General presentation
The Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) is a non-profit organization governed by the French 1901 law. It was created in 1983 by a group of French applied mathematicians having become aware of the specifity of their discipline and wishing to insure its expansion and development.
The goal of the Society is to contribute to the development of applied mathematics through research, industrial applications, publications, education and the training of researchers and engineers.
This learned society has individual, institutional and corporate members (university or industrial labs, companies, etc), researchers and specialists in applied mathematics (scientific computing, numerical analysis, partial differential equations, optimization and control, applied probability, statistics, financial mathematics, image and signal processing, life modelling, ...)
The association is governed by an Administration Board which is elected by the General Assembly and which elects, within it, an Executive Committee (Bureau), according to the by-laws and the internal rules. The SMAI has also a Scientific Advisory Committee.
The assistants of SMAI, Mrs Huong Fuentes and Mrs Noura Sahtout, are reachable at IHP (phone : +33 1 44 27 66 61 or +33 1 44 27 66 62, fax : +33 1 44 07 03 64, email : smai@emath.fr)
Currently, the Bureau is composed as follows:
- Samir Adly (President, since 2023)
- Marianne Akian (General Secretary, since 2023)
- Catherine Choquet (Treasurer, since 2021)
- Amandine Véber (Vice-President in charge of publications, since 2020)
- Florent Nacry (Vice-President in charge of public awareness actions, since 2024)
- Yann Demichel (Vice-President in charge of education, since 2020)
- Vincent Leclere (Vice-President in charge of industrial relations, since 2023)
Besides, the Administration Board appoints representatives for specific tasks of a limited duration. The dynamism of the SMAI, the launching new projects and the writing of reports about various issues depend very much on their contribution.
Some of the SMAI activites are organized by its thematic groups.