Letter from the ICIAM President Ya-xiang Yuan
New variants of the COVID-19 virus pose a threat to our return to normal life, and some of ICIAM's activities are affected.
ICIAM Dianoia. Volume 9, Issue 3 July 2021
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The 2021 ICIAM Board Meeting Will Be Virtual
The ICIAM Officers, in consultation with JSIAM, have decided to move the 2021 Board meeting to a virtual format, because of the still uncertain state of COVID-19 travel restrictions between many member countries. We hope that you will understand this difficult decision, and we hope to welcome you in Tokyo for ICIAM 2023, and the 2023 Board meeting.
Updating Your Society's Membership Information
ICIAM maintains a self-service membership directory at http://www.iciam.org/members. Please take this opportunity to check your membership information, and update it if appropriate.
Conference Support from ICIAM for Applied and Industrial Mathematics in Developing Countries
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICIAM has expanded its conference
support to include virtual meetings.
Call for Nominations: President-Elect of ICIAM
A new President-Elect of ICIAM will be elected this year, and we invite member societies to nominate candidates for President. Nominations should be sent to the ICIAM President (president@iciam.org) or Secretary (secretary@iciam.org) before August 15th, 2021. Please provide the full name, affiliation, and email address of the nominee with the nomination.
FINAL CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: THE 2023 ICIAM PRIZES
The ICIAM Prize Committee for 2023 calls for nominations for the six ICIAM Prizes to be awarded in 2023 (the Collatz Prize, the Lagrange Prize, the Maxwell Prize, the Pioneer Prize, the Su Buchin Prize, and the Industry Prize). Each ICIAM Prize has its own special character, but each one is truly international in character.
Call for Nominations for Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture at ICIAM 2023
The Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture is held every four years at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). This honor is conferred on a woman who has made 'outstanding contributions in applied mathematics and/or scientific computation'.
The lecture is named in tribute to the memory of Olga Taussky-Todd, whose scientific legacy is in both theoretical and applied mathematics, and whose work exemplifies the qualities to be recognized.
MathTech workshop in Poland
On December 4, 2020, the first MathTech Workshop on Mathematical Technologies for Industry was held in Poland. It was organized by the PL-MATH-IN network as a satellite event of the annual EU-MATH-IN Council Meeting. Originally, the workshop was planned to be held at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN) in Warsaw. However, due to the severe epidemic situation in Poland, it took place online.
Second CSIAM Forum Promoting Mathematics in Enterprise Innovation and Development
On June 12, the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM) kicked off a two-day forum in Chongqing to discuss how mathematics can promote innovation and development for companies.
International Science Council Statement on concerns for scientific freedom around the world
The mission of the International Science Council (ISC) is to act as the global voice for science. As part of that mission, the ISC defends the free and responsible practice of science, in accordance with the Council’s Principle of Freedom and Responsibility in Science, UNESCO recommendations, and international human rights instruments.
ISC News: Towards a sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
When the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) kicks off its 2021 meeting on Tuesday 6 July, one question will dominate: how to promote the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development in line with the goals of the 2030 Agenda at the same time as building a resilient plan for recovery from the pandemic.
https://council.science/hlpf/2021-2/
2022: International Year for Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD)
ICIAM is one of 28 leading organizations for this project, which has also enrolled over 70 distinguished supporting organizations. Their goal is to highlight the need to support the basic sciences that have played a fundamental part in development throughout the world, and that are needed even more for progress -- sustainable progress -- in the future. Details are on the website https://www.iybssd2022.org/en/home/.
Bob O’Malley, ANZIAM and ICIAM – a personal reflection
I remember Bob O’Malley as a larger-then-life character, who had a little-known but profound effect on the development of ANZIAM (which stands for Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics), and on its involvement with ICIAM – a subsequent involvement large enough to include a Congress (the Sydney Congress in 2003) and an Australian President.
Words of women in mathematics in the time of Corona
There is now a video that collects words of some 86 women in mathematics from 37 countries telling us about their experience in the time of Corona in 25 different languages.
A Funny Thing Happened
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