SIAG/CSE Business Meeting, March 5, 2009

From SIAG-CSE

• Slides from the Business Meeting: PDF or PPT
• Back to the CSE09 page

CSE SIAG Business Meeting 2009

Meeting called to order 6:48pm, 3/5/09 by Tammy Kolda

Thank yous went out to the outgoing officer, John Bell. Welcome was given to new officer, Uli Rude. Current officers are: Chair: Tammy Kolda; Vice Chair: Kirk Jordan; Program Chair: Uli Rude; Secretary: Carol Woodward

Announcements:

There are over 750 attendees at this meeting, making it the largest SIAM CSE meeting yet. This is the largest SIAM SIAG with over 1700 members.

We are the only one with a majority of members as students (53%) indicating a young and growing field.

We will have officer elections in a year, so please send in your nominations (self included).

We will have a track of mini-symposia at ICIAM 2011 (Vancouver, Canada) and SIAM Annual 2010. Please send any suggestions for topics or organizers.

The email list will be more moderated than in the past.

We have a new Wiki for the SIAG. Check it out at: http://wiki.siam.org/siag-cse/ We are looking for volunteers to help with the wiki, so please consider helping out with this.

SIAM News will be doing an issue on CSE and is looking for story ideas. If you have one, please contact Gail Corbett (corbett@siam.org).

We are looking for suggestions for the next CSE meeting locations. Ideas discussed include: Phoenix, Austin, San Francisco, Miami, Monterrey, and Germany. For CSE13, Europe was suggested as were Albuquerque and New Orleans.

We are also looking for suggestions for themes for the CSE11 meeting. Please send ideas to Uli Rude or Padma Raghaven, our meeting co-chairs.

Discussion Items:

1. Are publication needs of the CSE community being served by SIAM? Uli Rude discussed that SISC will have a special issue on CS&E. It will be published in November and will have 26 articles from 90 submissions. The focus is on methodologies, not the domain sciences. He plans (with approval by SIAM) to continue CSE within SISC through a section of each issue in the future.

The education panel mentioned a request for textbooks on CSE with examples and exercises. Lori Diachin mentioned that the CSE book series has some prospects for this.

It was stated that it would be good to engage the European community more in CSE conferences. Jim Crowley stated that there are three ways to do this: lend our name to a meeting (the SIAM CSE SIAG helped to sponsor this meeting) without money; become a joint sponsor; or move our meeting out of the US periodically.

2. What role should the CSE SIAG play in government policy, education, and career guidance? One suggestion was to have a student representative on the board. Juan Mesa, a member of the SIAM policy committee, stated that it would be great to have a set of accomplishments to present in Washington, DC. Pictures would be especially useful. It was discussed that a CSE prize for junior faculty would be useful as a way to help promote the field (and tenure of its practitioners).

3. Should we update the “Petzold Report” on CSE? Generally people thought we should update the report. Kirk Jordan volunteered to coordinate the look at this. The purpose of the report is to help define CSE as a discipline and help departments who are interested in setting up a program. Uli Rude stated that we have not defined what an education program in CSE should be. It was suggested that an update of the report focus on education, both graduate and undergraduate.

Scribe: Carol Woodward