the above page for details. There is no fee for participation! Those interested in attending the technical program must register for the Annual Meeting.

The Professional Development Evening, to be held 6:15-9:15 p.m. on Thursday, July 11, and organized by the Education committee working group, will also give students abundant opportunities for career enhancement.

Attendees, don’t forget to pick up a copy of SIAM’s latest careers brochure at the registration desk. You can read more about Careers in Applied Mathematics, a 20-page booklet that details career paths outside academia for those majoring in applied mathematics or computational science. It is also available for free download at http://www.siam.org/careers/thinking/pdf/brochure.pdf.

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Visit our exhibitors and sponsors

In addition to getting a cup of coffee (and one’s bearings) in between sessions, there are other reasons to visit the Exhibit Hall at AN13. It will feature vendors and exhibitors including publishers, software and hardware suppliers. Visit the SIAM booth as well as exhibits by Oxford University Press, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, AMS, and the MathWorks, to mention just a few.  Free wifi and Internet stations will also be available.

If you would like to exhibit, please contact the SIAM marketing representative at marketing@siam.org. You can view the AN13 Exhibitor Kit at http://www.siam.org/meetings/an13/an13_exhibitor.pdf.

Sponsorship opportunities are still available! Please visit the following link for details: http://www.siam.org/meetings/sponsor.php.

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AN13 & CT13: There’s an app for it

Mobile phone apps for AN13 and CT13 will soon be available for free download on various platforms and devices. The mobile app will allow attendees to view the schedule, look up speaker, attendee, and exhibitor lists, view maps and building layouts, sync events with their mobile calendars, and even create their own shows by selecting specific sessions. Attendees can download the app by searching for SIAM, AN13 or CT13 in the App Store or Android Market. You can also post and share content through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Don’t forget to tweet your thoughts, suggestions, photos, and video, before, during and after the meeting.  Please use hashtag #SIAMAN13 for the Annual Meeting and #SIAMCT13 for the Control and Applications meeting.

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Workshop on Network Science

The SIAM Workshop on Network Science (NS13) begins the day prior to the Annual Meeting at the same venue (Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California) on July 7-8, 2013. The workshop seeks to build a community around mathematical and computational aspects of network science, comprising of multi-disciplinary researchers who seek to develop, interact and collaborate on various topics pertaining to network science with an emphasis on rigorous computational and mathematical techniques.  Lada Adamic of the University of Michigan and Aravind Srinivasan of the University of Maryland will deliver invited lectures.

The workshop program is available here: http://www.siam.org/meetings/networks13/ns13_progrram.pdf

The pre-registration deadline is Monday, June 10, 2013. Register here:

https://www.siam.org/meetings/networks13/regform.php
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What to do in San Diego

With near-perfect weather all year-round, scenic drives, and miles of beaches, San Diego offers a variety of visitor attractions. The conference venue is just minutes from Seaworld Adventure Park, home of the world-famous whale, Shamu. Terrestrial wildlife isn’t too far either. The San Diego Zoo, home to 4000 rare and endangered animals, is close to the Town and Country Resort Hotel. Visitors can ride the Skyfari gondola to see the zoo from a vantage point above the exhibits. Balboa Park, featuring a collection of gorgeous botanical gardens, is another attraction minutes from the hotel and can be experienced by walking or riding the free tram. The San Diego Natural History Museum, Timken Museum of Art, the Air and Space Museum, and the Old Globe Theatre are just a few of the other popular tourist destinations close to the Town and Country Resort. View the full list:

http://www.towncountry.com/sites-attractions/default-en.html.

Also view tourist recommendations from the San Diego Tourism Authority:

http://www.sandiego.org/what-to-do.aspx.

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Mathematical sciences in 2025 Report

The full report on Mathematical Sciences in 2025 from the National Academies Press is now available for download:

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=15269

The report analyzes the current state of various fields under the umbrella of the mathematical sciences, presenting ideas to ensure that the discipline remains in a strong position, and is capable of maximizing  its contributions to the nation in 2025. The report recommends the reassessment of training for future generations of mathematical scientists in light of the growing cross-disciplinary nature of the field. Download the full report at the link above.

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NC13 presentations now available on SIAM Presents

Presentations of select sessions from the 2013 SIAM Conference on Numerical Combustion are now available on SIAM Presents…Featured Lectures from Our Archives. View and listen to invited lectures and minisymposia in a range of areas focusing on integration of theory, modeling, and numerical implementation in the study of basic combustion physics and technological applications.

Please go to the direct link to view the sessions captured at NC13:

https://live.blueskybroadcast.com/bsb/client/CL_DEFAULT.asp?Client=975312&PCAT=5671&CAT=6244

You do not need to login to view presentations, though registering will allow you to track the presentations you access. Audio/slides can be viewed by selecting either “Invited Speakers” or “Minisymposia” and then connecting to a specific session. You can also browse all presentations on SIAM Presents by conference or area of classification on the left sidebar.

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New SIAM Books

A Primer on Mathematical Models in Biology

Lee A. Segel and Leah Edelstein-Keshet

This textbook grew out of a course that the popular and highly respected applied mathematician Lee Segel taught at the Weizmann Institute and represents his unique perspective. It introduces differential equations,  biological applications, and simulations, and emphasizes molecular events (biochemistry and enzyme kinetics), excitable systems (neural signals), and small protein and genetic circuits.  
Additional information: http://www.ec-securehost.com/SIAM/OT129.html

2013 / xxvi + 424 pages / Softcover / ISBN: 978-1-611972-49-8
List Price $69.00 / SIAM Member Price $48.30 / Order Code OT129

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Recipes for Continuation

Harry Dankowicz and Frank Schilder

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical methodology of parameter continuation, and the computational analysis of families of solutions to nonlinear mathematical equations. It develops a systematic formalism for constructing abstract representations of continuation problems and for implementing these in an existing computational platform.
Additional information: http://www.ec-securehost.com/SIAM/CS11.html

2013 / xvi + 584 / Softcover / 978-1-611972-56-6
List Price $99.00 / Member Price $69.30 / Order Code CS11

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In a paper published in the journal last month, authors Anthony Bonato, Dieter Mitsche, and Pawel Pralat describe a mathematical model to disrupt flow of information in a complex real-world network, such as a terrorist organization, using minimal resources.

Terror networks are comparable in their structure to hierarchical organization in companies and certain online social networks, where information flows in one direction from a source, which produces the information or data, downwards to sinks, which consume it. Such networks are called hierarchical social networks.

“In such networks, the flow of information is often one way,” explains author Pawel Pralat. “For example, a celebrity such as Justin Bieber sends out a tweet, which is sent to millions of his followers. These followers send out their own retweets, and so on. We may therefore view hierarchical social networks as directed networks without cycles, or directed acyclic graphs (DAGs).”

Here, there is no requirement for reciprocity (the celebrity does not necessarily follow his or her followers). Similarly, in a terrorist network, the leaders pass plans down to the foot soldiers, and usually only one messenger needs to receive the message for the plan to be executed.

Disruption of the flow of information would correspond to halting the spread of news in an online social network or intercepting messages in a terror network.

Social Networks. Image credit: Wikipedia

The authors propose a generalized stochastic model for the flow and disruption of information based on a two-player outdoor game called “Seepage,” where players who depict agents attempt to block the movement of another player, an intruder, from a source node to a sink. “The game—motivated by the 1973 eruption of the Eldfell volcano in Iceland—displays some similarities to an approach used in mathematical counterterrorism, where special kinds of DAGs are used to model the disruption of terrorist cells,” says Pralat.

The motivating eruption caused a major crisis at the time, as lava flow threatened to close off the harbor, the island’s main source of income. In the game, inhabitants attempt to protect the harbor by pouring water on the volcanic lava to halt its progress. A mathematical model of the game pits two opponents against each other—the sludge, or intruder, against the greens, or agents— forming a directed acyclic graph, with one source (the top of the volcano) and many sinks representing the lake. The parameter, “seepage,” represents the amount of contamination, and the “green number” corresponds to the number of agents required to halt it.

A previous study modeled terrorist cells as partially ordered sets (a special kind of DAG), which are often used in mathematics to analyze an ordering, sequencing, or arrangement of distinct objects.  In such a system, terrorist plans are formulated by nodes at the top of the hierarchy, which represent the leaders or maximal nodes of the set. The plans are transmitted down to the nodes at the bottom: these represent foot soldiers in a terror network or minimal nodes in the set who would be presumed to carry out these plans. The assumption is that one messenger is sufficient for reception and execution of the plan. Thus, if the partially ordered set represents a courier network for a terrorist organization, the intention would be to block all routes from the maximal node to the minimal nodes by capturing or killing a subset of agents.

In this paper, the authors utilize the similarities in the previous terrorist cell model to Seepage, where greens try to prevent the sludge from moving to the sinks by blocking nodes. A number of different winning strategies employed by both players are explored when played on a DAG. The seepage and green number for disrupting a given hierarchical social network are analyzed.

The primary difference from the previous study’s model is that the Seepage model is dynamic: greens can move and choose new sets of nodes over time. The authors determine that Seepage is a more realistic model of counterterrorism, as the agents do not necessarily act all at once, but over time.

The analysis is made in two types of terrorist network structures, as Pralat explains, “We consider two extreme profiles: one where the network is regular, where every agent has about the same number of connections. The second profile is power law, where some agents have many connections, but most have very few.” This is analyzed by considering the total degree distribution of nodes in the DAG.  In regular DAGs, each level of the DAG would have nodes with about the same out-degree (number of outgoing edges emanating from a node), while power law DAGs would have many more low-degree nodes and a few with high degrees.

Mathematical analysis allows the authors to determine what point in a network would be most effective for disrupting messages. “Our mathematical results reinforce the view that intercepting the information or message in a hierarchical social network following a power law is more difficult close to levels near the source. For regular networks, it does not matter as much where the message is disrupted,” says Pralat. “Future work could look at more complex profiles of networks, along with developing effective algorithms for disrupting the flow of information in a DAG using our game-theoretic approach.”

Source Article:

Vertex-Pursuit in Random Directed Acyclic Graphs

Anthony Bonato, Dieter Mitsche and Pawel Pralat

SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 27(2), 732–756. (Online publish date: April 16, 2013). The source article is available for free access at the link above until August 16, 2013.

About the authors:

Anthony Bonato is a professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Dieter Mitsche is a postdoctoral fellow and Pawel Pralat is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ryerson University.  This work was supported by NSERC, Mprime and Ryerson University.

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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.

2013 Certificate of Recognition recipients (and the faculty advisors who nominated them)

Romarie Morales (Carlos Castillo-Chavez & Sergei K. Suslov), Arizona State University

Joseph Cacioppo (Adnan H. Sabuwala & Comlan de Souza), California State University, Fresno

Michel Paniagua (Coskun Cetin), California State University, Sacramento

Susana Urquizo (Jung-Ha An & Brian Jue), California State University, Stanislaus

Christopher Rowlatt (Angela Mihai & Tim Phillips), Cardiff University, Wales

Nate Black (Leo Rebholz), Clemson University

Brent Davis (James Liu & Jennifer Mueller), Colorado State University

Victoria C. Nneji (Chris Wiggins), Columbia University

Diarmuid Cahalane (John Guckenheimer), Cornell University

Aprant Ajay (Vivek Kumar Aggarwal), Delhi Technological University, India

Daniel M. Jordon (Robert Boyer), Drexel University

Jonathan Goldfarb (Munevver Mine Subasi), Florida Institute of Technology

Diego Torrejon (Padmanabhan Seshaiyer), George Mason University

Connor Ahlbach (Lisette dePillis), Harvey Mudd College

Andreas Sommer (Hans Georg Bock), Heidelberg University, Germany

Barrett Leslie (Hemanshu Kaul & Shuwang Li), Illinois Institute of Technology

Rahul Ritesh (Siddhartha P. Chakrabarty), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Madan Gopal Kundu (Julia Arciero), Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Jacob Blanton (Susanne Brenner & Shawn Walker), Louisiana State University

Jana Yamani (Jeremy Kepner, Laurent Demanet & Alan Edelman), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fatma Yerlikaya Özkurt (Bulent Karasozen, Gerhard Wilhelm Weber & Murat Manguoglu), Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Qinglin Tang (Weizhu Bao), National University of Singapore, Singapore

Gavin Lynch (Richard Moore), New Jersey Institute of Technology

Haley A. Yaple (Adilson E. Motter), Northwestern University

Nathaniel Beckman (Raymond Cheng), Old Dominion University

Zhan Huang (Qiang Du), Pennsylvania State University

Juan Pablo Vigneaux (Carlos Jerez-Hanckes), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Jarrod Brockman (Jay Gopalakrishnan), Portland State University

Federico Antico (Mark Daniel Ward), Purdue University

Peter Muller (Gregor Kovacic), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Charles Puelz (Tim Warburton), Rice University

John A.W.B. Costanzo (Manuel Lopez), Rochester Institute of Technology

Sky Wagner (Luis Melara), Shippensburg University

Pierre-David Letourneau (Margot Gerritsen), Stanford University

Luke Stover (Natalie Cartwright & Diego Dominici), State University of New York at New Paltz

Simon Rush (David Weinberg), Texas Technical University

Martin Takáč (Peter Richtarik), The University of Edinburgh/Heriot-Watt University, England

Stephanie Friedhoff (James Adler), Tufts University

Franz Hoffmann (Mac Hyman), Tulane University

Camilo Alejandro Castillo Benavides (Gerard Olivar), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Ulf Friedrich (Ekkehard Sachs),Universitaet Trier, Germany

Rebecca Stockbridge (Shankar Venkataramani), University of Arizona

Jack Blake (Melina A. Freitag), University of Bath, England

Anna Lieb (Jon Wilkening), University of California, Berkeley

John Villavert (Tom Manteuffel), University of Colorado Boulder, Graduate Chapter

Brita Schneiders (Sujeet Bhat & Anne Dougherty), University of Colorado Boulder, Undergraduate Chapter

Taylor Klotz (Gregory J. Morrow), University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Matthew Hassell (Richard Braun), University of Delaware

Maryam Yashtini (William Hager), University of Florida

Aanchal Aggarwal (William Ott), University of Houston

Steven Dalton (Luke Olson), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Samuel Relton (Nick Higham & David Silvester), University of Manchester, England

Alex Cloninger (Konstantina Trivisa), University of Maryland College Park

Jonathan McHenry (Andrei Draganescu), University of Maryland Baltimore County

Andrew C. Davey (Yanlai Chen, Alfa Heryudono & Saeja Kim), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Feng Wei (Peter Miller), University of Michigan

Vincent Quenneville-Belair (Maria-Carme Calderer), University of Minnesota

Tigran Atoyan (Mason Porter), University of Oxford, England

Michaela Kubacki (Michael Neilan), University of Pittsburgh

Simon Gaulter (Nancy K. Nichols), University of Reading, England

Travis Johnston (Lincoln Lu), University of South Carolina at Columbia

Jillian Trask (Suzanne Lenhart), University of Tennessee

Esteban J. Melendez (Kenichi Maruno), University of Texas – Pan American

Steven A. Mattis (Clint Dawson & Todd Arbogast), University of Texas at Austin

Paul M. Delgado (Dr Son-Young Yi), University of Texas at El Paso

Mikala Johnson (Bernard Deconinck), University of Washington

Emil Kieri (Stefan Engblom), Uppsala University, Sweden

Audrey Addison (Luis F. Gordillo), Utah State University

Vítor Leite Nunes (Lizette Zietsman), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tom Ranner (Andrew Stuart), Warwick University, England

Chady Gemayel (Hiro Mukai), Washington University

Anton Tenyakov (Matt Davison), Western University Canada

Xiaojing Wang (Suzanne L. Weekes), Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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.

The conference planning committee, from SIAM student chapters at Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Northwestern University are already at work planning next year’s conference, to be held next Spring at Northwestern University. We hope to learn from the work we did this year to make it an even bigger and better event!

View and listen to invited lectures and minisymposia in a range of areas focusing on integration of theory, modeling, and numerical implementation in the study of basic combustion physics and technological applications.

Please go to the direct link to view the sessions captured at NC13. You do not need to login to view presentations, though registering will allow you to track the presentations you access. Audio/slides can be viewed by selecting either “Invited Speakers” or “Minisymposia” and then connecting to a specific session. You can also browse all presentations on SIAM Presents by conference or area of classification on the left sidebar.

The university/industry announcement is here. Under search criteria, select “reference number” and enter “DE-FOA-0000918”

The DOE National Laboratory announcement, LAB 13-918, is here. Scroll down and look under “Program Announcements to DOE Labs” on the right sidebar.

Pre-applications are required and are due by June 3, 2013, 5:00 p.m. ET.

At the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering held in Boston in February 2013, Dr. Joshua Bloom discussed the development of robotic telescopes, autonomous follow-up networks, and a machine-learning framework that act as a scalable, deterministic human surrogate for discovery and classification in astronomical imaging.

View a brief video overview of Dr. Bloom’s talk and an interview:

View and listen to invited lectures and minisymposia in a wide range of areas including large scale computation, scientific data mining, mathematics of planet Earth and much, much more.

Please go to the direct link to view the sessions captured at CSE13. You do not need to login to view presentations, though registering will allow you to track the presentations you access. Audio/slides can be viewed by selecting either “Invited Speakers” or “Minisymposia” and then connecting to a specific session. You can also browse all presentations on SIAM Presents by conference or area of classification on the left sidebar.

During a tour of New York City Hall following the event, the mayor met with the finalists, their coaches and parents, as well as organizers from the M3 Challenge. He spoke to them about the importance of applied mathematics and STEM education and careers, as well as of New York City as an excellent place for young people to live and work. View the photos! 

Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to M3 Challenge finalists and organizers about the importance of STEM

M3 Challenge finalists meet with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at New York City Hall

Mayor Michael Bloomberg addresses M3 Challenge finalists