NA Digest Sunday, May 11, 1997 Volume 97 : Issue 19

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From: Shiv Chandrasekaran <shiv@balrog.ece.ucsb.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 15:46:12 +0800
Subject: Continuation Methods for 2-point BVPs

I am looking for references to recent work (after 1974) on
continuation methods for nonlinear two-point boundary value problems.
If you have written any papers on this subject or know of any
references to such papers, please email them to me. Thanks,

Shiv Chandrasekaran
Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept.,
University of California,
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560
email: shiv@ece.ucsb.edu


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From: Mileta Radenovic <miletar@l.cis.cg.ac.yu>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 08:51:16 +0100 (GMT+0100)
Subject: Electronic References on Parallel Methods for Optimization

Dear coleagues,

I'm working in parallel methods of minimization convex smooth function
f : R^n --> R
at the set
U = {x in R^n : g1(x)<=0, g2(x)<=0, ... gm(x)<=0 }
where functions g1, g2, ... gm are convex.

I haven't appropriate literature in my country. Would you, please, give me
some names and emails of people that are in the same area of research, and
places where I can find papers in electronic form.
My email address: miletar@urcpg.pmf.cg.ac.yu

Yours sincerelly,

Mileta Radenovic, M.Sc. of Mathematics,
University of Montenegro
Department of Mathematics
Montenegro
Yugoslavia


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From: Harvey Greenberg <hgreenbe@carbon.cudenver.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 15:23:26 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: LP Short Course OnLine

I have added an LP short course (some lessons are under construction) at

http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~hgreenbe/courseware/LPshort/intro.html

(You could also visit my general courseware page.)

It uses my glossary and other web sites extensively, and it links to my
"Lab Manual", which I have put on the web too. The manual, itself, is as
complete as the printed version from which it was taken. But, I have not
yet completed the solutions, which are links from each exercise.

I am anxious for your comments, and candor will be appreciated. You can
e-mail me directly at hgreenbe@carbon.cudenver.edu, or you can use the
Comments I have put there.

Please drop by my web page, http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~hgreenbe

Thanks,
Harvey


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From: Harvey Greenberg <hgreenbe@carbon.cudenver.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 17:53:32 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: New Book on Sensitivity Analysis and Parametric Programming

Professor Dr. Dr. Tomas Gal and I are pleased to announce the publication
of our book, "Advances in Sensitivity Analysis and Parametric
Programming," with contributions from two dozen researchers. This is from
Kluwer Academic Press, and you can see our Table of Contents at
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~hgreenbe/sapptoc.html

Thanks,
Harvey J. Greenberg


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From: Lester Ingber <ingber@ingber.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 17:42:13 -0400
Subject: EEG Data Now Publicly Available

EEG data now publicly available

It is extremely difficult for modelers of nonlinear time series, and
EEG systems in particular, to get access to large sets of raw clean
data. Such a set of data was acquired and used for the study in
%A L. Ingber
%T Statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions: Canonical
momenta indicators of electroencephalography
%J Physical Review E
%V 55
%N 4
%P 4578-4593
%D 1997
%O URL http://www.ingber.com/smni97_cmi.ps.Z
The above adaptive simulated annealing (ASA) application to EEG
analysis is one of several ASA applications being prepared for the SPEC
(Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) CPU98 suite. Eventually
the code used to perform these calculations will be published on a
CDROM by SPEC.

Raw EEG data is now publicly available, as described in
http://www.ingber.com/smni_eeg_data.html
ftp://ftp.ingber.com/MISC.DIR/smni_eeg_data.txt

The ASA code is publicly available at no charge from
http://www.ingber.com/
ftp:/ftp.ingber.com
A complete homepage is mirrored on
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~ingber/

Lester


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From: Ya Xiang Yuan <yuan@gauss.mat.ufpr.br>
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 22:13:12 -0400 (WST)
Subject: Conference on Numerical Optimization and Numerical Linear Algebra

CONFERENCE ON Numerical Optimization and Numerical Linear Algebra
( Qingdao,China, Oct 6-9, 1997; First Announcement)

The international conference on numerical optimization and numerical linear
algebra will be held at Ocean university of Qingdao, Shangdong, Oct. 6-9, 1997.
The aim of the conference is to gather experts in these related areas to
exchange ideas and discuss further developments about these two closely related
fields. The topics of the conference include:
Linear and nonlinear programming;
Global and nonsmooth optimization;
Combinatorial optimization and network computing;
Solutions of linear and nonlinear systems of equations;
Least-squares problems; Computations of eigenvalue problems;
Parallel computations in optimization and numerical algebra,
Applications of optimization and algebra techniques and algorithms.


INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
D.Y. Cai (Tsinghua University, BEIJING)
R.H. Chan (Chinese University, HONG KONG)
J.Y. Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
E.X. Jiang (Fudan University, SHANGHAI)
W.B. Liu (University of Kent at Canterbury, ENGLAND)
M. Mu (University of Science and Technology, HONG KONG)
J.S. Pang (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
L.Q. Qi (University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA)
R.J.B. Sampaio (Federal University, Curitiba, BRAZIL)
J.G. Sun (University of Umea, SWEDEN)
K. Tanabe (Institute Statistical Mathematics, JAPAN)
C.X. Xu (Xian Jiaotong University, XIAN)
S.F. Xu (Peking University, BEIJING)
Y. Yuan (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Persons wishing to submit a paper should send the full paper and an abstract of
the paper before June 15, 1997, to the contacting address given below. Authors
of all accepted papers will be notified by July 31, 1997. Final full versions
of all invited papers and some selected accepted contributed papers must be
provided in camera ready format by August 31, 1997.

The registration fee for the Conference is US$ 200. It includes lunches during
the meeting, a banquet and the proceedings of the conference and a local tour.
Special registration fee for students is US$ 50.Please complete the registration
form(obtained from Dr. Z.Z. Bai or the www address below), with a check of
US$200 (US$50 for students) payable to Zhong-Zhi Bai, and sent it to
Dr. Zhong-Zhi Bai
State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing
ICMSEC, Chinese Academy of Sciences
P.O. Box 2719, Beijing 100080, P.R. China
Tel: +86-10-6263-0992, +86-10-6254-5820
FAX: +86-10-6254-2285 e-mail: bzz@lsec.cc.ac.cn

INFORMATION
more information and details about the conference can be obtained from
Dr. Zhong-zhi Bai (contact address is given above) or via www:
http://lsec.cc.ac.cn/home2/yyx/public_html/conf97.html

DATES
June 15, 1997: Deadline for submission of the full papers and abstracts.
July 31, 1997: Notification of acceptance of papers
August, 31, 1997: Deadline for submission of full of accepted papers
October 6-9, 1997: Conference .


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From: Jan Hesthaven <jansh@cfm.brown.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 May 97 11:31:11 EDT
Subject: Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods

First Announcement and Call for Papers
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
SPECTRAL AND HIGH ORDER METHODS
ICOSAHOM 98

Tel Aviv, Israel
June 22-26, 1998

SCIETIFIC COMITTEE
S. Abarbanel, I. Babuska, C. Bernardi, C. Canuto, M. Deville, R. Glowinski,
D. Gottlieb (Chair), B. Gustafsson, G. Karniadakis, H.O. Kreiss, Y. Maday,
E. Mund, T.J. Oden, C. Schwab, A. Quarteroni, L.R. Scott

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMITTEE
S. Abarbanel (Chair), B. Artzi, D. Givoli, E. Turkel

OBJECTIVE OF CONFERENCE
To bring together researchers with interest in the theoretical, applied and
computational aspects of high order and spectral methods. Subjects include,
but are not limited to, spectral methods, high-order finite difference and
finite element methods, h-p finite element methods and wavelet based methods
for the solution of partial differential equations. Applications include
electromagnetics, fluid and structural dynamics problems, efficient solvers
and preconditioners for high order methods and parallel aspects of spectral
and high order methods. It is anticipated that the participants will include
physicists, mathematicians,scientists and engineers from many other areas
involving and utilizing spectral and high order methods.

CALL FOR PAPERS
The program of ICOSAHOM 98 will include a number of invited 50 min plenary
talks and a number of 30 min contributed talks by the participants. The
Scientific Committee invites abstracts to be submitted, describing the content
of 30 min talks. These abstract should not be less than a page while not
exceeding two pages and should be submitted either in hard copy to the con-
ference office or by e-mail in LaTeX-style to the conference e-mail address.

CALL FOR WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
It is the intention of the Scientific Committee to host workshops, consisting
of a number of related contributed talks. The Scientific Committee invites
organizers to submit suggestions to such workshops.

PARTIAL SUPPORT FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS
A limited number of young scientists attending the conference may receive
partial support and the Scientific Committee invites applications for partial
support along with the submitted abstract.

IMPORTANT DATES
January 15, 1998 - Deadline for submission of abstracts
Deadline for workshop proposals
Deadline for application of partial support

FURTHER AND FUTURE INFORMATION
Further information and future announcements can be obtained by writing an
e-mail to ICOSAHOM@cfm.brown.edu requesting to be included on the mailing
list of ICOSAHOM 98.


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From: Bruce Hendrickson <bahendr@cs.sandia.gov>
Date: Mon, 5 May 97 11:00:36 MDT
Subject: Intel Supercomputer Users Group

Annual Meeting of the Intel Supercomputer Users Group

The thirteenth annual meeting of the Intel Supercomputer Users Group
will be held in Albuquerque on June 11-13. The theme of the meeting
is "Spanning the Spectrum", reflecting the broad range of Intel's
involvement in high performance computing from the world's fastest
computer to the humblest pile-of-PCs. Reflecting these different scales,
the three days of the meeting will focus on different points on this spectrum.
The first day will be devoted to the Intel/Sandia Tflop computer, the
fastest in existence. The second day will principally focus on Paragons
and related issues. The emphasis of the last day of the meeting will on
the exciting emergence of commodity cluster computing.

Social events will include a welcoming reception, a tour of the Tflop machine
at Sandia and a dinner at the top of the mountains overlooking Albuquerque.
More complete and up to date information can be found at the ISUG'97 web site
http://www.cs.sandia.gov/ISUG97. The deadline for guaranteed hotel reservations
and early conference registration is May 20th.


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CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
SPECIAL SESSION ON LINEAR ALGEBRA
organized by
Institute of Industrial Mathematical Sciences (IIMS)
University of Manitoba
Telephone: (204) 474 6724 Fax: (204) 275 0019
E-mail: insmath@cc.umanitoba.ca URL: http://www.iims.umanitoba.ca

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Monday, June 9, 1997

Contributed papers will be scheduled during the morning of June 9.

Details of location, etc. will be available on the CMS Web Page
netscape http://camel.math.ca and the IIMS web page

Q. Ye (Manitoba) "Inexact Preconditioned Conjugate
Gradient Method for Symmetric Definite Linear
Systems"

R. Horn (Utah) "Eigenvalue Inequalities and Equalities"

P. Van Dooren (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium),
"About Stability Radii"

J. McDonald (Regina) "On M-matrices and Their Inverses"

B. Shader (Wyoming) "Exponents of Nonnegative Matrix Pairs"

S. Kirkland (Regina) "Algebraic Connectivity and Perron
Components for Graphs"


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From: Hershkowitz Daniel <hershkow@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 08:34:43 +0300 (IDT)
Subject: Haifa 10th Matrix Conference

The Mathematics Department at the Technion, supported by its Institute for
Advanced Studies in Mathematics, will hold the Tenth Haifa Matrix Theory
Conference on January 5-9, 1998.

As in the past, the program will attempt to cover all aspects of matrix
theory, linear algebra, and their applications.

The members of the Organizing Committee are Avi Berman, Moshe Goldberg, Danny
Hershkowitz (Chair), Leonid Lerer, Raphael Loewy, and Abraham Zaks.

Further details will be provided at a later date.

Organizing Committee
Ninth Haifa Matrix Theory Conference
Department of Mathematics
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000, ISRAEL
E-mail: hershkow@tx.technion.ac.il


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From: Robert Gulliver <gulliver@ima.umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 17:25:23 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Parallel Solution of PDE Workshop

IMA Workshop: Parallel Solution of PDE
June 9--13, 1997. Organizers: Mitchell Luskin (Univ. of Minnesota)
and Petter Bjorstad (Univ. of Bergen)

The numerical solution of the partial differential equations of continuum
mechanics is of major importance to the development of many technologies
and has been the target of much of the development of parallel computer
hardware and software. Parallel computers offers the promise of greatly
increased performance and the routine calculation of previously
intractable problems. This period of concentration and workshop will
promote the development and assessment of new approximation and solution
techniques which can take advantage of parallel computers. Topics to be
the focus of research include sparse matrix techniques, domain
decomposition methods, parallel multi-grid methods, and novel time and
space discretizations.

Registration is free. Please contact staff@ima.umn.edu for arrangements.

INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
University of Minnesota
514 Vincent Hall, 206 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 USA
FAX +1 (612) 626-7370 telephone +1 (612) 624-6066
e-mail: staff@ima.umn.edu world-wide web: http://www.ima.umn.edu


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From: Lubin Georgiev Vulkov <vulkov@ami.ru.acad.bg>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 15:01:21 +0200 (WET)
Subject: Conference in Bulgaria on Finite Difference Methods

THE ANGEL KANCHEV UNIVERSITY OF ROUSSE
DIVISION OF NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS
Second Announcement and Call for Papers
FINITE DIFFERENCE METHODS:THEORY and APPLICATIONS
ROUSSE,BULGARIA,AUGUST 10-13,1997

The Conference FINITE DIFFERENCE METHODS:THEORY and APPLICATIONS is
organized by
Institute of Numerical Modelling University of Rousse, Bulgaria
Russian Academy of Sciences

Institute of Mathematics Technical University of Gabrovo
Belarus Academy of Sciences Bulgaria

The scope of the Conference is concerned with problems of development,
validation and practical usage of finite difference methods for numerical
solution of modern problems of science and engineering.

BASIC TOPICS:
Validation of finite difference methods for solving problems of
mathematical physics
Iterative methods and parallel algorithms for solving grid equations
Finite difference methods for nonlinear problems
Inverse problems and problems of control
Finite difference methods in continuum mechanics
Application of difference methods to engineering problems

The scientific programme includes invited plenary talks (50 min),
key lecturers (45 min) and contributed talks (20 or 30 min).

CONFERENCE DEADLINES
-abstract (one page abstract, best plain text or
Postscript by e-mail) : May 31, 1997
-two hard copies of your paper : June 30, 1997

The last announcement will be sent in July 1997 to those who have
sent their preregestration form. It will be concerned with the
scientific programme,the social program, the location of the conference,
the transport and climate in Bulgaria.

Preliminary list of Plenary Lecturers : A.A.Samarskii (Russia),
V. Thomee (Sweden), M. Wheeler (USA); and Key Lecturers:
V. Abrashin (Belorus), A.Andreev (Russia), G. Akrivis (Greese),
I. Fryazinov (Russia), I. Gavrilyk (Germany), A. Gulin (Russia),
P. Hemker (Netherlands)Shi-Jin (USA), B. Jovanovic (Yugoslavia),
V. Korneev (Russia), R. Lazarov (USA), P. Matus (Belarus),
V. Makarov (Ukraine), G. Meladze (Georgia), M. Sapagovas (Litva),
G. Shishkin (Russia), Shi Zhong-ci (China), P. Vabishchevich (Russia).

Our address for correspondence is:

Int. Programme Committee Organizing Committee
A.A.Samarskii (Chairman)
Peter N.Vabishchevich Lubin Vulkov (Chairman)
Institute for Numerical Modelling Center of Applied Mathematics
Russian Academy of Sciences and Informatics
Miusskaya Square University of Rousse
Moscow 125047, RUSSIA 7017 Rousse, BULGARIA
e-mail:vab@imamod.msk.su e-mail:vulkov@ami.ru.acad.bg


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From: P. N. Shivakumar <insmath@cc.UManitoba.CA>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 16:43:13 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: CMS Special Session on Linear Algebra

CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
SPECIAL SESSION ON LINEAR ALGEBRA
organized by
Institute of Industrial Mathematical Sciences (IIMS)
University of Manitoba
Telephone: (204) 474 6724 Fax: (204) 275 0019
E-mail: insmath@cc.umanitoba.ca URL: http://www.iims.umanitoba.ca

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Monday, June 9, 1997

NOTES:

(1) Contributed papers will be scheduled during the morning of
June 9.

(2) Details of location, etc. will be available on the CMS Web Page
netscape http://camel.math.ca and the IIMS web page

11:30 - 12:00 Q. Ye (Manitoba) "Inexact Preconditioned Conjugate
Gradient Method for Symmetric Definite Linear
Systems"

1:30 - 2:30 R. Horn (Utah) "Eigenvalue Inequalities and Equalities"

2:40 - 3:40 P. Van Dooren (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium),
"About Stability Radii"

3:40 - 4:10 J. McDonald (Regina) "On M-matrices and Their Inverses"

4:10 - 4:40 B. Shader (Wyoming) "Exponents of Nonnegative Matrix Pairs"

4:40 - 5:10 S. Kirkland (Regina) "Algebraic Connectivity and Perron
Components for Graphs"

GRADUATE STUDENTS SEMINAR
OF THE CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

Organized by
Institute of Industrial Mathematical Science
University of Manitoba
Telephone: (204) 474 6724 Fax: (204) 275 0019
E-mail: insmath@cc.umanitoba.ca URL: http://www.iims.umanitoba.ca

TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1997

9:00 - 9:25 Welcome, P. N. Shivakumar, Director, IIMS
Opening Address, Kathy Heinrich, President, CMS

9:30 - 10:15 Paul Van Dooren, Unviersite Catholique de Louvain,
"Pade Approximants of Large-Scale Systems via
Krylov Methods and its Applications"

10:15 - 10:45 Dennis Woodford, Manitoba HVDC Research Center,
"Applying Math, A Vision for the Future"

11:15 - 11:45 Rhonda Orr, Manitoba Hydro

11:45 - 12:30 Round Table Discussion (Kathy Heinrich (Chair),
Brian Alspach, Paul Van Dooren, Dennis Woodford,
Rhonda Orr) "Mathematical Needs of Industry and
Government"

1:30 - 2:00 Brian Alspach, Simon Fraser University, "Making
Connections with Industry"

2:00 - 2:45 Hans Schneider, University of Wisconsin - Madison,
"Why I Love Perron-Frobenius"

3:15 - 4:00 Heydar Radjavi, Dalhousie University, "Collections of
Operators, Reducibility and Triangularizability"

4:00 - 5:00 Round Table Discussion (Lynn Batten (Chair), Brian
Alspach, Hans Schneider, Heydar Radjavi, Anne Street)

5:30 Pizza Party

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1997

Contributed Papers (20 minutes) and Posters. Details will be announced
on IIMS Web Page.

Refer to CMS Notes (January/February and April) for registration details.


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From: H. J. Werner <or470@unitas.or.uni-bonn.de>
Date: Fri, 09 May 97 19:12:35 +0100
Subject: Workshop on Matrix Methods for Statistics

Second Announcement and Call for Papers
Sixth International Workshop on
"MATRIX METHODS FOR STATISTICS"
Istanbul, Turkey: August 16-17, 1997

The Sixth International Workshop on "Matrix Methods for Statistics"
will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday, August 16 and
Sunday, August 17, 1997, the weekend immediately preceding the
51st Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

Scientific Programme Committee: R. William Farebrother (Manchester,
England), Simo Puntanen (Tampere, Finland), George P. H. Styan
(Montreal, Canada), and Hans Joachim Werner (Bonn, Germany; chair).
Local Organizing Committee: Fikri Akdeniz (Adana, Turkey; chair),
Omer L. Gebizlioglu (Ankara, Turkey), and Cemil Yapar (Trabzon,
Turkey).

The purpose of this Workshop is to stimulate research and, in an
informal setting, to foster the interaction of researchers in the
interface between matrix theory and statistics. This Workshop will
provide a forum for statisticians working in the areas of linear
algebra and matrix theory to become better informed of the latest
developments and newest techniques and to interchange ideas.

It is expected that selected papers from this Sixth International
Workshop on Matrix Methods for Statistics will be published in a
Special Issue on Linear Algebra and Statistics of Linear Algebra and
Its Applications.

For further information about this Sixth International Workshop on
Matrix Methods for Statistics (contributed paper submission, deadlines,
etc.) you are invited to visit our WWW-site

http://eos.ect.uni-bonn.de/werner.html

where all available information about this Workshop will be updated
frequently. Requests for more information concerning the scientific
program, as well as any organizational questions should be directed
to:

Hans Joachim Werner (Chair of the Workshop Programme Committee)
Institute for Econometrics and Operations Research, Econometrics Unit,
University of Bonn, Adenauerallee 24-42, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
Email: or470@unitas.or.uni-bonn.de, na.werner@na-net.ornl.gov
FAX: ++49 +228 739189 (email is preferred)

or

Fikri Akdeniz (Chair of the Local Organizing Committee)
Department of Mathematics, Cukurova University, 01330 Adana, Turkey
Email: akdeniz@pamuk.cc.cu.edu.tr
FAX: ++90 +322 3386070


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From: SIGMETRICS <sigmetrics@haven.EPM.ORNL.GOV>
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 00:03:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Gordon Conference on HPC and NII

The deadline for applying to attend the 1997 Gordon conference in high
performance computing is June 1. If you are interested in attending,
please apply as soon as possible. The simplest way to apply is to download
the application form from the web site indicated below, or to use the online
registration option. If you have any problems with either of these,
please contact the organizers at tony@cs.msstate.edu and worleyph@ornl.gov.

The 1997 Gordon Conference on High Performance Computing and
Information Infrastructure: "Practical Revolutions in HPC and NII"

Chair, Anthony Skjellum, Mississippi State University, tony@cs.msstate.edu,
601-325-8435
Co-Chair, Pat Worley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, worleyph@ornl.gov,
615-574-3128

Conference web page: http://www.erc.msstate.edu/conferences/gordon97

July 13-17, 1997
Plymouth State College
Plymouth NH

The now bi-annual Gordon conference series in HPC and NII commenced in 1992
and has had its second meeting in 1995. The Gordon conferences are an
elite series of conferences designed to advance the state-of-the-art in
covered disciplines. Speakers are assured of anonymity and
referencing presentations done at Gordon conferences is prohibited by
conference rules in order to promote science, rather than publication
lists. Previous meetings have had good international participation,
and this is always encouraged. Experts, novices, and technically
interested parties from other fields interested in HPC and NII are
encouraged to apply to attend.

All attendees, including speakers, poster presenters, and session chairs
must apply to attend. We *strongly* encourage all poster presenters to have
their poster proposals in by May 13, 1997, though we will consider poster
presentations up to six weeks prior to the conference. Application to
attend the conference is also six weeks in advance.

More information on the conference can be found at the web page
listed above, including the list of speakers and poster presenters
and information on applying for attendance.


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From: Christopher T H Baker <cthbaker@ma.man.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 17:36:05 +0100
Subject: Studentships at University of Manchester

Postgraduate Studentships for UK and EU Students

The Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester has
EPSRC Studentships (for which UK and EU students are eligible) for
the following:

M.Sc. Courses
Numerical Analysis and Computing:
A course on modern numerical analysis and computational
mathematics in theory and in practical applications.
Applied Mathematics and Fluid Mechanics:
A course on modern developments in theoretical,
experimental and computational fluid mechanics.

Ph.D. Studentship
An EPSRC CASE Ph.D. Studentship for a project concerning numerical
solution of the algebraic eigenproblem, with the Numerical Algorithms
Group (NAG) Ltd., Oxford, as the co-operating body. The chosen
student will receive the usual EPSRC Research Studentship grant plus
an additional UKpounds 2,850 per annum.

For information contact: Postgraduate Secretary, Department of
Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL.
Tel: 44+ 161 275 5802. Fax: 44+ 161 275 5819.
Email: pgadmissions@ma.man.ac.uk .
http://www.maths.man.ac.uk .


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From: Tom Korsmeyer <xmeyer@flying-cloud.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 13:24:21 -0400
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at MIT

The computer-aided design group in the Research Laboratory of
Electronics at MIT has a postdoctoral position available in the area of
fast algorithms for integral formulations associated with problems in
marine hydrodynamics, electromagnetics, and microelectromechanics.
The project will require both a significant numerical analysis
background, particularly in integral equation techniques, and
experience in developing efficient numerical software. We expect to
fill this position by July 1, with a one-year appointment and possible
renewals for a total of three years. Send your availability and cv to
xmeyer@mit.edu and/or white@mit.edu


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From: Hans Josef Pesch <pesch@math.tu-clausthal.de>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 19:06:01 +0200 (DFT)
Subject: Position at TU Clausthal

Am Institut f"ur Mathematik der Technischen Universit"at Clausthal ist die
Stelle einer Akademischen R"atin bzw. eines Akademischen Rates (A 13)
zum n"achstm"oglichen Zeitpunkt zu besetzen.

Die Stelleninhaberin bzw. der Stelleninhaber soll im Bereich
der Numerischen Mathematik und des Wissenschaftlichen Rechnen wissenschaftlich
sehr gut ausgewiesen sein. Es wird eine Beteiligung an der Forschung der
Arbeitsgruppe Numerische Mathematik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen erwartet,
die sich sowohl mit ingenieur- als auch mit wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen
Anwendungen der Mathematik besch"aftigt. Insbesondere sind daf"ur auch
Kenntnisse auf den Gebieten Optimale Steuerungen und Differentialspieltheorie
nachzuweisen. Weitere erw"unschte Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Paralleles
Rechnen, Neuronale Netze und Echtzeit-Steuerung technischer Prozesse.

N"ahere Informationen finden Sie unter der URL

http://www.math.tu-clausthal.de/~mahjp/Infos/Ratsstelle.html.

Anfragen und Bewerbungen mit den "ublichen Unterlagen sind bis zum 13.6.1997
an den Gesch"aftsf"uhrenden Direktor des Instituts f"ur Mathematik
der Technischen Universit"at Clausthal, Erzstr. 1, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld,
zu richten.

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/\ Hans Josef Pesch
_/ \___________ Numerische Mathematik & Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
_ TU CLAUSTHAL Institut fuer Mathematik
\ / Technische Universitaet Clausthal
\/ Erzstr. 1
D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Deutschland/Germany

Tel.: +49 5323 72-2433
+49 5323 72-2066 (secretary: Mrs. Fricke)
Fax.: +49 5323 72-2304
e-mail: pesch@math.tu-clausthal.de
info: http://www.math.tu-clausthal.de/~mahjp/
and http://www.math.tu-clausthal.de/~mahjp/Welcome.numerik.html


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From: Ron Boisvert <boisvert@cam.nist.gov>
Date: Thu, 8 May 97 15:44:58 EDT
Subject: ACM TOMS: Online Access and Reduced Backlog

ONLINE ACCESS. Full-text of articles published in the ACM Transactions on
Mathematical Software (TOMS) from 1991 to present can now be downloaded from
the ACM Digital Library at http://www.acm.org/pubs/toc/. Access to complete
articles is currently restricted to print subscribers, although
tables-of-contents and search facilities are available to all. ACM will begin
offering online-only subscriptions at a reduced rate this summer.

REDUCED BACKLOG. TOMS has reduced its publications backlog to about 6 months.
(Articles to be published in June 97 were accepted during the period Nov 96 to
Feb 97.) ACM encourages authors to consider TOMS as an outlet for their work.

TOMS publishes research papers on practical aspects of mathematical algorithms
and their implementation in well-designed computer software. Topics of
interest include the methodology of math software design, testing and
evaluation; the effect of machine architecture, languages and tools on
mathematical computations; as well as concrete mathematical algorithms for
linear algebra, function evaulation, nonlinear systems, optimization,
differential equations, statistics, etc. Software in Fortran, C, C++, MATLAB,
and other languages may be included in TOMS submissions; if accepted, such
software is distinguished by inclusion in the Collected Algorithms of the ACM.
Full details can be found at http://www.acm.org/toms/.


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From: Iain Duff <I.Duff@letterbox.rl.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 7 May 97 09:56:30 BST
Subject: IMANA Newsletter

IMANA Newsletter Volume 21(3). April 1997.

The April issue of the IMANA Newsletter is available electronically and
can be accessed through anonymous ftp to RAL. The details
of how to access it are given below.

If readers wish to receive complete paper copies on a regular basis they
should write to:

Karen Jenkins
Catherine Richards House
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
16 Nelson Street
Southend-on-Sea
Essex SS1 1EF
UK
fax: +44-1702-354111
email: post@ima.org.uk

who will supply further information and subscription rates.

To get a copy
ftp 130.246.8.22
When prompted for a userid, reply with
anonymous
and give your email address as a password.

Then directory to pub/imana (cd pub/imana)
Set mode to binary (bin)
Copy is in file april97.gz (get april97.gz)
The conference section can be found in file april97.conf.gz.
Both files should be gunzipped whence they should be found to be in plain ASCII
format.


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From: Edward Sisson <sisson@siam.org>
Date: Mon, 05 May 97 09:28:44 EST
Subject: Contents, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Volume 34, Number 3, JUNE 1997
CONTENTS

Computation of Singularities in Large Nonlinear Systems
W. Govaerts

Stability and Convergence of a Finite Element Method for Reactive Transport in
Ground Water
Zhangxin Chen and Richard E. Ewing

Scattered Data Interpolation Using C2 Supersplines of Degree Six
Ming-Jun Lai and Larry L. Schumaker

Subdivision Direction Selection in Interval Methods for Global Optimization
T. Csendes and D. Ratz

Preconditioning Chebyshev Spectral Collocation by Finite-Difference Operators
Sang Dong Kim and Seymour V. Parter

Optimal L1-Rate of Convergence for the Viscosity Method and Monotone Scheme to
Piecewise Constant Solutions with Shocks
Zhen-Huan Teng and Pingwen Zhang

Mesh Smoothing Using A Posteriori Error Estimates
Randolph E. Bank and R. Kent Smith

A Convergence Analysis of an h-Version Finite-Element Method with High-Order
Elements for Two-Dimensional Elasto-Plasticity Problems
Yiwei Li and Ivo Babuska

A Finite-Element Method for Laplace- and Helmholtz-Type Boundary Value Problems
with Singularities
Xiaonan Wu and Houde Han

A Sequential Regularization Method for Time-Dependent Incompressible
Navier-Stokes Equations
Ping Lin

Analysis of the Inexact Uzawa Algorithm for Saddle Point Problems
James H. Bramble, Joseph E. Pasciak, and Apostol T. Vassilev

A Penalized Finite-Element Method for a Compressible Stokes System
R. Bruce Kellogg and Biyue Liu

Analysis of Moving Mesh Partial Differential Equations with Spatial Smoothing
Weizhang Huang and Robert D. Russell

Analysis of the Cell-Vertex Finite Volume Method for Hyperbolic Problems with
Variable Coefficients
Philippe Balland and Endre Suli

An L1-Error Bound for a Semi-Implicit Difference Scheme Applied to a Stiff
System of Conservation Laws
Hans Joachim Schroll, Aslak Tveito, and Ragnar Winther

Best Error Bounds for Odd and Even Degree Deficient Splines
Francois Dubeau and Jean Savoie

An ADI Method for Hysteretic Reaction-Diffusion Systems
Chichia Chiu and Noel Walkington

The Numerical Computation of Homoclinic Orbits for Maps
W.-J. Beyn and J.-M. Kleinkauf

Error Estimates with Sharp Constants for a Fading Memory Volterra Problem in
Linear Solid Viscoelasticity
S. Shaw, M. K. Warby, and J. R. Whiteman

The Application of Eigenpair Stability to Block Diagonalization
Nilotpal Ghosh, William W. Hager, and Purandar Sarmah

Defining Functions for Multiple Hopf Bifurcations
W. Govaerts, J. Guckenheimer, and A. Khibnik


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From: Deborah Poulson <poulson@siam.org>
Date: Mon, 05 May 97 14:49:35 EST
Subject: Contents, SIAM Review

SIAM Review
Volume 39, Number 2, JUNE 1997
CONTENTS

Articles

Solving a Polynomial Equation: Some History and Recent Progress
Victor Y. Pan

A Class of Codimension-Two Free Boundary Problems
S. D. Howison, J. D. Morgan, and J. R. Ockendon

Computing an Eigenvector with Inverse Iteration
Ilse C. F. Ipsen

Classroom Notes

On the Limits of the Lagrange Multiplier Rule
Luis A. Fernandez

The Lagrange--Charpit Method
Manuel Delgado

A Unified Elementary Approach to Canonical Forms of Matrices
John Karro and Chi-Kwong Li

Putting Constraints in Optimization for First Year Calculus Students
Kelly Black

Some Eigenvalue Properties of Persymmetric Matrices
Russell M. Reid

Problems and Solutions

Book Reviews

Selected Topics in Approximation and Computation (Marek A. Kowalski,
Krzysztof A. Sikorski, and Frank Stenger), Borislav Bojanov

An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding (Douglas Lind and
Brian Marcus), Mike Boyle

An Introduction to Linear and Nonlinear Scattering Theory (G. F.
Roach), David L. Coulton

Introduction to Disjunctive Kriging and Non-Linear Geostatistics (J.
Rivoirard), Noel Cressie

Multivariate Geostatistics (Hans Wackernagel), Victor De Oliveira and
Benjamin Kedem

Analysis of Algorithms---Computational Methods and Mathematical Tools
(Micha Hofri), Philippe Flajolet

The CRC Handbook of Combinatorial Designs (Charles J. Colbourn and
Jeffrey H. Dinitz), Katherine Heinrich

The Hilbert Transform of Schwartz Distributions and Applications (J.
N. Pandey), Philip Heywood

Qualitative Estimates for Partial Differential Equations: An
Introduction (James N. Flavin and Salvatore Rionero), Cornelius O.
Horgan

Parallel and Sequential Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations
(Kevin Burrage), Ken Jackson

Handbook of Exact Solutions for Ordinary Differential Equations (A. D.
Polyanin and V. F. Zaitsev), Murray S. Klamkin

Exact Controllability and Stabilization: The Multiplier Method (V.
Komornik), John E. Lagnese

Group Theory and Physics (S. Sternberg), Ivailo M. Mladenov

Elliptic Marching Methods for Domain Decomposition (Patrick J.
Roache), Deigo A. Murio

Special Functions: An Introduction to the Classical Functions of
Mathematical Physics (Nico M. Temme), Frank W. J. Olver

Stable Non-Gaussian Random Processes (Gennady Samorodnitsky and Murad
S. Taqqu), Magda Peligrad

Nonlinear Waves in Elastic Media (A. Kulikovskii and E. Sveshmikova),
Michael Renardy

Numerical Methods for Differential Equations: A Computational
Approach (John R. Dormand), Lawrence F. Shampine

Integral Equations: Theory and Numerical Treatment (Wolfgang
Hackbusch), Ian H. Sloan

Handbook on Splines for the User (Eugene V. Shikin and Alexander I.
Plis), Helmut Spath

Time Dependent Problems and Difference Methods (Bertil Gustafsson,
Heinz-Otto Kreiss, and Joseph Oliger), Endre Suli

Applied Continuum Mechanics (T. J. Chung), Peter Wolfe

Conservative Finite-Difference Methods on General Grids (Mikhail
Shashkov), Zhimin Zhang


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From: E. B. Saff <esaff@math.usf.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 13:19:22 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Contents, Constructive Approximation

Table of Contents: Constructive Approximation, Volume 13, Number 3, 1997

W. Dahmen and C.A. Micchelli
Biorthogonal Wavelet Expansions
293--328

L.F. Villemoes
Best Approximation with Walsh Atoms
329--355

M. Reimer
Leading Coefficients and Extreme Points of Homogeneous Polynomials
357--362

V.V. Andrievskii and H.-P. Blatt
A Discrepancy Theorem on Quasiconformal Curves
363--379

L. Brutman and E. Passow
On Rational Interpolation to |x|
381--391

K. Scherer
Uniqueness of Best Parametric Interpolation by Cubic Spline Curves
393--419

J. Dombrowski and S. Pedersen
Spectral Measures and Jacobi Matrices Related to Laguerre-Type Systems of
Orthogonal Polynomials
421--433



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