The ICIAM Dianoia newsletter was created to express the interests of ICIAM member societies and partner organizations.
Quarterly letter from the President of ICIAM.
Report on a conference in October, 2022, partially supported by ICIAM.
Two recent items highlight the International Science Council's recognition of the importance of applied mathematics to science.
In this section we will highlight recent events, decisions, calls, and news concerning the International Science Council which the editors of DIANOIA find interesting for its readership.
The Standing Committee on Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) issued its second annual report. SCGES has 21 partners representing scientists around the world, brought together across disciplines to promote gender equality in science. The aim of SCGES is to ensure exchange of information amongst international scientific unions to foster gender equality and the implementation of recommendations of the “Gender Gap in Science Project.”
The SCGES Webinar Series is a regular event organized by its Partner Institutions and coordinated by the SCGES.
The 2023 ICIAM prizes were announced on September 20, 2022. They will be awarded at the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICIAM 2023, to be held in Tokyo (Japan), on August 20-25, 2023.
The 2022 ICIAM Board meeting was preceded by a workshop for participants and the local community, hosted by the IMA and the University of Strathclyde. This report by Iain Duff was written for the IMA publication Mathematics Today and is reprinted by permission.
Please visit the ICIAM 2023 webpage https://iciam2023.org for the latest news about the upcoming Congress, including announcements of
- Invited Lectures and the Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture
- Registration Fees
- Information about entry to Japan
Report on the October Webinar on Gender Equality
An update on recent decisions by the ISC.
The International Science Council (ISC)has released a conference report with https://council.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ExecutiveSummary-Conference-on-the-Ukraine-Crisis_web.pdfrecommendations for the international community to better support science systems affected by conflict.
https://ecmiindmath.orgOn September 20th took place the kick-off of the OpenDesk of EU-MATHS-IN. The OpenDesk offers any company the possibility of submitting its innovation needs that can be solved by Modelling, Simulation and Optimization technologies in a Data rich Environment (MSO-DE). It is devoted to coordinate and facilitate the necessary exchanges in the field of application-driven mathematical research and its exploitation for innovations in industry, science and society.
Letter from the President:
Thanks to the help from IMA and Iain Duff, the preparations for the 2022 ICIAM Workshop and Board meeting are going smoothly. The Workshop on Applied and Industrial Mathematics will be held at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow Sept 1-2, 2022, before the board meeting which will be held on Sept 3rd, 2022. (https://my.ima.org.uk/item.php?eventid=349)
ICIAM's application to be a full member of the International Science Council (ISC) was approved by the Governing Board of ISC. Being a full member of ISC, it is expected that ICIAM will play an more important role in the ISC, and that ICIAM's activities can be amplified and promoted through the platform of ISC.
The Call for Nominations for ICIAM Secretary is still open.
The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics has selected Professor IIse C.F. Ipsen of North Carolina State University, USA, to deliver the Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICIAM 2023, in Tokyo, Japan. This Congress is the most important international event in applied and industrial mathematics, held once every four years under the auspices of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
This open access book contains review papers authored by thirteen plenary invited speakers to the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Valencia, July 15-19, 2019).
ICIAM is happy to announce that we are now a full member of the International Science Council.
The ISC Governing Board met in Paris, June 7-9, 2022. The full PDF of the Governing Board Communiqué for ISC Members is available here: https://council.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Governing-Board-Communique.pdf
ICIAM welcomes a new member: the Serbian Mathematical Sciences Association joins as a small full member of ICIAM.
The article "Disclosing contrasting scenarios for future land cover in Brazil: Results from a high-resolution spatiotemporal model", which deals with predictive models for future land cover in Brazil and was published by the journal Science of The Total Environment, was chosen by the Brazilian Society of Applied and Computational Mathematics (SBMAC) as the winner of the second edition of the Johannes Kepler Prize.
The Brazilian Society of Applied and Computational Mathematics (SBMAC), in partnership with the School of Applied Mathematics of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV EMAp), will hold, in 2023, in Rio de Janeiro, the first Latin American Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (LACIAM).
SIAM News, June 2022 (Volume 55, Number 05) published this Obituary for Charles William Gear, who was chair of CICIAM (the predecessor of ICIAM) from 1991 to 1995. Reprinted here with permission from SIAM and the authors, Yannis Kevrekidis and Linda Petzold. Original article at https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/obituary-charles-william-gear.
The Officers of ICIAM have approved the endorsement of the initiative Science in Exile. ICIAM appears now as one of the endorsers of the global campaign in favor of refugee and displaced scientists at risk. The campaign and its background are detailed at https://scienceinexile.org/sign-declaration
On June 14 and 15, the ISC ran two zoom sessions (to account for different time zones) to introduce the ISC community to an ambitious project that UNESCO is undertaking. This article is a brief summary of the hour-long session.
Olle Häggström gives an explanation of Systemic Risk and a review of a recent document by the International Science Council.
On 5 July 2022, the IMU held the IMU Award Ceremony 2022 as a live event in Helsinki, Finland at Aalto University (Runeberginkatu 14–16, Aalto Töölö, 00100 Helsinki). Here the winners of the Fields Medals, IMU Abacus Medal, Chern Medal Award, Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize and Leelavati Prize were announced, and the awards handed over.
The CIMPA-School "Data Science and Stochastic Optimization" was held in the City of Sciences in Tunisia between 16 May and 27 May 2022. With ICIAM support, there were nine student fellowships.
Information about the ICIAM Board meeting September 3, 2022.
The most recent news and calls for submissions for ICIAM 2023: August 20-25, 2023 at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Update Your Membership Information on iciam.org (https://iciam.org/)
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICIAM has expanded its conference support to include virtual meetings.
A PDF version of each issue of ICIAM Dianoia can now be downloaded.
ICIAM is soliciting nominations for an ICIAM Secretary to serve from 2022 to 2027, renewable for another four-year term.
HKSIAM Joined ICIAM as a full member in 2021
ICIAM's secretary, Sven Leyffer of Argonne National Laboratory, has been elected as the next president of SIAM. His term will begin in January, 2023.
In an online meeting, the President of ISC gave a quick 15-20 minutes' presentation, giving his viewpoint about his plans as president, and about what is going on at the moment at ISC. He then answered questions from the audience.
The Standing Committee on Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) has launched a webinar series. The inaugural session featured mathematics.https://gender-equality-in-science.org/event/scges-webinar-february-16th-2022
An ongoing product of the Gender Gap in Science project.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2022 to Dennis Parnell Sullivan of Stony Brook University, USA, and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, USA
On March 30, 2022, ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named Jack J. Dongarra the recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M.Turing Award for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries.
On Monday 28 February 2022, the International Science Council issued a statement expressing its deep dismay and concerns regarding the military offensives being carried out in Ukraine. Since then, they have mounted several initiatives.
Here is a link to the ISC's main page, where you can find more information about actions the ISC is taking and encouraging in response to this crisis, which is also a crisis for science.
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ICIAM Conference Support 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. In addition to in-person meetings, ICIAM offers support for virtual meetings, for example by sponsoring waivers of registrations fees for participants from developing countries, or by supporting streaming or recording services. ICIAM encourages conference organizers to apply for support for virtual meetings using the general principles outlined in the announcement. See
https://iciam.org/iciam-conference-support-applied-and-industrial-mathematics-developing-countries for more details.
The 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICIAM 2023, will be held at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan on August 20-25, 2023 (https://iciam2023.org). Here are some announcements.
The ICIAM Board has selected the site of ICIAM 2027: The 2027 Congress will take place in The Netherlands, in the historic city of The Hague. It will be organized by the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (RDMS-KWG) and the Dutch Platform for Mathematics (PWN).
Wil Schilders was elected President of ICIAM in September 2021. His term as ICIAM President-Elect started on October 1, 2021; will serve two years as President-Elect, before taking over as President on October 1, 2023.
The ISC has announced four important updates, and has asked member associations to share all of these announcements with their colleagues, members, and wider networks.
In the summer of 2021, the International Science Council and BBC StoryWorks launched a project to document stories of how scientists are addressing inequalities, engaging policymakers and the public, and pioneering a more sustainable future. ICIAM accepted the invitation to propose "stories" that would show both the human side of science - the people who are working to benefit society through science - and some recent successes and current aspirations. The work of mathematician Ken Golden and his group at the University of Utah is now one of the featured items in the ISC's "Unlocking Science" series.
In December, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2022 the "International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development"
The Standing Committee on Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) has issued its first annual report.
If your society has had an event or some news of activities that support gender equality, ICIAM would like to feature it. Let us know!https://iciam.org/standing-committee-gender-equality-science-scges
The China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM) held its 19th annual conference in Hefei, Anhui Province, China during October 7-10, 2021. More than 1100 experts in applied mathematics and industries as well as young students from all over the country and abroad attended the conference.
The Julio Rey Pastor National Prize in the area of Mathematics and Information and Communication Technologies has been awarded to Luis Vega González, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of the Basque Country and coordinator of the Analysis of Partial Differential Equations area and Principal Researcher of the Severo Ochoa accreditation of the Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics – BCAM.
Andreas Griewank was among the first to work with ICIAM on making contact with applied mathematicians in developing countries. We mourn his passing, and celebrate his contributions. This this article is reprinted with permission from SIAM News, where it appeared in December 2021.
The following report was delivered to the ICIAM Board at its annual meeting in October, 2021.
The date of the meeting is Saturday, October 30, 2021. The time is given in the President's message:
05:00 (Chicago) / 11:00(London) / 12:00(Berlin) / 18:00 (Beijing) / 19:00(Tokyo).
Particular business for this meeting includes selecting the site of of 2027 ICIAM Congress.
Update Your Membership Information on iciam.org
ICIAM Conference Support for Applied and Industrial Mathematics in Developing Countries
Nominations for the 2023 Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture close December 30, 2021.
Tom Mitsui gives his perspective on the activities of the International Science Council.
Media Release of the ISC's recent report on the status of women in science
The ISC details its definition of open science, its plans for achieving it, and the dangers of too rigid a definition, and too heavy a regulation, of what constitutes "open science".
In September, I attended an online forum conducted by members of this ISC committee. What follows is a personal report on what I heard at the meeting.
ASAMACI's VIII Congress of Applied, Computational and Industrial Mathematics took place May 3 to 7, 2021 in virtual format. The congress was dedicated to Domingo Tarzia in honor of his 70th birthday.
On July 9th-11th, 2021, the first National Conference on Women's Applied Mathematics and Operations Research Management, co-sponsored by China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM) and Operations Research Society of China (ORSC) was successfully held in Yantai, China.
New variants of the COVID-19 virus pose a threat to our return to normal life, and some of ICIAM's activities are affected.
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.
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.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICIAM has expanded its conference
support to include virtual meetings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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/.
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.
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.
If you are reading this, you are most likely a subscriber to the ICIAM Dianoia newsletter. However, a strange thing happened over the past year and a half: thousands of subscribers were added to the mailing list. We assume this was caused by some mischievous hack, as most of the addresses were nonsense. To prevent an interminable delay in sending out notices (the server sends them out about 100 at a time, taking about an hour for each batch), our web consultant removed all addresses that were added after September 2, 2019. It is possible that we removed some names of legitimate subscribers. For this, we apologize.
If you were notified of this issue by e-mail, as usual, then everything is fine. You are still a subscriber, and ICIAM thanks you for your support. However, if you hear from anyone who was a subscriber and did not receive this issue, or if you did not receive it by e-mail but found it by browsing on the ICIAM site, then please re-subscribe. We have instituted a protocol that filters out illegitimate attempts to subscribe, so this should not happen again.
A report on ICIAM business and upcoming events: The COVID-19 pandemic is still not over, which affects our work and daily life. ICIAM's Spring officers meeting was held online on March 29th and March 31st, 2021. ICIAM is trying its best to keep business going on as usual, though some of our activities are slightly behind schedule. .
The Board meeting will be held on October 30th in Tokyo. We are still uncertain as to whether the meeting will be in-person, virtual, or mixed, and we hope to make a decision by July 15th. In case of an in-person Board meeting, we are also discussing arrangements for virtual access for members who otherwise cannot attend due to travel restrictions. The vote for ICIAM President-Elect will be held electronically to comply with our Bylaws (which state the the new President-Elect takes office on October 1st).
The most important project of ICIAM is the Congress. We have begun organizing ICIAM 2023. Organizing committee members are working with high spirits.
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.
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.
ICIAM's member societies are active and are constantly changing. Since the publication of the first list in January, other societies have held elections or made other changes. This column will become a regular feature. Please continue to send news to ICIAM Dianoia.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICIAM has expanded its conference
support to include virtual meetings.
The aim of this extraordinary GA was to vote on some modifications of the statutes of the ISC as well as the election of the members of the 2021 Elections Committee.
On April 12, I had the pleasure of listening to a public lecture by Sir Peter Gluckman, Director of Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, University of Auckland, and President-elect of the International Science Council. This note is a brief report on the lecture. .
An Institute for the Mathematics of Planet Earth has just been launched in France. In this article for ICIAM Dianoia, David Lannes interviews the two directors, Laure St-Raymond and Arnaud Guillin.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2021 to László Lovász of Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (ELKH, MTA Institute of Excellence) and Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA.
MCA 2021 is now a fully online event. It will take place 19-24 July, 2021. More information is on the Congress Website: www.mca2021.org
This tribute to Bob O'Malley is reprinted from the April 2021 issue of SIAM News (Volume 54, Number 03) https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/obituary-robert-e-omalley-jr. It is reprinted here by permission of SIAM and the authors. Further articles on Bob's contributions to ICIAM and the international applied mathematics community will appear in the next issue of ICIAM Dianoia.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICIAM has expanded its conference
support to include virtual meetings.
This is a new column, which we plan to publish periodically. Because so many societies implement leadership changes at the beginning of calendar year, the January issue of ICIAM Dianoia seems like an opportunity to update ICIAM's members on their colleagues' happenings.
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.
The Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA), founded in France in 1978, is a nonprofit organization that promotes research in Mathematics in developing countries. Located in Nice, it is a UNESCO Category 2 organization. It benefits from the financial support of France, Norway, Spain and Switzerland.
The International Science Council (ISC) was created in 2018 as the result of a merger between the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC). It is a non-governmental organization with a unique global membership that brings together 40 international scientific Unions and Associations and over 140 national and regional scientific organizations including Academies and Research Councils.
The biennial congress of the SeMA, due for last June, 2020, had to be postponed due the current public health situation all over the world. It will be held in Gijón, Spain, next 14-18 June 2021. Both online and face-to-face participation will be possible.
The UN general assembly has proclaimed the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-30). The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is among the world's leading research institutions. Its scientists explore the living world, matter, mathematics, the universe, and the functioning of human societies in order to meet the major challenges of today and tomorrow. How does this institution plan to address the specific issue of the ocean, and what role may mathematics play?
MCA 2021 is now a fully online event. It will take place 19-24 July, 2021. More information is on the Congress Website: www.mca2021.org
The Call for Applications is now open for the research grants for developing world scientists at TWAS, the World Academy of Sciences. https://twas.org
The African Mathematical Union announces the call for nominations for the 2021 PanAfrican Congress of Mathematicians Awards and Medals
Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 ICIAM board meeting
was held successfully online on September 26, 2020.
Call for proposals for conference support from developing countries. .
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.
The ICIAM Board meeting was held online, chaired by the President Ya-xiang Yuan, with the support of the secretary Sven Leyffer, who inter alia conducted the online voting, and Maria Esteban, the previous President, who organized the posting of the presentations. This meeting replaced the originally planned Board meeting that would have been hosted by the IMA and held at Strathclyde University.
Over the last decade there has been general agreement and support in the Asia-Pacific region to have regular industrial mathematics exchanges, conferences, internships, etc, which build on the activities already occurring. Over the years since the concept of an Asia-Pacific Consortium of Mathematics for Industry was first proposed, and more recently when planning to formalize such possibilities, there has been strong support and encouragement from colleagues in China, Hawaii, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, as well as in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
The Office of International Affairs, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, hosted an International Webinar on “Focusing on Mathematical Models & Analysis of the COVID-19 Crsis” on 17th & 18th June, 2020.
The event was done in collaboration with Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland and the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science & Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Technology and Engineering and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
As noted in the July 2020 Dianoia Issue, the global project, “A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It”, supported by ICSU and then ISC from 2017 to 2019 gave rise to a new Standing Committee on Gender Equity in Science. This committee, founded in June 2020 through a memorandum of understanding among 9 international unions, has as its goal the promotion of gender equity globally and across all sciences.
During Summer 2020 the European Women in Mathematics sent the following open letter to the community on the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable members of our community.
MCA 2021 is now a fully online event. It will take place 19-24 July, 2021. More information is on the Congress Website: www.mca2021.org
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