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The Work We Have Always Needed to Do: A talk for LVAIC
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"It might well be that at this point it is a cliche to point to what our experiences with COVID are teaching us and say 'this was always the case, it is just even more apparent now.' The struggles we encounter as teachers, students, and library workers confined to online environments are versions of struggles that existed already in those environments (but might not have been so widely felt), and also that were always the case in physical environments. When we talk about the need for engagement, when we wonder what that looks like in Zoom, it bears remembering that those questions were relevant in classrooms and lecture halls. This extremely online time in education is forcing us to ask, what is a teaching environment? What is learning? What is a library? Where are the people? Too often the easy "solution" offered to those concerned about engagement and interactivity are those of edtech surveillance, and the alleged promises of AI. I want to talk about those promises, and the problems of reducing teaching, learning, and research to the numbers offered by edtech and library systems."
That is the abstract I shared several months ago with the fine and kind people–Kelly Cannon, Carrie Baldwin-SoRelle, and Jess Denke– who invited me to speak with the Lehigh Valley Association for Independent Colleges group, for their symposium for library workers and faculty about information literacy. The talk I ended up giving–and try to capture here– had some distance from that abstract, but I did end up talking at least a bit about surveillance, care, and our responsibilities to our colleagues and students that well pre-dates the pandemic emergency.
In the interest of care I want to position myself: I am a white woman, I am Cajun, I am of a settler people, and have spent my entire life in the US living on unceded occupied land of many different Indigenous people. I am living and writing while on Cherokee and Catawba land, in what is now called North Carolina. I would like to point you all to https://landback.org/donate/ and encourage you to contribute to efforts to get land back into Indigenous people's hands. I am donating part of my speaking fee to this organization.
It's been a long time since March 2020 and since that time, that pandemic time kicked in, I have joined a large (and I think still growing) group of people who found it hard to get anything done beyond what had to be done. I was privileged to be able to stay home, work from home, arrange for my kid to attend his last year of high school from home, and for my husband to also be able to work from our home. So it might sound like whining when I say how difficult everything has been with this pall of death and neglect. More than half a million Americans have died so far, and more will die still, and so many of these deaths were avoidable, if not for the neglect of our government in 2020, and the capitalist impulses now that continue to keep vaccines away from people who need them, and continue to put people at risk, nationally and globally.
So I've turned to podcasts to motivate and distract myself. Sometimes it works. I manage to clean the kitchen, or fold the laundry, or back when the only thing I could do to leave the house was go for a walk, I would listen while walking. I get to thank my daughter for introducing me to Not Another D&D podcast, a performance and Dungeons & Dragons play podcast that I'm still listening to and is responsible for me getting back into playing the game, which I last played when I was about 12. Playing a lyncanthropic elf ranger has been an important part of my pandemic coping.
Podcasts were a way for me to engage with something without doomscrolling, and also without reading, because my ability to sit with a text and focus was destroyed, and is only slowly coming back. In addition to D&D podcasts I've also been listening to You're Wrong About, which started off as a "debunking" podcast about media coverage and misconceptions about things like the Satanic Panic, serial killers, and the so-called "obesity epidemic."
It was You're Wrong About that reminded me about Jonestown, in Guyana and the massacre of just over 900 people there in November 1978. Their cult leader, Jim Jones, gathered vulnerable people, including drug addicts and sex workers, and also idealists and activists who believed in the end to racial segregation. In 1977 (and here I am quoting from the article Escape from Jonestown by Julia Scheeres) "New West magazine was about to publish an exposé portraying Jim Jones—by now a celebrated California powerbroker—as a charlatan who faked healings, swindled money from his followers, and fathered a son with an attractive acolyte. It was all true."
"Few folks know that Jim Jones was a civil rights leader in Indianapolis—integrating lunch counters and churches—and that the majority of his victims were African Americans who heeded his message of social equality. How terribly they were betrayed for believing in this dream."
Once in Guyana members of the People's Temple had their passports and money taken away, and they were stuck. Jones had been talking about "revolutionary suicide" to his followers for years, but the visit of members of the media and a member of congress spurred him to finally follow through on those plans to kill his followers (and himself).
"They drank the Kool-aid"
If you listen to You're Wrong About, or drill down into their source materials, you know that what the Jonestown people were offered to mask the taste of cyanide was grape flavor Flavor-Aid, not Kool-Aid brand. But that's not the point. The phrase "Drank the Kool Aid" suggests the beginning of a journey into misinformation. But for Jonestown people, it was the end. It was their death.
"They drank the Kool-aid" is a phrase I heard a lot during the Trump administration and continue to hear with regard to QAnon during the Biden administration, and anti-vaxx, anti-science during COVID paranoia. But that phrase, as Julia Scheeres points out in her article, is an act of erasure and injustice.
Jonestown was not a mass suicide but a mass murder, perpetuated by Jim Jones, who lied to and manipulated people based on his public vision for racial harmony, for the sake of his private vision of "a revolutionary suicide"
Once people were in Jonestown, they knew they were trapped, and no information was going to save them. This was not an information literacy problem
Jim Jones' victims drank the cyanide laced Flavor-aid, and many of them were forced to. About a third of the victims were minors, and they were poisoned before the adults were. And that was their end. More information was not going to save them. Protecting them from predators like Jim Jones would have. Structural changes that would provide health and mental health care and civil rights–which were being fought for in the 1970s–would have.
Using "drank the Kool-aid" as the beginning suggests that the important story is that of Jim Jones, of our learning about him and how he victimized people in the aftermath of the mass murder at Jonestown. But the people Jim Jones victimized, and isolated from their families, and took down to Guyana with lies and then trapped there, they had stories, they were part of other people's stories, and they cried, and drank, and died, and their stories ended.
What that phrase "Drank the Kool-aid" signals neatly is the extent to which the speaker thinks the person in question is at fault for what they believe, and what happens to them because of it. It signals the belief that people are rational, and that we might, if we give people enough of the "right kind" of information, prevent them from drinking the Kool-aid.
Information alone cannot save us from the problems of QAnon, or science denialism. Exposure to peer-reviewed articles will not necessarily debunk conspiracy theories about vaccines, because people do not encounter information in a vacuum. They encounter information via their networks of trusted people–of family, of friends, of perceived experts who were recommended by people in that network.
The lies that are told by cult leaders and propagandists benefit someone. Who benefits from the lies, even when they are told knowing they are lies? Who suffers when the lies are told? Who isn't harmed enough by the lies to work to change things? Whiteness, white supremacy, is implicated in the lies being told now about voter fraud, the lies that led to anti-voter legislation in (for example) the state of Georgia and that are being advanced by legislatures in several more states across the country. The stories of voter fraud are told because they are useful for the political agenda of people interested in suppressing votes, especially the votes of Black people in the US.
People are not rational. This is a problem anthropologists have long had with economics, the extent to which that field treats people as "rational actors:" predictable, subject to particular laws of behavior, and responding identically to circumstances as and when they change. People are not rational.
They are "relational"
Abeba Birhane defines and describes the need for relational ethics in AI, and I think that need applies well beyond AI:
"At the heart of relational ethics is the need to ground key concepts such as ethics, justice, knowledge, bias, and fairness in context, history, and an engaging epistemology. Fundamental to this is the need to shift over from prioritizing rationality as of primary importance to the supremacy of relationality."
Libraries have a long and troubled history with rationality at the core of its practices. What I think that phrase, "Drank the Kool-aid" also demands in terms of what I'm thinking about rational approaches to information literacy, and what it can and can't do, is the importance of relationships. People and relationships are vital to how and why people move through the information landscape, which is always changing. And the extent to which people have agency in any given information landscape is down to who they are, what kind of power they have, and the structures that surround them that constrain their ability to make decisions on their own behalf.
Tressie McMillan Cottom said at ACRL 2021 that we value particular information because we value the people from whom that information came. I would extend that, or add to it, or put along sideways the point that we also tend to value the stories of the people who we value. Whose stories we value informs the way that the Jonestown massacre is remembered, in the disconnected turn of phrase, "Drank the Kool-aid." Whose stories we value helps explain why throughout the Trump administration we kept hearing the stories of his voters, of "anxious whites" and why they voted the way they did, why the dapper white supremacist was a character in new stories not exclusively, but especially after 2016. Whose stories we value informs the current (as of May 19 2021) coverage of the Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, current US policy on that occupation, and who we decide to listen to.
I appreciate this commentary on Twitter from Shea Swauger: "to be clear, information literacy will NOT fix racism, sexism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, classism, ableism, islamophobia, capitalism, colonialism, structural oppression, or white supremacy"
This definitely reflects my own thinking about information literacy.
Attempting any classification of sources into "reliable" or "unreliable" cannot be the substitute for building relationships with people. And this line of thinking is not new, the one that says we cannot rely on checklists to save us from misinformation and lies. Kevin Seeber was writing about this in 2017, and this by Carrie Wade is from 2018.
"Beyond the nouns and the verbs of "fact-checking" and "media literacy" and all of the advertisements and marketing materials we have at our disposal, what this discourse fails to acknowledge is the ways that knowledge is socially constructed. As libraries we cannot rely on better websites to solve political problems."
Mike Caulfield, in his work around disinformation, suggests that we help students decide who deserves their time before "going down a rabbit hole" —the more time you give misinformation, the more it distracts you from constructive and productive work/life/play. I think we should spend less time debunking and more time shunning. Information is surrounded by and embedded in the relationships people have with each other, and their intent towards each other in sharing information. Even people we do not know personally are in relationships with us, structurally. It's worth asking, if my relationship with that piece of information is via the white supremacist organization that shared it, what obligation do I have to break that information down, or can I disengage from that particular stream, because I recognize the toxicity of the organization sharing it?
I would point here to the work emerging from UNC's Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, in particular the critical disinformation studies syllabus, which offers us a way of structuring our approach to information that centers people, structures, and power.
If you think you can be and should be useful to people in terms of helping them navigate information and misinformation, you need to be a person to them first. So cultivating presence is central to that relationship building.
Relationship building is difficult in any circumstance, and it can be especially difficult when trying to engage entirely online when you are accustomed to doing it in physical spaces. There are many ways of being human online, and very few of them involve lists of dos and don't, and questionnaires about information provenance. Being human, in a library context, is challenging when the library worker presence is predominantly in one-shot instruction sessions, or online tutorials about how to use the library web sites to get to "reliable" sources (I know you know this).
Nicole Pagowsky notes that, in fact, doing one-shots can contribute to misunderstanding how to navigate information, and also misunderstand the library.
"The way we engage in teaching within one-shot models, and the associated expectations for measurement, both keep us in a holding pattern of reactionary yes-people unable to enact our own agency within campus power structures."
One-shots happen in the absence of a meaningful relationship between library workers and teaching faculty, in situations where valuing how many students you are "in contact" with, or who encounter the library in those sessions, is prioritized over embedding work and selves into the processes of education, and building relationships, trusted connections that students can then call on as they navigate their education. Transactional library experiences, reducing information evaluation to a list of tasks, obscure the larger work that we should be responsible for.
Being extremely online can make it hard to literally see people in the internet (think about all the anxiety about cameras on/off in Zoom-based teaching)–it requires a new definition of "presence" that those privileged enough to get to be in rooms and buildings have assumed meant "in the same physical place"–engagement never was a guarantee. Think about newspapers, naps, distracted gazing out of windows in class. Lack of engagement is not new. What it looks like might be.
Covid and the pandemic emergency has led to a massive and not entirely voluntary movement to online teaching and learning practices. Those who were not already "extremely online" were confronted with the reality of digital as a place, not just a tool or a distraction or a repository for content.
If digital is a place where we teach, and we hope that students learn, what kind of place are we in? What is a classroom? Is it Zoom? Is it Moodle, or Canvas? What is a learning space? What is a library?
Libraries have been confronting "what is a library" for a while now–it has never been just a building, or a collection of databases, but also a network of people, a collection of expertise, a node for a college or university community to connect with in the course of doing, analyzing, and disseminating academic work.
Some universities and colleges have had the luxury of not examining what a classroom or a lecture hall is in physical spaces. Private universities in the US have had the particular privilege of making central to their student experiences the physical, the co-location of students and faculty and facilities in a way that assumes connection and engagement. Oxford and Cambridge in the UK have a similar advantage, and make similar assumptions.
Large state institutions, and community colleges have not always had that luxury. That doesn't mean that their physical campuses were critically examined, but that they have had to be more online, or in other ways more attuned to the distanced needs of (for example) commuter students, or students who cannot, because of life circumstances (the needs of their families, the needs of their bodies) prioritize physical presence on campus as a part of their educational experience. This is similar to the situation that individual people experience when they need to turn to online/distanced relationships to make up for what they cannot or are not experiencing in their own face to face/physical spaces: queer kids growing up in politically conservative contexts; Black, brown, and Indigenous people teaching in predominantly white institutions. To assume that it is impossible to build relationships in online only spaces is to be operating under assumptions generated in contexts where it's easy to build relationships in physical spaces, because you are surrounded by people who recognize you as part of their community.
We have always needed to do the work of recognizing that co-location is not the same thing as engagement.
And it is a concern for engagement, for evidence of student participation that drives the market for edtech surveillance and learning analytics. Educators and administrators are being sold the idea that if you count the clicks, if you track the eye movements, if you swipe in with cards at instructional library sessions, that you get a meaningful number that tells you something about engagement, about learning.
Think about what counts as Engagement on Facebook: clicks and controversy.
Karen Hao report ed in MIT Technology Review just this past March (2021)
"The algorithms that underpin Facebook's business weren't created to filter out what was false or inflammatory; they were designed to make people share and engage with as much content as possible by showing them things they were most likely to be outraged or titillated by."
That is not the kind of engagement we are going for instructionally, but the number of clicks and time spent "on task" is the kind that Learning Management Systems collect. Collecting and counting clicks is collecting proxy data for learning, much like checklists serve as problematic proxies for the work of information literacy. It's not effective, and not representative of the work we or our students need to do.
What is the work of the library for, and is it information literacy?
What is the work of the university for, and is it information literacy?
What about knowledge, its production, its navigation, its analysis?
This Spring I taught an ethnographic methods class, and we approached the topic with the lens of the work of Linda Tuhiwai Smith, in particular her Decolonizing Methodologies book. She notes throughout the book the importance of relationships, and the ways that indigenous researchers are responsible to their own networks even before they begin researching. Smith wants Indigenous researchers to ask the following questions about any given research project, and I think they are good practice for any researcher:
"Who defined the research problem
For whom is this study worthy and relevant? Who says so?
What knowledge will the community gain from this study?
What knowledge will the researcher gain from this study?
What are some likely positive outcomes from this study?
What are some possible negative outcomes?
How can the negative outcomes be eliminated?
To whom is the researcher accountable?"
(2012, pp175-76)
I also had my students read Marisa Elena Duarte and Miranda Belarde-Lewis on library cataloging practices and Indigenous knowledge, and they have very similar things to say about the importance of building and maintaining relationships to indigenous scholars with each other, and to the people who they are hoping to learn from.
I interviewed several of my anthropologist colleagues as guest lectures (in soundfile/podcast form) for this class, so that my students could hear the voices of anthropologists who are not me–it's a practice I'll continue even if I ever teach in physical classrooms again. More than one of them made the point that to be able to do the work that you find important and interesting, you need to start with what is important to the people you hope to learn from. You might end up realizing that the project you wanted to do isn't the one you should do. You might find that you are stuck organizing the broom closet for a month before anyone will have an unguarded conversation with you. You do this work to build relationships, because your goal should not be extractive, for people to give you information, but for your work to have meaning to them, and for you to be humans to each other, not just potential transactions.
Smith, Duarte, and Belarde-Lewis all write about knowledges, the importance of knowing whose knowledge, and in relation to whose other knowledges. Indigenous knowledge and its production is historically erased or bounded within Western interpretation of that knowledge–those processes are social, and require social analysis (and a power analysis), not just fact checking.
In their respective works, Smith, and Duarte and Belarde-Lewis highlight the importance of relationships, of trust, of creating places where Indigenous people can connect with each other, with their own priorities, and produce knowledge by and for and of themselves, not just in relation to the knowledges and structures imposed on them by colonization and the controlling processes of them. There is a lot that non-Indigenous people need to learn from Indigenous people and traditions, there's a lot of listening we need to do, but today I want to point to this as one thing we need to pay much more attention to when we worry about things like "information literacy."
Sam Popovich notes that in LIS, the opposite of knowledge is defined as error, which then might theoretically be "fixed" with more information.
"Library leadership view the opposite of knowledge to be error (correctable by more knowledge), and so ideology—knowledge in the service of power—is automatically excluded. By excluding the concept of ideology from any consideration of intellectual freedom, people can be wrong but they can never be collectively implicated in structures of false knowledge. The result is that intellectual freedom remains understood solely as an individual concern, and the role of libraries at most to correct error, but never to engage in the relationships between knowledge, false ideas, and power."
Knowledges are created from many places, and generated in the context of information being produced by and passed on by people. And our reactions to information, and navigation of various kinds of knowledge, are informed by our relationships to the people we associate with the information. So in our current situation where misinformation is rampant and putting public health at risk, we need to sit with the likelihood that more information is not going to fix things.
Several years ago I participated in the Visitors and Residents project, researching student info seeking behavior. We interviewed first year students who often cited their parents, their friends, roommates, as people they talked to while doing their class papers. It wasn't until their second or third year that they started citing professors, and occasionally library workers. Why?
Because those people were no longer strangers to them
My current research during the pandemic involves interviewing students as a part of a Jisc project in the UK, and what they are telling me they miss in the pandemic is interactivity. They say they want to be on campus in lecture halls, so they can talk to their lecturers before and after class, So that their professors can see their faces and maybe tell when they are confused and pause, or explain, or repeat themselves. They want to be able to meet with classmates in the library, or in cafes, to talk, and connect, and "have fun" as a part of their going to university. They talk about how hard it is to feel engaged online if all there is is content delivery/recorded lectures or uploaded articles in the course management system.
And they clearly assume that the interactivity would be happening more in physical spaces, because they have experienced how hard it is for interactivity to be programmed into university experiences that still prioritize content delivery in digital contexts. This is not to say such interactivity is impossible (think about online gaming, messageboards, dating sites–online interactivity is everywhere!)–just that universities are clearly experiencing barriers to providing it. One of those might be their failure to fund full-time expertise in online environments.
It's possible to do this work, of building connections online–one example of people with expertise trying to help can be found in the work of Mia Zamora, Maha Bali, and Autumm Caines at Equity Unbound.
Attendance alone has never been evidence that your students were learning. It was all the other things that happen in classrooms, and out of classrooms. It was always stuff you couldn't see. We have never been able to bear witness to all of the processes that contribute to students' learning. So, why should we try now?
We are coping, poorly, with what is out of our control (the pandemic, our labor situation, our students' attention) with the idea that we could control and capture some of what is going on, via surveillance and analytics.
But: control is not care.
Control is not teaching.
And active learning and teaching practice shows us that it is in the letting go of our control that we can effectively curate environments for learning that are generative, just, and caring.
So we need to not mistake student engagement with systems (like presence in the LMS, or library catalogs) for student engagement with processes. And need to think about what we could be offering students instead of what Jeffrey Moro has called "cop shit:"
"Like any product, cop shit claims to solve a problem. We might express that problem like this: the work of managing a classroom, at all its levels, is increasingly complex and fraught, full of poorly defined standards, distractions to our students' attentions, and new opportunities for grift. Cop shit, so cop shit argues, solves these problems by bringing order to the classroom. Cop shit defines parameters. Cop shit ensures compliance. Cop shit gives students and teachers alike instant feedback in the form of legible metrics."
You need to be human to students and colleagues, and they need to be human to you. That means no dehumanizing practices in already challenging spaces. No proctoring, No AI, no predictive analytics, no "engagement metrics." These numbers and metrics give the illusion of knowledge.
The work of our classrooms, and our libraries, digital and otherwise, needs to be at least as much around relationship building as it is around information wrangling. And in building those relationships we can move towards collaborative models of scholarship and teaching, where no one person is the Star of the Show, but where we as a team can provide the kind of environments our students need, and that we need too, for critical and effective scholarly practices.
This is not a "silver lining" but work we have always needed to do. The responsibility for us as instructors and educators is to have and gather information about these systems on behalf of our students, so that we might refuse on their behalf. We cannot expect students to do all of the work of protecting themselves from unnecessary quantification and surveillance, from their position. Where we have power, we need to use it for them. And for our precarious and adjunct colleagues who do not have access to the power to refuse.
I'd point to this example of refusal from Dearborn, MI as inspiration for what is possible.
Think about: are you who work in the library embedded in relationships across campus that make you part of the trusted network of students and faculty?
Which people are used to and comfortable with the things we needed to change, and who want to "go back" to that place of comfort for them? Whose comfort is determinative in our choices going forward? Whose discomfort doesn't matter? Which student voices are heard, when talking about whether we "should" be back on campus, or even what "on campus" means? Which people did we always need to listen to more?
The motivation of information literacy work cannot be "the value of libraries"–one-shots are not a measure of importance, and might in fact be the opposite. The motivations need to be the needs of your community and especially the most vulnerable. We need to care for our communities more than we care about the library.
An institutional agenda that is built on social justice and Black feminist ethics of care requires paying attention to the impact of misinformation on people's lives, not both-sidesing things via debate or "neutral" free speech platforming.
Because who gets to speak is historically about who has the power to be speaking. And we need to start reframing our attention around who should be heard. Rodrigo Ochigame writes of liberation theology in LIS and notes:
"The remarkable innovation of the Brazilian liberation theologians is that they moved beyond a narrow focus on free speech and toward a politics of audibility. The theologians understood that the problem is not just whether one is free to speak, but whose voices one can hear and which listeners one's voice can reach. "
One of the points I am trying to make is that even when we get to be back in physical spaces together, we need to continue to do the work of building and maintaining relationships, and recognizing and engaging with knowledges, not just information. And we need to listen to vulnerable people, we need to listen to the people for whom the systems in which we operate were not originally built. We always needed to be listening to disabled people when they told us what they needed. We historically have not, or have done the minimum to be ADA compliant. We always needed to listen to Black women, when they told us what white supremacy was doing to students, to communities, to our entire country. We historically have not, because misogynoir is a powerful force. We have always needed to listen to the "firsts" at universities, and not approach them as the ones with the deficit to be remedied. We should hear them as the ones who can tell us what universities should be doing to support students, but don't, because universities are built for students privileged enough to be OK without that institutional support.
So many people have died since March 2020. In the US alone we have lost more than half a million people, and so many of those people should still be here, these deaths were largely preventable. And before the pandemic people were dying, especially Black people, from police violence, and medical malpractice, and the impact of racism on their health, and ability to move freely through the world. We cannot value Black people, brown people, or Indigenous people only once their story has ended, or when it contains trauma.
The information we value, and the knowledges we recognize, are generated by people we value, and also about people we value.
This is work, even with all the chaos around us, that we always should have been doing. Whatever else has changed, and will change, that work and the need for it will not.
So what are we going to do?
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SIFT (The Four Moves)
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Critical Disinformation Studies
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https://logicmag.io/care/informatics-of-the-oppressed/
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Escape from Jonestown
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Wiretaps and CRAAP
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No Answers, Only Questions: The false fight against fake news
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I Am Not Your Fake News Savior
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1. A proposal for the organization of a Session-Workshop or Minisymposium.
2. A small description of his/her proposal (no more than 150 words).
4. Information about the procedures which will be followed for the promotion of that Session-Workshop or Minisymposium (the organizer is responsible for the promotion).
5. His/her full affiliations along with an e-mail adress for the submission of papers on the subject of the Session-Workshop or Minisymposium.
After the approval, the organizer will be the person responsible for the selection of the papers.
The papers must be sent to the ICNAAM Secretariat until 26 July 2019.
In the Proceedings of ICNAAM 2019 the Sessions-Workshops and Minisymposia will lie in a separate section of the Volume with a Preface created by the organizer. Occasionally, the organizer must inform us about the participation of his/her Session. If a Session consists of at least 6 registrations, the organizer will be granted free registration for ICNAAM 2019. If a Symposium consists of at least 10 registrations, the organizer will be granted free registration and have a part of the accomodation expenses covered.
If a participant wants to send a paper to a Symposium mentioned below, please use the e-mail address(es) of the organizer(s).
This symposium series started in Crete, Greece, in 2006 chaired by Professor Pawel Kosinski of the University of Bergen, Norway. The symposium is associated with the annual edition of the ICNAAM since 2006. It represents one of the largest and most successful activities of ICNAAM with a strong commitment to research and development within the academic community. Since its start, the focus of the symposium is numerical mathematics for fluid flow problems and related topics.
This Symposium on Advanced Computation and Information in Natural and Applied Sciences focusses on architectures and methods for high end computational and numerical applications.
Up to date computing and information systems (software engineering, communication, and architectures) are an undispensable tool for progress in various scientific fields.
We invite scientists and engineers from academia and industry using and implementing computation and information systems, High Performance Computing, Cloud Computing, and Distributed Computing for scientific research, engineering, education, and future internet applications.
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished results which are not under review in any other conference or journal, to the peer review for publication and presentation, in the following, but not limited to, the following topic areas of this symposium.
Deadline for submitting your fully formatted 4 page paper for peer review: May 6, 2019 (final date).
Deadline for improved paper and sources: June 20, 2019 (final date).
Description of the non-equilibrium effects in reactive gas mixtures constitutes a grand challenge in physical-chemical gas-dynamics. Such processes are of great interest for the fields such as plasma physics, aerospace engineering, astrophysics, chemical engineering, etc. They require the development of sophisticated models and computational techniques to accurately simulate the diversity and complexity of non-equilibrium problems, and to effectively capture the wide range of relevant physical phenomena within these simulations.
This mini-symposium aims to provide a forum for specialists in reactive gas mixtures modeling and simulation, to identify and discuss, express and publish their expert views on current research, challenges in, and possible solutions for modeling of non-equilibrium processes, as well as developing the novel analytical and numerical methods for corresponding problems simulation, and address various issues in the areas of physical-chemical gas-dynamics.We hope that the mini-symposium eventually will contribute significantly to the knowledge in the field.
We cordially invite you to submit papers presenting the results of original research in the area of modeling and simulation of non-equilibrium processes. According to the requirements of the main Conference http://icnaam.org/abstract.htm, the papers in the form of extended abstracts (3-4 A4 pages) should be sent to yuriy.gorbachev@gmail.com no later than 26 June 2019.
The papers presented during ICNAAM will be published in world-renowned AIP (American Institute of Physics) Proceedings.
Difference Equation or discrete dynamical system is a very interesting subject because they are central to the analysis of many models of dynamic programming and we can derive many complex behavior based on simple formulation.
The aim of this symposium is to discuss the new developments in the field of difference equations, and their applications.
Transport and accumulation of heat, moisture, chemical substances, and momentum are phenomena which affect buildings and their inbuilt materials over their whole lifetime period. Their satisfactory description requires primarily a choice of proper physical and mathematical models because the transport mechanisms are coupled. The computational implementation of mathematical models is another essential factor involving an application of appropriate methods of numerical solution. The computer simulation tools cannot be utilized properly without knowledge of a variety of transport and storage material parameters, which have to be determined experimentally in a wide range of field quantities, such as temperature, moisture content, and concentration of a particular chemical compound. The applied models are also supposed to be verified using critical experiments, in order to assess their overall quality. Therefore, in practical applications the computational modeling and experimental assessment of transport processes cannot be separated without a risk of significant departure from the physical reality.
Intelligent systems and algorithms is a promising research field of modern computational intelligence concerned with the development of the next generation of intelligent systems and algorithms. Intelligent systems and algorithms are getting popular due to their capabilities in handling several real-world complexities involving imprecision, uncertainty, and vagueness. The symposium has the intention to provide a contribution to academics and practitioners. So, both fundamental and applied researches are considered relevant.
Extended abstracts will be published in a Special Volume of the world-renowned AIP Conference Proceedings. The American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Series is a very well known series of Conference Proceedings, which is included in the leading databases of scientific & engineering literature including, ISI Web of Knowledge, MathSciNet, Scopus, Scirus, Google Scholar, etc and in the past had been included in SCIE.
Intelligent Systems, IEEE International Journal.
Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences (AMIS).
The main aim of this symposium is to promote, encourage, cooperate, and bring together researchers in the fields of differential & difference equations as well dynamical systems with special emphasis on applications.
Quaternionic analysis and Clifford analysis are seen as a refinement of harmonic analysis and generalization of complex analysis, providing us with a powerful toolkit to study partial differential equations in the plane and in higher dimensional spaces. Function theoretic methods play an increasing role in different areas of mathematics, physics, computer science and several branches of engineering. The symposium aims to reflect the state of the art in pure and applied complex and Clifford and analysis as well as in the development of new complex analytic methods and to exchange ideas for new developments in theory and applications.
Quantum Field Theory on the Lattice.
to contribute to the symposium. Suggestions for further topics are welcome.
The symposium is dedicated to the discussion of development and practical application of mathematical methods, models and information technologies in Economics and Nature Use, including Environmental Science and related disciplines.
The participation of representatives of academic and university science, practitioners, as well as doctoral and master students are expected.
The attendance of about 15 - 20 presenters is planned.
We welcome the presentations describing newly created models and methods, as well as particular examples of their use for data processing, evaluation, and analysis, as well as forecasting of different indicators in considered fields.
The presentations may be in oral and poster format.
Virtual contributions are also welcomed if the authors cannot attend the conference.
This Symposium will provide an opportunity for the interaction of engineers, mathematicians, and scientists dealing with a novel numerical solution of boundary value problems for both ordinary and partial differential equations.
The applications of fractional calculus, spline functions, and integral equations will be discussed. In addition, the numerical models and its application in engineering, industry, biology and environmental problems will be highlighted.
The symposium welcomes all researchers, as well as students, involved in Graph Theory.
The transport phenomena in porous and complex flow structures are important for a vast number of research areas such as biotechnology, biomedical engineering, environmental engineering, etc. Significant advances have been achieved in applying porous media theory in modeling biomedical systems. Examples include computational biosystems, drug delivery, fluid flow and heat transfer in biological tissues, production of porous scaffolds for tissue engineering, microfluidic networks for DNA analysis, etc..
This session welcomes original contributions in a wide variety of topics related to porous and complex flow structures in biosystems and biotechnology, such as mathematical modeling, numerical techniques, experimental studies, and medical imaging. Review papers presenting the state of the art of a research area and pointing out new directions for further research are also welcome.
The main purpose of the Section "Recent Advances in Numerical Methods and Simulations in Statics and Dynamics of Structures" is the presentation of new methods to analyse of safety and reliability of the structures under extreme loads as the earthquake and climatic loads (temperature, wind, snow, rain and others), terroristic attack (aircraft, missile, blast, fire and others) or technology accident (explosion, high temperature and others). The nonlinear material and geometric behavior of structures are necessary to consider during extreme loads. The risk of the structure collapse is determined by the model and resistance uncertainties. The deterministic and probabilistic analysis of the structure failure during the extreme loading can be used. The probabilistic assessment gives us the most complex analysis of the acceptable level of the risk. Recently, the theories of probability and statistics and reliability have provided the bases for modern structural design codes and specifications.
The Reliability-Based Optimization procedures to consider the effects of uncertainty by means of reliability, the applications involving optimal structural design for stochastic linear and nonlinear statics and dynamics.
The experience from the experiment tests, modeling and simulations of the structural failure under extreme loads using the deterministic or probabilistic assessment are welcome.
Organizers: Nuno Alves | Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development (CDRSP-IPLeiria) and Mechanical Engineering Department of the School of Technology and Management (ESTG) of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPLeiria), Paula Pascoal-Faria | CDRSP-IPLeiria & Mathematical Department of the ESTG-IPLeiria, Sandra Amado | CDRSP-IPLeiria & Health Science and Technology Department from the School of Health Science from the IPLeiria.
The 5th edition of the Symposium on Computational Tools for Direct Digital Manufacturing (CT4DDM), being held within ICNAAM 2019, is a relevant forum for the scientific exchange of multidisciplinary issues devoted to enhance the interaction between academy and industry, promoting the exploitation of cutting-edge tools in real-life problems.
The main objective of AMITA is to present the latest researches and results of scientists related to the field of Advanced Methods, Mathematical Modelling and Information Technology, Distributed and Parallel Computing and Applications.
The advances in computer science and information technology can be used to solve applied problems from areas of Mathematical Physics, Geophysics, Radiotechnicsand Signal Processing, Optimal Control and so on.
Virtual contributions are also welcomed if authors cannot attend the conference.
This Symposium on Methods of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics focuses on analytical methods for investigation of both nonlinear partial and ordinary differential equations including certain mathematical models. We invite scientists developing and applying methods of nonlinear mathematical physics.
The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers with different backgrounds and interests in all aspects of Operational Research, its application in Industrial Organization, and its practice, in order to further communication, collaboration, and exchange of new ideas.
This symposium welcomes all researchers, academicians, practitioners, as well as students interested in any branch of operational research.
The symposium is devoted to gathering students, academicians, researchers, the industry experts, policymakers and professionals all over the world to carry on further research and highlight recent advances in the fields of applied mathematics that use Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Fractional Differential Equations.
The main aim of this symposium is to cover multidisciplinary aspects: new methodologies, solutions of the above equations in science, engineering and biology, and their numerical representations and applications.
But the topics are not limited to the mentioned above.
Many systems can be represented by graphs (networks). For instance, the internet, social networks, metabolic networks, etc. This representation can help scientists to study, understand and find more information about systems.
In addition, a graph is represented by a matrix, which is called the adjacency matrix. So it is easy to use computers to represent any graph. To extract information from graphs we can use heuristics like Genetic Algorithms, Tabu Search, etc.
Many problems in science and engineering are reduced to a set of boundary value problems through a process of mathematical modeling such as problems in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics etc. Sometimes it is possible to find an exact solution of a boundary value problem as a combination of elementary functions or as a trigonometric functions or power series.
However, this classical mathematical approach for solving boundary value problems only works on a relatively small class of problems. In more realistic models, solutions of boundary value problems cannot be found explicitly in terms of known functions, and the alternative is to determine an approximate solution for given data through numerical computations.
Due to this reason, different numerical methods have been developed in the literature for the solution of boundary value problems that includes Finite difference method, Finite element method, Finite volume method, Boundary element method, and Spline methods etc. This mini-symposium aims, to present the new development of computational methods for solving boundary value problems.
Computational Mathematics is a hybrid topic that sits at the intersection of applied mathematics and computer science. It puts on show the power of computers for solving industrial-size mathematical problems. An illustration under this topic is the Computational Finance field, which deals with problems of practical interest in finance, i.e., the study of data and algorithms currently used in finance and the mathematics of computer programs that realize financial models or systems. The fundamental aim of this symposium is to provide new trends in the field of Computational Mathematics and related applications. The authors are invited to submit original research articles to stimulate the continuing efforts in numerical approximation of mathematical problems and related theories. The symposium provides a forum for researchers and writers to communicate their state-of-the-art improvements and to propose their new findings on this topic.
Extensive research has been performed concerning the imaging and visualization of structures in several different areas of science, such as in computer sciences, engineering, mathematics, physics, and medicine. In fact, the more relevant applications can be found in medicine and related sciences. These applications can have different goals, including shape reconstruction, segmentation, motion and deformation analyses, registration, simulation, assisted diagnosis and enhanced visualization.
The main goal of the proposed Minisymposium is to bring together researchers involved in the related topics, which includes image acquisition, image segmentation, objects tracking, objects matching, shape reconstruction, motion and deformation analysis, medical imaging, scientific visualization and software development, in order to set the major lines of development for the near future.
The proposed Minisymposium will embrace researchers representing research fields related to Biomechanics, Computational Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Mechanics, Mathematics, Medical Imaging, Scientific Visualization and Statistics, endeavors to make a contribution to achieving better solutions for bio- imaging and visualization, and attempts to establish a bridge between clinicians and researchers.
The symposium is devoted to two main lines of research (i) theory and models of copulas, (ii) stochastic processes. It is destined for new perspectives and advances in the development of statistical tools based on the notion of copula and new approaches in stochastic processes. Methods and perspectives combining both lines will be highlighted in this edition.
Markov Processes Procedures with Applications.
In this symposium, we invite papers that focus on recent and novel developments in the computational methods for solving differential and integrodifferential equations, especially on such areas as numerical methods for solving initial and boundary value problem with integer derivatives, fractional ordinary and partial differential equations, fractional integrodifferential equations, fractional integral transforms, fractional integral equations and inequalities, and on various applications thereof.
Organizer: Prof. Dr. Abedallah Rababah, Department of Mathematical Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE.
The Sixth Symposium on Approximation of Curves and Surfaces will be held within ICNAAM 2019 that will take place at Sheraton Hotel in Rhodes-Greece, September 23-28, 2019.
Presentations will be for 30 minutes including questions. Extended abstract (3-4 pages) of papers presented at ACS 2019 will be published in AIP Proceedings (American Institute of Physics).
The symposium will be devoted to curves and surfaces and their modeling, techniques, and applications in all fields of science. All topics in Approximation Theory, Computer Aided Design, Computer Graphics, Computational Geometry, Image and Signal Processing, Modelling, Expansions, Splines, Wavelets, and all related issues and their use in solving real-life problems will be covered.
The goal of the Symposium is to bring together all the researchers working in various fields of Mathematics, Mathematical Physics-Engineering and related areas such as Analysis, Non-linear Analysis, Integral transforms, Number Theory, p-adic Analysis and Applied Algebra, Special Functions, q-analysis and Discrete Mathematics, Probability and Statistics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical modeling and their applications. Our main aim is also to bring together theoretical, numerical and apply analyst, number theorists, (quantum) physicist working in the areas of generating functions of the special numbers and polynomials and their applications. All of the participants will likely lead to significant uncover new connections on these fields which are special numbers and polynomials, and also the family of zeta functions and L-functions.
The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers with different backgrounds and interests in all aspects of uncertainties using interval and fuzzy environments. Applications of interval and fuzzy set theory for the modeling of mathematical problems to handed the impreciseness environments.
The main aim of this symposium is to cover the applications of interval and fuzzy environments for the impreciseness in new methodologies, solutions of different problem in science, engineering, inventory and supply chain managements and mathematical biology, and their numerical representations and applications.
This symposium welcomes all students, researchers, academicians, and decision makers interested to handle the impreciseness using fuzzy and interval in all related issues and their use in solving real-life problems will be covered.
The symposium on Mathematical modeling under interval and fuzzy environments will be held within ICNAAM 2019 that will take place at Sheraton Hotel in Rhodes-Greece, September 23-28, 2019.
Presentations will be for 30 minutes including questions. Extended abstract (3-4 pages) of papers presented at MMIFE 2019 will be published in AIP Proceedings (American Institute of Physics), which is a very well known series of Conference Proceedings, and it is included in the leading databases of scientific & engineering literature including, ISI Web of Knowledge, Math Sci Net, Scopus, Scirus, Google Scholar, etc.
MPAS Symposium focuses on new results of aerospace science researches carried out by using mathematical techniques. The aim of the Session is to collect relevant papers dealing with important approaches of applied mathematics, which have relevance to the engineering in the field of Aerodynamics and Fluid dynamics, Propulsion, Materials and Structures, Aerospace Systems, Flight Mechanics and Control, Space Systems and Missions in order to create new collaborations between mathematicians and aerospace engineers.
Papers must be characterized by innovative models, methods and approaches that can found practical application to the engineering field or by new useful application of existing models to solve engineering problems.
We aim to bring together researcher working on differential equations and its applications. Special emphasis will be given to fractional differential equations, Integral equations, Impulsive differential equations, and their discrete analogs. Among the topics are oscillation theory, stability theory, boundedness, asymptotic behavior, Lyapunov type inequalities, and applications to real-world phenomena.
advances in the area of heat transfer in the porous medium.
The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers and engineers working in various fields of science and technology and using methods of mathematical modeling. The symposium welcomes all researchers, academicians, engineers, as well as students interested in mathematical modeling of engineering processes, biological and industrial systems, heat transfer and aerodynamics.
In recent years, the area of Fractional Calculus has been a subject of numerous investigations by numerous scientists from Mathematics, Physics and Engineering communities. The widespread interest in this area of research arises mainly from its applications to many real-life models. In this symposium, we invite talks that focus on recent and significant theoretical and computational developments in the subject of Fractional Calculus.
Fractional difference and q-difference equations.
Fractional difference and q-fractional difference variational calculus.
Oscillation criteria for fractional and fractional difference dynamical systems.
System of fractional integro-differential equations.
This symposium will take a part in the International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied MathematicsICNAAM 2019, Rhodes, Greece, 23th-28th September 2019.
This Symposium will provide an opportunity for the interaction of engineers, mathematicians, and scientists dealing with applied mathematics approaches. The usage of analytical and numerical solutions in engineering, industry, biology and environmental problems will be discussed. Research in the field of Analytical mechanics, Gyro motion, Vibrational mechanics, Stability of dynamical systems and Bifurcations are of high interest of the symposium.
Many physical phenomena in science and engineering are modeled by nonlinear differential equations. There is no doubt that Lie symmetry methods are one of the most effective sets of techniques to find exact solutions of such nonlinear differential equations. They have been used by several scientists and applied to various nonlinear models in physics, biology, engineering, economics, etc.
The Lie symmetry methods identify and extend the concept of symmetry, produce an effective method of symmetry applications in difficult situations, give an accurate statement of problems and in many cases show a possible way for finding their solutions.
The aim of this mini-symposium is to emphasize the applications of Lie symmetry methods to search for exact solutions of nonlinear models and to show recent progress of theoretic tools in Lie symmetry methods related to the study of nonlinear differential equations.
This session is focused on the application of numerical methods in mechanics. Special attention is paid to composite and nanostructures. All topics related to mechanics are considered. Design optimization methods and techniques are included in order to cover engineering design problems.
The so-called chimera state is a collective state that, as the name suggests, has a dual character. On the one hand, we have a set of oscillators working in unison and, on the other, there is a second set with no synchrony; yet the two sets rely on each other to be sustained.
The goal of this symposium is to have closer looks at the inner workings of this overall harmony, via numerical simulations of various finite-N systems that are known to exhibit non-stationary chimera states. Particularly of interest is the effect of the overlap of the two sets on the motion of the center of mass of the chimera, and whether or not this may lead to a better understanding of the collective state and how transient chimeras work. The nature of Synchrony between two or more coupled systems, each of which may support chimera states individually may also further elucidate the characteristics needed for the existence of the collective state. This symposium will concentrate on all such new ideas, with a specific focus on the computational and numerical simulation aspects of such studies.
In the field of the mechanic of structures and its applications, the knowledge and the implementation of advanced numerical and mathematical techniques are required. The aim of the mini-symposium is to allow the interaction between researchers, engineers, and mathematicians.
Applied mathematics on static and dynamics of structures.
Non-linear finite element methods for structural modeling.
Aging of materials and structures.
Risk assessment techniques and management.
Numerical simulation methods for dynamic problems.
Statistical methods and probabilistic approaches.
Since the origin of Hydrological Sciences, the connection between natural phenomena and the mathematical formulation of solutions has been clearly identified as the main topic. Reliability and simplicity are thus two of the most important words for people who are involved in such researches, and the main objectives for operators in this field.
The most significant research efforts in hydrological science aim to face various relevant issues. Improvements regard typical hydraulic and hydrological topics: extreme events forecasting (floods and droughts), management of water systems, meteorological events and climate changes. However, a very important role in this research field remains the measurement of hydrological variables and data analysis, their spatial distribution, regionalization techniques and the extension of the results obtained for ungauged basins.
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Francisco Miranda, CIDMA, University of Aveiro, Portugal, & Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Prof. Dr. Carlos Abreu, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal; and Dr. Daniel Miranda, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal.
Modelling and simulation, applied to computer sciences and engineering, is an exciting investigation field that brings together the power of computers and the physical sciences. Computer-based simulations and graphical visualization now play a key role in mathematical models, scientific investigations and engineering design.
Starting from the reality that there is always more to discover about nonlinear dynamical systems, this mini-symposium aims to bring together researchers concerned with applying the Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Approach to nonlinear and strongly nonlinear dynamical systems from various fields of engineering. It is expected to be emphasized new developments and improvements of this approach with applications in classical mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, nonlinear oscillations, electrical machines, and other engineering branches where nonlinear dynamical systems are involved.
The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum for discussing the mathematical modelling of nonlinear phenomena and the novel analytical and numerical methods for the solution of boundary value problems to nonlinear partial differential equations or ordinary differential equations arising in science and in engineering applications.
This minisymposium seeks to bring together students, academicians, and professionals working on computational solid and structural mechanics.
This symposium aims to bring together experts on non-perturbative techniques in addressing classical and quantum aspects of the vacuum structure, the particle spectrum, radiative corrections, the nature of phase transitions, and non-thermal behavior in quantum field theory with a special emphasis on gauge theory. We also envisage presentations and discussions of (gravitating) solitonic field configurations including the geometry of their moduli spaces.
Considerations towards applications in particle physics and cosmology are strongly encouraged, and we welcome talks providing linkage to algebraic geometry (radiative corrections) and number theory (integral representations of certain meromorphic functions and their properties).
Fractional differential equations (FDEs), as generalizations of the classical integer order of ordinary or partial differential equations, appear in many applications of the applied sciences to model problems in fluid flow, finance, phase transitions, stratified materials and so on. Recently, there has been considerable attention from the scientific community devoted to the analysis and numerical approximations of fractional differential equations.
This follows from the advantages of using derivatives of arbitrary orders in the modelling of different phenomena in physics, engineering, finance, chemistry, and the life sciences. Fractional differentiation has been found to be effective to describe many phenomena in biology, fluid flow, chemistry, finance, control theory, psychology and another areas of science and engineering. That is because of the fact that a reasonable modelling of a physical phenomenon has dependence not only of the time instant but also on the prior time history which can be fruitfully achieved by using fractional calculus.
This symposium will be of interest to all researchers who participate in the introduction and application of new algorithms to solve fractional differential equations.
Economics, Management, and Finance always involve some degrees of Uncertainty. These to some extent can be reduced using Mathematica-Statistical Models. The aim of this Symposium will be the application of Mathematical modelling of Economics, Management, and Finance, then converting to the Statistical models or generally Econometric Model to estimate the effective parameters. This would help the decision makers to some extent overcome uncertainty for wise decision making.
Various emerging topics in Statistics and Statistical Modelling will be addressed.
The laser processing of materials is increasingly used in various industries, such as rail transportation, automotive, marine, power plants, biomedical micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and BioMEMS devices, etc. This symposium is mainly on discussing the challenges and opportunities emerging and existing in laser processing recently.
A better understanding of the interaction of the laser and materials and revealing the involved mechanism through the modeling and simulation are of great significance for achieving the high productivity and quality. The heating, melting, solidification, and evaporation from other related fields will also be encouraged.
This Symposium is dedicated to the geomatics approaches used for surveying, monitoring and modeling the territory, both with classical techniques and innovative technologies. Geomatics approaches involve the use of the latest generation of laser scanners, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) or UGV(Unmanned Ground Vehicle)and satellite technologies. Particular attention will be given to the use of free and open source information technologies (GIS software, DBMS, photogrammetry, etc.) for the management of data acquired in the field. This session will allow attendees to review and share knowledge and experience about environmental monitoring and modelling, reinforcing the cooperation between applied mathematics, engineering, environmental science, and remote sensing.
Call for papers: Continuous-time state-space models are used to describe the dynamics of several industrial production systems, as well as the dynamics of financial systems. A typical example of continuous-time production systems is electric power generation. Other examples can be found in the metal industry, in mining, in the fuels industry, in the food industry, the cement industry etc. In such systems, there exists a continuous inflow of raw material out of which a continuous outflow of a product is generated.
(i) assure that the production will stay at the desirable levels (ii) minimize the consumption of energy or the cost of the raw materials needed to sustain such production. One often arrives at continuous-time nonlinear optimal control problems, which are either computationally complex to solve or which are of questionable stability and convergence properties. The proposed special session will attempt to present recent advances in this area and to elaborate on nonlinear control approaches which can ascertain that industrial production will be uninterrupted, the operational capacity of industrial units will be raised while the production cost will be minimized.
Continuous-time state-space models are also met in economics and finance. These models can be used to describe business-cycles and the interaction of macroeconomic indexes between distributed financial entities such as companies, banks or interconnected economies. These models can demonstrate the variation of the gross domestic product, the accumulation of capital stocks or changes of interest rates in linked economies.
By applying nonlinear control to such systems growth and financial stability can be achieved. Again the nonlinear control of the related continuous-time spate-space models can have multiple objectives: (i) the implementation of a specific macroeconomic policy, (ii) the implementation of a monetary or taxation policy, (iii) the abatement of recession and the sustaining of growth, (iv) the prevention of crises and the mitigation of the spreading of financial distress. Nonlinear control allows accomplishing the aforementioned aims under limitations in resources. The proposed special session will attempt to present recent advances in this area and to elaborate on nonlinear control approaches which can ascertain that assets and capitals will be optimally managed so as targeted financial indexes to be reached.
Indicative topics of interest for this special session are: (i) Control for continuous-time industrial production and business models, (ii) minimization of energy consumption in industrial processes, (iii) optimization of raw material processing and raise of production levels (iv) control for implementing macroeconomic policies, (v) Control for implementing monetary or taxation policies (vi) control for the management of investments and capital flows.
The dynamics of chemical reactors was widely discussed in the literature, where it was proved that the concentration and temperature of the flux may oscillate in a manner that is more or less complex. The oscillations may have a periodic, multiperiodic, quasi-periodic or chaotic nature, depending on the values of reactor parameters and the concentration and temperature of the reacting flux at the initial state.
The session will focus on the mathematical and numerical analysis of chaotic solutions of chemical reactor models.
The session is dedicated to works on the topic in fluid mechanics, optimization and flow control for aerospace and other related fields. Extended abstracts will be published in a Special Volume of the world-renowned AIP Conference Proceedings, which is included in the leading databases of scientific & engineering literature including, ISI Web of Knowledge, MathSciNet, Scopus, Scirus, Google Scholar.
Computation of classes of models based on the experimental data.
All fields of Stochastic and differential equations are of interest. Also, possible applications in technology, physics, biology, and financial mathematics are considered.
The symposium, organized by Assoc. Prof. Martin Cermak(Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Civil Engineering andENET Centre in Ostrava, Czech Republic)is focused on numerical methods in connection with high-performance computing in all areas of engineering and environmental sciences, further on sharing experiences, and initiating new research cooperations. Among others, this symposium will cover the following scientific fields: computational structural mechanics (elasticity, plasticity, damage, contact problems, etc.), computational fluid dynamics (Stokes, Navier-Stokes, Darcy, Brinkman, etc.), numerical simulation of DEM (transport processes,processing technologies, particle size distributions, etc.), modelling and simulation in the emergency and crisis management (floods, air pollutions, traffic load) as well as crash tests. It will be also focused on scalable algorithms and advanced computational techniques such as domain decomposition and multigrid methods, parallel and hybrid programming, reliable and robust solution methods, etc.
Our aim is to organize the symposium which offers interesting talks, presents new ideas, as well as reveals the beauty of numerical mathematics in connection with high performance computing.Also human aspects are important.
The theoretical, numerical and computational analysis of dynamical systems and their applications to the analysis of problems coming from civil, mechanical, electrical, etc. engineering and related subject fields, their formal verification and practical validation of relevant approaches constitute the unifying idea of this symposium, whose significance should be seen just in the confrontation of different approaches and intensification of multidisciplinary cooperation of experts (mathematicians, physicists, engineers, ...).
Leaving nice model cases and seeing the real-world problems, we come to serious difficulties a) in the formal analysis of existence, uniqueness, stability, etc. of solutions, b) in the convergence of sequences of approximate solutions, as well as c) in the design of sufficiently robust and inexpensive algorithms for direct, sensitivity and inverse problems.
The unification approaches addressed to the continuous and discrete analysis, namely to the study of integral, differential, difference, etc. equations from engineering practice, both deterministic and stochastic ones, including their formulation on time scales, is needed: the theoretical problems include e.g. i) stability and observability of dynamical systems on time scales, their qualitative and quantitative analysis, ii) filtration of inner states of such systems and iii) identification of systems of orthogonal functions. The scope of applications is not limited, but both theoretical and computational predictions of mechanical, thermal, etc. behavior of advanced materials and structures and control of related technologies, up to the development of modeling and simulation software tools, are welcome.
Methods for visualization and analysis of multidimensional data are successfully used in high-energy physics. Multivariate analysis of the multidimensional feature space can provide new information on the new physical phenomena. Such analysis presents a challenge due to the large dimensionality and enormous volumes of acquired data.
A huge amount of experimental measurements should be processed and identified near on-line for storing and further offline analysis. To support researcher in data mining and finding "new physics" a multivariate visualization platform should be supplemented with tools of the joint statistical analysis of experimental and modeled data(Bayesisn and Neural Network models).
The online stream of "big" data from high-energy physics experiments should be connected to an exploration system with a user-friendly interface that interactively selects relevant parameters for different research objectives and chooses the best theoretical model.


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Is Poker Dead? Examining the Health of Poker's Greatest Story – Its Own
Author: Bradley Chalupski
Image credit: Mirror.co.uk
Poker is inextricably wound up with the craft of storytelling.
The way you present yourself at the table is a story; the amount of chips you toss into the pot is a story; the reason you play the game is a story. It could be that you remember the rush you got the first time you played poker in Las Vegas. Or maybe, you look forward to the release that comes with that first soft "hissss" of a cold beer as you unwind with your buddies at a home game after a tough work-week.
But today, whether you are sitting down at a poker table at a casino, in a basement, or on the Internet, the most likely scenario is that the story you are telling didn't begin as your story. The odds are that you are in fact a single author continuing to write a tome spanning over a decade now, and enjoying contributions that span the four corners of the globe. And that book – that story of modern poker – begins with a single word: "Moneymaker".
Is it some inside joke of the poker gods that those two words, "money" and "maker", would combine to be the bedrock of the resurgence of poker into the mainstream? I'll leave that question to the theologians. All I know is that it's true.
It's the Personalities, Stupid
When Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker Main Event, he provided the prologue. After that, PokerStars published the first edition of the book. The story started with personalities; the story will not end until there are no personalities left to tell it. And contrary to what so many in the poker community may be saying, there are still plenty of amazing personalities in poker that add pages every day.
I have a friend who frequents Canadian online casinos because he caught the Daniel Negreanu PokerStars bug after watching a casino game provide the Canadian legend with the life he had always dreamed of. But even though poker can only produce so many Daniel Negreanus, there is no limit to the number and variety of compelling stories that it can tell.
The "Moneymaker Effect" has now stormed social media channels. PokerStars-sponsored Jason Somerville's Twitch Poker phenomenon is the new gold standard in poker entertainment. Other "Twitch personalities" such as Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Jamie Staples also enjoy near-celebrity status thanks to poker.
Indeed, a new generation of poker personalities is showing how poker can be a transformative force in a person's life and free them to live on their own terms… and they don't even need to leave the comfort of their homes to ride that wave.
Poker's Story is Expanding
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Social media is just the beginning. The power of personality in poker is branching out. PokerStars' Neymar Jr. acquisition this year proved that the stories the game has to tell have appeal not just to a small subset of gamblers and dreamers, but to the unmatched global audience for sports.
This shouldn't be a surprise. Poker and sports have a natural synergy simply because there is no larger venue for storytelling than professional sports. Iconic sports moments are burned into collective consciousness as a source of pride, joy, and hope. Fans, cities, and nations give their sports stories titles like "The Miracle On Ice", "The Catch", or (in an extreme, media-hyped example) "The Decision".
With the work of taking the game out of the cultural shadows largely complete, fans of poker can look forward to the relationship between the game and other cultural storytelling vehicles to become more and more profound as time goes on. It's no accident that Alex Dreyfus wants to "sportify" poker.
You Can't Kill an Idea
Poker has had a rough few years, but with every article written asking if the game's time has passed, we only reinforce the reality that the opposite is true.
Poker evolves. It started on steamboats in the aristocratic culture of the American South, moved to the wilds of the American West, took a pit stop in New Jersey via Hollywood dramatization, and has now found its way onto the Internet and into every corner of the world.
Poker isn't just a card game. It's a book, writ-large where you, too, can pick up your pen and seamlessly scribble a few lines of your own story within. It's the beer with friends; the miracle river card; the dream to be the best in the world at something. The idea of what poker is is as varied as the stories of the individuals telling it.
And that's why it will never die. It's an infinite loop of self-enforcing storytelling that has already adapted to new cultural realities, new challenges, and new opportunities.
About Bradley Chalupski
Bradley Chalupski made his first deposit onto an online poker site in 2009 and has been paying rake and following the poker scene ever since. After graduating with his J.D. from the Seton Hall School of Law in 2012, he moved to Lake Placid, NY, to compete in head-first ice Luge (known as "Skeleton") instead of being a lawyer. He is Israel's first World Cup-level Skeleton athlete, winner of Israel's first international Skeleton medal, and has competed in two International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation (FIBT) Skeleton World Championships. He currently resides in Jerusalem with his beautiful wife and a fuzzy cat. He can be reached at: chalupskibc@gmail.com.
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Ellis Shuman 4 years ago
Great article! Reports about the death of poker are highly exaggerated.
One comment though – the article gives sole credit to PokerStars, There are a LOT of other players in this game all over the world. Poker is a global sport / game / however you classify it, and credit should be given to all players / companies / sponsors helping to promote it wherever it's legal, and in efforts to make it legal everywhere.
Bradley Chalupski 4 years ago
Thanks so much for the kind words Ellis! You are absolutely correct that many companies and people have combined to make poker a success, and I'm sorry if I gave the impression to the contrary. PokerStars is just one player – but it is the one that had the largest role in leveraging Moneymaker's ME win into cultural capital. Fast forward to 2015, and it's still considered all but synonymous with online poker in the United States despite being out of the market for several years already. Many American's still think online poker is illegal nationwide, despite it being quite legal in three states; that will change overnight if PS gets into even just a single state. That's why I chose to highlight their role in the modern game, but there are absolutely others and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Thanks again for reading! I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
Earl B 4 years ago
Bradley, for a newcomer to poker you have a healthy respect for its history! Poker will never die – its demise has been predicted every decade since the 1800s – but the attention given to poker – and especially the online game – may surge and wane. It's not about the characters, however, it is about that "outlaw" nature of the game, the chance for a person to be what they want to be rather than the dictates of society. IF poker ever has the "outlaw" nature fully pulled from it, then it will become less than what it is today. By the way, have always wanted to try the skeleton but, at my age, bones don't heal like they used to!


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Emma Stone pregnant: the actress is expecting her first child
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📅 January 5, 2021
Emma Stone and her husband Dave McCary are expecting their first child. The Daily Mail shared the good news on Monday, January 4. Not having made an official announcement, we can imagine that the couple wanted it to remain secret. They were betrayed by the British newspaper which published a series of photos in which we can see the already very rounded belly of the 32-year-old actress. In fact, while the young woman was enjoying a sunny afternoon in the company of a friend, the latter was dressed all in black. Long-sleeved t-shirt and black leggings, she tried to go unnoticed with a cap on her head and the surgical mask on her nose. However, her already very rounded baby bump could not be hidden and her fans therefore learned that the actress has been pregnant for several months already. The news of her pregnancy quickly spread and Internet users did not hesitate to congratulate the couple. Very discreet about her private life, Emma Stone is not present on social networks and therefore has not commented on this announcement. Only her husband has an Instagram account but the 35-year-old director did not want to talk about it.
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In a relationship since 2017, Emma Stone and Dave McCary met on the set of the show "Saturday Night Live" in 2016. Since then, they seem to spin the perfect love but still prefer to remain discreet about their relationship. Very happy, Dave McCary had announced their engagement in December 2019, by posting a photo on his Instagram account on which we could see Emma Stone, all smiles and showing her brand new ring. The couple, whose wedding was to take place in March 2020, therefore had to postpone the date following the coronavirus pandemic. According to the site Page Six, the two lovebirds would have married in the greatest privacy in September 2020. The rumor arose after they were photographed on the streets of Los Angeles, with their fingers matching rings. If the media confirmed this hypothesis, the two protagonists did not wish to speak since. Thus, Emma Stone and Dave McCary will welcome their first child in 2021. According to a source close to the actress who spoke to Us Weekly, she is "very happy and enthusiastic" at the idea of becoming a mother. This same person confided that his companion takes "great care of her".
A couple well known to the public
Before dating, Emma Stone and Dave McCary were already very well known in Hollywood. As a reminder, the 32-year-old actress has appeared in many films since 2005, including The Amazing Spiderman, alongside Andrew Garfield. The two actors dated from 2010 to 2015 and kept a friendly relationship even after their split. Emma Stone has also played in many remarkable films including La La Land, Birdman or even recently Zombieland: Double Tap. Regarding Dave McCary, he directed the film Brigsby Bear released in 2017 and was shown on television in Fresh Perspectives in 2011, SNL's NFL Saturday in 2015 and Saturday Night Live since 2016. So it seems that everything is going for the best for the couple who are ready to welcome their first child.
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