Minutes of the Second Meeting of the 6th Council of the Society for Computational Mathematics

The second meeting of the 6th Council of the Computational Mathematics Society of the Chinese Mathematical Society was held on October 20, 2003, at Nanjing Normal University. The meeting was chaired by Academician Zhongci Shi, Chairman of the Computational Mathematics Society, and was attended by fifty council members from all over the country (including Hong Kong and Macau).

The council members had a spirited discussion about the work of the Computational Mathematics Society, the current state and development of computational mathematics in China, and planned the near-term work of the society. The meeting preliminarily decided on the following tasks to be undertaken in the near term:

 In early August 2004, to jointly hold the National Seminar on Modern Scientific Computing and the National Young Computational Mathematicians Academic Exchange Meeting with the Computational Mathematics Society of the Northwest Region in Xinjiang.

 To plan a training class for teachers of Information and Computational Science, hosted by Tsinghua University (in collaboration with the Teaching Research Working Committee of the Computational Mathematics Society) in the summer of 2004. This will involve training and discussions on teaching professional courses in conjunction with a new batch of textbooks.

 To propose holding the University Computational Mathematics Annual Conference and Information and Computational Science Teaching Seminar in 2005. The 6th Feng Kang Prize for Scientific Computing will be awarded at the conference, along with organizing a young scholars' paper competition and various specialized seminars.

 To hold a joint academic exchange meeting with the Computational Physics Society at an appropriate time to promote mutual exchanges between experts and young students engaged in computational mathematics theory research and practical scientific computing, and to promote the development of computational mathematics towards broader fields of scientific computing applications.

 To plan the establishment of a University Working Committee to organize and coordinate various activities of the computational mathematics specialty in universities nationwide.

The council members also had extensive and in-depth discussions on the development of the computational mathematics discipline, exchanges among computational mathematics workers, manuscript organization and distribution of "Communications in Computational Mathematics," training of young students, curriculum setting for the computational mathematics major, and the publication of related textbooks and monographs. The council meeting also collected the 2003 group membership dues from the member institutions of the society.