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From: John M. Conroy <conroy@super.org>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 09:11:22 -0400
Subject: Peter Lax Quote
I recall Peter Lax speaking at ICIAM in 1987. The lecture included a
commentary on the use of computers in Mathematics for proving theorems.
The gist of the quote was: In the near future Mathematics void of
computation will be as rare as research in mechanics in Physics departments
today. (Lax, July 1987). It would be nice to have this exact quote.
Perhaps someone who was at the lecture took better notes than me?
John M. Conroy
IDA Center for Computing Sciences
Bowie, MD
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From: Marsha Berger <mberger@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 09:28:07 -0700
Subject: Call for Nominations, Fernbach Award
We are seeking nominations for the prestigious Sidney Fernbach Memorial
Award, established in 1992 in memory of Sidney Fernbach, one of the
pioneers in the development and application of high performance
computers for the solution of large computational problems. A
certificate and $2000 are awarded for outstanding contributions in the
application of high performance computers using innovative approaches.
The winner will be announced at SC|05, see
http://sc05.supercomputing.org/programs/awards_prizes.php for more
information.
The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2005. Nomination forms and
submission instructions can be found at
http://www.computer.org/awards/ .
Please direct any questions to awards@sc05.supercomputing.org .
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From: Cristian Gatu <cristian.gatu@unine.ch>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 12:37:21 +0200
Subject: Special Issue on Statistical Algorithms and Software
Special Issue on STATISTICAL ALGORITHMS AND SOFTWARE
of the journal Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/csda
3rd world conference on Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
http://www.csdassn.org/europe/csda2005/
Track 25: Statistical algorithms and software
Description
This track invites presentations in the area of Statistical algorithms
and software. Full papers will be considered for publication in the
first CSDA special issue which will inaugurate this section.
The journal "Computational Statistics and Data Analysis" aims to
publish, inter alia, papers with a strong algorithmic and software
component. These papers will appear in the first section of the
journal under the heading - "Computational Statistics".
In addition, the journal offers authors the possibility to enhance
their articles by including multimedia files along with the online
article. These may be in the form of algorithms or software. These
files will appear embedded in the article on ScienceDirect at
www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01679473.
Over time, an archive of statistical algorithms will be established at
this site. The files should be in non-proprietary formats, to ensure
that the long-term archival needs of electronic publishing are met.
The multimedia files will also be listed on the web page of the
"International Association for Statistical Computing".
The files will be freely available at this site. Copyright of the
files will remain with the authors and their use will require the
citation of the related article (journal, author, title and date of
the publication). No liability is assumed by the contributors, the
publisher, or the IASC.
Co-Chairs
James Gentle
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
John Hinde
National University of Ireland, Galway,
Ireland
Cristian Gatu
Universite de Neuchatel,
CH-2007 Neuchatel
Switzerland
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From: Alison Ramage <alison@maths.strath.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 17:13:47 +0100 (BST)
Subject: IFISS, Incompressible Flow and Iterative Solver Software
We are pleased to announce the availability of
Incompressible Flow & Iterative Solver Software (IFISS) Version 2.0.
This is an open-source Matlab software package that is associated with the
forthcoming book
"Finite Elements and Fast Iterative Solvers with applications in
incompressible fluid dynamics"
by Howard C. Elman, David J. Silvester, and Andrew J. Wathen
(see http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-852868-X for further details).
The IFISS software can be used to generate typical linear systems arising
from finite element discretisations of four important PDE applications:
diffusion, convection-diffusion, Stokes flow and Navier-Stokes flow
problems. It has built-in multigrid and Krylov subspace solvers and
includes a variety of appropriate preconditioning strategies for each
problem. We have used early versions of the software to suport technical
workshops we have given in the last decade on fast solvers for
incompressible flow problems.
Key features include
- implementation of a variety of mixed finite element approximation
methods
- automatic calculation of stabilization parameters where appropriate
- a posteriori error estimation
- a range of preconditioned Krylov subspace solvers (including MINRES
and BICGSTAB(ell))
- a built-in geometric multigrid solver/preconditioner
- an interface to the algebraic multigrid solver of FEMLAB (see
http://www.comsol.com/)
- useful visualisation tools.
IFISS has been tested under Matlab Versions 5.3 to 7.0 and can be run
under Windows, Unix and Mac architectures. The library is free software
which can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GNU
Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation. It can be downloaded from
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~elman/ifiss.html
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ifiss
David Silvester, Howard Elman and Alison Ramage.
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From: Bruce Boghosian <bruce.boghosian@tufts.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:00:56 -0400
Subject: Conference in Kyoto on Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics
14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE DISCRETE SIMULATION OF FLUID
DYNAMICS (DSFD2005)
Kyoto, Japan
August 22-26, 2005
The 14th International Conference on the Discrete Simulation of Fluid
Dynamics and Complex Systems (DSFD2005) will be held on August 22-26,
2005 in Kyoto, Japan. Topics covered at the DSFD series of meetings
include lattice-gas automata, the lattice Boltzmann equation,
dissipative particle dynamics, smoothed-particle hydrodynamics, direct
simulation Monte Carlo, stochastic rotation dynamics, molecular
dynamics, and hybrid methods. There will be sessions on advances in
both theory and computation, on engineering applications of discrete
fluid algorithms, and on fundamental issues in statistical mechanics,
kinetic theory, and hydrodynamics. For more information about the
conference, please refer to the web page:
http://fd.kuaero.kyoto-u.ac.jp/DSFD2005
Researchers interested in presenting at the meeting are asked to send a
one-page abstract by e-mail to:
dsfd@kuaero.kyoto-u.ac.jp
by May 15, 2005. Questions about the meeting may also be sent to this
address. We look forward to seeing you in Kyoto in August.
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From: Vadim Olshevsky <olshevsky@math.uconn.edu>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 15:57:51 -0400
Subject: Workshop in Connecticut on Operator Theory and Applications
IWOTA 2005
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
University of Connecticut, Storrs
July 24 - 27, 2005
The Sixteenth International Workshop on Operator Theory and Applications is
being organized at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, where it will
be held from Sunday, 24 July to Wednesday, 27 July, 2005. The purpose of
IWOTA 2005 is to bring together mathematicians and engineers interested in
operator theory and its applications. Our special interest areas are:
- structured matrices and efficient computations,
- system theory and control theory,
- operator theory and function theory.
We welcome more proposals for special sessions.
The list of plenary and semi-plenary speakers includes:
Joseph Ball, Percy Deift, A.Dijksma, Paul van Dooren, Israel Gohberg,
Georg Heinig, William Helton, M.A.Kaashoek, Nikolai Nikolski, Lev Sakhnovich,
Ilya Spitkovsky, Eugene Tyrtyshnikov. Joachim Rosenthal, James Rovnyak,
Hugo Woerdeman,
Please visit
http://www.math.uconn.edu/~iwota/
for more information about the meeting,
procedures for submitting an abstract and a proposal for a special session,
as well as for further updates.
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From: Kirsten Wilden <Wilden@siam.org>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:27:56 -0400
Subject: ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
<http://www.siam.org/meetings/DA06/index.htm> - CFP Deadlines
Location: Radisson Hotel Miami, Miami, Florida
Dates: January 22-24, 2006
The Call for Presentations for this symposium is available at:
http://www.siam.org/meetings/DA06/index.htm
Submission Deadline: July 6, 2005
For additional information, contact the SIAM Conference Department at
meetings@siam.org.
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From: Cristian Gatu <cristian.gatu@unine.ch>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 08:56:53 +0200
Subject: Conference in Cyrpus on Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
The deadline of submissions is the 21st of May 2005.
World Conference on Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Amathus Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus, 28-31 October, 2005
http://www.csdassn.org/europe/csda2005/
The 3rd International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC)
world conference on Computational Statistics and Data Analysis will
take place at the Amathus Beach Hotel in Limassol, Cyprus, October
28-31, 2005.
The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners
to discuss recent developments in computational methods, methodology
for data analysis and applications in statistics. It is associated
with the Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (CSDA), the
official journal of the IASC. This is an international journal
dedicated to the dissemination of methodological research and
applications in the areas of computational statistics and data
analysis (URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/csda).
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From: Endre Suli <endre@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 08:44:01 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Conference on Foundations of Computational Mathematics
Foundations of Computational Mathematics 2005
Santander, 30 June - 9 July 2005
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/na/FoCM/FoCM05/
http://www.focm.net/
[Second announcement]
The registration page for this meeting is now open and is
accessible from the URLs above.
The conference, organised by the Society for the Foundations
of Computational Mathematics, is the fifth in a sequence that
commenced with the FoCM meetings in Park City, Rio de Janeiro,
Oxford and Minneapolis. The meeting will consist of plenary
lectures in the mornings and theme-centred three-day-long
parallel workshops in the afternoons.
Plenary speakers:
Douglas Arnold (IMA & University of Minnesota)
James Demmel (UC Berkeley)
Jan Denef (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Michael Griebel (University of Bonn)
Ernst Hairer (University of Geneva)
Adrian Lewis (Simon Fraser University)
Stephane Mallat (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Elizabeth Mansfield (University of Kent)
Robert Meyerhoff (Boston College)
Konstantin Mischaikow (Georgia Tech)
Luis Miguel Pardo (Universidad Cantabria)
Ian Sloan (University of New South Wales)
Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley)
Endre Suli (University of Oxford)
Eva Tardos (Cornell University)
Vladimir Temlyakov (University of South Carolina)
Shang-Hua Teng (Boston University)
Enrique Zuazua (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
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From: Robert Nurnberg <robert.nurnberg@imperial.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 10:59:53 +0100
Subject: Research Associate Position at Imperial College London
Imperial College London is advertising a Research Associate position in
Numerical Analysis. (Closing date 1 June 2005)
For details see www.ma.ic.ac.uk
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From: William Dai <dai@lanl.gov>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 08:25:24 -0600
Subject: Positions at Los Alamos National Lab
We just opened two new positions in my team. Any one is encouraged to
apply for the positions if the candidate has the background in one or
more of the following areas: large scale programming (C/C++,
Fortran), application code tuning, parallel computing, MPI, data
analysis, scientific visualization, domain decomposition, mesh
generation.
http://www.hr.lanl.gov/jps/SingleJobAd.asp?ReqNumber=210477&ReqScope=INTERNAL%2FEXTERNAL&ReqTitle=STAFF+MEMBER&JobType=JobSearch&JobReopened=N
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From: Dick Valent <valent@ucar.edu>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 19:52:43 -0600
Subject: Staff Position at NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
The SCD-NCAR has a long term job opening for user consultant
in our state of the art computing facilities. The Basic Job Function
being:
Provides technical consulting on the use of the Scientific Computing
Division's (SCD) high performance computers to the UCAR scientific
computing community of more than 1100 scientists and programmers
on their large applications codes. Leads team efforts in Consulting
Services to resolve difficult applications problems, and to optimize and
tune applications codes on complex computer architectures. Develops
training and documentation for users of SCD's high performance
computers on complex topics.
This job offering will close on May 20, 2005. For details and for
applying for this position please see
http://www.fin.ucar.edu/hr/careers/uco.cfm?do=jobDetailExt&job_ID=463
Richard Valent,
SCD/NCAR
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From: Jerome Monnier <jerome.monnier@imag.fr>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:07:55 +0200
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at INRIA, Grenoble
PostDoc Position in Applied Mathematics (Microfluidics Context). Grenoble, France.
The applicant will reach an applied mathematics and numerical research
team (project-team IDOPT, INRIA) located at Grenoble (French Alps).
The study is carried out in collaboration with researchers in
fluid mechanics / interfacial phenomena (LEGI laboratory, Grenoble) and an
industrial partner.
The final objective is an efficient numerical model of droplet impact dynamics
on a solid substrat.
A PhD in Applied Mathematics is required. Demonstrated experience in
PDEs, numerical methods and software development in C/C++ is
mandatory.
This is a 12 months position with ~2000 Euros/month.
The successful candidate will be a willing and
effective communicator and committed to team collaboration.
The expected start date of the appointment is september 1, 2005.
Applications with full CV and two referees letters should be sent to:
J. Monnier
LMC-IMAG, BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
Email : Jerome.Monnier@imag.fr
Web sites :
INRIA, IDOPT Team-Project, http://www-lmc.imag.fr/IDOPT/idopt.html
Grenoble city, http://www.grenoble-isere-tourisme.com
LEGI laboratory, http://www.legi.hmg.inpg.fr
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From: Peter Matus <cmam@im.bas-net.by>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 16:29:45 +0300
Subject: Contents, Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics
Contents Comp. Meth. Appl. Math., Vol. 5 (2005), No. 1
All papers are available at our web-site http://www.cmam.info/issues/ .
Contents:
Symmetrizable difference schemes
A.V. Gulin (Russia)
Spectral collocation and waveform relaxation
methods with Gegenbauer reconstruction for nonlinear
conservation laws
Z. Jackiewicz, B. Zubik--Kowal (USA)
Transfer matrix study of finite-size corrections in the 2D Ising model
J. Kaupuzs (Latvia)
One-leg integration of ordinary differential equations with global
error control
G. Yu. Kulikov and S.K. Shindin (South Africa)
Generalization of the corrected mid-point rule and error bounds
N. Ujevic (Croatia)
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From: Oleg Burdakov <olbur@mai.liu.se>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:51:04 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Contents, Optimization Methods and Software
Table of Contents
Optimization Methods and Software (OMS),
Volume 20, Numbers 2-3 (April-June, 2005)
Special issue on mathematical diagnostics dedicated to Professor
Franco Giannessi on the occasion of his 70th birthday
Guest Editors: Vladimir F. Demyanov and Manlio Gaudioso
V. Boltyanski
Separation of convex cones and extremal problems
189-195
V. F. Demyanov
Mathematical diagnosis via nonsmooth analysis
197-218
J. Grzybowski, D. Pallaschke and R. Urbanski
Data classification and the separation law for closed bounded sets
219-229
A. B. Kurzhanski
The diagnostics of safety zones in motion
231-239
A. Alessandri, M. Sanguineti
Optimization of approximating networks for optimal fault diagnosis
241-266
A. Astorino and M. Gaudioso
Ellipsoidal separation for classification problems
267-276
A. M. Bagirov
Max-min separability
277-296
R. Bruni
Error correction for massive data sets
297-316
L. Palagi and M. Sciandrone
On the convergence of a modified version of SVM light algorithm
317-334
R. Ghosh, A. Rubinov and J. Zhang
Optimization approach for clustering datasets with weights
335-351
T. Serafini, G. Zanghirati and L. Zanni
Gradient projection methods for quadratic programs
and applications in training SVM
353-378
R. De Leone
A parallel algorithm for support vector machines training and
quadratic optimization problems
379-388
W. Chaovalitwongse, P. M. Pardalos, L. D. Iasemidis, Deng-Shan Shiau
and J. C. Sackellares
Dynamical approaches and multi-quadratic integer programming for
seizure prediction
389-400
D. Conforti and R. Guido
Kernel-based support vector machine classifiers for early detection of
myocardial infarction
401-413
Forthcoming papers and complete table of contents for the journal OMS:
http://www.mai.liu.se/~olbur/contents
Online sample copy and Instructions for Authors:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10556788.html
Discounted individual subscription:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/offer/goms.asp
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From: Ed Saff <esaff@math.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 23:35:01 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Contents, Constructive Approximation
Constructive Approximation
Vol. 22, No. 1, 2005
Table of Contents
"Generalized Shift-Invariant Systems"
by A. Ron and Z. Shen
Pages 1-45
"The Spectral Theory of Toeplitz Operators Applied to Approximation
Problems in Hilbert Spaces"
by M. Smith
Pages 47-65
"Almost Everywhere Convergence of Orthogonal Expansions of Several
Variables"
by Yuan Xu
Pages 67-93
"Characterization of Periodic L^1-Unicity Subspaces"
by M. Sommer
Pages 95-112
"Shift Generated Haar Spaces on Compact Domains in the Complex Plane"
by W. Hengartner and G. Opfer
Pages 113-132
"Effective Discretization of the Energy Integral and Grunsky Coefficients
in Annuli"
by M. Stiemer
Pages 133-147
Constructive Approximation
An International Journal for Approximations and Expansions
Published by Springer
http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~ca
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