NA Digest Tuesday, April 3, 2007 Volume 07 : Issue 14

Today's Editor:
Tamara G. Kolda
Sandia National Labs
tgkolda@sandia.gov

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From: Robert van de Geijn <rvdg@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:41:17 -0500
Subject: FLAME 1.0 Released

The first official release of libFLAME, the dense linear algebra library
that is one of the products of the NSF sponsored Formal Linear Algebra
Methods Environment (FLAME) project, will be available April 1, 2007,
from http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/software/.

libFLAME provides not only an alternative API for calling and
programming dense linear algebra libraries, but also FULL LAPACK
COMPATIBILITY for a number of the most commonly used routines from that
library. Performance is generally better than the LAPACK implementation
available from netlib, especially on SMP and multicore architectures.
For details on how to download, install, and link the library, please
visit http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/flame/ReleaseNotes/

In addition, we have found this API to be a valuable pedagogical tool.
Those interested in that aspect of the FLAME project and the libFLAME
library may wish to visit http://www.linearalgebrawiki.org/.

Robert van de Geijn
Field Van Zee
for the FLAME Team

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From: "J. M. Littleton" <Littleton@siam.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:06:39 -0400
Subject: Call for Nominations - SIAG/APDE Prize

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

SIAG/APDE Prize

The SIAM Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations
(SIAG/APDE) will present the SIAG/APDE Prize at the SIAM Conference on
Analysis of PDE (PD07) to be held December 10-12, 2007, in Mesa,
Arizona.

The SIAG/APDE Prize, established in 2005, is awarded to the author(s) of
the most outstanding paper on a topic in PDE published in English in a
peer-reviewed journal within the four calendar years preceding the year
of the award. A candidate paper must bear a publication date between
January 1, 2003, and December 31, 2006. It must contain significant
research contributions to the field of analysis of PDE, as commonly
defined in the mathematical literature, with direct or potential
applications.

The award will consist of a plaque and a certificate containing the
award citation. At least one of the awardees is expected to attend the
award ceremony and to present the paper as a plenary lecture at the
meeting. Travel expenses will be available to reimburse one speaker.

Nominations should include a full bibliographic citation for the paper
and a brief statement outlining the justification for the nomination in
terms of its importance and impact. Nominations should be addressed to
Professor Mary Pugh, Chair, SIAG/APDE Prize Committee and sent by May
15, 2007, to J. M. Littleton at littleton@siam.org. Inquiries should be
addressed to littleton@siam.org. Complete calls for nominations for
SIAM prizes can be found at www.siam.org/prizes/nominations.php.

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From: "C. Roos W'veen" <c.roos@tudelft.nl>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:45:37 +0200
Subject: Young Researchers Competition in Continuous Optimization

YOUNG RESEARCHERS COMPETITION in CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION

Submissions are invited for a special session at
ICCOPT II (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, August 12-17, 2007)
dedicated to papers authored by young researchers.

For the rules of the prize competition, see
http://iccopt-mopta.mcmaster.ca/papercompetit.htm

The deadline for submission is April 7, 2007.
Submission should be sent electronically in Adobe Acrobat pdf format, to
the Chair of the Selection Committee, Professor Kees Roos, email address:
c.roos@tudelft.nl.

Selection Committee:
\"Kees Roos\" <C.Roos@tudelft.nl> (chair)
\"Arnold Neumaier\" <Arnold.Neumaier@univie.ac.at>
\"Levent. Tuncel\" <ltuncel@math.uwaterloo.ca>
\"Yinyu Ye \" <yyye@stanford.edu>
\"Akiko Yoshise\" <yoshise@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

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From: iglesias <iglesias@unican.es>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:59:36 +0200
Subject: Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, TSCG'2007, Aug 2007

Second Call for Papers

Fifth Technical Session on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, TSCG'2007

Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), August 26-30 2007

Conference web site: http://personales.unican.es/iglesias/TSCG2007/

Contact persons:
Andres Iglesias: <iglesias@unican.es>
Deok-Soo Kim: <dskim@hanyang.ac.kr>

This Technical Session solicits high-quality papers for presentation
describing original research results in Computer Graphics and
Geometric Modeling (see Topics below).

There will be two types of accepted papers:
- full papers (10-14 pages) published by Springer-Verlag, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series.
- short papers (6 tp 9 pages), published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

The workshop is part of ICCSA'07, the 2007 International Conference
on Computational Science and Applications, to be held at Kuala Lumpur
(Malaysia), August 26-30 2007. The conference language will be
English.

IMPORTANT DATES
* April 10, 2007: Draft papers due (EXTENDED DEADLINE)
* April 30, 2007: Notification of Acceptance
* May 21, 2007: Camera Ready Papers
* August 26-30, 2007: ICCS 2007 conference

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From: "Alexander Ostermann" <alexander.ostermann@uibk.ac.at>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:14:38 +0200
Subject: Workshop: Time integration of evolution problems, Innsbruck, Sep 2007

Workshop: Time integration of evolution problems
September 12-15, 2007
Innsbruck, Austria

The Department of Mathematics of the University of Innsbruck organizes
in collaboration with the numerical analysis groups of the Universities
of Trieste and Udine the fourth workshop in series on numerical analysis
and scientific computing. This year, the topic will be time integration of
evolution problems.

The intention of the workshop is to provide a platform for exchanging
new ideas and results in the development of numerical methods for
evolution equations. The emphasis will be laid on the time integration of PDEs.
We try to cover both, theoretical and practical aspects, and we want to
bring together numerical analysts working in the field as well as PhD
students who want to start in this area.

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please send an e-mail
to one of the local organizers (alexander.ostermann@uibk.ac.at or
mechthild.thalhammer@uibk.ac.at).

Please note that the number of participants is limited.

Organizers:
Alexander Ostermann, Mechthild Thalhammer (Innsbruck)
Alfredo Bellen (Trieste)

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From: Jerzy Wasniewski <jw@imm.dtu.dk>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:29:19 +0200 (METDST)
Subject: Language-Based Parallel Programming Models with PPAM'07, Sep 2007

2nd Workshop on Language-Based Parallel Programming Models

in conjunction with

SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
PARALLEL PROCESSING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
September 9-12, 2007, Gdansk, Poland,
http://www.geocities.com/wlpp07

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From: Martin Buecker <buecker@sc.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:56:22 +0200
Subject: Call for papers, Automatic Differentiation, Aug 2008

AD2008 - First Call for Papers

The Fifth International Conference on Automatic Differentiation (AD)
AD2008 will take place from August 11th to August 15th, 2008 at
the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology,
Bonn (Germany).

AD 2008 will be organized locally by RWTH Aachen University
under the direction of an international program committee. It
represents a follow up on the four previous conferences held in
in Breckenridge (USA) in 1991, in Santa Fe (USA) in 1996, in
Nice (France) in 2000 and in Chicago (USA) in 2004. In addition
to recent advances in AD research and software development
conference topics include the use of AD in optimization and its
application to ODEs/DAEs and inverse problems.

Invited presentations have been confirmed by

Mike Giles (Oxford University)
Wolfgang Marquardt (RWTH Aachen University)
Arnold Neumaier (Vienna University)
Alex Pothen (Old Dominion University)
Eelco Visser (Delft University)

The conference will start Monday afternoon and finish by noon
on Friday. Proceedings of all accepted papers will be published.
Contributed papers must be submitted by November 30th, 2007.
A social event is planned for Wednesday afternoon. Bonn is easily
accessible within one hour from Frankfurt/Main International
Airport (by train or car). Its picturesque location on the Rhine
River makes it ideal for sightseeing tours along the Rhine as well
as for visits to the nearby cities of Cologne, Duesseldorf, and Aachen.
Details regarding the location, procedures for registration and
submission, and the preliminary program will be made available at

http://www.autodiff.org/ad08/

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From: David Griffiths <dfg@maths.dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:25:40 +0100
Subject: Dundee Numerical Analysis Conference, Jun 2007

22nd Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis
University of Dundee
26 June - 29 June, 2007

The special invited lecture in honour of A. R. Mitchell will be
presented by Professor Roger Fletcher FRS, University of Dundee.

The other Principal Speakers will include
Douglas Arnold, University of Minnesota
Dugald Duncan, Heriot-Watt University
Bengt Fornberg, University of Colorado
Gene Golub, Stanford University
Paul Houston, University of Nottingham
Angela Kunoth, Universitat Bonn
Jeremy Levesley, University of Leicester
Sven Leyffer, Argonne National Laboratory
Volker Mehrmann, Technische Universitat Berlin
David Silvester, University of Manchester
Zdenek Strakos, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Denis Talay, INRIA

The after-dinner speaker will be Professor L. N. Trefethen FRS,
Oxford University.

Further information is available at the conference web site:

http://www.maths.dundee.ac.uk/naconf/

which allows online registration.

We are offering, through SIAM, two student prizes of 50pounds each
for the best presentations. See

http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~sms03sl/UKIESIAM/student_prize.pdf

for detailed guidelines.

David Griffiths / Alistair Watson
dfg@maths.dundee.ac.uk

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From: pmancera <pmancera@ibb.unesp.br>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:33:47 -0300
Subject: Conf. on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics, Jul 2007

*EXTENSION OF THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND LAST CALL FOR
PAPERS*.

The Second Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population
Dynamics (CMPD2) will take place in Campinas, Brazil, from July 16 to
20, 2007.

We remark that *the deadline for abstract submission was extended to
April 30, 2007*, in response to the request from some colleagues
interested in participating in CMPD2.

This Conference is the second joint meeting of the Conference on
Mathematical Population Dynamics (MPD) and the Conference on
Deterministic and Stochastic Models for Biological Interactions
(DeStoBio), with a 20-year history of international meetings with
ever-increasing participation (www.cmpd2.ime.unicamp.br
<http://www.cmpd2.ime.unicamp.br>, choose History of CMPD). As in the
previous conferences from both series, the aim of the meeting is to
bring together people from different fields (applied mathematicians,
statisticians, engineers, computer scientists, biologists, clinicians,
epidemiologists, biomedical scientists, ecologists, ...) interested in
(deterministic and/or stochastic) models for population dynamics and
interactions.

There will be 10 plennary lectures (invited speakers: Carlos
Castillo-Chavez, Alan Hastings, Karl Sigmund, Glenn Webb, Faustino
Sanchez Garduño, Bryan Grenfell, Bedr'Eddine Ainseba, Emmanuel
Tannenbaum, Vasudev M. Kenkre, Cláudio José Struchiner) and several
parallel sessions organized by thematic interest.

On-line registration and abstract submission are available at
www.cmpd2.ime.unicamp.br <http://www.cmpd2.ime.unicamp.br> .

SPONSORS:
Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática Aplicada e Computacional (SBMAC)
European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB)
Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB)

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From: Roy Mathias <mathias@for.mat.bham.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:17:32 +0100 (BST)
Subject: IMA Conf. on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimisation, Sep 2007

We are pleased to announce that the University of Birmingham will host the

IMA International Conference on
Numerical Linear Algebra
and Optimisation.
Sept 13-15, 2007.

http://www.ima.org.uk/Conferences/numlinalg/numlinalghome.htm

The conference is organised by the Institute for Mathematics and Its
Applications (IMA).

It is co-sponsored by SIAM and ILAS. SIAM and ILAS members will recieve the
IMA members reduced registration fee.

INVITED SPEAKERS: (confirmed)
Paul Van Dooren (Catholic University of Louvain)
Roger Fletcher (University of Dundee)
Jorge Nocedal (Northwestern University)
Michael Overton (New York University)
Valeria Simoncini (University of Bologna)
Zdenek Strakos (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Philippe Toint (University of Namur)
Nick Trefethen (Oxford Universtity)

CALL FOR PAPERS AND MINISYMPOSIA
Contributions are sought covering any topic of numerical linear
algebra or optimisation. All contributed talks will be scheduled for
at least 20 minutes. Individuals who wish to organise a minisymposium
(4 or more talks on a common theme) should submit the abstracts
through the usual channels then send a single email to one of the
organisers stating that they would like the talks grouped as a
minisymposium.

Abstracts should be submitted by Mar 31st, or as soon as possible there after.

Electronic submission: (online:: http://online.ima.org.uk/
email :: lucy.nye@ima.org.uk)

Inquiries: Lucy Nye lucy.nye@ima.org.uk
or members of the orgainising committee

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From: onevanli@cc.hut.fi
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:26:46 +0300
Subject: Special Year in Numerics 2008-2009, May 2008-09

Special Year in Numerics 2008-2009, Helsinki, Finland

The theme of the visitor programme of the Finnish Mathematical Society
in 2008-2009 will be numerics and the Institute of Mathematics at
Helsinki University of Technology will be the main organizer of the
activities.

The main events of the year are one week workshops and smaller courses
between May 2008 and June 2009. Keynote speakers of the workshops will be
invited to visit the organizers for 1/2-3 months.
The programme is nicely connected to the TKK 100 years celebration in 2008.

We will have:

Opening conference: Perspectives in Numerical Analysis, TKK, May 27-29,
2008
Workshop on Modelling, Scientific Computing and Optimization, Jyväskylä,
August 2008
Workshop on Numerics and Stochastics, TKK, August 25-29, 2008
Conference on Numerical Matrix Analysis and Operator Theory, TKK,
September 3-5, 2008
Workshop on Numerics in Dynamical Systems, TKK, April 2009
The European Finite Element Fair 2009, TKK, May 2009

For more datails see: http://math.tkk.fi/numericsyear/

Announcements on each of the events will be sent later.

Welcome!
Olavi Nevanlinna

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From: Graham de Vahl Davis <cht08@cfd.mech.unsw.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:24:18 +1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)
Subject: Computational Heat Transfer CHT-08 announcement, May 2008

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

CHT-08: International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer

will take place in Marrakech Morocco on May 11-16, 2008. See

http://cht08.mech.unsw.edu.au/

This is the fourth symposium on CHT to be organised by ICHMT, and will be
co-sponsored by the CFD Research Laboratory of The University of New South
Wales and the LEEVAM Research Laboratory of the University of
Cergy-Pontoise, France.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for the exposure and
exchange of ideas, methods and results in computational heat transfer.
Papers on all aspects of computational heat transfer - both fundamental
and applied - will be welcome.

TECHNICAL SESSIONS

There will be a number of invited keynote lectures. Contributed papers
will be presented in both oral and poster sessions.

DEADLINES

Abstract submission is open now; the deadline is 1 October 2007
Abstract acceptance will be notified by 1 November 2007
Full length manuscript due 15 December 2007
Notification of acceptance subject to amendment by 15 February 2008
Notification of final acceptance by 15 March 2008
Early registration fee deadline and Final payment date to ensure
inclusion of papers in the Proceedings: 30 March 2008

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information about the Symposium, see
http://cht08.mech.unsw.edu.au, or write to Professors Graham de Vahl Davis
and Eddie Leonardi (Symposium co-chairs) at cht08@cfd.mech.unsw.edu.au,
fax: +61 2 9663 1222.

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From: Katja Mombaur <Katja.Mombaur@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:40:06 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: New deadline for CFG Conference on Optimization, Sep 2007

13th CZECH-FRENCH-GERMAN CONFERENCE ON OPTIMIZATION
Heidelberg, Germany, September 17-21, 2007
http://cfg07.uni-hd.de
cfg@uni-hd.de

Due to several requests we have extended the deadline for submission of
talk abstracts to April 15. Despite more than 100 CFG submissions so far,
there is still some space for more high quality presentations at the
CFG07. The conference also involves a very extensive poster session. As in
previous meetings of this conference series there will be a prize awarded
to the best poster presented. Students and young researchers are
especially encouraged to apply. The deadline for poster submissions is
June 1.

Invited Presentations:
- Guillaume Carlier - Optimal Transportation with Congestion
and Wardrop Equilibria
- Roger Fletcher - Recent Developments in Nonlinear Programming
- Roland Griesse - Stability and Sensitivity in PDE-Constrained
Optimization
- Pierre Marechal - A Tour of Convex Analysis of Spectrally Defined
Matrix Functions
- Alexander Martin - Mixed Integer Programming in Engineering
Sciences: Some Case Studies
- David Preiss - New Variational Principles and their Use in Proving
Differentiability
- Carsten Scherer - Robust Estimator Design by Convex Optimization
- Zdenek Strakos - Nonlinear Problems in Analysis of Krylov Subspace
Methods
- Emmanuel Trelat - Optimal Control and Applications to Aeronautics
Problems
- Michael Valasek - Synthesis of Optimal Control between Theory and
Practical Application
- Lui­s Nunes Vicente - Globally Convergent Algorithms for Derivative
Free Optimization
- Andreas Waechter - Recent Advances in Mixed-Integer Nonlinear
Programming
- Andrea Walther - AD-based Optimization for Complex Applications

For more information, please visit our website at www.cfg07.uni-hd.de

Katja Mombaur
on behalf of the organizing committee

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From: Maeve Lewis McCarthy <maeve.mccarthy@murraystate.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:34:41 -0500
Subject: Southeastern Atlantic Regional Conf. on Differential Equations, Oct 2007

The 27th annual Southeastern Atlantic Regional Conference on
Differential Equations (SEARCDE) will be held at Murray State
University in Murray, Kentucky on October 19-20, 2007. This year's
plenary speakers are Jeff Borggaard (Virginia Tech), Gerda deVries
(University of Alberta) and Barbara L. Keyfitz (Fields Institute and
University of Houston).

In addition to the principal speakers, there will also be sessions of
twenty minute contributed talks. There may be funding from the
National Science Foundation to provide travel support for advanced
graduate students and recent Ph.D. recipients. Women and minority
participants are especially encouraged to participate in this
conference and to apply for support.

Details on registration, lodging, submission of abstracts, and
applications for support will be available at the conference website
http://campus.murraystate.edu/searcde

We would appreciate it if you would pass this announcement along to
all who might be interested in participating in the conference.

Sincerely,
Maeve L. McCarthy < maeve.mccarthy@murraystate.edu>
K. Renee Fister < renee.fister@murraystate.edu>

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From: Greg Fasshauer <fasshauer@iit.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:51:02 -0500
Subject: Midwest Numerical Analysis Day at IIT in Chicago on June 23, 2007

The 2007 Midwest Numerical Analysis Day will take place on Saturday, June 23
at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers and
practitioners at all stages of their careers, mainly from the Midwest, to
exchange ideas in numerical analysis, scientific computing and related
application areas. Participation of graduate students is strongly
encouraged.

This one-day meeting will be held in conjunction with the 7th International
Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and
Engineering (CMMSE 2007) also hosted by the Illinois Institute of Technology
from June 20-23, 2007. We encourage participation at both meetings.
One of the keynote speakers of CMMSE 2007 (see
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIM/CMMSE/keynote.htm) will be speaking during the
Midwest Numerical Analysis Day.

Deadline for title and abstract submission: June 1

Steering Committee:
Mihai Anitescu (Argonne National Laboratory)
Kendall Atkinson (University of Iowa)
Greg Fasshauer (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Jie Shen (Purdue University)
Patrick Van Fleet (University of St. Thomas)
David Voss (Western Illinois University)
Bruce Wade (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

For more information see http://www.math.iit.edu/~mwnaday/MWNADAY07.htm or
send email to fasshauer@iit.edu.

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From: "Tony Shardlow" <Tony.Shardlow@manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:11:08 +0100
Subject: Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Stochastic PDEs, Sep 2007

Numerical Analysis of Stochastic PDEs
The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Monday September 3 - Tuesday September 4, 2007
http://www.mims.manchester.ac.uk/events/workshops/NASPDE/

We are hosting a two day workshop on the numerical analysis of
stochastic PDEs, with emphasis on stochastic finite elements and other
numerical techniques for solving stochastic PDEs arising in science
and engineering. Confirmed speakers include

Andrew Stuart (Warwick)
Christoph Schwab (Zurich)
Des Higham (Strathclyde)
Raul Tempone (Florida)
Grant Lythe (Leeds)
Ian Davies (Swansea)
Gabriel Lord (Heriot-Watt)
Michael Tratyakov (Leicester)
Chris Farmer (Oxford)
Ivan Graham (Bath)
Oliver Ernst (Freiberg)
Dan Cornford (Aston)

Please contact Catherine Powell (c.powell(at)manchester.ac.uk) or Tony
Shardlow (shardlow(at)manchester.ac.uk) if you are interested in
attending.

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From: Nick Higham <Nick.Higham@manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:29:28 +0100
Subject: Lectureships at The University of Manchester

The School of Mathematics in The University of Manchester is
advertising Lectureships in Pure Mathematics (Logic), Applied
Mathematics, Probability and Statistics.

Numerical analysis (part of Applied Mathematics at Manchester) is one
of the areas in which an appointment can be made.

Details are at

http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/info/vacancies.html

Closing date 30/04/2007.

---Nick Higham

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From: Espen Robstad Jakobsen <erj@math.ntnu.no>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:18:57 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Postdoc/PhD position in Applied Mathematics (NTNU, Norway)

A postdoctoral fellowship (alternatively 1 PhD grant) is available at the
Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

The candidate will be based at NTNU and/or at the University of Oslo. The
grant, which is funded by the Research Council of Norway, is for two years
(Postdoc) or three years (PhD).

The project focuses on analysis of integro partial differential equations
and applications in finance. Depending on the background of the successful
applicant, the focus will be on either numerical analysis/numerical
methods or mathematical analysis of such problems. The successful
candidate will participate in the activities of the "Integro-PDEs:
Numerical methods, Analysis, and Applications" project which is based at
NTNU and at the University of Oslo.

Detailed instructions can be found on the web page

www.math.ntnu.no/~erj/nmaaf/

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From: Renato Spigler <spigler@mat.uniroma3.it>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:21:34 +0200
Subject: PhD positions at the University "Roma TRE", in Rome, Italy

Call for Application:

The University "Roma TRE", in Rome, Italy, opens a competition
for the access of foreign students to the its Doctoral Courses. These
involve three academic years, starting about late in the Fall of 2007,
and can confer a Ph.D. degree, in particular in Pure and (or) Applied
Mathematics.
Among the requirements, however, there is that the prospective
student should be able to obtain his/her own Scholarship of 10,561.54
Euros per year, to support him/herself (this is the amount of the
Italian Scholarships). Applications are due by the midnight of April 16,
2007 (local time).
See <http://ricerca.mat.uniroma3.it/dottorato/> for specific
information.

Renato Spigler, <spigler@mat.uniroma3.it>

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From: Krishna Kumar <kdkumar@ryerson.ca>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:05:58 -0400
Subject: Two Ph.D. Studentships in Spacecraft Design, Dynamics and Control

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Ryerson University has a
strong and vibrant research programme involving the development of
pico- and femto-satellites (weighing less than 1 kilogram) under
Dr. Krishna Kumar, a well known international expert in the area of
spacecraft dynamics and control. Two Ph PhD studentships are available
in his areas of research starting Fall 2007. Dr. Kumar’s areas of
research include Dynamics and Control of Space Systems, Orbit and
Attitude Dynamics and Control, Formation Flying, Microsatellite
systems, Pico- and Femto-Satellites using Nanotechnology and
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). To pursue research in these
exciting areas, the candidates should have a bachelor/master’s degree
in Aerospace/Mechanical/Electrical/ Electronics/Computer engineering
with a strong background in dynamics and control systems, mathematics
as well as high GPA and TOEFL score. The candidates with experience
in designing real-time controllers and communic ation systems are also
preferable.

Interested candidates should send (preferably by email) latest by
April 7, 2007, their resumes along with names and contact information
of three references as well as copies of research papers to:

Dr. Krishna Kumar, Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Space Systems Engineering
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5B 2K3
Tel: 1-416-979-5000 Ext. 4908, Fax: 1-416-979-5056
Email: kdkumar@ryerson.ca
http://www.ryerson.ca/~mechgrad/faculty.html; http://www.kdkumar.com

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From: "Thomas Buchsbaum" <buchsbaum@tugraz.at>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:50:57 +0200
Subject: PhD Studentship in Optimization, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Position in PhD Program in Combinatorial Optimization in Production
Planning

The Department of Engineering and Business Informatics at Graz
University of Technology, Austria, invites applications for a research
assistant position.

The overall goal of the project is to develop and analyze combinatorial
algorithms and heuristics for production planning tasks subject to many
constraints. The project partner is SAA Engineering GmbH, a company that
specializes in the analysis of production and process systems. SAA
develops modern automation concepts and economical solutions for their
customers.

The candidate must have completed a university degree (diploma or
master's) in engineering mathematics, computer science, logistics, or
related field. He or she will have basic knowledge and research
interests in optimization, esp. combinatorial optimization. Basic
(algorithmic) programming skills in C++ and/or C# are expected.

Language Requirements: English, German advantageous.
Applicants must be EU citizens.

The successful candidate will actively participate in the department's
administrative and undergraduate teaching activities. He or she will be
paid at research assistant level.

Graz University of Technology is an equal opportunity employer. Women
and members of minority groups are especially encouraged to apply.

Please send your CV and a short statement of your experience with
optimization, software development, and project management, if any.
(PDF-files)

For further details, please contact:
Thomas Buchsbaum
Email: buchsbaum@tugraz.at
http://www.mbi.tugraz.at

Department of Engineering and Business Informatics
Graz University of Technology
Kopernikusgasse 24/3
A-8010 Graz

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From: "Tony Shardlow" <Tony.Shardlow@manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:14:42 +0100
Subject: Funded places available on MSc course in Manchester, UK

MSc in Mathematics and Computational Science
University of Manchester, UK

Funding available to cover fees and maintenance grants of upto 8000
pounds (subject to EPSRC eligibility conditions).

The Schools of Mathematics and Computer Science are jointly offering
an MSc programme in Mathematical and Computational Science, starting in
September 2007. It is good preparation for PhD level research based
on computation in any of the engineering and physical sciences, as
well as entering into industry and commerce.

The MSc covers a variety of mathematics, including numerical linear
algebra, dynamical systems, differential equations, and finite
elements, as well as computational science, including computer
architecture and large scale parallel computing. The programme offers
two pathways, allowing specialisation in either mathematics or
computational science. The MSc is twelve months in duration and
comprises 90 credits of taught modules plus a 90 credit research level
dissertation.

This MSc course is suitable for mathematically well qualified
graduates. Many of our students have an undergraduate degree in
mathematics, others come from physics and engineering backgrounds and
others join after working in industry for a time.

Further information is available at

http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/pgadmission/msc-mcs.html

or by contacting

Admissions Tutor: Dr L. Freeman (lfreeman@cs.man.ac.uk)
Programme Director: Dr T. Shardlow (tony.shardlow@manchester.ac.uk)

Thanks for your interest!
Tony Shardlow.

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From: Chi-Wang Shu <shu@dam.brown.edu>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:10:51 -0400
Subject: Contents, Journal of Scientific Computing

Journal of Scientific Computing
http://www.springeronline.com/journal/10915

Volume 30, Number 3, March 2007

A Numerical Comparison of the Lax–Wendroff Discontinuous Galerkin
Method Based on Different Numerical Fluxes
Jianxian Qiu, pp.345-367.

Optimization Strategies for the Entropic Lattice Boltzmann Method
Francesca Tosi, Stefano Ubertini, S. Succi and I. V. Karlin,
pp.369-387.

Fourth-Order Semi-Compact Scheme for Flow Past a Rotating and
Translating Cylinder
Y. V. S. S. Sanyasiraju and V. Manjula, pp.389-407.

Reconstruction of Piecewise Smooth Functions from Non-uniform
Grid Point Data
Anne Gelb, pp.409-440.

Arbitrary High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes for the
Magnetohydrodynamic Equations
Arne Taube, Michael Dumbser, Dinshaw S. Balsara and Claus-Dieter
Munz, pp.441-464.

hp-Version a priori Error Analysis of Interior Penalty Discontinuous
Galerkin Finite ElementApproximations to the Biharmonic Equation
Igor Mozolevski, Endre Suli and Paulo R. Bosing, pp.465-491.

Fully Adaptive Multiscale Schemes for Conservation Laws Employing
Locally Varying Time Stepping
Siegfried Muller and Youssef Stiriba, pp.493-531.

Stencil Adaptation Properties of a WENO Scheme in Direct Numerical
Simulations of Compressible Turbulence
Ellen M. Taylor and M. Pino Martin, pp.533-554.

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