Tulin Kaman, an assistant professor and Lawrence Jesser Toll Jr. Chair in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the U of A's Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, has been invited to serve on the Membership Committee of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for another three years, starting from January 2022.

The responsibilities of the SIAM Membership Committee are to provide oversight for SIAM membership development plans, including recruitment and retention, serve as a conduit of information about membership initiatives, and review and provide direction on membership needs, with consideration of the specific needs of various segments of membership including students, young professionals, international and industry.

"I am honored to be asked again to serve on the committee of the largest applied mathematics and computational science professional organization in the world. I look forward to seeing the U of A as a SIAM Academic Member with the top institutions in near future," Kaman said. Kaman has recruited new student chapters at the U of A, ETH-Zurich (Switzerland) and Sabanci University (Turkey).

After joining the U of A in 2017, Kaman established the Student Chapter to promote research in applied mathematics leading to new methods and techniques useful to the industry and science with her students. Throughout these years, the U of A SIAM Student Chapter has been organizing interdisciplinary activities to strengthen interaction among the students and faculty in sciences and engineering departments.

"Our U of A students are very eager to learn more about the computational techniques for solving problems in a wide range of areas. Recently, the chapter organized the Graduate Student Workshop in conjunction with the 46th University of Arkansas Spring Lecture Series on Scalable Solvers and Universals during the week of April 5-9, 2021, and had the opportunity to learn the recent advances in solvers from 16 lectures given by distinguished researchers from government agencies and universities," Kaman said.

About SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is an international community of over 14,000 individual members. Almost 500 academic, manufacturing, research and development, service and consulting organizations, government, and military organizations worldwide are institutional members. SIAM was incorporated in 1952 as a nonprofit organization to convey useful mathematical knowledge to other professionals who could implement mathematical theory for practical, industrial or scientific use. Since then, SIAM's goals have remained the same. SIAM fosters the development of applied mathematical and computational methodologies needed in various application areas. Applied mathematics, in partnership with computational science, is essential in solving many real-world problems. Through publications, research and community, the mission of SIAM is to build cooperation between mathematics and the worlds of science and technology.