ICIAM Dianoia. Volume 10, Issue 1 January 2022

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.

Greetings for the new year!

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). We are pleased to announce Pre Calls for Minisymposia and Contributed Talks as follows:

Pre Call for Minisymposia:

The call for minisymposia will be announced on March 1, 2022. The submission page will open on April 1, 2022 at the ICIAM 2023 webpage.

　A minisymposium is composed of one or several sessions of coordinated presentations on a single topic of interest and importance in industrial and applied mathematics. Each session within a minisymposium should include four presentations in two hours. Each speaker should be allotted 25 minutes for their presentation, with an additional 5 minutes for discussion. We greatly encourage you to propose a minisymposium.

Pre Call for Contributed Talks:

The call for contributed talks will be announced on March 15, 2022. The submission page will open on April 15, 2022 at the ICIAM 2023 webpage.

　Contributed talks in lecture format are invited in all areas consistent with the congress themes covering topics in industrial and applied mathematics. A contributed talk is a 15-minute oral presentation, with additional 5 minutes for discussion. Those intending to participate in a contributed talk at ICIAM 2023 must submit the title of their presentation, together with a brief abstract (not to exceed 75 words), using the online submission form.

The ICIAM 2023 webpage is at: https://iciam2023.org

We strongly encourage you to join this wonderful event!

Shin’ichi Oishi, ICIAM 2023 Congress Director

Takeshi Ogita, ICIAM 2023 Local Scientific Program Committee Chair

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.

Who is Wil Schilders? Currently, Wil is Full Professor and Chair of Scientific Computing in Industry in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Technical University Eindhoven. Wil earned his BSc and MSc at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and defended his PhD thesis in 1980 at Trinity College Dublin. He started at Philips CFT (Centre for Industrial Technology) as a researcher in the Mathematical Software Group. In 1991 he moved to Philips Research and became Senior Researcher in the Applied Mathematics Group. Later he worked there as Principal Researcher, IC Design. In 2006 this part of Philips became NXP Semiconductors. Wil was promoted to both Principal Senior, Systems and Circuits and Leader of the mathematics cluster within NXP. Wil started in 1999 as part-time professor at the Technical University Eindhoven. From 2010 he has held two jobs: Full Professor in Eindhoven and Executive Director of the Dutch Mathematics Platform (PWN).

Besides his regular jobs, Wil has been very active in various networks.  In 2010-2011 he was ECMI President; then he was founder, board member, treasurer (2013-2015), and President (2016-2020) of EU-MATHS-IN (European Service Network of Mathematics for Industry and Innovation). He is a member of the following International Advisory Boards: Matheon/MATH+ Berlin (2015-), CeMEAI Brasil (2017-), IMI (Fukuoka) (2015-); Member of the Standing Committee SCEE (treasurer; 2018-). Furthermore, he was Officer-at-Large of ICIAM from 2019 until 2021. Wil has organized many international conferences and written numerous applied mathematics papers in renowned international journals.

His current research consists of two main topics: Model Order Reduction for linear, non-linear, coupled and parameterized systems; and combining scientific computing methods with machine learning/neural networks.

What are the plans of Wil, when he becomes President of ICIAM? Please find below his vision and some of his aspirations:

• He likes to stick to a rigorous time schedule for the officers and the board for the organization of the ICIAM Congress.
• He plans to produce a handbook with clear guidelines and timings to help the organizing committees to organize the ICIAM congress in a smooth and efficient way.
• ICIAM has built up relations with the ISC (International Science Council) and has become a member of ISC. For Wil it is essential that we retain good contacts with ISC and make use of their excellent network to also promote industrial and applied mathematics. This can also help to increase the contact with International Mathematical Union (IMU).
• Wil foresees a larger involvement of member societies in tasks defined during board meetings.
• Finally, he likes to stress the Industrial involvement of ICIAM and have more PR for mathematics in applications: "Maths Inside" and "Mathware".

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.

1. Launch of the ISC Global Commission on Science Missions for Sustainability

Political leaders, scientists, and influential personalities have issued an emergency warning on sustainability inaction by establishing a Global Commission to mobilize a $100 million a year global fund for Sustainability Science Missions - this will be a key priority for the ISC in the coming years, and is one of the outputs from the ISC Global Forum of Funders initiative and its report "Unleashing Science". The Commission of more than twenty high-level committed thought leaders will be chaired by Irina Bokova, former UNESCO Director-General, and Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and previous administrator of the UNDP.

• Access and share the press release: 
• Explore the multimedia portal “Unleashing Science - Delivering Missions for Sustainability”: https://stories.council.science/unleashing-science/
• Read the report "Unleashing Science": https://council.science/Commission/Report

2. Launch of the CFRS paper “A contemporary perspective on the free and responsible practice of science in the 21st Century”

We invite you to read a letter to ISC Members from the ISC Vice-President for Freedom and Responsibility in Science, Professor Anne Husebekk: https://council.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Letter-to-ISC-Members_10-December-2021.pdf

On the occasion of International Human Rights Day (10 December), the ISC’s Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science (CFRS) has published the Discussion Paper “A contemporary perspective on the free and responsible practice of science in the 21st century”.

The Paper is intended for a broad readership, including researchers, research managers, policymakers, science diplomats, and those in the private sector. We invite all ISC Members to read, share and discuss the publication with all those in your network who have a role to play in upholding the free and responsible practice of science in contemporary society.

• Access and share the press release: 
• Access the paper and explore the multimedia portal:

3. ISC 2022 – 2024 Action Plan published

We thank all of our Members for your input and feedback on the draft 2022 – 2024 Action Plan, which was adopted by the ISC membership at the 2nd ISC General Assembly in October. “Science and Society in Transition” sets out the framework of ISC activities over the next three years, outlining five priority domains. The document is now available online, including a print-friendly version, and we very much look forward to implementing the plan together with our Members.

• Access the Action Plan: 

4. International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development proclaimed

On 2 December, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming 2022 the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development to highlight the crucial role of basic sciences for sustainable development, and emphasize their contributions to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The proposal for the Year was developed by ISC Member, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), with the encouragement and support of the ISC and you, our Members, as well as partner institutions and the UNESCO. Congratulations to the IUPAP on having this International Year endorsed by the United Nations.

• Access the press release:

With best regards,

Anne
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Anne Thieme | Membership Liaison Officer
International Science Council (ISC) 
anne.thieme@council.science | www.council.science  
Paris, France

In a significant recognition of the importance of basic science, on December 2, 2021, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2022 the "International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development". This initiative was put forward by the International Science Council, based on a proposal developed by IUPAP (the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics), and supported by many members of ISC. ICIAM is one of the institutions behind the initiative. ICIAM President Ya-xiang Yuan signed a Memo of Understanding to confirm our involvement. President-elect Wil Schilders is ICIAM's representative. The mission and activities of the organization behind IYBSSD can be found at their website,  https://www.iybssd2022.org/en/home/ .

The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD2022) will be officially inaugurated with an opening conference 30 June – 1 July 2022 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Events and activities will be organized around the world until 30 June 2023.

The International Science Council announced this support with a press release that can be found at https://council.science/current/press/international-year-of-basic-sciences-proclaimed-un

In their statement, the ISC describes the actions of the United Nations General Assembly:

“We need more basic sciences to achieve Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.” This is the message sent to the world by the United Nations General Assembly on 2 December 2021: Member States approved by consensus the resolution 76/A/L.12 promulgating the year 2022 as the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development. With this resolution, the United Nations General Assembly ‘invites all [its] Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and other global, regional and subregional organizations, as well as other relevant stakeholders, including academia, civil society, inter alia, international and national non-governmental organizations, individuals and the private sector, to observe and raise awareness of the importance of basic sciences for sustainable development, in accordance with national priorities’.

The United Nations General Assembly motivated its decision with ‘the high value for humankind of basic sciences’, and with the fact that ‘enhanced global awareness of, and increased education in, the basic sciences is vital to attain sustainable development and to improve the quality of life for people all over the world’. It also stressed that ‘basic sciences and emerging technologies respond to the needs of humankind by providing access to information and increasing the health and well-being of individuals, communities, and societies’. The successes and difficulties of the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic have been for two years a stark reminder of this importance of basic sciences, such as (but not limited to) biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and anthropology.

The vote is the result of the mobilization of the international scientific community, led since 2017 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), CERN (The European Laboratory for Particle Physics), and 26 other international scientific unions and research organizations from different parts of the world, under the auspices of UNESCO. Over 90 national and international science academies, learned societies, scientific networks, research and education centers are also supporting this initiative. They will organize events and activities all over the planet during this special year, to showcase and improve the links between basic sciences and the 17 SDGs.

The resolution was proposed to the United Nations General Assembly by Honduras, and co-sponsored by 36 other countries. Its vote confirms resolution 40/C 76 adopted unanimously by UNESCO General Conference, 25 November 2019.

ICIAM is an active participant in the new Standing Committee on Gender Equality in Science (See the page, https://iciam.org/standing-committee-gender-equality-science-scges).  To bring greater attention to activities supporting gender equality, ICIAM has created a new web page to collect information about activities its member societies are doing in support of gender equality.  The page is located at: https://iciam.org/iciam-activities-support-gender-equality. 
We know that there are many activities worldwide that support gender equality, and we will use this page to highlight them.  If your society has had an event or some news of activities that support gender equality, please send information to Carol Woodward (woodward6@llnl.gov), and we will get it on the web site.
 
Authors:
Carol S. Woodward is a mathematician at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her research includes portable numerical software, time integration methods, and algebraic solvers. Guiying Yan is a professor at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She is a Vice-President of National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences.  Her research includes graph theory and its applications.

The Ministry of Science and Innovation has recognised the work of the UPV/EHU professor in the area of Mathematics and Information and Communication Technologies

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.

Created in 1982, the national research awards, organised by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, aim to recognise the merit of Spanish researchers who are carrying out outstanding professional work of international relevance, and who contribute “exceptionally to the advancement of science, to a better understanding of human beings and their coexistence, to the transfer of technology and to the progress of humanity”.

The jury of the Julio Rey Pastor National Prize highlighted Luis Vega’s “excellence of his research work and its applications to the study of harmonic analysis for dispersive differential equations, which have had a very singular scientific impact in the field”. The jury also highlighted the international projection of the candidate and, in short, the contribution of his scientific work to both the theoretical and practical fields of Mathematics.

“It is a great joy and a strong stimulus. Many years of shared effort with my colleagues and students have been very pleasantly rewarded. I joined the UPV/EHU’s Faculty of Science and Technology in 1993 thanks to the receptiveness of the Department of Mathematics. The support of this institution and later of BCAM, one of the research centres of the Basque Government’s BERC programme, has been constant. Without this support, and the fundamental support of my family, this success would not have been possible. Thank you all very much”, said Luis Vega.

Luis Vega González (Madrid, 1960) graduated in Mathematics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1982. He received his doctorate in 1988 from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and after a two-year stay at the University of Chicago he joined the UAM. In 1993 he joined the University of the Basque Country, where he has been Professor of Mathematical Analysis since 1995.

Professor Vega is currently the Principal Investigator of the Severo Ochoa accreditation at BCAM and a world-renowned expert in partial differential equations and Fourier analysis. He has been vice-president of the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society (RSME) and member of the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics (SEMA), and he is currently an officer of the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). He is also a member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea.

In his extensive career, Prof. Vega has been awarded for his research work on several occasions: in 2012 he received the Euskadi Research Award and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (Inaugural Class), and in 2015 he received the Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics.

He also leads the HADE project (Harmonic Analysis and Differential Equations: new challenges) funded by the European Research Council.