2002-3 Annual Program. This year's thematic program at the IMA is Optimization. In almost every facet of human economic activity (and many other activities as well) there is something that you would like to do faster, cheaper, more efficiently, or otherwise better in some quantifiable sense, and so, optimization is everywhere. This years program is concentrated on some of the most mathematically interesting, and challenging, areas in this vast arena: Supply chain and logistics optimization in the fall quarter, New optimization paradigms and approaches in the winter quarter, and Information technology and optimization in the spring.

• Fall Quarter 2002: Supply Chain and Logistics Optimization
• Winter Quarter 2003: New Optimization Paradigms and Approaches
• Spring Quarter 2003: Information Technology and Optimization
  • Tutorial: Network Management and Design, Sunday, April 6, 2003
  • Workshop 6. Network Management and Design, April 7-11, 2003
  • Tutorial: Data Analysis and Optimization, Monday, May 5, 2003
  • Public Lecture by Gene Meyers entitled " Advances in Whole Genome Sequencing," 6 May 2003
  • Workshop 7. Data Analysis and Optimization, 6-9 May, 2003
  • IMA 20th Anniversary, 5-7 June, 2003
    Reception/Open House and Public Lecture by Charles Peskin entitled "Secrets of the Heart Revealed-by Mathematics and Computer Simulation," June 5, 2003
    Conference on "The IMA at 20: Mathematics and its Impact," 6-7 June, 2003
  • New Directions Short Course 16-27 June 2003

Upcoming annual programs.

• 2003-4 Probability and Statistics in Complex Systems: Genomics, Networks, and Financial Engineering
• 2004-5 Mathematics of Materials and Macromolecules: Multiple Scales, Disorder, and Singularities
• 2005-6 Imaging

Summer Programs. The 2003 summer program at the IMA on Probability and Partial Differential Equations in Modern Applied Mathematics will run from 21 July through 1 August. The 2004 summer program will be on n-Categories: Foundations and Applications, and will run 7-18 June.

Hot Topics workshop.

• During the week of 3 November 2003 there will be a workshop on Agent Based Modeling and Simulation.
• During 11-15 May 2004 there will be a workshop on Compatible Spatial Discretizations for PDE.

Programs for graduate students. The IMA summer course for graduate students will be held from July 14-August 1, 2003 at Georgia Tech on the subject of Combinatorics and its Applications. The IMA will partner with the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences to run a Graduate Mathematics Modeling Camp at the new BIRS center at Banff, 17-22 May 2003, followed by an Industrial Problems Solving Workshop at University of Calgary, 25-29 May. Graduate students completing their PhD can apply for an IMA postdoctoral membership for next year's program.

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

• March 21-23, 2003: MImage Processing and Computational Methods, University of Kentucky
• March 27-30, 2003: Automorphic Representations, L-functions and Applications: Progress and Prospects, Ohio State University
• May 18-22, 2003: Free Boundary Problems in Partical Differential Equations and Applications, Wayne State University
• May 28-June 1, 2003: 23rd Annual Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, University of Illinois
• June 24-27, 2003: Conference of African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS9), Purdue University
• July 13 - 26, 2003: Summer School on Applications of Advanced Mathematical and Computational Methods to Atmospheric and Oceanic Problems (MCAO 2002), NCAR
• August 28-30, 2003: International Conference on Computability and Complexity in Analysis, University Cincinnati