[cmath] Late April ICIAM 2011 eNewsletter

[MITACS Director]

With less than 90 days until the 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics - ICIAM 2011 (Vancouver, July 18 - 22, 2011), if you haven't already registered, we encourage you to do so now<http://www.iciam2011.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&Itemid=48>! Discounted advance online registration is open until June 15.
Are you wondering what to expect at ICIAM 2011? Here are a several highlights:
Over 20 thematic minisymposia, each with a Lead Lecture followed by six session speakers, cover a wide range of subjects ranging from molecular simulation to materials science.
John Bell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) will highlight the Scientific Computing panel with his talk, Low Mach Number Models in Computational Astrophysics<http://www.iciam2011.com/images/stories/ICIAM2011/InvitedSpeakers/bell.pdf>, which will demonstrate the role of low Mach number flows in various astrophysical problems ranging from X-ray bursts to convection in massive stars.
The Mathematical Biology theme will showcase intriguing topics that run the gamut from the neuromechanics of insect movement to the synchronized reproduction of trees in forests. Mark Lewis (University of Alberta, Canada) will describe the role of parabolic PDEs and integral formulations in tracking wave fronts of expanding populations in his talk, New Challenges in Modelling Biological Invasions<http://www.iciam2011.com/images/stories/ICIAM2011/InvitedSpeakers/lewis.pdf>.
In the invited lecture, Our "Second Brain": Modelling Its Development and Disease<http://www.iciam2011.com/images/stories/ICIAM2011/InvitedSpeakers/landman.pdf>, Kerry Landman (University of Melbourne, Australia) will elucidate on insights provided by continuum and discrete modeling to the embryonic development of our enteric nervous system and conditions that result in the failure of this normal process.
The thematic minisymposium on Mathematics of Cancer<http://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=11867>, organized by Mark Chaplain (University of Dundee, United Kingdom) will detail multiscale mathematical models describing important processes in the growth and spread of cancer, in addition to implications for treatments and therapies.
The two panels on Mathematical Programming and Industrial Applications will describe modeling approaches for mathematical programs. Michael Ferris (University of Wisconsin, USA) will analyze existing relationships that make up mathematical models in order to create an extended mathematical program in Extended Mathematical Programming: Competition and Stochasticity<http://www.iciam2011.com/images/stories/ICIAM2011/InvitedSpeakers/ferris.pdf>. Complexity-based techniques developed for convex optimization in the context of very large scale problems will be discussed in the invited lecture, Complexity Based Methods for Convex Optimization<http://www.iciam2011.com/images/stories/ICIAM2011/InvitedSpeakers/gonzaga.pdf> by Clovis Gonzaga (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil).
In the panel on Risk, Alexander McNeil (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom) will tackle the very timely subject of financial regulation through his talk, Modelling Capital Adequacy and Solvency<http://www.iciam2011.com/images/stories/ICIAM2011/InvitedSpeakers/mcneil.pdf>. McNeill will discuss risk models for interest rates, equities, credit and other risk factors.
For those interested in the subject, the industrial thematic minisyposium on Risk and Finance<http://www.iciam2011.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=63> organized by Rama Cont (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) should also be of value.
Look up the full program<http://www.iciam2011.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=53> to browse a complete list<http://www.iciam2011.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=29> of topics for thematic minisymposia. We will be sampling the program over the next few issues to illustrate some of the other areas that will be covered.
You can also search for speakers via the speaker index<http://www.iciam2011.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=25>, and browse sessions by topic area<http://www.iciam2011.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=53>.
Official ICIAM hotels<http://www.iciam2011.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30&Itemid=32> are booking quickly. To avoid disappointment, we suggest you secure your reservation soon.
We look forward to seeing you at ICIAM 2011!

Best wishes,

Arvind Gupta

President, ICIAM 2011

CEO & Scientific Director, MITACS

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