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Growing amount of molecular biological data combined with current advances in modeling of complex systems provide unprecedented opportunities to understand biological evolution in a quantitative way. A quantitative description of an evolving system is the first step towards prediction and control, and it opens new exciting directions for highly interdisciplinary research. The central questions are: (i) to what degree we can predict the outcome of biological evolution, (ii) what features of the system are predictable and (iii) which features confer predictive value for a quantitative description of the system. This program brings together theoretical and experimental physicists, experimental biologists with an interest in quantitative modelling and mathematicians with interest in biological systems.

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The 2019 Summer Simulation Conference (SummerSim’19), a premier international conference of SCS, is an annual conference sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), which focuses on modeling and simulation, tools, theory, methodologies and applications and provides a forum for the latest R&D results in academia.

We aim to create a dialog between researchers of different fields and to inspire future collaborations. In addition, further developments in this field would have significant translational impacts, e.g., by optimizing vaccines against evolving viruses, designing strategies for personalized cancer therapy and by providing insights to the problem of antibiotic resistance. Under the theme of “HPC and Modeling & Simulation for the 21st Century,' HPCS 2019 will focus on a wide range of the state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to high performance and large scale computing systems at both the client and backend levels. Continuing the great success of previous HPCS events, HPCS 2019 is anticipated to attract a large number of high-quality submissions and stimulate cutting-edge research discussions among many pioneering researchers and scientists as well as industry engineers and leaders from all around the world. The conference will cover the usual topics in geo-mathematics, geostatistics, geoinformatics and geomodeling but in particular will bring to fore geomodeling issues at the intersection of food, water, and energy. The challenge of meeting the increased demand for food, water, and energy and the resultant stress on our geo-sphere is broadly accepted as one of the major scientific challenges facing mankind. The feedback processes intrinsic to this tri-partite cycle are best-studied using sophisticated mathematical and statistical modeling tools.

One of the broad themes of the proposed conference will be to highlight research being performed to address these issues. This workshop aims to equip graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in mathematics and related disciplines with the tools necessary to solve common problems encountered in the pharmaceutical industry.

The focus will be on development of pharmacometric skills to approach questions centred on drug development and dose/therapy optimization using a variety of state-of-the-art quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) methodologies, also known as systems modeling. Participants will receive training in QSP approaches, including the principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PK/PD), from academic and industrial researchers, and will apply these techniques in groups to solve a set of problems brought by industry partners.

At the end of the week, participants will be able to identify the main components of a pharmaceutical problem through a QSP lens, translate these elements mathematically, analyze/numerically implement and solve the resulting mathematical model, and deliver results (visually and textually) to non-mathematicians. Ultimately, participants will gain understanding into the factors that are key to mathematical modeling in the pharmaceutical industry and be trained in modern QSP approaches. AMMCS-2019 is an interdisciplinary international conference in a series of AMMCS meetings held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

The AMMCS Conference Series aims at promoting interdisciplinary research and collaboration involving mathematical and computational sciences within a larger international community, and highlighting recent advances in Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science (AMMCS). In 2019 the conference will be held in August (August 18-23, 2019). From its inception this conference series has been organized in cooperation with AIMS and SIAM. The conference provides a unique opportunity for in-depth technical discussions and exchange of ideas in all areas involving mathematical and computational sciences, modeling and simulation, as well as their applications in natural and social sciences, engineering and technology, industry and finance. The overall objective of the conference is to bring together international scientists and engineers in academia and industry in fields related to advanced numerical techniques, such as FEM, BEM, IGA, etc., and their applications to a wide range of engineering disciplines.

The conference covers industrial engineering applications of numerical simulations to Civil Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, etc. Tremendous progress has been made in the past century in biological sciences thanks to technological advances in experimental and measuring techniques. As was the case for physics and chemistry in the previous century, biological sciences are at a critical juncture where further advancements depend and rely crucially on the development of now quantitative tools. Mathematics will inevitably play a crucial role during the processes while biology comes increasingly more quantitative as a scientific discipline. Bio-ions and biomolecules are essential in performing biological functions in living organisms. The understanding of their roles in nerve and physiological functions has fundamental importance, as demonstrated by several Noble prize winning researchers since the prize was established. Many real world problems arising in engineering, economics, medicine and other domains can be formulated as optimization tasks.

These problems are frequently characterized by non-convex, non-differentiable, discontinuous, noisy or dynamic objective functions and constraints which ask for adequate computational methods. The aim of this workshop is to stimulate the communication between researchers working on different fields of optimization and practitioners who need reliable and efficient computational optimization methods. Every year, the I3M Multiconference renovates the opportunity to bring together researchers, scientists and practitioners, from the Mediterranean Area, Latin & North Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, who are concerned with Modeling and Simulation in Industry and Academia. As a result of the joint effort of many scientific excellences, I3M is an opportunity to meet and discuss and, as usually happens, constructive debate makes people open up, brings food for thoughts as well as new ways to explore encouraging multi-disciplinary cooperation and collaborations. Understanding fluid dynamics and heat transfer has been one of the major advances of mathematics, physics and engineering.

Our symposium covers various subjects: from new numerical methods and fundamental research until engineering applications. This annual meeting is a part of the International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM) and thus it is organized together with many other symposia on numerical analysis: this also offers a wider audience since ICNAAM is perhaps one of the biggest events in the field of the numerical analysis involving hundreds of scientist from the whole world. The mathematics of climate change is one of the grand challenges of 21st century. Atmospheric phenomena range from large scale monsoons and jet stream meanders with spatial scales of thousands of km’s and time-scales of months to years all the way down to individual cumulus clouds formed by turbulence with spatial scales of 100 meters and time-scales of minutes. This workshop will help develop the mathematics necessary to advance our understanding of how to efficiently and accurately link these physical processes. Improvements in this 'physics-dynamics' coupling is the major obstacle to improved accuracy of climate models.

Over the past decades, it is more and more acknowledged that including uncertainty in numerical analysis embodies a very useful and valuable application of the increasing capabilities of modern (high-performance) computer facilities, both in science and in industry. Non-deterministic methodologies enable the numerical simulation of uncertain or variable processes, providing information on ranges of possible behavior rather than unique predictions. This information can only increase the trustworthiness of the underlying analysis, and proves to be of great value in the virtual prototyping process that is becoming a standard in current design engineering practice. The program's primary aim is to establish the foundation of the new interdisciplinary subject Biomolecular Topology. The goal is to foster new research in biomolecular topology and promote transformative topological techniques by bringing together experts from geometric topology, algebraic topology, combinatorial topology, computational topology, and topological data analysis to tackle fundamental biological challenges.

The expectation is that the program will harness existing connections between mathematics and biology and create new ones. Conference-Service.com offers, as part of its business activities, a directory of upcoming scientific and technical meetings. The calendar is published for the convenience of conference participants and we strive to support conference organisers who need to publish their upcoming events.Although great care is being taken to ensure the correctness of all entries, we cannot accept any liability that may arise from the presence, absence or incorrectness of any particular information on this website. Always check with the meeting organiser before making arrangements to participate in an event!

Video courtesy of the Winter Simulation Conference. Oral History Citation(s)Sargent, R (2017) A Perspective on Fifty-Five Years of the Evolution of Scientific Respect for Simulation. Winter Simulation Conference, Los Vegas, December 2017 ArchivesBoth Monte Carlo simulation and discrete event simulation are fundamental methodologies in operations research.A significant collection of historical materials on computer simulation resides at the North Carolina State University, including the following (excerpted from online material at the NCSU Libraries):Collection ID: MC 00488The Computer Simulation Oral History Archive, 2003-2016, includes video and audio interviews of computer simulation pioneers. The video oral histories of computer simulation pioneers were funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and were conducted from 2013-2016. The purpose of this grant initiative was to capture and preserve accounts of seminal projects, related pivotal events, and distinguished project contributors from the perspectives of, and the words of, individuals who witnessed the relevant history of computer simulation firsthand.

The importance of collecting these accounts is also based on the remarkable degree to which computer simulation has heavily influenced the design of computing software.The Computer Simulation Oral History Archive is a part of the Computer Simulation Archive, which was established in 1998 with substantial initial donations of papers and research materials by three pioneers in the field of computer simulation—Robert G. Sargent, Alan Pritsker, and Julian Reitman.The Computer Simulation Oral History Archive includes interviews conducted from 2003-2016, almost all of which were funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Computer simulation was established as a separate discipline of research and practice during the mid-1950s, with many seminal works in the field published from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Reflecting the diverse backgrounds of the field’s pioneers, simulation encompasses theory, methodology, and practice arising at the interface of applied probability, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, industrial and systems engineering, management, manufacturing engineering, operations research, and statistics. The roots of the computer simulation field are revealed in the broad diversity of current application domains in which the development and use of large-scale computer simulation models are critical to the design, improvement, and operational control of computer and telecommunications networks, financial systems, healthcare delivery systems, transportation systems, and governmental and military systems. The field comprises discrete-event simulation, Monte Carlo methods, combined discrete-continuous simulation as well as hybrid analytic/simulation computer models. It is noteworthy that as the field has matured, it has contributed significantly to the evolution of allied disciplines—for example, object-oriented programming in computer science and innovative resampling schemes in statistics.S Collection ID: MC 00598This collection includes proceedings, 1968-2003, and printed final programs, including exhibit directories, 2013-2014, from the annual Winter Simulation Conference.Collection ID: MC 00494This collection contains items documenting the professional contributions of Paul F.

Roth to the field of computer simulation. It includes materials related to CONVERSIM, a teaching simulation language developed by Roth; publications by Roth and others; and proceedings of simulation conferences. Roth retired from Virginia Tech as Associate Professor of Computer Science.

He also taught at Villanova, Maryland, and South Florida. Roth was a pioneer in the field of Computer Simulation and was twice elected as Chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery's simulation sub-group. His career also included affiliation with the National Bureau of Standards, Burroughs Corporation, and General Electric.SCollection ID: MC 00542The Bernard P. Zeigler Papers, 1962-2011, consists of 15 PDF files containing technical reports and early journal articles from when Zeigler was a graduate student and assistant professor at the University of Michigan. It also includes files from unpublished books, as well as presentations and related materials. Zeigler is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona. In 1962, he received a B.S.

In Engineering Physics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, an M.S. In Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964, and a Ph.D. In Computer/Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan in 1968. Zeigler is best known for his theoretical work concerning modeling and simulation performed according to general systems theory, and is well published in his field.

He has held faculty appointments at the University of Michigan (1969-1975, 1980-1981), the Weizmann Institute in Israel (1975-1980), Wayne State University (1981-1984), The University of Arizona (1985-2010), and Arizona State University (2005-2008). While in Arizona, Zeigler served as Co-Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation (ACIMS).

He is currently affiliated with the Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications, Computing and Intelligence (C4I Center) at George Mason University and is also the Chief Scientist at RTSync Corp.This collection contains photocopies of the covers and publication information for the books from Alan Pritsker's professional library that were donated to North Carolina State University Libraries from Purdue University in 2003. Alan Pritsker made key contributions to the field of computer simulation as well as industrial engineering and operations research. He published extensively and served on the faculty of Arizona State University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Purdue University. Pritsker remained active in numerous professional societies and governmental organizations. He received numerous awards in recognition of his leadership and professional contributions.Collection ID: MC 00342Professional papers of Julian Reitman documenting his work in the field of simulation. This collection consists mainly of budget reports and conference proceedings digests from Winter Simulation Conferences, 1968-1998. Additionally there are technical reprints and operational manuals used by Reitman when he was employed by the Norden Division of United Aircraft Corporation.

Julian Reitman was the leader of one of the first simulation application groups in industry at the Norden Division of United Aircraft Corporation. They created numerous simulation models of real systems including naval vessel performance, anti-submarine warfare, effectiveness of airborne radar, railed automated highways, air traffic control, message switching in communications, and yield prediction for integrated circuit production. Reitman also was one of the founders of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) in 1968. Lord of the rings war in the north gameplay part 1. Reitman wrote one of the first simulation textbooks, Computer Simulation Applications: Discrete Event Simulation for Synthesis and Analysis of Complex Systems (1971).Collection ID: MC 00597This collection of materials assembled by Dr. Schriber includes important periodicals on the history of computer simulation such as Simulation News Europe and Simuletter, as well as other key publications that Schriber contributed to or collected during his career. Especially significant are publications relating to GPSS (General Purpose Simulation System) program language.This collection contains three simulation programming language books published in 1963, 1965, and 1967. These books are autographed by Harry M.

Harry Max Markowitz was born on August 24, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois. He received his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D.(1955) in economics from the University of Chicago with a thesis on the portfolio theory. Markowitz joined the RAND Corporation in 1952. Links and ReferencesNance, R. Overstreet (2017) History of Computer Simulation Software: An Initial Perspective. D'Ambrogio, G.

Zacharewicz, N. Wainer, and E. Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference IEEE Alexopoulos C.

Kelton (2017) A Concise History of Simulation Output Analysis. D'Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N. Wainer, and E.

Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference IEEE Barton R., M. Nakayama & L. Schruben (2017) History of Improving Statistical Efficiency. D'Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N. Wainer, and E. Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference IEEE Cheng, R.

(2017) History of Input Modeling. D'Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N.

Wainer, and E. Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference IEEE Fu, M. Henderson (2017) History of Seeking Better Solutions, aka Simulation Optimization. D'Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N. Wainer, and E. Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference IEEE Goldsman D., Goldsman P, & Wilson J.R.

(2017) History of the Winter Simulation Conference: Overview and Notable Facts and Figures. D'Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N. Wainer, and E. Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference IEEE Goldsman D., Nance R. E., & Wilson J. (2009) A Brief History of Simulation.

In Dunkin A., Hill R. R., Ingalls R. G., Johansson B.,& Rossetti M. Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference, 310-313. Association of Computing Machinery: New York. Hollocks, B. (2017) A History of Simulation Development in the United Kingdom.

D'Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N. Wainer, and E. Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference IEEE Kuhl, M. (2017) History of Random Variate Generation.

D'Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N. Wainer, and E. Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference IEEE Markowitz H. (2002) Effective Portfolio, Sparse Matrices, and Entities: A Retrospective.

Operations Research, 50(1):154-160. (1996). A history of discrete event simulation programming languages. In History of Programming Languages II, 369-427. American Association of Computing Machinery: New York.Nance R. (2002) Perspectives on the Evolution of Simulation. Operations Research, 50(1): 161-172. Roberts, S.

Pegden (2017) The History of Simulation Modeling. D'Ambrogio, G.

Zacharewicz, N. Wainer, and E. Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference IEEE Sargent R. (2017) A Perspective on Fifty-Five Years of the Evolution of Scientific Respect for Simulation. D'Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N. Wainer, and E.

Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference IEEE Sargent, R. G., Roth, P., & Schriber, T.

(2017) History of the Winter Simulation Conference: Renaissance Period (1975 – 1982). D'Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N. Wainer, and E.

Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference IEEE Schriber T. (2017) History of the Winter Simulation Conference: Origins and Early Years (1967-1974). D'Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N.

Wainer, and E. Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference IEEE Swain J. (2001) Software Survey: Simulation - Back to the Future. OR/MS Today, 38(5).

NOTE: For links to additional papers from the history sessions of the 2017 50th Anniversary Winter Simulation Conference, including papers on the history of the conference, of the Computer Simulation Archive, and of selected Simulation Application Domains see the program archive. Associated Historic Individuals.