By Daniel B. Szyld
We invite you to submit proposals of special sessions for the third Mathematical Congress of the Americas (MCA 2021), which will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from July 19-24, 2021. The deadline for proposal submission is July 31, 2020.
SIAM is a founding member of the Mathematical Council of the Americas, a network for professional mathematics societies and research institutes throughout the Americas. The organization currently has 32 members from countries ranging from Canada to Argentina and Chile. Both small and large countries—like Costa Rica and Brazil—are represented.
The Council supports several activities—including some “summer schools,” though they do not always occur during the summer—and organizes the Mathematical Congress of the Americas, a very large quadrennial conference that rotates host countries. The first two conferences were held in Guanajuato, Mexico, and Montreal, Canada. The next conference (MCA 2021) is scheduled for July 2021 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It will take place in a new building at the University of Buenos Aires’ School of Exact and Natural Sciences.
SIAM members are encouraged to organize special sessions (akin to minisymposia) for this meeting. The list of organizers must include affiliations of more than one country in the Americas. The submission period for these proposals is currently open and will close on July 31, 2020.
In addition to the opportunity to network with old and new colleagues, attend talks, and learn about novel trends, conference attendees can experience Buenos Aires during the mild South American winter. To quote a recent article in The New York Times, “The city continues…producing amazing new restaurants; inventing fresh ways to showcase the country’s always-thrilling wine offerings; developing an exceptionally stimulating arts scene; and coming up with creative twists on tradition in everything from aperitifs to bookstores. Visiting Buenos Aires is always filled with new discoveries and beloved stalwarts.”
It is worth nothing that the 2021 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN21) is scheduled for the same week as MCA 2021. AN21, which will take place from July 19-23 in Spokane, Wash., is being held jointly with the SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT21) and the SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA21). The SIAM Activity Groups on Mathematics of Planet Earth and Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures will also have tracks at the meeting.
AN21 will feature the SIAM Career Fair, Workshop Celebrating Diversity, Industry Panel and Reception, and Student Days activities, in addition to the standard assortment of minisymposia, minitutorials, contributed talks, invited presentations, panel discussions, and prize lectures. Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University) will deliver the I. E. Block Community Lecture, and several talks and events originally planned for the 2020 SIAM Annual Meeting (which is cancelled with select virtual sessions due to the COVID-19 pandemic) will now take place at AN21.
The organizing committee co-chairs are Fadil Santosa (University of Minnesota) and Elaine Spiller (Marquette University). More details will be released in the coming months, and the call for participation will be made available in September 2020.
Daniel B. Szyld is a SIAM representative to the Mathematical Council of the Americas.