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Buckfest

On Friday and Saturday, May 9-10, 2008, the Department of Applied Mathematics and College of Science and Letters hosted "BuckFest!: A Conference in Honor of F.R. 'Buck' McMorris," in celebration of Dean McMorris's 65th birthday and retirement. Fourteen invited speakers delivered talks in fields related to McMorris's specialties in discrete applied mathematics and computational biology. McMorris has spent the past nine years at IIT, serving first as the Chair of the Applied Mathematics department before being named Dean of the College of Science and Letters in 2003.

Remembering Menger

Conference on Recent Advances in Mathematical Finance in Honor of Stanley R. Pliska, December 7-8, 2007

Applied Mathematics Associate Professor Tomasz Bielecki co-organized a conference to honor University of Illinois-Chicago College of Business Administration Professor Stan Pliska. 'Professor Pliska has made seminal contributions to the area of mathematical finance,' said Bielecki. For more information, please visit the conference website.

Professors Hickernell and Fasshauer Organize Minisymposia

Professor and Chair Fred Hickernell organized a minisymposium on "Optimal Points and Shapes for Numerical Computation" at the recent Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics meeting in Boston. He also spoke on the topic.

In mathematical problems, it's often necessary to sample the input function at a number of points and/or to divide the domain into a number of subdomain. The choices of points and shapes may significantly affect the accuracy of the solution. Hickernell´s symposium offered different perspectives on how to choose points and shapes when solving numerical problems.

Hickernell also was a member of the International Program Committee and organized a minisymposium with Applied Mathematics Associate Professor Greg Fasshauer for the 7th International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing 2006 at Ulm University, Germany. The conference brought together experts in mathematics, computer science, statistics, finance, operations research, biology, chemistry, physics, graphics and engineering to discuss the latest developments in Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods and their applications.

More Conferences

  • Michael Pelsmajer is a local organizer for Graph Drawing 2009.
  • Hemanshu Kaul co-organized the Special session on Graph Theory at the 2008 Spring AMS Central Section Meeting in Bloomington, IN, April 5-6, 2008. Hemanshu Kaul and Michael Pelsmajerco-organized the Special session on Graph Theory at the 2007 Fall AMS Central Section Meetingin Chicago, IL, October 5-6, 2007.
  • Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering, June 20-23, 2007 co-organized by Greg Fasshauer
  • Midwest Numerical Analysis Day, June 23, 2007 organized by Greg Fasshauer
  • ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Meshless Methods, July 9-11, 2007 co-organized by Greg Fasshauer
  • Turbulent Mixing and Beyond, International Workshop, August 18-26, 2007, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. Snejana Abarji is the chairperson and coordinator.
  • Conference on Credit Risk to be held on October 19-20, 2007, at the Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago, co-organized by Tom Bielecki. The conference is sponsored by the University of Chicago's Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics.

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