BATON ROUGE --- A group of LSU students has successfully petitioned the national Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, or SIAM, Board of Trustees to create a SIAM student chapter at the University.
SIAM members explore new ways of applying mathematics to science, technology and industry. There are more than 50 educational institutions with SIAM chapters. The LSU chapter is sponsored by the Center for Computation and Technology, or CCT, and the Department of Mathematics.
“The students really drove the effort to bring a SIAM chapter to LSU,” said Susanne Brenner, Ph.D., LSU Department of Mathematics professor and recipient of a 2005 Humboldt Research Award. “They worked hard with the national SIAM board to establish a chapter this semester and have already selected officers. Because SIAM is an interdisciplinary organization, the student officers will recruit chapter members from all disciplines in science and engineering.”
LSU’s SIAM officers for 2008 are:
President: Rick Barnard, mathematics graduate student
Vice President: Silvia Jimenez, mathematics graduate student
Treasurer: Jintao Cui, mathematics graduate student
Secretary: Alvaro Guevara, mathematics graduate student
Webmaster: Sean Farley, mathematics graduate student
Liaison Officer: Laurentiu Marinovici, electrical engineering graduate student
Brenner and Li-yeng Sung, both Department of Mathematics professors, will serve as advisers for the SIAM chapter. Brenner is also the organizer of CCT’s Frontiers of Scientific Computing lecture series that overlaps with many of the SIAM chapter’s themes.
SIAM’s first event will be a visit by Professor David Keyes, Columbia University and Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Keyes will give a talk on "Scalable Solver Infrastructure for Multi-rate, Multi-scale PDE Applications" on Monday, Feb. 18 at
1:40 pm in 338 Johnston Hall. A reception will follow this talk, and a presentation and Q&A session about careers will follow. All faculty and students are invited.
Professor Keyes also will give a talk at 10:40 a.m. on Feb. 18 as part of the Frontiers of Scientific Computing lecture series. That talk will be on "A Nonlinearly Implicit Manifesto” and also will take place in 338 Johnston Hall. Faculty and students are invited to that talk as well.
For more information, contact CCT Manager of Public Relations Kristen Sunde at 225-578-3469.
SIAM members explore new ways of applying mathematics to science, technology and industry. There are more than 50 educational institutions with SIAM chapters. The LSU chapter is sponsored by the Center for Computation and Technology, or CCT, and the Department of Mathematics.
“The students really drove the effort to bring a SIAM chapter to LSU,” said Susanne Brenner, Ph.D., LSU Department of Mathematics professor and recipient of a 2005 Humboldt Research Award. “They worked hard with the national SIAM board to establish a chapter this semester and have already selected officers. Because SIAM is an interdisciplinary organization, the student officers will recruit chapter members from all disciplines in science and engineering.”
LSU’s SIAM officers for 2008 are:
President: Rick Barnard, mathematics graduate student
Vice President: Silvia Jimenez, mathematics graduate student
Treasurer: Jintao Cui, mathematics graduate student
Secretary: Alvaro Guevara, mathematics graduate student
Webmaster: Sean Farley, mathematics graduate student
Liaison Officer: Laurentiu Marinovici, electrical engineering graduate student
Brenner and Li-yeng Sung, both Department of Mathematics professors, will serve as advisers for the SIAM chapter. Brenner is also the organizer of CCT’s Frontiers of Scientific Computing lecture series that overlaps with many of the SIAM chapter’s themes.
SIAM’s first event will be a visit by Professor David Keyes, Columbia University and Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Keyes will give a talk on "Scalable Solver Infrastructure for Multi-rate, Multi-scale PDE Applications" on Monday, Feb. 18 at
1:40 pm in 338 Johnston Hall. A reception will follow this talk, and a presentation and Q&A session about careers will follow. All faculty and students are invited.
Professor Keyes also will give a talk at 10:40 a.m. on Feb. 18 as part of the Frontiers of Scientific Computing lecture series. That talk will be on "A Nonlinearly Implicit Manifesto” and also will take place in 338 Johnston Hall. Faculty and students are invited to that talk as well.
For more information, contact CCT Manager of Public Relations Kristen Sunde at 225-578-3469.
Publish Date:
02-13-2008
