NA Digest Sunday, January 9, 2005 Volume 05 : Issue 02

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

Submissions for NA Digest:

Mail to na.digest@na-net.ornl.gov.

Information via e-mail about NA-NET: Mail to na.help@na-net.ornl.gov.

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From: Tammy Kolda <tgkolda@sandia.gov>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:31:08 -0800
Subject: APPSPACK, Software for Derivative-free Optimization

Announcing APPSPACK 4.0: serial or parallel, derivative-free
optimization software for solving nonlinear unconstrained and
bound-constrained optimization problems, with possibly noisy and
expensive objective functions.

APPSPACK implements asynchronous parallel pattern search, which uses a
pattern of search directions to drive the search and determine new trial
points for evaluation. APPSPACK is written in C++ and uses MPI for
parallelism. Using APPSPACK to solve optimization problems has the
following advantages:

* /Only/ function values are required for the optimization, so it
can be applied to a wide variety of problems. The user need simply
provide a program (written in any language such as Fortran, C,
C++, Perl, etc.) that can evaluate the objective function at a
given point.
* The target applications are simulation-based optimization problems
characterized by a small number of variables (i.e., n < 100) and
by expensive objective function evaluations (typically complex
simulations that take minutes or hours to run). The procedure for
evaluating the objective function does not need to be encapsulated
in a subroutine and can, in fact, be an entirely separate program.
* The code can be run in parallel on a cluster of computers, greatly
reducing the total solution time. Parallelism is achieved by
assigning the individual function evaluations to different
processors. The (optional) asynchronism enables better load
balancing.
* The software is freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser
General Public License.

To learn more, visit http://software.sandia.gov/appspack/ or contact
Tamara G. Kolda (tgkolda@sandia.gov).


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From: Imre Polik <poliki@mcmaster.ca>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0500
Subject: SeDuMi, Optimization Package for MATLAB

We are glad to announce that the Advanced Optimization Laboratory at
McMaster University, Canada (http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~oplab) takes
over the maintenance and development of the SeDuMi package originally
created by Jos F. Sturm, who passed away in October, 2003.

The new SeDuMi website is at http://sedumi.mcmaster.ca, it currently
contains a Downloads section with the latest SeDuMi releases,
documentation, testsets and related papers, FAQ and a user forum. Users
can provide feedback and share their opinion and success stories about
the software, request new features, report bugs, etc. at the forum.

Currently, SeDuMi works in Matlab environment on Windows and Unix/Linux
systems. Experimental Mac builds and instructions on how to compile
SeDuMi under Mac OS X are under development. Updates for Matlab 7 are
going to be released in the near future. The maintainers also plan to
provide Windows builds optimized for Pentium IV and Athlon processors.

New features are planned to be added based on user requests and recent
publications.

We hope to see you at the website,

Tamás Terlaky,
Imre Pólik
Oleksandr Romanko


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From: Guido Kanschat <guido.kanschat@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 18:37:40 +0100
Subject: Deal, Finite Element Library

Version 5.1 of the deal.II object-oriented finite element library has been
released. It is available from the deal.II home-page at

http://www.dealii.org/

Version 5.1 offers a number of improvements over previous versions. In
particular, it contains a version of the sparse direct solver package UMFPack,
as well as corresponding interfaces to use it from within deal.II.

In addition to this, the most noteworthy changes are:
- Vectors and matrices built on top of PETSc objects are now completely
integrated. In particular, it is possible to build block vectors and
matrices with them.
- In 3d, Lagrange elements now implement hanging node constraints for all
polynomial orders, not only for the first few
- Several classes have been optimized to use algorithms with a better
complexity in terms of memory use or run time
- Support for DLLs on Microsoft Windows.

A comprehensive list of new features and fixed bugs can be found at
http://www.dealii.org/5.1.0/news/5.0.0-vs-5.1.0.html

All main features of the previous versions have been continued and improved:
- Support for dimension-independent programming
- Extensive documentation and working example programs
- Locally refined grids
- A zoo of different finite elements
- Fast linear algebra
- Built-in support for symmetric multi-processing (SMP)
- Output for a variety of visualization platforms.

deal.II can be downloaded for free and is distributed under an Open
Source license.

Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann, Guido Kanschat, the deal.II team


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From: Nicola Guglielmi <guglielm@univaq.it>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:33:05 +0100 (CET)
Subject: New Version of RADAR5 for Stiff Delay Equations

The second version of the code RADAR5 for the numerical solution
of stiff delay differential equations is available at the address
http://www.unige.ch/math/folks/hairer
The code is written in Fortran 90 and is based on the 3-stage
Radau IIA implicit Runge-Kutta method.
It is able to solve retarded differential-algebraic equations,
including neutral problems with vanishing or small delays.
The new version 2 of the code RADAR5 implements a new strategy -
peculiar to implicit schemes - allowing to detect automatically
and then to compute very accurately those breaking points which
have to be inserted into the mesh to guarantee the required
accuracy. Driver examples for nine problems are also available.

Comments and remarks are welcome.
Nicola Guglielmi (guglielm@univaq.it)
Ernst Hairer (Ernst.Hairer@math.unige.ch)


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From: Tao Tang <ttang@aaron.math.hkbu.edu.hk>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:30:10 +0800 (HKT)
Subject: Nominations for Feng Kang Prize

The Committee of Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing is seeking
applications and nominations for year 2005. 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 2005.
For more information about the prize, please visit
http://lsec.cc.ac.cn/fengkangprize/index.html

Application forms can be obtained by anonymous ftp from
http://lsec.cc.ac.cn/fengkangprize/contact.html

Deadline for applications and nominations is MARCH 15, 2005.

Please send all materials to
Ms. Wen-Qiong Zhang
Institute of Computational Mathematics
No.55, East Road, Zhong-Guan-Cun, Beijing 100080, CHINA
Email: zwq@lsec.cc.ac.cn

Shi Zhong-Ci
Chairman of the Evaluation Committee


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From: Andrei Martinez_Finkelshtein <andrei@ual.es>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 23:39:31 +0100
Subject: Mediterranean Congress of Mathematics in Spain

First Announcement:

Dear colleague,
The International Mediterranean Congress of Mathematics Almeria 2005 (CIMMA
2005) will be held in Almeria (south of Spain, 170 km or about 100 miles from
Granada) from June 6 to 10, 2005. It is part of the cultural program of the
XV Mediterranean Games Almeria 2005 scheduled for two weeks later. The site
of the congress is the modern campus of the University of Almería, located
at a beautiful place on the sea shore. Many outstanding mathematicians, mainly
from the Mediterranean area, have expressed their interest in participating.
The scientific program of the congress will consist of 3 plenary lectures
(by F. Catanese, A. Quarteroni, and E. Zelmanov) and 9 thematic sessions,
related to lines of research represented in Almeria, namely:
1. Algebras and their Representations
2. Geometry and Topology
3. Approximation, Special Functions and Numerical Analysis
4. Functional Analysis and its Applications
5. General Topology and its Applications
6. Probabilistic Spaces, Copulae and T-norms. Applications
7. Random Models and Design of Experiments
8. Financial Mathematics and Mathematical Economics
9. Mathematics Education
We have decided to contact you in order to encourage you to consider taking
part in this congress in either thematic session. More information is available
at the congress website, http://www.ual.es/Congresos/CIMMA2005/. It might be
very convenient to subscribe to a distribution list, following a link at the
website above, or directly at http://nevada.ual.es/cimma05/preregister.asp;
this subscription does not represent any commitment to participate. We will
release some useful information about lodging, transportation, participation
fees, abstract submission and social program soon. For any further information
you may contact the local organizing committee at cimma05@ual.es, or directly
the organizers of any thematic session. We are looking forward to hearing from
you soon.

With best regards,
The Organizing Committee.


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From: Jerzy Wasniewski <jw@imm.dtu.dk>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:18:12 +0100 (MET)
Subject: PPAM 2005 Date Change

Dear colleagues,

We'd like to inform you that the date of the PPAM 2005 conference
has been slightly changed. The new date is Sept. 11-14.
(http://ppam.pcz.pl)

Please excuse us for any inconvenience.

Sincerely yours,

Roman Wyrzykowski
PPAM 2005 Program Chair


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From: Kirsten Wilden <wilden@siam.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:16:19 -0500
Subject: SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry

SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry:
Challenges and Frontiers CFP Deadlines

Location: Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan

Dates: October 24-26, 2005

Invited Plenary Speakers:

Paul Deitz, Army Research Laboratories
Debra Elkins, General Motors
Steven Graves, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karl Kempf, Intel Corporation
Alan King, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Burton Smith, Cray Research

The Call for Presentations for this conference is available at:
http://www.siam.org/meetings/mi05/

Deadlines:

Minisymposium proposals: March 25, 2005

Abstracts for all contributed and minisymposium presentations: April 25, 2005

For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at
meetings@siam.org.


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From: Van Emden Henson <henson5@llnl.gov>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:56:58 -0800
Subject: Copper Mountain Multigrid Conference

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT (with corrected dates):

Twelfth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods
April 3 - April 8, 2005
Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA

ORGANIZED BY:

The Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Front Range Scientific Computations, Inc.
The University of Colorado

ORGANIZED IN COOPERATION WITH:
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

TENATIVE SPONSORS:

DOE, NSF, IBM, LANL, LLNL

THEMES:

General scalable multigrid and multilevel techniques:
algebraic & structured.
Parallel implementation of multigrid.
Adaptive AMG.
Adaptive Mesh Refinement.
Applications of these methods.

Every effort will be made to encourage contributions
from anyone whose interest lies in these important
and rapidly evolving fields.

IMPORTANT FEATURES:

STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION. Travel and lodging assistance will be awarded to
students and new PhDs judged to have submitted the best research papers.

MULTIGRID TUTORIALS. We will offer three tutorials:
I. An updated tutorial on basic multigrid, including
advanced multilevel techniques for nonlinear problems,
variable mesh spacings, variable coefficient operators,
and other common complicating situations;
II. A tutorial introduction to multigrid for parallel computers; and
III. An introduction to algebraic multigrid (AMG).


CONFERENCE DEADLINES:

Student Papers Jan. 13, 2005
Author Abstracts Feb.3, 2005
Early Registration March 3, 2005
Guaranteed Lodging March 3, 2005

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Please access our web site at

http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/copper

or contact

Cathy Lee
FRSC
1390 Claremont Drive
Boulder, CO 80305
USA
copper@Colorado.edu


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From: Kirsten Wilden <wilden@siam.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:21:27 -0500
Subject: SIAM Conference on Geosciences

SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the
Geosciences - Registration Now Available!

Location: Palais des Papes, The International Conference Center, Avignon,
France

Dates: June 7-10, 2005

Invited Plenary Speakers:
Clint Dawson, The University of Texas, Austin
Geir Evensen, Norsk Hydro, Oil & Energy Research Centre, Bergen, Norway
J.M. Huyghe, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jérôme Jaffré, INRIA-Rocquencourt, France
Bruno Sportisse, CEREA (École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées/EDF R&D)
Anne Marie Treguier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Gabriel Wittum, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Registration is Now Available!

Hotel Reservation Deadline: March 1, 2005
Pre-Registration Deadline: May 6, 2005

Registration for this conference is available at:
http://www.siam.org/meetings/gs05/

For additional information, contact the SIAM Conference Department at
meetings@siam.org.


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From: Taketomo Mitsui <tom.mitsui@nagoya-u.jp>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 19:44:35 +0900
Subject: SciCADE Conference in Nagoya

2005 International Conference
on
Scientific Computation and Differential Equations
(SciCADE 2005)

Nagoya Conference Center (NCC), Nagoya, Japan
May 23 - 27, 2005

The annoucement was posted in NA Digest Volume 04, Issue 29 (July 18, 2004).
For updated information please keep watching on our Web site at

http://www.math.human.nagoya-u.ac.jp/scicade05

Plenary speakers:
- Paul Barton (MIT)
- John C. Butcher (Auckland)
- Desmond J. Higham (Strathclyde)
- Willem H. Hundsdorfer (CWI)
- Per Christian Moan (Oslo)
- Yoshio Oyanagi (Tokyo)
- Christof Schuette (Berlin)
- Masahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo)

Minisymposia on varying topics are being arranged.

Please note the deadline for the application of "New Talent Program"
is coming soon.

We very much hope you will take part in this event.


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From: Correia Lopes <jlopes@fe.up.pt>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:27:16 +0000
Subject: Conference in Rio de Janeiro on High Performance Computing

VECPAR'2006
7th International Meeting on
High Performance Computing for Computational Science

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) e
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
July, 10-12, 2006

Deadline for submissions: October 28th, 2005
Proposals for tutorials due: October 28th, 2005
Author's notification: January 6th, 2006
Tutorials: July 9th, 2006

Organisation: vecpar2006@fe.up.pt
VECPAR'2006 web site: http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2006/

TOPICS OF INTEREST

* Cluster and Grid Computing
* Computing in Biosciences
* Concurrent Engineering
* Data Processing
* Educational Issues in Computational Science and Engineering
* Large Scale Simulations in all areas of Engineering and
Science (e.g., Computational fluid dynamics, Crash and
structural analysis)
* Numerical Methods (PDE, linear and non-linear algebra, etc.)
* Parallel and Distributed Computing
* Problem Solving Environments
* Scientific Visualization


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From: Anil Deane <deane@umd.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:22:02 -0500
Subject: Conference at University of Maryland on Parallel CFD

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
MAY 24-27, 2005
http://www.pcfd05.umd.edu

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Parallel CFD 2005 is the only International Conference focusing on
fluid dynamics and parallel computing. The conference returns to the US
after some years abroad, and we are expecting a record turnout. On
behalf of the Scientific Organization Committee, we invite you to
participate in the conference by submitting an extended abstract by
February 4, 2005 for review. Proposals for tutorials and mini-symposia
are also invited.

The Conference Proceedings will be published by Elsevier/North-Holland.

The conference dates are May 24-27, 2005, and it will take place at the
University of Maryland, College Park campus located in the greater
Washington DC metropolitan area, minutes away from Washington's world
class museums, galleries, monuments and other cultural attractions.

The following Invited Speakers have confirmed their participation:

Chris Allen, University of Bristol, UK
John Bell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Alan Gara, IBM, USA
Roland Glowinski, University of Houston, USA
William Henshaw, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Stephen Jardin, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA
Steven Orszag, Yale University, USA
Gerhard Wellein, Erlangen-Nürnberg University, Germany

Please see www.pcfd05.umd.edu for full information regarding the
conference themes, submission guidelines, registration, deadlines and
venue.

Best Regards,

Anil Deane (Conference Chair), Eitan Tadmor, & Jan Sengers
Local Organizers, Parallel CFD 2005
www.pcfd05.umd.edu
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA


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From: Jerzy Wasniewski <jw@imm.dtu.dk>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:13:03 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Workshop in Poland on HPC Linear Algebra Libraries

Workshop on
HPC Linear Algebra Libraries for Computers
with Multilevel Memories

to be held in conjunction with the

PPAM05 Conference on Parallel Processing
and Applied Mathematics

September 11-14, 2005, Poznan, Poland
http://ppam.pcz.pl/

A limited number of contributed, either 20 or 30 minutes talks will be
selected for this workshop. Extended abstracts no more than two pages
should be sent before March 15, 2005. The text can be in Latex,
Postscript, PDF or pure ASCII. The acceptance of the extended abstract
will be send no later than April 1, 2005.

After acceptance, the full papers according to the rules of the Springer
LNCS (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and PPAM05 Conference
(http://ppam.pcz.pl/submission.htm), in order to be published in the PPAM
2005 proceedings, should be sent before April 30, 2003.

These submitted papers will be reviewed, and the incorrect and
wrongly formatted papers will have to be submitted again. Some
papers may be selected for publication in special issues of
regular scientific journals.

Summary, Important Dates and Notes:

March 15, 2005 -- Extended abstracts
April 1, 2005 -- Acceptance for the presentation
April 30, 2005 -- Paper submission (full papers, see above)
October 15, 2005 -- Camera ready papers

The extended abstracts and the papers of this Workshop should
be sent to Jerzy Wasniewski <jw@imm.dtu.dk>.

For more information related to PPAM05 Conference, including
the payments, registration, hotel reservation etc., please visit
the PPAM2003 website http://ppam.pcz.czest.pl/

The workshop organizer:

Jerzy Wasniewski
Technical University of Denmark
Department of Informatics & Mathematical Modeling
DK-2800, Lyngby, Denmark


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From: Gilles Villard <Gilles.Villard@ens-lyon.fr>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:11:23 +0100
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at INRIA/Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN COMPUTER SCIENCE,
DIGITAL SIGNATURE AND HARDWARE ARITHMETIC OPERATORS,
INRIA/ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE, LYON FRANCE

Arnaud Tisserand and Gilles Villard
{Arnaud.Tisserand,Gilles.Villard}@ens-lyon.fr
Arnaire project
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/Arenaire
(CNRS/ENSL/INRIA/UCBL)

Laboratoire LIP, cole Normale Suprieure,
46 Alle d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07 France

The INRIA project Arenaire offers a 12 months postdoc position
starting as soon as possible.

Objectives

Last years have seen major investments in public-key cryptography
research. Indeed, new commercial cryptographic products rely on
very high ciphering speed. The efficiency of cryptographic
algorithms is a crucial issue nowadays, and the design of hardware
implementations is an important point for providing new solutions.

In collaboration with several other groups (ACI Securite
Informatique --- http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/OCAM), the objective
of the postdoc is to participate to the development of a FPGA-based
PC board prototype for digital signature. Together with the
development of an experimental platform for best software and
hardware solutions comparizon, the goal is to offer a complete
hardware demonstrator usable by any standard computer. Work
directions may concern FPGA programming, elaboration of test
programs, data communication and system aspects.

A joint research project of the candidate may be around
cryptography, low-power hardware, or hardware for computer
arithmetic.

Arnaire project.

Arnaire is a project of 16 researchers which aims at elaborating
and consolidating knowledge in the field of computer arithmetic. We
contribute to the improvement of the available arithmetic, at the
hardware level as well as at the software level, on computers,
processors, dedicated or embedded chips, etc. Reliability,
accuracy, and speed are major goals that drive our studies. We also
take into account other constraints such as power consumption,
certification using formal proof techniques or reliability of
numerical software. Target arithmetics are fixed or floating point
format, interval arithmetic, finite fields arithmetic and multiple
precision.

Skills and application

Knowledge in hardware design, for instance using VHDL for FPGAs, and
in the domain of cryptographic algorithms will be appreciated.

Interested candidates should contact or send files directly to
{Arnaud.Tisserand, Gilles.Villard}@ens-lyon.fr as soon as possible.
Files must contain a cv, a brief description of research work and
recommendation letters.


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From: Kenneth Jackson <krj@cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:00:19 -0500
Subject: Faculty Position at the University of Toronto

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto invites
applications for an appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in
the area of computational biology or bioinformatics to begin July 1,
2005. Appointments at more senior ranks may be considered in
exceptional cases. The department has extremely strong database,
machine learning, and theoretical computer science research groups with
strong interests in computational biology, and existing ties to a
number of experimental research labs in other units at the University.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to facilitate
further interaction with other units and take advantage of the
strengths in computational biology and bioinformatics (and medical and
biological sciences more broadly) that exist across the University.

For further information, please see

http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/DCS/News/job_opps.html


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From: Per Christian Hansen <pch@imm.dtu.dk>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:55:59 +0100
Subject: Faculty Position at Technical University of Denmark

Assistant or Associate Professor in Numerical Analysis

Applications are invited for a position as Assistant or Associate Professor
at the Informatics and Mathematical Modelling department at the Technical
University of Denmark. The post is available from June 1, 2005 in the
Numerical Analysis section of the department.

The Numerical Analysis section is responsible for teaching in numerical
analysis and scientific computing within the engineering studies (BSc,
MSc and PhD), and conducts research in the areas:
- Theory and algorithms for nonlinear optimization.
- Regularization methods for inverse problems.
- Differential equations and dynamical systems.
- Scientific computing on high-performance computers.
Through this announcement the department wishes to attract faculty whose
research is related to - but not restricted to - some of the above areas,
and who will be able to teach within (at least) two of the above areas.
Knowledge transfer to external partners (innovation) has also a high
priority.

Applicants who can demonstrate their ability to combine theoretical
knowledge
with constructive techniques will be preferred. More specifically, the
assessment of the applicants will be based on:
- Scientific production and research potential.
- Ability to teach, promote and utilize research results.
- All-round experience basis, preferably including international
experience.
- Ability to contribute to the development of the department's internal and
external scientific and industrial collaborations.
Applications, which should be submitted in English, must include a CV, a
list of publications, and a research statement. Applicants are requested to
indicate whether they apply for the position at the level of Associate or
Assistant Professor.

Applications must be sent to The Rector, Technical University of Denmark,
Building 101 A, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, and must be received no later
than March 1, 2005. Applications in electronic form cannot be accepted.

See the full text at http://www.imm.dtu.dk/news/jobs.htm.

Per Christian Hansen
Informatics and Mathematical Modelling
Technical University of Denmark
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~pch


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From: Torsten Moller <torsten@cs.sfu.ca>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:00:54 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Postdoctoral Positions at Simon Fraser University/UBC

We have two open positions in the area of medical imaging. One position
will focus on reconstruction issues of dynamic SPECT imaging while the
second position will deal with the analysis (segmentation and
visualization) of the dymanic SPECT images. The research will be conducted
within an interdisciplinary research group consisting of researchers of
the Medical Imaging Research Group (http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~mirg/) at
UBC and the Medical Image Analysis Lab (http://mial.fas.sfu.ca/) as well
as the Graphics, Usability and Visualization Lab (http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca/)
both at SFU.

The applicant should be able to demonstrate knowledge in the areas of
numerical analysis, image processing and visualization. Applicants with a
Ph.D. in Applied Math, Computing Science, Medical Physics or Scientific
Computing will be considered. Please send your CV and publication list as
well as a list of references and your status in Canada by email to Anna
Celler (aceller@physics.ubc.ca) before February 15.

Applicants should have completed their PhD by no later than March 31st
2005.


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From: Mike Christie <Mike.Christie@pet.hw.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:13:10 -0000
Subject: PhD Studentship at Heriot-Watt University

Applicants are invited for a PhD position in physics at Heriot-Watt
University on Uncertainty Quantification in Extreme Environments. This
award is supported by the Hydrodynamics Group at the UK Atomic Weapons
Establishment and is open only to UK applicants because of the need to
make occasional onsite visits to AWE.

For further details see
http://www.findaphd.com/search/showproject.asp?projectid=5108

Alternatively contact Mike Christie (m.christie@hw.ac.uk) or Ian
Galbraith (i.galbraith@hw.ac.uk) by email for further information.


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From: Christopher Davies <DaviesC9@Cardiff.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:03:32 +0000
Subject: PhD Studentship at CDardiff University

PhD Studentship, Cardiff School of Mathematics

Near-wall structures in 3D turbulent boundary layers

A PhD student is required to work on a research council
funded project.

The work will involve the numerical simulation and modelling of
near-wall structures in a three-dimensional shear-driven
turbulent boundary layer. The student will be supervised Dr C.
Davies at the School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, but
there will also be opportunities to collaborate with a team of
researchers led by Prof. P.W. Carpenter at the School of
Engineering, University of Warwick.

A well-qualifed graduate with a good degree in Mathematics,
Engineering, Physical Science or Scientific Computing is sought.
Some knowledge of Fluid Dynamics is desirable, but this is not
essential. More important is an interest in using mathematically
sophisticated numerical methods to develop a fluid dynamics simulation
code. This code will be used by the student to study and theoretically analyse
the behaviour of turbulent boundary-layer disturbances.

The project is funded for three years and includes a tax-free
stipend plus payment of full fees for an EU national. There is
provision for the successful candidate to attend a week long
introductory Computational Fluid Dynamics course at the VKI in
Brussels.

To initiate an application please send a full CV (including
contact details for three referees), together with a brief
statement that addresses why you are interested in studying for
a PhD in Fluid Dynamics.

Please note that funding is ONLY available for a student who is
normally resident in the EU (and not just resident in the EU
solely for educational purposes).

Contact Information:
Dr Christopher Davies

DaviesC9@cardiff.ac.uk
http://prandtl.math.cf.ac.uk

Cardiff School of Mathematics
Cardiff University
Senghennydd Road
Cardiff CF24 4AG
United Kingdom


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From: Hershkowitz Daniel <hershkow@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:13:14 +0200 (IST)
Subject: Contents, Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra

Volume 11 (2004) of ELA - The ELECTRONIC Journal of LINEAR ALGEBRA is now
complete.

1. James L. Rovnyak and Lev A. Sakhnovich, On the Krein-Langer integral
representation of generalized Nevanlinna functions, pp. 1-15.

2. B. David Saunders, Arne Storjohann and Gilles Villard, Matrix rank
certification, pp. 16-23.

3. Thomas Garrity and Zachary Grossman, On relations of invariants for
vector-valued forms, pp. 24-40.

4. Franceso Barioli and Shaun M. Fallat, On two conjectures regarding an
inverse eigenvalue problem for acyclic symmetric matrices, pp. 41-50.

5. Jeffrey S. Ovall, An analysis of GCD and LCM matrices via the
LDL^T-factorization, pp. 51- 58.

6. Takao Fujimoto and Ravindra R. Ranade, Two characterizations of
inverse-positive matrices: the Hawkins-Simon condition and the Le
Chatelier-Braun principle, pp. 59-65.

7. Tian-Gang Lei, Ching-Wah Woo and Fuzhen Zhang, Matrix inequalities by
means of embedding, pp. 66-77.

8. E.N. Antoniou and S. Vologiannidis, A new family of companion forms of
polynomial matrices, pp. 78-87.

9. Rafael Bru, Carmen Coll, Sergio Romero and Elena Sanchez, Reachability
indices of positive linear systems, pp. 88-102.

10. Eric S. Key and Hans Volkmer, Eigenvalue Multiplicities of Products of
Companion Matrices, pp. 103-114.

11. Thomas Britz, Dale D. Olesky and Pauline van den Driessche, Matrix
inversion and digraphs: the one factor case, pp. 115-131.

12. Philip I. Davies, Structured Conditioning of Matrix Functions, pp.
132-161.

13. Igor V. Erovenko, SL_n(F[x]) is not boundedly generated by elementary
matrices: explicit proof, pp. 162-167.

14. Stephen J. Kirkland, A combinatorial approach to the conditioning of a
single entry in the stationary distribution for a Markov chain, pp.
168-179.

15. S.W. Drury, The external vertices conjecture in case n=4, pp. 180-191.

16. Christian Mehl, Andre C. M. Ran and Leiba Rodman, Hyponormal matrices
and semidefinite invariant subspaces in indefinite inner products, pp.
192-204.

17. Chongguang Cao and Xiaomin Tang, Determinant preserving
transformations on symmetric matrix spaces, pp. 205-211.

18. Chi-Kwong Li, Thomas Milligan and Bryan L. Shader, Non-existence of
5X5 full ray nonsingular matrices, pp. 212-240.

19. Don Coppersmith and Zvi Lotker, On Cayley's Formula for counting trees
in nested interval graphs, pp. 241-245.

20. Vladimir Monov and Michael Tsatsomeros, On reducing and deflating
subspaces of matrices, pp. 246-257.

21. Wayne Barrett, Hein van der Holst and Raphael Loewy, Graphs whose
minimal rank is two, pp. 258-280.

22. Allan Pinkus, Interpolation by matrices, pp. 281-291.


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From: Hans Schneider <hans@math.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:51:24 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications

Linear Algebra and its Applications
Volume 396, Pages 1-392 (1 February 2005)

1. Editorial board
Pages ii-iii

2. On the solution of Steinâ^À^Ùs equation and Fisherâ^À^Ùs information
matrix of an ARMAX process
Pages 1-34
André Klein and Peter Spreij
3. Nilpotent linear transformations and the solvability of
power-associative nilalgebras
Pages 35-53
Ivan Correa, Irvin Roy Hentzel, Pedro Pablo Julca and Luiz Antonio
Peresi
4. A structure-preserving doubling algorithm for continuous-time
algebraic Riccati equations
Pages 55-80
E.K.-W. Chu, H.-Y. Fan and W.-W. Lin
5. On generalized H -matrices
Pages 81-90
Ting-Zhu Huang, Shu-Qian Shen and Hou-Biao Li
6. Linear/additive preservers of rank 2 on spaces of alternate matrices
over fields
Pages 91-102
Xian Zhang
7. On the sensitivity of Lanczos recursions to the spectrum
Pages 103-125
Vladimir Druskin, Liliana Borcea and Leonid Knizhnerman
8. Geometry of skew-Hermitian matrices
Pages 127-157
Li-Ping Huang and Zhe-Xian Wan
9. Linear maps preserving Drazin inverses of matrices over fields
Pages 159-173
Changjiang Bu
10. Some functions reversing the order of positive operators
Pages 175-187
Josip PeÄ^ÍariÄ^Ç and Jadranka MiÄ^ÇiÄ^Ç
11. Symmetric triality relations and structurable algebras
Pages 189-222
Susumu Okubo
12. On the comparison of some realizability criteria for the real
nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem
Pages 223-241
Ricardo Soto, Alberto Borobia and Julio Moro
13. The exponent and circumdiameter of primitive digraphs
Pages 243-258
L.F. Dame, D.D. Olesky and P. van den Driessche
14. A Perron Theorem for positive componentwise bilinear maps
Pages 259-272
Joseph E. Carroll, Timothy Lauck and Roland H. Lamberson
15. On sensitivity of eigenvalues and eigendecompositions of matrices
Pages 273-301
R. Alam and S. Bora
16. Combinatorial designs with two singular values II. Partial geometric
designs
Pages 303-316
E.R. van Dam and E. Spence
17. A pathway to matrix-variate gamma and normal densities
Pages 317-328
A.M. Mathai
18. Convex invertible sets and matrix sign function
Pages 329-352
Izchak Lewkowicz, Leiba Rodman and Elad J. Yarkoni
19. Convergence of logarithmic trace inequalities via generalized
Lieâ^À^ÓTrotter formulae
Pages 353-372
Takayuki Furuta
20. The geometric mean decomposition
Pages 373-384
Yi Jiang, William W. Hager and Jian Li
21. The structure of alternating-Hamiltonian matrices
Pages 385-390
William C. Waterhouse
22. Author index
Pages 391-392

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