Re: SIAM event at OctConf 2017?

[Carnë Draug]

On 7 February 2017 at 13:17, 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/

Hi Francesco

Is this no longer going to happen?

Carnë