The following minisymposia have been approved for SIAM-SEAS 2009.

Discrete Mathematics and Bioinformatics (3 sessions, Organizer: Eva Czabarka, University of South Carolina)

Numerical Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations (1 session, Organizer: Yanzhao Cao, Auburn University)

Optimization Algorithm and its Applications (1 session, Organizer: Hongchao Zhang, Louisiana State University)

Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics (2 sessions, Organizers: Linyuan Lu and Joshua Cooper, University of South Carolina)

Nonlinear Approximation (2 sessions, Organizer: Peter Binev, University of South Carolina)

Advances in Numerical Solution Techniques for PDEs (2 sessions, Organizers: Hong Wang, University of South Carolina, Jiangguo Liu, Colorado State University)

Modeling and Computations of Soft Matter Materials (3 sessions, Organizers: Ruhai Zhou, Old Dominion University, M. Greg Forest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Qi Wang, University of South Carolina, Z. Cui, Fayetteville State University)

Computational Issues in Porous Media Flows (2 sessions, Organizers: Lea Jenkins, Clemson University, Shuyu Sun, Clemson University, Xiaoming Wang, Florida State University)

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation for Materials (2 sessions, Organizer: Yanzhi Zhang, Florida State University)

Recent Advances in Computational Electromagnetics (2 sessions, Organizer: Jichun Li, UCLA and UNLV)

Spectral and Pseudo-spectral Methods in Scientific Computing (2 sessions, Organizer: Cheng Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)

Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation: Algorithms and Applications (1 session, Organizer: Xiaoqiang Wang, Florida State University)

Signal Integrity: Design and Simulation (1 session, Organizers: YinChao Chen and Xian Wu, University of South Carolina)

Message to the minisymposium organizers: Please put together the following information of the talks in your minisymposium: Speaker's name, Affiliation, Email address, Title of talk, Co-authors, Abstract (preferably in text/plain TeX form, up to 150 words). Please also specify the order of speakers in your minisymposium and whether the speaker is a graduate student. Please send them to the local organizing committee (siamseas@math.sc.edu) by February 15, 2009.