NA Digest Monday, November 7, 2011 Volume 11 : Issue 45

Today's Editor:
Daniel M. Dunlavy
Sandia National Labs
dmdunla@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

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From: "Dosanjh, Achi, Springer US" <Achi.Dosanjh@springer.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:09:49 -0400
Subject: Editor change, Adv in Comp Mathematics

Springer would like to thank Charles Micchelli for his long time
service as editor-in-chief of the journal "Advances in Computational
Mathematics" and to announce that Leslie Greengard and Michael Shelley
of the Courant Institute, NYU have agreed to take over as
co-editors-in-chief at the end of 2011. We would like to thank all
involved for their support of the journal over the last years.

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From: Nilima Nigam <nigam@math.sfu.ca>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 09:50:22 -0500
Subject: More (or less) on journal publishing

Dear colleagues,

As for probably many others, the anecdote of Dianne O'Leary's recent
journal-related experience made me wonder yet again about the current
world of publishing.

There is an interesting blog by Tim Gowers on publishing and
reviewing, which may be of interest:
http://gowers.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/how-might-we-get-to-a-new-model-of-
mathematical-publishing/

Regards,
Nilima Nigam

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From: "J. M. Littleton" <littleton@siam.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:54:40 -0500
Subject: SIAM Student Paper Prize - Call for Submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - SIAM Student Paper Prize

The SIAM STUDENT PAPER PRIZE is awarded every year to the student
author(s) of the most outstanding paper(s) submitted to the SIAM
Student Paper Competition. This award is based solely on the merit
and content of the student's contribution to the submitted paper. The
prize recognizes outstanding scholarship by students in applied
mathematics or scientific computing. Up to three awards are given.

The SIAM Student Paper Prize will be awarded at the 2012 SIAM Annual
Meeting (AN12), to be held July 9-13, 2012, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Each prize recipient will receive a framed certificate plus a cash
award of $1,000. Each will have the opportunity to present his or her
paper at the meeting. Recipients will also receive gratis
registration for AN12 and $550 toward travel expenses.

Eligibility is restricted to students in good standing who do not yet
hold the degree of PhD on the application deadline. Papers entered in
the competition must have already been submitted for publication.
Submissions may be based on co-authored papers. Instructions on how
to submit a paper and other required documents can be found at
www.siam.org/prizes/nominations/nom_student.php.

All papers and accompanying documentation must be received at the SIAM
office on or before FEBRUARY 15, 2012. Please address your submission
to Professor Peter Turner, Chair, SIAM Student Paper Prize Committee,
and send it to student_paper_prize@siam.org. Inquiries should be
addressed to littleton@siam.org.

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From: Ronald Kriemann <rok@mis.mpg.de>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:26:35 -0500
Subject: Analysis and Num Meth in Higher Dim, Germany, Jan 2012

The 28th GAMM-Seminar in Leipzig/Germany will take place from
Monday, January 16th until Wednesday, January 18th 2012.

The topic of the workshop is

"Analysis and Numerical Methods in Higher Dimension"

Invited speakers are
* Wolfgang Dahmen (Aachen)
* Yvon Maday (Paris)

See also the webpage

http://www.mis.mpg.de/scicomp/gamm28/index.html

Registration is open.

Applications can be sent to rok@mis.mpg.de.

Abstracts for talks (25 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion)
should be sent to the same address.

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From: Luca Heltai <luca.heltai@sissa.it>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 11:31:36 -0500
Subject: Free Surface Flows, Italy, Feb 2012

A Workshop on Free Surface Flows, with focus on Numerical
Methodologies and Application to Naval Architecture, will take place
on the 23rd and 24th of February 2012 at SISSA, the International
School for Advanced Studies in Trieste (Italy).

The program consists of plenary and invited talks. Confirmed Speakers
include:
- Prof. Hrvoje Jasak (University of Zagreb)
- Prof. Carl-Erik Janson (Chalmers)
- Prof. Andrea di Mascio (IAC Roma)
- Dr. Edie Miglio (MOX - Politecnico di Milano)
- Dr. Nicola Parolini (MOX - Politecnico di Milano)

Organizing Committee:
- Dr. Luca Heltai (luca.heltai@sissa.it)
- Dr. Andrea Mola (andrea.mola@sissa.it)

Workshop Homepage:
http://mathlab.sissa.it/activities/workshops/free_surface_flows

There are no fees but registration is required. Registration is
available on the workshop home page until January 31st.

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From: "S.S. Ravindran" <ravinds@uah.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:42:33 -0500
Subject: SIAM SE Atlantic Section Conference, USA, Mar 2012

Conference Name:
36th SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference
Location: University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
Dates: March 24-25, 2012

Conference Chair:
S.S. Ravindran, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Plenary Speakers:
H.T. Banks, North Carolina State University
Susanne C. Brenner, Lousiana State University
Jerrold R. Griggs, University of South Carolina
Max D. Gunzburger, Florida State University

Submission Deadlines:
February 1, 2012: Minisymposium proposals
February 15, 2012: Abstracts

For further details, please visit
http://mullai.uah.edu/~ravindra/SEAS2012.html

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From: congreso.hmams@urjc.es
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:35 +0100
Subject: Spring School on NumPDES, Morocco, Apr 2012

Second Spring School on Numerical Methods for Partial Differential
Equations, Tetouan, Morocco 16-20 April 2012
http://www.urjc.es/hmams/SpringSchool2012/

It is my honor on behalf of the organizing committee to invite you to
participate in the second spring school on numerical methods for
partial differential equations
(http://www.urjc.es/hmams/SpringSchool2012/) which will be held in
Tetouan, Morocco from 16 to 20 April 2012.

This spring school on Numerical Methods for Partial Differential
Equations is aimed at master students, PhD students, recent PhD
doctorates, and researchers in general willing to update their
knowledge with recent developments on numerical techniques that play
an important role in the international scene. As this type of
equations appears in the mathematical modeling of many physical
phenomena, researchers coming from different fields (mathematics,
physics, engineering, biology, economy, etc) can be interested.

This spring school intends to bring together students and younger
researchers from different mathematical and engineering schools and to
offer an environment to acquire basic and more advanced techniques in
the field of numerical methods for partial differential equations. In
a series of five courses, consisting of 3-4 lectures plus a computer
lab-session, each of five international experts will give an
introduction and present new analytical as well as numerical results
on topics of recent interest. In order to enable an intensive
exchange, to enhance the communication and lasting relationships, all
the participants are encouraged to present their own work in a short
talk or with a poster.

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From: HongGuang Sun <sunhongguang08@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 12:39:03 -0500
Subject: Fractional Diff and Appl, FDA12, China, May 2012

The Fifth IFAC Symposium on Fractional Differentiation and its
Applications - FDA12, May 14-17 2012, Hohai University, Nanjing, China

In recent years, fractional differentiation has drawn increasing
attention in the study of so-called "anomalous" social and physical
behaviors, where scaling power law of fractional order appears
universal as an empirical description of such complex phenomena. It is
worth noting that the standard mathematical models of integer-order
derivatives, including nonlinear models, do not work adequately in
many cases where power law is clearly observed. To accurately reflect
the non-local, frequency- and history- dependent properties of power
law phenomena, some alternative modeling tools have to be introduced
such as fractional calculus.

Research in fractional differentiation is inherently
multi-disciplinary and its application across diverse disciplines such
as physics, chemistry, biology, polymer, medicine, mechanics, finance,
social sciences, notably control theory and signal and image
processing. This is well reflected by the wide scope of the articles
reported in literature. The purpose of this Symposium in series is to
provide the participants with a broad overview of the state of the art
on fractional systems, leading to the cross- fertilization of new
research on theoretical, experimental and computational fronts for
potential uses of fractional differentiation in diverse applications.

Deadline for minisymposium proposal: 15 December 2011
Deadline for abstracts: 1 January 2012
Deadline for full papers: 15 February 2012
Deadline for early registration: 15 February 2012

For more details, see http://em.hhu.edu.cn/fda12/
For additional information, please email us at fda12@hhu.edu.cn

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From: Cammey Cole Manning <cammey.cole.manning@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:51:12 -0500
Subject: AWM Workshop at SIAM Annual Meeting, USA, Jul 2012

An AWM Workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2012 SIAM Annual
Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, July 12-13, 2012. The workshop will consist
of a graduate student poster session, presentations by Recent Ph.D.s,
a mentoring event, and a career minisymposium. Workshop participants
will have the opportunity to meet with other women mathematicians at
all stages of their careers. AWM invites women graduate students who
have made substantial progress towards their theses topic to apply to
present posters at the AWM Workshop; up to 10 women will be selected
to present a poster. AWM invites women who have completed their
Ph.D. within the past five years to apply to present research talks in
two minisymposia at the AWM Workshop; one of the minisymposia will be
open to talks from any applied area and the focus of the other
minisymposium will be mathematical biology. Up to four women will be
selected to give a talk in each minisymposium.

The application deadline is Friday, November 18, 2011.

More information and a link to the application can be found at:
http://sites.google.com/site/awmmath/programs/workshops/SIAM-workshop

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From: "Luis F. Zuluaga" <inmopta@lehigh.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 13:02:53 -0500
Subject: MOPTA Conference, Lehigh Univ, USA, Jul 2012

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for contributed sessions/talks/posters
MOPTA 2012, July 30 to August 1, 2012 , Lehigh University

The 12th Annual MOPTA (Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and
Applications) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem,
PA, USA, from Monday to Wednesday, July 30 to August 1, 2012.

Plenary speakers include:
Kurt M. Anstreicher (University of Iowa)
Edgar Blanco (MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics)
Andrew V. Goldberg (Microsoft Research)
Mark S. Roberts (University of Pittsburgh)
Michael Trick (Carnegie Mellon University)
Santosh S. Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo)
Stephen J. Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

This is an invitation for contributed talks as well as organized
sessions and poster sessions. If interested please contact:
Luis F. Zuluaga <inmopta@lehigh.edu>

Current program information is available at:
http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/

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From: Pamela Bye <pam.bye@ima.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 07:59:14 -0500
Subject: 3rd IMA Numerical Linear Algebra, UK, Sep 2012

3rd IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimisation
10 – 12 September 2012, University of Birmingham UK

The success of modern codes for large-scale optimisation is heavily
dependent on the use of effective tools of numerical linear
algebra. On the other hand, many problems in numerical linear algebra
lead to linear, nonlinear or semidefinite optimisation problems. The
purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers from both
communities and to find and communicate points and topics of common
interest.

Conference topics include any subject that could be of interest to
both communities, such as Direct and iterative methods for large
sparse linear systems; Eigenvalue computation and optimisation;
Large-scale nonlinear and semidefinite programming; Effect of
round-off errors, stopping criteria, embedded iterative procedures;
Optimisation issues for matrix polynomials; Fast matrix computations;
Compressed/sparse sensing; PDE-constrained optimisation; Applications
and real time optimisation.

Invited Speakers: Roland Freund; Philip Gill; Anne Greenbaum; Serge
Gratton; Michael Hintermueller; Sabine van Huffel; Mike Powell; Andrea
Walther

Key Dates
Mini-symposium proposals: 30 March 2012
Abstract submission: 30 April 2012
Conference: 10 – 12 September 2012

http://www.ima.org.uk/conferences/conferences_calendar/numerical_linear_algebra_and_optimisation.cfm

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From: Carolyn Sellers <Carolyn.Sellers@brunel.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:23:52 +0000
Subject: MAFELAP 2013, UK, Jun 2013

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

MAFELAP 2013: 11 - 14 June 2013
(with an early evening 10 June welcome lecture by J Tinsley Oden)
Brunel University, London, England

We are pleased to announce that MAFELAP 2013, the fourteenth
conference on the Mathematics of Finite Elements and Applications,
will take place at Brunel University during 11 - 14 June 2013,
although an opening early evening lecture will be given by Professor J
Tinsley Oden on Monday 10th June to which all delegates are
welcome. Registration will begin on the 10th June and preliminary
information is available on the conference website:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/mafelap2013 .

As usual the conference will consist of plenary lectures,
mini-symposia and parallel sessions. If you are interested in
organizing a mini-symposium at MAFELAP 2013 then please email your
title to mafelap-mini-symposia@brunel.ac.uk as soon as possible. For
those new to the MAFELAP conferences a flavour of the event is
provided by a glance at the 2009 web page. This can be found at
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~icsrsss/bicom/mafelap2009.

Again, please also note that the conference registration will begin on
Monday 10th June with an early evening lecture by Prof. J Tinsley
Oden. We hope that as many participants as possible will be able to
attend this lecture.

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From: Jaime Lloret Mauri<jlloret@dcom.upv.es>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 01:10:54 +0100
Subject: Localization, Positioning and Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks

Call for Papers, Special Issue on "Localization, Positioning and
Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks"

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC)
Journal Impact Factor: 0.435 (2010)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1741

In Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) deployments, wireless sensor nodes
should be strategically placed in order to maximize the sensed area
while minimizing the number of nodes to be placed in the
field. Moreover, wireless radio coverage distances should be taken
into account in order to cover large areas. Wireless sensors may be
located quite far from each other, allowing lower deployment costs,
but it may increase the wireless sensor node power consumption due to
the energy needed to reach large distances. Although many factors may
affect the position of each wireless sensor node inside the WSN, there
are two main ones: the radio coverage area, which allows the sensors
to communicate, and, the sensing coverage area, which gives the
sensing region. Both types of coverage areas could be affected by the
field where the WSN is deployed, but different factors affect each
type of coverage. The goal is to maximize the coverage percentage,
while coverage holes should be minimized.

This special issue is focused on sensor node location and positioning
techniques taking into account the aforementioned constraints.

Submission deadline: 30 November, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 29 February, 2013
Camera Ready Papers: 30 April, 2013

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From: Karen Martin <kymartin@uci.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:53:42 -0500
Subject: Faculty Position, Systems Biology, UC Irvine

The University of California, Irvine is renewing its recruiting
initiative in Systems Biology.

Two positions are available this year, for which candidates will be
considered from all areas of Systems Biology, including modeling,
mathematical and computational biology, biological networks,
regulatory dynamics and control, spatial dynamics and morphogenesis,
and synthetic biology. Applications are being solicited at the
Assistant Professor level, and appointment can be made in any of
several departments, including Developmental and Cell Biology,
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Computer
Science, and Statistics. Applications at the Associate and Full
Professor level will also be considered, with appointment being
subject to the availability of funds.

The successful applicant is expected to conduct a strong research
program and to contribute to the teaching of undergraduate and
graduate students. Systems Biology research and training at UCI is
fostered by several interdisciplinary research units, an NIGMS
National Center for Systems Biology, and Ph.D. training programs in
Bioinformatics, and Mathematical and Computational Biology (for more
information, see http://ccbs.bio.uci.edu). Applicants should submit a
letter of application, curriculum vitae, bibliography, three letters
of reference, and statements of research and teaching interests using
the on-line recruitment system (see instructions at
http://ccbs.bio.uci.edu or https://recruit.ap.uci.edu, under
“Institutes and Centers”). To receive full consideration, material
should be received by December 4, 2011.

The University of California, Irvine is an equal opportunity employer
committed to excellence through diversity, and strongly encourages
applications from all qualified applicants, including women and
minorities. UCI is responsive to the needs of dual career couples, is
dedicated to work-life balance through an array of family-friendly
policies, and is the recipient of an NSF ADVANCE Award for gender
equity.

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From: Pietro Belotti <pbelott@clemson.edu>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 18:05:03 -0500
Subject: Tenure-Track Positions, Operations Research, Clemson Univ

Clemson University, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Tenure-Track Positions in Operations Research

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University invites
applications for expected tenure-track faculty positions in Operations
Research starting with the Fall 2012 semester. The Department includes
the areas of algebra and discrete mathematics; analysis;
bioinformatics/biomathematics, computational mathematics; mathematics
education; operations research; and probability and
statistics. Targeted recruiting is for the assistant professor rank,
but applicants for all ranks will be considered.

Desirable attributes for candidates include an interdisciplinary
research orientation in the mathematical sciences; post-doctoral,
industrial, or practical experience; collaborative possibilities with
faculty members in the Department and related disciplines; and an
interest in innovative applications. Candidates should have strong
potential or demonstrated capability for effective research and
teaching in operations research. An earned doctorate or equivalent is
required.

Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2011 and will
continue until the positions are filled. Applications received by
December 31, 2011 will receive full consideration. Applicants should
indicate their research specialties and interests in their cover
letter. Vita, three reference letters, teaching statement and research
statement should be electronically filed at http://www.mathjobs.org

Applicants who plan to participate at the upcoming INFORMS conference
in Charlotte, NC are encouraged to submit their application in advance
and/or visit our table at the Job Placement Service (JPS) during the
conference. For further information regarding the department and its
programs, please visit the web site www.math.clemson.edu. CU is an
AA/EO employer and encourages applications from women and minorities.

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From: Vladik Kreinovich <vladik@utep.edu>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 12:33:00 -0500
Subject: Faculty Position, Comp Sci, Univ of Texas at El Paso

University of Texas at El Paso
College of Science
Computational Science Program
Assistant/Associate Professor

http://admin.utep.edu/DesktopModules/DNN%20Faculty%20Job%
20Board/MoreInfoJob.aspx?Mid=32087&ItemID=763

Position Description: The Computational Science Program at the
University of Texas at El Paso invites applicants for a tenure track
faculty position at either the Assistant or Associate Professor
level. The position will support the growth of the MS/Ph.D. Program's
interdisciplinary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) research efforts in Computational Science. The anticipated
appointment date is fall 2012.

Required Qualifications: The desired candidate should have a PhD in a
STEM area and a proven record of computational science research,
teaching and development. In particular, the candidate will be
required to lead the effort to strengthen the core computational
science classes in the program that include subjects such as
fundamentals of high performance (HP) issues, HP computing in science
and engineering, visualization for HP computing, mathematical
modeling, and computational methods. The candidate is expected to
pursue a highly visible research agenda, both independently and in
collaboration with interdisciplinary groups. Senior candidates must
have demonstrated leadership abilities and recognized stature.

Salary: Competitive and commensurate with experience

Application Procedure: Review of applications will begin immediately
and will continue until the position is filled. However, applicants
are encouraged to apply before January 15, 2012. Applicants should
send a letter of interest (including description of teaching and
research philosophies), curriculum vita, (unofficial) graduate
transcripts, and the contact information for at least three references
to:

Computational Science Search Committee
Bell Hall 322
University of Texas at El Paso
500 University Avenue
El Paso, TX 79968-0514
leti@utep.edu

The University of Texas at El Paso is an Equal Opportunity /
Affirmative Action Employer. The University does not discriminate on
the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age,
disability, genetic information, veteran status, or sexual orientation
in employment or the provision of services.

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From: "Fred J. Hickernell" <fred@math.iit.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 10:40:32 -0500
Subject: Visiting Position, Illinois Inst of Technology

Visiting Position
Department of Applied Mathematics
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

The Department of Applied Mathematics at Illinois Institute of
Technology (IIT) seeks to fill a visiting position available for the
2012-2013 academic year. Candidates considered may be sabbatical
visitors with half-time teaching loads or early career academics with
full-time loads. Depending on performance and budgetary
considerations, it may be possible to extend the position for one
additional year.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the potential for fruitful
research collaboration with one or more research groups in our
department and show evidence of good teaching. The Department of
Applied Mathematics conducts externally-funded research in applied
analysis, computational mathematics, discrete applied mathematics, and
stochastics. Further information our department can be found at
http://www.iit.edu/csl/am.

With a very diverse student body of over 7,000, IIT is a private,
PhD-granting university with programs in engineering, science,
psychology, architecture, business, design and law. IIT is located in
a city-park like campus designed by the influential 20th-century
architect Mies van der Rohe in the heart of the vibrant city of
Chicago.

To apply, please submit the following through www.mathjobs.org: a
cover letter, your curriculum vitae, a research statement, and at
least three confidential reference letters. Applicants are also
encouraged to contact potential collaborators in our department.
Questions regarding this position may be addressed to the department
chair, Fred J. Hickernell, amsearch@math.iit.edu, (312) 567-8983.

Applications made before January 31, 2012 will receive full
consideration. We especially encourage applications from women and
under-represented groups. IIT is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity employer.

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From: Denise Padilla <ddpadi@sandia.gov>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:26:55 -0500
Subject: John von Neumann Research Fellowship, Sandia

The Computation, Computers, Information and Mathematics Center and the
Computer Sciences and Information Systems Center at Sandia National
Laboratories invite outstanding candidates to apply for the 2012 John
von Neumann Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Computational
Science. This prestigious post-doctoral fellowship is supported by
the Applied Mathematics Research Program in the U.S. Department of
Energy’s Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research. The
fellowship provides an exceptional opportunity for innovative research
in computational mathematics and scientific computing on advanced
computing architectures with application to a broad range of science
and engineering problems of national importance. Applicants must have
or soon receive a Ph.D. in applied/computational mathematics or
related computational science and engineering disciplines. Applicants
must have less than three years of post-doctoral experience. This
appointment is for one year, with a possible renewal for a second
year, and includes a highly competitive salary, moving expenses and a
generous professional travel allowance.

Sandia is one of the country’s largest research facilities employing
nearly 8,400 people at major facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico and
Livermore, California. Sandia maintains research programs in a
variety of areas such as computational and discrete mathematics,
computational physics and engineering, systems software and tools.
Sandia is a world leader in large- scale parallel computer systems,
algorithms, software and applications, and provides a collaborative
and highly multidisciplinary environment for solving computational
problems at extreme scales. Sandia has a state-of-the- art
parallel-computing environment consisting of advanced architectures,
like the Cielo petascale machine, and numerous large-scale clusters
and visualization servers, including the 160-TFlop Red Sky cluster.
For more details about the John von Neumann Fellowship, visit our
website at http://www.cs.sandia.gov/VN_Web_Page .

To apply, please complete the following two steps 1) apply online at
http://www.sandia.gov/careers for JobID 639427 and 2) submit a CV,
research statement, and have three letters of recommendation sent to
Patty Hough at pdhough@sandia.gov. Please reference “2012 VN
Fellowship” in the subject line. All applications received before
January 2, 2011 will be considered; the position will remain open
until filled.

U.S. Citizenship Normally Required. Equal Opportunity Employer.
M/F/D/V.

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From: Frank Knoben <admin@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:36:48 +0100
Subject: PhD/Postdoc Position, RWTH Aachen, Germany

At the Institute for Geometry and Applied Mathematics of the RWTH
Aachen we are currently offering a full PhD/postdoc position
associated with the research project "Numerical Fluid-Structure
Coupling Schemes for High-Frequent Surface Motions". This is part of
the interdisciplinary research group FOR 1779 "Adaptive Drag Reduction
by Surface Oscillations" that has been recently approved by the DFG.

The main concern of this project is the development of highly
efficient and reliable coupling tools for the numerical simulation of
the interaction between a turbulent flow field and a surface. In
particular, the turbulent boundary layer is perturbed by micro-scale
mechanisms, e.g., high-frequent oscillations, riblets, aiming at drag
reduction.

The candidates should have some background in computational fluid
dynamics, especially in conservation laws and their discretization
(finite volume methods, DG methods). Some familiarity, at least on a
conceptual level with upscaling or homogenization techniques would be
very helpful. Good programming skills in C/C++ are highly welcome. The
primary qualification is however a sincere interest in learning new
concepts and skills.

The position can be filled immediately. The salary is according to TVL
E-13. The appointment covers a period of 3 years.

Employment equity is one of our goals. We also welcome applications
from persons with disabilities.

For further details, see our homepage
http://www.igpm.rwth-aachen.de

or contact

Univ.-Prof. Dr. W. Dahmen (dahmen@igpm.rwth-aachen.de)
Apl.Prof. Dr. S. Müller (mueller@igpm.rwth-aachen.de)

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From: Stefan Engblom <stefane@it.uu.se>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 08:44:18 -0500
Subject: PhD Position, Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ

The project title is "Parallelism in event-based models for stochastic
chemical kinetics" and the position is at the Dept. of Information
Technology, Div. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala university. The work
will be carried out within the Linnaeus center of excellence Uppsala
Programming for Multicore Architectures Research Center (UPMARC,
http://www.upmarc.se).

Application deadline is December 1, 2011.

More information and instructions how to apply can be found at
http://www2.personalavd.uu.se/ledigaplatser/2786PhD.html

Contact Stefan Engblom for further information
(stefan.engblom@it.uu.se).

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From: CONSTRUCTIVE APPROXIMATION <Constructive.Approximation@vanderbilt.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 13:43:49 -0500
Subject: Contents, Constructive Approximation, 34(3)

Constructive Approximation
Volume 34 Number 3
Table of Contents

"Nikishin Systems Are Perfect" by U. Fidalgo Prieto and G. López
Lagomasino, Pages 297-356

"A Maximal Function Approach to Christoffel Functions and Nevai's
Operators" by D. S. Lubinsky, Pages 357-369

"Regularity of Tensor Product Approximations to Square Integrable
Functions" by André Uschmajew, Pages 371-391

"Growth Behavior and Zero Distribution of Rational Approximants" by
Hans-Peter Blatt and Ralitza K. Kovacheva, Pages 393-420

"l1-Summability of d-Dimensional Fourier Transforms" by Ferenc Weisz,
Pages 421-452

"Positivity of the Generalized Translation Associated with the
q-Hankel Transform" by Ahmed Fitouhi and Lazhar Dhaouadi, Pages
453-472

Volume 34 Number 3 of Constructive Approximation is now available on
the SpringerLink web site at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/100122/

Constructive Approximation
An International Journal for Approximations and Expansions
Published by Springer
http://www.springerlink.com/content/100122/

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