IMA UPDATE: Winter 2001

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WHAT HAPPENED RECENTLY

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IMA Participating Institutions Graduate Student Summer Program, "Number Theory," Kent State University, June 26-July 21, 2000
Organizer: Morley Davidson
For details, see http://www.ima.umn.edu/PI/summergrad2000.html
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Industrial Modeling Course for Graduate Students, July 19 - 28, 2000 Organizers: Rachel Kuske and Fernando Reitich Streaming video of public presentations and written final reports will appear shortly at http://www.ima.umn.edu/modeling/
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IMA "HOT TOPICS" Workshop: Mathematical Challenges in Global Positioning Systems (GPS), August 16-18, 2000
Organizers: Kai Borre, Gerard Lachapelle, Brian Leininger, Fan Liu
For program and talks, see http://www.ima.umn.edu/gps/
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IMA "HOT TOPICS" Workshop: Modeling and Analysis of Noise in Integrated Circuits and Systems, August 29-30, 2000
Organizers: Alper Demir, Kiran Gullapalli, Boris Rozovskii and Jacob White
For program and talks, see
http://www.ima.umn.edu/reactive/spring/circuit.html
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WHAT'S COMING UP

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2000-2001 IMA Participating Institutions Conferences (12 selected)
For details, see http://www.ima.umn.edu/PI/afilprogs.html
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IMA Career Workshop: Connecting Women in Mathematical Sciences to Industry (Cosponsored by the AWM), September 8-10, 2000
Organizers: Rosemary E. Chang, Suzanne Lenhart, Margaret H. Wright
For details, see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/women_in_industry.html

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IMA 2000-2001 Annual Program: MATHEMATICS IN MULTIMEDIA
Organizers: Michael Barnsley, Rosemary Chang, Tony Derose, Stuart Geman, Peter Olver, Roni Rosenfeld, Larry Schumaker, Ahmed Tewfik. For details, see http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/
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FALL TERM: Vision, Speech and Language

Short Course: Mathematical Methods in Speech and Image Analysis, September 11-15, 2000
For details, see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/fall/t1.html

Workshop 1: Mathematical Foundations of Speech Processing and Recognition, September 18-22, 2000
For details, see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/fall/m1.html

Minisymposium: Brain Imaging, October 11-14, 2000
For details, see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/fall/ms1.html

Workshop 2: Image Processing and Low Level Vision, October 16-20, 2000
For details, see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/fall/m2.html

Workshop 3: Mathematical Foundations of Natural Language Modeling, October 30-November 3, 2000
For details, see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/fall/m3.html

Workshop 4: Image Analysis and High Level Vision, November 13-17, 2000
For details, see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/fall/m4.html

Minisymposium: Fractals in Multimedia, January 17-19, 2001
For details, see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/winter/ms.html

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WINTER TERM: Digital Libraries
For details, see:
http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/index.html#winter

SPRING TERM: Geometric Design and Computer graphics
For details, see:
http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/index.html#spring

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IMA "HOT TOPICS" Workshops:

Mathematics of the Internet: E-Auction and Markets
December 3-5, 2000
Organizers: John Birge, Brenda Dietrich, Suzhou Huang, Ennio Stacchetti
For details, see:
http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/fall/auction.html ...........................................
Analysis and Modeling of Industrial Jetting Processes
January 10 - 13, 2001
Organizers: Michael Brenner,Avner Friedman,Gerry Puckett
For details,see:
http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/winter/inkjet.html

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SUMMER 2001 Program: Geometric Methods in Inverse Problems and PDE Control, July 16-27, 2001
Organizers: Organizers: Chris Croke, Irena Lasiecka, Gunter Uhlmann, Michael Vogelius
For details, see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/GM/ *******************************************************

OTHER FORTHCOMING ANNUAL PROGRAMS:

Mathematics in the Geosciences, September 2001 - June 2002
For details see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/geoscience/index.html

Optimization, September 2002 - June 2003
For details, see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/optimization/index.html

Probability and Statistics in Complex Systems: Genomics, Networks, and Financial Engineering, September 2003 - June 2004
For details, see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/complex/

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RECENT IMA VOLUMES IN MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Computational Modeling in Biological Fluid Dynamics, Volume 124
Editors: Lisa J. Fauci and Shay Gueron

Codes, Systems, and Graphical Models, Volume 123
Editors: Brian Marcus and Joachim Rosenthal

Multiple-Time-Scale Dynamical Systems, Volume 122
Editors: Christopher K.R.T. Jones and Alexander Khibnik

Mathematical Models for Biological Pattern Formation, Volume 121 (1st volume in the "Frontiers in Applications of Mathematics Series.")
Editors: Philip K. Maini and Hans G. Othmer

Parallel Solution of Partial Differential Equations, Volume 120
Editors: Petter Bjorstad and Mitchell Luskin

Numerical Methods for Bifurcation Problems and Large-Scale Dynamical Systems, Volume 119
Editors: Eusebius Doedel and Laurette S. Tuckerman

For a complete list of IMA Volumes, see: http://www.ima.umn.edu/volumes.html