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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear
Colleagues,</span>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics is proud to
introduce the First Conference on Mathematics of Data Science
that </span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">will
take place on May 5-7, 2020 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and it will be
co-located with the SIAM Conference on Data Mining.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">This
conference will provide a forum to present work that advances
mathematical, statistical, and computational methods in the
context of data and information sciences and aims to unite
researchers who are building foundations for data science and
making principled applications to science, engineering,
technology, and society. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We
invite contributed talks, minisymposia proposals that can
highlight the role of mathematics in the growing field of data
science.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Topics
of interest include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li
style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Foundational
Algorithms</span></li>
<li
style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Statistical </span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Inference</span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></li>
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Optimization
and Control</span></li>
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Machine
Learning</span>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level2 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Adversarial
Machine Learning </span></li>
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level2 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Scientific
Machine Learning </span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Theoretical
Computer Science</span></li>
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fairness and
Bias in data science</span></li>
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Signal
Processing and Information Theory</span></li>
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"> </span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Applied
Probability</span></li>
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"> </span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Functional
Analysis</span></li>
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Network
Science</span></li>
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Approximation
Theory</span></li>
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Topological
Data Analysis </span></li>
<li
style="color:#333333;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"> <span
style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"> </span><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Applications
of data science in astrophysics, chemistry, earth science,
materials science, biology, neuroscience, economics,
engineering, banking, finance, security, privacy, and social
sciences</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">SIAM
MDS20 will take place on May 5-7, 2020 in Cincinnati, Ohio.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a
href="https://www.siam.org/Conferences/CM/Conference/mds20"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.siam.org/Conferences/CM/Conference/mds20</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Plenary
Speakers: </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a
href="http://www.math.ucla.edu/~bertozzi/"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Andrea
L. Bertozz</span></a><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">i
University of California, Los Angeles, U.S. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a
href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/jchayes/"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Jennifer
Chayes</span></a><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
Microsoft, U.S. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a
href="https://statistics.stanford.edu/people/david-donoho"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">David
Donoho</span></a><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
Stanford University, U.S. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a
href="https://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/dwork"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Cynthia
Dwork</span></a><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
Harvard University, U.S. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a
href="https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Michael
Jordan</span></a><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
University of California, Berkeley, U.S. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a
href="https://research.fb.com/people/lecun-yann/"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Yann
LeCun</span></a><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
Facebook, U.S. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a
href="https://uclouvain.be/fr/repertoires/yurii.nesterov"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Yurii
Nesterov</span></a><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
CORE/INMA, Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">SIAM
requests that individuals limit themselves to giving one talk. A
poster may be presented in addition to a talk, provided the
poster presents that material that is not already covered. The
co-chairs will consider exceptions on a case-by-case basis when
exceptional circumstances exist </span></p>
<br>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Minisymposium
proposals:</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Deadline:
</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">October
7, 2019</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Minisymposium
abstracts and contributed talks:</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Deadline:
</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Nov
4, 2019</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Gitta
Kutyniok, Ali Pinar, and Joel Tropp <br>
</span></p>
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(as
the co-chairs)</span>
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