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2024 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN24) with online component including SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics (DM24) and the SIAM Conference on Applied Mathematics in Education (ED24)

Registration now open!

2024-05-16
(Press-News.org) The SIAM Annual Meeting provides a broad view of the state of the art in applied mathematics, computational and data science, and their applications through invited presentations, prize lectures, minitutorials, minisymposia, contributed presentations, and posters.

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[Press-News.org] 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN24) with online component including SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics (DM24) and the SIAM Conference on Applied Mathematics in Education (ED24)
Registration now open!