NA Digest Sunday, February 15, 1998 Volume 98 : Issue 06

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From: Allison Bogardo <bogardo@siam.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 98 10:00:07 -0500
Subject: NSF KDI Initiative

NSF has formally announced the KDI initiative with a solicitation on
the web. You can access the NSF announcement via the SIAM home page
(http://www.siam.org).

This is a major multidisciplinary program with topics stemming from
data mining to scientific computing.


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From: Hans Johnston <hej@euclid.math.temple.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:04:40 -0500
Subject: Sine and Cosine Transforms on Crays

Hello NA-NET people,

I use VFFTPK subroutines in a CFD code I wrote. These routines account
for about 80% of the runtime. I am currently running the code on
both a C90 and a T90. The Cray LibSci FFT routines provide substantially
better performance over simply vectorized versions of VFFTPK. However,
the Cray libraries do not provide routines for just SINE or COSINE
transforms. I realize that these just require proper pre and post
processing of the data using the Cray routines. If anyone has
already spent the time writing these I would appreciate information
on where to find them. Thanks for your time.

Hans Johnston
hej@euclid.math.temple.edu


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From: Roger Haagmans <haagmans@geo.tudelft.nl>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:18:30 +0100
Subject: School on Wavelets in the Geosciences

International Association of Geodesy
SCHOOL ON WAVELETS
IN THE GEOSCIENCES

Announcement and registration
October, 4 - 9, 1998
At the Delft Institute for Earth-Oriented Space Research
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Delft University of Technology
Delft, The Netherlands

Objectives of the school

The basic objective of the School is provide the necessary information to
understand the potential and limitations of the application of wavelets in
the geosciences. This includes:
* the mathematical representation in one and more dimensions like on the
sphere
* the properties as compared to Fourier techniques
* the signal representation and analysis ability
* the use of operators in terms of wavelets
* gaining experiences with wavelets using examples from geosciences in
computer exercises

Program

The course will last for six days and contains three major subjects. Every
subject will be covered in two days time. All topics will be supported by
practical exercises on the computer with examples from geodynamics,
topography representation, gravity field modelling etc.
The lectures and subjects are:
1. Prof. Dr. Peter Maass, Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics
and Natural Sciences, University of Potsdam, Germany;
One dimensional wavelets. The link with Fourier theory is a starting
point to introduce continuous wavelets, discrete wavelets on intervals,
multiresolution, analysis and synthesis using wavelets, operators,
compression and filtering with wavelets.
2. Dr. Wim Sweldens, Mathematical Sciences Research Centre, Lucent
Technologies Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA;
Tensor product wavelets, 2nd generation wavelets. Special emphasis will
be put on the choice of wavelets in multidimensions. Multiresolution
analysis for arbitrary surfaces, efficient data representation as
well as efficient procedures for evaluation of integrals or solving
integral equations will be elaborated in more detail.
3. Prof. Dr. Willi Freeden, Geomathematics Group. Department of
Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany;
Wavelets on closed surfaces. The link with Fourier theory on the sphere
(spherical harmonics) is a starting point to introduce continuous
wavelets, discrete wavelets, multiresolution, analysis and synthesis
using wavelets, operators, compression and regularisation with
wavelets. This will be generalised to closed surfaces.
Lecture notes will be provided at the start of the school.

Who could attend

The school aims to provide Ph.D. students, researchers and staff members
with an overview on wavelet methods and its applications in geosciences at a
post graduate level (master). The participants should have a University
level education with an adequate mathematical foundation. Basic knowledge on
potential theory, functional analysis, numerical analysis or systems and
signals is recommended. The minimal number of attendants is 20 the maximum
40. The registration deadline is July 1st 1998; the fee Dfl. 450,-

Organisation

Scientific Committee
* Prof. Dr. Willi Freeden, Geomathematics Group, Department of
Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
* Prof. Dr. Roland Klees, Delft Institute for Earth-Oriented Space
Research (DEOS), Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft
University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Local organising committee and school secretariat address:
Dipl.-Math. Michael Bayer (Geomathematics Group), Dr. Ir.Martin van Gelderen,
Ir. Roger Haagmans and ms. Wil Coops-Luijten (DEOS)
Secretariat IAG School on Wavelets in the Geosciences
c/o Wil Coops-Luijten
DEOS, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences,
Delft University of Technology
Thijsseweg 11, NL-2629 JA Delft, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 15 2783289
Fax: +31 15 2783711
E-mail: wavelet.school@geo.tudelft.nl
More detailed information can be obtained from:
WWW: http://www.geo.tudelft.nl/fmr/waveletschool.html
At the end of the information just before a registration form you can save a
gzipped postscript file of the circular and the poster, by pressing SHIFT
and clicking "circular" or "poster". Can you please inform other interested
colleagues or Ph.D. students either by putting up the poster or by forwarding
this message?
In case you need more information or you are unable to look at the specified
URL, you can contact the secretariat of the school by e-mail
(wavelet.school@geo.tudelft.nl). We can sent a printed circular and poster
to you by mail.


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From: Christopher Freitas <CFreitas@swri.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 98 10:49:24 CST
Subject: Parallel Computing in Mechanical Engineering

CALL FOR PAPERS -

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is holding its 1998
International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) on
November 15-20, 1998 in Anaheim, California. As part of this Congress,
the Fluids Engineering Division is organizing a Forum on Parallel Computing
Methods. Papers are solicited on all aspects of parallel computing
methodology, including new and innovative methods. Papers on parallel
strategies for shared and distributed memory architectures, heterogeneous
clusters of workstations, and Pile-of-PCs are sought. Of particular
interest are papers discussing applications of parallel algorithms and
the effective use of parallel computing methods in industrial applications.

Paper abstracts are due to the organizer by March 13, 1998 and may be
submitted digitally or by hardcopy format. Notification of abstract
acceptance is by April 3, 1998, and the final paper is due to the
organizer by June 29, 1998. Please submit your abstract to or for
further information contact:

Dr. Christopher J. Freitas
Principal Engineer - Computational Mechanics
Southwest Research Institute
6220 Culebra Road
San Antonio, Tx 78238-5166
Voice: 210-522-2137, Fax: 210-522-3042
Email: cfreitas@swri.edu


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From: Larry Schumaker <s@mars.cas.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:35:38 -0600
Subject: CAGD and Wavelet Methods for Reconstructing Functions

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

CAGD and Wavelet Methods for Reconstructing Functions
June 15--17, 1998, Montecatini, Italy

This will be a tightly focused meeting sponsored by the IAMI (the
mathematics institute of the Italian Research Foundation CNR),
by the Department of Mathematics (University of Milan),
and by the University of Florence. Topics to be
discussed at the meeting include radial basis functions, splines,
and wavelets. The following are scheduled to give invited lectures:

R. Beatson, M. Buhmann, A. Cohen, W. Dahmen, C. deBoor,
R. DeVore, D. Donoho, M. Floater, S. Mallat, P. Sablonniere,
R. Schaback, L. Schumaker, J. Ward, G. Weiss

The meeting is by invitation only since the number of participants
is severely limited by logistics. A small number of contributed talks
will be scheduled.

If you are interested in attending, send an email to
Mira Bozzini at bozzini@vmimat.mat.unimi.it. The deadline for applying
is March 15, and invitations will be issued in early April.

For additional information, watch our home page at
http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schumake/mont.shtml

Organizing Committee:
Mira Bozzini
Ron DeVore
Robert Schaback
Larry Schumaker

Local Organizers:
Mira Bozzini
Ferruccio Fontanella
Licia Lenarduzzi


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From: Larry Schumaker <s@mars.cas.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:36:11 -0600
Subject: Conference on Multivariate Scattered Data Fitting

CALL FOR PAPERS

Second International Conference
on Multivariate Scattered Data Fitting
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, April 15--20, 1999
La Joya de Mismaloya Hotel, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico.

The meeting will focus on various aspects of multivariate
scattered data fitting. This includes
interpolation and approximation methods using splines, radial basis
functions, wavelets, etc., as well as various applications in geology,
geophysics, hydrology, image processing, meteorology, terrain
modelling, and visualization.

If you plan to attend this meeting, please send an email,
fax, or letter to L. Schumaker as soon as possible. Further information
will be sent to you later this fall, including how to get a hotel
room, and how to pay the conference fees
(Students = $50, Educators = $150, Others = $300).

If you are interested in presenting a contributed talk, send
a single page abstract to L. Schumaker as soon as possible.
We prefer to get the abstract electronically as a TeX file.
We want to avoid multiple sessions and an overfull program, so only
talks which closely fit the theme of the meeting will be scheduled.
Abstracts will be reviewed, and authors of papers selected for the
program will be notified in early January.

For more information, look at our web page at:

http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schumake/pv.shtml

The organizing committee:

P. Gonzalez-Casanova, UNAM. Instituto de Matematicas,
Cuernavaca. Mexico, tel (52)(73)17 00 44.
Email: pedro@matcuer.unam.mx

A. Le Mehaute, Departement de Mathematiques,
Universite de Nantes,
2 Rue de la Houssiniere BP 92208,
F-44322 Nantes CEDEX 03, FRANCE.
Tel: (33) 02 4373050, Fax: (33) 0240933875.
Email: alm@math.univ-nantes.fr

L. L. Schumaker, Dept. of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN, 37240.
Tel: 615-322-6652, Fax: 615-343-0215.
Email: s@mars.cas.vanderbilt.edu

L. Traversoni, Univ. Autonoma Met. (Iztapalapa), Ciencias Basicas
e Ingenieria, Ap Post 55-532, C.P. 09340 Mexico D.F., Mexico,
Tel: (52) 5 7244646,
fax: (52) 5 7244900.
Email: ltd@xanum.uam.mx


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From: Giuseppe Italiano <italiano@cs.ust.hk>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:27:23 +0800 (HKT)
Subject: European Symposium on Algorithms

Call For Papers
Sixth Annual European Symposium on Algorithms
ESA'98
August 24--26, 1998, Venice, Italy

The 6th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA '98) will be held
in Venice, Italy, August 24--26, 1998. The Symposium covers research
in the use, design, and analysis of efficient algorithms and data
structures as it is carried out in computer science, discrete applied
mathematics and mathematical programming. Papers are solicited
describing original results in all areas of algorithmic research,
including but not limited to: Approximation Algorithms; Combinatorial
Optimization; Computational Biology; Computational Geometry; Databases
and Information Retrieval; Graph and Network Algorithms; Machine
Learning; Number Theory and Computer Algebra; On-line Algorithms;
Pattern Matching and Data Compression; Symbolic Computation. The
algorithms may be sequential, distributed or parallel, and they should
be analyzed either mathematically or by rigorous computational
experiments. Submissions that report on experimental and applied
research are especially encouraged.

Submissions: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or
full draft paper of at most 10 pages, including fax number and e-mail
address, to arrive by March 17, 1998. For hard copy submissions mail
18 copies to:

Gianfranco Bilardi -- ESA '98
Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informatica
Universita` di Padova
Via Gradenigo 6/A
35131 Padova, Italy

Alternatively (and preferably), a standard postscript version of the
manuscript may be sent to esa98@dsi.unive.it. Notification of
acceptance will follow by May 5, 1998 via e-mail. Accepted papers
will be published in the proceedings of the Symposium, which will
appear in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science of
Springer-Verlag. The camera-ready copy is due before May 26, 1998.
All participants will receive a copy of the proceedings as part of
their registration.

Further Information: The Symposium will be held in San Servolo, a
beautiful island in Venice's lagoon, not far from San Marco square in
Venice. There will be a reduced conference fee for full-time
students. All questions should be mailed to esa98@dsi.unive.it.

Program Committee:
Gianfranco Bilardi (Padova & UIC, Co-Chair)
Jean Daniel Boissonnat (Sophia Antipolis)
Kieran T. Herley (Cork)
Dorit Hochbaum (Berkeley)
Giuseppe F. Italiano (Venice, Co-Chair)
Ludek Kucera (Prague)
Richard J. Lipton (Princeton)
Yishay Mansour (Tel-Aviv)
Kurt Mehlhorn (Saarbr\"ucken)
Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (Paderborn)
Grammati Pantziou (Patras)
Mike Paterson (Warwick)
Jose' Rolim (Geneva)
Erik M. Schmidt (Aarhus)
Maria Serna (Barcelona)
Paul Vitanyi (Amsterdam)
Gerhard Woeginger (Graz)

Invited Speakers: (Preliminary)
Eli Upfal (Brown)
Jeff Vitter (Duke)

Organizing Committee:
Francesco Bombi (Padova, Chair)
Dora Giammarresi (Venice)
Salvatore Orlando (Venice)
Marcello Pelillo (Venice)
Andrea Pietracaprina (Padova)
Fabio Pittarello (Venice)
Geppino Pucci (Padova)
Alessandro Roncato (Venice)

Important dates:
Submission of Papers March 17, 1998
Notification of Accept. May 5, 1998
Final Version due May 26, 1998

Additional information may be found through anonymous FTP or
World-Wide Web:

FTP: ftp.dsi.unive.it/priv/esa98/
WWW: http://www.dsi.unive.it/~esa98


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From: Erik Elmroth <elmroth@cs.umu.se>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:22:05 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing,

PARA98 - International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing,
Large Scale Scientific and Industrial Problems,
June 14-17, 1998, Umea University, Sweden
(see http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/)

Final Call for Papers
Call for Participation and Registration

High Performance Computing Center North (see http://www.hpc2n.umu.se)
is hosting the fourth International Workshop on Applied Parallel
Computing (PARA98) in June 14-17, 1998 at Umea University, Sweden.

The general theme for PARA98 is Large Scale Scientific and
Industrial Problems focusing on:
o High-performance computing applications in academia and industry,
o Tools, languages and environments for high-performance computing,
o Scientific visualization and virtual reality applications in
academia and industry,
o Future directions in high-performance computing and networking.

So far the following invited speakers have accepted our invitation
(there are pending invitations):
- Prof Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
- Prof Iain Duff, Rutherford Appleton Lab., UK, and CERFACS, France
- Prof Dennis Gannon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne, USA
- Prof Gene Golub, Stanford University, USA
- Dr Fred Gustavsson, IBM Yorktown Heights, USA
- Dr Carl-Birger Jensen, SINTEF Applied Mathematics, Trondheim, Norway
- Prof Chris Johnson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
- Prof Carl Kesselman, University of Southern California, USA
- Dr Richard Lehoucq, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA
- Prof Cherry Pancake, Oregon State University, USA
- Professor John Perram, University of Odense, Denmark
- Dr Sami Poykko, Helsinki University of Technology, Finlandi
- Prof Dan Sandin, EVL, University of Illinois, USA
- Prof Stig Skelboe, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Prof Hans Zima, University of Vienna, Austria

Deadlines, Abstracts and Papers:
o February 15, 1998: Extended Abstracts
o April 15, 1998: Notification to authors
o July 31, 1998: Papers (between 5 and 10 pages)
Deadline early registration:
o May 1, 1998
(see http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/para98/ for details)

If you cannot meet the deadline for submission of extended
abstract, please contact para98@hpc2n.umu.se.

The PARA98 meeting is aimed to be an international forum for
idea and competence exchange for specialists in parallel computing,
visualization, etc and scientists from industry and academia
solving large scale computational problems.
Another important aim of the PARA meetings is to strengthen the ties
between HPC centers, academia, and industry in the Nordic countries
as well as worldwide.

The meeting starts with a one day tutorial followed by a three day
workshop. There will be several invited one-hour lectures as well as
contributed 20-30 minutes talks. The conference proceedings will be
published by Springer Verlag in their LNCS series.

The PARA Steering Committee:
- Petter Bjorstad, University of Bergen (Norway)
- Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab (USA)
- Bjorn Engquist, PDC, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
- Kristjan Jonasson, University of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland)
- Bo Kagstrom, Umea University and HPC2N (Sweden), PARA98 Chairman
- Risto Nieminen, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo (Finland)
- Karstein Sorli, SINTEF, Dept of Industrial Mathematics, Trondheim (Norway)
- Olle Teleman, Center for Scientific Computing (CSC), Espoo (Finland)
- Jerzy Wasniewski, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education
(UNI-C), Lyngby (Denmark), PARA94-96 Chairman

Questions regarding PARA98 should be addressed to para98@hpc2n.umu.se.


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From: Axel Ruhe <ruhe@math.chalmers.se>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:44:24 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Graduate Student Positions at Chalmers University

The school of Mathematical and Computing Sciences of Chalmers University of
Technology and Gothenburg University, Sweden, announces several new
positions for graduate students aiming at a Ph D.

Some of the positions are in Applied Mathematics/ Numerical Analysis/
Optimization

One of those is financed by the Swedish Research Council for Engineering
Sciences in a project titled: Quality controlled eigensolution by using
rational Krylov and model improvement techniques.

Applications are due March 2, 1998.

For further information look at the departmental web page
http://www.math.chalmers.se/Jobs/PhD/phd-98-en.thtml
or send email to me,
Axel Ruhe
Department of Mathematics
Chalmers
S-41296 Goteborg
Sweden,
Tel office: int-46 31 7721096 home: int-46 31 483168 Fax: int-46 31 161973
URL: http://www.math.chalmers.se/~ruhe/


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From: EMBL <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:45:38 GMT
Subject: Manager Position at European Molecular Biology Laboratory

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has an open
position for

Manager of High Performance Computing

in Heidelberg, Germany. Candidates should have a background
in scientific computing with experience in UNIX system
administration, high-performance computing and parallel
programming. Experience in molecular biology, molecular
dynamics simulation, image processing, protein crystallography
or NMR would be an advantage.

Duties include managing parallel systems, providing advice and
assistance to users in porting, optimising and parallelising
scientific applications, and running short training courses in
parallel programming and high-performance computing.

Further details are available at

<http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/ExternalInfo/jobs/9791.html>

or contact Rebecca Wade, tel +49-6221-387553, fax +49-6221-387306,
wade@embl-heidelberg.de.


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From: Carlos Antonio de Moura <demoura@pegasus.pgcc.uff.br>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:46:23 -0300
Subject: Contents, Computational and Applied Mathematics

CONTENTS
COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
(Matematica Aplicada e Computacional)
Edited by Birkhauser-Boston and SBMAC
Brazilian Soc for Comp & Appl Math
Vol.16 Issue 3 (1997)

E.R.BARNES & A.C.MORETTI
A New Characterization of the Center of a Polytope

V.AYALA & A.K.HACIBEKIROGLU
Observable Linear Pairs

D.N.KOZAKEVICH, J.M.MARTINEZ & S.A.SANTOS
Solving Nonlinear Syustems of Equations
with Simple Constraints

M.K.GHOSH & K.S.KUMAR
Zero-Sum Stochastic Differential Games
with Reflecting Diffusion

M.M.MIRANDA & J.L.FERREL
The Navier-Stokes Equation in Noncylindrical Domains

T.T.MEDJO
On an Equivalent Form of the Global Quasi-
Geostrophic Equations of the Atmosphere


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