According to the announcement, the agency is looking for “revolutionary advances in science, devices or systems.”
Read the complete announcement. Submissions are due by November 18.
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I believe I have solved this very difficult problem and am looking for an academic mathematician to check the solution and then, if he or she believes it is correct, to help me prepare the paper for publication. I will offer a generous consulting fee, and/or shared authorship if the mathematician’s contribution merits it, and/or generous mention in the Acknowledgments. The paper is “A Solution to the 3x + 1 Problem” on occampress.com.
Contact: Peter Schorer, peteschorer@gmail.com.
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Prize is awarded to recognize contributions to mathematical and computational tools and methods
Philadelphia, PA–The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) are pleased to present the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering to the PETSc core development team for the development of PETSc (Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation), a suite of data structures and routines intended for use in large-scale application projects.
The prize is being awarded to Satish Balay, Jed Brown, William Gropp, Matthew Knepley, Lois Curfman McInnes, Barry Smith, and Hong Zhang for their collaborative work in developing the PETSc software package, which has transformed the way large-scale software libraries are developed, supported, and used within the CS&E community. The creation of this innovative and seminal numerical software package provides the scientific and engineering community with robust, efficient, scalable, and extensible tools that are the backbone of numerous high-performance applications. The sustained impact of this work has been felt worldwide.
The prize of $5,000 is awarded biennially by SIAM and ACM in recognition of outstanding contributions to the development and use of mathematical and computational tools and methods for the solution of science and engineering problems. The prize will be awarded at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, in March 2015.
PETSc, an initiative of Argonne National Laboratory where it continues to be developed, employs the Message Passing Interface (MPI), a standardized, portable message-passing system used by modern computer software on a wide variety of parallel computers. PETSc, which is easy to use for beginners, is carefully designed to allow advanced users to have detailed control over the solution process.
The project is a collaboration among William Gropp of the University of Illinois; Lois Curfman McInnes, Satish Balay, Jed Brown, Barry Smith, and Hong Zhang of Argonne National Laboratory; and Matt Knepley of the University of Chicago.
The team’s innovations have had a powerful and positive effect on the high performance computing community, have improved support for users, and helped to foster deep partnerships within scientific teams.
PETSc includes a large suite of parallel linear, nonlinear equation solvers, and ordinary differential equation (ODE) integrators that are usable for application codes written in C, C++, Fortran and Python. These tools enable scalable solutions of scientific applications that are modeled by partial differential equations. Designed using an object-oriented architecture, PETSc is built on a concept that allows many people to contribute and maintain their own libraries in a distributed fashion.
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About SIAM
SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, www.siam.org, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an international society of over 14, 000 individual members, including applied and computational mathematicians and computer scientists, as well as other scientists and engineers. Members from 85 countries are researchers, educators, students, and practitioners in industry, government, laboratories, and academia. The Society, which also includes nearly 500 academic and corporate institutional members, serves and advances the disciplines of applied mathematics and computational science by publishing a variety of books and prestigious peer-reviewed research journals, by conducting conferences, and by hosting activity groups in various areas of mathematics. SIAM provides many opportunities for students including regional sections and student chapters.
About ACM
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery www.acm.org, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges. ACM strengthens the computing profession’s collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking.
]]>On September 22, the Department of Defense (DOD) released the broad agency announcement (BAA) for the fiscal year (FY) 2015 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) as part of the larger University Research Initiative (URI) aimed at institutions of higher education. MURIs remain one of the signature DOD research programs for the university community and stand as the benchmark for building a defense-oriented research capability on campus. DOD’s continuous increase of basic research budgets has slowed recently due to DOD leadership’s concern that these increases have subsequently diminished investment in more applied accounts. The overall funding amount for FY 2015 MURI awards reflects this shift, though some in Congress have advocated for restoration of proposed cuts to basic research accounts in future DOD policy and spending legislation.
Through the MURI program, DOD seeks to fund basic research bringing together more than one scientific discipline focused on enhancing fundamental knowledge across fields related to national security. DOD seeks to leverage its investment in basic research and notes that MURI research will have defense as well as commercial applications further downstream. As in years past, DOD funds MURI research across a wide range of disciplines that vary by branch needs. This year’s topics include:
Army Research Office (ARO)
- Emulating the Principles of Impulsive Biological Force Generation
- Exploiting nitrogen vacancy diamonds for manipulation of biological transduction
- Noncommutativity in Interdependent Multimodal Data Analysis
- Multi-scale Response for Adaptive Chemical and Material Systems
- New Regimes in Quantum Optics
- Fractional Order Methods for Sharp Interface Flows
- 2-Dimensional Organic Polymers
- Network Science of Teams
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- Exploiting Biological Electromechanics: Using Electromagnetic Energy to Control Biological Systems
- Large Scale Nano-Architecture Formation
- Membrane-Based Electronics: Foldable & Adaptable Integrated Circuits
- Semantics and Structures for Higher-level Quantum Programming Languages
- Strong Field Laser Matter Interactions at Mid-Infrared Wavelength
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- Visual Commonsense for Scene Understanding
- Characterization and Prediction of Remotely Sensed Mesoscale Aerosols in Coastal and Maritime
- Atmospheric Boundary Layers for Electro-optical Propagation
- Role of the Host Microbiome on Behavior/Resilience in Response to Stressors
- Metalloid Cluster Networks
- Computational and Experimental Methods towards Understanding the Chemistry and Physics of
- Materials over 2000°C
- Quantum Optomechanics
As expected, FY 2015 topics map largely to Director for Basic Research Robin Staffin’s research priorities. Engineered materials, quantum information, and synthetic biology continue to receive strong emphasis, while the solicitation decreases focus on other topics like big data and cybersecurity compared to past MURI solicitations. Across all topics, computational approaches continue to be valued.
DOD encourages faculty to engage with program managers assigned to each topic area through the white paper process to assess the feasibility of proposed topics. Topics listed above describe the focus areas important to each branch and are not meant to restrict the possible directions awarded research could take. DOD notes that for topics 5, 13, and 14, faculty are encouraged to partner with universities from the United Kingdom in an effort to expand DOD’s capabilities in these fields.Letters of Intent: Not required. DOD encourages but does not require white papers.
Due Dates: Proposals are due by 4:00 PM (EST) on February 23, 2015. White papers are due November 24.
Total Funding and Award Size: DOD expects $145 million dollars to be made available, pending congressional appropriations. Individual awards will range from $1 million to $2.5 million annually for up to five years, but MURI awards typically fall between $1.25 million and $1.5 million annually. Each topic in the solicitation specifies approximately how much will be made for that topic and how proposed teams should be arranged based on budgets. For reference, DOD issued 24 awards for a total of $167 million in FY 2014.
Eligibility and Limitations: The competition is open to U.S. institutions of higher education with degree-granting programs in science, mathematics, or engineering. While industry, DOD laboratories, and foreign universities may not receive funding, DOD encourages universities to work with entities focused on applied and transitional research to collaborate on potential commercial applications for MURI-funded research.
Sources and Additional Background:
- The full solicitation can be found at http://www.onr.navy.mil/~/media/Files/Funding-Announcements/BAA/2014/14-012-FOA.ashx.
- More information on the MURI program can be found at http://www.onr.navy.mil/en/Science-Technology/Directorates/office-research-discovery-invention/Sponsored-Research/University-Research-Initiatives/MURI.aspx.
SIAM provided close to $40,000 to 87 chapters to support activities during the 2013-2014 academic year. The activities that they planned were limited only by their imaginations. Here are some of the exciting activities that SIAM chapters sponsored during the 2013-2014 academic year.
Delhi Techological University chapter organized EVOLUTE, a three day technical festival promoting technological growth in a rapidly evolving world. Highlights included an industrial conference on data analytics, poster presentations, and a trivia competition.
On April 26, the California State University, Fresno chapter hosted Math Field Day, an event aimed at promoting mathematics to middle and high school students. The event drew roughly 600 participants who got to compete in events testing their speed, problem solving, and ability to work in teams. The chapter also participated in Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement on February 22, volunteering to guide middle and high school students from disadvantaged areas in group sessions on robotics, rockets, and catapult and bridge building, among other topics.
Cardiff University’s Second Annual SIAM Chapter Day took place January 17 and brought together more than 60 research students and faculty in mathematics and engineering. The program included invited talks from Endre Süli (U. of Oxford), Andrew Fowler (U. of Limerick), and Chris Pearce (U. of Glasgow), as well as poster presentations from doctoral students at Cardiff and Swansea University. Topics ranged from computational accuracy to mathematical modeling in science and industry to engineering applications.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County chapter celebrated Pi Day with food, fun, and math games, including a Pi reciting contest, Pi Day Sudoku, and a pie tasting contest.
The Second Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) SIAM Student Chapter Annual Meeting was held on June 7. It featured plenary talks from Zaiwen Wen (Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research) and Xiaoying Dai (CAS) and five contributed talks from students.
Chapter members from University of Maryland, College Park and University of Maryland, Baltimore County volunteered at the First Annual Howard County Math Festival, hosted by Centennial High School in Maryland. They had a chance to share their enthusiasm for math with students K-12, and got to interact with representatives from a diverse group of organizations, including NIST and the Baltimore Orioles.
University of Colorado Denver chapter hosted the 10th Annual SIAM Front Range Applied Mathematics Conference, which was also sponsored by UC Boulder, UC Colorado Springs, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State, and University of Wyoming. There were 33 student speakers and a plenary speaker, Stephan Sain from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who delivered an overview of the various mathematical and statistical projects at NCAR.
University of Texas at Arlington chapter hosted interesting talks, on topology, big data in healthcare, and population biology.
In addition to participating in Front Range, the Colorado State University chapter visited the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Golden, CO, on May 9. Nine students learned about mathematical modeling of turbulent wind flows, supercomputing at NREL, photovoltaic chemistry, building techniques that reduce energy consumption, as well as other research efforts at NREL. The chapter also held a technical workshop series, hosted SIAM visiting speakers Guang Lin and Ken Ho (Pacific Northwest National Lab), hosted a visit from Colorado College’s student chapter, and had a bowling night.
Florida Institute of Technology chapter offered a two week summer math program for local high school students. Seven chapter members and their advisor taught the high schoolers MATLAB basics, as well as theory and modeling applications of topics like mathematical epidemiology and graph theory. The chapter held a biweekly reading group during spring semester and hosted talks on category spaces and mathematical applications to breast cancer detection.
The chapter at University of Heidelberg held a symposium called “University Meets Industry – First Hand Experience” on May 15. Featured talks by Josef Wuensch of BASF SE and Hans Georg Bock of Heidelberg discussed collaboration between academia and industry.
University of Minnesota chapter toured the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, where they got to see the MSI machine room, and visited their university’s Immersive Driving Simulator, where they learned about building simulator environments that are used for a large range of automotive safety issues, such as alcohol, medications, automated vehicles, and roadway designs.
In April, the chapter at the University of Pennsylvania organized a MATLAB Boot Camp, a two day event that included about 30 participants from various departments.
Uppsala University chapter visited the research department at Ericsson (a communications company), where they saw the prototype for the next 5G network. They also hosted Mustafa Khammash (ETH Zurich) for a talk about how cows regulate their blood calcium. He demonstrated the cow’s control mechanisms via LEGO robots.
Arizona State University chapter volunteered at their West Campus celebration of Sonia Kovalevsky Day, which targeted high school women interested in pursuing a degree in mathematics. SIAM volunteers prepared and graded a math competition for the participants. Chapter members will continue to do this in the 2014-2015 academic year, and expressed their excitement at the opportunity to engage female high school students around the community in a day of networking, mentoring, and hands-on activities in math.
SIAM is now accepting requests for funding from its student chapters for the 2014-2015 academic year. Click here for more information.
Virginia Tech chapter hosted SIAM Past President Nick Trefethen for a talk about Chebfun, an extensive MATLAB computing toolbox based on Chebyshev approximations of continuous functions.
Statistically measuring uncertainty for space surveillance
Philadelphia, PA—Space surveillance is inherently challenging when compared to other tracking environments due to various reasons, not least of which is the long time gap between surveillance updates. “Unlike the air and missile defense environments where objects are frequently observed, the space surveillance environment data is starved, with many objects going several orbital periods between observations,” according to researcher Joshua Horwood. “Thus, it is more challenging to predict the future location of these sparsely-seen objects and they have a tendency to get lost using traditional methods. A new way of tracking them, the Gauss von Mises (GVM) distribution, has improved predictive capabilities that permit one to more effectively maintain custody of infrequently-observed space objects.”
In a paper published in July in the SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, authors Horwood and Aubrey Poore, both of Numerica Corporation, propose a more statistically rigorous treatment of uncertainty in the near-Earth space environment than currently available. The method proposed uses a new class of multivariate probability density functions, called the Gauss von Mises (GVM) family of distributions.
“By more faithfully representing the uncertainty in a space object’s orbit, the GVM distribution allows one to more accurately predict the future locations of satellites and debris,” says Horwood. “Uncertainty propagation using the GVM distribution can be achieved at a computational cost commensurate with traditional methods and can maintain a proper characterization of the uncertainty for up to eight times as long.”
The uncertainty of a space object’s orbital state at different epochs computed from the prediction steps of the traditional extended Kalman filter (EKF), unscented Kalman filter (UKF), and Gauss von Mises (GVM) filter, and a particle filter. Shown are the respective level curves in the plane of the semimajor axis and mean longitude coordinates. The GVM distribution correctly characterizes the uncertainty as depicted by the particle ensemble. Figure courtesy of Numerica Corporation.
It is important to study uncertainty in the space surveillance tracking environment in order to protect space assets and maintain awareness of potentially adversarial space deployments. The proper characterization of uncertainty enables us to allocate resources in order to gain as much information about the system as possible, and detect satellite maneuvers. Better uncertainty quantification also helps us track and look for close approaches between any two space objects, a process called conjunction analysis.
Horwood explains further with an example, “In the problem of conjunction analysis, the use of the GVM distribution can provide a more reliable probability of collision and allows conjunction assessments further into the future. This translates into fewer false alarms and hence fewer expensive maneuver operations that have to be performed on operational spacecraft.”
In order to quantify uncertainty, proper characterization of a space object’s full state probability density function (PDF) is required to faithfully represent the statistical errors. The GVM distribution approach is supported by a suite of next-generation algorithms for uncertainty propagation, data association, space catalog maintenance, and other space situational awareness functions. What distinguishes the GVM distribution is that it is defined on a cylindrical manifold, and such coordinates, used in conjunction with the GVM distribution, can provide a statistically rigorous treatment of uncertainty needed for orbit determination and tracking.
Methods proposed in this paper will be beneficial for studying various aspects of future space surveillance. “A quantification of the uncertainties in space surveillance is a prerequisite for robustly tracking hundreds of thousands of space objects that are expected in the future,” says Horwood. “This involves various levels of research including sensor-level processing (to improve the characteristics of the measurement errors and biases), propagation of uncertainty, dynamics and space environment modeling, inverse problems such as statistical orbit determination, and high performance computing to serve the growing space catalog.”
Source Article:
Gauss von Mises Distribution for Improved Uncertainty Realism in Space Situational Awareness
Joshua T. Horwood and Aubrey B. Poore
SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, 2(1), 276–304 (Online publish date: 16 July, 2014)
The paper is available for free download at the link above until December 31, 2014.
About the authors:
Joshua Horwood and Aubrey Poore are researchers at Numerica Corporation in Loveland, Colorado.
]]>The Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) thanked Chairman Jay Rockefeller and his colleagues on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee for introducing legislation for reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act. CNSF states that it is pleased with the proposed five-year budget growth for the National Science Foundation (NSF), which acknowledges the importance of NSF and its dedication to funding research and education across all fields of science, engineering, and mathematics at all education levels.
View the full statement on the CNSF website.
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The forum will provide information and models for the participants who want to learn more about the needs of today’s students and to take a fresh look at their own curricula. CMBS encourages two-year and four-year colleges, as well as universities to send teams of two or three participants, ideally including the department chair and the director of undergraduate studies or others with primary responsibility for coordination of the major and the service courses taught in the first two years.
Details on the Forum may be found at www.cbmsweb.org/Forum5/index.htm. Register for the forum here.
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News & announcements for the SIAM membership communityDownload a PDF version
Dear SIAM members,
Did you know that one of the most convenient ways to stay updated about SIAM activities and announcements is through our social media pages? Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our YouTube channel!
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Karthika Muthukumaraswamy
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Contents:
SIAM HQ UPDATE
– Welcoming SIAM’s new section
– Look for your membership renewal email!
– Nominate a colleague to the 2015 Class of SIAM Fellows
– Invite a colleague to join the SIAM community!
STUDENT NEWS & NOTES
– Apply for funds for your student chapter
PUBLIC AWARENESS
– Forum: Building student success in college math
– Presentations from AN14 now available to view
PUBLISHING NEWS & NOTES
– Climate Modeling for Scientists and Engineers
– Programming Projects in C for Students of Engineering, Science, and Mathematics
UPDATES ON CONFERENCES & PRIZES
– Travel grants for ICIAM 2015
– SIAM conference registrations & submissions
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Welcoming SIAM’s new Section
SIAM has a brand new section in the US, the SIAM Central Section, serving the states of Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. All SIAM members residing in these states will automatically become members of the section. Objectives of the new section are to support the SIAM mission in the central region of the US, enhance communication among section members, promote collaboration for both basic research and applications of mathematics to industry and science, and to represent applied and computational mathematics in the region. The proposed activities for the SIAM central section include annual section meetings, seminars and workshops for advanced topics of common interest to section members, encouragement of new SIAM student chapters as well as facilitation of collaboration among all chapters in the central region, and expansion of the influence of SIAM in the central states. Participation will be open to all institutions and industries in the region.
Look for your membership renewal email!
If your SIAM membership expires December 31, 2014, you will be receiving an email from “renewals@siam.org” about renewing your membership for 2015. From that email, you can link directly to your SIAM membership account and either pay your dues online or print out a renewal invoice to mail or fax your payment. You can reach the same information by going to my.siam.org, logging in, and clicking on the “My Renewals” tab. Free student members, don’t forget that you also need to renew your membership in order to continue receiving benefits of membership in 2015. If you have any questions about renewing, contact membership@siam.org.
Don’t forget, you can nominate two students for free membership each calendar year.
Nominate a colleague to the 2015 Class of SIAM Fellows
Nominations for the 2015 Class of Fellows are being accepted through November 3, 2014. You can help raise visibility of the applied math community by enabling SIAM to identify members of the community with demonstrated excellence in research, industrial work, educational activities and other service related to the goals of SIAM. Fellows will be announced in March and will be recognized at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2015) to be held in Beijing, China next August.
Members can nominate up to two individuals for distinguished work in the applied mathematical and computational sciences. Make a nomination at http://nominatefellows.siam.org.
To find more information on the SIAM Fellows Program, including nomination guidelines, go to:
http://www.siam.org/prizes/fellows/index.php
Invite a colleague to join the SIAM community!
If you have a friend or colleague that has yet to discover the benefits of SIAM, invite them to join! If you manage to convince them to join SIAM, both you and your colleague will be entered into a drawing to win one of the following prizes: an iPad, an additional year of SIAM membership, a SIAM conference registration for the meeting of your choice, or a SIAM book of your choice from our entire catalogue. Plus, you will receive a ∈ SIAM t-shirt for your recruitment efforts. Make use of the MGAM Recruitment Kit to aid your efforts.
To be included in the contest drawing in January 2015, all new member applications must be received by the SIAM office by December 31, 2014.
View more details at http://www.siam.org/membership/mgam.php.
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Apply for funds for your student chapter
SIAM is accepting requests for funding for up to $500 per SIAM Student Chapter for projects taking place on campus during the 2014-2015 academic year. Download the guidelines and “Request for Funding” forms at http://www.siam.org/students/chapters/funding.php, complete, and submit to Nancy Snell, Membership Coordinator, by September 30, 2014.
SIAM would also like to welcome its newest student chapters. View the full list here:
http://connect.siam.org/siam-welcomes-its-newest-student-chapters/
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Forum: Building student success in college math
SIAM is a member of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) which will host a National Forum on building student success in the first two years of college math. The Forum will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Reston, Virginia, on October 5-7, 2014. The Forum features sessions such as the one on Modeling across the Curriculum, organized by SIAM VP for Education Peter Turner. Details on the Forum as well as registration information may be found at www.cbmsweb.org/Forum5/index.htm. It should also be noted that SIAM’s governance approved the creation of a new activity group, the SIAM Activity Group on Applied Mathematics Education. More information on this will be forthcoming in the near future.
Presentations from AN14 now available to view
Presentations from select sessions at the 2014 SIAM Annual Meeting are now available on SIAM Presents…Featured Lectures from Our Archives:
http://www.siam.org/meetings/presents.php
Please go to the direct link to view the sessions captured. You do not need to login to view presentations, though registering will allow you to track the presentations you access. Audio/slides can be viewed by selecting “Invited Speakers”, “Prize Speakers” or “Minisymposia” from the left sidebar and then connecting to a specific session.
Latest from SIAM Blogs
SIAM Blogs recently featured posts adapted from papers in three of the SIAM Review journal sections (Research Spotlights, Survey and Review, and Education), as well as a Q&A with SIREV Editor-in-Chief Tim Kelley. There’s also a look at priorities relevant to SIAM in the recent budget memorandum from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and a post about the value of expository writing and the new Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition.
If you want to contribute a post about any topic of relevance to the applied math and computational science community, send your questions or submissions to blogs@siam.org.
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New SIAM Books
Climate Modeling for Scientists and Engineers
John B. Drake
Climate modeling and simulation teach us about past, present, and future conditions of life on Earth and help us understand observations about the changing atmosphere and ocean and terrestrial ecology. Focusing on high-end modeling and simulation of Earth’s climate, this book presents observations about the general circulations of the earth and provides supplemental lectures and MATLABÒ exercises on an associated Web page.
Additional information: bookstore.siam.org/mm19
2014 / viii + 165 / softcover / ISBN: 978-1-611973-53-2 / List Price $69.00 / SIAM Member Price $48.30 / Order Code MM19
Programming Projects in C for Students of Engineering, Science, and Mathematics
Rouben Rostamian
Written as a tutorial on how to think about, organize, and implement programs in scientific computing, this book achieves its goal through an eclectic and wide-ranging collection of projects. Each project presents a problem and an algorithm for solving it. The reader is guided through implementing the algorithm in C and compiling and testing the results. It is not necessary to carry out the projects in sequential order.
Additional information: bookstore.siam.org/cs13
2014 / xvi + 393 / softcover / ISBN 978-1-611973-49-5 / List Price $69.00 / Member Price $48.30 / Order Code CS13
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Travel grants for ICIAM 2015
SIAM has support for 100 mathematical and computational scientists to travel to and attend ICIAM 2015, to be held August 10-14 in Beijing, China. Funding for this travel award is made possible by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The nominal limit of travel support is in the amount of US $2000. Please note that a free registration is not included.
For awards funded by this grant from the NSF, applicants must be affiliated with a U.S. institution at the beginning of ICIAM (August 10, 2015). For more details and instructions for applying for travel support, please visit:
http://www.siam.org/meetings/iciam15/
Child Care Grants for CSE15
SIAM is offering up to $250 per family for attendees who bring children to the 2015 Conference on Computational Science and Engineering being held in Salt Lake City, Utah, in March 2015. For more information and a link to the application form, please visit: http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse15/childcare.php
The deadline for applications is January 16, 2015.
SIAM conference registrations & submissions
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM15), April 30-May 2, 2015, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Abstract submission deadline: October 5, 2014
Paper submission deadline: October 12, 2014
Workshop proposal deadline: October 5, 2014
Tutorial proposal deadline: October 12, 2014
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS15), May 17-21, 2015, Snowbird, Utah, USA
Minisymposium proposals submission deadline: October 20, 2014
Abstracts for minisymposia, contributed lectures and poster submissions are due: November 17, 2014
The 13th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications (OPSFA13), June 1-5, 2015, Gaithersburg, MD
Minisymposium proposals submission deadline: November 3, 2014
Abstracts for contributed and minisymposium speakers submissions are due: February 2, 2015
SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT15), July 8-10, 2015, Paris, France
Minisymposium proposals submission deadline: January 12, 201
Abstracts for contributed and minisymposium speaker submission deadline: January 21, 2015
Full Paper for consideration in Proceedings: January 21, 2015
Prize nomination deadlines
The John von Neumann Lecture: September 15, 2014
Ralph E. Kleinman Prize: October 15, 2014
George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition: October 15, 2014
W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize: October 15, 2014
AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture: November 1, 2014
Germund Dahlquist Prize: November 15, 2014
For the complete list of the call for nominations, please visit:
http://www.siam.org/prizes/nominations.php
AMCS conferences and events
Model Management, Risk, Validation and Stress Testing Conference
November 10-11, 2014, Miami, Florida
39th SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference (SIAM-SEAS 2015)
March 20-22, 2015, Birmingham, Alabama
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is turning to scientists to help forecast the next outbreak of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, announcing its first health-related challenge. DARPA is offering $150,000 for the best new approach. The virus causes high fever, joint and muscle pain, headache, nausea, fatigue, and rash While the infection is very rarely fatal, the painful swelling of joints is usually prolonged and can be disabling. DARPA has a special interest in protecting U.S. soldiers in different parts of the world from being infected.
Read the full story on sciencemag.org.
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