[BANANA] Tuesday: Lecture by Prof. Tony Chan and SIAM Awards Ceremony

[Felix Kwok]

Hi all,

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The SIAM Stanford student chapter is pleased to announce our annual award
ceremony. Our guest-of-honor for the event will be

Prof. Tony F. Chan
Dean, Division of Physical Sciences
Professor of Computational & Applied Math
University of California, Los Angeles

More information can be found on our website at
http://www.stanford.edu/group/siam/chan.html

o  Tuesday, May 31st, 5:00 pm in Packard 101

o  Prizes for our annual awards (in teaching, research, service, academic)
   and SCREAM (Symposium on Current Research in Engineering and Applied
   Mathematics) will be given out at the event

o  Reception to follow: PIZZA and SUSHI will be served!

o  Title of the talk:

         Image Processing: a new frontier for applied mathematics

o  Abstract:

   Image processing has emerged as a new frontier in applied mathematics.
   It has all the right ingredients: important applications, interesting
   and non-standard mathematical tools and models, and challenging
   computations. Ideas from diverse areas find fruitful applications here:
   harmonic analysis, Bayesian statistics, nonlinear PDEs, differential
   geometry, CFD, multiscale methodologies, optimization, etc. There is
   something in it for anyone (in particular students!) with a background
   in applied mathematics and a willingness to learn from other fields. In
   my talk, I'll use some examples from my own work to illustrate this
   perspective.

o  Biography:

   Tony received his B.S. in engineering and M.S. in aeronautics from
   Caltech in 1973, his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1978.
   He was an Assistant and then Associate Professor of computer science at
   Yale from 1979–1986, when he was lured to UCLA. He was the Chair of the
   UCLA Mathematics Department from 1997–2000, until he became Director of
   the newly established Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
   (IPAM). He became Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences in July
   2001, overseeing 6 departments, several research institutes, over 200
   faculties, 1700 undergraduate and 700 graduate students. Tony has
   served on the SIAM Council and the editorial boards of SIAM Reviews and
   SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing. He now serves on the SIAM Board
   of Trustees and is an editor-in-chief of Numerische Mathematik.

Please note that there will also be a lecture by Dr. Ray Tuminaro in the
same room at 4:15.

Hope to see you there!


Felix Kwok
for SIAM SSC committee