The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), established in 1987, is the most influential global organization in this field. It aims to highlight the importance of applied mathematics and establish its position in the international scientific community.
Chinese name
International Union of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Foreign name
International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
August 10, 2015, the eighth sessionInternational Congress of Industrial and Applied MathematicsAt the National Convention Center in Beijing, Vice President Li Yuanchao attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.Barbara Keyfitz, President of the International Federation of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony.On behalf of the participants, she expressed her gratitude to the Chinese organizers for their hard work in successfully holding the conference.She said that the International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics is very inclusive and composed of computational scientists, statisticians, data analysts, mathematical biologists and computer scientists. This conference provides opportunities for researchers active in all directions of applied mathematics to learn, improve and cooperate,And prove to the world that their mathematical research is enough to influence the world outside mathematics and bring benefits to it.[1]
Yuan Yaxiang(Elected in May 2017): graduated from the doctor's degree in 1986University of Cambridge, obtainedNational Natural Science AwardSecond prize, Mathematics Award of the Academy of Sciences of Developing Countries, etc. In 2011, he was elected as a member of the American Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, in 2012, he was elected as a member of the American Society of Mathematics, in 2015, he was elected as the president of the Chinese Society of Mathematics, and in 2016, he was elected as the vice chairman of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology.[2]
