1) CAIMS Prizes and Awards: Nominations deadline January 31, 2020

Nominations for the annual CAIMS Prizes and Awards will be closing soon. The deadline is fast approaching. If you want to nominate someone, now is the time!

1. Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award
2. CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award
3. CAIMS*SCMAI Research Prize
4. CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize
5. Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award

Details of each prize/award as well as the supporting documents necessary for the nomination can be found at the nomination website:

https://caims.ca/open-nominations/

A list of recent award recipients can also be found in the above website.

Nominations must be submitted online by January 31, 2020.

2) CAIMS Election: Nominations deadline January 31, 2020

Nominations for the 2020 CAIMS Election will be closing soon. The deadline is fast approaching. If you want to nominate someone, act now!

CAIMS*SCMAI will be holding an election in this winter (March 2020) for:

• Secretary
• Two Director positions

All members of CAIMS*SCMAI are invited to put forward names of candidates for these offices. Nominations should reach the CAIMS Secretary, Justin Wan (secretary@caims.ca) by January 31, 2020.

3) Joint CAIMS-SIAM Annual Meeting: Deadline Extended

The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS 2020) will  be held jointly with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Annual Meeting (SIAM 2020), at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, from July 6-10, 2020.

The deadline for the minisymposium proposal submission has been extended while the others remain the same. The new deadlines are:

Deadline for minisymposium proposals is Jan 27, 2020 (11:59 EST).
Deadline for contributed talks, posters, and abstracts is Feb 3, 2020 (11:59 EST).
Conference registration deadline is June 8, 2020 (11:59 EST).
Hotel reservation deadline is June 5, 2020. Note, this conference is expected to be popular, so we encourage you to make your reservation early.
SIAM Student Travel fund application deadline is Jan 20, 2020.

4) 2020 CAIMS*SCMAI Membership Renewal

If you do not want to miss CAIMS news, election, and other exciting activities, renew your CAIMS membership now (or sign up for a convenient lifetime membership!). Renewal is easy by simply clicking the link below:

Individual memberships
https://caims.ca/individual-membership/

Also please encourage your department chair to renew (or start!) an institutional membership:

Institutional memberships
https://caims.ca/institutional-membership/

Of course, CAIMS gives you many benefits, including a discount on SIAM and/or GAMM membership, a break on fees for our annual conference and, most importantly, the satisfaction of knowing you are supporting our Canadian Applied Mathematics Community. Thanks for your support of our society!

CAIMS*SCMAI E–News Information

CAIMS*SCMAI E–News is distributed electronically several times a year by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society * Société Canadienne de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (http://www.caims.ca).

Past issues are available on the web at http://www.caims.ca/content/e–news-archive

Submissions are welcome and should be sent in plain text format to:

Justin Wan, CAIMS*SCMAI Secretary Email: secretary@caims.ca

The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Board or Membership of CAIMS*SCMAI. The editorial policy of this publication is to encourage the discussion of issues and facilitate the dissemination of information relevant to Canadian applied and industrial mathematics.

If you wish to have your name removed from the e-mailing list for the CAIMS*SCMAI E–News, please send an email message to Justin Wan as above.