Bernard Deconinck (President), Malgorzata Peszynska (Vice President), Leming Qu (Treasurer) and myself (Secretary) have started a new SIAM section for the Pacific Northwest region (SIAMPNWS)! The aim of the section is to bring together communities in the Pacific Northwest that are active in industrial and applied mathematics. If you are in the Pacific Northwest and would like to be involved, please drop us a line.