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Round Tables
Round Table: Developing Mathematics in the Developing World
Round Table: Future Directions in Numerical Analysis
Developing Mathematics in the Developing World
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19 July 2007, 18:00 - 19:30
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Download Contacts [PDF, 639 kB] to organisations for developing mathematics in developing countries (from the presentation of Prof. Griewank, HU Berlin, Germany)
Topics
- Historical contribution of developing regions to
mathematics. - Status quo of mathematics in statistical terms.
- Social standing and employment of mathematicians.
- Political and cultural barriers, including gender.
- Research possibilities for a young faculty member.
- Existing interaction and assistance programs.
- Ideas and proposals for the future.
- Causes and remedies of brain drain.
- When does help turn into patronizing interference?
- Particular importance of some kinds of mathematics?
- What can individual members and societies do?
- Document transfer and intellectual property rights
- How can mathematicians help mathematicians?
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Amiya Kumar Pani Affiliation: Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of Mathematics. Indian Mathematical Society. Fellow of National Acadamy of Sciences, India. Research Area: Computational Mathematics. Research Groups: Industrial Mathematics. |
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Fatima Abu Salem Affiliation: American University of Beirut (AUB), Computer Science Department. Research Area: High performance scientific computing (particularly symbolic computing with special emphasis on parallel and cache oblivious/cache aware implementations). Research Groups: Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (AUB). |
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Tsou Sheung Tsun Affiliation: Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford IMU Committee Developing Countries Strategy Group EMS Committee for Developing Countries Foreign affairs committee of London Mathematical Society Scientific Council of CIMPA Research Area: Mathematical physics and theoretical particle physics Research Group: Mathematical physics group |
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Juan Manuel Otero Affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Havana Cuban Mathematical Society Research Area: Metaheuristics, Nonlinear Optimization Research Groups: LASO: Laboratory for Software and Application of Optimization Methods, at the School of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Havana. |
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Alain Damlamian Affiliation: Université Paris 12 Val de Marne, France Research Area: Homogenization and multiple scales for PDE's Free boundary problems Research Group: Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Mathématiques Appliquées |
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Andreas Griewank Affiliation: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Mathematik. DFG Research Center MATHEON. IMU Committee Developing Countries Strategy Group. EMS Committee for Developing Countries. Scientific Council of CIMPA Research Areas: 1. Nonlinear Optimization 2. Algorithmic/Automatic Differentiation. Research Groups: Mathematics for Key Technologies. Analysis, Numerics and Optimization of Multiphase Problems. |
 The upwardly mobile Berliner W. Steinbrecher and A. Griewank (right) in Gariep Dam, South Africa. |
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Jan Persens Affiliation: University of the Western Cape Research Areas: Ill-posed Problems, Mathematics Education, International education Research Groups: Graduate Studies in Science, Mathematics and Technology edudation |
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19 July 2007, 18:00 - 19:30
Chair: Professor Gene H. Golub, Stanford University
Co-Chair: Professor L N Trefethen FRS, University of Oxford
Panelists
Dr Tony Chan
Prof Martin Gander
Prof Volker Mehrmann
Prof Valeria Simoncini
Prof. Ya-xiang Yuan
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Dr Tony Chan Affiliation: Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation, USA. Research Area: Scientific Computing, Applied Mathematics. |
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Prof Martin Gander Affiliation: Section de Mathématiques, University of Geneva Research Area: Domain Decomposition Methods, Waveform Relaxation Methods, Parallel space time methods, Preconditioning, Geometric Integration, Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, Krylov Subspace Methods, Quadrature, Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Biology. |
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Volker Mehrmann Affiliation: Technische Universität Berlin Research Area: Applied Linear Algebra, Analysis and Numerical Analysis of Differential-Algebraic Equations (DAEs), Numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs), Control theory, Industrial Applications |
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Valeria Simoncini Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Bologna Research Fellow IMATI National Research Council (CNR) Research Areas: Matrix Computations, Spectral Perturbation Theory, with application to PDEs, Control and Multivariate Statistics. |
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Prof Ya-xiang Yuan Affiliation: Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Research Areas: Nonlinear Optimization, Numerical Analysis. |
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