IMACS NEWS APRIL 2009

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1 IMACS IMACS NEWS APRIL 2009 IMACS President: Prof. Robert Beauwens Brussels Free University Belgium Honorary President: Prof. Robert Vichnevetsky Rutgers University USA Administration: France Pinon (Secretary) Brussels Free University-Belgium EU Office: Brussels Free University Belgium US Office: Rutgers University USA pdf version of the fourth 2009 edition of IMACS News, sent to IMACS members OUR WEBSITE IS MOVING The beta version of our new website is at is still accessible but is not updated IMACS AWARDS As announced in our previous edition, we created the IMACS 2008 MOST SUCCESSFUL PAPERS AWARD in recognition of the most appreciated IMACS contributions which appeared in The APNUM and MATCOM papers awarded are listed below. The authors and coauthors of these papers will be granted free 2009 IMACS membership. 1

2 Applied Numerical Mathematics 1. E.W.Sachs, A.K.Strauss, Efficient solution of a partial integro-differential equation in finance. vol 58, pp (374 downloads) 2. C.Pflaum, A multigrid conjugate gradient method. vol 58, pp (357 downloads) 3. S.V.Utyuzhnikov, Robin-type wall functions and their numerical implementation. vol 58, pp (345 downloads) 4. J.P.Kenne, L.J.Nkeungoue, Simultaneous control of production, preventive and corrective maintenance rates of a failure-prone manufacturing system. vol 58, pp (318 downloads) 5. R.Scherer, S.L.Kalla, L.Boyadjiev, B.Al-Saqabi,Numerical treatment of fractional heat equations. vol 58, pp (316 downloads) 6. S.C.S.Rao, M.Kumar, Exponential B-spline collocation method for self-adjoint singularly perturbed boundary value problems. vol 58, pp (293 downloads) 7. J.M.Urquiza, D.N Dri, A.Garon, M.C.Delfour, Coupling Stokes and Darcy equations. vol 58, pp (292 downloads) 8. N.Bodard, R.Bouffanais, M.O.Deville, Solution of moving-boundary problems by the spectral element method. vol 58, pp (282 downloads) 9. R.Kangro, P.Oja, Convergence of spline collocation for Volterra integral equations. vol 58, pp (260 downloads) 10. E.H.Doha, A.H.Bhrawy, Efficient spectral-galerkin algorithms for direct solution of fourth-order differential equations using Jacobi polynomials. vol 58, pp (257 downloads) 2

3 Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 1.. S.H.Chen, A.J. Jakeman, J.P. Norton, Artificial Intelligence techniques: An introduction to their use for modelling environmental systems, vol 78, pp (1520 downloads) 2. V.P.Nguyen, T.Rabczuk, S.Bordas, M.Duflot, Meshless methods: A review and computer implementation aspects, vol 79, pp (1294 downloads) 3. G.Buyukozkan, D.Ruan,Evaluation of software development projects using a fuzzy multi-criteria decision approach. vol 77, pp (988 downloads) 4. Y.Jie, L.Xufeng, Z.Yitan, Z.Zhonglong, A face detection and recognition system in color image series, vol 77, pp (960 downloads) 5. L. Zlajpah, Simulation in robotics, vol 79, pp (899 downloads) 6. X.Liu, X.Zeng, Y. Xu, L.Koehl, A fuzzy model of customer satisfaction index in e-commerce, vol 77, pp (866 downloads) 7. R. Shareef, M.McAleer, Modelling international tourism demand and uncertainty in Maldives and Seychelles: A portfolio approach, vol 78, pp ( 638 downloads) 8. C.C.Lee, M.S.Chien, Structural breaks, tourism development, and economic growth: Evidence from Taiwan, vol 77, pp (600 downloads) 9. L.H.Feng, X.C.Zhang, G.Y.Luo, Application of system dynamics in analyzing the carrying capacity of water resources in Yiwu City, China, vol 79, pp (500 downloads) 10. C.Lim, Y.Wang, China s post-1978 experience in outbound tourism, vol 78, pp (497 downloads) 3

4 The Sixth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the Sixth IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena thanks to a travel award from the organizers. The conference covered a breadth of topics: from neural signals to light propagation in optical fibers to rogue waves in the ocean. The participant list read like a Who s Who in the theory and numerical simulation of nonlinear wave phenomena. I was able to have several illuminating discussions with experts, leaders, and pioneers in my field of research, which currently is the applications of transform pairs induced by nonlinear integrable equations to data analysis in oceanography and acoustics. Also, being able to present my own research at the conference and receive feedback from established researchers in the field was invaluable. In fact, it was precisely due to my attendance at the 2007 edition of this conference, which was also made possible by the generous financial support of the organizers, that my present research came to be. There, a synergetic interaction with another conference participant lead me to reconsider the classical numerical experiment of Zabusky and Kruskal. For this work, I am honored to say I received a Best Student Paper award at the 2009 conference. In the end, the support I received from the conference organizers helped me in making an advance in my area of research, establishing my presence amongst the leaders of the field and vastly increasing the scope of my knowledge of nonlinear wave phenomena. IVAN Christov,student 4

5 CALENDAR OF EVENTS NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS & SOON COMING EVENTS NASCA 2009 Date: May 18-22, 2009 Place : Agadir, Morocco The International conference on : Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation with Applications MAIN TOPICS: Large linear systems and preconditioning, eigenvalue problems. High-performance and parallel computation. Linear algebra and control, model reduction.multigrid and multilevel methods. Numerical methods for PDEs : Finite element, Finite volume, Meshless methods... Approximation, Radial Basis Functions, Scattered data approximation,splines Optimisation. Applications: image processing, financial computation, learning machine,... For more informations, please refer to the web page: or contact us at: nasca09@lmpa.univ-littoral.fr INCOM 2009 Date: June 3-5, 2009 Place: Moscow, Russia 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing. Secretariat Prof. Natalia Bakhtadze V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences 65 Profsoyuznaya Street, Moscow , Russia Phone: +7 (495) Fax: +7 (495) s: incom09@ipu.ru, noc@incom09.org Web site: 5

6 MAMERN 2009 Date: June 8-11, 2009 Place: Pau, France Third International Conference on Approximation Methods and numerical Modeling in Environment and Natural Resources Contact: MODELLING 2009 Date: June 22-26, 2009 Place: Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic We would like to remind you that the deadline for registration and one page abstract is February 15, The details, all necessary information and on-line registration form can now be found on the web page ACA 2009 Date:June 25-28, 2009 Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada The ACA series of conferences is devoted to promoting the applications and development of Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation. Topics include computer algebra and symbolic computation in engineering, the sciences, medicine, pure and applied mathematics, education, communication and computer science, etc. WebPage: 6

7 18th IMACS WORLD CONGRESS July and August 3-7, 2009 We recall that our next world congress will be held in two parts : The first part will take place in the South, at Cairns, Australia, organized in cooperation with MSSANZ, the IMACS affiliated Society in Australia and New Zealand: 18th IMACS/MODSIM World Congress, July 13-17, It is there that the congress will be opened. The second part will take place in the North, at the University of Georgia : 18th IMACS World Congress, August 3-7, 2009, Athens GA, USA It is there that Technical Committee meetings, IMACS Board meetings and IMACS s General Assembly will take place, followed by the closing of the Congress. ORGANIZATION: Honorary chairs of the Congress (Cairns-Australia and Athens GA USA): Robert Vichnevetsky (USA) and Tony Jakeman (Australia) Conference Chairs (Athens, GA): Robert Beauwens (Belgium) and Thiab Taha (USA) Conference co-coordinator : Thiab Taha (USA) (imacs@cs.uga.edu, tel ) TOPICS(USA): The topics covered are all those of interest to IMACS ( including, non exclusively, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Modelling and Simulation, Applications in most areas of Science and Engineering, Physics, Fluid Dynamics, the Environmental and Biological Sciences. For more details on the topics: For proposing a session or submitting a paper, please consult the conference websites: (for IMACS/MODSIM World Congress/ Cairns) for IMACS World Congress/ Athens) 7

8 or send the following: Name, mailing address: Title of the paper or session: CBSACM 2009 Date: August 1-5, 2009 Place:Xi an Jiaotong University,Xi an, Shaanxi, China The China-Brazil Symposium On Applied and Computational Mathematics 2009 Real world problems contain comprehensive issues that require thorough understanding of the underlining principles of physics, mathematical modeling, numerical solution techniques. The main goal of CBSACM2009 is to enhance and facilitate contacts and dialogs between specialists of different domains dealing with Applied Mathematics and Computational Mathematics so that new concepts can be discovered and new methodologies can express their power. Contacts: Prof. Ai-Xiang Huang and Prof. Jin-Yun Yuan WebPages and APTT 2009 Date: August 24-25, 2009 Place: Rapperswil, Switzerland APPT is a biennial conference on parallel and distributed processing. Its scope covers all aspects of parallel and distributed computing technologies, including architectures, software systems and tools, algorithms, and applications. 8

9 WebPage MCM 2009 Date: September, 6-11, 2009 Place: Brussels, Belgium Seventh IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods Contacts: A. Dubus, L. Laville Chairmen : Prof. Alain Dubus, ULB, Brussels Prof. Karl Sabelfeld, WIAS, Berlin Topics: simulation of random numbers, processes and fields, integration and MCMC, quasi- MC Methods, integral equations, PDEs and SDEs, variance reduction, perturbation techniques, diffusion, and particle transport, reliability analysis, statistical physics and quantum mechanics, chemical kinetics, turbulence, vision applications, applications in biology and medicine, applied mathematical finance,... SYROCO 2009 Date: September, 9-12, 2009 Place: Nagaragawa Convention Center, Gifu, Japan The 9th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control All the past symposiums were held in Europe. To create a new foothold for growth, the 9th SYROCO comes to Gifu, Japan. It is the first time that SYROCO is held in a non-european country. Please submit your papers no later than February 1,

10 HERCMA 2009 Date: September, 24 26, 2009 Place: Athens, Greece Ninth Hellenic European research on Computer Mathematics and its Applications Conference. Schedule: Updated information about HERCMA 2009may be retrieved from our web site at: Conference Secretariat: For further information please contact/write to: HERCMA Secretariat Department of Informatics Athens University of Economics and Business 76 Patission Street, Athens 10434, Greece Phone: Fax: / / us to: mailto:eal@aueb.gr mailto:hercma@aueb.gr,pek@aueb.gr pek@aueb.gr or look at the HERCMA home page at Web: Tentative: BIC-TA 2009 Date: October 16-19, 2009 Place: Beijing, China The Fourth International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2009) aims to provide a high-level international forum for researchers working in the main areas of natural computing inspired by biology to present their recent results and to exchange ideas. The conference invites researchers to contribute high-quality original research papers in any aspect of bio-inspired computing. The main topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: Evolutionary computing,neural computing, DNA computing, Membrane computing... WebPage 10

11 IMACS SECRETARIATS AMERICAN PACIFIC REGION Department of Computer Science Rutgers University Busch Campus New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA EUROPEAN REGION ULB, CP 165/84 Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 B-1050 Bruxelles Fax: