siag/dm business meeting june 15, 2010, 6:00-7:00pm 15th siam conference on discrete mathematics
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SIAG/DMBUSINESS MEETING
June 15, 2010, 6:00-7:00pm
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• SIAM Activity Group in Discrete Math : New Board for 2010-11• SIAG/DM Membership report• SIAG/DM Announcements: Next Board Election 2011; Charter
Renewal; Website; Newsletter; SIAM News• SIAG/DM Other Conferences: SIAM Annual Meeting, ICIAM, SODA• Discrete Math Conference: History; Planning for DM12• Dénes König Prize• SIAM Book Publishing in Discrete Mathematics• Possible other SIAG activities for the future• Adjourn
Agenda for Business Meeting
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2008-2009 Carla Savage, ChairBojan Mohar, Vice ChairLorna Stewart, Program DirectorOrtrud Oellermann, Secretary
Special Thanks toOutgoing Officers
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2010-2011
Jerry Griggs, Chair
Karen Collins, Vice Chair
Kathie Cameron, Program Director
John Schmitt, Secretary
New SIAG/DM Officers
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SIAG/DM MEMBERSHIP REPORT (as of 12/31/09)
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SIAG/SC Membership HistorySIAG/DM Membership History
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Activity Group Membership 12/31/09 46% non-students and 66% students belong to a SIAG
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NON STUDENT 50%
STUDENT50%
SIAG/DM MEMBERS764 as of 12/31/09
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SIAM overall US 69% CANADA 4% Non US 27%
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SIAG/DM MEMBERSHIP BY GENDERMALE 83% FEMALE 17%
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INDUSTRY15%
GOVERNMENT5%
ACADEMIA76%
NON PROFIT1%
CONSULTING2%
TECH INSTITUTE1%
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SIAG DM DEPARTMENTS
MATH SCIENCES 53%
ENGINEERING10%
COMPUTER SCIENCE 24%
OTHER 6%
OP RESEARCH 4%
PHYSICS 1%
EARTH SCIENCES 0%
STATISTICS 1%
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– Next SIAG/DM election in 2011
– SIAG Charter renewed through 2011
– SIAM Fellows: Let us know if Board can assist with nominating worthy candidates
Announcements
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– SIAG/DM website http://www.siam.org/activity/dm/
Send suggestions to John Schmitt
– SIAG/DM electronic mail list
Ryan Martin [email protected]
Archived at
http://orion.math.iastate.edu/rymartin/dm-net/dm-net.html
– SIAM News: Liaison needed; send us story ideas
Announcements
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Other Conferences
• DM Sessions at SIAM Annual Meeting
July 12-16, 2010
Pittsburgh
• DM Sessions at ICIAM
July 18-22, 2011
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
SIAG/DM Conference Activity
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Other Conferences
• SODA
(Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) run jointly annually with ACM-SIGACT
SIAG/DM Conference Activity
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• SIAM Conference on Discrete Math DM10
June 14-17, 2010 Austin, TX
Michael Molloy
Chair, Organizing Committee
SIAG/DM Conference Activity
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DM CONFERENCE HISTORY
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Next Conference: PP12
• Location• Timing• Program committee
NEXT CONFERENCE: DM12
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Missoula, MontanaUniversity of Montana
Possible DM12 Conference Site
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City overview University of Montana
Local organizers: ----Mark Kayll and Jenny McNultyU of MT on beautiful siteContinuing Ed. Facility suitableLow cost dorms; hotel nearbyGreen Campus: Rental bikes, and Biobus Airport TransportationMild in June (can be hot in July)
Downtown Missoula
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Halifax, Nova ScotiaDalhousie University
Possible DM12 Conference Site
Public Garden
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The waterfront from across the harbor
Lighthouse at Peggy's Cove
Dalhousie University
Local organizers: Jeannette Janssen & Richard NowakowskiBeautiful historical city and provinceRestaurants, hotels in easy walking distanceDalhousie conference facilitiesDorms and variety of hotels Mild climate
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Larger CitiesPossible DM12 Conference Site
Montréal
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Los Angeles
Portland, ORPhiladelphia
Denver
Chicago
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Next Conference: PP12
• Mid-June, 2012• Another Time?
DM12: Timing
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Next Conference: PP12
Send us ideas for:• Organizing
Committee Chair?• Conference Themes?
DM12: Program
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Next Conference: PP12
Stable Funding?
John Schmitt
Dénés König Prize
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Next Conference: PP12
Mark Ellingham
SIAM Book Publishing in Discrete Mathematics
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Motivation and overview
• Initial motivation: SIAM rejected a graph theory book proposal as not applied enough. Prompted me to look at SIAM's book offerings.
• Found that SIAM does not seem to be serving discrete mathematics community formed by activity group and attendees at SIAM Discrete Math conferences.
• SIAM has been publishing almost no books in discrete mathematics recently (past 5-8 years).
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Background: Book series DT (Discrete Math. and Applns.)
• Started out well, eight books during 1999-2001:
[DT01] Evaluation and Optimization of Electoral Systems; P. Grilli di Cortona, C. Manzi, A. Pennisi, F. Ricca & B. Simeone;
1999; MSC 91B12.
[DT02] Topics in Intersection Graph Theory; T. A. McKee and F. R. McMorris;1999; MSC 05-01.
[DT03] Graph Classes: A Survey; A. Brandstadt, V. B. Le, and J. P. Spinrad;1999; MSC 05-01.
[DT04] Branching Programs and Binary Decision Diagrams; I. Wegener;2000; MSC 68Q05.
[DT05] Distributed Computing: A Locality-Sensitive Approach; David Peleg;2000; MSC 68M14.
[DT06] Combinatorial Data Analysis: Optimization by Dynamic Programming; Lawrence Hubert, Phipps Arabie, and Jacqueline Meulman;
2001; MSC 62H30.
[DT07] Complexity Classifications of Boolean Constraint Satisfaction Problems; Nadia Creignou, Sanjeev Khanna, and Madhu Sudan;
2001; MSC 68Q15.
[DT08] Discrete Mathematics of Neural Networks: Selected Topics; Martin Anthony;2001; MSC 68Q32.
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Background: Book series DT (Discrete Math. and Applns.)
• Dwindled to three books in 2002-2005:
[DT09] The Vehicle Routing Problem; Paolo Toth and Daniele Vigo;
2002; MSC 90C35.
[DT10] Discrete Convex Analysis; Kazuo Murota;
2003; MSC 90-02.
[DT11] Algebraic Theory of Automata Networks; Pal Domosi and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv;
2005; MSC 68-02.
No books after 2005, as SIAM phases out the series
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Other SIAM book series• Only a couple of books on discrete mathematics (broadly
interpreted) in other SIAM book series:
• MP = "MPS/SIAM Series on Optimization"
[MP04] The Sharpest Cut: The Impact of Manfred Padberg and His Work; Martin Grotschel, Editor;
2004; MSC 90-06.
• OT = "Other Titles in Applied Mathematics“ (now what SIAM uses mostly)
[OT106] Assignment Problems; Rainer Burkard, Mauro Dell'Amico, and Silvano Martello;
2009; MSC 90-02.
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What areas of “discrete math.” does SIAM publish in?
• MSC codes/counts for above books:05 = combinatorics 262 = statistics 168 = computer science 590 = operations research 5 (3 DT, 1 MP, 1 OT)
• So, most SIAM books in discrete mathematics are from computer science and operations research (MSC codes 68, 90).
• My impression is that the DM community would be interested in more books in combinatorics (MSC code 05).
• SIAM should not interpret "applied mathematics" too narrowly in our area.
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What can we do?
• Mark has emailed SIAM's Vice President for Publications, Susanne Brenner. She is investigating, and discussing with SIAM book publications staff and with the Activity Group board.
• The Activity Group should lobby for DM representation on the publication board, or else the publication board should work with the book liaison appointed by the SIAG/DM chair. The book liaison could, for instance, suggest reviewers for books submitted for consideration.
• The Activity Group should solicit submissions for SIAM books, e.g. through newsletter announcements.
• In choosing books to publish, SIAM should not apply too narrow a definition of “applied mathematics”. It is important to choose books that will be of interest to the actual SIAM discrete mathematics community.
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• Possible Other Activities?
SIAG/DM FUTURE PLANS
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SIAG/DM Contacts
Chair: Jerrold Griggs [email protected]
Vice Chair: Karen Collins [email protected]
Program Director: Kathie Cameron [email protected]
Secretary: John [email protected]
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