Members of SIAG/DS have the opportunity and responsibility to select new leaders every two years. This year’s election is going on now and will be open until December 2. Positions to be selected include activity group chair, vice chair, secretary/DS Magazine, program chair, and the advisory board. Per policy, at least two candidates run for each position.
All candidates were given the opportunity to provide statements along with descriptions of their professional experience, education, SIAM activities, professional memberships, and research interests. To help our members make informed voting decisions, we report what they had to say.
Chair
James Meiss, University of Colorado
James Meiss received his PhD in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980, and has been a professor of Applied Mathematics the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1989. He is a member of SIAM and a fellow of the APS. His research, published in 110 refereed articles, concerns Hamiltonian, symplectic and volume preserving dynamics, the transition to chaos, the theory of transport, and computational topology. He has served as an Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, of Physica D, and of the dynamical systems encyclopedia at Scholarpedia. He is the author of the textbooks "Differential Dynamical Systems" (SIAM, 2007) and, with R.D. Hazeltine, "Plasma Confinement" (Addison-Wesley, 1992). He was co-organizer of the 1995 Snowbird meeting, and has served on SIAM’s book editorial board, and as the book review editor for DSWeb.
Candidate Statement: The Dynamical Systems activity group administers the DSWeb portal, awards the Moser and Crawford prizes, organizes the biennial Snowbird meeting, and sponsors the SIADS journal. All of these activities are in great shape, and the next chair of the SIAG can only hope to maintain the level of excellence of the previous chairs. Should I be elected, I will pledge to do my best. One of the greatest aspects of our field--its scientific diversity--is also one of its greatest challenges. I believe SIAG should continue to dedicate itself to strengthening this diversity by encouraging researchers in a wide spectrum of fields, both pure and applied, to interact with us through our meetings, journal, and web presence.
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Mary Silber, Northwestern University
Professional Experience: Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics Initiative, Statistics Department, University of Chicago (starting January 2016); Professor, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University (Assistant 1993-1999, Associate 1999-2005, Full 2005-2015); Faculty, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (2007-present); Visiting Faculty, Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago (2009-2011); Research Fellow, Applied Mechanics, Caltech (1991-1993); Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Georgia Tech (1990-1991); Postdoctoral Visiting Member, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota (1989-1990).
Education: Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley (1989); B.S. Physics, Sonoma State University (1981).
SIAM Activities: Co-Chair of SIAM Annual meeting (2016); Organizing Committee of SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (1999, 2007, 2015); Co-Chair of SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (1997); SIAM Fellows Selection Committee (2015-2017), and Chair, SIAM Fellows Canvassing Committee (2013-2015); SIAM Council, 2 terms (2008-2013); Vice Chair SIAG-DS (2005-2007); Advisory Board, SIAG-DS (1995-1997, 2001-2003); Nominating Committee, SIAG-DS (2007, 2009); Crawford Prize Committee (2002-2003, 2012-2013 Committee Chair); SIAM rep. to Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences (2007-2012); Selection Committee, AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture (2010, 2011 Committee Chair); SIAM Editorial Boards: Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: A SIAM Interdisciplinary Journal (2011– ), SIAM Review, Education Section (2011– ), SIADS (2001-2009).
Professional Memberships: American Mathematical Society; American Physical Society; Association for Women in Mathematics; SIAM (Fellow).
Research Interests: Applied dynamical systems, pattern formation and bifurcation theory, climate and ecology applications.
Candidate Statement: The SIAM activity group on dynamical systems (SIAG-DS) has represented my primary professional community for over two decades. The activity group is healthy, with its biennial conference, its international status, its established prizes, and its leading journal for applied dynamical systems. I would welcome the opportunity to work to strengthen and leverage our community platform as the chair of the activity group.
Key to our SIAG’s success are its mechanisms for (1) identifying emerging application areas, which provide a critical muse to applied mathematics research, (2) developing new training opportunities, which help our future dynamical systems researchers meet their professional aspirations, and (3) disseminating these research and training successes broadly and effectively. This vitality is important to our research field and its impact.
Our activity group, at its best, facilitates the development of dynamical systems for diverse application areas, engages with related educational efforts, and contributes to the training of PhD students and postdocs in a variety of disciplines, all brought together around dynamical systems and its applications. This diversity and inclusivity would guide my decisions and my priorities as chair.
Vice Chair
Kresimir Josic University of Houston
Professional Experience: Professor of Mathematics, Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston (2013-present), Adjunct Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas at Houston (2007-present) and Biosciences at Rice University (2015-present). Previous positions: Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston University (1999-2002).
Education: Ph. D., Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University (1999), B.Sc., Mathematics and Physics, University of Texas at Austin (1994).
SIAM Activities: Managing Editor of the SIAM Dynamical Systems Magazine (2009-2014).
Professional Memberships: SIAM, Biophysical Society, Society for Neuroscience
Research Interests applied dynamical systems theory, stochastic dynamics, mathematical neuroscience, synthetic biology.
Statement: This is a great time for dynamical systems theory. Advances in experimental and imaging techniques give us unprecedented insights about and exciting new means to control biological and physical systems. To sustain these advances will require novel mathematical tools and models. The theory of dynamical systems has been instrumental in these developments, and will be important in future progress. The SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems needs to keep playing a leading role in this effort by bringing together theoretical and experimental scientists. Over the last decade my research, and courses and conferences I have organized were aimed at providing a bridge between disciplines. As vice-chair of this activity group I will work to further these efforts.
Vivien Kirk, University of Auckland
Professional Experience: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland (1992-present); Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Applied Mechanics, Caltech, 1992; Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 1990-1991.
Education: PhD in Applied Mathematics, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge (1990); BSc and MSc(Hons) in Physics, University of Auckland, 1985 and 1986.
SIAM Activities: Program Director, SIAG on Dynamical Systems, 2010-2011; Nominating committee, SIAG on Dynamical Systems, 2008 and 2013.
Professional Memberships: SIAM, including Dynamical Systems and Life Sciences activity groups; New Zealand Mathematical Society; Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society.
Research Interests: Multiple timescale dynamics; local and global bifurcation theory; bifurcations with symmetry; application of dynamical systems techniques to models from mathematical physiology.
Candidate statement: The Dynamical Systems Activity Group provides a lively forum for the exchange of ideas between mathematicians and scientists from a very broad range of disciplines, from diverse geographical areas and from all career stages. I believe the Activity Group officers have responsibilities including supporting and enhancing the breadth of activity of the SIAG, seeking out new opportunities for outreach to other disciplines and the wider community, and nurturing students and early career researchers so that the future health of the activity group is ensured.
Secretary / DS Magazine
Daniel Abrams, Northwestern University
Professional Experience: Professor (assistant then associate), Northwestern University Dep. of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (2009-Present), and by courtesy, Dep. of Physics and Astronomy (2013-Present); Faculty member, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (2011-Present); Fulbright Foundation Scholar, Cusco, Peru (2010); NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Math Sciences, MIT Dep. Of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (2006–2009); NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institute Fellow, Seoul National University Dep. of Physics and Astronomy, S. Korea (2006); NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Cornell University Dep. of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2003–2006); Visiting Student Researcher, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark (2004–2005); US Dep. of Ed. Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow, Cochabamba, Bolivia (2003); Field Research Asst., US Antarctic Prog. Project S-157, Siple Coast, Antarctica (2000–2001); Research Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (2000)
Education: Undergrad: B.S. in Applied Physics, Caltech, 1996-2000; Grad school: Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, 2001-2006; Postdoc: MIT Math Sciences / Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, 2006-2009.
SIAM Activities: Faculty advisor, Northwestern University SIAM student chapter, 2011-Present; Reviewer for SIAM J. Appl. Math., J. Appl. Dyn. Syst., J. Math. Anal., 2010-Present; Snowbird DS conference speaker, 2011, 2013, 2015.
Professional Memberships: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2001-Present; American Physical Society (APS), 1999-Present; American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2007-2012.
Research Interests: I have three broad categories: (1) synchronization/networks of coupled oscillators, (2) mathematical models of social systems, (3) mathematical geoscience. Recent topics of research include the origin of left-handedness, the geographic dispersal of surnames over time, the rise of religious non-affiliation, and puzzling partially-synchronized oscillatory patterns known as chimera states.
Candidate Statement: Applied mathematicians can be found in a variety of academic departments, government labs and industrial research facilities. SIAM should strive to provide venues (both physical and electronic) where all these people can come together to meet and exchange ideas.
In particular, as secretary of the activity group on dynamical systems, I'd like to help with the following: (1) Strengthen DSweb as a medium for diffusion of new software, movies, and visualizations; (2) Develop short online modules to help students and researchers overcome barriers to learning ideas and jargon of a new field; (3) Identify and compile a list of core concepts in applied mathematics that should be a part of most dynamical systems educational programs.
Mason Porter, University of Oxford
Professional Experience: Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford (2014--present); Associate Professor, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford (2014); University Lecturer, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford (2007-2013); Visiting Scholar, Department of Biology, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University (9/2014-1/2015); Research Professor [Adjunct Faculty], Mathematical, Computational, and Modeling Sciences Center; Arizona State University (2010-present); Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for the Physics of Information and Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology (2005-2007); NSF VIGRE Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics and Research Associate, Center for Nonlinear Science, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology (2002-2005); Postdoctoral Scholar, Semi classical Analysis program, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley CA (2003)
Education: Ph.D., Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, 2002; M.S., Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, 2001; B.S., Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 1998
SIAM Activities: Associate Editor, SIAM Review (Research Spotlights section) (2015--2017); Member, Education Committee (1/1/13--12/31/15); Faculty Advisor and Senior Member (and founding faculty member), University of Oxford student chapter of SIAM (2008–present); Organizer or co-organizer of 13 minisymposia (including at the 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013 Snowbird meetings) at SIAM Annual Meeting and Conferences on Dynamical Systems, Nonlinear Waves, PDEs, and Mathematical Biology (2002--present); referee for several SIAM journals
Professional Memberships: SIAM; American Mathematical Society; American Physical Society; International Network for Social Network Analysis; Complex Systems Society; Tau Beta Pi
Research Interests: Nonlinear systems; networks; complex systems; nonlinear waves; mathematical biology; many other topics
Candidate Statement: The main role of the secretary of the dynamical systems activity group has been to be the Chief Editor of DSWeb Magazine, though this role also contains the scope to be an advocate for dynamical systems more generally. My main goals as secretary would be to try to realize this scope by expanding readership of DSWeb material to a wider audience and to reach out to that audience via social media such as Quora, Twitter, Slideshare, and Facebook.
I would like to see the readership of the articles in DSWeb to expand far beyond professionals in dynamical systems and related areas. For example, some articles include expository discussions of phenomena in dynamical systems, and I think that we should include more such material. Moreover, these types of articles, which could e.g. point to and briefly discuss articles in science blogs and online newspapers (there are a lot of relevant articles like this that are already being written!) can be extremely valuable for outreach efforts for postdocs, graduate students, undergraduate students, and even high school students and other members of the general public. I would like to place these brief blurbs and pointers to articles not only on DSWeb but also in various social media. My hope is that these types of efforts can help recruit more people to dynamical systems--or at the very minimum promote a greater appreciation of mathematics and science among the public.
In the past couple of years, several editorial and opinion pieces have appeared in DSWeb, and this is something that would be useful to expand further. As such articles illustrate, there are plenty of important issues that we as a community ought to be discussing, and I think DSWeb is a good venue to facilitate some of these discussions (and, per my notes above, to include a wide audience in these discussions). One useful article, for example, could be about ethics training for the use of human data, which is common in the social sciences but unfortunately almost absent in the training of mathematical scientists (even though an increasingly high percentage of us deal with sensitive data in our research).
Material that we are already producing has the potential to reach a much wider audience than it currently does, and I think it is crucial to expand DSWeb--via judicious use of social media to complement the framework that already exists--in order to do that. Otherwise, we will only be talking to ourselves, and we have the potential to do so much more than that.
Program Chair
Evelyn Sander, George Mason University
Professional Experience: Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University (2012 -present); IBM Visiting Professor, Applied Math, Brown University (2014); Long Term Visitor, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (2012-13); Associate professor, GMU (2005-2012); Assistant professor, GMU (2000-2005); Visiting assistant professor, GMU (1998-2000); Member, Center for Neural Dynamics, Krasnow Institute (2005-);
Postdoctoral fellowship, Center for Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology (1996-98).
Education: University of Minnesota, Ph.D., 1996; Northwestern University, B.A, 1990.
SIAM Activities: Section Chief Editor, Research Spotlights Section, SIAM Review (2014 - present); Associate editor, Research Spotlights Section of the SIAM Review (2012-2014); Associate editor, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (2010-2015); Development committee, Juergen Moser Prize, (2012-2015); Secretary/Treasurer of the SIAG/DS, Editor-in-Chief, DSWeb Magazine, and SIAM Dynamical Systems Activity Group Liaison to SIAM News (2008-2010); SIAM Activity Group on Life Sciences nominating committee (2008); Section Chief Editor, Tutorials, DSWeb (2004-2010).
Professional Memberships: American Mathematical Society, Association for Women in Mathematics, SIAM.
Research Interests: Numerical and theoretical methods of dynamical systems; global bifurcations and chaos for maps, differential equations, and delay differential equations; bifurcations for pattern forming partial differential equations.
Candidate Statement: It will be very exciting to have the opportunity to be involved in the SIAG-DS and look forward to the prospect of organizing the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems 2017. The success of this conference over a long period is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it means that this is the meeting that many look to attend to learn of and bring attention to important new results. On the other hand, it has the danger of stagnating. As a meeting co-organizer, I would plan to actively solicit input from as many sources as possible to try to make sure that to balance the conference schedule so that it continues to represent the best available research in the field while still including cutting edge topics in closely related disciplines that may not yet be familiar to a large part of the audience.
Martin Wechselberger, University of Sydney
Professional Experience: Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Australia (since 2015); Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Australia (2012-2014); Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Australia (2008-2011); Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Australia (2005-2007); Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI), Ohio State University, USA (2002-2004); Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (2000-2001).
Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria,
M.Sc. in Mathematics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
SIAM Activities: Portal-Editor-in Chief, DSWeb (2008-2009); SIAG/DS Advisory Board (2010-2011); J. D. Crawford Prize selection committee (2013); Editorial board, SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems (since 2015).
Professional Memberships: Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS), Australia & New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM).
Research Interests: Dynamical systems, Geometric singular perturbation theory, Mathematical neuroscience.
Candidate Statement: The biannual Snowbird conference is the flagship event for the dynamical systems community. It is a great venue to forge and foster collaborations and to identify emerging topics in our research field. Providing a program to enhance the experience of this meeting and to improve the appeal to the community shall be the aim of a Program Director. I will try my best to deliver it.
Advisory Board (5 positions)
Dwight Barkley, University of Warwick
Professional Experience: Mathematics Department University of Warwick (1994 - present); Director of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Research at Warwick; Total-ESPCI ParisTech Chair in Sciences Focused on Energies, Carbon and the Environment (2013); Royal Society-Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow (2009-2010); NSF and NATO postdoctoral fellow (1992 - 1994); Princeton University Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (1989-1992); Caltech Applied Mathematics (1988-1989)
Education: PhD (1988) and MA (1984) in Physics, The University of Texas at Austin. BSc in Physics, The Catholic University of America (1980).
SIAM Activities: Member of SIAM activity group on Dynamical Systems; SIADS editorial board, (2002 - present); DSWeb Student Competition Selection Committee (2007); JD Crawford Prize Committee (2007); SIAG/DS Nominating Committee (2005)
Professional Memberships: SIAM, SIAG/DS, American Physical Society (Fellow), Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (UK) (Fellow), London Mathematical Society
Research Interests: Applied and computational mathematics, particularly at the interface of high-performance computation, pattern formation, and nonlinear phenomena.
Candidate Statement: Since its inception, dynamical systems has been a highly interdisciplinary subject. The activity group embodies this diversity and has been highly effective at promoting dynamical systems across all fields. I have a long-standing interest in fostering even greater links with experimentalists from a variety of disciplines in physical and life sciences as well as engineering. Not only do experiments provide a rich source of inspiration and applications, our community has much to offer in interpretation and design. I believe strongly that the activity group should strive to maintain both a youthful and international profile and I would like to see support for graduate students and junior researchers across diverse backgrounds. Finally, one of the greatest challenges we face is keeping the much-loved Snowbird meeting manageable as we incorporate new and exciting areas of applications.
Jan Bouwe van den Berg, VU University Amsterdam
Professional Experience: Full professor of mathematics at VU University Amsterdam since 2007; Course director for Mathematics and Business Analytics at VU University Amsterdam (2008-2014); Assistant professor at VU University Amsterdam (2003-2006); Postdoc at the University of Nottingham (2001-2002).
Education: PhD in mathematics from Leiden University (the Netherlands).
BSc & MSc in mathematics and physics from Leiden University.
SIAM Activities: Organizer minisymposium at Snowbird in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015; Associate editor of SIADS since 2013.
Professional Memberships: SIAM, AMS, Royal Dutch Mathematical Society, Netherlands' Physical Society
Research Interests: Topological methods in dynamics. Rigorous numerical methods for dynamical systems. Infinite dimensional dynamical systems. Strongly indefinite variational problems related to pattern formation.
Candidate Statement: The SIAM activity group on Dynamical Systems brings together a wide variety of perspectives on dynamics. This fosters an inclusive and collaborative atmosphere, which I much enjoy. These are exciting times for dynamical systems, with mathematical theory, computational techniques and applications evolving at unprecedented pace. To obtain the most interesting and rewarding results, these three cornerstones should not just thrive separately, but progress in close interaction. My aim is to do my best to maintain the flow of ideas between theory, computation and applications in the activity group. In particular, upholding the tradition of diversity in topics at the Snowbird meeting, as well as enhancing the diversity of speakers.
Simone Bianco, IBM Almaden
Professional experience: Research Scientist, Department of Physics, University of North Texas, 2007; Research scientist, Department of Applied Science, The College of William and Mary, 2007-2010; Research scientist, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Science, UC San Francisco, 2010-2014; Research Staff Member, Department of Industrial and Applied Genomics, IBM Almaden Research Center, 2014-present; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Biomathematics Fellowship, 2009; Co-organizer, IBM Almaden Institute 2014 - "Sequence the City"; Co-organizer, IBM Distinguished Speaker Series, 2015; Committee member: 2015 AAAI-W3PHI; NSF Grant reviewer; reviewer for Phys Bio, New J of Phys, Fluctuation and Noise Letter, Chaos Solitons and Fractals, Informatics in Medicine, Malaria Journal.
Education: BS Physics, University of Pisa, 2004; MS Physics and Astrophysics, University of Pisa, 2004; PhD, Physics, University of North Texas, 2007.
SIAM Activities: Invited speaker, SIAM DS09; Invited speaker, SIAM DS11; Minisymposium organizer, SIAM DS15; Member of SIAM DS AG
Professional membership: SIAM DS/AG, Member; APS, member.
Research Interests: My research interests are in the applications of dynamical systems to problems of biological interest. I am interested, and have published, in epidemiology, theoretical population biology, evolutionary biology and genomics. My current research, in collaboration with Mars, INC., focuses on using genetic data to build mathematical models for emergence and dynamics of pathogens in food products.
Candidate Statement: I have participated in SIAM DS activities since 2009, and have been a SIAM member since. My research group at IBM Almaden Research Center is ideally positioned at the interface between mathematical sciences and applied research. I am confident my experience in both academic and industrial setting, my enthusiasm, and my research background put me in a perfect position to promote the mission of SIAM, to advance research by building cooperation between mathematics and computational science, and the worlds of science and technology, and especially of the DS activity group. In particular, I aim at increasing the interest of the group in application of dynamical systems to problems of biological interest, especially on genomic research, a growing research field with a number of important industrial applications, and plan to be an advocate for interdisciplinary research for the next generation of scientists. In general, I plan to collaborate with the other elected members of the group to ensure the DS AG remains a group of excellence and a constant point of reference for the community. It would be my privilege and honor to be part of the board.
http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-sbianco
http://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-rock-star-employees-2015-4#using-math-to-cure-infectious-disease-simone-bianco-11
Harry Dankowicz, University of Illinois
Education and Professional Experience: Harry Dankowicz is Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He graduated from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, with an M.Sc. in Engineering Physics in 1991 and, subsequently, from Cornell University with a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1995, after spending one year as an exchange scholar in the Program for Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. Following a post-doctoral and research associate appointment at KTH between 1995 and 1999, he joined the faculty of the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he remained until 2005.
Research Interests: Prof. Dankowicz research interests fall at the intersection of engineering, math and physics. He seeks to contribute to the development and design of novel devices or methodologies that capitalize on system nonlinearities for improved understanding and performance. Recent work includes the analysis of robustness to time delay of adaptive control algorithms, emergent role differentiation in complex time-dependent networks, and nonlinear growth of atmospheric aerosol particles. In 2013, SIAM published his textbook Recipes for Continuation (co-authored with Frank Schilder), which documents the development of COCO, a Matlab-based platform for parameter continuation, e.g., for constrained multisegment boundary-value problems.
Professional Memberships: In his professional service, Prof. Dankowicz has contributed a decade of service to the ASME Technical Committee on Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics, as well as the ASME Design Engineering Division, including twice as technical program chair and once as general conference chair for the annual IDETC/CIE meeting and, most recently, as committee chair with term ending on October 1, 2015. Since 2012, he serves as editor-in-chief for ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews and as Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems.
Candidate Statement: I have always had a strong sense of the importance of service to my professional community. Given my dual allegiance to dynamical systems/applied mathematics and engineering science/applied mechanics, I made a choice in the early parts of the last decade to dedicate my voluntary service to ASME. Having accomplished many of my goals in this respect, I am now eager to learn of ways in which I can contribute to sustaining the wonderful community spirit of the SIAM Dynamical System Activity Group and to further broadening its appeal to a new and diverse membership. While I can tap into more than a decade of service experience, I also look to learn from the priorities placed by the membership on maintaining vitality and growth. I see value in building bridges to other SIAM activity groups as well as other professional societies that serve our community, and would be happy to promote such activities.
http://danko.mechanical.illinois.edu
Gianne Derks, University of Surrey
Professional Experience: Professor of Mathematics, University of Surrey, UK.
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