Trip to Xiamen, China (Day 3)

Photo Caption: Members of the Executive Committee of EASIAM during the Business Meeting held on November 3, 2007 in Xiamen, University, Xiamen, China.


Today (November 3, 2007) is the second day of the 3rd East Asia SIAM Conference in Xiamen, China being held at Xiamen University from November 2 - 5, 2007.

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The featured speakers are as follows:

• SIAM Keynote Lecture: Dr. Andy Wathen (Oxford University), "Preconditioning And The Iterative Solution Of PDE Problems"



• Dr. Pingwen Zhang, "Moment Closure Approximation Of Kinetic Theories For Complex Fluids"



• Dr. Masahisa Tabata, "Numerical Simulations Of Multi-Fluid Flow Problems By An Energy-Stable Finite Element Scheme"



• Dr. Xia-qing Jin, "Numerical Optimal Preconditioners And Bottcher's Conjecture"

In the afternoon, there were three parallel sessions. One of the sessions was the EASIAM Business Meeting. As a member of the EASIAM Executive Committee I attended the EASIAM Business Meeting.

The following are the current members of the EASIAM Executive Committee:

Zhong-Ci Shi (Chair)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
Pham Ky Anh
Vietnam National University
Raymond Chan
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
I-Liang Chern
National Taiwan University
Victor D. Didenko
Universitii Brunei Darussalam
Roger Hosking
Universitii Brunei Darussalam
Nguyen Van Huu
Hanoi University of Science
Xiao-qing Jin
University of Macau
Hyung-Chun Lee
Ajou University
Ping Lin
National University of Singapore
Tom Mitsui
Nagoya University
Michael Ng
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hisashi Okamoto
Kyoto University
Mohd Omar
University of Malaysia
Abdul Rahni
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Rafael P. Saldana
Ateneo de Manila University
Dongwoo Sheen
Seoul National University
Zuowei Shen
National University of Singapore
Haiwei Sun
University of Macau
Tao Tang
Hong Kong Baptist University

The following items were discussed by the EASIAM Executive Committee during the business meeting:

1. EASIAM Meeting 2008 (Dates and Venue)

2. Election schedule of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary

3. Rule of EASIAM Student Paper Competition

In the evening, the conference participants had a banquet in a seafood restaurant in downtown Xiamen. One of the highlights of the banquet is the announcement of the winners of the EASIAM Best Student Paper Award.

Below are the winners:

First Place: Shipeng Mao, "Error Estimates For Degenerate Quadrilateral Finite Elements"

Second Place: Yu-Mei Huang, "On Preconditioned Iterative Methods For Burgers Equations"

Third Place:

Alexander Shapeev, "Application of Combined Spectral And Finite Difference Method To Unsteady Viscous Flow"

and Chien-Hong Cho, "On The Finite Difference Approximation For A Parabolic Blow-Up Problems"

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS!

Cheers,

Raffy
Xiamen, China
11/3/07