Committee on Programs and Conferences

Current Members

Chair
James Nagy, EMORY UNIVERSITY

Ex Officio
Sharon F Arroyo, BOEING COMPANY
Xiaoye Sherry Li, LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY

Members
Alan R Champneys, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Xiaoming He, MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Karin Leiderman, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
Nandi Leslie, RTX
Youssef M. Marzouk, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Kengo Nakajima, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
Luke Olson, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Elaine Spiller, MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
Georg Stadler, COURANT INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, NEW YORK UNIV
Ulrike M Yang, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LAB

Additional Details

Appointments

The five ex officio members of the Committee on Programs and Conferences are: Vice President for Programs, Vice President at Large (representing the activity groups), Vice President for Industry, Director of Programs and Services, and the Chief Executive Officer.

There shall be 6-12 appointed members of this committee (in addition to the ex officio members); the SIAM President, upon recommendation of the Committee on Committees and Appointments, and in consultation with the VP for Programs, makes the appointments to this committee.  Committee members come from a broad cross section of SIAM, including representatives from industry, government, and national laboratories.

Members are appointed for three years, with staggered terms.  Each year, two or three members are replaced or renewed.  Members cannot serve more than two consecutive terms.

Committee membership should reflect the breadth and diversity of the Society. Committee members should have broad knowledge of the Society and its members.

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Procedure

The Vice President for Programs chairs the Committee on Programs and Conferences.  The Director of Programs and Services reports to the Committee on the status of meetings and their budgets.  This report forms the basis of the report of the Vice President for Programs to the SIAM Board of Trustees and the SIAM Council.

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Charge

The Committee on Programs and Conferences is responsible for the overall program direction and content of all SIAM conferences and the SIAM Annual Meeting, as well as for their evaluation and oversight.  In particular, the Committee makes recommendations for:

• Annual Meeting
  
  • site selection
  • topic selection
  • development of new formats, e.g., tracks
• All SIAM Conferences
  
  • soliciting and reviewing topics for conferences
  • deciding which conferences can take place outside the USA
  • helping to obtain funding, e.g., writing NSF block grant proposals
  • initiating topical workshops in new areas

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SIAM Coordinating Committee for the Joint Mathematics Meetings

Members of this committee are appointed by the SIAM VP for Programs, with advice from the current Committee on Programs and Conferences. The committee's responsibility is to choose, invite, and confirm the invited speaker, and to choose, invite, and confirm organizers for the special minisymposia.

It is a committee of three, with staggered three-year terms; the second-year member chairs the committee. Terms start in January. In year N the committee plans the program for the JMM which takes place in January of year N+1. Optimally the planning and inviting takes place in spring and early summer, with follow-up if necessary in the fall. The committee does its work by e-mail and telephone.

The participation in the Joint Math Meetings is as follows: SIAM gets a slot for one invited (50-minute) speaker, whose expenses are paid by SIAM, and slots for up to eight minisymposia -- no budget for these. Because the places are reserved, you don't need to set the program up until the AMS's abstract deadline, which is in late summer or early fall. However, it's not a bad idea to work on it in the spring. Of course, it's helpful to have some information about the AMS/MAA part of the meeting -- who are the invited speakers -- when this is available. 

The SIAM Education Committee is charged with organizing one of the minisymposium at the JMM.  The VP for Education provides the name of the organizer for this minisymposium. The names and contact information of the speaker and organizers should be sent to the SIAM Chief Executive Officer; SIAM VP for Programs; SIAM Director of Programs and Services; and also to the JMM meeting coordinator, before the August deadline. However, anything that the group wants included in the Notices JMM program information needs to be to the AMS by about mid-May.

The AMS will take care of instructing minisymposia organizers to complete their abstracts and schedule their speakers, and of getting information from the invited speaker. Speakers will be expected to register for the meeting; members of any of the three societies qualify for the "member" rate. Committee members do not need to attend the meeting, but someone on the committee should make sure the invited speaker gets introduced.

To enable maximum movement of participants between sessions, it is recommended that organizers schedule session speakers for either (a) a 20‐minute talk with five‐minute discussion and five‐minute break or (b) a 45‐minute talk with five‐minute discussion and 10‐minute break. Any combination of 20‐minute and 45‐minute talks is permitted, but all talks must begin and end at the scheduled time. The AMS Council has stated that no paper at a session can be as long as an Invited Address. Since Invited Addresses at the Joint Mathematics Meetings are usually fifty (50) minutes long, this means that a session talk cannot be longer than forty-five (45) minutes.

Each member of the SIAM Coordinating Committee for the Joint Mathematics Meetings will serve on the JMM Program Committee during their second and third years of service on the SIAM Coordinating Committee. SIAM will provide their names to AMS, who will contact the committee members directly.

Committee members:

Rebecca Morrison, University of Colorado Boulder
January 31, 2024 – January 30, 2027

Ernesto Prudencio (Chair), Sandia National Laboratories
January 31, 2023 – January 30, 2026

Suzanne Shontz, University of Kansas
January 31, 2022 – January 30, 2025