International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics

The International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics (ISIMM) is an association of professional mathematicians and mechanicians dedicated to promote the beneficial influence of each of these disciplines on the other. ISIMM organizes regular meetings and launches publications both as proceedings and as separate textbooks or monographs. Membership is subjected to a recommendation by three members of ISIMM.

International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics (ISIMM)
Formation1977
President
Giuseppe Saccomandi
Websitehttp://isimm.unipg.it/

History and concept in brief

ISIMM was founded in 1977 in Kozubnik in Southern Poland. Historically, there had been a planning period before that time which had culminated in a meeting in Lecce, Apulia, Italy two years earlier. That meeting was organized by Gaetano Fichera along with some of his colleagues from Rome and with Polish colleagues. At that time the Cold War was still on for scientists from different sides of the iron curtain it was not altogether easy to meet; Russian scientists, in particular, found it difficult to obtain a passport for going to a western country; but less so, if they were invited by a scientific society. Hence the idea of ISIMM came naturally, a society with an impressive constitution and with the backing of a truly international group of scientists from all over the world, even though the European element was predominant.[1]

It its early years, the Society represented a European counterpart of The Society for Natural Philosophy founded in 1963 by Clifford Truesdell. ISIMM is presently a member of IUTAM [2] (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics). According to its constitution, the Society seeks also cooperation with other existing international organizations such as IMU[3] (International Mathematical Union), the SIAM[4] (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), or the ICIAM[5] (International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) which includes also some other learned societies as GAMM[6] (Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik), IMA[7] (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications), or SMAI[8] (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles).

Representatives

Over the years the officers of the Society – president, vice president, secretary – were:

  • W. Nowacki / T. Brook Benjamin / H. Zorski (1978-1982)
  • W. Fiszdon / G. Capriz / C. Dafermos (1983-1986)
  • E. Kröner / G.I. Barenblatt / W. Wendland (1987-1991)
  • R.J. Knops / E. Kröner / Parker (1992-1995)
  • G. Capriz / R.J. Knops / C. Trimarco (1996-2000)
  • I. Müller / G. Capriz / K. Wilmanski (2001-2004)
  • M. Pitteri / I. Müller / A. Montanaro (2005-2008)
  • L. Truskinovsky / M. Pitteri / D. Bigoni (2009-2012)
  • A. Visintin [9] / L. Truskinovsky / U. Stefanelli (2013-2016)
  • G. Saccomandi [10] / A. Visintin / G. Tomassetti (2017-2020)

Meetings

ISIMM organizes regularly bi-annual meetings. The meetings are called STAMM, Symposia on Trends in Application of Mathematics to Mechanics. A list of the Symposia follows together with the names of the organizers, or the main organizer, in brackets:

  • Lecce 1975 (G. Fichera)
  • Kozubnik 1977 (H. Zorski)
  • Edinburgh 1979 (R.J. Knops)
  • Bratislava 1981 (J. Brilla)
  • Palaiseau near Paris 1983 (Ph. Ciarlet)
  • Bad Honnef 1985 (E. Kröner, K. Kirchgässner)
  • Wassenaar, near The Hague 1987 (J.F. Besseling, W. Eckhaus)
  • Hollabrunn near Wien 1989 (F. Ziegler)
  • Tbilisi 1991 (T. Vashakmadse) - eventually cancelled due to a civil war
  • Warszawa 1996 (H. Zorski)
  • Nizza 1998 (G. Iooss, O. Gues, A. Nouri)
  • Galway 2000 (M.A. Hayes)
  • Maiori near Napoli 2002 (A. Romano)
  • Seeheim-Jugenheim near Darmstadt 2004 (K. Hutter)
  • Wien 2006 (W. Schneider)
  • Levico near Trento 2008 (A. Visintin)
  • Schmöckwitz near Berlin 2010 (W.H. Müller, A. Mielke)
  • Haifa 2012 (D. Durban)
  • Poitiers 2014 (A. Miranville)
  • Roma 2016 (E. Rocca, U. Stefanelli, L. Truskinovski, A. Visintin)
  • Oxford 2018 (A. Goriely, F. Della Porta, C.-S. Man, R. Paroni, T. Pence, G. Saccomandi, A. Schlömerkemper, G. Tomassetti)

Publications

A great part of the STAMM meetings gave rise to proceedings volumes:

  • G. Fichera (Ed.) Trends in applications of pure mathematics to mechanics, Pitman, 1976 ISBN 9780273001294
  • P.G. Ciarlet, M. Roseau (Eds.) Trends and Applications of Pure Mathematics to Mechanics, Lecture Notes in Physics , Springer, 1984 ISBN 978-3-540-12916-5
  • E. Kröner, K. Kirchgässner (Eds.) Trends in Applications of Pure Mathematics to Mechanics, Lecture Notes in Physics 249, Springer, 1986 ISBN 978-3-540-16467-8 (Print) 978-3-540-39803-5 (Online)
  • J.F. Besseling, W. Eckhaus (Eds.) Trends in Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics, Springer, 1988 ISBN 978-3-642-73933-0
  • J.F. Rodrigues, M.M. Marques (Eds.) Trends in Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics, Chapman and Hall/CRC, 1995 ISBN 0582248744, ISBN 978-0582248748
  • G. Iooss, O. Gues, A. Nouri (Eds.) Trends in Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2000 ISBN 1-58488-035-X
  • P.-E. O'donoghue, J.-N. Flavin (Eds.) Symposium on Trends in the Application of Mathematics to Mechanics (STAMM 2000), Elsevier ISBN 978-2842992453
  • S. Rionero, G. Romano (Eds.) Trends in Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics (STAMM 2002), Springer, 2005 ISBN 978-88-470-0354-5
  • Special issue: Symposium on trends in applications of mathematics to mechanics (STAMM 2008), Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics , 2009, Volume 21, Issue 2, DOI: 10.1007/s00161-009-0110-8
  • E. Rocca, U. Stefanelli, L. Truskinovsky, A. Visintin (Eds.) Trends in Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics, Springer INdAM Series 27, 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-75939-5 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75940-1

Apart from this, a book series IMM[11] by Springer[12] is conducted by this society.

Prizes

Since the 2010 STAMM Meeting, the award is given once in two years at the regular STAMM conferences. The recipient of the prize is expected to have made exceptional contributions towards building a link between Mathematics and Mechanics:

Apart of this, also the ISIMM Junior Prize has been established. The awardees are:

  • 2014: Elisabetta Rocca and Stefan Neukamm (co-awarded).
  • 2016: Antonio Segatti
  • 2018: Matthias Liero

References
  1. Müller, Ingo. ISIMM: Past and Present, Retrieved on 2 November 2016
  2. International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
  3. "Home - International Mathematical Union (IMU)". www.mathunion.org.
  4. "SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics". www.siam.org.
  5. "ICIAM The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics". iciam.org.
  6. e.V., GAMM. "GAMM e.V. - Start". www.gamm-ev.de.
  7. "IMA - The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications". IMA.
  8. "Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielle". January 30, 2019.
  9. "Augusto VISINTIN - Home Page". www.science.unitn.it.
  10. "Giuseppe Saccomandi - Home Page". www.unipg.it.
  11. Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics Series (IMM) (ISSN: 1860-6245, edited by Lev Truskinovski)
  12. "Springer - International Publisher Science, Technology, Medicine". www.springer.com.
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