AUS-ICMS 15

Keynote Speakers

Gunnar Carlsson

Gunnar Carlsson is a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. A highly influential mathematician, he is most well-known for his proof of the Segal Burnside Ring conjecture and for his work on applied algebraic topology, especially topological data analysis. He was a Professor at Princeton University before joining the Stanford Mathematics Department in 1991 where he also served as a Chairman. He was invited at the International Congress of Mathematicians to speak about his work in homotopy theory. More recently his work on persistent homology and topological data analysis has opened up new fields of research with a large number of followers. Whether through his numerous publications or keynote addresses, Gunnar Carlsson has been having an enormous influence on present day mathematical research and its applications to as far afield as cancer treatment. He has co-authored two books on mathematical education. He served as a consultant to the education boards of the State of Texas and State of California concerning the Content Standards in Mathematics and currently is a member of Texas Instruments California Advisory Board on K-12 education. He is the recipient of many awards and grants including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, NSF grants, DARPA and Air Force Office of Scientific Research grants. He is the editor of several internationally respected mathematics journals in topology and algebra. More information about Professor Gunnar Carlsson can be found at https://math.stanford.edu/~gunnar/

Samad Hedayat

Professor Samad Hedayat is a UIC Distinguished Professor at Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). His main lines of research, teaching, and consulting includes design of experiments, medical and pharmaceutical statistics, environmental statistics, forensic statistics, surveillance strategies, assessment of agreements, and survey sampling. In addition to the traditional 170 journal publications he has co-authored four books on statistics published by Wiley and Springer. His scholarly work has earned him numerous awards including: Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, STINT Swedish Foundation Scholar for international cooperation in research and higher education and Honorary Doctorate by the Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland. Hedayat has served on the editorial boards of several international journals including: Annals of Statistics, Associate Editor 1973-1980; Communications in Statistics Series A and B, Editorial Board Member 1975-1993, Associate Editor 1993-2002; Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Editorial Board Member 1975-1983,Coordinating Editor 1983-1995,Advisory Editor 1995-2000; Journal of American Statistical Association, Associate Editor 1993-1996; 2000-2009; The American Statistician, Associate Editor 2008-2011; Arab Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Advisory Board Member 1998-present; Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications, Associate Editor 2012-present; Bulletin of Iranian Mathematical Society, Associate Editor 2003-present. Hedayat has had 36 PhD students. His former students are employed at universities, government agencies including FDA, major pharmaceutical companies, medical institutes, and other important organizations. More scientific information on Hedayat and his collaborators can be found at https://tigger.uic.edu/~hedayat/

Edriss S. Titi

Professor Edriss S. Titi is the holder of the Owen Professorship of Mathematics in Texas A&M University, since 2014. He is also Professor Emeritus in the University of California, Irvine, where he used to hold (1988-2013) a joint appointment in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He was L.E. Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago (1986-1988), and at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Cornell University (1988-1989). He has been a frequent visitor and consultant to the Center of Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) in the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) since 1989. He was the Orson Anderson Distinguished Visiting Scholar (1997-1998) at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and the Stanislaw M. Ulam Scholar (2002-2003) at the CNLS in LANL. In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK. In 2009 he received the Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, and also the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Prize on Best Paper in Partial Differential Equations. He was honored in 2012 by being elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM Fellow), and as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS Fellow). In 2013 he received the Ciência sem Fronteiras - Science without Boundaries- Scholarship by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico (CNPq), Brazil.
The research of Edriss S. Titi in applied and computational mathematics lies at the interface between rigorous applied analysis and physical applications. Most of his work has been focused on the development of analytical and computational techniques for investigating nonlinear phenomena. Specifically, in studying the Navier-Stokes equations and other related nonlinear partial differential equations. Such equations arise as models in a wide range of applications in nonlinear science and engineering. The applications include, but are not limited to, fluid mechanics, geophysics, turbulence, chemical reactions, nonlinear fiber optics, and control theory. More information about Professor Edriss Titi can be found at https://www.math.uci.edu/~etiti/

Program and Abstracts

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Important Deadlines

Abstract Submission: January 15, 2014

Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2015

Registration: February 20, 2015

Late Registration: March 10, 2015

Registration

To download the registration
form, please click here.

The completed
registration form should be sent to [email protected].

Registration
Fee (before February 20, 2015): $350

Student
Registration Fee (before February 20, 2015): $170

Late
Registration (after March 10, 2015): $400

The registration fee covers the conference banquet, lunches, coffee breaks and
local transportation from the hotel to campus.

To pay the registration fees, click here
to download the payment form. Follow the instructions on the form to
make the payment, then complete the form and email it to [email protected].

Journal Submissions

Special issues of two journals will
be dedicated to the conference AUS-ICMS15. Original articles and high-quality
survey articles are welcome. All papers will be refereed.

Submission dates: November 26,
2014-August 15, 2015

(1) Palestine Journal of
Mathematics (PJM), https://pjm.ppu.edu.

Publication date: March 15, 2016 as
a special issue, Vol. 4(Spec.1), 2016

Please submit your full article as a
PDF file by email to Ayman Badawi at [email protected].

(2)
Springer Proceedings in Mathematics &
Statistics (PROMS), https://www.springer.com/series/10533

Please
submit your full article as a PDF file by email to Hana Sulieman at [email protected].

Social Activities and Gala Dinner
Excursions on Friday, April 3 from 2:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Sign-up: Thursday, April 2 during the
conference.

You can select one of the following two options:

Option 1: Dubai Mall and Dubai Dhow Creek Cruise with Dinner

Price: $51 (185 AED) per
person

Visit
the world-famous Dubai Mall, which is home to world-class shopping and
entertainment options. The mall is located near the Burj Khalifa. The trip also
includes two-hour dhow cruise on Dubai Creek Cruise, including a dinner buffet.

Pick-up
time: 2:30 p.m.

Pick-up
location: AUS campus

Option 2: Desert Safari

Price: $47 (170 AED) per person

Enjoy a trip through the desert and
dune bashing in 4WDs driven by professional drivers. You can enjoy such
entertainment as sand boarding, camel rides, henna painting and photography. An
international buffet dinner with barbeque (vegetarian and non-vegetarian
dishes) is included. ATV rides may be taken at an additional cost.

Note: This excursion
is not recommended for pregnant women, people with back problems, or senior
citizens with heart conditions. Children below the age of 3 are absolutely free
(bring infants/children at your own risk).

Pick-up
time: 2:30 p.m.

Pick-up
location: AUS campus

Conference Gala Dinner

Saturday,
April 4 at 7:00 p.m. in the Radisson Blu, Sharjah

Cost: Free for registered
participants, $50/person for visitors

Transportation
to the dinner venue will be arranged from your hotel or from campus.

Accommodation