The conference will be held in beautiful Charleston, SC. Events on Friday March 25 will be held at the Citadel and on Saturday March 26 at the College of Charleston.

Mei Chen, Citadel chenm@citadel.edu, 843-860-3556

Annalisa Calini, College of Charleston calinia@cofc.edu 843-953-5732

Brenton LeMesurier, College of Charleston lemesurierb@cofc.edu 843-953-5917

A detailed timetable is now available, as well as a brief guide to all event times, locations and late program changes.

Friday Morning Short Courses

These are held on Friday morning, before the rest of the conference, and an optional buffet lunch is available for participants for $8. (Selections includes Smoked Turkey & Pepper Jack, Roast Beef and Cheddar, and Egg Salad sandwiches.)

Registration for these courses and for the lunch is required by Friday March 18.

• Introduction to Financial Mathematics and Volatility Modeling
  Jean-Pierre Fouque, North Carolina State University

• Optimal Control Applied to Population Models
  Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee

Invited Speakers

• Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston, Incoming President of SIAM
  Coupled Systems: Theory and Examples

• Chris Jones, University of North Carolina
  Analyzing and assimilating Lagrangian data in ocean models

• Tim Kelley, North Carolina State University
  Optimal Design of Groundwater Remediation Systems with Sampling Methods

• James Nagy, Emory
  Removal of Non-Uniform Motion Blurs: Algorithms and Implementations

Minisymposia (Special Sessions)

1. Linear Algebra and Signal Processing organized by James Nagy, Emory nagy@mathcs.emory.edu

2. Population Dynamics and Epidemiology organized by Kbenesh Blayneh, Florida A&M University kbenesh.blayneh@famu.edu, and Gary Harrison, College of Charleston harrisong@cofc.edu

3. Mathematics and Music organized by Martin Jones, College of Charleston jonesm@cofc.edu

4. Information Retrieval organized by Amy Langville, North Carolina State University and College of Charleston anlangvi@unity.ncsu.edu and Carl Meyer, North Carolina State University meyer@ncsu.edu

5. Thin Liquid Films organized by Michael Shearer shearer@math.ncsu.edu and Rachel Levy rlevy@unity.ncsu.edu, North Carolina State University

6. Solitons and Integrability organized by Alex Kasman kasmana@cofc.edu and Stephane Lafortune lafortunes@cofc.edu, College of Charleston.
   for more details, see the flyer for the minisymposium on Solitons and Integrability (in PDF).

7. Discontinuous Galerkin Methods organized by Susanne Brenner brenner@math.sc.edu and Fengyan Li fli@math.sc.edu, University of South Carolina

8. Dynamic modeling of biological systems organized by Eberhard O. Voit, Georgia Tech. and Emory eberhard.voit@bme.gatech.edu

9. Inverse Problems in Electromagnetics and Biology organized by H.T. Banks htbanks@eos.ncsu.edu and Nathan Gibson ngibson@math.ncsu.edu North Carolina State University

Contributed Papers and Student Sessions

There will be two SIAM Regional Student Chapters Special Sessions, organized by Susanne Brenner brenner@math.sc.edu and Li-yeng Sung sung@math.sc.edu of the University of South Carolina, with the assistance of the SIAM Student Chapter Advisors: Michael Benzi, Chris Cox, Suzanne Lenhart, A.J. Meier, Shari Moskow, James Nagy, Paul Schmidt, Michael Shearer and Ralph Smith.

There will also be four sessions of twenty minute contributed papers.

The deadline for registration is Monday February 21. Details of speakers and talks are now in the conference timetable.

Math Jeopardy Contest

The deadline for registration is Monday February 21.

Conference Dinner at the Beach!

We will have our conference dinner at the Citadel Beach House on Friday evening. It is located at 4700 Palm Blvd on the Isle of Palms. It will be a casual dinner including treats such as plantation shrimp pilaf, chicken and sausage jambalaya, southern veggies and chocolate bread pudding trifle!

And yes ... it will be on one of Charleston nicest beaches, so bring your walking shoes or sandals and plan to have a fun evening!

Sign up by Friday March 18.

Hotels

• Howard Johnson, 250 Spring Street, Charleston, SC 29403, phone 843-722-4000, fax 843-723-2573: Thursday (03/24) $60, Friday-Saturday (03/25-26) $90, booking deadline February 24.
• Comfort Inn 144 Bee Street, Charleston, SC 29401, phone 843-577-2224, Fax 843-577-9001: $95 for any of 3 days, booking deadline March 2.
• Charleston Riverview Hotel 170 Lockwood Boulevard, Charleston, SC 29403, phone 843-723-3000: $89 for any of 3 days, booking deadline February 24.

Downtown Charleston

Getting to the Citadel, finding parking there, and campus maps

Getting to the College of Charleston, and campus maps

The deadline for advanced registration is Friday March 18. To register, please print out, complete, and return the registration form with your check, by that date.

On-site registration will be available. However reservations for meals and registration for short courses must be done in advance; the registration fee includes refreshments but not meals.