From na-net@patience.stanford.edu Sun Mar 4 17:49:27 1990 Received: from crfsun.EPM.ORNL.GOV by cs.utk.edu with SMTP (5.61++/2.3-UTK) id AA12540; Sun, 4 Mar 90 17:49:09 -0500 Received: from msr.epm.ornl.gov by crfsun.EPM.ORNL.GOV (4.1/1.34) id AA02542; Sun, 4 Mar 90 17:48:49 EST Received: from beauty.Stanford.EDU by msr.epm.ornl.gov (5.61/1.34) id AA08803; Sun, 4 Mar 90 17:46:52 -0500 Received: from patience.stanford.edu by beauty.stanford.edu (4.0/inc-1.5) id AA13146; Sun, 4 Mar 90 14:40:45 PST Received: from bravery.stanford.edu by patience.stanford.edu (4.0/inc-1.5) id AA12355; Sun, 4 Mar 90 14:05:56 PST Received: by bravery.stanford.edu (4.0/inc-1.5) id AA21348; Sun, 4 Mar 90 14:10:56 PST Date: Sun, 4 Mar 90 14:10:56 PST From: na-net@patience.stanford.edu Message-Id: <9003042210.AA21348@bravery.stanford.edu> Return-Path: Subject: NA-NET distribution message Maint-Path: maintainer@na-net.stanford.edu To: na-net@patience.stanford.edu Reply-To: na-net@patience.stanford.edu Comment: requests, comments or problems to nanet@na-net.stanford.edu Comment: submissions to na@na-net.stanford.edu Status: R NA Digest Sunday, March 4, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 09 Today's Editor: Cleve Moler Today's Topics: A Great Little Book Oskar Perron Change of Address of Rolf jeltsch Parallel Circus CERFACS Offer for Research Position Position in Sweden in Computer Graphics and Visualization IMACS Symposium on Iterative Methods in Belgium IMACS Conference on Computational Physics in Boulder ------------------------------------------------------- From: Gene H. Golub Date: Sun, 4 Mar 1990 12:19:31 PST Subject: A Great Little Book SIAM has just republished a great little book. It is "Numerical Analysis: A Second Course" by Jim Ortega. It does not describe numerical methods but the book gives the fundamental ideas behind numerical mathematics. It should be required reading for all graduate students in scientific computing. The book is in paperback and the cost to SIAM members is about $20. You might try ordering it by e-mail (na.siam@na-net.stanford.edu will work). Gene ------------------------------ From: Paul Levrie Date: Tue, 27 Feb 90 15:03:03 +0100 Subject: Oskar Perron Are there any people out there who can tell me something or give references about the life (and work) of Oskar Perron (who wrote the beautiful "Die Lehre von den Kettenbruechen")? Thanks in advance. Please send to: Paul Levrie paul@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Department of Computer Sciences K.U.Leuven Celestijnenlaan 200A B-3030 Heverlee Belgium ------------------------------ From: Rolf Jeltsch Date: 02 Mar 90 20:24:43+0100 Subject: Change of Address of Rolf jeltsch I have accepted a position at the ETH in Zurich and can now be reached at the following address: Seminar fur Angewandte Mathematik ETH Zurich ETH-Zentrum CH-8092 Zurich Switzerland Phone +41-1-256 3452 E-Mail JELTSCH@MATH.ETHZ.CH FAX +41-1-252 3401 (This probably will operate only starting April 1. 1990) Until April 1 use FAX +41-1-2520192 Telex 817 379 ehhg ch My private address is: In der Hub 14 CH-8057 Zurich Switzerland Phone +41-1-363 9708 Rolf Jeltsch ------------------------------ From: Steve Hammond Date: Sat, 3 Mar 90 11:53:21 PST Subject: Parallel Circus Final Announcement for the Seventh Parallel Circus March 30-31, 1990 at Stanford University The Parallel Circus is an informal conference focusing on parallel scientific computing. A strength of the Circus is the discussion of current research topics and a healthy mix of industrial and academic participants. Continuing the tradition that began at Yale in 1986, the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) and Stanford University are jointly hosting the Seventh Parallel Circus at Stanford on Friday and Saturday, March 30-31, 1990. This is the first time the Circus will be held outside of the Northeast, and we hope to have many attendees from around the country as well as those who have been "regulars". A partial list of titles of talks from people who have registered is below: "Incremental Condition Estimator for Parallel Sparse Matrix Factorization" "Cyclops: A Stochastic Bayesian Approach to Stereo Matching" "Parallel Rational Interpolation" "Parallel Multilevel Algorithms" "Asynchronous Multilevel Adaptive Methods" "Parallel Sparse Matrix Factorization" "Graph Embedding for Efficient Unstructured Iterative Methods on Massively Parallel Computers" Organizers: Gene Golub, Steve Hammond and Rob Schreiber If you are interested in attending and giving a talk or or just attending, contact Cathy Salazar for more infor- mation. Cathy Salazar RIACS Mail Stop 230-5 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035 (415)604-4877 salazar@riacs.edu ------------------------------ From: CERFACS Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 15:33:44 GMT Subject: CERFACS Offer for Research Position C.E.R.F.A.C.S CENTRE EUROPEEN DE RECHERCHE ET DE FORMATION AVANCEE EN CALCUL SCIENTIFIQUE (EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND ADVANCED TRAINING IN SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION) C.E.R.F.A.C.S. aims at developing new tools and algorithms for parallel computation with a view to applying them to large scale scientific problems. Another major mission involves advanced training in scientific computation. Based in Toulouse, France, C.E.R.F.A.C.S. has researchers and engineers from many countries in Europe. C.E.R.F.A.C.S. offers, for October 1990, Post-Doctorate and PhD grants. RESEARCH THEMES * Parallel Algorithms: numerical computation. * Instability and Turbulence: direct simulation. * Computational Aerodynamics: numerical modelling of flowfields. * Visualization Methods : for computational fluid mechanics. * Global Climate Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling. PhD RECRUITING CONDITIONS Candidates should submit : * a cover letter indicating the research theme of interest to you, your motivations for applying and the way in which you will be able to contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of CERFACS * a Curriculum Vitae with a detailed description of your training in maths, applied maths, AND physical maths (especially fluid dynamics) OR computing (especially in the use of supercomputers) * copy of qualifications (either a Masters in Science or a Masters in Engineering or equivalent) * Names, addresses and telephone numbers of three persons who will write a letter of reference POST-DOCTORATE RECRUITING CONDITIONS Candidates should submit : * a cover letter indicating the research theme of interest to you, a statement of a specific problem you would like to work on, your motivations for applying and the way in which you will be able to contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of CERFACS * a Curriculum Vitae highlighting experience and results obtained in numerical analysis and parallel algorithms and/or fluid mechanics, in particular in aerodynamics and turbulence * a one-page summary of your PhD thesis and a copy of your thesis and list of publications * a transcript of you graduate course work * a copy of your qualifications (PhD or equivalent) * Names, addresses and telephone numbers of three persons who will write a letter of reference CERFACS' CONDITIONS * the duration of the PhD grant is 2 years (with a possibility of extending it for 1 year) and the monthly gross amount is 10590 FF ; (ie. before social security and income tax). * the post doctorate grant covers a period of 1 year (with a possibility of extending it for 1 year) and the monthly gross amount is 14290 FF ; (ie. before social security and income tax). * The geographical location will be Toulouse at the premises of C.E.R.F.A.C.S. * All applications which do not have the information mentioned above will be refused * Final application forms must be received before 20th April,1990 at: C.E.R.F.A.C.S. GRANTS COMMITTEE 42 Avenue Gustave Coriolis 31057 TOULOUSE Cdex (France) Tel.: (33) 61 07 96 96 Fax: (33) 61 07 96 13 E-Mail: CROS @ FRTLS12.BITNET ------------------------------ From: Bo Kagstrom Date: 2 Mar 90 15:45:25 GMT Subject: Position in Sweden in Computer Graphics and Visualization Hello there, I would very much appreciate if you could make this announcement known to as many people as possible (via email, newsletter, etc). Thank you in advance. If you are interested to apply for the position or for a visiting position so do not hesitate to contact me. Dead-line is March 31, 1990. Regards, Bo Kagstrom For full address (including email) see the announcement! Announcement of SWEDEN's first chair as professor in Computer Graphics and Visualization in Scientific Computing at University of Umea in Sweden Umea university is a young university that lies at the mouth of the river Ume, equidistant from both the capital, Stockholm, and Sweden+s most northerly town Kiruna. Today the campus has some 3 000 employees and 11 000 students. The university has achieved prominence in many fields, of which bio-technology, environmental ecology and information technology are some of those in which now intensive activity is taking place. Expertise in the field of information technology in its broadest sense is rapidily growing and in certain areas such as Scientific computing great progress has already been made, and international collaboration established, primarily with European and American researchers. A couple of years ago a special action program for Information technology - Scientific Computing was established at the faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences. The program aims towards development of advanced methods, algorithms and software in Scientific computing for different parallel computer architectures. The university is together with the Technical University of Lulea, the Institute of Space Physics i Kiruna and the Industrial Development Center in Skelleftea, founder of Supercomputer Center North (SDCN). SDCN is one of two national centers for supercomputing in Sweden and is connected to all swedish universities through the Swedish University Network (SUNET). Thereby scientists have access to an IBM 3090-600 E/VF, placed in Skelleftea, soon to be upgraded to a 600 S-model. At the university we have a distributed-memory multiprocessor-system Intel iPSC/2 hypercube with 64 nodes of which 16 nodes have a vector facility and are about to aquire a shared-memory multiprocessor-system with both high-performance computing power and advanced graphic facilities for visualization. Due to the partnership in SDCN Sweden+s first chair as professor in Computer Graphics and Visualization in Scientific Computing is now established at the university. The field is very wide and interdisciplinary to its nature and candidates for the chair can have different scientific profiles ranging from research in tools and methods for Computer Graphics and Visualization in Scientific Computing to graphics computing and visualization in Scientific Computing with an emphasis on applications from biology, biotechnology, chemistry, physics and medicine. At the university we have applications/possible applications in for instance biotechnology - molecular biology, chemometry, environmental chemistry, geographical information systems, industrial design, medicine, physical chemistry, psychology, theoretical physics and space physics. The professorship is placed at the department of Computing Science. At the department there are professors in numerical analysis, computer science, and numerical analysis and parallel computing. Since a couple of years there has been an intense development of knowledge in the fields of parallel computing and environments and tools for parallel computer architectures. The university now announces a professorship in Computer Graphics and Visualization in Scientific Computing as vacant, reference number DNR 321-189-90. Notice that the reference number must be mentioned on the application. To get started in the field as soon as possible the position can also be a visiting professorship. Send the application to University of Umea, S-901 87, Sweden before the 30th of March 1990. Enclosed to the application should be curriculum vitae, short summary of scientific and educational work, and publications and ev interest of a visiting professorship. Everything in 4 copies!! Questions will be answered by Professor Bo Kagstrom, Dept of Computing Science, Umea University, S-901 87 Umea, phone +46-9016 54 19, email bokg@biovax.umdc.umu.se (or na.kagstrom@na-net.stanford.edu) or by Project coordinator Torbjorn Johansson, Supercomputer Center North, Umea University, S-901 87 Umea, phone +46-9016 65 85, email tojo@biovax.umdc.umu.se. ------------------------------ From: R. Beauwens Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 16:09:58 +0100 Subject: IMACS Symposium on Iterative Methods in Belgium IMACS INTENATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ITERATIVE METHODS IN LINEAR ALGEBRA April 2-4, 1991 First Call for Papers SCOPE. Recent advances in the analysis and implementation of iterative methods for solving large sparse systems of linear equations and for determining eigenvalues , eigenvectors and singular values of large sparse matrices. TOPICS. Matrix analysis (convergence, conditioning), imple- mentation (on vector and parallel computers), software deve- lopments (sparse linear systems, sparse eigenproblems), ma- thematical applications (partial differential equations, systems theory). SPECIAL SESSIONS. Coupled inner-outer iteration methods (O. Axelsson), spectral methods (M.Deville and E.Mund) , complex variable methods for non-positive definite systems (R.S.Varga), the Lyapunov equation (E.L.Wachspress). Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 15,1990. For more information, contact the Conference address: R.Beauwens,IMACS International Symposium. Universite Libre de Bruxelles, C.P.165. 50, Av.F.D.Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels, BELGIUM. E-mail: beauwens at bbrnsf11.bitnet ------------------------------ From: Karl Gustafson Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 11:40:27 MST Subject: IMACS Conference on Computational Physics in Boulder First International Conference on Computational Physics University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado USA 80309-0426 Sponsored by IMACS (Association Internationale Pour Les Mathematiques et Calculateurs en Simulation) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (Mathematical Physics Ph.D. Program) CONFERENCE CHAIR CONFERENCE ARRANGEMENTS Karl Gustafson Walter Wyss Mathematics, UC-Boulder Physics, UC-Boulder imacs@boulder.colorado.edu (303) 492-8744 (work); (303) 499--5641 (home) (303) 492--7752 (303) 499--9977 (FAX) SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE R. Agarwal (USA), P. Christiansen (DENMARK), R. Temam (FRANCE), K. Winters (ENGLAND). PLENARY SESSIONS R. Agarwall (McDonnell--Douglas, USA), A. Brandt (Weizmann Inst., ISRAEL), F. Kang (Beijing, CHINA), M. Marion (Ecully, FRANCE), J. Sethian (Berkeley, USA), R. Sugar (Santa Barbara, USA), R. Swendsen (Carnegie--Mellon, USA), K. Winters (Harwell Lab., ENGLAND). SPECIAL SESSIONS C. Baillie (Cal. Tech., USA), S. Biringen (UC--Boulder, USA), R. Brickner (Los Alamos, USA), C. Bruneau (Orsay, FRANCE), J. Cary (UC--Boulder, USA), T. deGrand (UC--Boulder, USA), T. Gatski (NASA Langley, USA), K. Ghia (U. Cincinnati, USA), J. Goodrich (NASA Lewis, USA) B. Herbst (U. Orange Free St., S. AFRICA), S. McCormick (UC--Denver, USA), E. Shang (NOAA Boulder, USA), R. K. Smith (AT\& T, USA), N. Sobh (Old Dominion U., USA), Y. Wong (Edmonton, CANADA), G. Xie (CHINA), Q. Zou (USA). CONFERENCE TOPICS Spin Methods and New Algorithms, Stability, Bifurcation, and Transition in Shear and Turbulent Flows, Applications of the Connection Machine, Highly Convective Viscous Flows, Computations in Nonlinear Dynamics and Plasma Physics, Quantum Chromodynamics, Computational Unsteady Aerodynamics and Dynamic Stall, Computational Methods in Hamiltonian Systems, Multilevel Methods in Computation, Lattice Gauge Theory, Semiconductor Device Simulation, Numerical Methods of Inverse Problems, Computational Ocean Acoustics, other Computational Physics. PROCEEDINGS All papers accepted by 1 April will be published in the meeting Proceedings, to be given to all registered attendees of the Conference. Instructions and forms for papers may be obtained from the Conference Secretary (see below). Plenary Lectures and Selected Papers will appear in a special (refereed) issue of Computer Physics Communications (North Holland). A special hardbound copy will be discounted to registered attendees who place an order at the Conference. Late talks for presentation by registered participants in Contributed Paper Sessions may be received until the Program Deadline, 1 May. Other Conference participants are welcome at any time and may register before or at the Conference. An Evening Session for informal papers is planned. REGISTRATION AND FEES All attendees are encouraged to pre-register for the Conference. The registration fee will be $185.00 if postmarked by April 15. The registration fee after this date will be $200.00. The fee includes a copy of the Conference Proceedings, reception, banquet, coffee breaks and other conference activities. CONFERENCE SECRETARY For registration materials, paper forms, and all other Conference matters, please contact: Debbie Cook, IMACS Conference Secretary University of Colorado, Office of Conference Services Boulder, CO 80309--0454 (FAX: (303) 492-5959; Telephone (303) 492-5151 ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------