IMA Update, Fall 2004

Fall 2004

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Upcoming Programs

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Recent IMA Programs

Current Annual Program: Mathematics of Materials and Macromolecules: Multiple Scales, Disorder, and Singularities

9/20-24/04 Tutorial: Mathematics of Materials
9/27-10/1/04 Workshop: Modeling of Soft Matter
10/05/04 IMA Public Lecture: Roger Penrose (University of Oxford), Does Mathematics Rule the World?
10/25-29/04 Workshop: Singularities in Materials

2003-2004 Annual Program: Probability and Statistics in Complex Systems: Genomics, Networks, and Financial Engineering

Fall Quarter: Mathematical and Statistical Problems in Genome Sciences
- 9/15-19/03 Tutorial: Tools for Model and Data Integration in the Genome Sciences/Information Integration Technologies for Complex Systems
- 9/29-10/3/03 Workshop 1: Statistical Methods for Gene Expression: Microarrays and Proteomics
- 10/20-24/03 Workshop 2: IMA/RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics
- 11/17-21/03 Workshop 3: Networks and the Population Dynamics of Disease Transmission
Winter Quarter: Communication Networks
- 1/7-9/04 Short Course: The Internet for Mathematicians

Spring Quarter: Quantitative Modeling in Finance and Econometrics

3/29-4/2/04 Short Course: Tools for Modeling and Data Analysis in Finance/Asset Pricing
4/12-16/04 Workshop 7: Risk Management and Model Specifications Issues in Finance
5/3-7/04 Workshop 8: Model Implementation, Algorithms and Software Issues
5/24-28/04 Workshop 9: Financial Data Analysis and Applications

Summer Programs.

2004 summer program: n-Categories: Foundations and Applications, June 7-18.
2004 New Directions short course: Computational Topology, July 6-16.

Special Workshops.

Enhancing the Searching of Mathematics, 26-27 April 2004
Compatible Spatial Discretizations for PDE, 11-15 May 2004
Adaptive Sensing and Multimode Data Inversion, 27-30 June 2004

Programs for Graduate Students.

2004 IMA PI Summer Program for Graduate Students: Coding and Cryptography, June 8-26, 2004. The University of Notre Dame hosted the 2004 IMA summer graduate program in mathematics.
2004 Mathematical Modeling in Industry - A Workshop for Graduate Students, August 9-18, 2004

Participating Institutions Programs.

The IMA supports a number of conferences at its Participating Institutions. Upcoming PI conferences are:

The Riviére-Fabes Symposium on Analysis and PDE
University of Minnesota, April 23-25, 2004
C. Kenig (Chicago), N. Krylov (Minnesota), W. Littman (Minnesota), F. Reitich (Minnesota), and O. Zeitouni (Minnesota), organizers
International Conference on Mechanics and PDEs
University of Wisconsin, April 30 - May 2, 2004
Shi Jin and A. Tzavaras, organizers
Mathematical Modeling in Cardiovascular Mechanics, Texas A&M, May 17-21, 2004
2nd Symposium in Analysis and PDEs, Purdue University, June 7-10, 2004, Donatella Danielli, organizer
20th Annual Mathematical Problems in Industry Workshop
University of Delaware, June 21-25, 2004
R. Braun and D. Edwards, organizers
New Developments in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
University of Minnesota, June 23-25, 2004
F. Gazzola (Polytechnico Milan), P. Pucci (Perugia), J. Serrin (Minnesota), organizers
Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting
University of Michigan, July 25-28, 2004
P. Nelson, T. Jackson, C. Simon and D. States, organizers
International Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
University of Chicago, September 17-19, 2004
D. Dos Santosa (Chicago), J. Pipher (Brown), G. Ponce (UCSB), T. Toro (Washington), organizers