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0804_August-2004

CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 04 Number 4
August 18, 2004

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

CONTENTS

Society News

1. Free CAIMS*SCMAI memberships for new hires in Applied Math

2. Position Announcements in the CAIMS*SCMAI Publications

3.* CAIMS*SCMAI 2005 – University of Manitoba

Conferences

4.* First International Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Applied
Optimization, ICMSAO/05

5.* International Conference on Environmental Fluid Mechanics (ICEFM’05)

6.* 5th WSEAS International Conference on Mathematics and Computers in
Biology and Chemistry

7.* International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2005)

8.* Twenty-Eighth Annual Texas Partial Differential Equations Conference

9.* IPSI BgD multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conferences

10.* European Conference for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology

11.* 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms
(ICANNGA 2005)

12. CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information

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

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From: Sue Ann Campbell <sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:41:14 -0400

CAIMS*SCMAI has a new policy of giving free memberships to new hires
in Applied Math. If your department has recently hired a new faculty member,
please let us know their name and departmental mailing address, so that we
can sign them up! Information may be sent to the CAIMS*SCMAI secretary,
Sue Ann Campbell, sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca.

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From: Sue Ann Campbell <sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tues, 17 Aug 2004 21:41:14 -0400

Position Announcements in the CAIMS*SCMAI Publications

Please encourage your department to advertise position announcements in the
CAIMS*SCMAI Publications. Our membership is diverse and our publications
reach a different audience than those of other mathematical societies.

Advertising rates are as follows:

Enews – $50 (one free ad/year for Institutional Members)
Newsletter – $300 for one page ad, $500 for ad on backcover
(includes posting on the CAIMS*SCMAI web site)
Web page – $100

Advertisements for the Fall Newsletter should be sent in electronic format
to sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca by September 24, 2004.

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From: “Inst. of Industrial Mathematical Sciences” <iims@UManitoba.CA>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:38:27 -0500

CAIMS*SCMAI 2005
June 16-18, 2005
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Themes

* Dynamical Systems & Mathematical Biology
* Signal Processing
* Mathematics in Industry
* Computational Mathematics
* Bioinformatics
* Pattern Recognition

Organizing Committee
Co-chairs:
Abba Gumel and Rob McLeod
Institute of Industrial Mathematical Sciences
University of Manitoba

Members:
Richard Baumgartner
Institute for Biodiagnostics
National Research Council Canada

Chris Bowman
Institute for Biodiagnostics
National Research Council Canada

John Brewster
Dept. of Statistics
University of Manitoba

Virginie Charette
Dept. of Mathematics
University of Manitoba

Darryl Dormuth
Atomic Energy of Canada

Witold Kinsner
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Manitoba

Kirill Kopotun
Dept. of Mathematics
University of Manitoba

Alex Leblanc
Dept. of Statistics
University of Manitoba

More information can be found at:
www.umanitoba.ca/institutes/iims/caims2005.shtml

En francais:
www.umanitoba.ca/institutes/iims/caims2005fr.shtml

A poster is attached. Please feel free to post.

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Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 07:56:39 +0400
From: “I. Kucuk ICMSAO-05” <icmsao@ausharjah.edu>

ICMSAO’05
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODELING, SIMULATION,
AND APPLIED OPTIMIZATION
February 1 – 3, 2005 American University of Sharjah,
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Call for Papers

The ICMSAO’05 will provide a forum where engineers,
scientists, and mathematicians from academia and industry can meet
to share ideas of latest research work in all branches of Science
and Engineering involving the modeling and simulation of processes
and systems. The conference will be held on February 1 – 3, 2005
at the American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE. Sharjah is 20
minutes from Dubai which is the home of the Dubai Shopping Festival,
the largest in the gulf area that will be organized at the same
time as the conference.

Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts on topics related to,
but not limited to, the following topics:
– Statistical and probabilistic Modeling
– Modeling and identification
– Industrial Mathematics
– Optimal Control
– Structural Optimization
– Applications of Optimization
– Simulation Tools and Languages
– Communications and Networking
– Neural Networks and Fuzzy logic
– Manufacturing
– Medical and Bioengineering
– Coding and Cryptography
– Numerical methods
– Modeling and Control in Smart Materials
– Optimization Theory
– Optimization Algorithms
– Stochastic Optimization
– Web-based Simulation
– Power Systems
– Artificial Intelligence
– Robotics
– Mechatronics

A number of leading researchers in the field of simulation,
modeling, and optimization will be invited to deliver keynote
lectures.

Prospective authors should submit a 300-word Abstract by
e-mail to icmsao@ausharjah.edu. The Abstract should clearly state the
objectives, results and conclusions of the work undertaken and emphasize
the novel aspects of the work. Contact information and affiliation
of the corresponding author must be included.

Papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference
proceedings. A six-page camera-ready manuscript of accepted papers should
be submitted by the deadline mentioned below. Selected papers will be
published in a special issue of The Journal of Franklin Institute.

Proposals for half-day (3 -hour) tutorials are solicited in areas related
to the conference scope. Proposals should include the topic, expected
background of participants, objectives, a short summary, and qualifications
of the instructor(s).

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 August, 2004
Submission of tutorial proposal: 30 August, 2004
Notification of acceptance: 30 September, 2004
Submission of six-page camera-ready manuscripts: 30 November, 2004 30
Early Registration before: December, 2004
Submission of selected papers to J. of the Franklin Institute: 15 May, 2005

Registration Fee
Early (by Dec. 30): $300
On-Site: $325
Students: $140

General Chairman
I. Sadek (UAE)

Technical Program Chairs
M. El -Tarhuni (UAE)
M. Anabtawi (UAE)

Organizing Committee
I. Kucuk (UAE)
J. Abdalla (UAE)
M. Jarrah (UAE)

International Advisory Board
S. Adali (South Africa)
J. Banasiak (South Africa)
H. Banks (USA)
M. Bendsoe (Denmark)
M. Bennamoun (Australia)
J. Bruch, Jr. (USA)
A. Cherkaev (USA)
A. El-Keib (USA)
A. Ghrayeb (Canada)
G. Ladde, (USA)
X. Liu (Canada)
Z. Nashed (USA)
M. Obaidat (USA)
N. Olhoff (Denmark)
P. Papalambros (USA)
G. Di Pillo (Italy)
G. Rozvany (Hungary)
S. Satharanthan (USA)
A. Seeger (France)
Y. Yuan (China)

ICMSAO’05 is organized jointly with the Fifth International Conference
on Composite Science and Technology (ICCST/5) that will be held at
the same time and venue as ICMSAO’05. One registration fee covers both
conferences.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CHECK THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE AT
http://www.ausharjah.edu/media/icmsao/
OR CONTACT THE CONFERENCE CHAIR AT
sadek@ausharjah.edu.

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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:23:38 +0530 (IST)
From: Swaroop Nandan Bora <swaroop@iitg.ernet.in>

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS (ICEFM’05)
March 3 – March 5, 2005
Organized by Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati, India in cooperation with SIAM

VENUE: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, India

TOPICS: Atmospheric and oceanic flows, flow over complex terrains, e.g.
hills, wind breaks etc., two and multiphase flows, flow in porous media,
flow in continental water bodies, e.g. lakes, rivers, reservoirs etc.,
any other topic related to environmental fluid mechanics.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
Extended Abstract Submission: 15th September 2004
Notification of Acceptance: 15th October 2004
Submission of Camera-ready Full Paper: 30th November 2004
Acceptance of Papers after Revision: 15th January 2005
Registration: 20th December 2004
Late Registration: 15th January 2005

REGISTRATION FEES:
before 20th Dec. after 20th Dec.

Foreign Delegate US $250 US $300
Accompanying Person US $200 US $250

Registration fees include food and lodging, transfer from and to the
airport, conference kit, proceedings, conference dinner.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE:

N.G. Bhowmik: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
P.C. Chatwin: University of Sheffield, UK
Vincent H. Chu: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
A.S. Gupta: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Murli M. Gupta: The George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA
Derek B. Ingham: University of Leeds, UK
Girija Jayaraman: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Daniel D. Joseph: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Ko-Fei Liu: National Taiwan University, Taiwan
B.S. Mazumdar: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Robert N. Meroney: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Yasutaka Nagano: Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku,
Nagoya, Japan
Roddam Narasimha: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
S. Pal Arya: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Rashmi S. Patil: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
W. Rodi: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
M. Rahman: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
B.R. Sehgal: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
P.J. Sullivan: University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
T.G. Theofanous: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Zhao-Yin Wang: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Organizers: DC Dalal (Convener), SN Bora (Organizing Secretary), JC Kalita
(Secretary, Academic Programme), S Natesan (Treasurer)

For more information contact SN Bora:
Email: swaroop@iitg.ernet.in
Phone: +91 361 258 2604 (Office), 258 4604/ 269 1117 (Residence)
Fax: +91 361 269 0762

CONFERENCE HOME PAGE:

http://www.iitg.ernet.in/scifac/maths/public_html/conference/index.htm

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From: WSEAS Biology <wseas_bio@canada.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 02:12:40 -0700

Dear Colleague,

We would like to invite you to organize a Session (ABSOLUTELY FREE
participation for Successful Session Organizers) in the: 5th WSEAS
International Conference on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS in BIOLOGY and
CHEMISTRY (WSEAS MCBC 2004) (Venice, Italy, November 15-17, 2004)

The papers of these Invited Sessions will be also published in the WSEAS
Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine

Please, note that the WSEAS conference in Vouliagmeni (Athens, July
2004) attracted more than 800 papers (the anticipated number was 600).
The WSEAS conferences in Corfu (Greece) attracted approximately 600 papers
(the anticipated number was only 400).

Please, note also that WSEAS Publications participate in all the major
science citation indexes. ISI, ELSEVIER, CSA, AMS. Mathematical Reviews,
ELP, NLG, Engineering Index Directory of the Published Proceedings,
INSPEC (IEE)

Contact the WSEAS for details (via the WSEAS web site) or the local
committee via: wseas_bio@mail.gr (the subject of your email must write:
WSEAS Biology)

The 5th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN
BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY will take place in a luxurious hotel in Venice
(Italy) where WSEAS succeeded in having special prices (75 EUR /night)

Please, send immediately to the WSEAS now your proposals for Special
Sessions in all branches of:

* BIOENGINEERING * MOLECULAR BIOLOGY * MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY *
BIOCHEMISTRY * BIOPHYSICS * COMPUTER BIOLOGY * BIOLOGICAL DYNAMICAL
SYSTEMS * BIOINFORMATICS and BIOCOMPUTING

Send your proposal to us: wseas_bio@mail.gr or via the WSEAS web site.
(the subject of your email must write: WSEAS Biology)

DEADLINES: Deadline for paper submission: September 10, 2004 Notification
of Acceptance/Rejection: September 30, 2004

Other Relevant WSEAS Conferences on Biology

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2005 WSEAS International Conference on: MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY and ECOLOGY
(MABE ’05) Udine, Italy, January 20-22, 2005

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6th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY
AND CHEMISTRY with special emphasis on: BIOENGINEERING MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY BIOPHYSICS COMPUTER BIOLOGY BIOLOGICAL
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Buenos Ayres, Argentina, March 1-3, 2005

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From: ICCS 2005 Conference Secretariat <iccsmd@science.uva.nl>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:01:39 +0200 (CEST)

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* ICCS 2005
* International Conference on Computational Science
* Atlanta, U.S.A.
* May 22-25, 2005
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* http://www.iccs-meeting.org/
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You are invited to submit a paper and/or a proposal to
organize a workshop at ICCS 2005, Altanta, USA, May 22-25, 2005.
Please see http://www.iccs-meeting.org/ for more information.

ICCS 2005 is the fifth in the series of highly successful
conferences: ICCS 2004 in Krakow, Poland; ICCS 2003 held
simultaneously in Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg,
Russia, ICCS 2002 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and
ICCS 2001 in San Francisco, USA.

The theme for ICCS 2005 in Atlanta, USA, is “Advancing
Science through Computation”, to mark several decades of
progress in computational science theory and practice,
leading to greatly improved applications science. This
conference will be a unique event focusing on recent
developments in scientific algorithms, software tools,
computational grids, advanced numerical methods, and
novel application areas such as complex systems, finance,
econo-physics and others. We look forward to welcoming
you to this exciting event!
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The ICCS 2005 Proceedings will be published in Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Important dates:
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Proposals for Workshops November 1, 2004
Full papers submission December 1, 2004
Notification of acceptance of papers January 31, 2005
Camera ready papers February 14, 2005
Early registration March 30, 2005

Contact:
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iccs2005@mathcs.emory.edu

Vaidy Sunderam……. Scientific Chair
Dick van Albada…… Workshop Chair
Jack Dongarra…….. Overall Co-chair
Peter M.A. Sloot….. Overall Chair

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From: Andras Balogh <abalogh@panam.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:48:36 -0500 (CDT)

Dear Colleague,

I would like to announce the following conference and kindly invite
all the interested researchers at your organization.

Twenty-Eighth Annual Texas Partial Differential Equations Conference,
March 19-20, 2005, The University of Texas – Pan American, Edinburg, Texas.
Conference link: http://www.math.panam.edu/txpde05.html

Sincerely,

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Andras Balogh
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Department of Mathematics | phone: (956) 381-2119
University of Texas – Pan American | phone: (956) 381-3452
Edinburg, TX 78541-2999 | fax: (956) 384-5091
http://www.math.panam.edu/abalogh | abalogh@panam.edu
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From: IPSI-2005 <hawaii2005@vreme.yubc.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:32:43 +0200

Dear potential Speaker:

This is an invitation for you to attend two IPSI BgD multidisciplinary
and interdisciplinary conferences, one in Hawaii, and one in Amalfi,
as follows:

IPSI-2005 HAWAII Big Island Hawaii (arrival: 06.01.2005. departure:
09.01.2005.) Deadlines: 1 October 2004 (abstract) + 30 October 2004
(full paper)

IPSI-2005 AMALFI Amalfi, Italy (arrival: 17.02.2005. departure:
20.02.2005.) Deadlines: 17 October 2004 (abstract) + 7 December 2004
(full papers)

All IPSI BgD conferences are non-profit! They bring together the elite
of the world science (so far, 7 times a Nobel Laureate was talking at
the opening ceremony), and they take place in the leading hotels of
the world.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet, Computer
Science and Engineering, Management and Business Administration,
Education, e-Medicine, Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, Environment
Protection, and e-Economy. These conferences are in line with the
newest recommendations of NSF and EU to stress multidisciplinary,
interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research, and truly support
this type of scientific interaction.

Sincerely Yours,

Prof. V. Milutinovic, Chairman

PS – If you plan to submit an abstract/paper, let us know immediately.

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From: Sue Ann Campbell <sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 07:46:17 -0400 (EDT)

FIRST CALL: ECMTB05, Dresden, Germany, July 18-22, 2005

Dear colleague,
we are glad to announce the forthcoming

ECMTB05:
European Conference for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology
Dresden, Germany, July 18-22, 2005
www.ecmtb05.org

ECMTB brings together scientists from all over the world and will be THE
event in 2005 to communicate the recent advances in mathematical and
theoretical biology with a focus on ten selected key topics

* Cellular biophysics
* Regulatory networks
* Development
* Neural systems and the brain
* Evolution and ecology
* Immune system
* Biomedical applications
* Biotechnology
* Innovative mathematical methods
* Inter-disciplinary education

The main conference goal is to show that mathematical and computational
approaches are absolutely essential to solving central problems in the life
sciences, ranging from the organizational level of individual cells to the
dynamics of whole populations. Another important goal is to provide a forum
for young researchers by encouraging them to present their work and learn
from others in the field.

Applications are now invited for contributed talks and poster presentations.
In addition, researchers are encouraged to submit proposals for
mini-symposia. Submission deadlines are December 1, 2004 for mini-symposia
and February 1, 2005 for contributed talks and posters. The conference will
also feature selected exhibits by related companies.

ECMTB05 is the sixth tri-annual conference of ESMTB and the annual meeting of
SMB.

You find all relevant information (including scientific committee, invited
speakers and application forms) on the conference webpage www.ecmtb05.org
which is now online.

Best regards
Andreas Deutsch
(in the name of the local ecmtb05 team)

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From: Sue Ann Campbell <sacampbell@uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 07:46:17 -0400 (EDT)

ICANNGA 2005 – 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural
Computing Algorithms

to be held at University of Coimbra,
Portugal, March 21st to 23rd, 2005
ICANNGA05 Web page: http://icannga05.dei.uc.pt/

C A L L F O R P A P E R S
The focus of ICANNGA is on both the theoretical aspects and also on the
practical applications of computational paradigms inspired by adaptive and
natural processes, with special emphasis on adaptive and machine learning
systems, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy systems, support
vector machines, biological computation and quantum computing.
It is expected that the conference will be preceded by a day of tutorials on
20th March 2005.

SCOPE
Contributions are sought in the following topic areas list, which is not
exhaustive:
– Neural Networks: architectures, algorithms, learning theory, approximation,
complexity, biological foundations,computational neuroscience, neurodynamics,
associative memory, cognitive science, neurocognition, unsupervised learning,
reinforcement learning, kernel learning, support vector machines, independent
component analysis

– Evolutionary Computation: genetic algorithms, genetic programming,
biological computation, classifier systems, artificial life, artificial
immune systems, particle swarm intelligence, evolution strategies, ant colony
optimization, swarm intelligence, evolvable hardware

– Soft Computing: fuzzy systems, fuzzy dynamical systems, uncertain systems,
hybrid systems, neuro-fuzzy controllers, genetic learning of neural networks,
embedded computing for intelligent systems, real-time computational
intelligence, probabilistic computing, chaotic computing, machine learning

– Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: molecular computing, DNA
computing, bioinformatics databases, computational genomics, computational
proteomics, clustering, mapping gene expression and micro arrays, gene
identification and annotation, molecular evolution, molecular sequence
analysis, protein structure

– Quantum Computing: quantum control, supercomputing, autonomic computing,
data mining of scientific data, grid computing, advanced algorithms

– Applications: medicine, prediction of atmospheric pollution and weather
forecasting, quantitative socio-dynamics, pattern recognition, signal
processing, control, simulation, robotics, transport, defence, security,
environment, finance and business, data mining and Intelligent databases,
speech recognition and natural language, intelligence image processing and
computer vision

The official conference language is English.
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (Vienna)
following the tradition of its predecessors.

IMPORTANT DATES
– Submission of tutorials and invited session proposals: 30th July 2004
– Submission of draft papers: 15th September 2004
– Notification of acceptance: 15th November 2004
– Delivery of camera-ready papers: 15th December 2004
– Conference dates: 21st, 22nd and 23rd, March 2005

SECRETARIAT
For further information please contact:

Paula Mano (Secretariat)
Department of Informatics Engineering
University of Coimbra, Polo II
3030-290 Coimbra – Portugal

Fax: (+351) 239 701266
Email: icannga05@dei.uc.pt
Web site: http://icannga05.dei.uc.pt/

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CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information

CAIMS*SCMAI E-News is distributed electronically several times a year by the
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