Governance of FoCM

The term of office of all FoCM committees is from one FoCM conference to the next. In practice this means two-three years.

FoCM has the following three-tier structure. The day-to-day affairs are being managed by the FoCM Executive Committee, comprising of

Ron DeVore
Chair
(University of South Carolina) devore@math.sc.edu
Susanne Brenner
Secretary
(University of South Carolina) brenner@math.sc.edu
Mike Todd
Treasurer
(Cornell University) miketodd@cs.cornell.edu

The governing body of FoCM is its Board of Directors which in addition to the three members of the FoCM Executive Committee includes

Felipe Cucker
Publications
(City University of Hong Kong) macucker@math.cityu.edu.hk
Arieh Iserles
Publicity
(University of Cambridge) a.iserles@damtp.cam.ac.uk
Teresa Krick
Focus groups
(University of Buenos Aires) krick@dm.uba.ar
Mike Shub
Editor of J. FoCM
(IBM Yorktown Heights) mshub@us.ibm.com
Endre Süli
Conferences
(University of Oxford) Endre.Suli@comlab.ox.ac.uk
Wolfgang Dahmen
Member-at-large
(RWTH Aachen) dahmen@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
David Epstein
Member-at-large
(Warwick University) dbae@maths.warwick.ac.uk
Gene Golub
Member-at-large
(Stanford University) golub@sccm.stanford.edu
Nick Higham
Member-at-large
(University of Manchester) higham@ma.man.ac.uk
Hendrik Lenstra
Member-at-large
(UC Berkeley and University of Leiden) hwl@math.berkeley.edu
Jim Renegar
Member-at-large
(Cornell University) renegar@orie.cornell.edu
Marie-Françoise Roy
Member-at-large
(University of Rennes) marie-francoise.coste-roy@univ-rennes1.fr
Steve Smale
Member-at-large
(City University of Hong Kong) masmale@math.cityu.edu.hk
Eitan Tadmor
Member-at-large
(UC Los Angeles) tadmor@math.ucla.edu
Henryk Wozniakowski
Member-at-large
(University of Warsaw and Columbia University) henryk@cs.columbia.edu

The role of FoCM Council is to elect the Board of Directors and to act as the definitive forum for major decisions. The Council comprises:

  1. Members of Editorial and Advisory Boards, J. FoCM;
  2. Members of the FoCM'97 Organizing Committee;
  3. Members of the FoCM'99 Organizing Committee;
  4. Organisers of the special semester at MSRI;
  5. Organisers of the special semester in Hong Kong;
  6. Workshop organisers at FoCM'99;
  7. Other individuals, who may be coopted by the BoD from time to time;
As well as members of the Board of Directors. In addition to names listed above on this page, members of the Council include:
John Ball3,6 Richard Brent3,6
Chris Budd3,6 Vicent Caselles6
Raymond Chan5 Philippe Ciarlet1
Henri Cohen6 James Davenport6
Jean-Pierre Dedieu6 Alan Edelman6
Mike Freedman1 David Gabai6
Mike Giles3 Eric Goles2
Nick Gould3,6 John Guckenheimer6
Stefan Heinrich6 Joos Heintz1
Fred J. Hickernell5 Alfredo Iusem2
Narendra Karmarkar2 Peter Kloeden6
Pascal Koiran6 Arno Kuijlaars5
Kai Sing Lau5 Tien Yien Li4
Pierre-Louis Lions1 Laszlo Lovasz6
Ya-Yan Lu5 Shiu-Hong Lui5
Robert MacKay6 Gregorio Malajovich2
Elizabeth Mansfield6 Jerry Marsden1
Bill McColl3,6 David Mumford3
Hans Munthe-Kaas6 Michael Ng5
Erich Novak6 Andrew Odlyzko1
Peter Olver1 Mike Overton4
Dominique Picard6 Allan Pinkus6
Rolf Rannacher1 Ed Saff1,5
Gil Strang3 Andrew Stuart4
Benar Fux Svaiter2 Nick Trefethen3
Martin Tygel2 Shmuel Winograd1
Jorge Zubelli2