New Mexico Days
This annual workshop brings together junior scientists, postdoctoral fellows and advanced graduate students in an informal setting aimed at fostering collaborations in Nonlinear Science and Applied Mathematics between the Los Alamos National Laboratory (primarily CNLS and the T Division), the University of Arizona (UA) Program in Applied Mathematics, Arizona State University (ASU) Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the University of New Mexico (UNM) Department of Mathematics and Statistics. This year, the workshop took place in February of 2008 at UNM. The conference covered topics in Nonlinear Science including Mathematical Biology, Sea Ice Modeling, Turbulence, and Ocean Waves. One key objective of this workshop was for it to be a forum where advanced Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty could present their research and network. As such, the agenda was dominated by young scientists.
New Mexico Days Talks
Ample publicity of this workshop (see website) assured great attendance. To maximize participation in the program, on Friday we included a poster session. In this session 10 posters were presented. Regents Prof. Vladimir Zakharov from the University of Arizona was the invited guest speaker. All participants were invited to a reception at UNM Professor Alejandro Aceves’ house as part of the program.
The support of the IAS was instrumental in that we were able to support travel for most students coming from Arizona. Needless to say, these Institutions were very grateful for such support and the local organizers heard only praise for the whole event.
The expectation is that a similar workshop will take place at either ASU or LANL in the winter of 2009. In fact, this event has a rich history dating back some 25 years; the original concept was to be a LANL/Arizona event, and for the past three years it has expanded to include ASU and UNM.
Contact: aceves@math.unm.edu
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