IMA Update, Spring 2006

Spring 2006

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Upcoming IMA Programs

Summer Programs

2006 New Directions Short Course: Biophysical Fluid Dynamics, June 19–30
2006 PI Summer Program for Graduate Students: Topology and its Applications, Mississippi State University, Starkville, July 10–28
2006 Summer Program: Symmetries and Overdetermined Systems of Partial Differential Equations, July 17–August 4
Mathematical Modeling in Industry X—A Workshop for Graduate Students, August 9–18, 2006

2006–2007 Annual Program: Applications of Algebraic Geometry

9/15–16/06	Tutorial: Algebraic geometric methods in engineering
9/18–22/06	Workshop: Algorithms in algebraic geometry
10/23–27/06	Workshop: Software for algebraic geometry
1/12–13/07	Tutorial: Algebraic algorithms in optimization
1/16–20/07	Workshop: Optimization and control
3/5–9/07	Workshop: Applications in biology, dynamics, and statistics
4/13–14/07	Tutorial: What is algebraic geometry?
4/16–20/07	Workshop: Complexity, coding, and communications
5/29–6/2/07	Workshop: Non-linear computational geometry

Future Annual Programs

2007–8 Molecular and Cellular Biology
2008–9 Mathematics and Chemistry

Special Workshops

10/2–4/06 "Hot Topics" Workshop: Negative Index Materials
11/3–4/06 Workshop: Blackwell-Tapia Conference
12/8–9/06 "Hot Topics" Workshop: The Evolution of Mathematical Communication in the Age of Digital Libraries

Participating Institutions Programs

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

Computational Number Theory and Applications to Cryptography
University of Wyoming, June 19–July 7, 2006
Organizers: Andreas Stein (Wyoming), Renate Scheidler (Calgary), Bryan Shader (Wyoming), and Duane Porter (Wyoming)
Asymptotic Analysis in Stochastic Processes, Nonparametric Estimation, and Related Problems
Wayne State University, September 15–17, 2006
Organizers: Pao-Liu Chow (Wayne State), Mark Freidlin (Maryland), Nicolai Krylov (Minnesota), Boris Mordukhovich (Wayne State), Boris Rozovskii (Southern California), and George Yin (Wayne State)
Midwest Quantitative Biology Conference
Michigan State University, September 29–October 1, 2006
Organizers: Peter Bates (Chair, Michigan State), Chichia Chiu (Michigan State), Leslie Kuhn (Co-Chair, Michigan State), Moxun Tang (Michigan State), and Guowei Wei (Co-Chair, Michigan State)
Random Matching and Network Formation
University of Kentucky, October 14–16, 2006
Organizers: Robert Molzon (Kentucky) and Daniela Puzzello (Kentucky)
Extremal Combinatorics at Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November 18–20, 2006
Organizers: Jozsef Balogh (UIUC), Zoltan Furedi (UIUC), Stephen Hartke (UIUC), Alexandr Kostochka (UIUC), and Douglas West (UIUC)
Computational and Mathematical Aspects of Materials and Fluids
Iowa State University, April 13–14, 2007
Organizers: Hailiang Liu (Iowa State), James Evans (Iowa State), and Steve Hou (Iowa State)
On Certain L-Functions
Purdue University, July 30–August 3, 2007
Local Organizers: David Goldberg (Purdue)and Jiu-Kang Yu (Purdue)
Scientific Organizing Committee: James Arthur (Toronto), James Cogdell (Ohio State), Stephen Gelbart (Weizmann Institute), Stephen Kudla (Toronto), Dinakar Ramakrishnan (Caltech), and Peter Sarnak (Princeton)

Details will appear on the IMA web site as they become available.