Mark your
calendars now! The 2007 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical
Systems will be held May 28 to June 1, 2007 in Snowbird, Utah.
We are pleased to announce that the following people have
agreed to serve on the Organizing Committee:
Sue Ann Campbell (co-chair) |
University of Waterloo |
Arjen Doelman |
University of Amsterdam |
Jinqiao Duan |
Illinois Institute of Technology |
Alain Goriely |
University of Arizona |
Aric Hagberg |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Bernd Krauskopf (co-chair) |
University of Bristol |
Mary Silber |
Northwestern University |
Mary Lou Zeeman |
University of Texas at San
Antonio |
We look forward to working with them to put together an exciting
conference.
Based upon feedback from the 2005 and prior meetings, we will be
taking some measures to ensure that a larger group of distinct
speakers can be accommodated and to minimize the overlap between
minisymposia. These will include:
- Enforcing SIAM's long-standing rule that attendees are limited to
one minisymposium talk.
- Setting up a voluntary pre-proposal stage where organizers can
submit a title, a topic and a tentative list of speakers. This will
allow us to put organizers of similar sessions in contact with one
another so that they may coordinate their efforts.
More details about the conference will be available in the coming
months.
We look forward to seeing you all at Snowbird in 2007.
Sue Ann Campbell and Bernd Krauskopf
2007 Conference Co-chairs
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Last November 18 members of the SIAM Activity Group in Dynamical
Systems stood for election. The newly elected officers and advisory
board members are:
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Chair:
Philip Holmes
"Dynamical systems is a multidisciplinary activity par excellence,
and SIAG-DS members are multiply connected to almost all areas of
science and engineering. We should emphasize and exploit these
connections both to bring new applications to mathematics, and to
export new mathematics to applications.
The major roles of SIAG-DS are: organizing the
Snowbird meeting and special sessions and minisymposia at other SIAM
and AMS meetings, the
SIAG-DS website),
and the electronic journal
SIADS. These contributions to the world of research
and scholarship should continue and strengthen. I would also encourage
SIAG-DS members to engage in education at all levels: graduate,
undergraduate, K-12, and of the general public. This is especially
important now, when science is increasingly ignored in favor of
political or religious dogma."
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Vice Chair:
Mary Silber
"The most important function of the SIAG/DS is organizing its
biennial meeting, which is arguably the best meeting of its size for
applied dynamical systems researchers and students. The officers of
the SIAG/DS face the challenge of setting the priorities for the
meeting in order to better fulfill its potential, a potential
resulting simply from bringing together a diverse, international group
of researchers for an intense week of competing parallel sessions,
with limited opportunities for distraction!"
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Program Director:
Sue Ann Campbell
"One of the strengths of the SIAG on Dynamical Systems is the
interdisciplinary nature of its membership. It is an important
vehicle for bringing together researchers working on theoretical,
computational and experimental studies of dynamical systems. We should
continue to nurture and support this, especially through participation
in the biennial conference of the SIAG. While this conference is very
successful, many feel it is becoming too large. We need to streamline
the conference, while still allowing for participation by younger
researchers and researchers from a variety of disciplines, especially
in new and emerging areas."
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Secretary/Treasurer:
Hinke Osinga
"SIAG/DS should pride itself on its successful Snowbird
meetings. One of the primary strengths of these meetings and SIAG/DS
in general is its international character. This aspect has been
further developed by the creation of
DSWeb. More than half of
the members of our online community are not SIAG members, and many are
from countries that are underrepresented at the Snowbird meeting. I
believe that it is very important to maintain and continue to develop
DSWeb as a portal for dynamical systems and a showcase of our
community."
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The new members of the Advisory Board are:
The terms of the new officers and advisory board members is for two
years.
Thanks to all who participated in the election process.
Hinke Osinga
SIAG/DS Secretary 2006-2007