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Contents Meeting Themes Invited Plenary Speakers Special Features One-Day Workshops Prizes and Awards Organizing Committee Minisymposia How to Participate Graduate Student Poster Session Electronic Submission Notice of Acceptance or Rejection Registration Exhibits Dates to Remember Request Information Form Hotel Information Registration Information Transportation Information Questions? E-mail [email protected] SIAM Conferences

Meeting Themes Combinatorial optimization Generating and counting combinatorial structures Graph theory, graph drawing, and visualization Cryptography and electronic commerce High performance computing Climate modeling Molecular dynamics Markov chains distribution PDE Scientific computing and computational methods Internet computing Algorithms for data and information retrieval Nonlinear algebra for large systems Mathematical science opportunities in industry Knowledge discovery Numerical linear algebra Wavelets Mathematical biology PDE's and control of PDE's Applications of linear algebra Invited Plenary Speakers SIAM and the Organizing Committee for the meeting are proud to announce that the following scientists and mathematicians have accepted their invitations to give plenary presentations at the Annual Meeting. James W. Demmel, University of California, Berkeley (Title to be announced) Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Laboratories, Research Massive Graphics: Algorithms, Applications, and Open Problems; Susan Friedlander, University of Illinois, Chicago Instabilities in Fluid Motion; Christopher R. Johnson, University of Utah Interactive Simulation and Visualization: Applications to Large-Scale Computational Problems Stephane Mallat, Courant Institute of Mathematical Scienes, New York University; and Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France Image Processing With Sparse Representations Herbert S. Wilf, University of Pennsylvania Asymptotic Oscillations and Binary Partitions of Integers Lai-Sang Young, University of California, Los Angeles Stochastic Behavior in Deterministic Dynamical Systems The following plenary speakers will give their presentations to a joint session of the Sixth SIAM Conference on Optimization and the Annual Meeting: David E. Keyes, Old Dominion University and ICASE-NASA Langley Research Krylov, Lagrange, Newton and Schwarz: Combinations and Permutations Olvi L. Mangasarian, University of Wisconsin, Madison Optimization in Machine Learning and Data Mining Special Features At this meeting, the following special lectures will be delivered: The John von Neumann Lecture: "The Immersed Boundary Method for Biological Fluid Dynamics" Charles S. Peskin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University The I. E. Block Community Lecture: "Mathematical Insights in Bicycle and Car Racing" Richard A. Tapia, Rice University The Past-President's Address John Guckenheimer, Cornell University One-Day Workshops In conjunction with the Annual Meeting, the following workshops are being planned: High School Mathematics Teachers Day The Third SIAM Graduate Student Focus on Diversity Prizes and Awards During the meeting, SIAM will award the following prizes. Prize winners may also give presentations. The Theodore von Kármán Prize The SIAM Prize in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) The SIAM Student Paper Prizes The SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Prize Organizing Committee Fan Chung Graham, Co-Chair University of Pennsylvania Jack J. Dongarra, Co-Chair University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Randolph E. Bank University of California, San Diego Michael W. Berry University of Tennessee, Knoxville Randall Bramley Indiana University, Bloomington Barbara L. Keyfitz University of Houston Konstantin Mischaikow Georgia Institute of Technology Michael L. Overton Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University Carla Savage North Carolina State University Ramarathnam Venkatesan Microsoft Research Minisymposia A minisymposium is a two-hour session consisting of four presentations on a well-focused topic consistent with the meeting themes. Minisymposium organizers are being invited by the Organizing Committee. A partial list of topics and organizers is as follows: Information Retrieval Organizer: Michael W. Berry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Finite Element Methods in Mechanics Organizer: Susanne Brenner, University of South Carolina, Columbia Massive Graph Algorithmics Organizer: Adam Buchsbaum, AT&T Laboratories, Research Asymptotic Methods in Combinatorics Organizer: E. Rodney Canfield, University of Georgia Network Enabled Solvers Organizer: Henri Casanova, Unversity of Tennessee, Knoxville Numerical Methods for Multi-Scale Partial Differential Equations Organizers: Don Estep and  Shi Jin, Georgia Institute of Technology Orthogonal Polynomials and Applications Organizer: Jeff Geronimo, Georgia Institute of Technology Recent Advances in Graph Theory Organizer: Ron Gould, Emory University Wavelets  Organizers: Chris Heil and Yang Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology Combining Theory and Simulations in the Aplications of Markov Chains Organizer: Susan Holmes, Stanford University Uncertainty Organizer: James M. Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory Boundary Value Problems for Degenerate Elliptic Equations Organizer: Barbara L. Keyfitz, University of Houston Lattice Systems Organizer: John Mallet-Paret, Brown University   Java and Numerical Methods Organizer: Roldan Pozo, National Institute of Standards and Technology Sparse Linear Algebra Organizer: Padma Raghavan, University  of Tennessee, Knoxville Communicating with Chaos Organizer: Raj Roy,  Georgia Institute of Technology Fast Generation of Combinatorial Structures Organizer: Frank Ruskey, University of Victoria, Canada Computational Aspects of Coding Theory Organizer: Leonard Schulman, Georgia Institute of Technology Large Scale Eigenvalue Problems Organizer: Danny Sorensen, Rice University Markov Chain Approaches to Counting and Approximation Organizer: Prasad Tetali, Georgia Institute of Technology Combinatorics of Partially Ordered Sets Organizer: Tom Trotter, Arizona State University Pattern Formation in Higher Order Differential Equations Organizers: Robert Vandervorst and Stanislaus Maier-Paape, Georgia Institute of Technology Numerical Computation of Lyapunov Exponents Organizers: Erik Van Vleck, Colorado School of Mines and Luca Dieci, Georgia Institute of Technology Combinatorial Problems in Biology Organizer: Tandy Warnow, University of Pennsylvania Graph Drawing and Visualization Organizer: Sue Whitesides, University of Rochester     How to Participate You are invited to contribute a presentation for this meeting in one of the following formats. Minisymposia A minisymposium consists of four 25-minute presentations, with an additional five minutes for discussion after each presentation. Prospective minisymposium organizers are asked to submit a proposal consisting of: a title, a description (not exceeding 100 words), a list of 4 speakers (a minisymposium organizer may also be a speaker in his/her minisymposium, usually the first presenter to give an expository talk), and titles of their presentations. It is recommended that the minisymposium organizer make the first talk as tutorial as possible. Each minisymposium speaker should submit a 75-word abstract in LaTeX format to [email protected]. A minisymposium proposal form is available on-line at www.siam.org/meetings/miniform.htm. Complete the on-line form and submit it to SIAM. Contributed minisymposia will be refereed by the Organizing Committee. The number of minisymposia may be limited to retain an acceptable level of parallelism in the meeting session. Deadline for submission of minisymposium proposals: November 16, 1998. Deadline for submission of minisymposium speakers' abstracts: November 16, 1998. Contributed Presentations in Lecture or Poster Format Contributed presentations in lecture or poster format are invited in all areas of applied mathematics consistent with the meeting themes. A lecture format involves a 12-minute oral presentation with an additional three minutes for discussion. A poster format involves the use of visual aids such as 8-1/2" x 11" sheets for mounting on a 4' x 6' poster board. A poster session is two hours long. Each contributor, either for a lecture or poster format, must submit a title and a brief abstract not to exceed 75 words. Submissions must be transmitted electronically in LaTeX format to [email protected]. LaTeX macros can be accessed at www.siam.org/tex/confs/conftex.htm. If you do not have access to the Web, contact [email protected] and the macro will be sent to you via e-mail. Deadline for submission of contributed abstracts: November 16, 1998. Graduate Student Poster Session This is NEW at this meeting. Graduate students and new Ph.D. holders (finishing the same year) are especially urged to participate in the poster session to present their thesis work for others to learn about it, and for them to meet possible employers. Student participants must indicate in their abstracts that they are graduate students. Deadline for submission of contributed abstracts: November 16, 1998. Electronic Submission Every presenter of either a minisymposium or contributed or poster presentation must submit a 75-word abstract to be considered for presentation. Submissions must be sent electronically to [email protected] using the LaTeX macro at www.siam.org/tex/confs/conftex.htm. Notice of Acceptance or Rejection SIAM will send notices on December 15, 1998 to all submitters as to whether their minisymposium proposals and contributed abstracts have been accepted. Because of the possibility of space and time constraints, the Organizing Committee reserves the right to limit the number of presentations given by one individual. This includes presentations in a minisymposium as well as contributed sessions. Registration The meeting program and registration information will be available in January 1999 on the Web at www.siam.org/meetings/an99/. Exhibits Publishers, software and hardware suppliers, and service organizations that have products to offer to meeting attendees are invited to exhibit. For further information and fees, please contact the SIAM Marketing Representative at [email protected]. Dates to Remember Minisymposia November 16, 1998: Deadline for submission of minisymposium proposals and minisymposium speakers' abstracts. Contributed Presentations November 16, 1998: Deadline for submission of contributed abstracts for lecture or poster presentations. November 16, 1998: Deadline for submission of contributed abstracts for graduate students poster presentations.