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The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Mississippi State University, the department of mechanical engineering at UAB along with the Center for Computational Sciences at High Performance Computing Collaboratory have hosted six highly successful conferences since 1993 and will host the seventh conference in 2007. Ratnasingham Shivaji and Bharat Soni have served as organizers for these conferences.
The primary objective of these conferences is
to provide a joint forum where mathematicians, scientists and engineers from industries,
federal laboratories and academia exchange research and development ideas.
An overall goal of the conference was to promote research and education mathematical and computational
analysis of theoretical and applied differential equations. The unique feature of the conference
is the interactions between mathematicians and engineers. The
following is a short description of the highlights of the previous six conferences and the
seventh conference which will be held in 2007:
The Seventh Mississippi State-UAB Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations will be held on November 1-3, 2007, at Doubletree Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama. There will be thirteen invited principal lectures presented by:
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Oscar Bruno, California Institute of Technology
Chris Cosner, University of Miami Jeff Crandall, University of Virginia Norman Dancer, University of Sydney Joshua Epstein, The Brookings Institution Lisa Fauci, Tulane University YanYan Li, Rutgers University Jean Mawhin, University of Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Charles Nietubicz, Army research Laboratory Stanley Osher, University of California, Los Angeles Jaime Peraire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John Rice, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Peter Takac, University of Rostock, Germany |
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The Sixth Mississippi State-UAB Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations was held on May 13 - 14, 2005, at Mississippi State University, Starville, Mississippi. There were eight invited principal lectures presented by:
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Cheney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lawrence DeLucas, University of Alabama at Birmingham Thomas Yizhao Hou, California Institute of Technology Mark Lewis, University of Alberta Fang-Hua Lin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Robert Meakin, U. S. Army, NASA Ames Research Center Louis Nirenberg, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Klaus Schmitt, University of Utah |
In addition, a total of 90 contributed papers were presented at the conference and 150 participants registered for the conference. The conference participants came from Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, India, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Thailand, and the United States. This conference was dedicated to Louis Nirenberg in celebration of his 80th birthday, Klaus Schmitt in celebration of his 65th birthday, and their contributions in mathematics. As part of this celebration special sessions were organized. Also a banquet lecture, titled "Louis Nirenberg and Klaus Schmitt : The Joy of Differential Equations" was delivered by Jean Mawhin, University of Catholique de Louvain-Belgium. The conference also featured a special lecture by Dr. Mary Ann Horn on the Funding Opportunities in the Mathematical Sciences at the NSF.
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The Fifth Mississippi State Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations was held on May 18 - 19, 2001, at Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi. There were ten invited principal lectures presented by:
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Bates, Brigham Young University
Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Cornell University Jerome Goldstein, University of Memphis Anthony Ingraffea, Cornell University James Keener, University of Utah David Keyes, Old Dominion University Hiroshi Matano, University of Tokyo Suresh Menon, Georgia Institute of Technology Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota George Papanicolaou, Stanford University |
In addition, a total of 69 contributed papers were presented at the conference and 138 participants registered for the conference. The conference participants came from Japan, Korea, Germany, Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. The conference also featured a honoring ceremony for Professor Jack Hale, a special lecture by Dr. Henry Warchall on the Funding Opportunities in the Mathematical Sciences at the NSF, and the Banquet Lecture titled "Highway to Space" by Dr. Gary Lyles at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. A conference proceeding containing refereed papers presented at the conference was published as a special issue of the Electronic Journal of Differential Equations.
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The Fourth Mississippi State Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations was held on May 21 - 22, 1999, at Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi. There were seven invited principal lectures presented by the world renowned experts in differential equations and computational simulations. A total of seventy-two abstracts from eight countries for contributed presentations were received by the conference. The conference also featured a special open discussion session on future directions in differential equation and computational simulations. A total of 106 registered participants attended the conference. An NSF grant was obtained by the conference organizers to support 42 students and recent Ph.D.s to participate in the conference. A conference proceedings containing refereed papers presented at the conference will be published as a special issue of Electronic Journal of Differential Equations. The invited speakers were:
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C. Evans, University of California at Berkely
Charbel Farhat, University of Colorado at Boulder Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University Ahmed Noor, University of Virginia James Serrin, University of Minnesota Paul Waltman, Emory University Mary Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin |
COMMENTS FROM THE PANEL DISCUSSION:4:30 - 5:30pm, May 22, 1999. The panel discussion was modulated by one of the conference organizers Dr. Bharat Soni. The panel consisted of the principal speakers and Dr. Joe Thompson. The following is the summary of the panel discussions: * There is a need of dialogue between different areas. The panelists would like to see more mathematicians going to various applications, such as MNR, biotech, etc. They like this conference with different presentations covering many areas, and would like to see a mixture of technical and survey talks. Possible other areas include immunology and environmental remediation using biological tools, reconfigurable, quantum, and optical computers, and new ways for discretization. The future trend is parallel computing + interaction + immersive environment. Having this kind of diverse areas in the conference is very useful, but more selective topics & sessions on one or two focus areas would be better. * It's very helpful for engineers to talk to mathematicians at the conference. Information (such as course material) should be shared. It's also good for mathematicians to see different areas and ways to solve problems. * Fundamental research are taking place, but constrained by resources. The bulk of research is done at universities. Some areas are even contracting and losing students who are going to wall street, banking, and other areas. In the last fifty years, the research has become more and more specialized. * We need precaution: 1. not every one should work in interdisciplinary research. 2. find proper ways and room for people to work in cross-disciplinary areas without destroy their careers. 3. need allocation of funding & resources to do interdisciplinary research. * The area of differential equations has balloned (number of papers published) since 1950s. When it comes down to PDE, we don't know if we are pure or applied mathematician. We need to know what DE is and to preserve it as a genuie area. We need to maintain the beauty of the area.
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One hundred and thirty Mathematicians, Engineers
and Scientists from around the world gathered Friday and Saturday (May
16-17) at Mississippi State University to discuss the latest developments
in the area of differential equations and computational simulations. The
Third Mississippi State Conference on Differential Equations & Computational
Simulations, was co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics
and the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center at Mississippi
State University. Also sponsoring the event were the National Science Foundation,
and the Electronic Journal of Differential Equations which will devote
a special issue to the proceedings. The multidisciplinary conference, coordinated
by Ratnasingham Shivaji and Jianping Zhu of MSU's Department of Mathematics
and Statistics and Bharat Soni of the Engineering Research Center was originated
at MSU and has been held every two years since 1993. This year's conference
brought much positive exposure to MSU,drawing participants from all over
the USA as well as from Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Mexico, Spain,
Brazil, Russia and China. The event brought together a historic array of
outstanding principal speakers. Participants heard nine of the world's
leading experts on differential equations and computational simulations
lecture and also heard an additional fifty-seven contributed papers. The
invited lectures were presented by :
Walter Allegretto of the University of Alberta
in Canada
Jerry L. Bona of the University of Texas Djairo de Figueiredo
of the University of Campinas in Brazil
S.Godunov of the Sobolev Institute
of Mathematics in Russia
Antony Jameson of the Princeton University
Jean
Mawhin of the University of Louvain in Belgium
Stanley Osher of the University
of California
Klaus Schmitt of the University of Utah
Joseph Shang of the
Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
For those at the Engineering Research
Center, it was a very special experience to have had the opportunity to
speak with and hear a lecture by Professor Godunov, who is considered as
the "grandfather" of computational fluid dynamics research. Also at this
year's conference, Joe Thompson, Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering
at Mississippi State University, was recognized by the conference organization
for his many outstanding contributions in the area of grid generation and
for his excellent leadership in multidisciplinary research activites.
COMMENTS FROM THE CONFERENCE:
Dear Shivaji,
Back home, I would like to express you once more all my appreciation for the perfect organization of the Third Mississippi State Conference and your outstanding hospitality. I have attended already many meetings in my life, all around the world, and can certify that you are at the top for the quality of the organization and your special and personal care of the participants. Needless to say also that this merging between mathematicians and engineers was scientifically most interesting and stimulating. Your two-days package remains definitely a must and I am sure that all participants have returned with a lot of good memories from Mississippi State.
Thanks once more for treating us this way. Cordially.
Jean Mawhin
Shivaji & Soni:
You guys did a really great job in putting together the 3rd MSU Conf on Differential Equations & Computational Simulations... It was conducted at a level equal to that expected of such international meetings, and the worldwide attendance was truly impressive.
The array of principal speakers would be the envy of any university and, in fact, I have never known any other university to manage to get such folks together.
Joe Thompson
Dear Shivaji,
As always you had an excellent conference and everyone there enjoyed it immensely. The longer I live and work in differential equations the more I realize how lucky we are to have such a warm hearted bunch of people in our field and our region. Our meetings are almost like family gatherings.
John Baxley
The second Mississippi State Conference in Differential Equation
and Computational Simulations took place on April 7 - 8, 1995 in
Starkville, Mississippi. The conference was very successful. Funding
from an NSF grant was used to support the attendance of twenty students
and recent Ph.D.'s. The conference was attended by approximately 130
researchers, including those traveling from six foreign countries.
The conference was supported by the National Science Foundation,
Office of the Dean of Arts and Science, Office of the Dean of
Engineering, Office of Vice President for Research, and Department
of Mathematics and Statistics. Invited principal lectures were
presented by
In addition, seventy contributed papers were presented during the
two days of meeting.
The post-conference proceedings will be published as a special issue
of the journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation. It contains
twenty-three refereed papers presented at the conference.
Kenneth J. Brown, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Luis Caffarelli, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
David Caughey, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Jerome Eisenfeld, University of Texas, Arlington, TX
Jack Hale, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
Peter D. Lax, Courant Institute, New York City, NY
Robert MacCormack, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
John Mallet-Paret, Brown University, Providence, RI
Helen Yee, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA
The first Mississippi State Conference was held from March
March 19-20, 1993. Approximately 130 people attended the conference.
There were about seventy contributed papers presented at the
conference. The principal speakers were
The post-conference proceedings was published as a special issue
of the journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation. It contains
twenty-three refereed papers presented at the conference.
Ramesh Agarwall, McDonnell Douglas Research & Development, MO
Alfonso Castro, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Alan Lazer, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Paul Rabinnowitz, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Phillip Roe, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Nigel Weatherill, University College of Swansea, England