CONFERENCE RESCHEDULED!!!

After much thought and deliberation, we have come to the realization that the severity of the situation and the uncertainties of travel prevent us from providing a high quality conference. We believe that it is in the best interests of our members and our conference participants to postpone both conferences until a future date.

We need your help in getting out the word to everyone who intended to come to this meeting.

We have made every effort to contact organizers, speakers, and participants. However, in some cases, co-authors of papers to be presented at the conferences that intended to register on-site may not have been contacted. Therefore we request that minisymposium organizers inform the speakers in their sessions and the presenters of papers inform their co-authors of this decision. Speakers, please acknowledge receipt of this message to [email protected].

TO ALL PARTICIPANTS AND ATTENDEES

Remember to contact the hotel 1-800-225-2008 to cancel your hotel reservations. Be sure to get a confirmation number. Also, be sure to cancel all travel arrangements.

Full registration refunds will be issued to everyone who registered for these conferences. Refunds will be issued in the method in which they were paid. Please be patient. SIAM will issue these refunds as quickly as possible.

The Conference Department is working with the Organizers and the hotel to reschedule these conferences in 2002. Please check the websites http://www.siam.org/meetings/is01/ or http://www.siam.org/meetings/ls01/ for additional updates.

The November SIAM Conference on Geometric Design in Sacramento will be held as scheduled.

Held jointly for the first time with the
First SIAM Conference on Imaging Science
September 22-24, 2001

The life sciences have become increasingly quantitative as new technologies facilitate collection and analysis of vast amounts of data ranging from complete genomic sequences of organisms to satellite imagery of forest landscapes on continental scales. As a consequence, mathematics and computational science have become crucial technologies for the study of complex models of biological processes.

The new SIAM Activity Group on the Life Sciences brings together researchers who seek to develop and apply mathematical and computational methods in all areas of the life sciences. This inaugural conference of the activity group will provide a cross-disciplinary forum for catalyzing mathematical research relevant to the life sciences. It will facilitate rapid diffusion of new mathematical and computational methods in the life sciences, and may stimulate more researchers to work in these important areas. Mathematicians, life scientists, computational biologists, bioengineers and others interested in mathematical and computational analysis of biological systems are encouraged to attend.

This conference represents the first official function organized by this new SIAG. SIAG/LS and the newly formed SIAG on Imaging Science (SIAG/IS) were both created in recognition of the fact that the mathematics community should participate more directly in these non-traditional areas. Since these two activity groups have such a strong overlap in the area of biomedical imaging, this conference has been scheduled to overlap with the Conference on Imaging Science, chaired by David C. Wilson, set for September 22-24, 2001.

James Collins (Chair), Boston University, USA
Carson Chow, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Bijoy Ghosh, Washington University, USA
Kevin Hall, Entelos, Inc., USA
Wing Hung Wong, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Clem Karl, Boston University, USA
Denise Kirschner, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Mark Lewis, University of Utah, USA
Martin Nowak, Institute for Advanced Study, USA
Sharon Nunes, IBM Computational Biology Center, USA
Tamar Schlick, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA
Rai Winslow, Johns Hopkins University, USA

The themes of the 2001 conference will include, but are not limited to:

SIAM and the conference Organizing Committee are proud to announce that the following mathematicians and scientists have accepted their invitations to speak at the conference. These invited speakers and their presentations will play an important role in increasing interaction among mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and researchers and scientists in academia, industry, and government who attend the meeting.

The purpose of the SIAG/Life Sciences is to foster

The life sciences have become quantitative as new technologies facilitate collection and analysis of vast amounts of data ranging from complete genomic sequences of organisms to satellite imagery of forest landscapes on continental scales. Computers enable the study of complex models of biological processes. The SIAG brings together researchers who seek to develop and apply mathematical and computational methods in all areas of the life sciences. It provides a forum that cuts across disciplines to catalyze mathematical research relevant to the life sciences and rapid diffusion of advances in mathematical and computational methods.