CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 02 Number 3
May 10, 2002

Editor: Sue Ann Campbell (sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca)

CONTENTS

1. Sponsors for CAIMS*SCMAI Awards

2.* Update on 2002 CAIMS*SCMAI Annual Meeting

3. Canadian Applied Mathematician’s book named Outstanding Academic Title.

4.* Minisymposium Proposals for ICIAM 2003

5.* Conference on Quantum Control: mathematical and numerical challenges

6.* Fields Institute Activities May-August 2002

7.* International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

8. CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information

* Links to the web pages for these and other conferences can be found
by clicking on “Related Links” at the CAIMS*SCMAI home page www.caims.ca/.

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From: Sam Shen <samshen@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 16:20:59 -0400

Several awards will be presented at the CAIMS*SCMAI 2002 Annual Meeting (see
item 2, below). The Society acknowledges with gratitude the following
sponsors of the awards.

Memorial University of Newfoundland is sponsoring this year’s CAIMS
Doctoral Dissertation Award. The University will give a $1,000 cash prize
to the award winner. The sponsorship was arranged by Serpil Kocabiyik, CAIMS
Fundraising Committee Chair.

Waterloo Maple Inc. will sponsor the graduate students poster session at
the CAIMS 2002, Calgary. The winner of the best poster presentation will
win a full version of the MAPLE software, which is worth US$900. Waterloo
Maple’s sponsorship will continue for the future CAIMS annual meetings. The
Calgary CAIMS 2002 organizer, Paul Binding, and our last year’s annual
meeting organizer, Rod Edwards, attracted this sponsorship.

Thanks to all those who helped arrange these sponsorships.

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CAIMS*SCMAI 2002 Annual Meeting
June 8-10, 2002
University of Calgary

Plenary Speakers:

Nira Dyn, Tel Aviv
Ann Gargett, Old Dominion University
Jerrold Marsden, Caltech
Hilary Ockendon, University of Oxford
Gordon Swaters, University of Alberta

Sessions:

Computational Finance (Ali Lari-Lavassani, Organizer)
Hamiltonian Systems (Larry Bates, Organizer)
Environmental Mathematics (Paul Sullivan and Philip Chatwin, Organizers)
Fluid Dynamics (Sam Shen and T. Bryant Moodie, Organizers)
Mathematical Aspects of Graphics and Visualization (Len Bos, Organizer)
Modelling (Rex Westbrook, organizer)
Poster Session

Local Organizing Committee:

Profs. Paul Binding and Tony Ware
Department Mathematics and Statistics
University of Calgary
emails:binding@ucalgary.ca, aware@ucalgary.ca, CAIMS@math.ucalgary.ca

An outline schedule and abstracts for many of the talks are now available
on the conference web site: http://www.math.ucalgary.ca/~CAIMS.

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From: Sue Ann Campbell
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002

It is a pleasure to announce that “Mathematical Methods with Applications”
by Professor Matiur Rahman has recently be selected for inclusion in Choice
magazine’s annual Outstanding Academic Title list. Professor Rahman is a
faculty member in the Department of Engineering Mathematics at Dalhousie
University and a longtime member of CAIMS*SCMAI.

This year’s Outstanding Academic Title list includes slightly over 600 books
and electronic resources chosen by Choice editorial staff from among
approximately 6 600 titles reviewed by Choice during the year 2001. These
titles were selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the
significance of their contribution to the field, and for their value as
important – often the first – treatment of a specific subject. Comprising less
than 10 percent of the titles reviewed by Choice during the past year, and less
than 3 percent of the 23 000+ titles submitted to Choice during this same
period, Outstanding Academic Titles are truly the “best of the best.”

You can find more information about this book at
http://www.witpress.com/m599.html

Web site for Choice Magazine: http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/index.html

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From: Bob Russell <rdr@cs.sfu.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:52:04 -0800 (PST)

Included below is a letter from Ian Sloan, Chair of the International Program
Committee for ICIAM 2003, explaining the procedures involved in organising
a minisymposium. Minisymposia organised by member societies, such as CAIMS*SCMAI,
are particularly encouraged; do consider participating in this fashion. If
you decide to organise a minisymposium, please contact a member of the
CAIMS*SCMAI board so that we can let the ICIAM organisers know yours is
a CAIMS*SCMAI minisymposium.

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Dear Colleague,

As you know, ICIAM 2003 (the fifth International Congress on Industrial
and Applied Mathematics) will be held in Sydney from July 7 to 11 next
year. We are expecting some 2,000 participants, making this the largest
international applied mathematics event in the four-year cycle. The site
is excellent, the invited speakers outstanding. We think it will be
an outstanding event.

At the heart of the ICIAM congresses, and comparable in importance to the
invited speakers, are the minisymposia.

Briefly, a minisymposium occupies a two hour time slot, and typically
involves four speakers, on a specific theme chosen by you as organiser,
with each speaker taking half an hour (or better, 25 minutes and five
minutes for questions). We think it a good idea if the first talk
(possibly given by you?) gives an overview of the topic, for the benefit
of attendees who are not experts.

A minisymposium is expected to be of an international level of distinction
(which of course is why I am asking you), and would normally not contain
speakers from only one country.

If you have not already seen the web site at www.iciam.org, I encourage
you to look at it now. It contains full details of the 27 distinguished
invited speakers, and further information about minisymposia. Note that
there are in effect three alternative deadlines. The regular deadline is
October 31, but I encourage you to meet the earlier date of August 31 if
you can, because after that date we intend to accept some of the
proposals, if they seem to be particularly strong, and likely to encourage
others to come to ICIAM 2003.

Unfortunately, as you will need to make clear to those you invite to take
part, the organisers do not have funds available to support minisymposia.
On the other hand, I think myself that organising a minisymposium does have
its rewards, since it is a sure way of making certain that the program is
of professional interest to you, and that some of your distinguished

With every best wish,

Ian H Sloan,

Scientia Professor, University of New South Wales
Chair, International Program Committee for ICIAM 2003
President-Elect, International Council for Industrial and Applied

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From: Michel Delfour <delfour@crm.umontreal.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:17:19 -0500

Quantum Control: mathematical and numerical challenges
October 6-11, 2002
Centre de recherches mathematiques, Montreal, Canada

Information, registration, accommodations :
website: http://omega.CRM.UMontreal.CA/QuantumC/
e-mail: activities@CRM.UMontreal.CA

This conference will concentrate on advanced numerical methods and new
mathematical tools for control and optimization in the quantum control
of matter at the molecular level using current advanced laser
technology.

This new field of research is dedicated to “using current state of the
art laser technology to control and manipulate the quantum behaviour and
motion of matter at the molecular level”. The basis of this new science
is the encoding and control of quantum information at the molecular
level in order to control the time evolution of molecular processes,
such as guiding the final output of a reaction to a desired target. Most
of the research in this area has been numerical and theoretical,
involving multidimensional time-dependent Schroedinger equations,TDSE’s.
Coupling these molecular processes to the laser field equations,
Maxwell’s equations, results in coupled parabolic (TDES’s) and
hyperbolic (Maxwell) partial differential equations. There are
outstanding problems, both numerical and mathematical, which this
workshop will address by bringing together mathematicians, theoretical
chemists and physicists working in the area of control and optimization
of systems subject to quantum laws.

The conference will involve about 30 international experts in laser
molecule interactions, optimization, theory and control of molecular
dynamics. It will emphasize participation of graduate students in
applied mathematics, theoretical chemistry and physics.

Graduate and postdoctoral students are invited to apply for local
support (hotel room in double occupancy plus a per diem). Up to 20 such
grants will be awarded. The deadline for application on our website
(http://omega.CRM.UMontreal.CA/QuantumC/) is August 1st 2002. Time has
been reserved for short papers presentations by graduate and
postdoctoral students.

Refereed proceedings of the meeting will be published by the CRM.

Organizers:

A. Bandrauk (Sherbrooke, Canada), M. Delfour (Montreal, Canada), C. Le
Bris (ENPC, Paris, France)

List of speakers:

– Molecular and Electron Control:

Osman Atabek (Orsay, France), Andre D. Bandrauk (Sherbrooke, Canada),
Thomas Brabec (Ottawa, Canada), Paul Brumer (Toronto, Canada), Regina de
Vivie-Riedle (Garching, Germany), Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew University,
Israel), Robert Kosut (SC Solutions, USA), Helene Lefebvre-Brion
(Paris-sud, France), Yukiyoshi Ohtsuki (Tohoku, Japan), Herschel Rabitz
(Princeton, USA)

– Quantum Control – Mathematical Problems:

Goong Chen (Texas A & M, USA), Michel Delfour (Montreal, Canada), Sanjoy
K. Mitter (MIT, USA), Viswanath Ramakrishna (Texas at Dallas, USA),
Roberto Triggiani (Virginia, USA), Jean-Paul Zolesio (CNRS and INRIA,
France), Enrique Zuazua (Complutense, Madrid, Spain)

– Quantum Computing:

Mikhail Y. Ivanov (NRC-Ottawa, Canada), Serge Lacelle (Sherbrooke,
Canada), Raymond Laflamme (Waterloo, Canada), Daniel Lidar (Toronto,
Canada)

– Numerical Methods:

Tucker Carrington (Montreal, Canada), Michel Fortin (Laval, Canada),
Gene H. Golub (Stanford, USA), William Hager (Gainesville, USA), Claude
Le Bris (ENPC, Paris, France), Yvon Maday (UPMC, Paris, France), Anthony
Peirce (UBC, Canada), Marc Schonauer (INRIA, France), Gabriel Turinici
(INRIA, France), Robert Wyatt (Texas, USA)

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From: Ken Jackson <krj@cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 14:33:01 -0400

We are planning several events at the Fields Institute over the next
several months that may interest readers of the CAIMS E-News. These
include:

1. Program-related event
May 19 – 22, 2002
SIAM Conference on Optimization (May 20-22)
Short Course Prior to Conference (May 19)
– Numerical Optimization – Algorithms and Software
– Automatic Differentiation
Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto
Contact: Tom Coleman

2. Program-related event
May 23-24, 2022
McMaster Optimization Workshop
Held at McMaster University
Organizers: Tamas Terlaky, Tom Luo, Jiming Peng

3. Program-related event
May 23 – 25, 2002
Validated Computing 2002
Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto
Organizers: Dan Berleant, George Corliss, Ken Jackson, Baker Kearfott,
Vladik Kreinovich, Weldon Lodwick, Bill Walster

4. May 26 – June 1, 2002
Informal Working Group on Validated Methods for Optimization
Organizers: George Corliss, Tibor Csendes, Ken Jackson, Baker Kearfott

5. July 13 – 19, 2002
Symbolic Computational Algebra 2002
Fields Institute special meeting on Symbolic and Numeric Computation
in Geometry, Algebra and Analysis
Held at University of Western Ontario
Organizers: Robert Corless , Edward Green, Serkan Hosten,
Reinhard Laubenbacher, Victoria Powers, Greg Reid

6. July 29 – August 2, 2002, 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Short Course on Numerical Solution of Advection-Diffusion-Reaction
Equations
Instructor: Jan Verwer

7. Program-related event
August 1-3, 2002
2nd Annual McMaster Optimization Conference: Theory and Applications
(MOPTA 02)
McMaster University, Hamilton
Organizers: Stavros Kolliopoulos, Tom Luo, Jiming Peng, Tamas Terlaky,
Henry Wolkowicz

8. August 6 – 9, 2002
IMACS Workshop on Adaptive Methods for PDEs

9. August 12 – 15, 2002
The 2002 Workshop on the Solution of Partial Differential Equations
on the Sphere.
Organizers: John Drake, Ken Jackson, Paul Swarztrauber, David
Williamson

For more information, see the webpage
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/01-02/numerical/

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From: Xiaoqiang Zhao <xzhao@math.mun.ca>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 09:56:04 -0230 (NDT)

International Workshop on
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Applications

July 15-18, 2002
Memorial University of Newfoundland

This workshop –a follow-up meeting to the 5th Americas Conference on DEs and
Nonlinear Dynamics” (Edmonton, July 7-12, 2002)– will provide an opportunity
for researchers, scientists and graduate students in fields of differential
equations and dynamical systems with applications to communicate current
research results, ideas and problems, to discuss future research directions,
and to initiate research collaborations in the small but conducive setting of
an Oberwolfach/ BIRS-type workshop.

Topics:

* Asymptotic behavior in finite and infinite dimensional dynamical systems
* Special solutions in partial differential equations (steady states, waves…)
* Hamiltonian systems and topological dynamics
* Bifurcations and chaos in physics and biology
* Evolution equations and population dynamics
* Numerical analysis of nonlinear differential equations and dynamical systems

Invited Speakers:

* Teresa Faria, University of Lisbon, Portugal(confirmed)
* Mats Gyllenberg, University of Turku, Finland(confirmed)
* John Haddock, University of Memphis, USA(tentative)
* Chengzhi Li, Peking University, China(confirmed)
* Jibin Li, Kunming Institute of Technology, China(confirmed)
* James Muldowney, University of Alberta, Canada(confirmed)
* George Sell, University of Minnesota, USA(confirmed)
* James Serrin, University of Minnesota, USA(confirmed)
* Moxun Tang, Michigan State University, USA(tentative)
* David Tartakoff, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA(confirmed)
* Horst Thieme, Arizona State University, USA(confirmed)
* James Ward, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA(confirmed)
* Jianhong Wu, York University, Canada(confirmed)
* Zhihong Jeff Xia, Northwestern University, USA(confirmed)
* Yingfei Yi, Geogia Institute of Technology, USA(confirmed)

More information is available at the workshop website:
http://www.math.mun.ca/~xzhao/workshop.html

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CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information

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