IMA News
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University of
Pennsylvania has joined the IMA as a Participating
Institution effective October 1, 2009.
- Joint Institutes'
Postdoctoral Positions at the IMA
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 Dr.
Tariq Samad, a corporate fellow at Honeywell and a member
of the IMA's Industrial Advisory
Board, was elected President
of the IEEE Control Systems
Society (CSS) in January 2009.
The IEEE Control Systems
Society (CSS) was founded in l954 as a
scientific, engineering, and professional organization
dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of
systems and control in engineering. The Society has more than
10,000 members world-wide.
The Industrial Advisory Board is an important source of input,
oversight, and communications between the IMA and participating
corporations. Samad has been been visiting the IMA since at
least 1995 and was an organizer for the Evolutionary
Algorithims program in October of 1996.
- Korea Advanced Institute
of Science and
Technology (KAIST) has joined the IMA as a Participating
Institution effective February 23, 2009.
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Two former IMA Postdoctoral Fellows
awarded 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships
Two postdoctoral researchers from the Institute for Mathematics
and its Applications (IMA) have been awarded prestigious
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships. The awards, announced
February 17, provide more than $6 million to 118 early career
researchers. The two recipients, Gerard Awanou, now a faculty
member at Northern Illinois University, and Chiu-Yen Kao, now
at Ohio State University, spent two years at the IMA
developing their research. They join ten other IMA postdoctoral
researchers who have also won the prize since 1988: Jared
Bronski, 2001; Li-Tien Cheng, 2004; David C. Dobson, 1997;
Selim Esedoglu, 2007; Trachette Li Jackson, 2003; Xiantao Li,
2008; Sergey Lototsky, 2002; John Stembridge, 1990; Bernd
Sturmfels, 1991; Ruth J. Williams, 1988.
Sloan Fellowship winners are faculty members at 61 colleges and
universities in the United States and Canada who are conducting
research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computational
and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science,
economics, mathematics, and neuroscience.
"The success of the IMA postdoctoral researchers shows they are
benefiting from this vibrant environment as they begin their
careers,” says Fadil Santosa,
director of the IMA. "They have
such great opportunities here to study new fields, develop
their own research, and to interact with the world's top
experts. Our postdocs leave the IMA well prepared to contribute
to mathematical research."
The Sloan Research Fellowships have been awarded since 1955,
initially in only three scientific fields: physics, chemistry,
and mathematics. Since then, 38 Sloan Research Fellows have
gone on to win the Nobel Prize in their fields; and 14 have
received the Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics.
Although Sloan Research Fellowships in economics only began in
1983, Sloan Fellows have subsequently accounted for 8 of the 13
winners of the John Bates Clark Medal, generally considered the
top honor for young economists.
Grants of $50,000 for a two-year period are administered by
each Fellow’s institution. Once chosen, Sloan Research Fellows
are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most
interest to them, and they are permitted to employ Fellowship
funds in a wide variety of ways to further their research aims.
For a complete list of winners, visit:
http://www.sloan.org/fellowships/page/19.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic,
not-for-profit grant making institution based in New York City.
Established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.,
then-President and Chief Executive Officer of the General
Motors Corporation, the Foundation makes grants in support of
original research and education in science, technology,
engineering, mathematics and economic performance. Further
information: http://www.sloan.org/.
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Annual thematic program on Simulating our
complex world:
Modeling,
computation and analysis approved by IMA Board of Governors
for 2010–2011.
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 Dr. Juan Meza, department head of the High Performance
Computing Research Department at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, was awarded the Blackwell-Tapia Prize November 14,
2008. The prize is named after David Blackwell and Richard
Tapia, two influential figures who inspired a generation of
African-American, Native American and Latino/Latina students to
pursue careers in mathematics. The award recognizes a
mathematical scientist who has contributed significantly to
research and who has served as a role model for mathematical
scientists and students from under-represented minority groups.
Dr. Meza received the award as a result of his exceptionally
distinguished record as a mathematical scientist, an
accomplished and effective head of a large department doing
cutting-edge explorations in the computational sciences,
computational mathematics, and future technologies, and a role
model and active advocate for others from groups
under-represented in the mathematical sciences.
Dr. Meza served on the IMA Board of Governors from January 1999
to December 2001. He has also provided scientific leadership
to the IMA by organizing workshops, most recently, the
September 2008 workshop on Electronic Structures.
For more information on the 2008 Blackwell-Tapia Conference, go
to: http://www.samsi.info.
 Margaret Wright, a member of the IMA Board
of Governors since 2005, was awarded an honorary PhD degree by
the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm on
November 21. A Professor at New York University, Wright has
made major contributions to applied mathematics, especially in
the fields of optimization and scientific computing. She has
also worked to include more women in the mathematical sciences.
The Board of Governors consists of 15 distinguished
mathematical scientists from academia, industry, and government
laboratories. It provides oversight and direction for all
major aspects of the organization.
Wright is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She
completed her doctoral degree in computer science at Stanford
University in 1976 and stayed here until 1988. Between 1988 and
2000, she worked at Bell Laboratories and then moved on to the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York
University in 2001 as Professor and Chair of the Computer
Science Department.
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2005 New Directions Short Course instructor Alexei Kitaev
of Caltech
named MacArthur fellow. The half-million-dollar award, often referred
to as
the "genius award," is an unrestricted fellowships given to
talented
individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and
dedication in
their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for
self-direction.
- Chun Liu is the new
IMA Associate Director effective 9/1/2008.
- IMA
Director, Fadil Santosa along with Robert Gulliver and
Jing Wang designed a software program to improve vision for
people who wear bifocal glasses.
- Markus Keel became the new Deputy Director of the IMA
effective July 21, 2007.
- Fadil Santosa begins his position as IMA director on July
1, 2008.
- Douglas N. Arnold, IMA Director, has been awarded the 2008
John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award. He has focused
his research on developing and understanding mathematical
algorithms that enable the computer simulation of physical
phenomena ranging from the deformation of elastic plates and
shells to the collision of black holes.
- Douglas N. Arnold, IMA Director, has been appointed by
the U of M President Robert Bruininks to
a McKnight Presidential Endowed Professorship. This is
among the highest honors for faculty at the University.
His appointment begins July 1.
- IMA Director Douglas Arnold has been elected as the new
president of SIAM. He will serve as President-elect in 2008,
President
in 2009 and 2010, and Past-president in 2011.
- IMA Director Douglas Arnold has been elected as the new
president of SIAM. He will serve as President-elect in 2008, President
in 2009 and 2010, and Past-president in 2011.
- Möbius
Transformations Revealed, an award-winning video produced by IMA
Director D. Arnold and J. Rogness, has captured
one million viewers on
YouTube.
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Arizona State University,
Tempe has joined the IMA as a
Participating Institution, November 19, 2007
- IMA program organizer wins Nobel prize. Leonid
Hurwicz,
who organized
the second IMA annual program back in 1983-1984, was named one
of
three winners of the Nobel prize for economics on October
15, 2007.
- Annual thematic program on Complex Fluids and Complex
Flows
approved by IMA Board of Governors for 2009–2010.
- Möbius
Transformations Revealed video by IMA
director D. Arnold and J. Rogness honored
in NSF's 2007
Science & Engineering Visualization
Challenge.
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The University of
Central Florida has joined the IMA as a
Participating Institution, September 1, 2007
- John Baxter joins IMA as Deputy Director, Septeber
1, 2007
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Fadil Santosa named next director of the IMA.
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The University of
Tennessee has joined the IMA as a
Participating Institution, July 9, 2007
- Microsoft has
joined the IMA as a Participating
Corporation
- Two former IMA postdocs were among the 20 mathematicians
awarded
the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships, highly
competitive career enhancement awards for the very best young
researchers. Selim
Esedoglu was an IMA postdoc from 2000-2002 and Xiantao Li was an IMA
postdoc
in 2004-2005.
- Cheri Shakiban joins IMA as
Associate Director, September 1, 2006
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MichiganTech has joined the IMA as a Participating Institution,
August 28, 2006
- Worcester Polytechnic
Institute has joined the IMA as a Participating Institution
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William Massey to be awarded the
Blackwell-Tapia Prize
during the Blackwell-Tapia
Conference at the IMA, November 3-4, 2006.
- NSF Mathematical Sciences Institutes
Launch Web Portal, May 30, 2006
- Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2006-2007 Program on
Applications of Algebraic Geometry, April 15,
2006
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IMA again featured on Science
and
Society: listen to the interview with IMA Director Douglas N. Arnold on World Talk Radio,
February 15, 2006
Windows
media stream
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