Re: SIAM event at OctConf 2017?

[Andrea Latina]

Dear Francesco,

this sounds to me like a great idea.

As, I see, the organization of the conference is emerging quite
spontaneously, I would recommend you propose a time slot for this
session on the wiki page, subjected to the validation of Juan and all
those managing that page. Once the timetable will be more or less
finalized, I will publish it on the OctConf Indico page.

Also, I invite you and all the students who intend to participate, to
register using the form we published on the OctConf Indico page:
https://indico.cern.ch/event/609833 This will help us with the
logistics.

Best,
Andrea


On 7 February 2017 at 14:17, Francesco Faccio
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm involved in many activities with SIAM [1] (Society for Industrial and
> Applied Mathematics) and I think that it could be nice to organize a short
> event during OctConf with the EPFL Student Chapter of SIAM [2]. A SIAM
> Student Chapter is an association of students and faculty members which
> organizes cultural activities such as conferences, courses, summer schools,
> programming competitions, in order to promote applied mathematics and it is
> founded by SIAM.
>
> This could take place during one (and a half) of the slots available and it
> could consist of a short introduction of what is SIAM and what a SIAM
> Chapter does (10 min) plus a couple of talks of PhD or Master students which
> use Octave in their research (20 min + 20 min).
>
> Since Lousanne is pretty close to Geneva, in the worst  possible case they
> would need only some funds to cover the travel costs (but SIAM and EPFL
> should cover some costs).
>
> Note that this could be a starting point also for a collaboration in the
> other direction: SIAM organizes a lot of big conferences and meetings every
> year and it would be interesting to send some people representing Octave at
> those events.
>
> If you think that this could be an interesting event for the community
> during OctConf, I will contact them to see whether they are available.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Francesco Faccio
>
> [1] http://www.siam.org/
> [2] https://epflsiam.wordpress.com/
>
>
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