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NO. 8 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - NEWSLETTER OF THE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS JANUARY2002
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Speaking Invitations & Other Notable ActivitiesProfessor Bernardo Cockburn has been invited to organize a minitutorial for the SIAM Annual Meeting to be held in Philadelphia, July 7-12, 2002, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of SIAM. The title of the tutorial is: "Discontinuous Galerkin methods for Partial Differential Equations." He has also been invited to organize a minisymposium on this topic for the 5th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM V), to be held in Vienna, also July 7-12, 2002 Ñcoinciding with the SIAM meeting. Professor Clint Dawson (University of Texas at Austin) is a coorganizer. Professor Cockburn will divide his time between the two meetings. The Discontinuous Galerkin methods are robust and accurate methods that have recently made their way into the mainstream of computational fluid dynamics and are quickly finding use in a wide variety of applications outside that area. Practical applications include weather-forecasting, oil recovery, oceanography, design of turbomachinery, transport of contaminant in porous media, semiconductor device simulation, and many others. Professor Peter Olver is helping to organize two major, interrelated programs at the University of Minnesota this summer. The IMA Summer program on "Special Functions in the Digital Age" will assess the current state of the art in special function theory and digital libraries in general. Highlighted will be the soon-to-appear Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), a project led by his father, Frank W.J. Olver, a math professor at the University of Maryland and at NIST. This is the first time the two have worked together on a committee! The IMA program will lead in to a large meeting of the Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics, featuring outstanding plenary speakers and numerous workshops. At that time, Peter Olver will be taking over as co-managing editor, with Prof. Arieh Iserles of the University of Cambridge, of the new Springer journal, "Foundations of Computational Mathematics" sponsored by the Society. Peter is also a member of the organizing committee for the Workshop on Under- and Overdetermined Systems of Algebraic or Differential Equations, Karlsruhe, Germany, March 18-19, 2002, and served on the organizing committee of the European Summer School on "What is Integrability?" held at the Newton Institute, Cambridge, England, August 13 - 24, 2001. Professor Victor Reiner was one of the two principal speakers at the Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics at the AMS meeting at Williams College, October 13-14, 2001. The other principal speaker was Richard Stanley of MIT, Vic's Ph.D. advisor. The title of Vic's lecture was "Recent progress in the topology of simplicial complexes." Professor Alexander Voronov accepted the invitation to join the editorial board of a new journal in algebra "Stacks, Categories, and Applications." He also gave an invited series of lectures on "Universal Algebra" at the Conference in honor of Dennis Sullivan's 60th birthday held at SUNY at Stony Brook, June 7-14, 2001, and is serving on the advisory committee for the International Symposium on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras and Applications, to be held at the Ramanujan Institute, University of Madras, January 28-31, 2002. Professor Rachel Kuske, who is also the Associate Director of the Minnesota Center for Industrial Mathematics (a center in the School of Mathematics), has recently set up a math mentoring network for women and girls. For more details, see the article "AWM Mentor Network." www@math.umn.edu |