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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Student Chapter at George Mason University

 

New Announcements!

GMU-SIAM Student Competition To Attend The 2012 SIAM Annual Meeting

We are pleased to announce a competition to select a GMU-SIAM student member to present a talk during Student Days on Tuesday, July 10, 2012, as part of the 2012 SIAM Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The GMU-SIAM chapter is one of six student chapters in the nation invited to present a talk at this conference. The student selected will attend the SIAM Annual Meeting, participate in Student Days and present a talk (15-minute presentation with 5 minute Q&A). In order to qualify for this competition, the student must:

(1) be a member of GMU-SIAM;

(2) present a talk that reflects research to which the student has contributed significantly; and

(3) submit from his/her GMU email address to gmu.siam@gmail.com:

i) name of faculty advisor,

ii) talk title,

iii) abstract (75 words of less, submitted in text format in the body of the email of a TeX attachment if there are math symbols) and

iv) a draft presentation (in PDF format).

If your draft presentation is larger than 10MB, please provide Byong Kwon with a copy of the draft presentation on a USB thumb drive. In your email submission, please provide your name, major, class level, GMU email address and telephone number. GMU-SIAM must receive the email submission and items above by no later than 6PM EST, February 24, 2012. We will announce a winner by March 1, 2012. The title of the talk will be included in the April issue of SIAM News in a special insert concerning the SIAM Annual Meeting.

SIAM will provide up to $500 reimbursement to help defray the cost of the student's travel and other expenses. The student is responsible for registering for the Annual Meeting and making all his or her own travel and hotel arrangements. In addition to the SIAM reimbursement, we anticipate that the student will be eligible to receive additional reimbursement of valid expenses from the GMU Undergraduate Student Travel Fund or the Graduate Student Travel Fund . The student is solely responsible for complying with all rules and procedures to ensure reimbursement from the relevant entities.

If you have any questions, please contact Olivia Brozek or Byong Kwon, or facutly advisor Dr. Padmanabhan Seshaiyer. Good luck!

 

 

GMU-SIAM is participating in the 2012 Northern Virginia regional MATHCOUNTS Competition!

Call for Judges

The 2012 Northern Virginia regional MATHCOUNTS Competition is scheduled for Saturday, February 18, at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Fairfax County, the same venue as in 2011. The "snow" date is Saturday, February 25, at W. T. Woodson High School.

There is opportunity to help with the registration of schools and Mathletes on the day of the competition, proctoring in the exam room, grading exams, assisting with the automated scoring and place-winner determinations, setting up the trophies and Countdown Round competition area, assisting with snacks, acting as runners, etc. At this stage of our planning, we expect Registration to be scheduled for 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.; written competitions for 8:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and the oral Countdown Round for 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. We encourage you to stay for the entire competition; however, we welcome your help for whatever time you may be available. Family members and friends who are not related to any of the Mathletes themselves are welcome to assist also. Twelve-year olds are mature enough to help as runners.

If you're interested in volunteering your time to act as a judge, please contact either Olivia Brozek or Dr. Padmanabhan Seshaiyer for more information.

 

 

Newly updated: GMU-SIAM Facebook Fan Page!! 'Like' us on Facebook for up-to-date announcements and event reminders!

 

Past Announcements!

A big thank you to all the Speakers, Faculty Members and Students who helped to make our 3rd Annual Symposium a success! Find pictures of the event on our Facebook Page!

 

The 3rd Annual SIAM Faculty Research Symposium will be held Friday, November 4th, 2011!

Held in S&T1 Room 242 from 3:00-6:00 pm. Join us and hear select faculty members discuss their research interests!!

Schedule of Speakers:

 

Please view the flyer. For abstracts, click the title of each talk.

Refreshments will be served (beginning at 2:50-- so come early!)

 

The SIAM student chapter at GMU was founded in 2008. Check back for important announcements, or contact Olivia Brozek to find out how to get involved.

SIAM Student Chapter at George Mason University participates in MATHCOUNTS

Check back for details on future talks hosted by the SIAM Club.

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Past Activities

The 3rd Annual SIAM Faculty Research Symposium was held Friday, November 4th, 2011!

Held in S&T1 Room 242 from 3:00-6:00 pm. Join us and hear select faculty members discuss their research interests!!

Schedule of Speakers:

 

Please view the flyer. For abstracts, click the title of each talk.

Refreshments will be served (beginning at 2:50-- so come early!)

Faculty Research Symposium

The first Faculty Research Symposium took place November 7th, 2008. The following members of the Math Department faculty gave 20-minute presentations on their research: Flavia Colonna, Maria Emelianenko, Harbir Lamba, James Lawrence, Ronald Levy, Domenico Napoletani, and Robert Sachs.

The second Faculty Research Symposium took place November 6th, 2009. The following members of the Math Department faculty gave 20-minute presentations on their research:  Geir Agnarsson, Jay Shapiro, Jeng-Eng Lin, Igor Griva, Walter Morris, David Singman, and Thomas Wanner.

Photos from Fall 2009 Faculty Research Symposium

SIAM-GMU Faculty Research Symposium

SIAM Club and the Mathematics Department hosted the SIAM-GMU Faculty Research Symposium on November 6th, 2009. Details are available here.

SIAM/Math Department Joint Colloquium

SIAM and the Mathematics Department hosted a joint colloquium on May 1st, 2009. Our speaker was Dr. Pam Cook from the University of Delaware. Her talk was entitled Complex Fluids: Properties, Models and Solutions.

Abstract
Complex fluids are fluids that are non-Newtonian, that is behave differently than water. Particularly important among these fluids are polymers (melted plastics) and surfactant solutions. Surfactants consist of amphiphilic molecules that self-assemble in solution into various micellar structures (e.g. lamellar sheets, spheres, long flexible wormlike structures) depending on the concentration, temperature, and salinity. Wormlike micellar solutions are important in the petroleum and the body- and health-care products industry. In these solutions the long flexible wormlike structures entangle so that the solutions exhibit viscoelastic properties like polymers; but, in contrast to polymers, the worms can break and reform presenting an additional relaxation mechanism. Experimental observations show distinctive (inhomogeneous) behaviors under deformation for these fluids; for example .shear banding. in simple shear flows and sudden rupture in extensional forcing.

In this talk a two-species elastic network constitutive model that integrates micro and macro-scale effects and incorporates breaking and reforming of the micelles is described along with its predictions and comparison of those with experimental observations.

This work was supported by the NSF-DMS-0807395

This work is joint with Michael Cromer, Math. Delaware; Lin Zhou, Math. NJIT; Paula Vasquez, Chemical Engineering, Delaware; and Gareth McKinley, Mechanical Engineering, MIT)

To Join

To get involved, come to any SIAM activity and speak to an officer, or contact Olivia Brozek or Dr. Padmanabhan Seshaiyer.

SIAM membership is open to any GMU student. Dues are currently $10.

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