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Managing Editor
C. Sean BohunUniversity of OntarioInstitute of TechnologyFaculty of Science2000 Simcoe St. NorthOshawa, ON, Canadae-mail: [email protected]
Editor-in-Chief
Barbara Lee KeyfitzThe Ohio State UniversityDepartment of Mathematics231 West 18th AvenueColumbus, OH 43210-1174e-mail: [email protected]
Editorial Board
James M. CrowleySIAMe-mail: [email protected]
Thierry HorsinCNAM, Paris, FranceDépartement IngénierieMathématiquee-mail: [email protected]
Pammy ManchandaGuru Nanak Dev UniversityAmritsar, Punjab, IndiaDepartment of Mathematicse-mail: [email protected]
Roberto NataliniConsiglio Nazionale delleRicerche, Rome, Italy,Istituto per le Applicazionidel Calcolo “M. Picone”e-mail: [email protected]
Timo ReisUniversity of HamburgDepartment of Mathematicse-mail: [email protected]
Zdenek StrakošCharles University in PragueFaculty of Mathematics and
Physicse-mail: [email protected]
Reporters
Iain DuffSTFC Rutherford AppletonLaboratoryHarwell OxfordDidcot, OX11 OQX, UKe-mail: [email protected]
Maria J. EstebanCEREMADEPlace du MaréchalLattre de TassignyF-75775 Paris Cedex 16,Francee-mail: [email protected]
Eunok JungKonkuk UniversityDepartment of Mathematics1, Hwayang-dong,Gwangjin-guSeoul, South Koreae-mail: [email protected]
Alexander OstermannUniversity of InnsbruckNumerical Analysis GroupDepartment of MathematicsTechnikerstraße 13/76020 Innsbruck, Austriae-mail: [email protected]
Tomás Chacón RebolloUniversidad de SevillaDepartamento deEcuaciones Diferenciales yAnálisis Numéricoe-mail: [email protected]
On the cover: The venue forthe 2019 ICIAM Congress isValencia, known as “The Or-chard of Spain”. Sweet or-anges grow in groves alongthe coastline and in the sum-mer the air is filled with theheavy scent of orange blos-som.
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The ICIAM DianoiaVol. 3, No. 4, October 2015
ICIAM and the Future: An Exchange 2A Word from the President — Maria J. Esteban 3The ICIAM 2015 Congress — Barbara Lee Keyfitz 4Announcement of MCA-2017 5Applied and Industrial Mathematics in Spain: An
Overview — Tomás Chacón Rebollo 6ICIAM Announcements 7Announcement of ICIAM 2016 Board Meeting
in Brazil 8A Call to CIMPA Members 9Mathematics-in-Industry New Zealand (MINZ)
Study Group — Winston L. Sweatman 10News from CIMPA 11News from the International Council for Science 12Bid Process for ICIAM 2023 12Silver Jubilee of the Indian Society of Industrial
and Applied Mathematics 14Global change impact on diseases and alien
species expansion 15About ICIAM 16
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A Word from the President
ICIAM and the Future: An ExchangeOn October 1, 2015, Maria J. Esteban became the ninthPresident of ICIAM. Her letter to the ICIAM commu-nity elicited responses which display widespread interestin the development of industrial mathematics. DIANOIAis pleased to reprint this exchange, with the permissionof the authors.
From Maria Esteban, October 1, 2015:Dear Presidents and Representatives of member societiesof ICIAM,
It is a pleasure to write to you right after I becamepresident of our society. Before continuing, let me warmlythank the officers that are leaving (A. Fitt and M. Prim-icerio) for the wonderful service they have provided forour community, and those newly elected (S. Leyffer andV. Mehrmann) for their generous decision to start serv-ing. And of course my warmest thanks to Barbara Keyfitz,the previous President, who ran the society with strengthand wisdom for the last four years.
During my presidency I will try to do my best to serveour community and our society, to strengthen its poten-tial and to develop new projects, specially in the directionof the industrial applications of mathematics and also in-creasing of our exchanges and collaborations. Together wecan all go further in our projects.
Whatever ICIAM becomes, it has to be based on thework and the impulse of the community that it repre-sents. ICIAM’s largest asset is its members and the factthat it covers many countries in all continents. Diversityis sometimes a source of heterogeneities and difficulties,but it can also be very fruitful. Let us celebrate this di-versity and work together to make ICIAM stronger andmore useful every year.
Please do not hesitate to contact me/us whenever youhave questions or ideas or suggestions that could be help-ful to our society and our community. You can write tome (or any other of the ICIAM Officers) and with thehelp and the advice of the other Officers, I/we will try toanswer as best as possible.
Best wishes, Maria J. Esteban
From Hyung-Chun Lee, President of KSIAM, Oc-tober 3, 2015:Dear Maria,
We strongly support ICIAM and your project. Indus-trial mathematics is now a very important issue withinthe government and mathematical society in Korea.
We also want to cooperate strongly with ICIAM.Best regards, Hyung-Chun Lee
From I. David Abrahams, IMA representative,October 3, 2015:Dear Maria,
On behalf of IMA and others supporters of ICIAM inthe UK, I too would like to pass on my best wishes to youand your team. We wish you all success in achieving youraims in coming years.
I realize how large a job it is to steer ICIAM, withall its various member societies, and I too pass on mysincere thanks to Barbara, Alistair and Mario for theirvery hard work. They leave ICIAM in excellent shape.As Hyung-Chun Lee states, we are delighted that you aretaking over as President, especially because of your com-mitment to industrial mathematics in Europe. I person-ally believe strongly that we need to break down barrierswith other disciplines and enhance the links with industry,and this is one of my main priorities as Scientific Direc-tor of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences(ICMS) in Edinburgh. We had an interesting meeting overthe last couple of days at ICMS, which brought togethermathematicians from most of the UK mathematics de-partments interested in industrial mathematics, or morebroadly knowledge exchange. This was perhaps the firstsuch forum we have ever had in the UK, with the pur-pose of meeting each other, hearing about the variety ofmechanisms being employed, and discussing the range ofnational and international overarching efforts to enhanceindustrial mathematics.
Europe came up a lot in the sessions, from the ESFForward Look to EU-MATHS-IN and the EU CoST grant.Hilary [Ockendon] and Jo Jordon spoke about these, andthere was general agreement about the importance ofwhat you have been doing in Europe to raise the profileof mathematics knowledge exchange.With best wishes, David
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A Word from the President
A Word from the Presidentby Maria J. Esteban
The ICIAM 2015 Congress was held in August, in Bei-jing, at the China International Convention Center. TheCongress was a great success, with the largest regis-tered participants for an ICIAM Congress as of yet. TheCongress provided many informative talks and presenta-tions from mathematicians from across the globe. TheChina committee was very organized and quickly han-dled the normal little organizational glitches which areinevitable with events of this size. The opening ceremonyincluded an incredible performance by a troupe of hearingand visually impaired dancers. A formal congress openingceremony then proceeded led by the Vice-President of thePeople’s Republic of China, M. Li Yuanchao. Apart fromhis very inspired speech, the ICIAM President, ProfessorBarbara Keyfitz, and the Congress President, ProfessorLei Giuo, also addressed the attendants. The ceremonyended with the prize ceremony, where the ICIAM Prizes2015 were delivered to this year’s recipients, AnnalisaBuffa (Collatz prize), Andrew J. Majda (Lagrange prize),Jean-Michel Coron (Maxwell prize), Bjørn Engquist (Pi-oneer prize) and Tatsien Li (Su Buchin prize).
Among the novelties of this years’s Congress, lauda-tions of the prize winners were presented and the prizewinners themselves could also present their research inlectures scheduled the next two mornings. The annualconference of SIAM 2015 was embedded into the congressand the SIAM and AWM prizes’ recipients delivered lec-tures in the evenings. The first evening was devoted tothe ICIAM Olga-Todd-Taussky lecture, which was givenby Professor Eva Tardös.
Prior to the beginning of the Congress an informalmeeting of the Presidents of the member societies ofICIAM was held. This was an opportunity to discuss pastand current activities, and also possible future develop-ments. Moreover, the annual Board meeting of ICIAMtook place the day after the closing of the Congress.Elections of two officers-at-large, the secretary and thetreasurer took place at this meeting. José Alberto Cumi-nato was re-elected as Treasurer, and Taketomo Mit-sui as Officer-at-Large. Two new officers were elected,Sven Leyffer for the position of Secretary and VolkerMehrmann as Officer-at-Large. This meeting was also thelast one for Alistair Fitt, former Secretary, and MarioPrimicerio, Officer-at-Large.
As per the bylaws, on October 1st, the new teamof officers started their terms: Barbara Keyfitz asPast-President, Sven Leyffer as Secretary, Jose AlbertoCuminato as Treasurer, Taketomo Mitsui and VolkerMehrmann as Officers-at-Large and me as President. To-
gether we will run the society as best as we can, followingthe advice and recommendations of the ICIAM Board andthe member societies.
This is my first article in Dianoia as President, andbefore continuing, let me warmly thank the officers thatare leaving (A. Fitt and M. Primicerio) for the wonderfulservice they have provided for our community, and thosenewly elected (S. Leyffer and V. Mehrmann) for their gen-erous decision to start serving. And of course my warmestthanks to Barbara Keyfitz, the previous President, whoran the society with strength and wisdom for the last fouryears. Among other things Barbara Keyfitz had the ideato create this newsletter and has invested incredible en-ergy making it lively and interesting. She has acceptedto continue working on Dianoia, and with the help of thesocieties and the editors, she will surely manage to raiseDianoia to still higher levels of quality and interest.
During my presidency I will try to do my best to serveour community and our society, to strengthen its poten-tial and to develop new projects, specially in the directionof the industrial applications of mathematics and also in-creasing of our exchanges and collaborations. Together wecan all go further in our projects.
Whatever ICIAM becomes, it has to be based on thework and the impulse of the community that it repre-sents. ICIAM’s largest asset is its members and the factthat it covers many countries in all continents. Diversityis sometimes a source of heterogeneities and difficulties,but it can also be very fruitful. Let us celebrate this di-versity and work together to make ICIAM stronger andmore useful every year.
Maria J. Esteban, President of ICIAM
Maria J. Esteban is a re-search director at CNRSand works at the UniversityParis-Dauphine. Her researchthemes include the study ofnonlinear partial differentialequations, especially by vari-ational methods; relativis-tic and nonrelativistic quan-tum mechanics, with appli-cations to quantum chem-istry; fluid-structure interac-tions, etc. Until recently shewas the President of SMAI(Société de MathématiquesAppliquées et Industrielles)
and currently is the Chairof the Applied MathematicsCommittee of the EMS.
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The ICIAM 2015 Congress
The ICIAM 2015 Congressby Barbara Lee Keyfitz
ICIAM’s signature event, the Congress, took place in Bei-jing, China from August 10 to August 14, 2015. This wasthe eighth Congress, and the largest to date, and it wasa great success. The coming issues of DIANOIA will fea-ture more articles on highlights of the meeting. Here Iwould just like to once again express our community’sgratitude to the organizers for the work they put in, theresources they marshalled, and the attention they paid toevery detail.
At the opening ceremony, a welcoming address wasgiven by His Excellency Li Yuanchao, the Vice Presidentof the People’s Republic of China. His Excellency holds adegree in Mathematics from Fudan University, and per-haps that colored the warmth of his remarks; or perhapsthey express a wider appreciation of what we hope math-ematics can achieve. A number of people have asked tosee the text, and we are pleased to reprint it here (a copyappears on the ICIAM 2015 web page also).
We also join in congratulating the ICIAM Prize win-ners once again, and we are happy to print the “official”picture. It also shows the ceremonial backdrop of the stageused for the opening ceremony.
Presenting the 2015 ICIAM Prize winners.—Image used with permission.
Presented here are the remarks by H.E. Li Yuanchao, VicePresident of the People’s Republic of China, made at theOpening Ceremony of the Eighth International Congress onIndustrial and Applied Mathematics August 10, 2015.
Strengthen Exchange and CooperationReach New Milestones of Science
Respected ICIAM President Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Dis-tinguished Guests and Gentlemen,
Today, the Eighth International Congress on Indus-trial and Applied Mathematics is held in Beijing. On be-
half of the Chinese government, I have the pleasure towarmly welcome scientists, industrial experts, and dele-gates from all over the world, and to congratulate theICIAM Prize recipients.
Since the First International Congress on Industrialand Applied Mathematics held in 1987, it has become agrand gathering of the highest level, at the largest scale,and with the most extensive influence in the field of in-dustrial and applied mathematics. It is the first time forChina to host the Congress, which will be a great oppor-tunity for all delegates, including Chinese delegates, toexchange recent developments and look into the future inthe field of industrial and applied mathematics.
Mathematics is the most universal scientific language,the most widely used scientific tool, and one of the mostbasic principles applied in natural and social sciences,which is of fundamental significance to the developmentof science and technology (S&T). Mathematics has beenapplied in almost all fields of human knowledge and activ-ity, so as to promote innovative development of S&T andeconomy fundamentally, and shape the way of human lifeprofoundly. Specifically, the internet technology, big dataprocessing, space exploration, modern medical diagnosis,and financial derivative products have been developed onthe basis of new theories and methods of mathematics.The extensive application of mathematics has become avital driving force behind the development of our world.
China has a long history of mathematics with a tra-dition of emphasizing applications. Since the founding ofthe People’s Republic of China, the development of math-ematical research in China has been accelerated towardsthe international frontiers, with recognized achievementsin both theoretical research and industrial applications.Since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, Chinalaunched an unprecedented modernization course in thehuman history, and carried out the largest and the fastestindustrialization in the world. China became the world’ssecond largest economy in 2010, and the value-added ofChina’s manufacturing industry accounted for 20.7% ofthe world total in 2011. It has since become the largestmanufacturing country in the world.
The application of mathematics is an important driv-ing force behind the modernization of China, and hasplayed a significantly fundamental role in the economicdevelopment and S&T progress. China has developed aseries of cutting edge technologies, such as the fastest su-percomputer Tianhe-2, the stream and silt control of theThree Gorges Reservoir, the optimization of high-speedrailway, and the high-precision space remote sensing. Net-work S&T and its applications, represented by the inter-
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Applied and Industrial Mathematics in Spain: An Overview
net and cloud computing, have been developing into anew engine for China’s economic growth. China’s onlineretail turnover was 2.8 trillion RMB in 2014, the largestin the world.
It is a recognition and encouragement to the develop-ment of applied mathematics in China that the Congresson Industrial and Applied Mathematics is hosted in Bei-jing and an ICIAM prize named after the Chinese Mathe-matician Su Buqing was established in 2003. I would liketo take the opportunity to express my appreciation to theInternational Council for Industrial and Applied Mathe-matics.
Now, the Chinese people are working hard to achievethe nation’s “two century” development goals, and torealize the Chinese dream of great national rejuvena-tion. President Xi Jinping has pointed out that pow-erful strength originated from S&T innovation is muchmore demanded than ever before. Faced with the emerg-ing world-wide S&T and industrial revolution, Chinawill implement strategies on innovation-driven develop-ment, keep on promoting new-type industrialization, andbuild an innovative nation. This certainly provides excep-tional opportunities for the development of S&T, includ-ing mathematics.
The Chinese government has established special fundsto support mathematical research through the Ministryof Education, the Ministry of S&T, the Chinese Academyof Sciences, and the National Natural Science Founda-tion of China. Such national strategic development plansas “Made in China 2025” and “Internet+”, will provideabundant chances for the application of S&T, includingmathematics. National talents plans such as the “Thou-sand Talents Plan” for overseas high-level talents and the“Ten Thousand Talents Plan” for domestic high-level tal-ents, provide a strong support to talents’ growth in alldisciplines of sciences, including mathematics. Respect-ing labor, knowledge, talents, and creation in our societywill build a favorable environment for innovation and en-trepreneurship. It is our hope that new historical progresson S&T will be achieved in China, along with the wave ofS&T development in the world, and that China’s mathe-matics and its applications could enter into the forefront
of global scientific development.Science is without borders. To ensure the development
of China’s S&T, we need to learn from and establishclose ties with international scientific colleagues. Underthe banner of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win strategy, China will actively support and take part inthe international communication and cooperation. ThisCongress provides a much-needed platform for domesticand overseas delegates to carry out exchange and coop-eration. We expect that the Congress will have a signifi-cant and far-reaching influence on the development of in-dustrial and applied mathematics, promote exchange andcooperation among international communities, push for-ward the close connection and interaction between math-ematics and S&T, and that the Congress will become alandmark in the history of industrial and applied mathe-matics.
Jointly together with our international counterparts,China will push forward the development of industrialand applied mathematics, enhance crossover, fusion, andinnovation between mathematics and numerous other dis-ciplines and fields, and promote the sustainable develop-ment of the economy and society. We encourage Chinesescientists to engage in widespread academic exchange andcooperation with scientists from all over the world, toreach new milestones of science together, so as to makegreater contributions to the development of science, tech-nology, and human civilization.
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. She isthe Past-President of ICIAM.
Announcement of MCA-2017Following the very successful inaugural MathematicalCongress of the Americas, MCA-2013 in Guanajuato,the second such Congress, MCA-2017, will take place inMontréal, Canada on July 23–28, 2017. The confirmedplenary speakers at MCA-2017 are
• Shafrira Goldwasser (MIT, USA)• Manuel del Pino (Universidad de Chile)• Andrew Granville (Université de Montréal,
Canada)
• Peter Ozsvath (Princeton University, USA)• Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research, USA)
The Congress is organized under the auspices of theMathematical Council of the Americas. For more infor-mation: www.mcofamericas.org.
We look forward to seeing mathematicians fromthroughout the world in Montréal in July, 2017.
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Applied and Industrial Mathematics in Spain: An Overview
Applied and Industrial Mathematics in Spain: An Overviewby Tomás Chacón Rebollo
During the period of January 1, 2005 to June 30, 2015,Spain was listed as the 8th country by global impact forits publications in mathematics (ISI Web of Knowledge),with a total of 68,449 citations and an average of 4,32 ci-tations per paper. A large part of those publications dealtwith applied and industrial mathematics, although thereexists no separate record of them. Spain has kept this 8thposition overall, due to developments that took place inthe 80s and 90s in parallel to the increase of the Spanisheconomy.
Research in applied and industrial mathematics inSpain is mainly carried on in university departments.There currently exists more than 40 university depart-ments that either totally or partially focus their researchin Applied Mathematics. Most of these departments arelocated in public universities, with over 900 researchers(www.rsme.es/matesp). The research deals with mod-elling, numerical approximation and mathematical anal-ysis of a broad set of systems and processes. These includeimage recognition and recovery, optimal design and con-trol, controllability, homogenization, dynamical systems,impact analysis of climatic change, engineering design, ce-lestial mechanics, multi-scale modelling of materials andfluids, modelling and simulation of epidemics, electro-magnetism, finances, acoustics, fractional PDEs, PDE’sin Kinetic Theory, Quantum-Kinetics, electoral methods,combinatorial and computational geometry, geometricalstructures in physics, coding and cryptography, fire mod-elling, among many others.
A part of this university research is structured bya network of 15 mathematical research institutes, thateither totally or partially work in applied and indus-trial mathematics. These institutes have typically madelinks and networks within the local research communitieswithin each university. These connections have formed theRedIUM (the Network of University Mathematics Insti-tutes), whose purpose is to boost the collaboration andexchanges between the institutes of the network.
There also exists several specific research centres deal-ing totally or partially with the research in applied and in-dustrial mathematics. Among these centres is the ICMAT(Instituto de Ciencias Matemàticas, Madrid, www.icmat.es), which focuses on general research in mathematics,with special emphasis on applied mathematics. Also, theBCAM (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, www.bcamath.org) and the CIMNE (International Center forNumerical Methods in Engineering, www.cimne.com) thatfocus on applied mathematics, with strong emphasis onindustrial mathematics and form the link between the re-gional industry in the Basque Country and Catalonia,
respectively. All three of these are highly competitivecentres with a high rate of success in international callsfor funding, in particular the ERC (European ResearchCouncil) ones.
A large part of the mathematical technology transferin Spain is carried out by the Network for Mathematics& Industry (Math-in), which is a compilation of almost40 research groups located in university departments andresearch centres (www.math-in.net) within Spain. Thisnetwork structure makes it easy for companies to accessmore than 450 highly skilled researchers, spread through-out the country. Research activities within the groups areaimed at specific issues of their own areas of knowledge,paying particular attention to their applicability to de-velopment and innovation in companies. Math-in is pro-gressively helping to close the gap between mathematicalresearch and industry in Spain, it is also becoming thereference resource for industry willing to improve theirproduction processes by fine analysis.
The Math-in network has successfully developed morethan 720 contracts for SMEs and large companies bothnationally and internationally, in areas of interest tothe industry, having successfully participated in differ-ent national and international calls. Thanks to its workof consultancy, training, software development, organiza-tion of meetings, computer services and collaboration onprojects, the network has at the present moment a wideportfolio of more than 300 clients.
The most relevant center of mathematical technologytransfer in Spain is the Technological Institute for In-dustrial Mathematics (ITMATI, Santiago de Compostela,www.itmati.com), which provides services and solutionsusing mathematical technology to businesses, industriesand governments. It provides services on product and so-lutions development, technological consultancy, and R&Dprojects, among others.
The Spanish government supports several pro-grammes to structure and fund the scientific research, inthe framework of the H2020 (Horizon 2020) programmeof the European Union, particularly oriented to boost thetransfer of innovative research and technology to industry.These programmes apply, in particular, to the research inapplied and industrial mathematics as mathematics is oneof the priority areas.
The main focus of such programmes is the funding ofhigh-quality research projects, that are linked to a pro-gram to fund pre-doctoral researchers, with yearly callsfor applications. This programme provides the basic fund-ing for Spanish scientific research groups. There also ex-ists a program to boost the development of research cen-
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ICIAM Announcements
ters and units of excellence (“Severo Ochoa” and “Marìa deMaeztu” funding calls), in which applied mathematics ishaving a large success. In particular, the BCAM, CIMNEand ICMAT centers, mentioned above, have qualified inthe Severo Ochoa call for applications.
In sum, today Spain has a large number of high-quality research groups in applied and industrial mathe-matics, with several excellent research centers, which arehighly competitive in national and international calls forfunding. Spain also has a well structured fully developednetwork of mathematical technology transfer, which ishighly competitive in providing effective links with in-dustry.
Tomás Chacón Rebollo is thechairman for the ICIAM 2019Congress. His scientific spe-cialties are ComputationalFluid Dynamics and Numer-ical Analysis encompassing awide variety of interests frommathematical and numericalturbulence modeling to sus-tainable building design byreduced order methods.
ICIAM Announcements• 2016 ICIAM BOARD MEETING ANDWORKSHOPFollowing the recently established tradition, theICIAM Board meeting for 2016 will be precededby a two-day workshop. Both will take place onthe campus of Campinas University. Campinas is alarge city in the state of São Paulo. Campinas caneasily be reached by coach from the main interna-tional airport of São Paulo, (São Paulo-GuarulhosInternational Airport – GRU). There are also flightsto Viracopas International Airport (VCP) which issmaller but located very near Campinas. The dateof the Board meeting is May 7, 2016, as decided atthe Board meeting in Beijing in August 2015. Thedates of the workshop are May 5–6. The poster inthis issue of DIANOIA includes a request for volun-teers to speak at the workshop. Representatives areasked to contact Jose Cuminato ([email protected] or [email protected]) to give a talkat the workshop.
• THE NEW WEBSITEThe new website is now online at iciam.org. Be-sides having an up-to-date interface and greaterease in navigation, the new site has some “self-service” features. Individual societies are now ableto edit their own information, including mak-ing changes when presidents and representatives
change. Instructions are being sent to each represen-tative and president on how to do this. Of course,our webmaster, Ross Moore, is still available if youneed help.
• ICIAM 2023 – CALL FOR PRE-BIDSAlthough the summer of 2023 is seven and a halfyears away, the Council is now starting the processof planning for the Tenth International Congress onIndustrial and Applied Mathematics. Member so-cieties are warmly invited to submit “pre-bids” forthe 2016 Board meeting. At that meeting, the Boardwill decide on a short list for full proposals and sitevisits. The full text of the call for pre-bids is beingcirculated to all member societies, and is reprintedin this issue for your information. Societies are wel-come to contact the president or any officer withquestions.
• CIMPA ELECTIONICIAM is a “Scientific Associate” of CIMPA, and,as such, we may propose candidates for the Admin-istrative Council of CIMPA. A call for nominationshas been circulated by CIMPA and is publishedhere. Please see the CIMPA website for further in-formation and instructions, and contact the officersif you are interested in serving or wish to proposesomeone for office.
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CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
CIMPA 4, avenue Joachim F-06100 Nice, France +33 (0) 4 92 07 79 30 [email protected] http://cimpa.info/
Nice, December 3, 2015
Dear members of CIMPA, The Administrative Council (CA) will be renewed in a little more than one year. It seems to us appropriate to hold the election for the individual members of the CA during the General Assembly (AG) of 2016, to be held on 10 June (to be confirmed), at the Institut Henri Poincare in Paris. According to the Statutes and the By-laws of CIMPA, the CA consists of, in addition to the 7 ex-officio institutional members, 7 individual members who are elected by the AG. Among these 7 members are the members of the Bureau. The Bureau composes of the President, possibly one or two vice-Presidents, a General Secretary and a Treasurer. In view of the dates of the meetings, we suggest the following calendar: - The AG elects 7 individual members during its meeting which should be on 10 June 2016. - The new CA (the ex-officio members whose number is fixed by the Statutes, plus the 7 individual members elected previously) shall meet in an extraordinary session in January 2017, to elect the Bureau. - After this meeting, the new CA and the new Bureau shall assume their function. By this letter we launch a call for candidates for these 7 individual members of the next CA. We shall reflect carefully together on this crucial election, and we shall be happy to receive your comments on possible candidates. The term of office for members of the Bureau being four years, renewable once, three of the four members of the present Bureau (the President, the vice-President, the Secretary) are not eligible for re-election. It was decided by the AG of 2014 that all CIMPA actions must be preceded by an open call. This implies that, in order to be submitted to a vote, all declaration of candidacy must be made after the sending out of this message, whose aim is precisely this call for candidacy. Furthermore, any member of CIMPA can present his or her candidacy during the AG until the election itself. We remind you equally that the Statutes of CIMPA require that an individual member of the CA must be a member of CIMPA. If you wish to propose as candidate a colleague who is not a member of CIMPA, then he or she must seek to become a member (according the usual procedure advertised on our web site), and he or she must be presented by the CA and approved by the AG. His or her candidacy can then be considered during the election. The Bureau shall consult widely in order to enlist the best candidates. Before the meeting of the AG in June 2016, it shall communicate to you the names of the candidates for the new CA which it has so far received after this call for candidacy. Sincerely, TSOU Sheung Tsun, Presidente Alain DAMLAMIAN, Vice-President Jean-Marc BARDET, General Secretary Marc AUBRY, Treasurer.
Mathematics-in-Industry New Zealand (MINZ) Study Group, 29 June – 3 July 2015
Mathematics-in-Industry New Zealandby Winston L. Sweatman
The inaugural Mathematics-in-Industry New Zealand(MINZ) study group was held at Massey University,Auckland, in the middle of this year. This brought to-gether a mixture of over a hundred mathematical scien-tists to work on six projects (“challenges”) provided byNew Zealand industry. There were a large number of stu-dents participating. The week was instructive and enjoy-able.
Study groups first came to the region in 1984 with themeetings initiated by Australia’s national science agency(CSIRO). These workshops (MISG) have been contin-ued as annual events occurring in January/February.They now constitute a special interest group meetingof Australia and New Zealand Industrial and AppliedMathematics (ANZIAM). The workshops came to NewZealand in the years 2004, 2005, and 2006 when theywere hosted by Massey University in Auckland. In thefollowing years, New Zealand industry continued to beinvolved and brought projects to the subsequent MISGsin Wollongong, Melbourne and Brisbane.
During this period, enthusiasm grew for additionalactivity based in New Zealand itself, and this led tothe MINZ study group, again as an ANZIAM activity,with particular involvement of the New Zealand Branch.MINZ has enjoyed the active involvement and adminis-trative support of KiwiNet, a national network of publicresearch organisations, working together to transform sci-entific discoveries into marketable products and services(www.kiwinet.org.nz). The project was initiated and ledby my colleague Graeme Wake, who had also directed theearlier MISG workshops in New Zealand in 2004–2006.
The format of our meeting was similar to study groupsthe world over. We began with presentations from in-dustry representatives, during which the projects wereoutlined. Thereafter, small teams of participants workedon each individual project, reporting mid-week and atthe end of the week. The industry representatives werepresent all week, with some projects having more thanone industry representative. Allocated to each projectwere two moderators and also a student moderator whowere charged with coordinating the group working on theproject and leading the presentations. In between activ-ity on the projects there was an evening workshop for thestudents and invited speakers.
The projects were provided by Fisher and Paykel,Compac Sorting, Fonterra, Transpower, Eyedentify, andLivestock Improvement Corporation. The first four organ-isations had all been involved in study groups before: thefirst two in New Zealand, Fonterra in Australia and Trans-power in both New Zealand and Australia. The other two
organisations were new to study groups.Livestock Improvement Corporation provides herd
testing for nearly three quarters of New Zealand’s dairyfarmers. This involves estimates of the productive milkoutput each year of about 3.5 million cows. Their chal-lenge involved multivariate outlier detection and in par-ticular distinguishing between outliers generated by errorsin measurement and recording and those generated by ex-ceptionally good cows. The team worked on this projectusing the R statistical package on a subset of the data.
Compac Sorting designs equipment to sort fruit. Theirsystems involve several spectroscopes that currently needindividual manual calibration for each different kind offruit. The idea behind the project was to seek transformsthat can relate the readings of different spectroscopes sothat only one requires manual recalibration for the newfruit. The group had scanning data from a number of ma-chines in a sorting house and made some progress usingprincipal component analysis. A test of effectiveness couldbe made by running the company’s quality testing algo-rithm on raw and reconstructed data. Other approacheswere also identified.
Eyedentify works with retail and police organisationsin New Zealand and Australia conveying information toprevent crime. They have collected a database of abouttwo years of recorded retail crime incidents. This is to beupdated in real time and they wish to use this intelligenceto answer the question “Who is most likely to offend in mystore now?.” A number of statistical approaches were usedby the group, such as looking for repeat offence patternsor networks of offenders. They concluded that it seemedlike the best approach would involve a composite mixtureof different approaches.
Fonterra Co-operative group is the world’s largest ex-porter of dairy products. Their project involved the studyof a problem that would be expected in any industrialfood processing system: the detection/removal of tinymetallic particles that arise from wear of metallic com-ponents of the processing machinery. In particular, thegroup studied one of the control measures used which in-volves passing a moving stream of milk powder past anarray of magnets. The team considered the effect of chang-ing the various factors involved. The study included themechanics of the flow and the complex magnetic field of anumber of magnets. Particle capture was simulated withMATLAB.
Transpower is New Zealand’s electricity system oper-ator. Their project was “Controlling time creep while op-erating in frequency control mode.” The North and SouthIsland of New Zealand are joined by a high voltage direct
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link across Cook Strait that balances the load and gen-eration across the country. The frequency of the electricsignal has controllers on each island. A further frequencykeeping controller (FKC), commissioned in 2014, operatesbetween the islands. In the management of the electricitysystem, time errors occur and would be indicated by anelectric clock connected to the mains. These sometimeshave to be corrected by manual intervention. With theintroduction of the FKC the time errors have tended tobe more variable and to accumulate. The project con-cerned understanding the root causes of this variabilitywithin the complex control system. Statistical analysisand dynamical modelling were used in the study.
The Fisher and Paykel project involved the operationof a clothes dryer. The aim was to improve the identifi-cation of the end cycle and to better understand the dry-ing process for various load weights and types. A clothesdryer brought onto campus and dismantled helped theteam better understand the processes involved. The tem-perature of the exhaust is a key measure. The team in-vestigated data supplied by the industry representativesas well as considering dynamical models.
A booklet of equation-free summaries of the projects
has been produced and full report papers will be pro-duced in early next year for publication in the ANZIAMJournal E. A video of the meeting was produced by Ki-wiNet and can be seen here www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFkpHZdVris. The next MINZ study group is sched-uled to take place at Victoria University of Wellington4-8 July, 2016. These study groups are enjoyable and in-structive so if you have a chance to attend one give it ago.
Winston Sweatman is Pres-ident of the New ZealandMathematical Society andDirector of for Mathematicsin Industry at Massey Uni-versity. His first study groupwas in 2004 and to date hasattended 4 study groups inNew Zealand, 12 in Aus-tralia, 2 in Ireland, and 1each in Canada and China.
CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
News from CIMPAICIAM is a Scientific Partner of CIMPA (Centre Interna-tional de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées/ Interna-tional Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics) whosewebsite is www.cimpa-icpam.org. The organization re-cently appointed a new executive director, whose termbegins next year. The following is a re-print of the an-nouncement of our new Executive Director Dear membersand friends of CIMPA,
It is my great pleasure to announce, following a decisionby the administrative council, that Ludovic Rifford, Pro-fessor at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, shall bethe executive director of CIMPA from 1 October, 2016.His term of office is 4 years, renewable once.SincerelyTsou Sheung Tsun President.
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Bid Process for ICIAM 2023
News from the International Council for ScienceExcerpts from the September 2015 edition of the ICSU newsletter, with highlights from ICSU’s current activities.
ICSU, the International Council for Science, publishesan online newsletter at www.icsu.org. We are pleasedto feature the following two items from the most recentnewsletter. ICIAM is an Associated Society to ICSU.
After a three-year consultation process, the world’sgovernments agreed to the Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs). Throughout the process, ICSU and itspartner organizations have continuously pushed for asound scientific basis for these goals and a strong rolefor science in their implementation, for example throughthe first ever scientific review of the 169 targets that willoperationalize the 17 goals, published in February. The3rd ICSU/ISSC/DFG Young Scientists Networking Con-ference at Villa Vigoni had as its topic how science can
contribute to the implementation of the SDGs, and wehave just released a new video featuring interviews withthe participants and their vision for a sustainable future.
During the World Social Science Forum in Dur-ban, South Africa, the International Council for Science(ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC)and International Council for Philosophy and Human Sci-ences (CIPSH) jointly announced that 2016 would be theInternational Year of Global Understanding (IYGU). Theaim of IYGU is to promote better understanding of howthe local impacts the global in order to foster smart poli-cies to tackle critical global challenges such as climatechange, food security and migration.
Bid Process for ICIAM 2023International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) — December 2015
Member societies are invited to apply to hold the TenthInternational Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathe-matics in 2023.
Rules and resolutions concerning the pro-cessThe application process is governed by the “Rules,” givenbelow, and by the following resolution of the ICIAMBoard at its meeting in Helsinki in May 2001.
a) Prior to deciding about the location of each ICIAMCongress, the Council, at its Annual Board meeting,will decide on the amount of a financial compensa-tion for the use of ICIAM’s name.
b) The amount has to be decided for each Congress.c) The payment must be transferred at the latest by
the end of the Congress.d) Should there be other smaller conferences where
ICIAM’s name is to be used, a similar policy willbe implemented.
The ICIAM Board, at its next meeting in SãoPaulo (Campinas), Brazil on Saturday, 7 May, 2016,will set the license fee for the Tenth Congress in 2023(as a reminder, the license fee for ICIAM 2019 wasset at USD 37,000). In addition the local expenses,including registration fee and travel expenses, of thefive prize winners and the Olga Taussky-Todd lec-turer, are to be covered by the Congress organizers.
Timetable for applications
§1. The first of the rules below specifies that the pre-proposal should be submitted, in written form, tothe ICIAM Board seven years in advance. In thepresent circumstances this is interpreted to meanthat the pre-proposal should be submitted to themeeting of the Board in São Paulo (Campinas),Brazil on Saturday, 7 May, 2016. While applicationssubmitted at the meeting itself will be admitted, the
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Officers request that if possible applications shouldbe submitted to the ICIAM President, Maria J. Es-teban, no later than 31 March, 2016. In this respect“written form” will be considered to allow submis-sions to be made via email.
At this stage the required amount of documenta-tion is small, but do please note the requirement tospecify both the location and a preliminary budget.
§2. The second of the rules below is expected to be in-terpreted by the meeting of the Board in São Paulo(Campinas), Brazil on Saturday, 7 May, 2016 in thefollowing way:
Some of those who submit an applicationas above will be invited to submit a moredetailed application by 31 October, 2016.At this second stage it is important thata more detailed budget be presented, andthat a Congress Director be nominated.This is a person who is willing and ableto devote considerable time and effort tothe project until the Congress in 2023.Past precedent suggests that the Boardwill also be expecting to see detailed con-sideration given to the question of howthe expected high scientific level is to beachieved.
The early date for the detailed submission, namely theend of October, 2016, is to allow the Officers to arrangesite visits to each of the remaining candidate sites, andfor the reports of the site visits to be consolidated, be-fore the Board meeting anticipated to be held in 2017. Ofcourse no Officer who may be perceived to have a conflictof interest will take any part in the selection process.
The final decision on the site of the 2023 Congress willbe made by the Board at its meeting in 2017.
Approved by ICIAM in Helsinki, May 2001Distributed to member societies, December 2015.Maria J. EstebanPresident, ICIAM
Rules concerning the application for anICIAM congress
§1. An application for hosting and organizing anICIAM congress should be submitted to the ICIAMBoard seven years in advance. This application is tobe submitted in written form and should propose alocation and a budget outline.
§2. Six years in advance a Congress Director should benominated and a more detailed budget submitted.On the basis of this information the ICIAM Boardwill make its decision on the applicants.
§3. Five years in advance the hosting society makesa proposal for the chair of the Scientific ProgramCommittee (SPC) to the ICIAM Board which hasthe final say and appoints the SPC Chair at thistime.
§4. Four years in advance the SPC Chair submits to theICIAM Board a proposal concerning the SPC mem-bers. Again, the final decision on the composition ofthe SPC is made by the ICIAM Board (four years inadvance). Members of the SPC are individual mem-bers and cannot delegate this membership to otherrepresentatives. The SPC should be of reasonablesize (15–20 members) and of exceptional scientificqualification. The member societies should be in-volved in the selection of SPC members.
§5. Two and a quarter years in advance the ICIAMBoard will approve/disapprove (not modify) the listof invited speakers submitted by the SPC. The in-vitations of the invited speakers should be signedby the Congress Director and the SPC Chair.
§6. The organizers of ICIAM Congresses are urged tostick to the successful structure of previous ICIAMCongresses. At all these Congresses the scientificprogramme consisted of:
• invited lectures;• minisymposia;• contributed presentations in lecture form; and• contributed presentations in poster form.
All types of presentations have to be included, allbeing weighted equally. Contributed papers have tobe accepted to the extent practically possible (a fac-tor to be considered in the choice of a conferencevenue).
In the composition of the minisymposia programthe member societies, invited by the ICIAM Pres-ident, are asked to take an active role. The SPCshould make sure that all fields, especially those notcovered by invited speakers, are represented at theICIAM Congress and are of highest possible quality.
Approved by CICIAM in Sydney, 29 July 1997.Revised December 2003 to change ‘CICIAM’ to ‘theICIAM Board’, and ‘CICIAM Chair’ to ‘ICIAMPresident’.Reinhard MennickenICIAM Board
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Global change impact on diseases and alien species expansion A capacity building workshop supported by
AIMS, Cape Town, May 2-6 2016
INTRODUCTION This international, interdisciplinary, educational and capacity building workshop will bring together the two subjects of infectious diseases and invasive species and the context of climate change, thus allowing sharing the methods and building partnerships. The workshop will address the whole range of topics, from field-work and collecting of data to the building and validating of models, to the adjustment of models to take into account the changing environment and the social characteristics, and to the design and implementation of strategies to fight infectious diseases and invasive species. This will be done through lectures, practical training and round table discussions. Special emphasis will be put on African diseases and invasive species, as well as the characteristics of changing environment in Africa. The workshop is mostly aimed to young researchers and postgraduate students, with a majority coming from Africa. International experts from around the world will give the mini-courses and lectures and will lead the working groups. There will be a limited number of contributed talks and a poster session. GOALS OF THE CONFERENCE The main objectives of the workshop are to network communities coming from different backgrounds (biology, mathematical sciences, medicine, social sciences and global environment change) and different parts of the world, and having an interest in the study and control of epidemic diseases and invasive species, and to contribute to the training of young researchers. An important feature of the workshop is its location in Africa, which unfortunately, is the centre of several pandemic diseases threatening not only the economy and social cohesion of the continent but also seriously affecting other parts of the world. Thus, central to the workshop is the participation of this new generation of young African scientists from different backgrounds, including doctoral students and female scientists, to expose them to modern cutting edge scientific techniques and methods in the field, to put them in contact with world leading experts in different relevant fields, and have them taking part in the interdisciplinary discussions. This workshop, the first activity bringing together IMU, IUBS, IUIS, IUMS, ICIAM, ISSC, ecoHEALTH Alliance (Future Earth), ICSU ROA, ISB and UNESCO has the important objective of building a lasting collaboration and enriching expertise in the different organizations.
MAIN THEMES
• Epidemic diseases in the context of changing environment • Invasive species in the context of changing environment • Socio-economic adaptation to new epidemic diseases and invasive species
APPLICATION Website:http://www.aims.ac.za/en/research-centre/workshops-conferences/currentfuture/global-change-impact-on-diseases-and-alien-species-expansion Applications: the website will be open for applications in October 2015. The workshop is planned for 50 participants. The participants from Africa will receive full funding. Scientific Committee
Pablo Fernandez de ArroyabeHernaez (Spain, ISB), JacekBanasiak (South Africa, AIMS), YuryDgebuadze (Russia, IUBS), Charles Ebikeme (ISSC), Jorge Kalil (Brazil, IUMS), Mark Lewis (Canada), Jean Lubuma (South Africa), Alberto Martinelli (Italy, ISSC), Mariagrazia Pizza (Italy, IUMS), Mario Primicerio (Italy, ICIAM), Daya Reddy (South Africa, ICSU), Christiane Rousseau (Canada, IMU)
Organizers JacekBanasiak (South Africa) [email protected] Christiane Rousseau (Canada) [email protected]
Confirmed speakers and leaders of working groups
• Peter Daszak (medicine and disease
ecology), University of Columbia, USA
• Kristie Ebi (environmental health), University of Washington, USA
• Abba Gumel (mathematics),Arizona State University, USA
• John Hargrove (biomathematics, epidemiology, insect physiology), Center of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), South Africa
• Mark Lewis (mathematics), University of Alberta, Canada
• Andrea Pugliese (mathematical and theoretical population biology), University of Trento, Italy
• Judith Omumbo (epidemiology), African Academy of Science
• David Richardson (botany and zoology), University of Stellenbosch and Director of Centre for Invasion Biology, South Africa
About ICIAM
About ICIAMThe International Council for Industrial and AppliedMathematics (ICIAM) is a worldwide organization 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.
ICIAM is governed by a Board comprising representa-tives of its member societies. Programs run by ICIAM,and the By-Laws of the organization, can be found onthe ICIAM 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): Rubén Daniel SpiesCAIMS-SCMAI (Canadian Applied and Industrial Math-ematics Society, Société Canadienne de MathématiquesAppliquées et Industrielles): Raymond SpiteriCSCM (Chinese Society for Computational Mathematics):Xuejun XuCSIAM (China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe-matics): Pingwen Zhang and Guiying YanECMI (European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry):Michael GüntherESMTB (European Society for Mathematical and Theoret-ical Biology): Andrea De GaetanoGAMM (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): William (Bill)CookROMAI (Societatea Română de Matematică Aplicată şiIndustrială): Costica MorosanuSBMAC (Sociedade Brasiliera de Matemática Aplicada eComputacional): Paulo Fernando de Arruda ManceraSEMA (Sociedad Española de Matematica Aplicada):Tomás Chacón RebolloSIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics):Pam Cook and Cynthia PhillipsSIMAI (Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Indus-triale): Alessandro Speranza and Giovanni RussoSMAI (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Indus-trielles): Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira and Alain DamlamianSPMAC (Sociedad Peruana de Matemática Aplicada yComputacional): Obidio Rubio Mercedes
VSAM (Vietnamese Society for Applications of Mathemat-ics): Lê Hùng Són
The Associate Members and their representativesAIRO (Associazione Italiana di Ricerca Operativa): AnnaSciomachenAMS (American Mathematical Society): Don McClureAWM (Association for Women in Mathematics): Jill PipherChinaMS (Chinese Mathematical Society): Xiaoshan GaoCMS-SMC (Canadian Mathematical Society, Société Cana-dienne de Mathématiques): Elena BravermanCzechMS (Czech Mathematical Society): Zdeněk StrakošDMV (Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung): GüntherLeugeringEMS (European Mathematical Society): Franco BrezziENBIS (European Network for Business and IndustrialStatistics): Rainer GöbFMS-SMY-FMF (Finnish Mathematical Society, Suomenmatemaattinen yhdistys, Finlands matematiska förening):Samuli SiltananIMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics): Hans RudolfKünschIMU (Israel Mathematical Union): Amy Novick-CohenKMS (Korean Mathematical Society): Yong Hoon LeeLMS (London Mathematical Society): Stephen HuggettMSJ (Mathematical Society of Japan): Yoichi MiyaokaNMF (Norwegian Mathematical Society): Elena CelledoniÖMG (Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft):Alexander OstermannPTM (Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne (Polish Mathe-matical Society)): Łukasz StettnerRSME (Real Sociedad Matemática Española): María ElenaVázquez-CendónSingMS (Singapore Mathematical Society): Weizhu BaoSMF (Société Mathématique de France): Bernard HelfferSMG-SMS (Schweizerische Mathematische Gesellschaft -Société Mathématique Suisse - Swiss Mathematical Soci-ety): Jean-Paul BerrutSMM (Sociedad Matemática Mexicana): Mayra Nuñez-LopezSPM (Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática): FernandoPestaña da CostaSvMS (Swedish Mathematical Society, Svenska matematik-ersamfundet): Åke BrännströmUMI (Unione Matematica Italiana): Pierangelo Marcati
The current officers of ICIAMPresident: Maria J. Esteban, FrancePast President: Barbara Lee Keyfitz, USASecretary: Sven Leyffer, USATreasurer: Jose Alberto Cuminato, BrazilMembers-at-Large: Taketomo (Tom) Mitsui, Japan andVolker Mehrmann, Germany
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