These workshops, introduced at the IMA in the 1990s, provide the mathematics community with a mechanism for organizing workshops on rapidly developing areas of interests, gathering those with diverse backgrounds to strengthen interdisciplinary connections. These stand-alone workshops are not necessarily connected to the Annual Thematic Program but rather they focus on a specific problem or area of exceptional contemporary interest and importance. Workshop topics are usually recommended by the IMA’s industrial partners or other research groups. These workshops are often cosponsored by a participating institution, corporation, government funding agency, or an NSF-focused research group.

Upcoming Hot Topics Workshops

• Mathematical and Computational Challenges in the Control, Optimization, and Design of Energy-Efficient Buildings, June 11-14, 2013
• Imaging in Geospatial Applications September 23-26, 2013
• Predictability in Earth System Processes, November 18-22, 2013

The IMA occasionally hosts workshops as needed covering specialized topics of interest to the community.

Upcoming Special Events

• Joint US-Japan Conference for Young Researchers on Interactions among Localized Patterns in Dissipative Systems June 3 - 7, 2013
• MAXIMA Interdisciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates June 10 - July 29, 2013
• WhAM! (Women in Applied Mathematics) Research Collaboration Workshop: Dynamical Systems with Applications to Biology and Medicine September 9-13, 2013