IMA "Milestones"

1982

• First annual program
• First Director: Hans Weinberger
• First Associate Director: George Sell
• Industrial Advisory Panel established
• Participating Institutions program begins with 10 schools

1984

• IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications series launched

1986

• Participating Corporations program begins
• The IMA computer network is installed
• The first IMA Volume appears

1987

• Avner Friedman appointed Director, Willard Miller appointed Associate Director
• First IMA summer program
• IMA Seminar on Industrial Problems begins
• The new version of the IMA Newsletter (with titles and abstracts) appears
• The first issue of IMA Abstracts appears
• Undergraduate component of Seminar on Industrial Problems begins

1988

• First Mathematics in Industrial Problems Volume appears
• IMA-3M Joint Symposium on Signal Processing
• The IMA expands to Lind Hall

1989

• The IMA Conference Hall and Reception Room opens
• First "hands-on'' computer algebra workshop
• First "hands-on'' supercomputer workshop
• First Industry Day program

1990

• Industrial Postdoctorates program begins
• Industrial Advisory Committee established
• Summer program for PI graduate students begins
• First non-US based PI joins (University of Manitoba)

• First non-US based PC joins (Hitachi)

• IMA tutorial workshop for PIs: ``Connecting to Industry''

1991

• First non-US based Industrial Postdoc position (Siemens)
• First European-based PC joins (Siemens)
• First international cosponsored workshop (INRIA, France)

1992

• First European-based PI joins (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
• Summer Math Modeling program for graduate students begins

1993

• First workshop on Designing a Course in Industrial Mathematics for Undergraduates
• First workshop on How to Start an Industrial Postdoc Program offered

1994

• Robert Gulliver appointed Associate Director

1996

• First Hot Topics workshop
• First workshop on Women in Mathematical Sciences Connected to Industry offered
• First workshop on Minorities in Applied Mathematics Connected to Industry offered

1997

• First software benchmarking websites (PDE, Automatic Differentiation)
• Willard Miller appointed Director, Fadil Santosa appointed Associate Director for Industrial Programs, Frederic Dulles appointed Associate Program Director

1998

• First annual IMA Public Lecture
• The 100th IMA Volume appears

1999

• McKnight Seminar in the Mathematical Biosciences inaugurated

2000

• After a successful recompetition, IMA continues under new cooperative agreement.

2001

• Douglas N. Arnold appointed Director (press release), Fadil Santosa appointed Deputy Director, and Robert Gulliver appointed Associate Director

2002

• Scot Adams appointed as a full time Associate Director on September 1, 2002
• IMA New Directions Program was launched

2003

• IMA celebrates its 20th anniversary

2004

• Debra Lewis appointed Associate Director and Arnd Scheel appointed Deputy Director

2005

• 	NSF announces record funding for the IMA The IMA has been awarded a $19.5 million renewal grant by the National Science Foundation for the period 2005-2010, the largest single research investment in mathematics ever made by NSF. NSF math director William Rundell made the announcement at the IMA on July 20.
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2006

• Cheri Shakiban joins IMA as Associate Director

2007

• John R. Baxter joins IMA as Deputy Director

2008

• Fadil Santosa becomes the IMA Director on July 1, 2008.
• Markus Keel joins the IMA as Deputy Director and Chun Liu as Associate Director

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