NA Digest Sunday, December 8, 2002 Volume 02 : Issue 49

Today's Editor:
Cleve Moler
The MathWorks, Inc.
moler@mathworks.com

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From: Fred Hickernell <fred@hkbu.edu.hk>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:08:09 +0800
Subject: Honorary Doctorate for Gene Golub

Dear friends,

Prof. Gene H. Golub will receive an honorary doctorate from Hong Kong
Baptist University on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 in recognition of
his contributions to the scientific computing community worldwide and
the development of scientific computing research and teaching in
China.

Let me encourage those of you who know Gene to send him your
congratulations. If you wish to email them to me, I will collect
them and present them to Gene.

Best regards,
Fred

Fred J. Hickernell
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong SAR, China


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From: Shi Zhong-ci <shi@lsec.cc.ac.cn>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:01:00 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Nominations for Feng Kang Prize

The Committee of Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing is seeking
applications and nominations for 2003 year. The prize is awarded every
other year to young Chinese Scientists in China and abroad for their
outstanding researches in numerical analysis and scientific computing. The
prize winners will be announced in September 2003. Application forms can
be obtained by anonymous ftp from

http://lsec.cc.ac.cn/FENGKang/fkp.html

Deadline for applications and nominations is MARCH 15, 2003.
Please send all materials to:

Ms. Shi-Zhen ZHANG
The Committee of Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing
Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
PO Box 2719, Beijing 10008, China

Prof. Zhong-Ci Shi
Chairman of the Committee


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From: Joseph Traub <traub@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 15:32:50 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Information-Based Complexity Prize

2003 PRIZE COMMITTEE FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN
INFORMATION-BASED COMPLEXITY

This annual prize is for outstanding achievement in Information-Based
Complexity. It consists of $3000 and a plaque and will be awarded at a
suitable location. The prize committee will consist of Stefan Heinrich,
Universitat Kaiserslautern; Sergei Pereverzev, Ukrainian Academy
of Science; Joseph F. Traub, Columbia University; Grzegorz W.
Wasilkowski, University of Kentucky; and Henryk Wozniakowski, Columbia
University and University of Warsaw. Anyone other than current members
of the prize committee is eligible. The members of the prize committee
would appreciate nominations for the prize. However, a person does not
have to be nominated to win the award.

The deadline for nominations is March 31, 2003. The award can be
based on work done in a single year, in a number of years or over a
lifetime. It can be published in any journal, number of journals, or
monographs.


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From: Raymond Mejia <ray@helix.nih.gov>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:27:16 -0500
Subject: New Location for NIH Mathematical Research Branch

Dear Colleagues,

The Mathematical Research Branch at the National Institutes of Health has
moved. The new address is:

Mathematical Research Branch
NIDDK, NIH
12 South Drive, Room 4007, MSC 5621
Bethesda, MD 20892-5621 USA

Best regards -- Ray


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From: Victor Eremeyev <eremeyev@ns.math.rsu.ru>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 08:51:11 +0300
Subject: New Book on Functional Analysis in Mechanics and Inverse Problems

New book:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
2nd revised (paperback and hardbound) edition
of the book by
L.P. Lebedev, I.I. Vorovich, G.M.L. Gladwell
"Functional Analysis: Applications in Mechanics and Inverse Problems".
See the TOC and a sample chapter: http://geocities.com/lebedev1946


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From: Johan Suykens <Johan.Suykens@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:52:23 +0100
Subject: New Book, Least Squares Support Vector Machines

We are glad to announce the publication of a new book

J.A.K. Suykens, T. Van Gestel, J. De Brabanter, B. De Moor, J. Vandewalle,
Least Squares Support Vector Machines,
World Scientific Pub. Co., Singapore, 2002
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/lssvmlab/book.html

This book focuses on Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LS-SVMs)
which are reformulations to standard SVMs. LS-SVMs are closely related
to regularization networks and Gaussian processes but additionally
emphasize and exploit primal-dual interpretations from optimization theory.
The authors explain the natural links between LS-SVM classifiers and kernel
Fisher discriminant analysis. Bayesian inference of LS-SVM models is
discussed, together with methods for imposing sparseness and employing
robust statistics.

The framework is further extended towards unsupervised learning by
considering PCA analysis and its kernel version as a one-class modelling
problem. This leads to new primal-dual support vector machine formulations
for kernel PCA and kernel CCA analysis. Furthermore, LS-SVM formulations
are given for recurrent networks and control. In general, support vector
machines may pose heavy computational challenges for large data sets.
For this purpose, a method of fixed size LS-SVM is proposed where the
estimation is done in the primal space in relation to a Nystr


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From: Peter Matus <cmam@im.bas-net.by>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:02:42 +0200
Subject: New Book, Difference Schemes with Operator Factors

Dear Colleagues;

I am pleased to announce the publication of
our new book. The details are

Difference Schemes with Operator Factors
Samarskii A.A., Matus, P.P., and Vabishchevich, P.N.,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston/Dordrecht/London 2002
ISBN 1-4020-0856-2

A new class of difference schemes with operator factors that includes
the schemes with variable weighting factors is picked out in the monograph.
The theory of stability is developed for such two- and three-level difference
schemes with non-selfadjoint operators. On the basis of general results
obtained, the stability and convergence investigation of various initial
boundary-value problems for equations with partial derivatives was realized.
Adaptive difference schemes with time and spatial thickening are constructed.
A theoretical analysis of domain-additive difference schemes (domain
decomposition schemes) that are oriented on the construction of effective
computational algorithms for parallel computer systems is realized. The book
is intended for specialists in numerical methods of solution of mathematical
physics problems; the exposition is easily understood by senior students
of universities.

For more information please see
http://www.cmam.info/matus/booksmv.html

Sincerely,

Peter Matus
Editor of the journal CMAM http://cmam.info
Head of the Department of Numerical Simulation
Institute of Mathematics of NASB
11 Surganov Str., 220072 Minsk, Belarus
matus@im.bas-net.by


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From: Victor Eremeyev <eremeyev@ns.math.rsu.ru>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 16:41:37 +0300
Subject: New Book, Functional Analysis in Mechanics

New book:
L.P. Lebedev, I.I. Vorovich
Functional Analysis in Mechanics
Springer-NY, 2002, 246 pp.
The book presents a short but complete introduction into functional
analysis and simulataneously considers some main problems of linear
continuum mechanics. Starting with elementary level, it brings a reader to
the application of functional analysis tools to the problems of nonlinear
mechanics. It is published by Springer Verlag as a graduate text.
See more details (and some excerpts from the book) at website
http://www.geocities.com/lebedev1946


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From: Jesse Barlow <barlow@cse.psu.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:17:09 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Special Issue of LAA on Accurate Solution of Eigenvalue Problems

Second Announcement
Special Issue of Linear Algebra and Its Applications
ACCURATE SOLUTION OF EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS III

In the last several years, there have been a number of advances in the
accurate solution of eigenvalue problems. Many of the results have come from
the realization that eigenvalue algorithms that exploit the structure of the
problem can lead to more accurate eigenvalue and eigenvector computations.

To recognize these advances and to encourage further advances, we are
proposing to have a third special issue of Linear Algebra and Its Applications
on Accurate Solution of Eigenvalue Problems. This is the third such special
issue. The first was volume 309 of Linear Algebra and Its Applications,
published in early 2000, the second was volume 358 which just appeared in
late 2002.

This special issue is in coordination with the International Workshop on
Accurate Solution of Eigenvalue Problems IV held in Split, Croatia on June
24-27, 2002. The participants in the workshop will be strongly encouraged to
submit papers to the special issue. Submissions are also encouraged from
non-participants as long as they are consistent with the themes of the
workshop.

The editors for this special issue will

Jesse L. Barlow
Department of Computer Science
and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-6106
USA

Beresford N. Parlett
Department of Mathematics
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA

Kresimir Veselic'
Lehrgebiet Mathematische Physik
Fernuniversitaet Hagen
Postfach 940
D-58084 Hagen
Germany

Please submit three (3) copies of your manuscript to the editor of your
choice. Manuscripts submitted to this special issue will be refereed according
to standard procedures for Linear Algebra and Its Applications.
All papers for this special issue should be postmarked by January 15, 2003.


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From: Laurence Yang <lyang@stfx.ca>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:06:39 -0400
Subject: Special Issue of Parallel Computing Journal

Call For Papers:

Parallel Computing Journal
Special issue on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing

http://www.stfx.ca/people/lyang/activities/PC-SpecialIssue2003.html

Scope and Interests:

Parallel and distributed processing is one of the most exciting
technologies to achieve prominence, whose development has been
facilitated by the rapid advances in electronic and integrated circuit
technologies, since the invention of computers in the 1940s. It is
expected that the years to come will witness a proliferation of the use
of parallel and distributed systems, or supercomputers.

Based on the above fact, parallel and distributed scientific and
engineering computing has become a key technology which will play an
important part in determining, or at least shaping, future research and
development activities in many academic and industrial branches. The
application areas are to be understood very broadly and include, but are
not limited to: computational fluid dynamics and mechanics, material
sciences space, weather, climate systems and global changes,
computational environment and energy systems computational ocean and
earth sciences, combustion system simulation computational chemistry,
computational physics bioinformatics and computational biology, medical
applications transportation systems simulations, combinatorial and
global optimization problems, structural engineering, computational
electromagnetics, computer graphics, semiconductor technology, and
electronic circuits and system design etc.

Guest Editors:

Prof. Laurence Yang
Department of Computer Science
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, B2G 2W5, NS, Canada
Email: lyang@stfx.ca

Prof. Yi Pan
Department of Computer Science
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Email: pan@cs.gsu.edu

Prof. Minyi Guo
Department of Computer Software
University of Aizu
Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima 965-8580, Japan
Email: minyi@u-aizu.ac.jp


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From: Elias A. Lipitakis <eal@aueb.gr>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:02:41 +0200
Subject: Conference Proceedings, HERCMA 2001

PUBLICATIONS
PROCEEDINGS OF HERCMA 2001 CONFERENCE
Edited by Elias A. Lipitakis

The 5th Hellenic European Research on Computer Mathematics and its
Applications (HERCMA 2001) Conference was held at the Athens University of
Economics and Business from 20th to 22nd September 2001. The two volumes of
these proceedings comprise a selection of the papers presented at that
meeting and provide a representative cross-section of the many topics
discussed. A strong theme of the conference was Computer Mathematics with
special emphasis on Computational Mathematics, High Performance Computing,
O.R. and Statistics and Mathematics in Economics and Industry. The volumes
cover a wide range of other interesting related Computer Science topics.

Published by LEA Press, Athens, Greece.

Retail Price: 85 Euro (soft cover), 120 Euro (hard cover)

HERCMA Co-operating Societies Members:
70 Euro (soft cover), 100 Euro (hard cover)

Members and delegates may apply to the LEA Publishers to purchase at discount.

LEA PUBLISHERS
MARKETING & SALES DEPARTMENT
44A SINOPIS STREET
AMPELOKIPI
ATHENS 115 27
GREECE


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From: Theodore Simos <tsimos@mail.ariadne-t.gr>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:50:20 +0200
Subject: Conference in Greece on Computational Methods

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SCIENCES
AND ENGINEERING (ICCMSE 2003)
Kastoria, Greece
September 12-16, 2003
http://www.uop.gr/~iccmse/ or http://kastoria.teikoz.gr/~iccmse/

In the past decades many significant insights have been made in several
areas of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering. New problems
and methologies have appeared. There is permantly a need in these fields
for the advancement of information exchange. This undoubtedly beneficial
practice of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary interactions should
be expressed by an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary conference on

Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering. ICCMSE 2003 aims at
playing the above role and for this reason the aim of the conference is
to bring together computational scientists and engineers from several
disciplines in order to share methods, methologies and ideas.

The topics to be covered include (but are not limited to): Computational
mathematics, Computational physics, Computational chemistry,
Computational engineering, Computational mechanics, Computational
finance, Computational medicine, Computational biology, Computational
economics, High performance computing, Mathematical Methods in Sciences
and Engineering, Industrial Mathematics, etc.

General Chair: Dr. Z.Kalogiratou, Technological Educational Institution
of W. Macedonia, Kastoria, Greece.
Invited Chair: Dr. T.E. Simos, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Greece.
Scientific Committee:
Prof. H. Agren (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Prof. H.
Arabnia (The University of Georgia, USA), Prof. J. Vigo-Aguiar
(University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain), Prof. D. Belkic (Karolinska
Institute, Stockholm, Sweden), Prof. K. Belkic (University of Southern
California, USA), Prof. E. Brandas (University of Uppsala, Uppsala,
Sweden), Prof. J.C. Butcher (The University of Auckland, New Zealand),
Prof. A.Q.M. Khaliq (Western Illinois University, USA), Prof. G.
Maroulis (University of Patras, Patras, Greece), Prof. S. Wilson
(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK), Prof. J. Xu (Pennsylvania State
University, USA)

Proceedings: Extended abstracts will be published in a special volume of
World Scientific Publishing Company. The following journals have
accepted to publish selected Proceedings of ICCMSE 2003: Computational
Materials Science (Elsevier Science Publishers), The Journal of
Supercomputing (Kluwer Publications), Journal of Mathematical Chemistry
(Kluwer Publications), Communication in Mathematical and in Computer
Chemistry (MATCH), Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and
Engineering (JCMSE) (Cambridge International Science Publishing)

Contact information: Secretary ICCMSE, E-mail: iccmse@uop.gr, Postal
Address: 26 Menelaou Street, Amfithea Paleon Faliron, GR-175 64, Athens,

Greece, Fax: +30210 94 20 091


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From: Roderick Melnik <rmelnik@mci.sdu.dk>
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 20:52:06 +0000
Subject: Conference in Montreal on Wave Phenomena

Dear Colleagues,

The Workshop "Wave Phenomena in Physics and Engineering: New models,
Algorithms, and Applications" is organised in conjunction with the 2003
International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications
which will be held in Montreal, Canada, May 18-21, 2003.

Authors are kindly invited to submit a paper for the workshop. Accepted
papers will be published in the ICCSA2003 Proceedings in the Springer
Verlag LNCS series.

For detailed information, please visit the workshop website at
http://www.sdu.dk/Nat/MCI/rm/workshop2003.html

Or contact workshop organisers:

Roderick Melnik, University of Southern Denmark (rmelnik@mci.sdu.dk
<mailto:rmelnik@mci.sdu.dk>)
Alex Povitsky, Concordia University (povitsky@me.concordia.ca
<mailto:povitsky@me.concordia.ca>)


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From: Panos Pardalos <pardalos@cao.ise.ufl.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:50:08 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Conference in Crete on Computational Management Science

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference
COMPUTATIONAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
May 27-30, 2003

Almyrida Beach
Chania, Crete
GREECE

To inaugurate the new journal COMPUTATIONAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (CMS)
published by Springer-Verlag, the editors and the publisher wish to announce
the first international conference on Computational Management Science 2003,
Almyrida - Crete.

The conference will cover all computational aspects of management science,
including computational methods, models and empirical analysis for decision
making in economics, finance, management, and related aspects of engineering.

Presentations are invited describing novel research results, and occasional
surveys, in computational methods, models and empirical analysis for decision
making in economics, finance, management, and related aspects of engineering.
These include theoretical and empirical analysis of computational models;
computational statistics; analysis and applications of constrained and
unconstrained optimization algorithms; dynamic models, such as dynamic
programming and decision trees; new search tools and algorithms for global
optimization, modelling, learning and forecasting such as neural networks and
genetic algorithms; models and tools of knowledge acquisition, such as data
mining and data warehousing. The emphasis on computational paradigms is an
intended feature.

Applications and models as well as algorithms are of interest. The aim is to
provide a unified forum for research often scattered in specialised areas.
We welcome papers on the development and analysis of applicable algorithms,
computational models and experience, balanced sets of applications and new
computational paradigms.

Abstracts and full papers should be emailed to the IPC Chair:
pardalos@cao.ise.ufl.edu (Panos M. Pardalos)
or to one of the organizers:
br@doc.ic.ac.uk (Berc Rustem)
amman@euridice.tue.nl (Hans Amman)
im@doc.ic.ac.uk (Istvan Maros)
Carbon Copy to:
cms2003@verenike.ergasya.tuc.gr

Further information available at:
http://www.opt.tuc.gr/~cms2003


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From: Corinne Le Moal <clemoal@esf.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 15:15:10 +0100
Subject: Conference in Portugal on High Performance Computing

Advanced Environments and Tools for High Performance Computing
EuroConference on Problem Solving Environments and the Information Society
Albufeira (Algarve), Portugal, 14 - 19 June 2003

Chair: Elias Houstis (University of Patras, EL) - Vice-Chair: Peter Sloot
(University of Amsterdam, NL)

Speakers will include: G. Attardi (Pisa U., I); E. Canestrelli (Venice
U., I); N. Chrisochoides (William & Marie College, US); S. Cincotti
(DIBE-Genova U., I); J. Cunha (Lisboa U., P); J. Encarnacao (FICG,
Darmstadt, D); C. Farhat (Colorado U., Boulder, US); S. Focardi
(Intertek Group, F); J. Fortes (Florida U., US); S. Gallopoulos (Patras
U., EL); W. Gentzsch (Gridware GmbH, D); R. Hempel (NEC, D); A. Joshi
(Maryland U., US); F. Kruggel (MPI Leipzig, D); A. Marsh (NTU Athens,
EL); J. Michopoulos (NRL, US); N. Ramakrishnan (Virginia Polytechnic
Inst., US); P. Sloot (Amsterdam U., NL); D. Walker (Cardiff U., UK);
S. Weerawarana (IBM, US).

Scope of the conference: There is a clear trend in modelling and
simulation technology away from rigid simulation codes treating a fixed
aspect towards sophisticated problem-solving environments (PSEs). These
environments are widely considered an essential, emerging technology
with high impact across all fields of science and engineering. PSEs will
be especially important to successfully address all kinds of
multidisciplinary phenomena such as fluid-structure coupling and rapidly
developing fields such as bio-informatics and other application fields
where vast amounts of data need to be managed and processed to discover
patterns and knowledge contained within it. By integrating the latest
research results into easy-to-use environments and utilizing grid
computing infrastructure, PSEs will also help to make them easier to
exploit for larger user communities. The conference program addresses
the state-of-the-art in infrastructure, standards, and core technologies
(i.e. data mining, intelligence, virtual interfaces, grid computing) for
PSEs and reviews PSE developments in health, bio-informatics,
engineering, marketing and finance, environment, and education and training.

Contact person at Euresco:
Mr. Rachid Adghoughi, Conference Organiser
radghoughi <mailto:radghoughi@esf.org> @esf.org
Tel +33 388 76 71 35
Fax +33 388 36 69 87


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From: RNC5 <rnc5@listes.ens-lyon.fr>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 13:24:14 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Conference in Lyon on Real Numbers and Computers

5th CONFERENCE ON REAL NUMBERS AND COMPUTERS (RNC5)
September 3-5, 2003
Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
Lyon, France

Web site: http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/Arenaire/RNC5

Dates:
Submission of manuscripts: 17 Mar 2003
Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2003
Revised Papers required by: 1 Jul 2003
Conference: 3-5 Sep 2003

Objective:
The aim of the symposia on "Real Numbers and Computers" is to bring
together specialists from various research areas, all concerned with
problems related to computations based on real numbers. These
computations may use any number system implemented by a software
package or in hardware, including floating and fixed point, serial,
on line, continued fractions, exact, multiple precision, interval
and stochastic arithmetic.

Results are sought on both applied and fundamental questions.
Important topics discussed during these conferences include but are
not limited to:
* Foundation and properties of number systems
* Computability and complexity
* Formal aspects and automatic proof checking
* Links with number theory and automata theory
* Basic arithmetic operations
* Implementation of the standard and special functions
* Engineering of floating and fixed point algorithms
* Symbolic manipulation of numbers
* Accuracy and reliability for applications and industry
* Robust geometric algorithms and exact geometric computation
* Hardware design support and implementations

The conference will feature invited lectures and contributed talks.
Original research results and insightful analyses of current concerns
are solicited for submission. Survey and tutorial articles may be
suitable for submission if clearly identified as such.

Proceedings and special issue:
Instructions for how to submit will be posted on the website of the
conference. The proceedings will be distributed at the conference.
They will be published electronically by the INRIA.

A special issue on real numbers and computers of Elsevier's journal
Theoretical Computer Science is to follow the conference. Authors of
the conferences will be strongly encouraged to propose expanded work
for review and inclusion.

Steering Committee:
Jean Claude Bajard, Montpellier, France
Jean Marie Chesneaux, Paris, France
Christiane Frougny, Paris, France
Peter Kornerup, Odense, Denmark (chair)
Dominique Michelucci, Dijon, France
Jean Michel Muller, Lyon, France

Program Committee:
Jean Paul Allouche, Orsay, France
Jean Claude Bajard, Montpellier, France
Vasco Brattka, Hagen, Germany
Jean Marie Chesneaux, Paris, France
Marc Daumas, Lyon, France (chair)
James Demmel, Berkeley, United States
Milos Ercegovac, Los Angeles, United States
Martin Escardo, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Christiane Frougny, Paris, France
Peter Kornerup, Odense, Denmark
Philippe Langlois, Perpignan, France
Dominique Michelucci, Dijon, France
Michael Parks, Sun, United States
Siegfried Rump, Hamburg, Germany
David Russinoff, AMD, United States
Laurent Thery, Sophia Antipolis, France
Chee Yap, New York, United States

Organizing Committee:
Nicolas Brisebarre, Lyon, France
Claude-Pierre Jeannerod, Lyon, France
Nathalie Revol, Lyon, France
Gilles Villard, Lyon, France (chair)


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From: Shi Zhong-ci <shi@lsec.cc.ac.cn>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 14:22:21 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Conference in Hangzhou City on Adaptive Computation

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Advances in Adaptive Computation
October 13-16, 2003
Hangzhou City, P.R. China

The Institute of Computational Mathematics of the Chinese
Academy of Sceinecs will organize a conference in October 13-16, 2003.
The conference title is "Recent Advances in Adaptive Computation" and it
will cover modern theories and practical applications of adaptive methods.
The scope of this conference is to bring together both specialists and
users to discuss about the state of art and the new directions of adaptive
methods.

The conference will be held at Mathematical Research Center in
Hangzhou City which is 180 kilometers from Shanghai. An old Chinese saying
declares, "There is a heaven above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below." Centuries
later, Marco Polo called Hangzhou the most enchanting city in all the
world. (please visit http://www.regenttour.com/chinaplanner/hgh for more
information about the city.)

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Mark Ainsworth, Strathclyde University, Scotland
Carsten Carstensen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Zhiming Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ron DeVore University of South Carolina, USA
Benqi Guo, University of Manitoba, Canada
Ronald H.W. Hoppe, Universitaet Augsburg, Germany
Stig Larsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Steve W.-B. Liu, University of Kent, England
Rolf Rannacher, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Anders Szepessy, KTH, Sweden

PROCEEDINGS:

We are planning to publish a conference proceedings.

Workshop Organizers:

Zhong-Ci Shi, (Chairman), Chinese Academy of Sciences
(shi@lsec.cc.ac.cn)
Zhiming Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
(zmchen@lsec.cc.ac.cn)
Tao Tang, Hong Kong Baptist Univ and Chinese Academy of Sciences
(ttang@hkbu.edu.hk, ttang@lsec.cc.ac.cn)
Dehao Yu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
(ydh@lsec.cc.ac.cn)

For more information about the conference, please email one of the
organizers listed above.


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From: Hans Bruun Nielsen <hbn@imm.dtu.dk>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 16:00:11 +0100
Subject: Symposium in Copenhagen on Mathematical Programming

The Mathematical Programming Society, the Technical University of
Denmark, and the University of Copenhagen announce:

ISMP 2003
Copenhagen, Denmark
August 18 - 22, 2003
www.ismp2003.dk

ISMP 2003 is approaching: The 18th International Symposium on
Mathematical Programming takes place August 18-12, 2003 at the
Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, in cooperation with
University of Copenhagen. It is the main scientific event of the
Mathematical Programming Society held every 3 years on behalf of the
Society. The Symposium attracts more than one thousand researchers
from all areas of mathematical programming. At the symposium homepage
www.ismp2003.dk you find all information including the list of plenary
and semiplenary speakers:

Susanne Albers, University of Freiburg
Kurt Anstreicher, University of Iowa
Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
Francis Clarke, University of Lyon-1
William J. Cook, Georgia Institute of Technology
Siemion Fajtlowicz, University of Houston
Adrian Lewis Simon, Fraser University
Tom Luo, McMaster University
Renato Monteiro, Georgia Institute of Technology
Stephen M. Robinson, University of Wisconsin
Mikael R=F6nnqvist, Link=F6ping University
R=FCdiger Schultz, Gerhard-Mercator University Duisburg
Peter W. Shor, AT&T Labs - Research
Mikl=F3s Simonovits, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Daniel A. Spielman, MIT
Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Laurence A. Wolsey, Universit=E9 Catholique de Louvain

The homepage provides information about registration, travel, and
accomodation, and offers possibilities for web-based abstract
submission of contributed presentations as well as organized sessions.

Program committee:

J=F8rgen Tind (chair), University of Copenhagen
Jens Clausen (cochair), Technical University of Denmark
Rainer Burkard, Technische Universit=E4t, Graz
Martin Gr=F6tschel, ZIB, Berlin
Michael J. Todd, Cornell University
Stephen J. Wright, Argonne National Laboratory

Organizing committee:

Jens Clausen (chair), Technical University of Denmark
J=F8rgen Tind (cochair), University of Copenhagen
Hans Bruun Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark
David Pisinger, University of Copenhagen
Martin Zachariasen, University of Copenhagen


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From: Knut Andreas Lie <Knut-Andreas.Lie@math.sintef.no>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 14:06:19 +0100
Subject: Winter School in Norway on Level-Set Methods and PDEs

ANNOUNCEMENT:
Winter School on LEVEL-SET METHODS AND NUMERICAL METHODS FOR
NONLINEAR EVOLUTION PDES, Geilo, Norway.

TIME:
March 2-7, 2003.
Deadline for registration January 15 2003.

LECTURERS:
Professor Stanley Osher, University of California, Los Angeles.
Topic: Level set technology for front propagation problems with
applications in CFD and image processing

Professor Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Modern numerical methods for nonlinear evolution PDEs
(conservation laws, Hamilton-Jacobi and Navier-Stokes equations).

WEBSITE:
http://www.math.sintef.no/vskoler/

ORGANIZERS:
Helge Holden (NTNU, Trondheim), Kenneth H. Karlsen (Univ. Bergen)
and Knut-Andreas Lie (SINTEF)

SPONSOR:
Research Council of Norway through the BeMatA project

WEBSITE:
http://www.math.sintef.no/vskoler/

REGISTRATION:
Please send your registration as soon as possible to,
Ms. Mariann Fjeldstad, SINTEF Applied Mathematics,
P.O. Box 124 Blindern, N-0314 Oslo, Norway.
Phone: (+47) 22 06 76 54
Fax: (+47) 22 06 73 50
Email: Mariann.Fjeldstad@math.sintef.no

Please supply name and contact information (address, phone, fax, email).
Prospective participants from outside of Scandinavia are asked to provide a
letter of recommendation upon registration. The latest date for
registration is January 15 2003.


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From: Dirk Praetorius <dirk.praetorius@tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:10:20 +0100
Subject: Winter School in Vienna on Foundations of Computational Sciences

Vienna Winter School on the Mathematical Foundations
of Computational Sciences

January 26 till February 8, 2003

at Vienna University of Technology, Austria,

Almost all kind of engineering applications involve
numerical simulations to guarantee their quality,
durability or safety. Behind the most frequently
employed software packages lies a discretization of
a PDE, often a finite element method. In all those
cases, there exist a discretization error which can
be small or large, of minor or dominating significance.

It is the aim of the Vienna Winter School on the
Mathematical Foundations of Computational Sciences to
provide a direct introduction to reliable and efficient
computation and error control in numerical simulations.
The topics range from elementary functional analysis
(in the first week) to advanced adaptive finite element
techniques and applications (in the second week).
Students of Engineering and Natural Sciences with basic
mathematical background are welcome if interested in
guaranteed convergence of their FE schemes.

Amongst the invited lecturers are

Carsten Carstensen (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Simon Shaw (Brunel University, UK)
John R. Whiteman (Brunel University, UK)
Willy D=F6rfler (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Stefan A. Funken (FEMLAB, Germany)
Klaus Hackl (University of Bochum, Germany)
Kerstin Weinberg (Caltech, USA)

The web site

http://gamm.tuwien.ac.at/winterschool2003/

provides a tentative time table and maintains current and
latest informations.


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From: Giuseppe Rodriguez <rodriguez@unica.it>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:54:29 +0100
Subject: Workshop in Sardinia on Operator Theory

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT, IWOTA 2003

Dear Colleague,

The next international workshop on Operator Theory and Applications
(IWOTA) will be organized at the University of Cagliari, Sardinia, from
Tuesday, June 24 to Friday, June 27, 2003. Please note that the meeting
is organized in an "odd number" year, there will be NO MTNS
(Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems) to accompany it as a
conference held on the same continent in the week before or after. The
conference will be held on the premises of the University of Cagliari,
close to the city center.

This IWOTA meeting will be the fourteenth in a series of highly
succesful IWOTA meetings. The previous IWOTA meetings were held in Santa
Monica (1981), Rehovot (1983), Amsterdam (1985), Mesa AZ (1987),
Rotterdam (1989), Sapporo (1991), Vienna (1993), Regensburg (1995),
Bloomington (1995), Groningen (1998), Bordeaux (2000), Faro (2000), and
Blacksburg (2002). The organizers of the present meeting hope to be able
to adhere to the high standards of the previous meetings.

The purpose of IWOTA 2003 is to bring together mathematicians and
engineers interested in operator theory and applications. Adhering to a
tradition started at the Faro and Blacksburg meetings, the meeting will
be focussed on a few special themes, without losing sight of the general
IWOTA mission. Our special interest areas, suggested by research
existing at the University of Cagliari and at other Italian
universities, are

* structured matrices,
* inverse scattering,
* control theory.

Apart from that, we will welcome proposals on special sessions involving
other traditional IWOTA areas, such as interpolation.

It is a great honor for us, the organizers Sebastiano Seatzu, Cornelis
Van der Mee, Giuseppe Rodriguez, and Alessandro Giua, to invite you to
come to IWOTA 2003. We also invite you to make suggestions as to the
program and the topics to be discussed.

If you are interested in participating and in giving a talk on relevant
results, or in receiving further announcements, please let us know by
sending an e-mail to the following address: iwota2003@bugs.unica.it
Further information, including deadlines, registration information,
travel and hotel information, etc., will be available from the
following conference site: http://bugs.unica.it/iwota2003
At present, we plan for a second announcement in the second half of
January and for a (provisional) deadline for submitting title and
one page abstract of the talk of March 15, 2003.

The scientific committee consists at the moment of Israel Gohberg
(Tel Aviv, chairman), Joe Ball (Blacksburg), Michel Fliess
(ENS-Cachan), Bill Helton (San Diego), Rien Kaashoek (Amsterdam),
Joachim Rosenthal (Notre Dame), Sebastiano Seatzu (Cagliari),
Cornelis Van der Mee (Cagliari), and Giorgio Talenti (Firenze).

The local organizing committee consists of Sebastiano Seatzu, Cornelis
Van der Mee, Alessandro Giua, and Giuseppe Rodriguez.

The following colleagues have expressed a strong interest in
participating and giving a talk at IWOTA 2003: Joe Ball (Blacksburg),
Dario Bini (Pisa), Israel Gohberg (Tel Aviv), Georg Heinig (Kuwait),
Bill Helton (San Diego), Rien Kaashoek (Amsterdam), Martin Klaus
(Blacksburg), Lonia Lerer (Haifa), Andre' Ran (Amsterdam), Leiba Rodman
(Williamsburg), and Hugo Woerdeman (Williamsburg and Leuven).


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From: Eilish Hathaway <eilish@ipam.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:16:20 -0800
Subject: Workshop at IPAM on Multiscale Geometric Analysis

Workshop on "Multiscale Geometric Analysis: Theory, Tools, and Applications"

IPAM is pleased to announce a workshop on "Multiscale Geometric
Analysis: Theory, Tools, and Applications" which will run from January
13-17, 2003. The program will take place at the IPAM building on the
campus of UCLA in Los Angeles. The program is organized by Emmanuel
Candes (Caltech, Applied Math), David Donoho (Stanford, Statistics),
Peter Jones (Yale, Math), and Jean-Luc Starck (Saclay, Astronomy). =20
In the past decade, a number of independent developments in mathematical
analysis, in computer vision, in pattern recognition, and in statistical
analysis have independently developed tools and theories which can now
be seen to be closely related, as parts of an emerging area which should
be called Multiscale Geometric Analysis. The purpose of this meeting is
to crystallize this emerging field and to stimulate cross-disciplinary
exchanges which will accelerate its formation and development.

Some funding is available for graduate students and post-docs and young
academics. Full information about the workshop, including speaker list,
and online registration form is available at the following website:
http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/mga2003/

Program specific questions can be directed to
mailto:mga2003@ipam.ucla.edu


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From: William Gropp <gropp@mcs.anl.gov>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:10:33 -0600
Subject: Workshop in Melbourne on Scalable Iterative Methods

Call for Papers
Workshop on Scalable Iterative Methods
held in conjunction with
ICCS 2003, Melbourne, Australia
http://www.science.uva.nl/events/ICCS2003/

Workshop Web Site
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~gropp/events/wscim02/

Iterative methods for the solution of linear and nonlinear systems of
equations are commonly used in large scientific computations because of
their relative efficiency for problems of large size. These methods have
been very successful, but as both the depth of the memory hierarchies
within each compute node and the total number of compute nodes increases,
it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain high levels of overall
performance. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and
practitioners in parallel iterative methods to share recent results and
ideas. Topics of interest include:

o Achieving high scalability, including
+ Algorithms for avoiding or deferring synchronization
+ Preconditioners with limited communication
+ Effective multilevel methods
+ Fault detection and tolerance at massive scale
o Performance on parallel nodes, including
+ Effective use of the memory hierarchy
+ Effective use of instructions, including vectors, SIMD, and Explicitly
Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC)
o Interaction with applications and/or libraries, including
+ Application-specific preconditioners
+ Non-traditional iterative methods
+ Using application data structures and representations

Schedule

January 3rd 6-10 page papers due
February 1st Notification to authors
February 15th Final versions of papers

Contact Information

See the web site http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gropp/events/wscim02/ or

William Gropp
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~gropp

David Keyes
Dept of Mathematics and Statistics
Old Dominion University
http://www.math.odu.edu/~keyes


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From: Shirley Moore <shirley@cs.utk.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:15:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Workshop in Melbourne on Adaptive Algorithms

A Workshop on Adaptive Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Computing
Environemnts will be held in conjunction with The International Conference
on Computational Science 2003 (ICCS 2003) on the 2nd-4th June 2003 in
Melbourne, Australia. The workshop co-chairs are Shirley Moore and
Victor Eijkhout.

Scope and Call For Papers

Adaptive algorithms encapsulate a number of algorithms for solution of the
same problem, along with mechanisms for selecting the best algorithm from
amongst the available alternatives. Most current adaptive algorithms
operate within homogeneous parallel computing environments. Distributed
computing raises additional problems of heterogeneous platforms, reduced
reliability and control, and less predictable network bandwidth. Code
generators for adaptive algorithms may use off-line optimization, run-time
optimization, hybrid off-line/run-time optimization, and/or
feedback-directed compilation. This workshop will explore techniques for
designing and implementing adaptive numerical algorithms in parallel and
distributed computing environments, as well as the performance
measurement, modeling, and data collection methodologies needed to support
such adaptation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Architecture-dependent tuning of numerical kernels
Dynamic adaptation in distributed environments
Performance models for adaptive algorithms
Performance prediction
Just-in-time compilation of numerical code
Feedback-directed compilation of numerical code
Languages for expressing adaptive algorithms
Statistical techniques for adaptive algorithms
Experimental results with adaptive algorithms

Submission Details

Papers in this area of up to 10 pages (A4 paper) are sought for oral
presentation. Submitted papers must be original, containing results and
material not published previously. The submitted paper must be formatted
according to the rules of LNCS. See
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for formatting information.
All papers selected for this Workshop will be peer-reviewed and published
in ICCS conference proceedings. The proceedings of the Conference will be
published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
series. A PDF version of your paper should be submitted by email to
shirley@cs.utk.edu and eijkhout@cs.utk.edu.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2003
Notification to authors: February 8, 2003
Camera ready papers due: March 1, 2003
ICCS 2003 June 2-4, 2003

Contact
The contact details of the Workshop co-chairs are: Dr. Shirley Moore
Innovative Computing Laboratory
University of Tennessee
1122 Volunteer Blvd., Suite 413
Knoxville, TN 37996-3450
phone: (865) 974-3547
fax: (865) 974-8296
email: shirley@cs.utk.edu
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shirley/

Dr. Victor Eijkhout
Innovative Computing Laboratory
University of Tennessee
1122 Volunteer Blvd., Suite 413
Knoxville, TN 37996-3450
phone: (865) 974-9308
fax: (865) 974-8296
email: eijkhout@cs.utk.edu
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/

Links
Workshop Web site: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shirley/iccs2003-adaptalg/
ICCS'03 Web site: http://www.science.uva.nl/events/ICCS2003/

Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee:
http://icl.cs.utk.edu/


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From: Rich Lehoucq <rblehou@sandia.gov>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 19:41:28 -0700
Subject: John Von Neumann Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship

2002/2003 Announcement

The Computational Sciences, Computer Sciences and Mathematics Center at
Sandia National Laboratories invites outstanding candidates to apply for the
2003 John Von Neumann Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Computational
Science. The Fellowship is supported by the Mathematical, Information, and
Computational Sciences Division at the U.S. Department of Energy and
provides an exceptional opportunity for innovative research in scientific
computing on advanced computing and software architectures.

Sandia maintains research programs in a variety of areas, including
computational and discrete mathematics, computational physics and
engineering, and systems software and tools. Sandia is a world leader in
large-scale parallel computer systems, algorithms, software and
applications. Sandia has a state-of-the-art parallel-computing environment,
including the 4500-node Intel Teraflops machine and numerous workstation
clusters. The center provides a collaborative and highly multidisciplinary
environment tasked with solving state-of-the-art computational problems.
Applicants from a broad range of disciplines are encouraged to apply.

The Fellowship appointment is for a period of one year with a likely renewal
for a second year and includes a highly competitive salary, moving expenses
and a generous professional travel allowance.

Applicants should send a resume, a statement of research goals, and three
letters of recommendation to: Richard B. Lehoucq, P.O. Box 5800, MS 1110,
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1110; email
rblehou@sandia.gov.

All applications received before January 31, 2003 will receive full
consideration, and the position will remain open until filled.

Sandia National Labs is a U.S. Department of Energy multiprogram laboratory,
operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary Lockheed Martin
Corporation, with locations in Albuquerque, NM and Livermore, CA. U.S.
Citizenship is normally required.

Please see http://www.cs.sandia.gov/VN_Web_Page/vn.html for a slightly
larger annoucement and links to the participating groups at Sandia.


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From: L. G. de Pillis <depillis@hmc.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 09:26:16 -0800
Subject: Faculty Position at Harvey Mudd College

Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Professor Position
in Applied Mathematics
Harvey Mudd College
Department of Mathematics

Harvey Mudd College invites applications for a tenure-track professorship
at the assistant or associate professor level. Preference will be given to
candidates whose research is in applied mathematics (e.g., applied
dynamical systems, asymptotic methods, fluid dynamics, mathematical
biology, numerical methods, PDE's, scientific computing). Excellence in
teaching is absolutely essential, as is evidence of a strong and ongoing
research program. Candidates must be willing to supervise undergraduate
research, and work with others in the development of departmental programs.

Harvey Mudd College is a highly selective undergraduate institution of
science, engineering and mathematics with a median SAT score approaching
1500 and one year of high school calculus required for admission. Each year
there are about 25 graduates in mathematics, CS/math, and mathematical
biology with approximately half going to graduate school. Over 40% of
mathematics alumni from HMC have entered PhD programs. The College enrolls
about 700 students and is a member of the Claremont College consortium,
which consists of four other undergraduate colleges, the Claremont Graduate
University, and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences,
forming together an academic community of about 5000 students. There is an
active and vital research community of over 40 mathematicians in the
consortium.

Claremont is situated approximately 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles,
at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains. The community is known for its
tree-lined streets and village charm. It is an easy drive from Claremont to
the cultural attractions of the greater Los Angeles area, as well as the
ocean, mountains and deserts of Southern California.

Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a description of their teaching
philosophy and experience, a description of their current research program,
and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to the address
that appears below. Further information about the college and department
may be found at:

http://www.math.hmc.edu

Preference will be given to applications completed by January 10, 2003.

Harvey Mudd College is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to
the recruitment of applicants historically underrepresented on college
faculties.


Address for applications:

Professor Andrew J. Bernoff
Chair, Search Committee
Department of Mathematics
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA 91711-5990


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From: John Maddocks <john.maddocks@epfl.ch>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 17:28:45 +0100
Subject: Positions at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

Applications are invited for positions within the Maddocks
group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
(EPFL). A postdoctoral position is available in September
2003; a PhD position could start as early as April 2003.

The research of the group is concentrated in the use of
techniques of continuum mechanics in the modelling of DNA.
The work on DNA is carried out in close collaboration with
various experimental groups. Various projects emphasize
mathematical or numerical analysis, while others center on
large-scale computation.

Further details concerning these positions and the
application procedure can be found at the site

http://lcvmwww.epfl.ch/Positions.html.


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From: Ake Bjorck <akbjo@mai.liu.se>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:38:38 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Contents, BIT Numerical Mathematics

CONTENTS BIT Numerical Mathematics
Volume 43, Issue 1 (March 2003)
For information to contributers and about subscriptions see
http://www.math.liu.se/BIT/

On the boundedness of asymptotic stability regions for the
stochastic theta method
A. Bryden and D. J. Higham, pp. 1-7

The inexact Newton-like method for inverse eigenvalue problem
R. H. Chan, H. L. Chung, and S.-F. Xu, p. 7--20

Partitioned Runge--Kutta methods in Lie-group setting
K. Eng\o}, pp. 21--39

Conservation properties of smoothed particle hydrodynamics
applied to the shallow water equation
J. Frank and S. Reich, pp. 40--54

A generalized W-transformation for constructing symplectic
partitioned Runge--Kutta methods.
V. Grimm and R. Scherer, pp. 55-64

IRK methods for index 2 and 3 DAEs: Starting algorithms.
I. Higueras and T. Rold\'an, pp. 65--90

Solution of index 2 implicit differential-algebraic equations
by Lobatto Runge--Kutta methods
L. O. Jay, 91--104

A low complexity Lie group method on the Stiefel manifold}
S. Krogstad, pp. 105--120

Weighted discrepancy and high-dimensional numerical integration
G. Larcher, F. Pillichshammer, and K. Scheicher, pp. 121--135

Strang-type preconditioners for solving linear systems from
delay differential equations
F. R. Lin, X. Q. Jin, and S. L. Lei, pp. 136--149

Bivariate free knot splines
T. Sch\"utze and H. Schwetlick, pp. 150--175

Weak convergence of a numerical method for a stochastic heat
equation
T. Shardlow, pp. 176--190

A stable numerical approach for implicit non-linear neutral
delay differential equations
R. Vermiglio and L. Torelli, pp. 191--211

A structured secant method based on a new quasi-Newton equation
for nonlinear least squares problems
J. Z. Zhang, Y. Xue, and K. Zhang, pp. 212--224


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From: Hans Schneider <hans@math.wisc.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 13:51:42 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications

Journal: Linear Algebra and its Applications
ISSN : 0024-3795
Volume : 359
Issue : 1-3
Date : 15-Jan-2003

Table of Contents:

Caratheodory-Fejer interpolation in the ball
D. Alpay, C. Dubi
pp 1-19

Necessary conditions of Hurwitz polynomials
X. Yang
pp 21-27

Two-dimensional representations of the free group with two generators
over a finite field
Z. Yan, H. You
pp 29-36

Continued fraction expansion of the geometric matrix mean and applications
M. Rassouli, F. Leazizi
pp 37-57

Some norm inequalities for completely monotone functions-II
J.S. Aujla
pp 59-65

Spectral variation under congruence for a nonsingular matrix with 0
on the boundary of its field of values
S. Furtado, C.R. Johnson
pp 67-78

Generalized oscillatory matrices
S.M. Fallat, M. Fiedler, T.L. Markham
pp 79-90

On nonsingular sign regular matrices
J.M. Pena
pp 91-100

Translations in simply transitive affine actions of Heisenberg type Lie groups
T. De Cat, K. Dekimpe, P. Igodt
pp 101-111

Sign patterns that allow diagonalizability
Y. Shao, Y. Gao
pp 113-119

Equitable switching and spectra of graphs
Y. Teranishi
pp 121-131

Nonsingularity/singularity criteria for nonstrictly block diagonally
dominant matrices
L.Y. Kolotilina
pp 133-159

Linear transformations preserving log-concavity
Y. Wang
pp 161-167

On the operator equation e^A=e^B
C. Schmoeger
pp 169-179

A matrix approach to polynomials
T. Arponen
pp 181-196

Perturbation bounds for coupled matrix Riccati equations
M. Konstantinov, V. Angelova, P. Petkov, D. Gu, V. Tsachouridis
pp 197-218

Additive maps on standard operator algebras preserving
invertibilities or zero divisors
J. Hou, J. Cui
pp 219-233

Unextendible product bases and the construction of inseparable states
A.O. Pittenger
pp 235-248

On the eigenvalues of Jordan products
E.A. Martins, F.C. Silva
pp 249-262

A sin2@Q theorem for graded indefinite Hermitian matrices
N. Truhar, R.-C. Li
pp 263-276

A class of atomic positive linear maps in matrix algebras
K.-C. Ha
pp 277-290


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From: Raimondas Ciegis <Raimondas.Ciegis@fm.vtu.lt>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 16:17:13 +0200 (WET)
Subject: Contents, Mathematical Modelling and Analysis

MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND ANALYSIS
ISSN 1392 -- 6292
Electronical edition: http://www.vtu.lt/rc/mma/
Volume 7 No 2: Contents

R. Ciegis, V. Starikovicius
Mathematical modeling of wood drying process (177-190)

T. Cirulis, O. Lietuvietis
Application of DM methods for problems with partial differential
equations (191-200)

R. Ciupaila, M. Sapagovas
Solution of the system of parametric equations of the sessile drop
(201-206)

N.V. Dzenisenko, A.P. Matus, P.P. Matus
Monotone economical schemes for quasilinear parabolic equations
(207-216)

S. Guseinov, A. Buikis
Inverse heat transport problems for coeffcients in two-layer domains and
methods for their solution (217-228)

L. Hacia
Projection Methods for Integral Equations in Epidemic (229-240)

U. Hamarik, E. Avi, A. Ganina
On solution of ill-posed problems by projection methods with a posteriori
discretization level choice (241-252)

I. Kaldo, O. Vaarmann
On approximate methods of tangent hyperbolas (253-262)

A. A. Kolyshkin, I. Volodko
Transient viscous flow in an annulus (263-270)

P. M. Lima, A. M. Oliveira
Numerical methods and error estimates for a singular boundary-value
problem (271-284)

R. Pallav, A. Pedas
Quadratic spline collocation method for weakly singular integral
equations and corresponding eigenvalue problem (285-296)

M. Radyna
Functionals with values in the Non-Archimedean field of Laurent series
and their applications to the equations of elasticity theory. I (297-312)

U. Raitums
A global characteristic of G-limit operators for elliptic systems
(313-318)


R. Siugzdaite, S. Norvaisas
Cellular automata and energetics system formation (319-326)

A. Zemitis
On interaction of a liquid film with an obstacle (327-342)


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From: Lothar Reichel <reichel@mcs.kent.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:35:52 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Contents, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis

Table of Contents, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA),
vol. 14, 2002. This is a special volume on Orthogonal Polynomials,
Approximation Theory, and Harmonic Analysis. ETNA is available at
http://etna.mcs.kent.edu and at several mirror sites, as well as on CDROM.

Bernhard Beckermann and Arno B.J. Kuijlaars, Superlinear CG convergence for
special right-hand sides, pp. 1-19.

D. Calvetti, P. C. Hansen and L. Reichel, L-curve curvature bounds via Lanczos
bidiagonalization, pp. 20-35.

Franz-Juergen Delvos, Uniform approximation by minimum norm interpolation,
pp. 36-44.

Brigitte Forster, An algorithm for nonharmonic signal analysis using Dirichlet
series on convex polygons, pp. 45-55.

W. Freeden and T. Maier, On multiscale denoising of spherical functions: Basic
theory and numerical aspects, pp. 56-78.

P. Junghanns and A. Rathsfeld, A polynomial collocation method for Cauchy
singular integral equations over the interval, pp. 79-126.

F. Marcellan and H. O. Yakhlef, Recent Trends on analytic properties of
matrix-orthonormal polynomials, pp. 127-141.

G. Mastroianni, Polynomial inequalities, functional spaces and best
approximation on the real semiaxis with Laguerre weights, pp. 142-151.

Gerhard Schmeisser, Bounds for Vandermonde-type determinants of orthogonal
polynomials, 152-164.

Kathi K. Selig, Uncertainty principles revisited, pp. 165-177.

Frauke Sprengel, Comparing multilevel coarsening strategies, pp. 178-194.

Herbert Stahl, Asymptotics for quadratic Hermite-Pad'e polynomials associated
with the exponential function, pp. 195-222.

Krzysztof Stempak, On convergence and divergence of Fourier-Bessel series,
pp. 223-235.

There will be a conference in Kent on May 29-31, 2003, on the occasion of
the 10th anniversary of ETNA. A web site for the conference is under
construction at http://lanczos.cwru.edu/~etna10


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From: Thomas Hogan <hogan@math.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:15:18 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Contents, Journal of Approximation Theory

Table of Contents: J. Approx. Theory, Volume 119, Number 2, December 2002

Di-Rong Chen and Gerlind Plonka
Convergence of cascade algorithms in Sobolev spaces for perturbed
refinement masks
133--155

Luis Bernal-Gonz\'{a}lez and Maria Del Carmen Calder'{o}n-Moreno
Dense linear manifolds of monsters
156--180

Zili Wu
A Chebyshev set and its distance function
181--192

Michael I. Ganzburg
The Bernstein constant and polynomial interpolation at the
Chebyshev nodes
193--213

Y. Sagher and P. Shvartsman
Rearrangement-function inequalities and interpolation theory
214--251

L. P. Bos and U. Maier
On the asymptotics of Fekete-type points for univariate radial
basis interpolation
252--270

J. Gilewicz, Yu. V. Kryakin, and I. A. Shevchuk
Boundedness by 3 of the Whitney interpolation constant
271--290

Vlad Timofte
Special uniform approximations of continuous vector-valued functions.
Part I: Special approximations in $C_X(T)$
291--299


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