Managing Editor

C. Sean BohunUniversity of OntarioInstitute of TechnologyFaculty of Science2000 Simcoe St. NorthOshawa, ON, Canadae-mail: sean.bohun@uoit.ca

Editor-in-Chief

Barbara Lee KeyfitzThe Ohio State UniversityDepartment of Mathematics231 West 18th AvenueColumbus, OH 43210-1174e-mail: bkeyfitz@math.ohio-state.edu

Editorial Board

James M. CrowleySIAMe-mail: jcrowley@siam.org

Thierry HorsinCNAM, Paris, FranceDépartement IngénierieMathématiquee-mail: thierry.horsin@math.cnrs.fr

Pammy ManchandaGuru Nanak Dev UniversityAmritsar, Punjab, IndiaDepartment of Mathematicse-mail: pmanch2k1@yahoo.co.in

Roberto NataliniConsiglio Nazionale delleRicerche, Rome, Italy,Istituto per le Applicazionidel Calcolo “M. Picone”e-mail: roberto.natalini@cnr.it

Timo ReisUniversity of HamburgDepartment of Mathematicse-mail: timo.reis@math.uni-hamburg.de

Zdenek StrakosCharles University in PragueFaculty of Mathematics andPhysicse-mail: strakos@cs.cas.cz

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Eunok JungKonkuk UniversityDepartment of Mathematics1, Hwayang-dong,Gwangjin-guSeoul, South Koreae-mail: junge@konkuk.ac.kr

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ICIAM

The ICIAM DianoiaVol. 2, No. 1, January 2014

By-Law Amendment Adopted 2International CAE Conference 2013 — Silvia

Poles and Giovanni Borzi 2EU-MATHS-IN initiative to support applied and

industrial mathematics — Zdenek Strakos 4International Congress of Women Mathemati-

cians 2014 (ICWM2014) 63rd International Conference on Dynamics,

Games, and Science 6ICIAM 2015 Call for Satellite Conferences and

Embedded Meetings 7ICIAM 2015 Call for Mini-symposia, Con-

tributed Papers, and Posters 10Academic Publishing and the Challenge of Open

Access — Nicholas Kevlahan 11Educational Interfaces between Mathematics

and Industry 132014 ICIAM Scientific Workshop 13Mathematics: Important Enough to be left to

Mathematicians? — Barbara Keyfitz 14About ICIAM 17

The ICIAM newsletter was created to express the interestsof our membership and partner organizations and the viewsexpressed in this Newsletter are those of the authors anddo not necessarily represent those of ICIAM or the Editorialteam. We welcome articles and letters from members andassociations, both announcing events, on-site reports fromevents and industry news. www.iciam.orgc©2013-2014 International Council for Industrial and Ap-plied Mathematics (ICIAM). For reprint permission, adver-tising requests, potential articles and event notices, pleasecontact: bkeyfitz@math.ohio-state.edu

International CAE Conference 2013

Cover illustration: detail from sculpture in lobby of the Mathematics Tower at The Ohio State University, site ofthe ICIAM Board meeting in May 2014.

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By-Law Amendment AdoptedAt its May 2013 meeting, the ICIAM Board voted toapprove an important amendment to the by-laws. Thisamendment changes the voting structure of member soci-eties so that the number of votes that any member societymay cast is proportional to the dues assessment of thatsociety. In particular, small societies and small associatesocieties, which had no vote formerly, now have a vote aswell as a voice in ICIAM decisions. This is spelled out inSection 3 of the amended bylaws (see www.iciam.org/ByLaws/iciamBylaws.pdf).

The same bylaws (see Section 7) also provide a three-month period following the Board’s approval in whichmember societies may register objections to the votingprocedures at the Board meeting. ICIAM is pleased toannounce that during that period, which ended August11, 2013, no objections were voiced, and so the new struc-ture is now approved.

Congratulations, new voters. We hope you will attendBoard meetings and exercise your franchise.

International CAE Conference 2013by Silvia Poles and Giovanni Borzi

The 29th edition of the CAE Conference was held on 21-22 October in Pacengo del Garda, Verona, Italy. This in-ternational conference, dedicated to computer-aided en-gineering (CAE) is the most important event in Italy andone of the most important in Europe on numerical sim-ulation techniques. Once again, the International CAEConference broke all records with over 900 attendees com-ing from all around the world to hear talks illustratingthe application of software to engineering, mathematicalmodelling and science. All the attendees, the sponsorsand the speakers guaranteed that the event representeda wide range of technology, industry sector and softwaresolutions.

The event was sponsored by EnginSoft and Ansys asPlatinum Sponsors, with additional sponsorships com-ing from Esteco, AVL, Mentor Graphics, BETA CAESystems, E4 Computer Engineering, HP, NVIDIA, CST,MAGNA, Torino Piemonte Aerospace and many others.

Maurizio Cheli was the special guest speaker in theplenary session of the CAE conference. Maurizio grad-uated in Aerospace Engineering from the University ofHouston and has experience of more than 4, 500 hoursflight time and approximately 360 hours of space flight ex-perience. In 1992 he was selected by the European SpaceAgency (ESA) and sent to NASA’s Johnson Space Centrewhere in 1993 he became an astronaut. In 1996 he flew asSTS-75 Mission Specialist aboard the Space Shuttle. Thesame year he joined Alenia Aeronautica and in 1998 hebecame Chief Test Pilot and worked in the developmentof the Eurofighter Typhoon. The importance of modellingand simulation in engineering design was put simply byMaurizio in his talk. Maurizio stressed the importanceof computer simulation in aerospace and in a wide rangeof other applications. He discussed the difficulty of visu-alizing physical phenomena when gravity is missing andasked all engineers to do their best to contribute to re-

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ducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are incrediblyvisible from space.

In addition to the main plenary session, the confer-ence organized five parallel sessions with almost 100 pre-sentations on different industrial applications: Aerospaceand Defense, Civil Engineering, Biomechanical and Med-ical Devices, Energy and Oil & Gas, and Transportation.Particular attention was given to simulations of impor-tant structures (for example, bridges, underpasses of mo-torways, and football stadiums, such as that of the 2010World Cup in Johannesburg) and to the study of the tra-jectories of submarine drones. Other talks were related tosimulations of the common objects of our daily life, suchas the refrigerator, bags for packing food or brakes of ourcar.

Besides the plenary and parallel sessions, the con-ference organized several workshops on different soft-ware technologies that ranged from finite element anal-ysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) toless common areas such as material design. Among thetechnologies presented at the conference, we can men-tion software such as ANSYS (Mechanical and CFD),Scilab, LS-DYNA, MAGMAsoft, FORGE, modeFRON-TIER, and Flowmaster. There were full sessions dedicatedto short-training courses or software updates (for exam-ple, CST and CETOL6σ), for which attendance was freefor all delegates.

As had been the case last year, there was a space ded-icated to the creativity of young engineers and scientists,graduate students, researchers and professors from bothuniversities and research centers. EnginSoft promoted andsponsored the “CAE Poster Award”, a special competitionfor students dedicated to the best studies highlightingnovel and innovative CAE applications.

The “CAE Poster Award” is part of the EnginSoftCAE Cultural Promotion Program, conceived in order toimprove the correct use of mathematical modelling, simu-lation tools, and to foster the growth of the CAE analysts’community. The best five posters were awarded a tablet.

A very special session was dedicated to Scilab andthe use of open source software for computer simulations.Scilab is the open source alternative to MATLAB R© andit also includes Xcos (as an alternative to Simulink R©)which allows the modelling and simulation of hybrid dy-namical systems, such as mechanical, hydraulic, and/orelectronic systems. This session hosted attendees from allover Europe and India, from academia and industry, andthe speakers presented talks concerning industrial andreal-life applications of Scilab.

The Scilab session had the pleasure to host the Mathe-matical Desk for Italian Industry (sportellomatematico

.it), whose mission is that of building a concrete bridgeof common interests between the Italian scientific com-munity of applied mathematics and the world of Italianenterprises, focused in particular on the development ofindustrial research projects, possibly in an internationalcontext of European networks. The main objective is torealize an effective and qualified intermediation role in thefield of scientific and technological transfer, based on therole of mathematics in particular.

In the afternoon, the Openeering team (www .openeering . com) held a special workshop: the mainthemes concerned the latest Scilab version, and howScilab can be used for making significant industrial ap-plications. A topic that was of particular interest to theaudience was the return on investment of using Scilab andthe comparison with its equivalent commercial product.The workshop lasted for two hours and the attendees tookan active part in the discussion, dissecting each topic. TheScilab workshop was also the setting for the official launchof the Scilab Black Belt Course that the Openeering teamhas carefully designed to cover the full spectrum of Scilabfeatures, keeping it compact and enriching it with mean-ingful examples.

Silvia earned her mastersdegree in mathematics atthe Padua University andthen she completed a two-year master in “modellingand simulation complex re-alities” at the InternationalSchool for Advanced Stud-ies (SISSA) in Trieste. Herresearch interests cover thefields of multiobjective op-timization, industrial opti-mization, multivariate anal-ysis, approximation method-

ologies and decision makingsupport.

Giovanni earned his mastersdegree in electronic engi-neering at the Politecnicodi Milano: he has gained awide experience in develop-ing web applications, train-ing and competencies man-agement, project manage-ment and innovation man-agement. He is a certifiedPMP (Project Manager Pro-fessional). In EnginSoft Gio-vanni is involved in project

management and businessdevelopment activities.

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EU-MATHS-IN initiative to support applied and industrial mathematics

EU-MATHS-IN initiative to support applied and industrialmathematics

by Zdenek Strakos

As a follow-up of the initiative Forward look Mathe-matics in Industry supported by the European ScienceFoundation (www.esf.org/flooks), the promoting in-stitutions European Mathematical Society (EMS, via itsApplied Mathematics Committee) and European Consor-tium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) together withsix national networks, AMIES (France), KoMSO (Ger-many), Math-In (Spain), Smith Institute (Great Britain),Sportello Matematico (Italy), and PWN (Nederland),founded on Nov. 26, 2013 in Amsterdam the StichtingEuropean Service Network of Mathematics for In-dustry and Innovation (EU-MATHS-IN).

As stated in the official press release issued on thisoccasion, mathematics has become a key enabling tech-nology in all areas of science and applications. The devel-opment of new products or production processes todayis dominated by the use of simulation and optimizationmethods that, based on detailed mathematical modeling,support or even replace the costly production of proto-types and classical trial-and-error approaches. The neworganization EU-MATHS-IN has been established to in-crease the impact of mathematics on innovations in keytechnologies and to foster the development of new mod-eling, simulation and optimization tools. It aims to be-come a dedicated one-stop-shop and service unit to coor-dinate and facilitate the required exchanges in the fieldof application-driven mathematical research and its ex-ploitation for innovations in industry, science and society.The Executive Committee is formed by: Mario Primicerio(President), Volker Mehrmann (Secretary), Wil Schilders(Treasurer), Maria J. Esteban (for the Applied Math-ematics Committee of EMS), and Magnus Fontes (forECMI).

The following day, Nov. 27, 2013, the Centre for Math-ematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdamhosted the EU-MATHS-IN kick-off meeting attended by46 participants from all over Europe and one host par-ticipant from Japan. The meeting was addressed by theEMS president Marta Sanz-Solé and by the ECMI repre-sentative Hilary Ockendon, with the initial contributionsgiven by the board members Mario Primicerio, VolkerMehrmann, Wil Schilders and Maria J. Esteban. Themain part of the kick-off meeting consisted of lively andstimulating discussions in which most of the attendeesparticipated. As the outcome, action items were formu-lated together with establishing the seeds for the associ-ated working groups.

The main focus of the discussions was on the way

mathematics and mathematicians should interact withthe potential areas of applications and with their partnersin science, technology and industry. Without any doubt,mathematics affects, through many commonly used prod-ucts and services, the everyday life of most people inthe whole society. As examples, which are so commonthat they can be appreciated by all, one can just imaginehow using mobile phones, security systems in bank oper-ations and all kinds of transportation would look withoutthe decisive contribution of mathematics and mathemat-ical modeling. Despite this undisputed role, there seemsto be a serious and rising concern about the support ofmathematics in the EU (as well as in some national) pro-grams supporting science. As a highly disturbing exam-ple, mathematics has not been officially considered a KeyEnabling Technology (KET) in the official documents ofthe EU program HORIZON 2020, which has negativelyaffected the year 2014 calls published within this program.When this discrepancy, rooted in the lack of awareness ofthe role of mathematics, is pointed out, the situation isfrequently evaluated by the policy makers as no problem.It is argued that mathematics is supposedly present inmany projects, and the projects are to be focused as arule not on the development of particular disciplines buton facing the emerging challenges in science, technologyand society in general.

As discussed at the EU-MATHS-IN kick-off meetingin Amsterdam, such standpoint reflects substantial mis-understandings which need to be addressed in order toprevent rather serious negative consequences in the fu-ture. In particular,

• Mathematics cannot be, in general, properly appliedwithout substantial involvement of mathematicians.Mathematical modelling and simulation of the trulychallenging real world problems using the mathe-matics conserved in the form of the software pack-ages used as black boxes represents a dangerous illu-sion which will backfire in the form of failures. Evenworse, such failures may not be immediately observ-able. Progress in computing technology alone, nomatter how many processors will be involved, is notgoing to resolve the principal challenges in mathe-matical modeling and simulation. It can serve asa great tool, but it cannot offer any methodologi-cal leadership. A progress in mathematically basedmethodology is needed as a strict requirement, andthis cannot be achieved without the substantial in-volvement of mathematicians.

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• Under the (false) assumption that the challengeswhich are identified today can be addressed by rou-tine applications of the state-of-the-art mathemati-cal results available, it may seem that further de-velopment of mathematics as a discipline is nota priority which can be justified by economicallymeasured efficiency. As justified by repeated stud-ies, just the opposite is true. Even more important,without such development, how will the challengeswhich will emerge twenty years from now be solved?Definitely not by black box routine applications ofdecades old mathematical results, petrified in theform of obsolete software.

Similar situations and the need for explanation of ba-sic misunderstandings about the role of mathematics arereappearing in history again and again. Let us illustratethis by quoting two prominent scientists of the 19th andthe 20th century. The first quote is from the lecture ofHenri Poincaré given on the occasion of his being awardedthe degree of doctor honoris causa by the Université Librede Bruxelles in 1909 (see J. Mawhin, Notices of the AMS,Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 1036-1043, 2005). It addresses the inter-action of science and its applications, and although it mayseem to push the point a bit to the extreme, its essencecertainly remains universally valid in our times, charac-terized by the deadly pushing for an immediate economicprofit, more than ever:

The scientist must not dally in realizing prac-tical aims. He no doubt will obtain them, butmust obtain them in addition. He never mustforget that the special object he is studyingis only a part of this big whole, which mustbe the sole motive of his activity. Science hashad marvelous applications, but a science thatwould only have applications in mind wouldnot be science anymore, it would be only cook-ery.

One should recall that Poincaré, like very many othergreat mathematicians, graduated from École Polytech-nique. If one has doubts about the validity of his view,then the best thing to do is to study the really big dis-coveries which moved science and technology large stepsforward. Surely the everyday applied cookery is needed, itshould be highly valued and supported. But without sci-ence as understood by Poincaré, no cookery can survivemore than a short period.

The second quote comes from the lecture “Why Math-ematics? ” presented by Cornelius Lanczos in Dublin onthe occasion of the Annual Meeting of the Irish Mathe-matical Association in 1966 (see C. Lanczos, CollectedPublished Papers with Commentaries, North CarolinaState University, Raleigh, NC, 1998):

There is no question that in view of thevastly expanded technology the applications

of mathematics have multiplied. But the fieldsof applied mathematics remained in close con-tact with the traditional edifice, which isstrong enough to serve as the basic superstruc-ture.

Lanczos contributed towards many parts of mathe-matics as well as physics, and, with no bit of exaggera-tion, his methods (and the results of developments whichare based on them) are used in very many industrial ap-plications every day. It is also not without interest thathe worked for several years in industry (for the BoeingAircraft Company in Seattle).

The point is very clear. If the current policy in fi-nancing science does not allow for continued building-upof (using the words of Lanczos) the basic mathematical‘superstructure’, i.e., if mathematics as a discipline willbe severely restricted in its development due to the lackof funding, then there will not be enough relevant appliedmathematical tools ready to face the challenges which aregoing to be identified in all sorts of applications in theyears to come. Certainly, it is more than healthy (andin no contradiction with the standpoints of Poincaré andLanczos) that the development of mathematics goes handin hand with its applications.

A substantial involvement of mathematics and math-ematicians in solving challenging application problems inindustry and in society now will pay off not only througha possible intermediate economical profit, but, even moresubstantially, it will prepare the tools for the future. Ifsuch involvement remains limited, the price will be paidby all. The new initiative EU-MATHS-IN aims to con-tribute towards the positive scenario in several ways. Forreaching its goals it is ready to collaborate with similarlyfocused institutions and initiatives worldwide, in particu-lar with SIAM and ICIAM. The first steps for establishingand fostering such collaboration have already been done.

Zdenek Strakos is a Profes-sor at the Charles Universityin Prague. He received hisPhD and DSc in ComputerScience and Mathematicsfrom the Academy of Sci-ences of the Czech Repub-lic. Besides holding variouspositions at his home coun-try, he spent three years atEmory University, Atlanta.His main research interestsinclude analysis of numericalmethods, algebraic matrixcomputations, Krylov sub-space methods and numeri-cal stability. He is a member

of the Applied MathematicsCommittee of the EMS andof the Householder Commit-tee.

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3rd International Conference on Dynamics, Games, and Science

International Congress of Women Mathematicians 2014(ICWM2014)ICWM2014 will take place in Seoul on August 12 and 142014. The purpose of the ICWM 2014 is to bring togetherwomen mathematicians and supporters of women in math-ematical sciences from around the world to showcase themathematical contributions of women, to exchange ideasabout supporting and encouraging active careers for womenin the mathematical sciences, and to provide opportunity foryoung women mathematicians to meet and talk with womenin the mathematical sciences from around the world.

The ICWM 2014 meeting in Seoul will consist of two daysof activities. On August 12, ICWM2014 will take place inEwha Womans University, which is approximately one hourtravel by subway or car from the COEX convention cen-ter where the ICM 2014 will be held. ICM2014 opens onAugust 13, with the ICM welcoming reception on August12 (transportation will be provided). Hence the program ofICWM2014 on August 14 is partially integrated in that ofICM2014, and occurs at the same place, COEX. The sec-ond day of activities is scheduled from 1 pm to 9 pm onAugust 14th at the COEX convention center. The two-dayprogram includes plenary lectures by distinguished mathe-maticians: Laura DeMarco, Isabel Dotti, Jaya Iyer, MotokoKotani, Hee Oh, Gabriella Tarantello and Donna Testerman,a panel session “Mathematics and Women: different regions,similar struggles”, a poster session on August 12, and theICM Emmy Noether lecture by Georgia Benkart on August14. The banquet is scheduled from 7 pm to 9 pm immedi-

ately following the 2014 Emmy Noether Lecture organizedby the ICM.Information and registration are at www.kwms.or.kr/icwm2014. The participation of young female mathemati-cians is greatly encouraged.

3rd International Conference on Dynamics, Games, andScienceDates: February 17–21, 2014Place: University of Porto (Portugal)Website: www.fc.up.pt/dgsiii/

Description Following the 1st and 2nd International Con-ference on Dynamics, Games, and Science - DGS I 2008 andDGS II 2013, we invite the Academic Community includingMSc and PhD students and researchers to participate andto present their research work.

The 3rd International Conference on Dynamics, Games,and Science 2014 - DGS III 2014 aims to bring togetherthe world’s leading researchers and practitioners from thefields of Dynamical Systems and Game Theory and their ap-plications to such areas as Biology, Economics, and Social

Sciences.

DGS III 2014 will feature prominent keynote speakers inthe main room, with several thematic sessions running inparallel that will address issues related to the main theme ofthe conference. DGS III 2014 represents an opportunity forMSc and PhD students and researchers to meet other spe-cialists in their fields of knowledge and to discuss and developnew frameworks and ideas to further improve knowledge andscience.

The last edition took place last year in Lisbon (August,28 - September, 6, 2013), and comprised around 20 keynotespeakers and 30 thematic sessions, for a total of 130 the-matic speakers: mpe2013.org/workshop

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DGS III 2014 is supported by the International Mathe-matics Center CIM (www.cim.pt) and is a Mathematics ofPlanet Earth MPE event (mpe2013.org/meeting/).Registration If you would like to participate, organize athematic session, or present your research, please register at:

www.fc.up.pt/dgsiii/registration.htmlHope to see you at DGSIII!Keynote Speakers

Albert Fisher (University of São Paulo, Brazil)*Alberto Pinto (University of Porto, Portugal)Athanassios Yannacopoulos (Athens University ofEconomics and Business, Greece)

Bruno Oliveira (INESC TEC, Portugal)Carlos Aragão (UFRJ, Brazil)Carlos Braumann (University of Evora, Portugal)David Rand (University of Warwick, UK)David Zilberman (University of California, USA)Diogo Pinheiro (Brooklyn College, USA)Elvio Accinelli (UASLP, Mexico)Filipe Martins (INESC TEC, Portugal)

Frank Riedel (Bielefeld University, Germany)Jérôme Renault (Université de Toulouse, France)João Gama (University of Porto, Portugal)João Paulo Almeida (INESC TEC, Portugal)José Martins (INESC TEC, Portugal)Mohamad Choubdar (University of Porto, Portugal)Nico Stollenwerk (University of Lisbon, Portugal)Nigel Borroughs (University of Warwick, UK)*Onesimo Hernandez-Lerma (IPM, Mexico)Penelope Hernandez (University of Valencia, Spain)Rabah Amir (University of Arizona, USA)Renato Soeiro (University of Porto, Portugal)Ricardo Cruz (University of Porto, Portugal)Robert MacKay (University of Warwick, UK)Rolf Jeltsch (ETH Zurizh, Switzerland)Saber Elaydi (Trinity University, USA)Sebastian van Strien (Imperial College London, UK)Tenreiro Machado (ISEP, Portugal)

*to be confirmed

Call for Satellite Conferences and Embedded Meetingsby Scientific Program Committee of ICIAM 2015

Satellite ConferencesA satellite conference is a meeting that takes place withina few weeks of ICIAM 2015 on a topic of interest toICIAM attendees in a location that may be convenientfor ICIAM participants to combine the events into a sin-gle trip. Satellite meetings have no official connection toICIAM except an announcement on the ICIAM 2015 web-page.ICIAM does not provide any financial or other supportfor satellite meetings. Satellite meetings are organized andrun by independent organizations or groups.If you are organizing or considering organizing a meetingthat would qualify as a satellite meeting, please contactProf. Jianhua GUO at jhguo@nenu.edu.cn as soon aspossible with the following information:

• Name of meeting• Estimated number of participants• Location• Dates• Conference webpage (if available)

A notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent to thecontributors within one month after submission.

Embedded MeetingsAn embedded meeting is a meeting of some other organi-zation that takes place during the week of the ICIAMConference and that shares resources with the mainICIAM Conference. Participants of an embedded meet-ing will register as ICIAM2015 participants. Program ofan embedded meeting will be organized as ICIAM2015sessions.If you are interested in organizing an embedded meeting,please contact Prof. Jianhua GUO at jhguo@nenu.edu.cn as soon as possible with the following information:

• Name of meeting• Estimated number of participants• Estimated number of speakers• Conference webpage (if available)

A notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent to thecontributors two months after submission.

For either type of meeting, please include other relevant information, such as scope or content of meeting, organizingsociety or affiliate. Please feel free to contact us with tentative information for meetings that are in the planningstage. This information may be useful to others planning related meetings.

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ICIAM 2015

August 10-14, 2015Beijing, China

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Call for Mini-symposia, Industrial Mini-symposia, Contributed Papers, and Posters

Call for Mini-symposia, Industrial Mini-symposia, Con-tributed Papers, and PostersYou are invited to contribute a presentation for ICIAM2015 in one of the following formats.

Mini-symposiaEach mini-symposium consists of at least four 25-minutepresentations, with an additional five minutes for discus-sion after each presentation. In general, mini-symposiawill be scheduled as four-presentation sessions. Multiple-session mini-symposia may be submitted. Preference willbe given to mini-symposia that list all speakers and talktitles. Prospective mini-symposium organizers are askedto submit a proposal consisting of a title, a description(not to exceed 100 words), and a list of speakers and ti-tles of their presentations.

It is recommended that a mini-symposium orga-nizer gives the first presentation. Each mini-symposiumspeaker should submit an abstract of at most 75 words.All submitted mini-symposium proposals will be reviewedby the organizing committee.

Participants are normally limited to presenting twotalks at most during ICIAM in order to maximize theopportunity for all participants to speak. If you are in-vited to speak in more than one mini-symposium, we sug-gest you use the opportunity to nominate a co-author topresent your work.

To ensure balance, ICIAM prefers that a single in-dividual will not be the organizer of more than onemini-symposium. In addition, ICIAM discourages mini-symposia in which most of the speakers come from thesame organization or in which all co-authors of the pa-pers being presented are from the same organization.

To encourage the submission of more and high qualitymini-symposia, a limited number of mini-symposia willbe selected by the organizing committee according to thenumber and diversity of speakers as well as the signifi-cance of the topics, and the registration fee of one speakerof these selected mini-symposia will be waived.

March 30, 2014: Mini-symposium online submissionopens; August 30, 2014: Early decisions announced formini-symposium proposals; September 30, 2014: Submis-sion deadline for mini-symposium proposals; October 30,2014: Final decisions announced for mini-symposiumnproposals; December 30, 2014: Submission deadline foraccepted mini-symposium abstracts.

Industrial Mini-symposiaAn industrial mini-symposium is the same as a mini-symposium in form. The subject must be relevant to in-

dustry, and there should be at least one speaker comingfrom industry.

Prospective industrial mini-symposium organizers areasked to submit a proposal consisting of a title, a de-scription (not to exceed 200 words), and a list of speakersand titles of their presentations. Each industrial mini-symposium speaker should submit a 75-word abstract.All submitted industrial mini-symposium proposals willbe reviewed by the organizing committee.

To encourage this format, the organizing committeewill provide financial support to organizers of the ac-cepted industrial mini-symposia.

March 30, 2014: Industrial mini-symposium onlinesubmission opens; August 30, 2014: Early decisionsannounced for industrial mini-symposium proposals;September 30, 2014: Submission deadline for industrialmini-symposium proposals; October 30, 2014: Final de-cisions announced for industrial mini-symposium propos-als; December 30, 2014: Submission deadline for acceptedindustrial mini-symposium abstracts.

Contributed PaperContributed presentations in lecture format are invited inall areas consistent with the conference themes. A lectureformat has a 15-minute oral presentation with an addi-tional 5 minutes for discussion. Accepted lectures will begrouped into two-hour sessions based on the subjects ofthe lectures. Each contributor must submit a title and abrief abstract not to exceed 75 words.

July 30, 2014: Contributed papers online submissionopens; October 30, 2014: Early decisions announced foraccepted contributed speakers; December 30, 2014: Sub-mission deadline for contributed paper abstracts; January30, 2015: Final decisions announced for contributed lec-ture submissions.

PostersContributed presentations in poster format are invited inall areas consistent with the conference themes. A posterformat consists of the use of non-electronic visual aids formounting on a poster board of 120 cm height and 80 cmwidth. Each contributor must submit a title and a briefabstract not to exceed 75 words. A notification of accep-tance/rejection will be sent to the contributors within onemonth after submission.

July 30, 2014: Poster online submission opens; April30, 2015: Submission deadline for contributed poster ab-stracts.

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Academic Publishing and the Challenge of Open Access

Academic Publishing and the Challenge of Open Accessby Nicholas Kevlahan

The past two years have seen a remarkable revolutionin academic publishing. This revolution was sparked onJanuary 21, 2012 when University of Cambridge FieldsMedalist Tim Gowers declared on his blog that he would“refuse to have anything to do with Elsevier journals fromnow on.” This declaration led directly to the the “Costof Knowledge” boycott that has attracted over 14, 000signatures (including 3914 mathematicians and computerscientists). It led indirectly to Elsevier withdrawing itssupport for the Research Works Act in the USA (whichwould have banned Open Access mandates, like that ofthe NIH) and to the UK government deciding that gov-ernment funded research should be published in a freelyaccessible form. The EU has also adopted an Open Accessrequirement for EU funded research, and the Canadiantri-councils are currently formulating a Canadian OpenAccess policy.

This is not the first time academics have rebelledagainst the harm done to our community by commercialpublishers of journals. An even larger petition thirteenyears ago led to the formation of the highly successfulOpen Access PLOS (public library of science) journals.Mathematicians and computer scientists have often beenat the vanguard of the fight against abusive practicesby commercial publishers (e.g. the mass resignations ofthe editorial boards of Topology in 2006 and K-theory in2007 and the campaign by Donald Knuth, the developerof TEX). However, previous rebellions failed to change thefundamental structure of academic publishing: the busi-ness model of most journals still requires restricting accessto published research to those readers whose institutionshave paid subscription charges.

Why are things changing now?Until about 20 years ago academic publishers and

researchers enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship.Researchers needed publishers to communicate their re-search results to a wide audience, since this communi-cation relied on printing and distributing physical jour-nals. Every stage was expensive and required expertskills: typesetting (especially mathematical) was a time-consuming job that could be done only by experts, print-ing and binding were expensive and incurred a cost foreach copy printed, and shipping vast amounts of paperaround the world was the only way to disseminate the fi-nal papers. Academic libraries handled the costs of archiv-ing, and researchers themselves handled editing (apartfrom some minor copy editing) and peer review and pro-vided the content. Researchers donated editing, refereeingand the manuscript itself as a service to the community.Authors often transferred copyright to the publishers tomake it easier to produce collected works, or to simplifyrequests to reprint parts of papers. As a token of appre-

ciation most good journals would provide a few dozenhigh quality reprints for the authors to distribute as theywished.

As in most areas, computers and the internet havedemocratized academic communication. Academics nolonger need publishers to make their work widely avail-able, and the internet and electronic typesetting pro-grams (like the freely available TeX system used by almostall mathematical publishers) mean that authors them-selves now do much of the “penalty” technical typesetting.Repositories like the arXiv and HAL in France allow re-searchers to archive their own work and make it instantlyavailable to anyone in the world free of charge. The peerreview system has been simplified by using email and peerreview management systems (like the open source PKPJournal management systems).

However, at the same time as the cost of manag-ing, producing and distributing journals has plummeted,the costs of subscriptions to university libraries and pagecharges to authors have skyrocketed to the point that thechief librarian at Harvard declared recently the costs arenow unsustainable.

Profits margins at the four biggest academic publish-ers are commonly above 40%, making academic publish-ing the most profitable industry around. Academic pub-lishing is the only industry where automation and out-sourcing work (to the customers!) has led to much higherprices and very little innovation. Most academic journalsare basically electronic versions of the old paper jour-nals with a few hyperlinks added. As Tim Gowers andmany other academics have realized, the current system isone where commercial publishers are parasitic on the aca-demic community. Publishers use the brand names of thejournals they control to convince researchers to donatetheir research and time, and they then put this researchbehind a paywall and sell it back to the same commu-nity of researchers who donated their time and contentin the first place. Elsevier, in particular, has claimed thatit “owns” the research published in its journals and thatresearchers “work” for Elsevier.

All this has been known for some time, but since re-searchers typically don’t pay the exorbitant subscriptioncharges themselves, and they feel they must publish incertain high ranked journals, the system has continuedlong after the costs began to outweigh the benefits. Li-braries must sign secrecy agreements with publishers thatforbid them from telling their researchers how much theypay for journals, further reducing researchers’ ability totake cost into account.

What has changed is that the funding agencies, start-ing with NIH in the USA, began to realize that the resultsof publicly funded research should be available to the pub-

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lic. They have also woken up to the fact that paying anaverage of about $3000 per article directly to the share-holders of commercial publishers is not a very good use ofpublic money! Most researchers are, quite naturally, moreconcerned about their careers than about accessibility orcost. But if their funding agencies require that their re-search results be publicly available (either in Open Accessjournals or in repositories like PubMedCentral), they willcomply by shifting to Open Access journals. Publisherswill have to adapt their business models.

The primary result of this revolution is that all pub-lished research results will be freely accessible, which isan unambiguously good thing for both researchers andthe general public. The question now concerns the newbusiness model for academic publishing.

Two models for providing Open Access currently co-exist. “Gold” Open Access means that the paper is freelyaccessible in the journal itself as soon as it is published.In hybrid journals Open Access and non-Open Access pa-pers appear side by side and the publisher continues tocharge (unreduced) subscription fees. In fully Open Ac-cess journals all papers are freely accessible and authorsretain their copyright. “Green” open access means thatthe paper, after final review, is placed in a freely acces-sible online repository (usually after an embargo of sixmonths to two years). Strangely, Elsevier forbids deposi-tion of final versions of papers that appear in its journalsif such deposition is mandated by the funding agency oruniversity.

Confusingly, there is no connection between the typeof journal and its business model. About 75% of non-OpenAccess journals charge authors fees of some sort (in ad-dition to subscription fees to libraries), while about 65%of Open Access journals charge no fees at all (costs arecovered by learned societies, scholarly communities, uni-versities or funding agencies). It is important to remem-ber that the choice of business model is separate from thequestion of whether or not a journal is Open Access.

Open Access is a hugely positive change that presentsboth challenges and opportunities. The challenge to theacademic community is to ensure that this new system issustainable and that quality is maintained and improved.The breakdown of the old system also provides an oppor-tunity to develop new more effective modes of academiccommunication that take full advantage of the new me-dia. It also means that we can rid ourselves of the morepernicious practices of some commercial publishers: thepromotion of journal “impact factors”, coercive citation(where authors are required to cite papers from the jour-nal to raise its impact factor), and the proliferation ofnew low-quality journals (both paywalled and Open Ac-cess) whose only goal is to make money for the publishers.

Academic publishing should become a service, not aproduct. We should choose which services are essential(e.g. archiving, editing and peer review), and who shouldprovide them. A freer market in Open Access journals

is already driving down costs (peerJ charges just $99 forone peer-reviewed publication per year) and it is certainthat Open Access should be far cheaper to the researchcommunity than the current system.

As mathematicians and scholars we should recognizethe importance of free dissemination of our research re-sults by supporting the “Berlin Declaration on Open Ac-cess”. We should also reform our research funding, hiring,tenure and promotion processes to ensure that we evalu-ate the impact and research quality of papers themselves,rather than relying on flawed proxy measures like jour-nal impact factors. And we must be sure not to penalizeyounger colleagues for not publishing in pay-walled jour-nals. Counting publications (weighted by impact factors)is a lazy and ineffective way of measuring the impact andquality of research and we should not accept it.

Finally, many of us recognize that the peer review sys-tem itself is collapsing under the avalanche of papers nowbeing produced. Peer review no longer necessarily weedsout bad research, and it often fails to recognize good inno-vative or interdisciplinary research. We should be explor-ing new ways to raise the effectiveness of research commu-nication and ensure that our time is used most efficiently.Perversely, in the current system the worst papers oftenconsume the most peer reviewing resources as they movedown the hierarchy of journals, getting rejected repeat-edly before inevitably finding a home. Rationing publica-tion is a holdover from paper printing, and we shouldseparate “publication” of research from “evaluation” ofresearch. Indeed, there are good reasons to evaluate re-search and measure its impact after it is published. Thenew Forum of Mathematics (in Pi and Sigma flavours),the arXiv overlay Episciences-Math, and the Polymathopen math blog are all initiatives in this direction.

Please encourage your colleagues to publish in waysthat help, rather than harm, the research community andthe general public who fund our research.

Nicholas Kevlahan did hisBSc in the Physics Depart-ment at the University ofBritish Columbia, his PhDat the Department of Ap-plied Mathematics and The-oretical Physics at the Uni-versity of Cambridge and wasa Marie Curie Post-DoctoralFellow at the Laboratoire deMétéorologie Dynamique atÉcole Normale Supérieure.He is currently a profes-sor at the Department ofMathematics and Statisticsat McMaster University. Hisresearch is centred on thetheory and computation of

turbulence and geophysicalfluid dynamics..

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2014 ICIAM Scientific Workshop

Educational Interfaces between Mathematics andIndustry

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This book is the “Study Book” of ICMI-Study no. 20,which was run in cooperation with the InternationalCouncil for Industry and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM).The editors were the co-chairs of the study (Damlamian,Sträßer) and the organizer of the Study Conference (Ro-drigues). The text contains a comprehensive report on thefindings of the Study Conference, original plenary presen-tations of the Study Conference, reports on the WorkingGroups and selected papers from all over the world. Thiscontent was selected by the editors as especially perti-nent to the study, each individual chapter representing asignificant contribution to current research.

2014 ICIAM Scientific Workshop

A two-day workshop, May 15-16, 2014, preceding the 2014ICIAM Board meeting (May 17) will take place at TheOhio State University.Location: The Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Jen-nings Hall, 1735 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210Organizing Committee: The ICIAM Officers, BarbaraKeyfitz (chair), Jose Alberto Cuminato, Maria J. Esteban,Alistair Fitt, Tom Mitsui and Mario Primicerio.

Speakers: All representatives of member societies who areattending the meeting are invited to speak. An additionalselection of speakers from the local community will be madeby the organizing committee.Local Arrangements: Thanks to a grant from the Math-ematics Research Institute (OSU), accommodation for allparticipants will be covered. Participants will stay at theCrowne Plaza Hotel, 33 East Nationwide Blvd, Columbus(where the Board meeting will take place).

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Mathematics: Important Enough to be left to Mathematicians?

Mathematics: Important Enough to be left to Mathemati-cians?

by Barbara Keyfitz

Review of: National Research Council. The MathematicalSciences in 2025. The National Academies Press, Wash-ington, DC.

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Clemenceau’s famous theme—that war is too impor-tant to be left to the generals—has been echoed recentlyin the scientific community with regard to the teachingand utilization of mathematics. For example, a 2012 re-port by the US President’s Council of Advisors on Sci-ence and Technology (ENGAGE TO EXCEL: PRODUC-ING ONE MILLION ADDITIONAL COLLEGE GRAD-UATES WITH DEGREES IN SCIENCE, TECHNOL-OGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS) recom-mends an experiment in “college mathematics teach-ing and curricula developed and taught by faculty from

mathematics-intensive disciplines other than mathemat-ics” (and a similar experiment in teacher preparation).Elsewhere in this issue of DIANOIA, the article by ZdenekStrakos on EU-MATHS-IN discusses a perception in Eu-ropean research funding circles that mathematics doesnot belong among key enabling technologies, which in factmeans that mathematicians’ input is not considered im-portant in applying mathematics in other disciplines.

The book under review (often known by its acronym,MS2025) provides a welcome antidote, backed with au-thoritative evidence, for such prescriptions. This 200-pagevolume, produced by a committee of US-based mathemat-ical scientists charged with examining the current stateof the mathematical sciences in the US and with recom-mending how the field should evolve to “produce the bestvalue for the country by 2025”, is effusive in its praise forthe vitality of the mathematical sciences enterprise andexplicit in its conclusion that the people creating and do-ing mathematics need to be out there in the community,interacting with the people using, and being trained indisciplines that use, mathematics. In fact, a striking con-clusion of the committee, which was not specifically askedto examine applied mathematics, is that “Distinctions be-tween ‘core’ and ‘applied’ mathematics increasingly ap-pear artificial”. There were enough core mathematicianson the committee that such a statement in the reportmeans that the idea is now widely accepted by mathe-maticians. This is good news.

The report is both descriptive and prescriptive. Along chapter, tellingly titled “Vitality of the Mathemati-cal Sciences”, gives thumbnail sketches, each a page or twolong, of 14 recent developments, ranging from the proof ofthe three-dimensional Poincaré conjecture to compressedsensing. Browsing the list, and reading the well-writtensynopses, one sees that “this is not your grandmother’s(or grandfather’s) applied mathematics”. The forward-looking applied mathematics society’s annual meeting isgoing to look more and more different from its past em-phasis as we move into the twenty-first century.

However, there comes a difficulty at the other end. Wemay agree that one can no longer tell when core math-ematics stops and applied mathematics begins, but thereport stumbles, somewhat amusingly, when it tries todefine “the mathematical sciences” themselves. The au-thors begin with a statement that this reviewer ratherlikes:

The mathematical sciences aim to understandthe world by performing formal symbolic rea-

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soning and computation on abstract struc-tures.

And they continue with another attractive point:

Researchers in the mathematical sciencesbring special perspectives and skills that com-plement those brought by mathematicallysophisticated researchers with other back-grounds.

But then they quail:

. . . there is no clear line to separate researchefforts into those that are part of the math-ematical sciences and those that are part ofcomputer science or the discipline for whichthe modeling and analysis are performed.

In the real world we inhabit, this is an invitation to turfwarfare. The report makes two recommendations here:that the US National Science Foundation gather data oninteractions between mathematics and other disciplines,particularly in the cohort of researchers currently beingtrained, and that all the US funding agencies expand theirfunding for “mathematical sciences”, even if we cannotquite figure out what we mean by that.

Overall, the report’s enthusiasm for applied and inter-disciplinary work is very encouraging for the ICIAM com-munity, and the report’s recommendations can be seen asurging us to continue to do what ICIAM’s statement ofpurpose commits us to doing: “advancing the applicationsof mathematics in all parts of the world”. Particularlyuseful is a statement, intended for the US community butrelevant worldwide, that the mathematical sciences wouldbe of even greater value to the nation if there were moremathematical scientists with a specific set of characteris-tics, worth stating completely:

• They are knowledgeable across a broad range of thediscipline, beyond their own area(s) of expertise;

• They communicate well with researchers in otherdisciplines;

• They understand the role of the mathematical sci-ences in the wider world of science, engineering,medicine, defense, and business; and

• They have some experience with computation.

In fact, the entire summary chapter is full of quotablerecommendations and will reward close reading. One thatwill resonate with people following the EU-MATHS-INinitiative is that “Mathematical scientists should be in-cluded more often of the panels that design and awardinterdisciplinary grant programs . . . even the validity ofmany projects depends on the early involvement of math-ematical scientists”.

Beyond these overarching themes—that “mathemat-ics” has now become “mathematical sciences” for essen-tially everyone who practices it, and that the currently

prominent areas of application have changed almost be-yond recognition in a generation—the report weighs inon a number of other topics. Some will not raise anyeyebrows: The importance and value of a postdoctoralexperience have increased, and the increasing numbersof mathematical science institutes have had an enormousimpact on the culture. Another trend that emerges as onereads through the report is the greater attention that ourcommunity will be expected to pay to Statistics, and theneed for greater integration of Mathematics and Statisticseducation in the future.

On the other hand, some of the committee’s recom-mendations appear odd to this reviewer, and some seemboth counterproductive and wrong. For example, the re-port regards the teaching of calculus to college studentsas “not appropriate for many students”. Here let me quoteKeith Devlin’s monthly online column from May 2001(www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin): “calculuswas the major intellectual discovery of the seventeenthcentury that made possible the scientific revolution andall of modern science, technology, and medicine”. Surelythe folks who suggest that students merely “learn enoughto calculate maxima and minima” are missing somethinghere, particularly after their point about mathematicalscientists being comfortable with abstract structures. Infact, many of their comments about education, at all lev-els, do not seem well-informed or well-reasoned. The com-mittee is critical of the college curriculum; this is fairenough, but up to this time no stable alternatives haveemerged. It is certainly too soon to propose that MOOCsmight do a better job. What is clear, at least in the US, isthat the traditional college structure in which elementarymathematics is taught by tenured faculty is disappearingor has disappeared from research universities, accompa-nied by a reduction in the size of mathematics depart-ments. However, the committee appears not to be overlyconcerned with how this has impacted the teaching of col-lege mathematics, and merely recommends that depart-ments adapt to “keep pace with the evolving academicenvironment”.

On the issue of the apparent poor state of K-12 edu-cation in the US, and its relation to the undersupply ofmathematically literate US workers, the committee wiselyrefuses to recommend actions. However, their decision toblame the problem on “poor teachers” (feeling, it appears,that a student cannot learn anything that their teacherdoes not already know) ignores the conclusions of DianeRavitch and Robert Reich, among others, that poor stu-dent performance is more strongly correlated with child-hood poverty than with any other cause. It is even fartherbeyond the ability of the MS 2025 committee to effect anyintervention here than it is to improve teacher education,but it would have been satisfying to see the responsibilityplaced where it belongs, instead of, as so often happens,accusing teachers who have merely had the misfortunenot to get positions in more attractive school districts.

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The treatment of this topic is, of course, particular to theUS; our colleagues from other countries will read it withsome bewilderment.

The report is also weak on another topic the com-mittee chose (or perhaps was requested) to tackle: at-tracting more women and “underrepresented minorities”to the mathematical sciences. The committee itself hadseveral successful women scientists as members (3 out of18, or 17%) and this reviewer can only imagine that if ithad thought about the difficulties it might have encoun-tered in trying to make that percentage larger it wouldhave come up with some advice better than the pablumit dished out. Where was the Board of MathematicalSciences (the organization that charged this committee)when Larry Summers made his infamous remarks, lessthan a decade ago, on the inability of women to excel inmathematics? We are living in a country where politicalconsiderations dictate that people (Summers is not alonehere) with these views attain positions of prominence andinfluence, and “providing timely information to students”is never going to counterbalance prevailing societal views.To be fair, the report does include a list of interventionsthat promote inclusiveness, and it is to be hoped that, forreaders of the report, evidence of the success of some ofthese programs will inspire further such efforts.

Despite these criticisms, this reviewer found her-self reading the report with increasing excitement. It isthrilling to read that “the opening years of the twenty-first

century have been remarkable ones for the mathematicalsciences”, and that “much of twenty-first century scienceand engineering is going to be built on a mathematicalscience foundation, and that foundation must continue toevolve and expand”. It is exhilarating to read a reportthat comments favorably about both “big data” and the“fundamental lemma”, and gratifying to receive the rec-ommendation that “mathematical sciences departmentsshould play a role in seeing that there is a central homefor computational research and education at their institu-tions”. Like many reports of this type, “The MathematicalSciences in 2025” will be referenced by many people whohave not read it. That is fine, but if you do get a chanceto read it, it will repay the effort.

Barbara Lee Keyfitz is theDr Charles Saltzer Professorof Mathematics at the OhioState University. She has aPhD from New York Uni-versity, and works in partialdifferential equations. Sheis the current President ofICIAM.

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About ICIAM

About ICIAMThe International Council for Industrial and AppliedMathematics (ICIAM) is a worldwide organisation forprofessional applied mathematics societies. Its membersare national and regional societies dedicated to appliedand industrial mathematics, and other societies with asignificant interest in industrial or applied mathematics.

The Council works• to promote industrial and applied mathematics

globally;• to promote interactions between member societies;• to promote the goals of these member societies;

and to coordinate planning for the ICIAM Congresses,held every four years, on industrial and applied mathe-matics.

ICIAM is governed by a Board comprising representa-tives of its member societies. Programs run by ICIAM,and the bylaws of the organization, can be found on theICIAM web page, www.iciam.org.

The Full Members and their representativesANZIAM (Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Ap-plied Mathematics): Ian H. SloanASAMACI (Asociación Argentina de Matemática AplicadaComputacional e Industrial): Eduardo Adrián SantillanMarcusCAIMS-SCMAI (Canadian Applied and Industrial Math-ematics Society, Société Canadienne de MathématiquesAppliquées et Industrielles): Ian FrigaardCSCM (Chinese Society for Computational Mathematics):Xuejung XuCSIAM (China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe-matics): Pingwen Zhang and Ya-xiang YuanECMI (European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry):Michael GüntherESMTB (European Society for Mathematical and Theoret-ical Biology): Vincenzo CapassoGAMM (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik undMechanik): Peter Benner and Sergio ContiIMA (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications): IainS. Duff and David AbrahamsISIAM (Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathemat-ics): Abul Hasan Siddiqi and Pammy ManchandaJSIAM (Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe-matics): Shin’ichi Oishi and Hiroshi KokubuKSIAM (Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe-matics): Chang Ock LeeMOS (Mathematical Optimization Society (formerly Math-ematical Programming Society)): Philippe TointNORTIM (Nordiska föreningen för Tillämpad och Indus-triell Mathematik): Helge Holden

ROMAI (Societatea Română de Matematică Aplicată şiIndustrială): Costica MorosanuSBMAC (Sociedade Brasiliera de Matemática Aplicada eComputacional): Helena J. Nussenzveig LopesSEMA (Sociedad Española de Matematica Aplicada):Tomás Chacón RebolloSIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics):Sven Leyffer and Irene FonsecaSIMAI (Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Indus-triale): Alessandro Speranza and Giovanni RussoSMAI (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Indus-trielles): Grégoire Allaire and Alain DamlamianSPMAC (Sociedad Peruana de Matemática Aplicada yComputacional): Obidio Rubio MercedesVSAM (Vietnamese Society for Applications of Mathemat-ics): Lê Hùng Són

The Associate Members and their representativesAMS (American Mathematical Society): Don McClureAWM (Association for Women in Mathematics): Jill PipherChinaMS (Chinese Mathematical Society): Zhi Ming MaCMS-SMC (Canadian Mathematical Society, Société Cana-dienne de Mathématiques): Elena BravermanEMS (European Mathematical Society): Franco BrezziIMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics): Hans RudolfKünschIMU (Israel Mathematical Union): Edriss S. TitiLMS (London Mathematical Society): Stephen HuggettMSJ (Mathematical Society of Japan): Yoichi MiyaokaÖMG (Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft):Alexander OstermannPTM (Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne (Polish Mathe-matical Society)): Łukasz StettnerSingMS (Singapore Mathematical Society): Weizhu BaoSMF (Société Mathématique de France): Bernard HelfferSMG-SMS (Schweizerische Mathematische Gesellschaft -Société Mathématique Suisse - Swiss Mathematical Soci-ety): Jean-Paul BerrutSPMPA (Sociedad Paraguaya de Matemática Pura y Apli-cada): Gladys Ortiz GranadaUMI (Unione Matematica Italiana): Ciro Ciliberto

The current officers of ICIAMPresident: Barbara Lee Keyfitz, USAPresident-Elect: Maria J. Esteban, FranceSecretary: Alistair Fitt, UKTreasurer: Jose Alberto Cuminato, BrazilMembers-at-Large: Mario Primicerio, Italy and Taketomo(Tom) Mitsui, Japan

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