The 2014 Annual Meeting of SIAM will be held in Palmer House, Chicago. At this meeting, our AG is one of the three to organise tracks of six to eight minisymposia and propose an invited speaker. As the current secretary, I was invited to coordinate the organisation of the track. Since it is never too early to look ahead, I would like to give an update.
The main organisers of the meeting, Margot Gerritsen of Stanford University and Esmond Ng of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have fixed the overarching theme of the meeting to be Computation and Data in Science, Engineering and Medicine. In addition, a number of sub themes have been proposed by the organising committee, of which genomics, biomechanics, nonlinear model reduction, numerical PDEs and computational neuroscience are easiest to connect to for the dynamical systems track.
In proposing themes for the track, I have tried to follow trends in dynamical systems theory, as apparent from this year's Snowbird program, while highlighting various aspects of our field. The specific themes are
- computer aided proof and rigorous computation for PDEs,
- topology and geometry in dynamics,
- computational neurodynamics,
- equivariant / network dynamics,
- Hamiltonian and celestial mechanics,
- computational dynamical systems analysis,
- gene regulatory networks.
Some, but not all, of these track themes are connected to computation and data and one or more sub themes. Depending on the number of prospective speakers in each session, one or two themes might be added. In addition, of course, there will be contributed minisymposia organised by our members.
Palmer House in Chicago: a classy venue for the 2014 Annual Meeting.
The next step is for the committee to nominate plenary speakers to the SIAM Program Committee, which will be done over the next few weeks. Invitations for minisymposium speakers and contributed presentations will go out in fall.
If you have comments on the themes for the meeting and the track, or suggestions for additional sessions, contact me at this DSWeb email address.