What is imacs
The beginnings of IMACS date from 1955. A Conference on Analogue Computation was held at the Brussels Free University, attended by researchers, observers and managers of the simulation laboratories that existed at the time, many of those laboratories existing as byproducts of the enormous technological developments that had been brought about by the second World War. The participation was truly international, with participants coming from most European countries, the United States and Japan.
During the Conference, it was realized that there was a need for establishing some permanent means of communication between the members of this new scientific community. What resulted was the creation AICA (the International Association for Analogue Computation). AICA was legally incorporated under the Belgian Law in 1956. Beginning with analog computation in 1955, the scope of AICA expanded with the growth of scientific computation and its necessary attributes from applied mathematics (in particular numerical analysis) to mathematical modeling and to many of those new development in the sciences that became possible only because computers had appeared on the scene.
AICA changed its name to IMACS (the International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation) in 1976 to reflect this widening of horizons. Together with this change of name, IMACS expanded its administrative structure, with legal incorporations and offices in both the United States and Belgium.
What the birth of AICA in 1955-56 illustrated was the emergence, spurred by new technology (in particular those new technologies having to do with electronic means that mechanize information and computation) of "interdisciplinary new disciplines" (meaning that they had roots in several of the older established disciplines). This example was followed in short order by IFAC (Automatic Control, 1957), IMEKO (Measurement - 1959), IFORS (Operations Research - 1959) and IFIP (Information Processing- 1960). The "Five" decided to coordinate their activities with the creation of FIACC (the Five International Associations Coordinating Committee that was created with the support of UNESCO in 1972).
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About siam 2003
Applied mathematics, in partnership with computational science, is essential in solving many real-world problems:
modeling physical, chemical, and biomedical phenomena;
designing engineered parts, structures, and systems to optimize performance;
planning and managing financial and marketing strategies;
understanding and optimizing manufacturing processes.
To ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities, it remains the policy of SIAM to:
advance the application of mathematics and computational science to engineering, industry, science, and society;
promote research that will lead to effective new mathematical and computational methods and techniques for science, engineering, industry, and society;
provide media for the exchange of information and ideas among mathematicians, engineers, and scientists.
Problems in applied mathematics and computational science arise in companies that manufacture aircraft, automobiles, engines, textiles, computers, communications systems, chemicals, drugs, and a host of other industrial and consumer products, and also in various service and consulting organizations. They also arise in many research initiatives of the federal government, such as those in global change, biotechnology, and advanced materials.
SIAM fosters the development of the methodologies needed in these application areas. It is fitting that the acronym SIAM also represents the society’s slogan–Science and Industry Advance with Mathematics.
Just as applied mathematics has grown, so has SIAM membership–from a few hundred in the early 1950s to close to 9,000 today. SIAM members are applied and computational mathematicians, computer scientists, numerical analysts, engineers, statisticians, and mathematics educators. They work in industrial and service organizations, universities, colleges, and government agencies and laboratories all over the world. In addition, SIAM has over 400 institutional members–colleges, universities, corporations, and research organizations.
To serve this diverse group of professionals, including the all-electronic multimedia SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems; SIAM Review, a quarterly journal of peer-reviewed expository, survey, and education-oriented papers; Theory of Probability and Its Applications, a translation of a Russian journal; SIAM News, a newsjournal reporting on issues and developments affecting the applied and computational mathematics community; and approximately 25 books per year.
SIAM offers a variety of online services through its home page www. siam. org. All SIAM journals are available electronically over the web; the ten print research journals are available electronically on an accelerated basis. All journal articles have linked references.
SIAM conducts an annual meeting and many specialized conferences, short courses, and workshops in areas of interest to its members.
SIAM sponsors twelve special interest activity groups, which provide additional opportunities for professional interaction and informal networking.
SIAM sponsors regional sections for local technical activities and university (student) chapters that bring faculty and students together in activities consistent with SIAM objectives.
SIAM’s Visiting Lecturer Program helps link speakers with interested groups to educate and spark interest in a variety of topics.
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