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

Editor-in-Chief

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alexander OstermannUniversity of InnsbruckNumerical Analysis GroupDepartment of MathematicsTechnikerstraße 13/76020 Innsbruck, Austriae-mail: alexander.ostermann@uibk.ac.at

Tomás Chacón RebolloUniversidad de SevillaDepartamento deEcuaciones Diferenciales yAnálisis Numéricoe-mail: chacon@us.es

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The ICIAM DianoiaVol. 3, No. 1, January 2015

EDITORIAL: Who Pays for Interdisciplinary Re-search? — Barbara Lee Keyfitz 2

ICIAM 2015 Update 4Press Release: Dr. Heide Hackmann to be ICSU

Executive Director and Dr. Lucilla Spini,Head of Science Programmes 4

Call for Nominations of Candidates for The FelixKlein Prize 5

Report on ICWM 2014 — Sunsook Noh 5Call for Nominations for ICIAM Officers:

Secretary, Treasurer, Officers-at-Large 6Announcement of MCA-2017 8The SMAI Journal of Computational Math-

ematics — Douglas N. Arnold & ThierryGoudon 8

BioDynamics 2015 10Announcing MATHESIA — Luca Formaggia 10Invited Speakers of ICIAM 2015 11ICIAM 2015 Mini-symposia — Extended deadlines 12Save the Date! 13About ICIAM 14

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EDITORIAL: Who Pays for Interdisciplinary Research?

Cover illustration: The Beijing national stadium also known as the Bird’s Nest was designed by the Swiss ar-chitectural firm Herzog & de Meuron. Originating from the study of Chinese ceramics, the design consists of twoindependent structures, an inner bowl and an outer framework, that together give the outward appearance of a bird’snest.

EDITORIAL: Who Pays for Interdisciplinary Research?by Barbara Lee Keyfitz

He who pays the piper calls the tune. — Proverb

While the news is not official yet, and many details havenot been determined, it appears at this point that theNSF-funded Institute for Mathematics and Its Applica-tions (IMA) at the University of Minnesota will be clos-ing its doors within a couple of years, and its sister in-stitute, MBI (the Mathematical Biosciences Institute) atOhio State will not continue much longer in its presentform. The ICIAM community will remember MBI as thegracious host of our scientific workshop and board meet-ing last spring, and will recall the financial support forthe workshop provided by IMA. As one of many peoplewhose career was immensely helped by participation inprograms at the IMA, I am personally saddened by bothdecisions. They are also ominous auguries for the futureof interdisciplinary research.

The US National Science Foundation does not makeits decisions without careful reasoning, and our commu-nity expects to learn those reasons in due course. It’swell-known that the Division of Mathematical Sciencesat NSF has had to absorb substantial budget cuts in thelast few years, and had responded in part by encourag-ing the mathematics institutes (there are six that receivethe majority of their funding from NSF) to engage infund-raising, which turns out to be an easier task for anautonomous organization like MSRI than for an institutethat operates within a university. So surely some of thisis simply about running out of money. Even so, fund-ing agencies are always setting priorities, and to destroysomething that has been created over a period of overthirty years seems to be more calamitous than, say, re-ducing the size of individual grants or putting a cap onsalaries and equipment.

In the case of MBI, the message appears to be thatthe output of the institute contributes to both mathemat-ics and biology, and the contribution to biology needs tobe subtracted from the contribution to mathematics inworking out a funding formula. It is possible that a simi-lar philosophy is at work in the decision about the IMA.There are some technical difficulties with the applicationof this arithmetic to MBI, because even if one acceptsthe argument that the content discipline ought to payits share, the content disciplines in mathematical biologyspan all of the life sciences, including biology, biochem-

istry, bioengineering, medicine and even agriculture andpublic health, and collecting the appropriate share fromeach of them does not seem practical. One can see thatin the case of IMA, whose programs ally with a differentfield each year, this sort of cost-sharing is not feasible atall.

But what if it is the basic premise that is flawed?Readers of DIANOIA may recall a review in an earlierissue of the book “The Mathematical Sciences in 2025”(commissioned, ironically, by the NSF itself). That book,MS 2025, was rather cheerful about the point that “thereis no clear line” that separates mathematical sciencesresearch from research in the “content discipline” beingmodeled, and in my review I worried that this was an in-vitation to turf warfare. Indeed, if one thinks a bit moreclearly about the description of mathematical sciences ac-tivity given in MS 2025, “. . . aim to understand the worldby performing formal symbolic reasoning and computa-tion on abstract structures”, then one could write a con-trasting description of the activities of scientists and en-gineers who identify with other disciplines. Again quot-ing from the report, such scientific activity comprises“the quest to turn empirical observations into a meansto classify, order and understand reality — the basis ofscience.” As anyone knows who has attempted interdis-ciplinary research, or has tried their hand at consulting,the first thing that an applied mathematician has to do isto understand the language, assumptions and objectivesof the target problem. And the successful mathematicalresearcher turns their creativity in formal symbolic rea-soning (I’m sure the authors intended this to include PDEestimates) or computation toward answering the ques-tions posed by the scientist. But the two strivers — themathematician and the scientist — have differing objec-tives. This is true even if they have tremendous respectfor each other’s goals. What mathematician would notwant to contribute to curing cancer? What engineer is notdelighted to happen upon an intriguing mathematical ob-ject? And there are happy people whose achievements areapplauded both by mathematicians and by people whodon’t identify with mathematics at all (though if you lis-ten carefully the achievements that are praised differ be-tween the two groups). But the people who are actually

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doing the work usually have no trouble distinguishing be-tween the “mathematical” and the “domain science” as-pects of their contributions.

The education of postdoctoral fellows (PDF) has beena significant accomplishment of most of the mathemati-cal institutes; none more so than in the case of IMA andMBI, both of which hire PDF on multi-year contracts.An understanding of the subtle nature of interdisciplinaryinteractions is one of the lessons taught to these youngpeople by the institutes. Again, from MS 2025: “Theircollective impact in changing and broadening the cultureof the mathematical sciences has been enormous.”

Alas, the use of the past tense in that sentence wasprescient. While it is possible that IMA may find a wayto continue without NSF funding, this blow falls at atime when State and University budgets are shrinking.In the US, the Federal government has traditionally beenthe institution that supports basic, visionary science. Aninstitution supported by one of the mission agencies orby state-level funding would look very different from thecurrent IMA. And, oddly, while the posture of NSF insupporting individual investigator grants in mathematicshas always been, “support the scientist rather than theproject”, the notion of a curiosity-driven institute, as dis-tinct from an individual, now appears to be anathema toNSF, at least where applied mathematics is concerned.One can see the contradiction in such a policy by lookingat a model tentatively proposed by NSF for the future ofMBI: an institute that would be jointly funded, 50-50, bythe mathematics division and the biology directorate ofNSF. (Let me emphasize that this is not an actual pro-posal, as it has not yet been accepted by either unit.)A moment’s thought should be enough to make it ap-parent that the way PDF are trained in mathematics istotally different from PDF training in biology. A typicallife-sciences postdoc spends a good deal of time in a labo-ratory. During a three-year stint at MBI, a PDF is usuallyexposed to at least three different areas of the life sciencesand mathematics. A life-sciences postdoc specializes in asingle discipline. If you were a sponsor paying the salaryof a PDF for three years, and you did not have an in-trinsic interest in mathematics, would you indulge thisactivity? Most likely you would see it as dilettantism. Asmathematical scientists, we do not.

In simplest terms: The activity of an institute inany other discipline appears to a mathematician to bemission-oriented. When I was, briefly, an institute direc-

tor, the question we were most often asked by other sci-entists was, “But what is your institute about?” “Acceler-ating the pace of discovery”, we would reply, recognizingthat to a non-mathematician it sounds weak. “Changingthe culture” also sounds weak. But it is not. The roleof the mathematics institutes, collectively, in changingthe discipline from isolated to connected has been rec-ognized, and appreciated. And the specific role of IMAand MBI in broadening and making more mathemati-cal the interaction between mathematics and other sci-ences is also clear. But who cares? Recall that currentIMA and MBI postdocs typically continue their careersin mathematics departments. Furthermore, it is no secretthat the typical practitioner of what we might call a non-mathematical science has little understanding of and lessrespect for “performing symbolic reasoning . . . on abstractstructures”. The Deloitte report on UK mathematical re-search (also featured in an earlier issue of DIANOIA),while determining that mathematical sciences research isresponsible for 10% of employment in the UK, is at painsto point out that most of that 10% of workers do notunderstand the mathematical research that they are us-ing. And there is palpable contempt for the mathematicalGestalt in the infamous (in our profession) PCAST reportthat urges an experiment in which mathematics would betaught to university undergraduates by mathematicallyliterate scientists from other disciplines.

The research celebrated at the IMA and at MBI hassignificantly centered on the impact of interdisciplinarycollaborations on the mathematical sciences. Once theseinstitutes are no more, the ability of the US to projectleadership in this area will be severely diminished. Nopayer means no piper means no tune.

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

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Press Release: Dr. H. Hackmann to be ICSU Executive Director and Dr. L. Spini, Head of Science Programmes

ICIAM 2015 Updateby Scientific Program Committee of ICIAM 2015

Online registration for ICIAM2015 has opened. Pleaseregister before April 30 to enjoy the discounted rates. Formore information, please visit the webpage

www.iciam2015.cnOnline hotel reservation has also opened. Please makeyour reservation as early as possible to secure a roomat the discount rates for participants of ICIAM2015. Formore information, please visit the webpage

www.iciam2015.cn/Hotels-Tours.htmlMore than 3000 talks had been submitted to ICIAM2015and it is expected that ICIAM2015 will have the largestnumber of participants for the congress. If you have notsubmitted the abstract of your talk yet, please do so be-fore February 28 at submission.iciam2015.cn.

Prof. Zeng Qing-Cun has been selected to be the speakerfor the public lecture during ICIAM 2015. Prof. Zeng’sresearch fields cover broad areas such as the fundamen-tal physico-mathematical problems of atmospheric andgeophysical fluid dynamics, computational mathematicsapplied to fluid mechanics, remote sensing theory and in-version method, numerical weather and climate predic-tions, natural cybernetics and the study on the disasterrisk reduction of meteorological hazards.Prof. Zeng was an invited speaker at ICIAM1995. He isa member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a foreignmember of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a fellow ofTWAS, and an honorary member of the American Mete-orological Society.

Press Release: Dr. Heide Hackmann to be ICSUExecutive Director and Dr. Lucilla Spini, Head of ScienceProgrammes

Heide Hackmann.

Heide Hackmann, a socialscientist with extensiveexperience running inter-national research organi-zations, will be ExecutiveDirector of the Council’sSecretariat from March2015. Lucilla Spini, abiological anthropologistwith experience in in-ternational science coor-dination will take onthe newly created roleof Head of Science Pro-grammes in early Jan-uary.

Hackmann joins the Council from the InternationalSocial Science Council (ISSC), where she has been Exec-utive Director since 2007. During her tenure, she strength-ened ISSC’s activity profile, membership base and fi-nancial position, and forged strong links with the Inter-national Council for Science through key partnerships.These include the Integrated Research on Disaster Riskprogramme and the Science and Technology Alliance forGlobal Sustainability, the consortium of international or-ganizations that founded Future Earth, the new globalresearch initiative on global sustainability, and coordinat-

ing inputs from the international scientific community onkey policy processes at the United Nations.

Hackmann also led the launch of the regular WorldSocial Science Forums and spearheaded the developmentof a new series of World Social Science Reports. She ini-tiated a new global social science research funding andcoordination programme on Transformations to Sustain-ability, which was launched in March 2014 as a majorcontribution to Future Earth.

Announcing her appointment, Hackmann said thatshe felt “excited and grateful for the privilege to headthe activities of ICSU, an organization with a long trackrecord of strengthening international research collabora-tion, and now assuming a leadership role in securing effec-tive collaborations between the sciences and with societyin order to address global priority problems.”

Peter Liss will step down as Interim Executive Direc-tor of the International Council for Science, when Hack-mann takes up her new role on 2 March, 2015.

President of the International Council for Science,Gordon McBean, said: “We are extremely pleased to an-nounce Heide Hackmann’s appointment as Executive Di-rector. During her tenure at ISSC, she has demonstratedher ability to rally scientists from both the natural andsocial sciences to work together to address some of thebiggest challenges facing humanity. ICSU will benefitgreatly from her leadership, vision, and ability to build

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Report on ICWM 2014

bridges between different disciplines.” He added that theExecutive Board was “confident that Hackmann will leadthe Council to renewed strength and influence.”

Hackmann was born in South Africa and completedher PhD in Science and Technology studies at the Uni-versity of Twente, Netherlands in 2003. From then until2007 she was Head of the Department of InternationalRelations and National Quality Assurance and Director:CO-REACH (an EU-funded multi-lateral initiative forthe Coordination of Research between Europe and China)at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences(KNAW).

The Council also announced that Dr. Lucilla Spini willtake on the newly created post of Head of Science Pro-

grammes, starting from 12 January, 2015. In this role,she will manage the development and implementation ofICSU’s scientific and science for policy initiatives, as de-fined in its Strategic Plan. Spini is an Italian nationalwho holds a B.A. in anthropology from New York Uni-versity, as well as an M.Sc. in human biology and D.Phil.in biological anthropology, both from the University ofOxford. Since 2001, she has worked on science/policybridging, global environmental change, sustainable devel-opment and research coordination for a number of in-ternational organizations, including UNESCO, UNU, andthe FAO. She is currently a Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fel-low in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard’sKennedy School of Government.

Call for Nominations for The Felix Klein PrizeThe call of nominations for the Felix Klein prize of the EMSis open.Principal GuidelinesIt will be awarded to “to a young scientist or a small groupof young scientists (normally under the age of 38) for us-ing sophisticated methods to give an outstanding solution,which meets with the complete satisfaction of industry, to aconcrete and difficult industrial problem”.Deadline for SubmissionNominations for the prize should be addressed to the chair-man of the Prize Committee, Professor Mario Primicerio(University of Florence). The nomination letter must reach

the EMS office at the following address, not later than De-cember 31, 2015:EMS SecretariatMs. Elvira HyvönenDepartment of Mathematics & StatisticsP.O.Box 68 (Gustaf Hällströmink. 2b) 00014University of HelsinkiFinlandThe prize will be presented at the 7th European Congressof Mathematics (Berlin 2016). For more information pleasesee the website www.euro-math-soc.eu/felix-klein-prize

Report on ICWM 2014by Sunsook Noh

The International Congress of Women Mathematicians2014 (ICWM 2014) was successfully held on August 12thand 14th in Seoul, Korea with over 500 attendees repre-senting more than 50 countries.

The meeting was held at Ewha Womans University onthe 12th and at the COEX ICM 2014 venue on the 14th.This meeting was especially timely for women mathemati-cians around the world since Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani ofStanford University became the first woman mathemati-cian to be awarded the Fields Medal at the opening cer-emony of ICM 2014. An internationally cooperative ef-fort of the International Mathematical Union, the LocalOrganizing Committee in Korea, the Korean Women inMathematical Sciences, the International Program Com-mittee and the International Advisory Committee helpedto make ICWM 2014 a truly special global event. Inparticular, the Local Organizing Committee of ICWM

2014 provided travel grants to 100 of the 1,000 NANUMTravel Grant recipients of ICM 2014 through the initiatedthe ‘Together Travel Grant Project (TOGETHER 2014)’,thus allowing participation of women from all parts of theworld to both ICWM 2014 and ICM 2014.

ICWM 2014 brought together many women who weregiven the opportunity to see, learn, and understand fromeach other about the field of mathematics and the dedica-tion required to succeed in this difficult career field. Themeeting provided a sense of community and a sense ofconnection to women in mathematics around the world,from students to experienced educators and researchers.

The two day program consisted of the 2014 ICMEmmy Noether lecture by Georgia Benkart (USA) to-gether with 7 plenary lectures given by invited speak-ers from around the world (Laura Demarco, USA; IsabelDotti, Argentina; Motoko Kotani, Japan; Hee Oh, USA;

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Call for Nominations

Gabriella Tarantello, Italy; Donna Testerman, Switzer-land), a special lecture from Ingrid Daubechies, IMUPresident, a poster presentation session by about 100 pre-senters around the world (20 of which received a bestposter award), a Mathematics-Arts Workshop led by RezaSarhangi of Towson University, a panel discussion aboutissues surrounding women in mathematics led by invitedpanel members representing different regions of the world(Shihoko Ishii, Japan; Soon-Yi Kang, Korea; BarbaraKeyfitz, USA; Marie Francoise Ouedraogo, Burkina Faso;Marie-Francoise Roy, France; Dongmei Xiao, China), andfinally a WiM-Networking ICWM banquet.

The WiM-Networking banquet was a time of cel-ebration, and networking as short presentations in-troduced the major women in math organizations inthe U.S., Africa, Europe, Korea, and the newly cre-ated international Women in Mathematics Committeeof IMU by their representatives (Ruth Charney, AWM;Marie Francois Ouedraogo, AWMA; Marie-Francoise Roy,EWM; Pyung-Lyun Kang, KWMS; Ingrid Daubechies,IMU/WiMC).

Information about ICWM 2014 including the program

book and photos of the attendees of the meeting can befound on the website www.icwm2014.org.

Sunsook Noh is a Pro-fessor in the MathematicsEducation Department, Col-lege of Education at EwhaWomans University in Seoul,Korea. She received herPhD in Mathematics fromPurdue University and MAin Mathematics Educationfrom Louisiana State Univer-sity. Her main research inter-ests are Commutative Alge-bra and Teacher Education.Among her various duties,she has recently served as theLocal Organizing Chair forICWM 2014, the Presidentof the Korean Women in

the Mathematical Sciences(KWMS) and the Dean ofthe College of Education atEwha Womans University.

Call for Nominations for ICIAMOfficers: Secretary, Trea-surer, Officers-at-LargeThe ICIAM Board Meeting in Beijing (August, 2015) willinclude elections to fill all the ICIAM officer positions exceptPresident/President-Elect (which was filled in 2013): TheICIAM By-Laws state that elections for Secretary, Treasurerand Officers at Large take place on years congruent to 3mod 4. The terms, which are four years in duration, beginon October 1 of the election year.The current president is Barbara Keyfitz (USA), and thepresident-elect is Maria J. Esteban (France), whose term asPresident will begin October 1, 2015. The other officers areas follows.

• Alistair Fitt (UK), Secretary, will have served twoterms in 2015.NOT eligible for renewal

• Jose A. Cuminato (Brazil), Treasurer, will have servedone term in 2015.ELIGIBLE for renewal

• Taketomo (Tom) Mitsui (Japan), Officer-at-Large,will have served one term in 2015.ELIGIBLE for renewal

• Mario Primicerio (Italy), Officer-at-Large, will haveserved two terms in 2015.NOT eligible for renewal

The duties of these positions are described in the By-Lawsas follows.

The Secretary maintains the records of the or-ganization in cooperation with the President andin accordance with the decisions made by theBoard.

The Treasurer is responsible for the funds ofthe organization and annually presents a reporton these funds to the Board.

Officers-at-Large do not have specific dutiesassigned by the By-Laws. At present MarioPrimicerio chairs the membership committeeand Tom Mitsui chairs the ICSU committee.

Nominations for all of these positions are solicited, and maybe sent to any of the current officers, any time before the2015 Board Meeting, but preferably before July 10, 2015,so that information may be circulated to the Board in ad-vance. ICIAM Officers serve without remuneration; however,reasonable officer expenses in carrying out their duties arereimbursed from ICIAM funds.Anyone with an interest in becoming or nominating anICIAM Officer is invited to discuss the positions with anyof the current officers.

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https://ojs.math.cnrs.fr/index.php/SMAI-JCM

SMAI Journal of Computational Mathematics publishes high quality research articles on the design and analysis of algorithms for computing the numerical solution of

mathematical problems arising in applications.

Publication in SMAI-JCM is completely free for both authors and readers. No fees are charged to authors of accepted papers, and papers are freely accessible online to anyone. This is made possible by the generous support of the sponsoring organizations CNRS, INRIA and SMAI.

While the lack of fees is a radical departure from traditional journals, which charge subscription and/or author processing fees, the peer review, production, dissemination, indexing and other journal functions at SMAI-JCM are very similar to those in the best traditional journals.

Editors-in-chief: Douglas N. ARNOLD (School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, USA) Thierry GOUDON (Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, France)

Editors

Remi Abgrall, Institut für Mathematik Universität Zürich, SwitzerlandGuillaume Bal, Columbia University, USAVirginie Bonnaillie-Noel, CNRS, ENS, FranceEmmanuel Candes, Stanford University, USASnorre Harald Christiansen, University of Oslo, NorwayRicardo Cortez, Tulane University, USARosa Donat, University of Valencia, SpainPaul Dupuis, Brown University, USAThomas Y. Hou, Caltech, USAVolker Mehrmann, Technische Universität Berlin, GermanyPaola Pietra, Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche del CNR, ItalyOlivier Pironneau, LJLL-UPMC (Paris VI), FranceAl�o Quarteroni, EPFL, SwitzerlandJean-François Remacle, Université Catholique de Louvain, BelgiumJesus-Maria Sanz-Serna, Universidad de Valladolid, SpainRobert Schreiber, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, USAAndrew Stuart, University of Warwick, UKDenis Talay, Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, FranceMarc Teboulle, Tel-Aviv University, IsraelPhilippe Villedieu, ONERA, The French Aerospace Lab, Toulouse, FranceJinchao Xu, Pennsylvania State University, USAYa-xiang Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Published by SMAI, the French society for applied and industrial mathematics.

The SMAI Journal of Computational Mathematics

Announcement of MCA-2017Following the very successful first Mathematical Congressof the Americas, MCA-2013 in Guanajuato, the sec-ond such Congress, MCA-2017, will take place in Mon-treal, Canada on July 23-28, 2017. The confirmed plenaryspeakers 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 where more de-tails are to be seen at www.mcofamericas.org.

We look forward to seeing mathematicians from through-out the world in Montreal in July, 2017.

The SMAI Journal of Computational Mathematicsby Douglas N. Arnold & Thierry Goudon

A widely accessible, carefully peer-reviewed scientific lit-erature is truly important. It is crucial to effective re-search, and hence has significant impact upon the world’shealth, security, and prosperity. However, the high costof many journals blocks access to many researchers andinstitutions, and places an unsustainable drain on theresources of others. Addressing this issue, the Sociétéde Mathématique Appliquées et Industrielles, or SMAI,the French professional society for applied and industrialmathematics, has committed to the founding of a newjournal of computational mathematics: the SMAI Jour-nal of Computational Mathematics, or SMAI-JCM. It willbe freely accessible to all, and will not require the pay-ment of fees for publication.

The journal, which has just commenced operationsand is reviewing its first submissions, intends to publishhigh quality research articles on the design and analy-sis of algorithms for computing the numerical solutionof mathematical problems arising in applications. Suchmathematical problems may be continuous or discrete,deterministic or stochastic. Relevant applications spanthe sciences, social sciences, engineering, and technology.SMAI-JCM, reflecting the broad interests of a strong anddiverse international editorial board, takes a broad viewof computational mathematics, ranging from the more an-alytical (numerical analysis) to the more applied (scien-tific computing and computational science). In particular,the journal welcomes submissions addressing:

• Computational linear and nonlinear algebra• Numerical solution of ordinary and partial differen-

tial equations• Discrete and continuous optimization and control• Computational geometry and topology• Image and signal processing• Processing of large data sets

• Numerical aspects of probability and statistics; as-sessment of uncertainties in computational simula-tions

• Computational issues arising in the simulation ofphysical or biological phenomenon, engineering, thesocial sciences or other applications

• Computational issues arising from new computertechnologies

• Description, construction and review of test casesand benchmarks

As this list indicates, the editorial board recognizesthat excellence in computational math arises from abroad spectrum of researchers and viewpoints, and en-courages submissions of different sorts, with varying bal-ance between computational results and theoretical anal-ysis. Typically the strongest submissions are expected toinvolve both aspects. The journal will also provide for thepublication of supplementary materials such as computercodes or animations.

Peer review will be carried out at SMAI-JCM just asin top traditional journals, and the journal will strive tomaintain the highest ethical standards and to employ thebest practices of modern scholarly journal publication.However the journal’s business model is a radical depar-ture from current practice. All papers accepted by SMAI-JCM will be electronically published in full open access,downloadable by anyone, without delay and in perpetu-ity. Publication in SMAI-JCM is also entirely free to au-thors, with the only barrier being scientific quality as de-termined by careful peer review, not financial. Of course,the publication of a high quality journal does incur costs,in addition to the freely given efforts of authors, editors,and referees. For SMAI-JCM these financial costs are di-rectly borne by SMAI and other sponsoring organizations.We believe that this approach is the most promising way

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to achieve the goal of universal access to the scientific lit-erature, and we hope that a successful SMAI-JCM willnot only improve the publishing of computational math-ematics, but serve as a model for other journals.

Context for the new journal can be found in a recentreport1 by ICSU, the International Council for Science,whose members are primarily scientific unions, such as theInternational Mathematical Union; national academies ofscience; and other international scientific organizations, ofwhich ICIAM is one. The report advocated the followinggoals: “The scientific record should be:

• free of financial barriers for any researcher to con-tribute to;

• free of financial barriers for any user to access im-mediately on publication;

• made available without restriction on reuse for anypurpose, subject to proper attribution;

• quality-assured and published in a timely manner;and

• archived and made available in perpetuity.”

Unfortunately, these goals are far from a realization.In the area of computational mathematics, for example, asingle well-known computational physics journal chargesannual subscription fees that vary between $6,652 and$11,396 for online institutional access well more thanmany institutions can afford,2 and numerous other jour-nals charge very steep fees. Despite the massive revenuesgenerated for the publisher by these fees, the articles pub-lished are not “free of financial barriers for any user to ac-cess immediately on publication,” but only freely availableto users from subscriber institutions. Authors wishing tohave their papers placed in open access, are required topay an additional fee of $2,200.3

After studying the situation the ICSU report con-cludes that the resources used to support scientific pub-lication are sufficient to bring about a scientific litera-ture as described above: free of financial barriers to ac-cess or contribution, while maintaining quality peer re-view and the best practices in publishing. The obstacleto such a system comes not from the available resources,but rather from the current business models predominantin scholarly publishing. If these models are to change, itwill surely have to be researchers themselves, the peo-ple who provide the content for the journals and carryout the key editorial and refereeing roles, who bring thisabout. Similar conclusions have been arrived at in other

reports, as well. An October 2014 report4 of the FrenchAcademy of Sciences called on scientists to “regain controlof costs for activities that relate to dissemination of scien-tific information,” while reaffirming “the primary need forpeer-reviewing of articles before publication by academicresearch scientists,” and the importance of “participationof academics in the final approval decisions.”

SMAI-JCM is responding to these calls, offering amodel of journal publication which, if widely deployed,can make these goals a reality. Our success in this dependscrucially on the acceptance and support of SMAI-JCM bythe community. We very much encourage the submissionof strong papers in computational mathematics to thejournal. Please visit the journal at

ojs.math.cnrs.fr/index.php/SMAI-JCMand help us take a step towards quality, accessible, ethicalpublishing in mathematics.

Douglas Arnold is a com-putational mathematicianemployed as the McKnightPresidential Professor ofMathematics at Universityof Minnesota, and co-Editor-in-Chief of SMAI JCM. Inthe past he served as thedirector of the Institute forMathematics and its Appli-cations (IMA) and as pres-ident of the Society for In-dustrial and Applied Mathe-matics (SIAM).

Thierry Goudon is a SeniorScientist at Inria, a publicresearch institute dedicatedto computational sciences.He received the Robert Dau-tray prize in recognition ofworks in the theory of ra-diative transfer. Photo H.Raguet/ c© Inria.

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Announcing MATHESIA

BioDynamics 2015We would like to invite you to the next BioDynamicsWorkshop, which will take place in Edinburgh on 15-17 April, 2015.

This will be the second in a series of internationalworkshops designed to bring together biologists, mathe-maticians, clinicians, physicists, and computer scientistswho are interested in dynamical systems in the biologicaland medical sciences. They provide a unique and excitingforum for multidisciplinary interactions, which we hopewill lead to rewarding collaborations between theoretical,experimental, and clinical scientists.

There will be a number of keynote presentationsdelivered by world-leading scientists, who will talk abouttheir cutting-edge current research and highlight im-portant future challenges within their field. Confirmedkeynote speakers include:

• Professor Richard Bertram, Florida State Univer-sity, United States

• Professor Marian Joëls, UMC Utrecht, Netherlands• Professor Craig McArdle, University of Bristol,

United Kingdom• Professor Patrice Mollard, Institute of Functional

Genomics, Montpellier, France• Professor David Nutt, Imperial College London,

United Kingdom• Professor Steven Schiff, Penn State Center for Neu-

ral Engineering, United States

In addition to keynote presentations, the workshop willfeature a number of selected shorter talks, with plentyof time for informal discussion, and poster sessions will

also provide an opportunity for people to present and dis-cuss their work. Posters will be on display throughout theworkshop, and there will be prizes awarded for the bestposters from students and early-career scientists. As partof our commitment to public engagement, we plan to hostan interactive event within the meeting.

BioDynamics 2015 promises to provide an exciting op-portunity for scientists to present their data in a multi-disciplinary forum and hear how collaborations betweenbiological scientists, clinicians and mathematicians canprovide major conceptual advances in our understandingof complex systems.

We would like to invite you to the next BioDynamics Workshop, which will take place in Edinburgh on 15-17 April 2015.

This will be the second in a series of international workshops designed to bring together biologists, mathematicians, clinicians,

physicists, and computer scientists who are interested in dynamical systems in the biological and medical sciences. They provide

a unique and exciting forum for multidisciplinary interactions, which we hope will lead to rewarding collaborations between

theoretical, experimental, and clinical scientists.

There will be a number of keynote presentations delivered by world-leading scientists, who will talk about their cutting-edge

current research and highlight important future challenges within their field. Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Professor Richard Bertram, Florida State University, United States

Professor Marian Joëls, UMC Utrecht, Netherlands

Professor Craig McArdle, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Professor Patrice Mollard, Institute of Functional Genomics, Montpellier, France

Professor David Nutt, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Professor Steven Schiff, Penn State Center for Neural Engineering, United States

In addition to keynote presentations, the workshop will feature a number of selected shorter talks, with plenty of time for

informal discussion, and poster sessions will also provide an opportunity for people to present and discuss their work. Posters

will be on display throughout the workshop, and there will be prizes awarded for the best posters from students and early-

career scientists. As part of our commitment to public engagement, we plan to host an interactive event within the meeting.

BioDynamics 2015 promises to provide an exciting opportunity for scientists to present their data in a multidisciplinary forum

and hear how collaborations between biological scientists, clinicians and mathematicians can provide major conceptual

advances in our understanding of complex systems.

Registration for the workshop and abstract submission is now open - please note that the early bird deadline is 16 January

2015, and the abstract submission deadline is 8 February 2015.

Visit the website to register and for further information: www.bio-dynamics.org/events/biodynamics-2015-0 Or contact the BioDynamics 2015 Conference Secretariat: The Conference Collective, 8 Waldegrave Road, Teddington, TW11 8GT, UK Tel: +44 (0) 20 8977 7997 Email: biodynamics@conferencecollective.co.uk

The main sponsor of the workshop is the Medical Research Council, with additional funding from other sources.

Registration for the workshop and abstract submission isnow open - please note that the early bird deadlineis 16 January, 2015, and the abstract submissiondeadline is 8 February, 2015.Visit the website to register and for further information:www.bio-dynamics.org/events/biodynamics-2015-0or contact the BioDynamics 2015 Conference Secretariat:The Conference Collective, 8 Waldegrave Road, Tedding-ton, TW11 8GT, UK Tel: +44 (0) 20 8977 7997 Email:biodynamics@conferencecollective.co.uk

The main sponsor of the workshop is the MedicalResearch Council, with additional funding from othersources.

Announcing MATHESIAby Luca Formaggia

Announcing Mathesia, a new and we believe unique so-cial/crowdsourcing network. Dedicated to mathematicsand to math specialists, its aim is to provide a venuewhere “"mathematics meets industry to create innova-tion”.

In case you would like to know more, and we hope youdo, please visit us at www.mathesia.com. Registration isfree before December 1st, 2015.

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Invited Speakers of ICIAM 2015

Invited Speakers of ICIAM 2015Bob Bixby Nancy ReidGurobi Optimization, Inc., USA University of Toronto, Canada

Analisa Buffa Mark SagarIstituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie The Laboratory for Animate Technologies,Informatiche, Italy The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Gunnar Carlsson Claudia SagastizábalStanford University, USA Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e

Aplicada, BrazilJean Michel CoronUniversité Pierre et Marie Curie, France Laure Saint-Raymond

École Normale Supérieure, FranceLisa FauciTulane University, USA Jesús Sanz Serna

Universidad de Valladolid, SpainMartin HairerWarwick University, UK Ludger D. Sax

Grid Optimization Europe-System PlanningRavi Kannan Gas & Water, GermanyMicrosoft Research, India

Jin-Keun SeoKarl Kempf Yonsei University, KoreaINTEL Corporation, USA

Zuowei ShenShunlong Luo National University of SingaporeAcademy of Mathematics and Systems Science,CAS, China Ian Sloan

The University of New South Wales, AustraliaVolker MehrmannTechnische Universität, Berlin, Germany Simon Tavaré

Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, UKGabriel NguetsengUniversity of Yaounde I, Cameroon Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Courant Institute, NYU, USAYasumasa NishiuraTohoku University, Japan Barbara Wohlmuth

Technische Universität, München, GermanyRicardo NochettoUniversity of Maryland, USA Yinyu Ye

Stanford University, USAShige PengShandong University, China

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ICIAM 2015 Mini-symposia — Extended deadlines

ICIAM 2015 Mini-symposia — Extended deadlinesby Scientific Program Committee of ICIAM 2015

Mini-symposia

Each mini-symposium consists of at least four 25-minutepresentations, with an additional five minutes for discus-sion after each presentation. In general, mini-symposiawill be scheduled as four-presentation sessions. Multiple-session mini-symposia may be submitted. Preference willbe given to mini-symposia that list all speakers and talktitles. Prospective mini-symposium organizers are askedto submit a proposal consisting of a title, a description(not to exceed 100 words), and a list of speakers and ti-tles of their presentations.It is recommended that a mini-symposium organizer makethe first presentation. Each mini-symposium speakershould submit an abstract of at most 75 words. The orga-nizing committee will evaluate mini-symposium propos-als. The number of mini-symposia may be limited to re-tain an acceptable level of parallelism in the conferencesessions.Participants are normally limited to presenting two talksat most during ICIAM in order to maximize the oppor-tunity for all participants to speak. If you are invited tospeak in more than one mini-symposium, we suggest youuse the opportunity to nominate a collaborator to presentyour work.To ensure balance, ICIAM prefers that a single individualnot be the organizer of more than one mini-symposium.In addition, ICIAM discourages mini-symposia in whichmost of the speakers come from the same organization orif all co-authors of the papers being presented in a mini-symposium are from the same organization.To encourage the submission of more and high qualitymini-symposia, a limited number of mini-symposia willbe selected by the organizing committee according to thenumber and diversity of speakers as well as the signifi-cance of the topics, and the registration fee of one speakerof these selected mini-symposia will be waived.

Industrial Mini-symposiaAn industrial mini-symposium is quite the same as a mini-symposium in form. The subject must be relevant to gen-uine industrial problems, and there should be at least onespeaker coming from industry.Prospective industrial mini-symposium organizers areasked to submit a proposal consisting of a title, a de-scription (not to exceed 200 words), and a list of speakersand titles of their presentations. Each industrial mini-symposium speaker should submit a 75-word abstract.

The organizing committee will evaluate mini-symposiumproposals.To encourage this format, the organizing committee willprovide financial support to organizers of accepted indus-trial mini-symposia.

Important Dates - EXTENDEDMini-symposiaMarch 30, 2014: Mini-symposium online submissionopens;August 30, 2014: Early decisions announced for mini-symposium proposals;November 30, 2014: Submission deadline for mini-symposium proposals;December 30, 2014: Final decisions announced for mini-symposium proposals;February 28, 2015: Submission deadline for acceptedmini-symposium abstracts.

Contributed PapersJuly 30, 2014: Contributed papers online submissionopens;December 30, 2014: Submission deadline for contributedpaper abstracts.

PostersJuly 30, 2014: Poster online submission opens;April 30, 2015: Submission deadline for contributedposter abstracts.

Conference RegistrationEarly Bird Registration: January 1–April 30, 2015;Regular Registration: May 1–July 31, 2015;Late and On-site Registration: August 1–August 10, 2015.

Open websitesFinancial Support for attendees from developing coun-tries: www.iciam2015.cn/SupportEnquiry: support@amss.ac.cnSIAM Travel grants for attendees from U.S. institutions:www.siam.org/meetings/iciam15Call for exhibitors: www.iciam2015.cn/ExhibitsEnquiry: exhibit@amss.cnInformation about hotels is available as of Jan-uary 1, 2015 when registration starts. Details canbe found at the Congress’ homepage:www.iciam2015.cn

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Save the Date!

SAVE THE DATE!August 10-14, 2015

Beijing, China

The Secretariat of ICIAM 2015Siyuan Building,No. 55, Zhongguancun East Road,Beijing 100190,P.R. China

Email: iciam2015@amss.ac.cnTel: 8610-62613242Fax: 8610-62616840

Conference RegistrationEarly Bird Registration: January 1 - April 30, 2015Regular Registration: May 1 - July 31, 2015Late & On-site Registration: August 1 - 10, 2015

Contributed PapersSubmission Open: July 30, 2014Submission Due: December 30, 2014

Mini-symposiaSubmission Open: March 30, 2014Early Decisions Notification of Proposals:August 30, 2014Submission Due of Proposals:Extended to November 30, 2014Final Decisions Notification of Proposals:Extended to December 30, 2014Submission Due of Accepted Mini-symposium Abstracts:Extended to February 28, 2015

PostersSubmission Open: July 30, 2014Submission Due: April 30, 2015

Satellite ConferencesSubmission Open: January 1, 2014Submission Due: October 30, 2014

Embedded ConferencesSubmission Open: January 1, 2014Submission Due: October 30, 2014

Conference venue: The China National ConventionCentre

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About ICIAM

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

The Council works• to promote industrial and applied mathematics

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

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

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

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

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

The Associate Members and their representativesAIRO (Associazione Italiana di Ricerca Operativa):AMS (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 BravermanDMV (Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung): GüntherLeugeringEMS (European Mathematical Society): Franco BrezziIMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics): Hans RudolfKünschIMU (Israel Mathematical Union): Edriss S. TitiLMS (London Mathematical Society): Stephen HuggettMSJ (Mathematical Society of Japan): Yoichi MiyaokaÖMG (Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft):Alexander OstermannPTM (Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne (Polish Mathe-matical Society)): Łukasz StettnerRSME (Real Sociedad Matemática Española):SingMS (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):UMI (Unione Matematica Italiana): Pierangelo Marcati

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

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EDITORIAL: Who Pays for Interdisciplinary Research? — Barbara Lee Keyfitz ICIAM 2015 Update Press Release: Dr. Heide Hackmann to be ICSU Executive Director and Dr. Lucilla Spini, Head of Science Programmes Call for Nominations of Candidates for The Felix Klein Prize Report on ICWM 2014 — Sunsook Noh Call for Nominations for ICIAM Officers: Secretary, Treasurer, Officers-at-Large Announcement of MCA-2017 The SMAI Journal of Computational Mathematics — Douglas N. Arnold & Thierry Goudon BioDynamics 2015 Announcing MATHESIA — Luca Formaggia Invited Speakers of ICIAM 2015 ICIAM 2015 Mini-symposia — Extended deadlines Save the Date! About ICIAM