ICIAM Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3, July 2014
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ICIAM Managing Editor Reporters C. Sean Bohun Iain Duff University of Ontario STFC Rutherford Appleton Institute of Technology Laboratory Faculty of Science Harwell Oxford 2000 Simcoe St. North Didcot, OX11 OQX, UK Oshawa, ON, Canada e-mail: iain.duff@stfc.ac.uk e-mail: [email protected] Maria J. Esteban CEREMADE Editor-in-Chief Place du Maréchal Lattre de Tassigny Barbara Lee Keyfitz F-75775 Paris Cedex 16, The ICIAM Dianoia The Ohio State University France Vol. 2, No. 3, July 2014 Department of Mathematics e-mail: [email protected] 231 West 18th Avenue The 2014 ICIAM Scientific Workshop and Board Columbus, OH 43210-1174 Eunok Jung Meeting — Barbara Lee Keyfitz 2 e-mail: bkeyfi[email protected] Konkuk University Department of Mathematics ICIAM 2015 Call for Proposals of Satellite Meetings 3 Editorial Board 1, Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu PRESS RELEASE: Éva Tardos to deliver Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture, ICIAM 2015 3 James M. Crowley Seoul, South Korea ICIAM, Past and Future: A Conversation SIAM e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Between Two Former Presidents — Olavi Alexander Ostermann Nevanlinna 5 Thierry Horsin University of Innsbruck Call for Nominations for ICIAM Officers: CNAM, Paris, France Numerical Analysis Group Secretary, Treasurer, Officers-at-Large 7 Département Ingénierie Department of Mathematics GAMM Juniors’ Summer School 8 Mathématique Technikerstraße 13/7 Mathematics and the Complexity of the Earth e-mail: [email protected] 6020 Innsbruck, Austria System — Maria J. Esteban 9 e-mail: [email protected] Pammy Manchanda Attending the Abel Prize Ceremony 2014 — Guru Nanak Dev University Tomás Chacón Rebollo Barbara Lee Keyfitz 11 Amritsar, Punjab, India Universidad de Sevilla ICIAM 2015 Call for Mini-symposia 12 Department of Mathematics Departamento de Putting the Dollar $ign back in Mathematics — e-mail: [email protected] Ecuaciones Diferenciales y Barbara Lee Keyfitz 13 Save the Date! 14 Roberto Natalini Análisis Numérico e-mail: [email protected] Consiglio Nazionale delle Invited Speakers of ICIAM 2015 15 Ricerche, Rome, Italy, About ICIAM 16 Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “M. Picone” The ICIAM newsletter was created to express the interests e-mail: [email protected] of our membership and partner organizations and the views expressed in this Newsletter are those of the authors and Timo Reis University of Hamburg do not necessarily represent those of ICIAM or the Edito- Department of Mathematics rial team. We welcome articles and letters from members e-mail: [email protected] and associations, announcing events, on-site reports from events and industry news. www.iciam.org Zdenek Strakos c 2013-2014 International Council for Industrial and Ap- Charles University in Prague plied Mathematics (ICIAM). For reprint permission, adver- Faculty of Mathematics and tising requests, potential articles and event notices, please Physics contact: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] The 2014 ICIAM Scientific Workshop and Board Meeting Cover illustration: The Chinese National Grand Theatre, colloquially known as The Giant Egg, is an opera house located in Beijing, China. Designed by French architect Paul Andreu, the ellipsoid dome, constructed of titanium and glass, holds nearly 5500 people and covers an area of 3 acres (12000 m2). The 2014 ICIAM Scientific Workshop and Board Meeting by Barbara Lee Keyfitz The 2014 ICIAM Board Meeting took place on May 17 in veloping countries support given in 2015, as those funds Columbus, Ohio. It was preceded by a two-day scientific will be used to support attendance by delegates from de- workshop at MBI (the Mathematical Biosciences Insti- veloping countries at the Congress; however, applications tute) on the Ohio State University campus, which was for events in 2016 will be accepted. partially funded by the Institute for Mathematics and In 2015, the Board meeting will take place at the con- its Applications (IMA) in Minneapolis. Both events also clusion of ICIAM 2015, on August 15, in Beijing. received generous support from Ohio State, through re- search funds of the Mathematics Department. The work- shop was well-attended and lively; it featured talks by both ICIAM Board members and local speakers. Many talks are available by video at mbi.osu.edu/video The Board meeting was also well attended, with 26 delegates present, along with the officers and a number of guests. (Most of us made it into the picture, taken by Tom Mitsui.) The organizers of ICIAM 2015 are putting finishing Participants and guests at the 2014 ICIAM Board Meeting. touches on the meeting (but note that the call for min- —Image used with permission. isymposia and other contributions is still in full swing), while ICIAM 2019 is completing its preliminary organi- Barbara Lee Keyfitz is the zation. The Board formally approved the choice of Alfio Dr Charles Saltzer Professor Quarteroni as Scientific Program Committee Chair for of Mathematics at the Ohio the 2019 Congress. The Council’s finances appear to be State University. She has a in good shape, with investment of the funds on hand re- PhD from New York Uni- placing the interest that we had been receiving before last versity, and works in partial year. A small increase in the annual dues was approved, as differential equations. She was the addition of five new members at the “Associate” is the current President of level. ICIAM. Over the next year, some priorities of the officers will be to produce a new web site, as agreed by the Board, as well as to activate our membership in ICSU and to continue to develop the newsletter. There will be no de- Subscribing to the ICIAM Newsletter The ICIAM Newsletter appears quarterly, in electronic issue is available, please subscribe to the Newsletter. form, in January, April, July and October. Issues are There is no charge for subscriptions. To subscribe or un- posted on the ICIAM Web Page at www.iciam.org/News. subscribe, visit the webpage given above, or go directly If you would like to be notified by e-mail when a new to groups.google.com/group/iciam-news. 2 ICIAM Newsletter July 2014 Press Release: Éva Tardos to deliver Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture, ICIAM 2015 ICIAM 2015 Call for Proposals of Satellite Meetings by Scientific Program Committee of ICIAM 2015 A satellite meeting is a meeting that takes place within Feel free to contact us with tentative information for a few weeks of ICIAM 2015 on a topic of interest to meetings even if the planning is not complete. This infor- ICIAM attendees in a location that makes it convenient mation may be useful to others planning related meetings. for ICIAM participants to combine the events into a sin- A notification of acceptance/rejection of designation as a gle trip. Satellite meetings have no official connection to satellite meeting will be sent to the contributors within ICIAM beyond a cross listing on the ICIAM 2015 web- two months after submission. page. ICIAM does not provide any financial or other support for satellite meetings. Satellite meetings are organized and Important Dates run by independent organizations or groups. If you are organizing or considering organizing a meeting Satellite Conferences that would qualify as a satellite meeting, please contact January 1, 2014: Submission opens; Prof. Jianhua GUO at [email protected] as soon as October 30, 2014: Submission Due. possible with the following information: Embedded Conferences (of member organizations) January 1, 2014: Submission opens; Name of the meeting • October 30, 2014: Submission Due. Estimated number of participants • Location • Dates • Conference Registration Conference webpage (if available) • Other relevant information, such as scope or con- January 1–April 30, 2015: Early Bird Registration; • tent of the meeting, organizing society or affiliate, May 1–July 31, 2015: Regular Registration; etc. August 1–August 10, 2015: Late & On-site Registration. Press Release Éva Tardos to deliver Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture, ICIAM 2015 The International Council for Industrial and Applied she had a Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Mathematics has selected ÉVA TARDOS, Jacob Gould Bonn, postdoctoral fellowships at the Mathematical Sci- Schurman Professor of Computer Science, Cornell Uni- ences Research Institute in Berkeley and at the Hungar- versity, to deliver the Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture for the ian Academy of Sciences at Eötvös University, and was a upcoming ICIAM 2015. Professor Tardos was chosen for visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- her numerous and deep contributions to the fields of com- nology. She has written nearly 100 research papers; she binatorial optimization, discrete algorithms and algorith- has trained 15 PhD students and supervised 10 post-docs. mic game theory, and her ability to convey the basic ideas Éva Tardos is a leading figure in the broad area of and inspire others to pursue them. algorithmic game theory. It is well known that the selfish The International Congress on Industrial and Applied behavior of participants can lead to suboptimal outcome. Mathematics—ICIAM 2015—will be held in Beijing, Au- Éva’s work quantifies this loss of efficiency, called the price gust 10 to 14, 2015. It is the most important international of anarchy, comparing the global optima to the quality of event in applied and industrial mathematics, held once Nash equilibria, stable outcomes of selfish behavior. Her every four years under the auspices of the International work shows that in many cases the selfish solutions do Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. reasonably well, which diminishes the need for central co- Éva Tardos received her BA and PhD from Eötvös ordination. University in Budapest. Before joining Cornell in 1989 One of her important early results was a strongly poly- ICIAM Newsletter July 2014 3 Press Release: Éva Tardos to deliver Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture, ICIAM 2015 nomial time minimum cost flow algorithm.