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
  • January 6-7, 2003 Short Course: Industrial Strength Optimization
  • January 8, 2003 Tutorial: Optimization in Simulation-Based Models
  • January 9-16, 2003 Workshop: Optimization in Simulation-Based Models
  • March 11, 2003 Tutorial: Semidefinite Programming and Robust Optimization
  • March 12-19, 2003 Workshop: Semidefinite Programming and Robust Optimization
• Spring Quarter 2003: Information Technology and Optimization

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 July 21 through August 1. The 2004 summer program will be on "n-Categories: Foundations and Applications."

Hot Topics workshop. From December 4-6 there will be a workshop on Data driven control and optimization.

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 from May 17-22, 2003, followed by an Industrial Problems Solving Workshop at University of Calgary, from May 24-30. Watch the IMA home page for details. 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:

• August 12-16, 2002: Fifteenth International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), University of Notre Dame
• September 13-14, 2002: Topics in Linear Algebra, Iowa State University
• November 8-10, 2002: Current Trends in Mathematics and its Applications: A Conference in Honor of Avner Friedman's 70th Birthday , University of Minnesota
• 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