Re: SIAM event at OctConf 2017?

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Andrea Latina <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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>

It sounds like a great idea!
Lets try it out.