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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'>Good morning,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'>It is hard to believe that in just over six weeks, we will be welcoming over 3,000 visitors from around the world to Vancouver for ICIAM 2011, the International Congress on Industrial & Applied Mathematics. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'>Although July 18 – 22, 2011 may seem like a long way from now, <b><u>please don’t forget that advance registration at special rates closes on June 15, 2011</u></b>. Visit <a href="http://www.iciam2011.com">www.iciam2011.com</a> to register now. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'>I would also like to remind you that July is a very busy tourist season in Vancouver and hotel rooms reserved for ICIAM2011 delegates are filling up quickly. I urge you to review the <a href="http://www.iciam2011.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30&Itemid=32">hotels and hostels</a> with special rates for our delegates as soon as possible. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'>I’d like to leave you with a few highlights from the Congress’ <a href="http://meetings.siam.org/program.cfm?CONFCODE=IC11">scientific program</a>:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'>In a panel on <b>Numerical Analysis</b>, Christian Lubich (Universität Tübingen, Germany) will speak on variational approximations in quantum dynamics. His talk will describe model reduction in the multi-particle time-dependent Schrodinger equation via the Dirac-Frenkel variational approximation principle and then turn to the multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree method as an important, practically very successful example. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'><br>In the same theme, Roger Ghanem (University of South California, USA) is organizing a minisymposium on the Numerical Solution of Stochastic PDEs, which will consider advances in the area, including modeling, reduction, approximation, adaptivity, and algorithmic issues. Further, a minisymposium on nonlinear eigenvalue problems, organized by Volker Mehrmann (Technical University Berlin, Germany) will survey the latest developments and point out new directions including linearization, perturbation theory, structure preservation, numerical methods and emerging applications.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'>The <b>Material Science</b> theme features speaker Gilles Francfort (Université de Paris-Nord, France). Dr. Francfort will review classical fracture evolution theory and then describe the variational viewpoint and discuss its impact on crack initiation, as well as on crack path prediction. He will then show how the approach is amenable to numerical implementation and demonstrate its predictive computational ability in 2 and 3 dimensional problems driven by diffusive cooling.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'>Two minisymposia are being offered in this theme, the first on Liquid Crystals led by Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University, USA) and the second on Cloaking and Metamaterials led by Graeme Milton (University of Utah, USA). The minisymposium on liquid crystals will present emerging developments in the mathematical aspects of liquid crystal research; the minisyposium on cloaking and metamaterials will touch on passive cloaking,which uses a cloaking device constructed from metamaterials (composites with properties outside those found in nature), and active cloaking where the cloaking device generates waves or fields which create a quiet zone around the object to be cloaked, but which do not propagate into the far field. Fascinating mathematics will be highlighted. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Look up the <a href="http://www.iciam2011.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=53">full program</a> to browse a <a href="http://www.iciam2011.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=29">complete list</a> of topics for the thematic minisymposia, each of which includes a lead lecture followed by six session speakers.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'>Arvind Gupta<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'>President, ICIAM 2011<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'>CEO & Scientific Director, Mitacs <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>