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Dear colleagues,
please find enclosed the Call for Nominations for
the ICIAM Olga Taussky-Todd 2019 Lecture.
The deadline for making nominations is
September 30, 2017.
Nominations are to be made electronically through
the website https://iciamprizes.org/
We would appreciate very much that you make as
much publicity as possible for this Call in your countries and
societies,
by diffusing it via your websites, newsletters, or
even sending dedicated messages to all your members and
associates.
Nominations made by your societies are very
welcome.
Best regards, Maria J. Esteban, President of ICIAM
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ICIAM Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture 2019
Call for nominations
The Olga
Taussky-Todd Lecture is held every four years at the
International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(ICIAM). This honor is conferred on a woman who has made
outstanding contributions in applied mathematics and/or
scientific computation'.
The lecture is
named in tribute to the memory of Olga Taussky-Todd, whose
scientific legacy is in both theoretical and applied
mathematics, and whose work exemplifies the qualities to be
recognized.
The Officers and
Board of ICIAM now call for nominations for the Olga
Taussky-Todd Lecture, to be given at the ICIAM 2019
congress, to take place in Valencia (Spain) from July 15 to
July 19, 2019.
A nomination will
consist of:
• Full name
and address of person nominated.
• Web home
page if any.
•
Justification for nomination (in at most two pages,
cite nominator's reason for considering candidate to be
deserving, including explanations of the scientific and
practical influence of the candidate's work and
publications).
• 2-3 letters
of support from experts in the field (not mandatory). Each
of them having a maximal length of two pages.
• CV of the
nominee.
• Name and
contact details of the proposer.
Nominations should
be made electronically through the website https://iciamprizes.org/.
The deadline for nominations is September 30th, 2017.
Please contact president@iciam.org if you have any question
regarding the nomination procedure.
Olga Taussky-Todd Committee for 2019:
Liliana Borcea, Chair (University of Michigan)
Raymond Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University)
Nick Higham (University of Manchester)
Sofia
C. Ohlede (University College London)
Anna Karin Tornberg (KTH, Stockholm)
ICIAM, the
International Council for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics,
is the world
organization for applied and industrial mathematics.
Its members are
mathematical societies based in more than 30 countries.
For more
information, see the Council's web page at http://www.iciam.org/
Maria J. Esteban,
ICIAM President
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