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SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry
October 24-26, 2005
Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center
Detroit, Michigan
Pre-registration Deadline - September 28, 2005
Description
SIAM's conference on Mathematics for Industry focuses attention on the
many and varied opportunities to promote applications of mathematics to
industrial problems. From the start of planning for this conference,
the major objective has been the development and encouragement of
industrial, government and academic collaboration. The format of
this conference provides a forum for industrial and government engineers
and scientists to communicate their needs, objectives and visions, to the
broad mathematical community. The major themes fit the broad categories
of Challenges, Frontiers, and Industrial Academic Collaborations.
Challenges stress current needs which pose substantial mathematical
difficulties and obstacles. For 2005, supply chains will provide the
challenge theme. Industry and government have devoted enormous resources
to this topic and have reaped huge rewards for their efforts. This subject
area continues to produce a rich diversity of extremely challenging mathematical
problems that often require theoretical investigations, algorithmic solutions
and computational expertise.
Frontiers highlight new and largely unexplored areas which are
expected to benefit significantly from mathematical approaches. The frontier
theme for 2005 will feature reliability, risk and vulnerability. Even though
the events of 9/11 have generated much publicity, especially in the areas of
risk and vulnerability, efforts in all three areas still have produced only
limited successes. The conference will examine reliability, risk and
vulnerability from a broad industrial perspective and explore mathematics
which might play a role in solving these formidable problems.
This mathematics conference, unique in its appeal to and participation by
industrial attendees, will provide an exceptional forum for facilitating
contacts between academic, industrial and governmental users of mathematics.
The partnerships that evolve from such contacts not only help guide continual
mathematical developments, but also facilitate transfer of existing mathematics
to new industrial applications. Through minisymposia organized by its Program
Committee, the conference has a specific goal of fostering industrial efforts
and of fostering new joint programs.
Themes
Industrial and Academic Cooperation
Reliability, Risk and Vulnerability
Supply Chains
Funding Agency
SIAM and the conference organizing committee wish to extend their thanks
and appreciation to the U. S. National Science Foundation for its support
of this conference.
Organizing Commitee
David Ferguson (co-chair), Boeing Corporation
David Field (co-chair), General Motors Corporation
Ed Moylan, SIAM Great Lakes Section
Program Committee
Dieter Armbruster (co-chair), Arizona State University
Evin Cramer, Boeing Corporation
Kirk Jordan , IBM Strategic Growth Business/Deep Computing
Barbara Lee Keyfitz, The Fields Institute, Canada and University of Houston
Ernie Mintel, Pratt & Whitney
Mike Neamtu, Vanderbilt University
Tom Peters (co-chair), University of Connecticut , Storrs
Leon Seitelman, University of Connecticut , Storrs
Emily Stone (co-chair), University of Montana
Paul Tanenbaum , U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Phil Tuchinsky, Ford Motor Company
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