SIAM announces class of 2013 fellows

Public release date: 29-Mar-2013
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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Philadelphia, PA The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is pleased to announce the 2013 Class of SIAM Fellows. These distinguished members were nominated for their exemplary research as well as outstanding service to the community. Through their contributions, SIAM Fellows help advance the fields of applied mathematics and computational science.

SIAM would like to congratulate these 33 members of the community listed below in alphabetical order:

Randolph E. Bank, University of California, San Diego
Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology
Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
Oscar Bruno, California Institute of Technology
John A. Burns, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Raymond Honfu Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Andrew R. Conn, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Benoit Couet, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center
Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida
Qiang Du, Penn State University
Michael C. Ferris, University of WisconsinMadison
Christodoulos A. Floudas, Princeton University
Michel X. Goemans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew V. Goldberg, Microsoft Research
Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis
Sze-Bi Hsu, National Tsing Hua University
Shi Jin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and University of WisconsinMadison
David Kinderlehrer, Carnegie Mellon University
Edgar Knobloch, University of California, Berkeley
C. David Levermore, University of Maryland, College Park
Marc Mangel, University of California, Santa Cruz
Hans G. Othmer, University of Minnesota
Haesun Park, Georgia Institute of Technology
Robert J. Plemmons, Wake Forest University
John Rinzel, New York University
Bjrn Sandstede, Brown University
Guillermo Sapiro, Duke University
Michael A. Saunders, Stanford University
Larry L. Schumaker, Vanderbilt University
Horst D. Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peter R. Turner, Clarkson University
Pauline van den Driessche, University of Victoria
James A. Yorke, University of Maryland, College Park

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You can read further details about individual Fellows' accomplishments and citations at the link below:

http://connect.siam.org/announcing-the-2013-class-of-siam-fellows/

A full list of the 2013 Class of Fellows can also be found on the SIAM Fellows page here:

http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2013

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Public release date: 29-Mar-2013
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Contact: Karthika Muthukumaraswamy
karthika@siam.org
267-350-6383
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Philadelphia, PA The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is pleased to announce the 2013 Class of SIAM Fellows. These distinguished members were nominated for their exemplary research as well as outstanding service to the community. Through their contributions, SIAM Fellows help advance the fields of applied mathematics and computational science.

SIAM would like to congratulate these 33 members of the community listed below in alphabetical order:

Randolph E. Bank, University of California, San Diego
Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology
Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
Oscar Bruno, California Institute of Technology
John A. Burns, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Raymond Honfu Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Andrew R. Conn, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Benoit Couet, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center
Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida
Qiang Du, Penn State University
Michael C. Ferris, University of WisconsinMadison
Christodoulos A. Floudas, Princeton University
Michel X. Goemans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew V. Goldberg, Microsoft Research
Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis
Sze-Bi Hsu, National Tsing Hua University
Shi Jin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and University of WisconsinMadison
David Kinderlehrer, Carnegie Mellon University
Edgar Knobloch, University of California, Berkeley
C. David Levermore, University of Maryland, College Park
Marc Mangel, University of California, Santa Cruz
Hans G. Othmer, University of Minnesota
Haesun Park, Georgia Institute of Technology
Robert J. Plemmons, Wake Forest University
John Rinzel, New York University
Bjrn Sandstede, Brown University
Guillermo Sapiro, Duke University
Michael A. Saunders, Stanford University
Larry L. Schumaker, Vanderbilt University
Horst D. Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peter R. Turner, Clarkson University
Pauline van den Driessche, University of Victoria
James A. Yorke, University of Maryland, College Park

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You can read further details about individual Fellows' accomplishments and citations at the link below:

http://connect.siam.org/announcing-the-2013-class-of-siam-fellows/

A full list of the 2013 Class of Fellows can also be found on the SIAM Fellows page here:

http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2013

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Iran, NKorea, Syria block UN arms trade treaty

UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked adoption of a U.N. treaty that would regulate the multibillion-dollar international arms trade for the first time, saying it fails to ban sales to terrorists, but other countries refused to let the treaty die.

The treaty's adoption required agreement by all 193 U.N. member states, but some countries said Thursday they would ask Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring the final draft before the General Assembly for adoption by vote as soon as possible. Observers said that could be as soon as Tuesday.

"This is not failure," British Ambassador Jo Adamson said. "Today is success deferred, and deferred by not very long."

For more than a decade, activists and some governments have been pushing for international rules to regulate the estimated $60 billion global arms trade and try to keep illicit weapons out of the hands of terrorists, insurgent fighters and organized crime.

After two weeks of intensive negotiations, many delegates had been optimistic that consensus ? which doesn't require a vote ? by all states was within reach, but Iran, North Korea and Syria announced they could not support the treaty.

Both Iran and North Korea are under U.N. arms embargoes over their nuclear programs, while Syria is in the third year of a conflict that has escalated to civil war. Amnesty International said all three countries "have abysmal human rights records ? having even used arms against their own citizens."

This was the second attempt in eight months to get countries with very different interests behind an Arms Trade Treaty.

Hopes of reaching agreement were dashed in July when the U.S. said it needed more time to consider the proposed accord ? a move quickly backed by Russia and China. In December, the U.N. General Assembly decided to hold a final conference and set Thursday as the deadline.

U.S. deputy representative Dan Mahley said Thursday that the United States supported the proposed treaty as "fair and balanced" and looked forward to its quick adoption by the General Assembly.

The United States, along with Britain, Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Finland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria and Norway, backed Kenya, which announced that because "the will of the overwhelming majority is clear" it was sending a letter to the secretary-general immediately asking him to bring the treaty before the General Assembly for adoption.

The secretary-general did not immediately address the request but expressed deep disappointment at the failure to agree on a treaty text.

"He is confident that the Arms Trade Treaty will come to pass and is encouraged by the shared determination to make this happen as soon as possible," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

The Control Arms Coalition, representing about 100 organizations which have campaigned for a strong treaty, said the earliest the General Assembly could vote is Tuesday, when the chair of the negotiations, Australian Ambassador Peter Woolcott, will present his report to the full world body.

The United States used the consensus requirement ? which gives any country a veto ? to block adoption of the treaty in July, but Anna Macdonald, head of arms control at Oxfam, said "now it's come back to bite them, because the U.S. now wants this treaty agreed but have found themselves blocked by Iran, North Korea and Syria."

She added, "There's no doubt that if the treaty was put to a vote there would have been a huge majority in favor of it ? and I think there will be next week when the General Assembly votes."

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Tom Countryman said the United States would like to see many countries ratify the treaty, because that's what will make it effective.

The draft treaty would not control the domestic use of weapons in any country, but it would require all countries to establish national regulations to control the transfer of conventional arms, parts and components and to regulate arms brokers. It would prohibit states that ratify the treaty from transferring conventional weapons if they violate arms embargoes or if they promote acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes.

The final draft made the human rights provision even stronger, adding that the export of conventional arms should be prohibited if they could be used in attacks on civilians or civilian buildings such as schools and hospitals.

In considering whether to authorize the export of arms, the draft says a country must evaluate whether the weapon would be used to violate international human rights or humanitarian laws or be used by terrorists or organized crime. The final draft would allow countries to determine whether the weapons transfer would contribute to or undermine peace and security.

The draft would also require parties to the treaty to take measures to prevent the diversion of conventional weapons to the illicit market.

Iran's U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee said the draft treaty has "many legal flaws and loopholes," is "hugely susceptible to politicization and discrimination" and ignores the "legitimate demand" to prohibit the transfer of arms to those who commit aggression.

"How can we reduce human suffering by turning a blind eye to aggression that costs the lives of hundreds of thousands of people?" he asked.

North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador Ri Tong-il called the text "a risky draft which can be politically abused by major arms exporters," citing arms embargoes and human rights as criteria to prohibit arms exports. "Under this, major exporters are entitled to privileges while imposing self-proclaimed restrictions on arms trade to importers, whereas many countries have the right to legitimate self-defense and right to legitimate arms trade."

Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said his country is perhaps the best example of the results of the illegal arms trade. He cited seven objections, including the treaty's failure to include an embargo on delivering weapons "to terrorist armed groups and to non-state actors."

India's Ambassador Sujata Mehta said the text was skewed against countries like itself that import arms, and noted that it would strive ensure that the final treaty not threaten India's defense cooperation agreements and contracts with other countries. She said it also won't have any real impact on illicit arms trafficking and the use of arms by terrorists.

Countryman, the U.S. delegation chief, said the treaty should make it harder for "serial human rights abusers" to obtain weapons, but he said "India is not one of these countries."

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Associated Press writer Maria Sanminiatelli contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-nkorea-syria-block-un-arms-trade-treaty-001444987.html

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The new version supports Android 2.3 Gingerbread and above, and languages can be downloaded from the new "Offline languages" menu. A word of warning -- downloading an entire language to your phone takes just as much space as you'd imagine. With only English and German installed, we'd already taken up a hefty 280MB of internal storage.

There are also some limitations to offline mode -- it's currently text-only, so voice translation and image translation don't work offline.

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MLB: Interleague intrigue, all the time

By BEN WALKER

AP Baseball Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 4:50 a.m. ET March 28, 2013

On a windy morning at spring training, a trio of Philadelphia Phillies catchers met behind the batting cage for a chat.

The topic? Interleague matchups, right from the opening night of Major League Baseball.

"We were just talking about that in batting practice that it's a little weird to face the American League so early," All-Star Carlos Ruiz said. "But it's a different schedule this year."

It sure is.

Josh Hamilton and the Los Angeles Angels visit the Cincinnati Reds in an opener that's hardly traditional. Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers finish the season against the Marlins in Miami, where they can't play a designated hitter, an AL-only allowance.

Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees cross over to the National League each month, then host World Series champion San Francisco in late September.

Add up the scattered AL vs. NL matchups, it's like a mini-World Series most every day.

Blame the Houston Astros. Their shift from the NL Central division to the AL West left 15 teams in each league, creating all this havoc.

Opening day is on Sunday in Houston where Texas comes to town.

That's followed by Angels-Reds on Monday. A few days later, the NL's Philadelphia plays its home opener against the AL's Kansas City Royals.

"It is very strange," Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker said. "This (interleague play) usually doesn't happen until June or July.

"What it does is it increases your workload on scouting, advance reports and things like that. You don't have a lot of familiarity on those teams."

Meanwhile, a lot of big names are settling into new settings.

Hamilton left Texas for the Angels, teaming with Albert Pujols and Mike Trout in a most fearsome lineup. Zack Greinke got $147 million to pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Brothers Justin and B.J Upton wound up together in Atlanta's outfield.

The Toronto Blue Jays, out of the postseason since winning their second straight World Series in 1993, made the boldest moves. They traded for reigning Cy Young winner R.A. Dickey, Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson and Mark Buehrle and signed Melky Cabrera.

"Talent alone doesn't win," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons cautioned.

Especially if those stars are sidelined.

New Mets captain David Wright, Hanley Ramirez and Mark Teixeira were hurt at the World Baseball Classic. Curtis Granderson and Chase Headley are out, Johan Santana and Jeter might go on the disabled list and Alex Rodriguez's future is in doubt.

Several top players are on the mend, though.

All-time saves leader Mariano Rivera begins his farewell tour after missing most of last year with a knee injury. John Lackey and Victor Martinez were absent for the entire season and Jose Bautista, Troy Tulowitzki and Carl Crawford finished on the disabled list.

Stephen Strasburg wasn't active at the end, either. The Washington Nationals shut down their rookie ace so he wouldn't pitch too many innings, and fizzled in their first playoff appearance.

There'll be no limits on Strasburg or the Nationals this year.

"We're all really excited to see him all year," 20-year-old Washington star Bryce Harper said.

In the meantime, teams are trying to figure out how to prepare for this unique season. Previously, Astros manager Bo Porter said, it was easy to plan for blocks of interleague games.

"A lot of times, a National League team would call up a DH-type guy during that segment of their schedule," he said. "Now, that's hard to do because you're going to have interleague taking place the entire course of the season. It definitely changes roster construction."

Porter already has his pitchers in the cage, working on their bunting. But it's too soon for Justin Verlander and the Detroit pitchers to pick up a bat.

"We'll have to hit some, but it's a catch-22 because I don't want Verlander breaking his finger," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said.

As for his AL Central champions closing on the road against the Marlins, "whatever is good for baseball," the 68-year-old Leyland said.

"We have a designated hitter in the All-Star game, instant replay. Things change and if it is good for the game, I am all for it," he said.

The Tigers, Boston, Toronto and Seattle each play at NL parks in September, leaving them a hitter short.

"It's definitely an advantage for the National League," Leyland said. "I think eventually they'll go uniform."

Interleague play started in 1997, and it was a novelty in the first few seasons. But with more matchups this year, the schedule appears unbalanced.

Reds manager Baker is hoping for an early edge when Pujols arrives.

"In the case of us playing the Angels, does Albert not play? Does he DH? I wouldn't mind if Albert just spectated," he said. "He'd be a mean pinch hitter. He's probably greasing his glove right now."

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