Six SIAM Activity Groups Elect New Officers
April 1, 2005
Six SIAM activity groups welcomed new officers in January 2005. The SIAGs and their newly elected officers are:
Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (SIAG/APDE)
Chair: Michael Shearer, North Carolina State University
Vice chair: Mary Pugh, University of Toronto
Program director: Gui-Qiang G. Chen, Northwestern University
Secretary: Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin
Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory (SIAG/CST)
Chair: Arthur J. Krener, University of California, Davis
Vice chair: Fariba Fahroo, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Program director: Ralph C. Smith, North Carolina State University
Secretary/treasurer: David S. Gil-liam, Texas Tech University
Activity Group on Geometric Design (SIAG/GD)
Chair: Mike Neamtu, Vanderbilt University
Vice chair: Stephen Mann, University of Waterloo
Program director: Thomas Grandine, Boeing
Secretary: Tor Dokken, SINTEF
Activity Group on Life Sciences (SIAG/LS)
Chair: John Rinzel, Courant Institute, New York University
Vice chair: Robert M. Miura, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Program director: Timothy C. Elston, University of North Carolina
Secretary: Gerda de Vries, University of Alberta
Activity Group on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (SIAG/NWCS)
Chair: Alejandro Aceves, University of New Mexico
Vice chair: Gerard Iooss, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Program director: Roger Grimshaw, Loughborough University
Secretary: Joceline Lega, University of Arizona
Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions (SIAG/OPSF)
Chair: Peter Clarkson, University of Kent
Vice chair: Daniel W. Lozier, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Program director: Peter McCoy, U.S. Naval Academy
Secretary/treasurer: Javier Segura, Universidad de Cantabria