NA Digest Friday, Auguest 24, 2001 Volume 01 : Issue 31

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The MathWorks, Inc.
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From: Zhong-ci Shi <shi@lsec.cc.ac.cn>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:13:54 +0800
Subject: Feng Kang Prize

The Fourth Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing will be honored to
Dr Zhimin CHEN, The Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China and Dr. Shi JIN, University of Wisconsin at
Madison, USA for their significant contributions in Numerical PDE's and
Scientific Computing.

Professor Zhong-ci SHI
Chairman of
The Feng Kang Prize Committee of Scientific Computing
Beijing, August 14, 2001


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From: Rolf Stenberg <rolf.stenberg@hut.fi>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:54:01 +0300
Subject: Change of Address for Rolf Stenberg

As of September 1, 2001 my address will be the following

Rolf Stenberg
Institute of Mathematics
Helsinki University of Technology
P.O. Box 1100
FIN-02015 HUT
Finland
rolf.stenberg@hut.fi
+3589-45155776


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From: Are Magnus Bruaset <amb@nobjects.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:43:12 +0200
Subject: Web Portal for PDE-related Sites

Numerical Objects is pleased to announce the first release of its PDE
Portal at

http://www.pdeportal.com

This is a searchable and categorized index to several hundreds of high
quality web sites focusing on technologies for partial differential equations.
We hope that this complimentary service will become a valuable tool for the
PDE community, and we invite you to check it out.

In order to continuously improve the contents of the PDE Portal, we
encourage your submissions for non-listed PDE sites that might of
general interest to the public. Procedures for submission is available
at www.pdeportal.com.

Best regards

Are Magnus Bruaset
Numerical Objects AS


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From: Pierre Gremaud <gremaud@eos.ncsu.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:33:55 -0400
Subject: Southeast Conference on Applied Mathematics

SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS
North Carolina State University
November 9-11, 2001

Objective:
The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for established and
young applied mathematicians in the Southeast and to foster a strong
collaboration link among industry, governmental laboratories, and academia.

The focus of the conference will be on four timely themes:
* Mathematical Methods for Multiscale Problems
* Industrial Mathematics
* Mathematical and Computational Biology
* Material Science

Partial List of Invited Speakers:
T. Arbogast (University of Texas, Austin)
S. Antman (University of Maryland)
H.T. Banks (North Carolina State University)
A. Bertozzi (Duke University)
R. Braun (University of Delaware)
S. Brenner (University of South Carolina)
J. Burns (Virginia Polytechnic Institute)
P. Cook (University of Delaware)
D.P. Giddens (Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University)
M. Haider (North Carolina State University)
M. Holst (University of California, San Diego)
O. Karakashian (University of Tennessee)
J. Kimbell (CIIT Centers for Health Research)
G. Kriegsmann (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
B. Li (University of Maryland)
Z. Li (North Carolina State University)
M. Mackey (McGill University)
N. Medhin (Clark-Atlanta University)
R. Nochetto (University of Maryland)
H. Othmer (University of Minnesota)
C. Portier (NIEHS)
L. Piscitelle (U.S. Army SSCOM)
R. Scott (University of Chicago)
D. Schaeffer (Duke University)
G. Webb (Vanderbilt University)

Call for Papers:
Titles and abstracts (not to exceed 200 words) of contributed papers
must be received by September 28, 2001. The abstracts should be sent by
mail/e-mail to:

P.A. Gremaud
Department of Mathematics and
Center for Research in Scientific Computation
Box 8205
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8205
Tel. 919-515-3085
Fax 919-515-3798
e-mail: gremaud@math.ncsu.edu <mailto:gremaud@math.ncsu.edu>

Organizing Committee:
D. Estep (Colorado State University)
P.A. Gremaud (North Carolina State University)
J. Pelesko (Georgia Institute of Technology)
H.T. Tran (North Carolina State University)

Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation
Army Research Office
NIEHS
College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (NCSU)
Center for Research in Scientific Computation (NCSU)
Department of Mathematics (NCSU)

Support:
Financial support is available for recent PhDs and graduate students,
who are strongly encouraged to submit contributed papers.

Conference Website:
http://www.ncsu.edu/crsc/events/Southeast/


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From: Jose Castillo <castillo@myth.sdsu.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:43:48 -0700
Subject: Pan-American Workshop in Applied and Computational Mathematics

The IV Pan-American Workshop in Applied and Computational Mathematics
will be held in Cordoba, Argentina July 1-5 2002. Please look at our
web page for information and submission.
www.sci.sdsu.edu/compsci/Cordoba/panam_index.htm

Professor Jose E. Castillo, Director
Computational Science Research Center
www.sci.sdsu.edu/compsci/
San Diego State University
San Diego California 92182-7720
Phone (619)-594-7205 Fax (619)594-6746
URL http://rohan.sdsu.edu/~castillo


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From: Esko Jarvinen <ejarvine@csc.fi>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:58:33 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Symposium in Helsinki on Cardiovascular Hemodynamics

Ragnar Granit Institute at Tampere University of Technology and
CSC - Scientific Computing in co-operation with Finnish society for
Medical Physics and Medical Engineering are organizing the Symposium

"Cardiovascular Hemodynamics from Modeling to Clinical Applications"

in September 13-14, 2001, Helsinki, Finland.

The goal of the symposium is to bring together clinicians, modelers, and
persons working in medical imaging. The emphasis is on the present and
emerging clinical applications of modeling and on new possibilities for
measuring cardiovascular functions.

Virtual surgery and virtual patient are emerging tools formed by recent
development in medical imaging, measurement of physiological signals and
computational modeling. New modalities in magnetic resonance and ultrasound
imaging provide fundamental information on the anatomy and dynamics of the
cardiovascular system. These are the key elements in constructing models of
this complex system. The new possibilities to model blood flow and the
hemodynamic control system provide novel clinical information by combining
the measured data, physical phenomena and computational tools. These tools
help to develop better measurement methods of the key cardiovascular
functions such as the cardiac output.

More information about this symposium is available from the web-side

http://www.tut.fi/rgi/symposia/


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From: Zhangxin Chen <zchen@post.cis.smu.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:08:54 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Beijing Satellite Conference on Scientific Computing

Announcement and Call for Papers and Organizing Minisymposia

ICM2002-Beijing Satellite Conference on
Scientific Computing
Aug. 15--18, 2002
Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
http://www2.smu.edu/math/CSC/shouye.htm

Sponsors:
* State Ministry of Education
* National Natural Science Foundation of China
* The Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Project
"Large Scale Scientific Computation Research"
* Xi'an Jiaotong University
* US Army Research Office
* US Army Research Office-Far East

Conference Chair:
Jianghua Wang, Vice President of Xi'an Jiaotong University

Advisory Committee:
L.A. Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin, USA
P.G. Ciarlet, University of Paris VI, France
D.Q. Li, Fudan University, China
Q. Lin, Academia Sinica, China
Z. Shi, Academia Sinica, China

Scientific Committee:
J. Douglas, Jr., Purdue University, USA
Q. Du, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
R. Glowinski (Chair), University of Houston, USA
M. Gunzburger, Iowa State University, USA
R. Lazarov, Texas A&M University, USA
J.T. Oden, TICAM, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
M. Okamoto, Kyoto University, Japan
R. Rannacher, Heideburg University, Germany
D. Reinelt, Southern Methodist University, USA
R. Teman, Indiana University-Bloomington, USA
& University of Paris XI, France
L. Wang, University of Iowa, USA
Julian Wu, US Army Research Office, USA
Z. Xu, Xi'an Jiaotong University

Organizing Committee:
Yungang Chen, Kokkaido Tokai University, Japan
Zhangxin Chen (Co-Chair), Southern Methodist University, USA
Aixiang Huang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Kaitai Li (Chair), Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Yi Li, University of Iowa, USA
Weiwei Sun, City University of Hong Kong, China
Wenlin Zhang, Department of Mathematical and Physical
Sciences, NSFC, China
Wu Zhang, Xi'an Jiang University, China
Jun Zou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Invited Speakers:
Todd Arbogast, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Douglas Arnold, University of Minnesota, USA
Zhangxin Chen, Southern Methodist University, USA
Zhiming Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
P.G. Ciarlet, University Paris VI, France
P. Constantin, University of Chicago, USA
C. Douglas, University of Kentucky, USA
J. Douglas, Jr., Purdue University, USA
Q. Du, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Weinan E., Princeton University, USA
R. Ewing, Texas A&M University, USA
I. Gamba, University of Texas at Austin, USA
M. Gunzburger, Iowa State University, USA
J. Jaffre, INRIA-Rocquencourt, France
Y.A. Kuznetsov, University of Houston, USA
M. Luskin, University of Minnesota, USA
S. Lyons, ExxonMobil, USA
M. Nakamura, Nichon University, Japan
M. Okamoto, Kyoto University, Japan
S. Osher, UCLA, USA
R. Rannacher, Heidelburg, Germany
Chiwang Shu, Brown University, USA
E. Titi, University of California at Irvine, USA
U. Trottenberg, GMD, Germany
Xiaoming Wang, Iowa State University, USA
M.F. Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Zouping Xin, Courant Institute & CUHK, Hong Kong
Jinchao Xu, Penn State University, USA
Pingwen Zhang, Peking University, China
Wu Zhang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Invited Minisymposia:
Adaptive Finite Elements (Peter Moore)
Multigrid Methods (Craig Douglas)
Nonconforming Finite Element Methods (Dongwoo Sheen)
Numerical Simulations of Fluid Flows in
Porous Media (Jerome Jaffre)
Numerical Solutions of PDEs (Todd Arbogast and Zhangxin Chen)
Parallel Methods for Parabolic and Hyperbolic Problems
via Fourier-Laplace Transformation (Dongwoo Sheen)
Reservoir Simulations (Steve Lyons)

Local Organization Committee:
Yinian He, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Yaren Hou (Secretary), Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Zhixing Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Yichen Ma, Xi'an Jiang University, China
Jianzhong Sheng, Xian Jiaotong university, China

Conference Themes:
(1) Numerical ODEs
(2) Numerical PDEs
(3) Numerical integral equations
(4) Finite element methods
(5) Finite difference methods
(6) Finite volume methods
(7) Boundary element methods
(8) Monte Carlo methods
(9) Numerical linear algebra
(10) Parallel computing
(11) Multigrid and domain decomposition methods
(12) Scientific computing for physical problems
(13) Computational fluid dynamics
(14) Mathematical modeling
(15) Numerical simulation
(16) Engineering applications
(17) Computer visualization
(18) Industrial applications


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From: Chi-Wang Shu <shu@cfm.brown.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:50:05 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Conference at UCLA Honoring Stanley Osher

First Announcement
International Conference on Scientific Computing,
Partial Differential Equations and Image Processing
On the Occasion of Stanley Osher's 60th Birthday
April 5-7, 2002, UCLA

There have been very rapid developments of efficient algorithms
on scientific computing and related investigations of mathematical issues
of partial differential equations and image processing over
the past decade. As a result, many problems in diverse application
fields such as fluid dynamics, material science, image processing,
computer vision, and computer graphics in the entertainment industry can
now be routinely simulated to high resolution. Stanley Osher has been in
the forefront of many of these developments, and has published many
influential original works on high resolution shock capturing schemes, level
set method, applications to multi-phase flows, computer vision, TV based
image restoration, just to name a few areas.

On the occasion of the 60th birthday of Stanley Osher, the
International Conference on Scientific Computing, Partial Differential
Equations and Image Processing will be held at UCLA on April 5-7, 2002,
to commemorate his achievement. The main purpose of this conference
will go far beyond a birthday celebration, rather it will
review recent developments and explore exciting new directions
in scientific computing and partial differential equations for time
dependent problems and its interaction with other fields such
as image processing, computer vision and graphics.
An emphasis of this conference, which hopefully will set it to be
different from others, is the strong interaction of
significant mathematics with advanced algorithms applicable to
real world applications. It is very natural for this conference to
be held at UCLA as this seems to be the tradition and strong spirit
of both the UCLA mathematics department and the new Institute for
Pure and Applied Mathematics.

The conference committee consists of Russel Caflisch, Weinan E,
Bjorn Engquist (chair), David Gottlieb, Mohamed Hafez, Guillermo Sapiro,
Chi-Wang Shu and Hongkai Zhao. Tentative list of invited speakers
include:

Yann Brenier, Mathematics, Paris 6 University, France.
Ronald Coifman, Mathematics, Yale University.
David Donoho, Statistics, Stanford University.
Bjorn Engquist, Mathematics, UCLA.
Roland Glowinski, Mathematics, University of Houston.
Daniel Joseph, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota.
Heinz Kreiss, Mathematics, UCLA.
Peter Lax, Mathematics, Courant Institute.
Tai-Ping Liu, Mathematics, Stanford University.
Andrew Majda, Mathematics, Courant Institute.
Cathleen Morawetz, Mathematics, Courant Institute.
David Mumford, Applied Mathematics, Brown University.
Philip Roe, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan.
Guillermo Sapiro, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Minnesota.
Takis Souganidis, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin.
Shing-Tung Yau, Mathematics, Harvard University.

Partial support for young scientists and graduate students to attend
the conference is expected to be available pending outside funding.
The conference web site is at: http://www.math.ucla.edu/ofest/
Those who are interested to attend the conference may send e-mail to
ofest@math.ucla.edu, to be put on an e-mail list for further details when
they become available.


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From: Esmond G Ng <EGNg@lbl.gov>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 00:15:05 -0700
Subject: Workshop in Toronto on Numerical Linear Algebra

WORKSHOP ON NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA IN
SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS

FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 2, 2001

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences
(http://www.fields.utoronto.ca) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
will host a special program entitled "Numerical and Computational
Challenges in Science and Engineering"
(http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/01-02/numerical/)
from August 2001 to August 2002. One of the research areas
emphasized in the Fall of 2001 will be numerical linear algebra, and
this period will include a Workshop on Numerical Linear Algebra in
Scientific and Engineering Applications (http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/
programs/scientific/01-02/numerical/linear_algebra/).

The goal of the week-long workshop is to bring together computational
scientists and researchers in numerical linear algebra to foster
interaction and collaboration between the two communities. The
workshop will highlight not only numerical linear algebra problems
arising from computational science problems, but it will also present
recent developments in the area of numerical linear algebra. The
computational science areas will include, but are not limited to,
biocomputing, computational chemistry, computational finance,
computational physics, image and signal processing, and information
retrieval.

The workshop will include both invited presentations and contributed
papers. It will also feature one of the Fields Institute Coxeter
Lecture Series, which will consist of three lectures to be delivered
by Professor Gene H. Golub of Stanford University.

This workshop is sponsored by SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra.

Organizers:

Gene H. Golub, Stanford University
Esmond G. Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Advisory Committee:

Zhaojun Bai, University of California, Davis
Tony Chan, University of California, Los Angeles
Alan Edelman, MIT
Sabine Van Huffel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
James Varah, University of British Columbia

Invited Presentations:

A tentative list of invited speakers include

Mark Baertschy, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Solution of a three-body problem in quantum
mechanics using sparse linear algebra on parallel
computers"

Peter Forsyth, University of Waterloo
"Penalty methods for American options"

Francois Gygi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
TBA

Eldad Hebber, University of British Columbia
"On the solution of KKT systems which rise in
distributed parameter estimation problems"

Marko Huhtanen, Stanford University
"On generating discrete orthogonal bivariate
polynomials"

Lieven De Lathauwer, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France
"Independent component analysis and multilinear algebra"

Philippe Lemmerling, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
"Fast algorithms for structured total least squares in
speech compression"

Jim Nagy, Emory University
"Kronecker products in image restoration"

Olavi Nevanlinna, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
TBA

Haesun Park, University of Minnesota
"Cluster structure preserving dimension reduction based
on the generalized singular value decomposition"

John Reid, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
"Frontal and multifrontal codes in HSL 2000 for direct
solution of large sparse sets of linear equations"

Jianbo Shi, Carnegie Mellon University
TBA

Baba Vermuri, University of Florida
"Regularized fiber tract mapping from diffusion tensor
images"

Jacob White, MIT
TBA

Chao Yang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Computational challenges in electron microscopy of
macromolecules"

Contributed Papers:

DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS: SEPTEMBER 15, 2001

Several contributed sessions are planned. The deadline for
submitting abstracts for contributed papers has been extended to
September 15, 2001. Submissions will be reviewed on the basis
of quality and relevance to the conference theme. The authors
will be notified whether their abstracts are accepted by the
end of September 2001.

Abstracts (postscript only please) should be sent via email to
EGNg@lbl.gov. The length of the abstract should not exceed 2 pages.

When submitting via email, please indicate "Fields Linear Algebra
Workshop Contributed Paper Abstract" in the subject line.

Registration, Accommodation, and Local Arrangements:

Please refer to the web site at
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/01-02/
numerical/linear_algebra/


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From: Zdenek Strakos <strakos@cs.cas.cz>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:58:31 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Conference in Czech Republic on Computational Linear Algebra

Computational Linear Algebra with Applications
(Milovy 2002),
August 4-10, 2002, Milovy, Czech Republic

As announced earlier (Na Digest 50(2000), December 10), following
the successful meeting on Iterative Methods and Parallel Computing
in 1997 (http://www.cs.cas.cz/~milovy/main97.htm) we will organize
from August 4th to 10th, 2002 the second Milovy meeting (Milovy 2002).

Location:

The meeting will be held at the Devet Skal Hotel (literally "Nine
Rocks"; http://www.cs.cas.cz/~milovy/hotel00.htm) in Milovy,
a small village located in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands about
100 kilometers (65 miles) from Prague. A bus from Prague to Milovy
will be arranged on August 4 (leaving at 4 p.m.), and from Milovy
to Prague on August 10; scheduled arrival to Prague at 2 p.m.

Scientific Program:

The meeting will concentrate on computational methods, namely on
methods of numerical linear algebra, their (parallel) imple-
mentations and applications. Based on the contributions, we plan
to structure the program into subthemes like, e.g., matrix theory
and its applications, sparse direct solvers, iterative methods for
linear systems, preconditioning techniques, large-scale eigen-
problems, inverse problems and regularization. Special attention
will be paid to application areas not restricted to PDE's,
control, optimization or image processing. We will keep the format of
the program similar to the Milovy 1997 meeting, with periods of free
time in the afternoons for unstructured discussions. The scientific
program is planned for full 5 days (Monday through Friday), with
a free Wednesday afternoon reserved for an excursion.

The program committee and the local organization:

Mario Arioli (RAL, UK),
Michele Benzi (Emory University, USA),
Iain Duff (RAL, UK),
Michael Eiermann (TU Freiberg, Germany),
Roland Freund (Lucent Technologies, USA),
Anne Greenbaum (University of Washington, USA),
Martin Gutknecht (ETH, Switzerland),
Ivo Marek (Charles University and Czech TU, Czech Republic),
Volker Mehrmann (TU Berlin, Germany),
Gerard Meurant (CEA, France),
Jim Nagy (Emory University, USA),
Zdenek Strakos (ICS AS, Czech Republic),
Daniel Szyld (Temple University, USA),
Henk van der Vorst (Utrecht University, The Netherlands),
Olof Widlund (Courant Institute, USA).
Mirek Tuma and Miro Rozloznik (both ICS AS) will be in charge of
the local organization.

Registration and submission of abstracts:

The registration form can be found on the conference web page
http://www.cs.cas.cz/~milovy
It can be sent to us via e-mail, regular mail or by fax.
We would appreciate if you could send us the registration form
soon. The meeting facility holds up to 150 people. Therefore,
early registration is recommended. The deadline for submitting
an abstract is January 15, 2002. All participants will be notified
about the acceptance of their contributions by February 15, 2002.
Conference proceedings will be published as a special issue of BIT.
All submitted papers will be subject to standard refereeing proce-
dures. The submission deadline will be November 30, 2002.


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From: Wolfgang Joppich <Wolfgang.Joppich@gmd.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:53:41 +0200
Subject: Multigrid Course at Fraunhofer Institute

MG-Course at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing
(formerly GMD-SCAI) -- Introduction to Standard Methods

A multigrid course will be given at SCAI from
Friday 16.11.2001 to Sunday 18.11.2001.

For more information contact joppich@gmd.de or look at the web pages
http://www.gmd.de via
Institutes, SCAI, events to the detailled information.
You may also view directly
http://www.gmd.de/SCAI/Mainpages/Events/MG_course/MG-course01.html

Wolfgang Joppich


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From: Chandrika Kamath <kamath@cliff.llnl.gov>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:32:20 -0700
Subject: Conference at UCLA on Scientific Data Mining

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
IPAM Short Program on
Mathematical Challenges in Scientific Data Mining
January 14-18, 2002
UCLA, California
http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/sdm2002

Building on the growing interest in the application of data mining to
science and engineering data, we are organizing a week long short-program
at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA during
January 14-18, 2002. Further details are available at the web site,
including a preliminary list of invited speakers.

Scientific Committee:
Chandrika Kamath (CASC, LLNL)
Padhraic Smyth (CS, UC Irvine)
B.S. Manjunath (ECE, UC Santa Barbara)
Ananth Grama (CS, Purdue)

Contributed Presentations:
Contributed presentations (talks and posters) are invited for original work
related to the theme of the short program as outlined on the web
page. Submissions that are not related to mathematical challenges in the
mining of science and engineering data will not be considered. Submissions
are to be in the form of an extended abstract, consisting of not more than
1 page (not including references). Students and recent Ph.D.'s are strongly
encouraged to apply.

Extended abstracts will be accepted in plain text only (no postscript or
pdf). They should be mailed to kamath2@llnl.gov. The deadline for
extended abstracts is August 31, 2001. Notification of acceptance will be
sent out on October 1, 2001.


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From: Bao Weizhu <bao@cz3.nus.edu.sg>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:34:37 +0800 (SST)
Subject: Faculty Position at National University of Singapore

Head and Faculty Position

National University of Singapore (NUS) invites applications for the Head
of the Department and full-time tenure track faculty positions at all
levels in the Department of Computational Science. The Department of
Computational Science is one of the few departments worldwide that offers
an interdisciplinary programme leading to an undergraduate degree awarded
in computational science. Current active research areas in the Department
include nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, computational condensed
matter physics, computational quantum chemistry and molecular modeling,
computational biology and computer aided drug design, computational fluid
dynamics, wavelet analysis and applications, neural computing, and
optimization. NUS is a research active University comparable, according
to the Carnegie Classification of Research Institutions, to the top 88
"Research Universities I" in the US. Both the Department and the
University provide strong research support with some of the most extensive
and modern facilities available.

The Department is search for a head. He or she is expected to have
distinguished academic accomplishments, leadership qualities,
administrative abilities, and a broad understanding of the various
research areas in Computational Science.

Applications are also invited for faculty appointments in the following
areas:

Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
Computation Fluid Dynamics
Computational Electrodynamics
Complex Systems
Computational Chemistry
Computational Materials Science
Numerical Analysis/Scientific Computing/Parallel Computation
Geometric Modeling and Scientific Visualization

We especially want to attract applicants doing research in Computational
Biology/Bioinformatics, although we will consider applications in any of
the above areas. Successful candidates are expected to teach
undergraduate and graduate courses, supervise master and doctoral
students, establish strong research programmes that generate external
funding and intellectual output, typical of that of a world-class
university, and perform some amount of administrative work. Besides
appointments on normal 3-year contracts, visiting appointments for one or
two years may also be considered. Salary would be commensurate with
qualifications and ample benefits will be provided.

Outstanding individuals with strong commitment to teaching, research, and
administration are encouraged to send their applications supported by a
curriculum vita, research plan, and three letters of recommendation to:

Faculty Search Committee
Department of Computational Science
S17 Level 7
National University of Singapore
3 Science Drive 2
Singapore 117543
Facsimile: (+65) 774 6756
E-mail: cschead@nus.edu.sg

Visit our web-site at http://www.nus.edu.sg/NUSinfo/Appoint/sci-dcs.htm
for links to information on the Department, the University, terms and
conditions of service, and the application form.

Closing date for submission: 15 December 2001

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.


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From: Julie Mitchell <mitchell@sdsc.edu>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 11:35:27 -0700
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at the San Diego Supercomputer Center

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION at the San Diego Supercomputer Center

DESCRIPTION

A postdoc is needed to develop methods for multivariate nondifferentiable
optimization. The intended application is to problems in biochemistry,
specifically the prediction of protein-protein interactions. The preferred
candidate will have significant knowledge of numerical analysis, particularly
optimization, along with good programming skills. Also desirable are
advanced mathematical skills in differential geometry and partial
differential equations. Some education in chemistry, biology and
physics is
helpful but not absolutely essential.

This is a purely research position, with no associated teaching duties. The
initial term of appointment is one year, with the possibility of renewal for
a second and third year. Benefits include health insurance and a generous
vacation allowance.

INFORMATION

The position is available immediately and will remain open until filled.
Interested parties should send a cv and a brief cover letter. Be sure to
include the names and contact information for three
professors/scientists
familiar with your work.

Please forward application materials to:

Julie C. Mitchell
San Diego Supercomputer Center
U.C. San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr., MC0527
La Jolla, CA 92093

Electronic submissions and/or questions may be sent to mitchell@sdsc.edu.
Applications from women and underrepresented minorities are encouraged.


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From: Abani Patra <abani@eng.buffalo.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:05:08 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at University of Buffalo

Post-doctoral scientist in Computational Geological Fluid Dynamics

The successful candidate must possess an excellent knowledge of
large-scale scientific computing, strong organizational abilities, and
familiarity with geoscience or non-Newtonian flow applications.This
NSF-supported position involves working with scientists from engineering,
mathematics, geology and geography, to develop and integrate large scale
simulations and visualization for geophysical mass flow and volcanic
hazard evaluation and mitigation. The position is available for terms of
one to three years. A competitive salary based on applicant qualifications
and experience will be offered. The successful candidate will collaborate
with scientists and work at University at Buffalo facilities including the
New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation
(www.nyscedii.buffalo.edu), the Center for Computational Research
(www.ccr.buffalo.edu) and the National Center for Geographic Information
and Analysis (www.geog.buffalo.edu/ncgia). Please send CV including list
of publications and names of 3 references to

Prof. A. Patra Prof. M. Sheridan
605 Furnas Hall 876 Natural Science
Dept. of Mech. and Aero. Eng. Or Dept. of Geology
University at Buffalo University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260 Buffalo, NY 14260
abani@eng.buffalo.edu mfs@geology.buffalo.edu

The University at Buffalo is an affirmative action/equal opportunity
institution, interested in hiring female and minorities.


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From: Wolfgang Joppich <Wolfgang.Joppich@gmd.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:07:37 +0200
Subject: Research Position at the Fraunhofer Institute

Research position at the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and
Scientific Computing, formerly GMD-SCAI -- Sankt Augustin, Germany

The project SACADA - Synoptic Analysis of Chemical Constituents from Satellite
Data with 4D-Data-Assimilation within the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms
and Scientific Computation offers a research position. The position is for
three years.

The project will deliver an efficient method for chemical data assimilation
which will be used operationally at the DLR in Oberpfaffenhoven.
Based on a global weather forecast program an higher order advection scheme
or a semi-Lagrangian scheme will be implemented. Special aspects of
parallelisation like width of the overlap-area have to be taken into account.
To improve the efficiency of the assimilation scheme the preconditioning method
has to be improved. Different approaches to reduce the size of co-variance
matrices have to be investigated.

Applicants should have finished computational meteorology or applied
mathematics with diploma or PhD, having experience in
partial differential equations, adjoint methods, preconditioning methods,
parallelization, numerical methods for general circulation models.

Experience in using parallel computers including PC-Cluster and MPI is desired.
Knowledge in UNIX or Linux and programming skills in Fortran or C are necessary.
Further information can be obtained from joppich@gmd.de


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From: P. P. Matus <matus@im.bas-net.by>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:42:12 +0300
Subject: Contents, Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics

Dear colleagues,

I would like to inform you about the appearance of the second issue
of COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS (Online) at our site
http://www.cmam.net

Vol. 1, No. 2, 2001.
During the first two years the journal CMAM will be
available at our home page.

1) Improved least-squares error estimates for scalar hyperbolic problems
P.B. Bochev and J. Choi, 115-124
2) The finite difference scheme for 3d mathematical modeling of a wood
drying process, R. Ciegis and V. Starikovicius, 125-137
3) Analysis of an algorithm for computing electromagnetic Bloch modes
using Nedelec spaces, D.C. Dobson and J.E. Pasciak, 138-153
4) Parameter-uniform fitted mesh method for quasilinear differential
equations with boundary layers, P.A. Farrell, E. O'Riordan, J.J.H.
Miller, G.I. Shishkin, 154-172
5) High-degree precision decomposition method for an evolution problem,
Z. Gegechkori, J. Rogava, and M. Tsiklauri, 173-187
6) Operator-splitting schemes for solving elasticity problems
F.J. Lisbona and P.N. Vabishchevich, 188-198
7) Quadrature approximation of one singular integral operator,
J. Sanikidze, 199-210

Best regards,
Managing editor
Prof. P. Matus
Institute of Mathematics
11, Surganov str.
220072 Minsk
Belarus


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From: Oleg Burdakov <olbur@mai.liu.se>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:25:29 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Contents, Optimization Methods and Software

Table of Contents
Optimization Methods and Software (OMS)
Volume 15, Numbers 3-4 (August, 2001)

Samuel Burer and Renato D.C. Monteiro
A projected gradient algorithm for solving the maxcut SDP relaxation
175-200

Sunyoung Kim and Masakazu Kojima
Second order cone programming relaxation of nonconvex quadratic
optimization problems
201-224

G. Pacelli and M.C. Recchioni
An interior point algorithm for global optimal solutions and KKT points
225-256

Naiyang Deng, Zhaozhi Wang and Jianzhong Zhang
An improved inexact Newton's method for unary optimization
257-282

D. Conforti and M. Mancini
A curvilinear search algorithm for unconstrained optimization by
automatic differentiation
283-297

T. Grund and A. Roesch
Optimal control of a linear elliptic equation with a supremum-norm functional
299-329

Forthcoming papers and complete table of contents for the journal OMS:
http://www.mai.liu.se/~olbur/OMS.contents

Instructions for authors, subscription information, free sample copies:
http://www.gbhap.com/Optimization_Methods_Software/

Latex style files:
http://www.mai.liu.se/~olbur/STYLES/


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From: Hans Schneider <hans@math.wisc.edu>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:30:48 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications

Journal: Linear Algebra and its Applications
ISSN : 0024-3795
Volume : 335
Issue : 1-3
Date : 15-Sep-2001
Visit the journal at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/07738

pp 1-54
Matrix algebras in optimal preconditioning
C. Di Fiore, P. Zellini

pp 55-61
The c-numerical range of tridiagonal matrices
M.-T. Chien, H. Nakazato

pp 63-80
The factorability of symmetric matrices and some implications for
statistical linear models
S.P. Smith

pp 81-93
On similarity invariants of matrix commutators
S. Furtado, E.A. Martins, F.C. Silva

pp 95-100
A matrix formulation of Gruss inequality
P.F. Renaud

pp 101-117
Rank equalities for idempotent and involutary matrices
Y. Tian, G.P.H. Styan

pp 119-135
Quasi-filiform lie algebras of maximum length
J.R. Gomez, A. Jimenez-Merchan, J. Reyes

pp 137-150
Comparison of perturbation bounds for the stationary distribution of
a Markov chain
G.E. Cho, C.D. Meyer

pp 151-156
Equilibrated anti-Monge matrices
M. Fiedler

pp 157-166
Characteristic polynomials and controlability of partially prescribed
matrices
G. Cravo, J.A. Dias da Silva, F.C. Silva

pp 167-181
Obtuse cones and Gram matrices with nonnegative inverse
A. Cegielski

pp 183-188
A characterization of the drazin inverse
L. Zhang

pp 189-204
DGMRES: A GMRES-type algorithm for Drazin-inverse solution of
singular non-symmetric linear systems
A. Sidi

pp 205
Author index


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