[cmath] ICIAM 2011 eNewsletter - May 2011 Part 1

[MITACS Director]

Good morning,
If you haven't registered for ICIAM 2011 - the International Congress on Industrial & Applied Mathematics from July 18 - 22, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada - do so now<http://www.iciam2011.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&Itemid=48>! Advance online registration closes June 15, 2011.
For the first time, the Congress will be using social media to enhance conference experience both for attendees and those following proceedings remotely. Twitter will be used to deliver updates and announcements and to enable scientific discussion and interaction among delegates. Follow us <http://twitter.com/#!/iciam2011>  on Twitter to keep up to date with conference announcements. If you're tweeting about ICIAM 2011, before, during or after the meeting, please use the hashtag #ICIAM2011. Also, watch for a mobile phone app to be available soon.
Students looking to network with and meet mathematicians and professionals from around the world should consider volunteering. Opportunities range from preparing delegate kits and shooting photographs to assisting at outreach events. There is also the possibility of volunteers receiving travel funding and/or registration reimbursement. For complete details on the openings available, please visit the volunteers page<http://www.iciam2011.com/index.php?option=com_rsform&Itemid=66>.
Students can also enjoy a casual, social interaction with peers at the Student Networking Social on Monday, July 18. Organized by the Mitacs Student Advisory Committee, the event will involve a workshop on networking plus a chance to network with professionals and students from all over the world. The social includes lunch and door prizes.
Here are a few highlights about the scientific program<http://meetings.siam.org/program.cfm?CONFCODE=IC11>:
In a panel on Statistical Sciences, Dr. Bin Yu (University of California Berkeley, USA) will focus on the massive amounts of data collection in science, engineering, social science, finance and other fields, enabled by great advances in information technology. Dr. Zhi Geng (Peking University, China) will talk about statistical approaches for evaluating and discovering causal effects and networks.
The Fluid Mechanics theme will be highlighted by an invited talk by Pierre Sagaut (Pierre et Marie Curie, France) who will explain the significance of turbulent flow simulation in both fundamental research and engineering applications. The talk will cover recent advances in uncertainty quantification in addition to turbulence models. Description of turbulent flows and investigation of their properties as well as control problems connected with fluid flows will be among the topics presented in the Mathematical Fluid dynamics minisymposium organized by Andrei Fursikov (Moscow State University, Russia).
Ron Kimmel (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) will talk about geometric objects as metric spaces, which allow a better understanding of facial similarities and body posturing. As part of the Image and Signal Processing theme, his invited lecture will elucidate on image and shape analysis in the area of image processing and computer graphics. As part of the same theme, Vicent Caselles (Universitat Pompeu-Fabra, Spain) will address image recovery in the case of missing and corrupted images. The talk will focus on the applications of image inpainting and recovery in video and cinema post-production.
The panel on Computational and Modeling Challenges in Industry will address just that.  An invited talk by Peter Fritzson (Linköping University, Sweden) will give an overview of emergent computer languages that support modeling in addition to programming. The lecture will specifically focus on Modelica, a language used for mathematical modeling and simulation of complex systems.
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 the thematic minisymposia, each of which includes a Lead Lecture followed by six session speakers.
We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!

Best wishes,

Arvind Gupta

President, ICIAM 2011

CEO & Scientific Director, Mitacs

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