Numerics and Analysis SIG

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+# Application form for starting/continuing a SIG
+
+## What is/will be the name of the SIG?
+
+Numerics and Analysis
+
+## Which person will act as SIG Lead?
+
+- Artur Palha: [email protected] (1-1-2023 to 30-6-2023)
+- Johan Hidding: [email protected] (1-7-2023 to 31-12-2023)
+
+## What is SIG’s mission?
+
+To contribute to the internal development of knowledge on applied mathematics topics, both analytical and numerical, at the Netherlands eScience Center. More specifically, the SIG aims to:
+
+- Provide introductory talks on key topics in applied mathematics, with a focus on analysis and numerics, _e.g._, numerical time integrators, discretisations of partial differential equations, linear algebra, statistics, analysis, geometry.
+- Provide a link between applied mathematical theory and software package implementations.
+- Provide a meeting point for members to bring their own applied math problem to be discussed.
+
+## What is the GitHub repository of the SIG use?
+
+https://github.com/nlesc-sigs/analytics-sig
+
+## What is the Office group that the SIG uses?
+
+- Outlook address: [email protected]
+- Team channel: [link](https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3aa11e3f83467d4865a8f6ec20ec2b01cf%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=fc37e009-9e3b-44bb-a013-aa5f1cd9cedb&tenantId=aa3aeacc-6307-42b2-ac05-787dd5c32574)
+
+## SIG outcomes of the past year (for existing SIGs)
+
+All details are available in our [public repo](https://github.com/nlesc-sigs/analytics-sig).
+### Seminars
+
+- Pattern formation, by Frits Veerman.
+- Neural networks back propagation (joint session with the Machine Learning SIG).
+
+### Study groups
+
+- Three study group sessions.
+
+### Other
+
+- Some of us attended the [Nederlands Matematisch Congres](https://mathematischcongres.nl/).
+- One brainstorm session about making SIGs websites public.
+- Two more strategy meetings.
+- Already secured some external speakers for this year.
+
+## Plans for the coming year
+
+### General organization of SIG
+
+The SIG meets twice per month. The first session of the month is an open discussion session, where the participants can bring their own problems or request a topic to study/analyze.
+
+### Open discussion sessions
+
+Currently we have 6 open discussion sessions planned. The topics to address cannot be planned in advance. The participants will bring their own topics to address.
+
+### Talk sessions
+
+- **Causal inference for data-driven science**: [2nd of March] *Jakob Runge*, DLR, TU Berlin.
+- **Flowmaps on map projections**: [20th of April] *Paulo Raposo*, University of Twente.
+- **Geometric time integrators**: [25th of May] *Michael Kraus*, Numerical methods group, Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
+- **An introduction to B-Splines**: [to determine] *Deepesh Toshniwal*, DIAM, TUDelft.
+
+## What are the expected outputs of the SIG?
+
+### Open discussion sessions
+
+- Promote internal transfer of knowledge.
+- Promote the discussion and interaction within the center for applied math and numerical analysis topics.
+
+### Talk sessions
+
+- Increased expertise within the center for applied math and numerical analysis.
+- Increased visibility of the center within the applied math and numerical analysis community.
+- Knowledge transfer from external participants to the center.