Kaman Named SIAM Chair of the Membership Committee

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Tulin Kaman, assistant professor and the Lawrence Jesser Toll Jr. Chair in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Tulin Kaman, an assistant professor and the Lawrence Jesser Toll Jr. Chair in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the U of A Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the chair of the Membership Committee at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the largest applied mathematics and computational science professional organization in the world.

Kaman's primary focus in this position will be to provide oversight for SIAM membership development plans including recruitment and retention with the Membership Committee members from academia and industry.

"I am honored to be nominated and elected as the chair of the Membership Committee of SIAM, the world's largest professional association in applied mathematics," Kaman said.

Kaman established the U of A SIAM Student Chapter to promote research in applied mathematics leading to new methods and techniques useful to the industry and science with her students in 2018. Throughout these years, the chapter has been organizing interdisciplinary activities to strengthen interaction among the students and faculty in sciences and engineering departments.

The 2022 Spring Lecture Series between May 4-6, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the U of A Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Department of Mathematical Sciences and SIAM will be on the topic of numerical linear algebra from scientific computing to data science applications. A series of five lectures from Yousef Saad, distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and 10 guests from leading universities in the U.S., Czech Republic and Switzerland will give presentations. In addition, Sabine Van Huffel, professor emerita in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven, will give a public lecture on "Challenges in Smart Patient Monitoring: from Raw Data to Decision Support" on Wednesday, May 4.

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.