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The Interdisciplinary Mathematics Institute of the Department of Mathematics at the University of South Carolina serves to foster advanced mathematical research with the potential for meaningful application, and to facilitate its transfer to the academic, government and industrial sectors.

2009 Announcements

• Sixth Vasil A. Popov Prize The Prize honors the memory of the Bulgarian analyst Vasil A. Popov (1942-1990), best known for his contributions to Approximation theory. The Sixth Vasil A. Popov Prize will be awarded at the 13th International Conference on Approximation Theory  to be held March 7-10, 2010 in San Antonio, Texas.
  Letters of nomination should include a brief description of the research related to the nomination and a vita of the nominee. Other supporting material may also be submitted. All nominations must be received no later than November 1, 2009.  For more information http://www.math.sc.edu/~popov/
  
• The 33^rd Annual SIAM Southeastern-Atlantic Section Conference was held at University of South Carolina during the period April 4-5 2009. Thirteen minisymposia were organized on a wide range of topics in Computational and Applied Mathematics.  IMI Bioinformatics talks by Professors Istvan Miklos (Budapest/Oxford) and John Spouge (NIH) preceded and followed the conference.

• IMI and the Nanocenter jointly hosted an International Seminar Series
  "Imaging in Electron Microscopy" from Feb 8 to April 2.

• IMI Distinguished Lecturer for Spring 2009:
  
• Professor Weinan E (Princeton University), March 19.

• A Seminar Series in "Seminar on Nanosccale Theory, Modeling and Simulation" was organized by Professor Qi Wang for the Spring Semester.

MURI News

• Joint meetings for NATO SET 118, ARO MURI Government Review, and a Phase II ARO STTR  were held in Columbia during the week of November 17-21. Further details for participants will be posted in upcoming weeks. The ARO MURI (Multi-University Research Initiative) project Dynamic Modeling of 3D Urban Terrain involves eight universities with IMI as the organizational lead.
  
• IMI members held a planning meeting on August 1, 2008 in Columbia for the major participants in order to discuss progress on the MURI project and to plan for the offiicial Government Review to be held later in November.
  

 2008 Announcements

• IMI Seminar for Thursday, Oct 2, 2008: Professor Karl-Heinz Brakhage (RWTH Aachen),  Least squares approximation and grid generation using subdivision schemes.
• IMI Distinguished Lecturers Announced for Fall 2008:
  
  • Professor Leonidas Guibas (Stanford), September 30.
  • Professor Michael Celia (Princeton)  November 24.
• IMI is pleased to announce that several research faculty will be visiting for extended periods this Fall, including Professors Karl-Heinz Brakhage (Germany), Spas Tashev (Bulgaria), Peixin Ye (China), Dihn Dung (Vietnam), Huai Zhang (China),  and Sheng Zhang (China). 
  
• Seminar on "Probability and Approximation in Applications" 
  Professors Temlyakov (USC) & Molchanov (UNCC), November 22, 2008

• Mini-Conference on Compressed Sensing 
  Professors Temlyakov, Kerkyacharian and Picard, May 16, 2008 
  
• Wolfgang Dahmen Special Seminar Series  2008 (February-March)
  "Sparse Approximation in Very High Dimensions"