Du Appointed to Committee on Science Policy

Qiang Du, the Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics and an affiliated faculty member of the Data Science Institute, has been appointed to the SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Committee on Science Policy.

The Committee serves to assist SIAM in their efforts to "provide timely information to its membership regarding science policy and funding" and to provide "information to policy makers regarding issues of interest to its members when SIAM member's expertise offers something to contribute to the discussions. SIAM maintains links with several organizations whose role is to coordinate science policy or to advocate for science funding. Among those organizations are the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) and the Computing Research Association (CRA)." (Originally published on siam.org)