Message from the Editor-in-Chief

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Dear SIIMS Reader, It is a great pleasure and privilege to welcome you to the first issue of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. This journal, with the help of its editorial board, contributors, readers, and SIAM staff, follows the outstanding tradition of high-quality SIAM journals and will become a leading journal in the broad aspects of fundamental imaging sciences. The journal began accepting submissions in April of 2007. By the end of February 2008, SIIMS had received 88 manuscripts submitted for publication. Of these, you will find the first six accepted papers in this first all-electronic issue. Additional papers have been accepted recently and will appear in subsequent issues. The papers in this issue provide a representative glance of the diversity of topics covered by the journal, something clearly observable from the outstanding editorial board itself. A number of papers currently in the pipeline and to be published in future issues further stress the broad vision of the journal. SIIMS came to light thanks to the tremendous effort of numerous people, and I want to publicly thank them. Prof. Tony Chan worked very hard with SIAM to define this new journal. The whole SIAM staff is superb, and without them my life as editor-in-chief would be impossible. In particular, Mitch Chernoff and Cherie Trebisky have been a critical source of support. The current editorial board has been very supportive and worked very hard to guarantee timely and high-quality reviews. The whole cycle of reviewing and production has been extraordinarily fast on average; some of the papers in this issue were submitted just a few short months ago, and some in this issue were accepted less than two months ago. I appreciate very much the support of all the people involved with this journal and their hard work in making this possible. Please enjoy your reading, and we look forward to your high-quality submissions in the future.