Dear Colleagues, Greetings from the "Satellite and Embedded Meetings Committee" for the upcoming International Congress on Applied and Industrial Mathematics (http://www.iciam2011.com/) happening in Vancouver, Canada (June 18-22, 2011). Like the ICM, this is a large, exciting, and international congress that happens every four years. We are seeking proposals for affiliated meetings (see below for further detail). Such meetings can be beneficial for all concerned because a participant can attend more than one meeting for less than double the travel cost. This results in higher participation levels for both ICIAM and for the affiliated meetings. If you have questions, please contact one of us. Sincerely, Jim Crowley, SIAM, crowley@siam.org Abba Gumel, University of Manitoba, gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca Randy LeVeque, University of Washington, rjl@washington.edu Mary Pugh, University of Toronto, mpugh@math.utoronto.ca ========================================================= A *satellite* meeting is a meeting that takes place within a few weeks of ICIAM 2011 on a topic of interest to ICIAM attendees in a location that may make it convenient for ICIAM participants to combine the events into a single trip. Satellite meetings have no official connection to ICIAM beyond a cross listing on the ICIAM 2011 webpages. ICIAM does not provide any financial or other support for satellite meetings. Satellite meetings are organized and run by independent organizations or groups. For example, around the time of the ICIAM 2007 Conference in Zurich, there were more than two dozen satellite meetings, listed at http://www.iciam07.ch/satellite_conferences An *embedded* meeting is a meeting of some other organization that takes place during the week of the ICIAM Conference and that may share some resources with the main ICIAM Conference. For example, during the ICIAM 2007 Conference in Zurich, there were four embedded meetings listed at http://www.iciam07.ch/embedded_meetings For ICIAM 2011, we expect few if any embedded meetings. As a service to the community, the ICIAM Steering Committee has appointed a Satellite and Embedded Meetings Committee with the following goals: to encourage groups to consider organizing satellite meetings; to consider other meetings and approve listing them on the ICIAM webpages as satellite meetings of ICIAM; to create and maintain a webpage of these meetings, as a resource for participants and for those organizing other meetings; and to consider any requests for embedded meetings. If you are organizing or considering organizing a meeting that would qualify as a satellite meeting, please contact Mary Pugh (mpugh@math.utoronto.ca) as soon as possible with the following information: Name of meeting Estimated number of participants Location Dates Conference webpage (if available) Other relevant information, such as scope or content of meeting, organizing society or affiliate, etc Feel free to contact us with tentative information for meetings that are not fully planned. This information may be useful to others planning related meetings. If you're interested in organizing an embedded meeting, please contact Randy LeVeque (rjl@washington.edu)