SIAM PNW Section

Welcome to the Pacific Northwest Section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAMPNWS)!

SIAMPNWS aims to bring together the different communities of the Pacific Northwest that are active in industrial and applied mathematics. Its goals are to enhance communication among its members, to promote collaboration for both basic research and applications of mathematics to industry and science, and to support the SIAM mission in the Pacific Northwest region of the US and Canada.

SIAMPNWS serves the Pacific Northwest region of the USA and Canada, defined here to comprise the states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, and the province of British Columbia.

News

October 2024: The time and location for the 5th Biennial Meeting of SIAM Pacific Northwest Section have been finalized! It will take place from Oct 3-5, 2025, at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. 

April 2024: The new slate of officers of our Section elected for the term April 2024-26 are listed below.

We send our warm congratulations to all those elected while we thank the Nominating Committee: Thomas Humphries, Jeffrey Ovall, Vrushali A. Bokil, Nilima Nigam, and Grady Wright. We also appreciate very much all the candidates who made themselves available for serving our Section.

October 2023:  The fourth biennial meeting of the section was held October 13-15 at Western Washington University.  The meeting featured four engaging plenaries delivered by David George, Anne Greenbaum, Giovanni Paolini and Heather Wilber.  There were four parallel sessions with over 100 speakers.  A poster session was held with 15 posters.  In total, we had roughly 170  registrants.  See the conference website for photos: https://sites.google.com/view/siampnw23

May 2022: The third biennial meeting of the section was held May 20-22 at Washington State University Vancouver! It consisted of four plenary sessions, eleven minisymposia ranging from 4 to 12 talks, three contributed talk sessions, and a student poster session. There were roughly 145 participants from across the PNW region and beyond.  Please see https://sites.google.com/view/siampnw21/ for the conference program, photos, etc.

Officers

President: Donna Calhoun, Department of Mathematics, Boise State University

Vice President: Brittany Erickson, Department of Computer Science and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon

Secretary: Weiran Sun, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University

Treasurer: Heather Wilber, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington

Former Officers

2022-2024: President: Nilima Nigam, Vice-President: Donna Calhoun, Secretary: Tom Trogdon, Treasurer: Elaine Cozzi.

2020 - 2022: President:  Grady Wright, Vice-President: Lynn Schreyer, Secretary: Thomas Humphries, Treasurer: Bonni Dichone.

2018 - 2020: President: Malgorzata Peszynska, Vice President: Katie Oliveras, Secretary: Nathan Ilten, Treasurer: Grady Wright.

2016 - 2018: President: Bernard Deconinck, Vice President: Malgorzata Peszynska, Secretary: Ben Adcock, Treasurer: Leming Qu.

Contact

If you would like to join the SIAM PNW Section mailing list, please email siampnws@gmail.com.