The 4th Annual Meeting of SIAM Central States Section

SIAM中部州分会（SIAM CSS https://www.siam.org/sections/central/）成立于2014年，服务于阿肯色州、科罗拉多州、爱荷华州、堪萨斯州、密西西比州、密苏里州、内布拉斯加州和俄克拉荷马州的SIAM成员。SIAM中部各州分会第四届年会将于2018年10月5日至10月7日在俄克拉荷马大学诺曼校区举行。会议网址为http://www.math.ou.edu/conferences/siam2018。本次会议的主题将围绕应用和计算数学展开。该奖项将仅用于支持来自四年制大学的初级研究人员（学生/博士后/早期职业教师）、少数民族、残疾人和同事。我们的长期目标是在中部各州建立一个更强大的计算和应用数学项目。SIAM CSS年度会议系列为计算和应用数学家与来自美国和其他国家的专家交流知识和网络提供了一个非常重要的平台。本次会议将为大家提供充足的机会，让大家在课间、课间以及会后进行互动讨论。我们特别希望来自中央各邦的参与者（可能出席也可能不出席会议）有机会与研究人员建立互动，他们在该国的这个地区通常没有机会见面。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The SIAM Central States Section (SIAM CSS https://www.siam.org/sections/central/) was formed in 2014 to serve SIAM members in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. The 4th Annual Meeting of SIAM Central States Section will be held 10/5-10/7, 2018 on the Norman campus of the University of Oklahoma. The url for the conference website is http://www.math.ou.edu/conferences/siam2018 .The theme of this conference will be centered around applied and computational Mathematics. This award will be used solely to support junior researchers (students/postdocs/early career faculty), minorities, people with disability and colleagues from 4-year colleges. Our long-term goal is to build a stronger computational and applied Math program throughout all the central states. The SIAM CSS annual conference series provides a very important platform for computational and applied mathematicians to exchange knowledge and network with experts from all over the U.S. and other countries. This conference will give ample opportunity for people to interact at discussions during the breaks, between talks, as well as after the talks. In particular we expect participants from the central states (that may or may not present at the conference) to have the opportunity to establish interactions with researchers that they would not often have a chance to meet in this part of the country.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.