NA Digest Monday, May 25, 2009 Volume 09 : Issue 21

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

Submissions for NA Digest:

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

Information via email about NA-NET:

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

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Iain Duff <iain.duff@stfc.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 00:42:01 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Sparse Days at CERFACS, Jun 2009

Sparse Days at CERFACS. June 18-19, 2009.

Registration deadline: 30 May, 2009.

Web site: http://www.cerfacs.fr/6-26626-Sparse-Days-2009.php

Please note that CERFACS has had a revamped web site and the previous URL
for this meeting non longer works. The new and correct web address
is given above.

Please also note that the deadline for registering and submitting papers
for the annual CERFACS Sparse Days meeting is rapidly approaching.
The meeting will start on the morning of Thursday June 18th and finish
late-afternoon on Friday 19th; the exact timing depending on the papers
accepted for presentation.

As usual there will be no registration fee, although you must register
beforehand with Brigitte Yzel (Brigitte.Yzel@cerfacs.fr). You should
also let know Brigitte if you want to stay in the very cheap (but very
adequate) on-site accommodation for which support is available for
students. There will be a conference dinner on Thursday evening,
the cost of which will be announced later.

People wanting to speak should email Xavier Vasseur
(Xavier.Vasseur@cerfacs.fr) with a title and abstract (up to one page in
LaTeX or plain text. Normally talks would be for thirty minutes (including
questions) but this could be negotiable (either way). We do not want to
have parallel sessions so we will not necessarily be able to accept all
submissions. A poster session will be available. Please let us know if
you would prefer this mode of presentation.

The deadline for submitting abstracts (one page in plain text or LaTeX),
for registering, and for requesting cheap accommodation is May 30th.

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Jennifer Scott <jennifer.scott@stfc.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 04:05:58 -0400
Subject: Sparse Matrices for Scientific Computation, UK, Jul 2009

Sparse Matrices for Scientific Computation:
In Honour of John Reid's 70th Birthday
15-16 July, south Oxfordshire, UK

The Numerical Analysis Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is
organising a two-day meeting to bring together leading numerical analysts
from the UK and abroad in honour of John Reid's 70th birthday.
John is an eminent UK numerical analyst who, over a career spanning
five decades, has made many important contributions, particularly in the
development of sparse matrix technology.

The meeting will be held in Abingdon (about 5 miles south of Oxford, UK).
The confirmed list of speakers is:
* Andrew Cliffe, University of Nottingham
* Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
* Iain Duff, FRSE, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
* Al Erisman, Seattle Pacific University
* Roger Fletcher, FRS, FRSE, University of Dundee
* Shaun Forth, Cranfield University
* Ian Gladwell, Southern Methodist University in Dallas
* Sven Hammarling, Principal Consultant at NAG
* Kaj Madsen, Technical University of Denmark
* Nancy Nichols, University of Reading
* Beresford Parlett, University of California
* Michael Powell, FRS, University of Cambridge
* John Reid, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
* Michael Saunders, Hon FRSNZ, Stanford University
* Jennifer Scott, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
* Nick Trefethen, FRS, Oxford University

If you would like to attend, please register as soon as possible.

**** The closing date for registering for this event is 1 June 2009 *****

Please go to http://www.numerical.rl.ac.uk/people/hsd/jkr/
for further details and to register.

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Cal Ribbens <ribbens@vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 11:25:22 -0400
Subject: Parallel Programming on Accelerator Clusters, New Orleans, Aug 2009

Call for Papers

Workshop on Parallel Programming on Accelerator Clusters (PPAC)

Held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2009

August 31, 2009, New Orleans, LA

Submission deadline: June 15, 2009

Full info: http://www.checs.eng.vt.edu/ppac09

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Frank Schmidt <frank.schmidt@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:09:06 -0400
Subject: Finite Element Method (FEM) Symposiu, Chemnitz, Germany, Sep 2009

Online registration and abstract submission for the

22st Chemnitz FEM Symposium
September 28 - 30, 2009

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/mathematik/fem-symposium/

are now open.

Scientific Topics: Finite Elements, including (but not limited to)
error estimators, high order methods, parallel implementations.

This year special emphasis is on:
* Solver and Domain Decomposition
* Sensitivity Analysis and Algorithmic Differentiation for FEM
* FEM for Maxwell Equations

Invited Speakers:
* Axel Klawonn (Duisburg-Essen)
* Andrea Walther (Paderborn)
* Martin Costabel (de Rennes)

Deadlines:
* July 6th, 2009: Registration via WWW (including room reservation)
for participants who wish to give a talk.
* July 6th, 2009: Submission of Abstracts via WWW
* August 10th, 2009: Registration via WWW (including room reservation)
for participants without talk.

Registration and further Information:

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/mathematik/fem-symposium/

Contact: fem09@tu-chemnitz.de

With best regards

Arnd Meyer
on behalf of the organising committee

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Erik Boman <egboman@sandia.gov>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 18:18:14 -0400
Subject: Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC09), California, Oct 2009

** Deadline Extended **
SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC09)
October 29-31, 2009
Embassy Suites Hotel Monterey Bay - Seaside, CA
http://www.siam.org/meetings/csc09/

The submission deadlines have been extended as follows:

June 1, 2009 for papers (2-page abstract required)
Aug. 15, 2009 for posters

CSC09 is attached to (immediately after) SIAM LA09.

Regards,
Erik Boman and Sivan Toledo
Co-chairs CSC09

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Chris Hiestand <chiestand@salk.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 17:30:26 -0700
Subject: Neural Information Processing Systems Conf (NIPS), Vancouver, Dec 2009

Neural Information Processing Systems Conference
http://nips.cc
** Call for DEMONSTRATIONS **

Demo Sessions: -- December 8 - 9, 2009; 7pm - midnight
Hyatt Regency Vancouver, BC, CANADA

Demonstration Proposal Deadline:
Saturday, August 22, 2009, 23:59 UT (4:59 PM PDT)

Demonstrations can bring ideas alive like no other form of presentation.
This is an opportunity to showcase your novel software, hardware,
or wetware technology at the NIPS 2009 Conference. Have people
interact with your robot, try out your software library, or let
them play your game. The Neural Information Processing Systems
Conference has a Demonstration Track that will run in parallel with
the popular evening Poster Sessions.

Demonstrators have a chance to show their live interactive demos
in any of the technical areas covered by NIPS (see Call for Papers)
and can be in the form of:
* Hardware technology
* Software systems
* Neuromorphic and biologically-inspired systems
* Robotics

The only hard constraints are that a demo must show novel technology
and must be live, preferably with some interactive parts! A demo
is not just another poster presentation - the action part is
important.

Submissions: Submission of demo proposals at the following URL:
http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/DemoForm.php

Describe clearly:
* What is the technology that is being demonstrated and what is novel
about it?
* What is the live part; what actions are taking place?
* What is the interactive part; what can the viewer do?
* What equipment is brought by the demonstrator?
* What equipment is required at the place of the demo?

Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of
technical quality, novelty, live action, potential for interaction.

Demo Chair: Hans Peter Graf (NEC Laboratories America)

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Lars Grasedyck <lgr@mis.mpg.de>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 04:40:58 -0400
Subject: GAMM-Seminar on Tensor Approximations, Leipzig, Germany, Feb 2009

The 26th GAMM Seminar in Leipzig will take place from
Monday, February 22nd until Wednesday February 24th 2010.

The topic of the workshop is "Tensor Approximations"
and related topics, e.g.,
* Low Rank Tensor Approximations
* Sparse Grids
* Compressed Sensing and Data-Sparse Recovery
* PDEs with Stochastic Parameters
* Numerical Methods for Quantum-Chemistry
* Applications in High Dimensions

Invited speakers are
* Pierre Comon (Universite Nice)
* Lieven De Lathauwer (KU Leuven)
* Lars Elden (Linkoeping University)
* Markus Hegland (Australian National University)
* Christian Lubich (Universitaet Tuebingen)
* Reinhold Schneider (TU Berlin)

See also the webpage
http://www.mis.mpg.de/scicomp/gamm26/index.html
Registration is open.

Applications can be sent to lgr(at)mis.mpg.de, where (at)=@.

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Shan Zhao <szhao@bama.ua.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 23:02:40 -0400
Subject: IJBI special issue on Mathematical Methods for Images and Surfaces

Call for papers
Special Issue on 'Mathematical Methods for Images and Surfaces'
International Journal of Biomedical Imaging

The Midwest Conference on Mathematical Methods for Images and Surfaces was
held in the Michigan State University on April 18-19, 2009. See
http://www.math.msu.edu/~wei/MCMM/index.html. It created an excellent forum
for researchers from engineering, biological and mathematical sciences to
exchange ideas and keep up with new developments. To further disseminate
research findings presented and exchanged in the conference, The
International Journal of Biomedical Imaging (IJBI) will publish a special
issue entitled 'Mathematical Methods for Images and Surfaces'.

The scope of this special issue is the same as that of the conference.
However, to better fit the scope of the journal, research findings relevant
to biomedical science and technology are particularly welcome. Original
papers and high-quality overviews on a wide range of topics in images and
surfaces are solicited for this special issue. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:
- Geometric flows, higher-order curvature flows, gradient flows for image
and surface analysis
- Mumford-Shah functional
- Level set methods and their applications
- Wavelets, frames and multiresolution analysis
- Mathematical algorithms for images and surfaces
- Image edge detection, segmentation, pattern recognition, video analysis
and processing
- Computational methods for biomedical imaging
- Algorithms for bioluminescence imaging, fluorescent imaging, PET imaging,
ultrasound imaging, MRI and tomography
- Computational methods for anatomy
- Mathematical analysis of protein and membrane surfaces

The papers solicited for this special issue are not restricted to the
contributions presented during the Conference. Submissions from other
researchers, which fit the scope of this special issue are also welcome.

Please refer to the following link:
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijbi/osi.html for more details about this
special issue. Please also note the journal's policy on Article Processing
Charges, see http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijbi/apc.html.

Important Dates
Manuscript Due: October 1, 2009
First Round of Reviews: January 1, 2010
Anticipated Publication Date: April 1 2010

Guest editors:
Guowei Wei, Michigan State University, USA, wei@math.msu.edu
Lalita Udpa, Michigan State University, USA, udpal@egr.msu.edu
Yang Wang, Michigan State University, USA, ywang@math.msu.edu
Shan Zhao, University of Alabama, USA, szhao@bama.ua.edu

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Dietmar Hoemberg <hoemberg@wias-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 10:34:05 +0200
Subject: PostDoc position at WIAS

WIAS invites applications for Research Position in the Research Group
'Nonlinear Optimization and Inverse Problems' (Head: D. Hömberg),
starting at the earliest possible date (*Ref. 09/14*).
We expect a certified university degree (a PhD is preferred) and
excellent knowledge in one of the following fields:

-- Nonlinear optimization,
-- Optimal control or shape optimization of partial differential
equations,
-- Inverse problems,
-- Numerical approximation of partial differential equations.

The successful applicant is expected to be ready to co-operate
responsibly in applied projects with industry. Please direct your
queries to Dietmar Hömberg (hoemberg@wias-berlin.de).
Salary is according to the TVöD scale. The initial appointment is
limited to three years. The Weierstrass Institute is an Equal
Opportunity Employer. Applications
of qualified female candidates are particularly encouraged. Among
equally qualified applicants, disabled candidates will be given
preference. As far as possible we ask to avoid sending application
papers by e-mail.
Applicants should send curriculum vitae, photocopies of certificates
and a list of publications, including a cover letter quoting Ref.
09/14, by
June 14, 2009, to:
Prof. Dr. J. Sprekels,
Director of the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and
Stochastics*
in Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.*
Mohrenstr. 39, 10117 Berlin, Germany*

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Johannes Scherling <johannes.scherling@edu.uni-graz.at>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 04:09:59 -0400
Subject: Postdoc position in Applied Mathematics at Graz University, Austria

The START-Project "Interfaces and Free Boundaries" (directed by M.
Hintermueller) hosted at the Karl Franzens University of Graz (Austria)
invites applications for a

POST-DOC Position in Applied Mathematics.

We are looking for a young scientist holding a PhD in Applied Mathematics or
Scientific Computing with specialization in at least one of the fields: large
scale or PDE-constrained optimization, variational inequalities, shape or
topology optimization, mathematical image processing.

The START-project is based on a scientific award by the Austrian Federal
Ministry of Science and Research and it is administered by the Austrian
Science Fund FWF. Besides applied mathematics, the START-Project also has a
strong component in computational science focusing on the numerical
realization of algorithms in various applications. For a more detailed
description see the web page http://www.uni-graz.at/imawww/ifb/. Also, the
post-doc is invited to cooperate with the special research group on
"Mathematical Optimization and Applications in Biomedical Sciences"
(http://math.uni-graz.at/mobis/). The initial appointment is for one year, but
an extension is possible. The salary follows the rules of the FWF
(www.fwf.ac.at).

Please send your application by email to michael.hintermueller@uni-graz.at.
Your email should contain a pdf-file as an attachment with the following
information:

* Curriculum Vitae (CV),
* a short description of your qualifications and experience (publications,
theses,...),
* a letter describing concisely your scientific interests,
* names and email-addresses of at least two scientists willing to provide
references.

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Nathan Quinlan <nathan.quinlan@nuigalway.ie>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 05:08:33 -0400
Subject: Postdoctoral vacancy in mesh-free computational fluid dynamics

National University of Ireland Galway seeks a postdoctoral researcher to
develop and apply mesh-free computational fluid dynamics methods under the
European FP7 project NextMuSE. Applicants should hold (or have submitted a
thesis for) a Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics. The appointment will be
for up to 33 months. The closing date for applications is 30 May. For more
information, please see http://www.nuigalway.ie/mechbio/vacancies/.

-------------------------------------------------------

From: "Cornelis W. Oosterlee" <c.w.oosterlee@cwi.nl>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:20:46 -0400
Subject: PhD project Real options available

Investment decisions under uncertainty can be modeled mathematically by a
so-called real options approach. There is a link between the real option
models and the pricing of financial derivatives.

At NRG in Petten, the Netherlands there is an interest in an economic
assessment of the profitability of the future sources of energy, in particular
of advanced versions of nuclear energy. Main goal and emphasis of the project is
therefore the development of a model that is able to point out possible
transition paths of various types of nuclear energy and corresponding fuel
cycle strategies in dynamic energy markets and to simulate the decision
making process of stake-holders in the energy businesses, especially with
respect to investment in the new Generation IV nuclear power plants
and fuel cycle facilities.
The research theme represents a generalization of computing of financial
derivatives towards decision-making strategies.

The project is a joint project between Delft University of Technology, the
Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group, and Centrum Wiskunde &
Informatica. The PhD student will work part of the week at the CWI,
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam and the other part at NRG,
Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group in Petten, the Netherlands.
Project can start as soon as possible.

Applications for this PhD project, with CV, can be sent to c.w.oosterlee@cwi.nl

Sincerely yours,
Prof.dr. Cornelis W. Oosterlee

-------------------------------------------------------

From: "Firat Tekiner" <ftekiner@uclan.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 00:51:55 +0100
Subject: PhD Studentship in High Performance and Parallel Data Mining

PhD Studentship in High Performance and Parallel Data Mining

Reference No RS/08/24

http://www.star.uclan.ac.uk/~ft/phd.html

Applications are invited for a full-time studentship available in the
School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences in the Faculty of
Science and Technology. The studentship is tenable for up to 3 years for
the MPhil/PhD (subject to satisfactory progress). The studentship will
cover the cost of tuition fees at UK/EU rates plus a stipend (currently
£12,940 for 2008/09) per annum. International applicants may apply
but will be required to pay the difference between UK/EU and
international fees. The successful applicant will start on 1st October 2009.
The project will work on "High Performance and Parallel Data Mining" in
the School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences. Across many
applications, there is increasing utilisation of data mining algorithms
to extract previously unknown knowledge from large datasets.
Underpinning aspects of these algorithms include that they involve
search space traversal and are relatively small and repeated frequently.
Thus they are ideal for implementation on high performance accelerators
and massively parallel machines. The project will investigate the area
of parallel search and its application within a number of data mining
approaches and application spaces. High Performance Computing (HPC)
architectures and the new HPC technologies (GPGPU, IBM Cell, etc.) will
be utilised.

Prospective candidates will have a good honours (or equivalent) degree
in Computer Science, Engineering Disciplines or other relevant numerate
subjects. The successful applicant should have a good background in
C/C++ programming.

Informal queries about the project may be directed to Dr Firat Tekiner.
For more information see visit: www.star.uclan.ac.uk/~ft/

Requests for an application pack (quoting the reference number RS/08/24)
should be directed to the Graduate Research Office. Tel +44 (0)1772
895082 or e-mail researchdegrees@uclan.ac.uk .

Interviews will be held in the week commencing 13th July 2009

Closing Date for Applications to the Graduate Research Office:
Friday 26th June 2009

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Johannes Scherling <johannes.scherling@edu.uni-graz.at>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 04:09:57 -0400
Subject: PhD position in Applied Mathematics at Graz University, Austria

The START-Project "Interfaces and Free Boundaries" (directed by M.
Hintermueller) hosted at the Karl Franzens University of Graz (Austria)
invites applications for a

PhD Position in Applied Mathematics.

The focus of the research is either on PDE-constrained optimization or shape
and topology optimization.

The START-project is based on a scientific award by the Austrian Federal
Ministry of Science and Research and it is administered by the Austrian
Science Fund FWF. Besides applied mathematics, the START-Project also has a
strong component in computational science focusing on the numerical
realization of algorithms in various applications. For a more detailed
description see the web page http://www.uni-graz.at/imawww/ifb/. Also, the PhD
student is invited to cooperate with the special research group on
"Mathematical Optimization and Applications in Biomedical Sciences"
(http://math.uni-graz.at/mobis/). The salary follows the rules of the FWF
(www.fwf.ac.at).

Please send your application by email to michael.hintermueller@uni-graz.at.
Your email should contain a pdf-file as an attachment with the following
information:

* Curriculum Vitae (CV),
* a short description of your qualifications and experience (studies,
master's theses, conference visits,...),
* a letter describing concisely your scientific interests,
* names and email-addresses of at least two scientists willing to provide
references.

-------------------------------------------------------

From: Tim Davis <davis@cise.ufl.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 20:37:10 -0400
Subject: The Mouseholder QR, part 8 of 8

The 8th and final stanza. Burns' original:

Still thou art blest, compared wi' me.
The present only toucheth thee:
But och! I backward cast my e'e,
On prospects drear!
An forward, tho' I canna see,
I guess an' fear!

Modern English:

Still, you are blessed, compared with me. Only the present
touches you. But, Oh! I look back at lost opportunies!
And forward, though I cannot see, I guess and fear!

Matrix translation:

Still thou art blest, compared wi' me
My present methods fail on thee:
An' och! with backward errs my eye,
Wells up in tears!
An' forward errors multiply
As NaN appears!

For both poems in their entirety:

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~davis/Poetry/Mouseholder_QR.html

------------------------------
End of NA Digest

**************************
-------