From num Mon Oct 15 01:58 EDT 1990 Original-address: From na-net.stanford.edu!na-net Sun Oct 14 22:17:11 PDT 1990 remote from pyxis Received: by pyxis; Mon Oct 15 01:58 EDT 1990 Received: by inet.att.com; Mon Oct 15 01:57 EDT 1990 Received: from patience.Stanford.EDU by beauty.Stanford.EDU (4.0/inc-1.5) id AA15766; Sun, 14 Oct 90 22:30:56 PDT Received: by patience.Stanford.EDU (4.0/inc-1.5) id AA20628; Sun, 14 Oct 90 22:17:11 PDT Date: Sun, 14 Oct 90 22:17:11 PDT From: na-net@na-net.stanford.edu Message-Id: <9010150517.AA20628@patience.Stanford.EDU> Return-Path: Subject: NA-NET distribution message Maint-Path: maintainer@na-net.stanford.edu To: na-net@na-net.stanford.edu Reply-To: na-net@na-net.stanford.edu Comment: requests, comments or problems to nanet@na-net.stanford.edu Comment: submissions to na@na-net.stanford.edu NA Digest Sunday, October 14, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 35 Today's Editor: Cleve Moler Today's Topics: Professor Lothar Collatz Happy Birthday, Pete A Colleague from Kuwait Recommendations Sought for ODE Codes Netlib News New Address for Merrell Patrick Change of Address for Michael Knorrenschild Change of Address for Des Higham Net Address for Morven Gentleman Changes of Address for Zhiqiang Cai Call for Nominations for Beale--Orchard-Hays Prize Applied and Industrial Mathematics Positions at University of New South Wales FORTRAN-SC is available SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing Positions at Cray Research, Inc. MINPACK-2 Positions at Argonne and Minnesota Fifth Leslie Fox Prize Positions at Australian National University Position at EPFL (Switzerland) Argonne Parallel Programming Class Fourteenth Dundee Conference ------------------------------------------------------- From: Hans Stetter Date: 01 OCT 90 13:09:56 Subject: Professor Lothar Collatz P r o f e s s o r L o t h a r C o l l a t z On 26 September, Professor Lothar Collatz died at the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria, where he attended an international Symposium on Computer Arith- metic, Scientific Computation, and Mathematical Modelling (SCAN-90). After a first light heart attack, he suffered a second, fatal heart attack at the hospital to which he had been taken. The previous two days, he had actively participated in the meeting, given a paper, and asked the last question after the last lecture on the day before his death which came as a shock to all of us present at the conference. This is not the place to review Professor Collatz's achievements; but it is clear that the scientific community has lost one of the earliest pio- neers of Scientific Computation and Numerical Mathematics, and a wonderful person. At the celebrations of his 80th birthday on 6 and 7 July this year in Hamburg, the numerous speakers wished him many more prolific and enjoy- able years to come. These wishes have not come true; but he will remain alive in our memories, and his ideas will continue to stimulate our work. May he rest in peace. Hans J. Stetter ------------------------------ From: Gene H. Golub Date: Sun, 7 Oct 1990 8:09:14 PDT Subject: Happy Birthday, Pete Monday, October 1 was the 50th birthday of G. W. "Pete" Stewart. Pete has contributed enormously to our field through his research in perturbation theory and numerical algorithms. Beyond his elegant work, he is a man of style and wit. In my head, Pete is a successor of his adviser, Alston Householder, and of Jim Wilkinson. A recent accomplishment of Pete's is his book with Ji-guang Sun, "Matrix Perturbation Theory", Academic Press. It is a pleasure to read; it is in the clear and concise style of all of Pete's writings. So three cheers for Pete. Here's for many more years of productive research; I'm sure they'll be golden ones. Gene Golub ------------------------------ From: Roger Horn Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 08:11 EST Subject: A Colleague from Kuwait Dear Colleagues: Last Thursday I received an unexpected, but very welcome telephone call from Fuad Kittaneh, a colleague who until August 2 was Associate Professor of Mathematics at Kuwait University. Fuad and I have corresponded for a long time by mail, and this last year we collaborated (with Rajendra Bhatia) on a paper that will appear in the forthcoming special issue of Linear Algebra Appl. on canonical forms. Fuad and his wife have four children, two of whom are U.S. citizens. That may be why the U.S. embassy in Kuwait was able to get them all on one of the refugee flights that arrived last week in Raleigh, N.C. Although they are now safe from harm, they have lost everything and need to restart their lives in the U.S. Fuad recognizes that it may take some time and luck to find a permanent job, but he is willing now to do anything, anywhere that will give him an office, phone, library, some income, and a base of operation from which he can conduct a search for a permanent job. Do you know of anything that might help Fuad? An unexpected faculty vacancy due to illness or resignation? A graduate T.A. slot that is vacant because someone didn't show up or left in mid-year? Some left- over research support funds in a grant that doesn't require U.S. citizen- ship? Funds available to pay part-time teaching staff? I have a copy of his C.V. and graduate transcript, and will be happy to send a copy to anyone who needs it. He did his Ph.D. at Indiana University under J.G. Stampfli in 1982; his thesis was in functional analysis/operator theory and that has been the main theme of his research work during the last 10 years. He has published 30 papers and has 7 more under submission right now. He has taught a wide variety of courses--most everything in the usual mathematics undergraduate curriculum. His English is quite fluent, but accented. He was born in 1955 and holds Jordanian citizenship. Please feel free to copy this message to anyone else. For more information, or if you have any leads you would like me to pass on to Fuad, please contact me at RHORN@JHUVMS, or phone me at 301/338-7998 (JHU) or 301/561-0579 (home). Thanks, Roger Horn ------------------------------ From: John N. Shadid Date: Wed, 10 Oct 90 14:41:19 MDT Subject: Recommendations Sought for ODE Codes I would like some recommendations for available software packages (source code) for the determination of solutions to coupled nonlinear autonomous ODE's. Relative ease of use is important for this initial investigation. Presently the existence of multiple stable or unstable solution branches is unknown. A reasonable initial guess is available. I would prefer if some type of reasonable graphical output was available. The ideal platform would be some type of workstation such as a sun4. Thank you for any helpful recomendations. John N. Shadid Sandia National Labs. Albuquerque, NM 87185 jnshadi@cs.sandia.gov ------------------------------ From: Eric Grosse Date: Sat, 13 Oct 90 14:35 EDT Subject: Netlib News It's not time for the next "quarterly column", but a quick summary of recent additions has been called for. More details later. "index from c++/answerbook" Hansen's C++ Answers "dp12 from ode" Cash's extended BDF variant of Hindmarsh solver "praxis from opt" Brent's 1973 derivative-free optimizer "684 from toms" Preusser's C1 and C2 interpolation on triangles "ltexpprt.all from typesetting" LaTeX macos for SIAM book chapters "gvl.bib from bib" Golub and Van Loan (2nd ed.) bibliography The bibliography is large (204 kilobytes), so people who just need a few items may prefer not to download the entire file. Instead you may send a message like "find paige in linalg". For introductory information, send the line ``help'' to netlib@research.att.com or uunet!research!netlib. ------------------------------ From: Merrell L. Patrick Date: Tue, 2 Oct 90 17:47:51 EDT Subject: New Address for Merrell Patrick Friends and Colleagues, During the next year I will be on leave from Duke University serving at NSF. My address there is Merrell Patrick Program Director New Technologies Program Division of Advanced Scientific Computing National Science Foundation Washington, D.C. 20550 telephone: 202-357-7727 e-mail : mpatrick@note.nsf.gov Shortly, I will post some information on na.net about the New Technologies Program. Best wishes, Merrell Patrick ------------------------------ From: Michael Knorrenschild Date: 3 Oct 90 10:21 +0100 Subject: Change of Address for Michael Knorrenschild My address has changed. Now it reads as follows: Michael Knorrenschild Sem. f. Angewandte Mathematik ETH Zentrum HG G 56 8092 Zuerich Switzerland Phone: +41-1-256-3459 E-mail: na.knorrenschild@na-net.stanford.edu knorren@math.ethz.ch knorren%math.ethz.ch@cernvax.bitnet ------------------------------ From: Des Higham Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 14:16:24 BST Subject: Change of Address for Des Higham My new address is: Des Higham Department of Mathematics and Computer Science The University of Dundee Dundee, DD1 4HN Scotland, U.K. Phone 0382 23181 Email; dhigham@mcs.dund.ac.uk or na.dhigham@na-net.stanford.edu ------------------------------ From: Morven Gentleman Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 10:09 EST Subject: Net Address for Morven Gentleman Although I moved from the University of Waterloo to the National Research Council eight years ago, I have still received most of my email at Waterloo, at net address wmgentleman@watbun.waterloo.edu The impending departure of that machine, the setting up of good email arrangements here at NRC, and the administrative reorganizations at NRC that have given me a new job (Head, Software Engineering Laboratory) all lead me to want to change my net address. Henceforth, the best net address for me is gentleman@iit.nrc.ca Please change your address list accordingly Morven Gentleman ------------------------------ From: Zhiqiang Cai Date: Mon, 8 Oct 90 09:23:03 GMT Subject: Changes of Address for Zhiqiang Cai Dear Friends and Colleagues, The present academic year I'm visiting the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the New York University. Here is my new address: Zhiqiang Cai Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212)998-3120 E-mail: caiz@acf9.nyu.edu or na.cai@na-net.stanford.edu Regards, Zhiqiang Cai ------------------------------ From: Robert Meyer Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 16:22:19 -0500 Subject: Call for Nominations for Beale--Orchard-Hays Prize CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR: The Mathematical Programming Society Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for Excellence in Computational Mathematical Programming Purpose: This award is dedicated to the memory of Martin Beale and William Orchard-Hays, pioneers in computational mathematical programming. To be eligible a paper or a book must meet the following requirements: 1) It must be on computational mathematical programming. The topics to be considered include: a) experimental evaluations of one or more mathematical programming algorithms. b) the development of quality mathematical programming software (i.e. well-documented code capable of obtaining solutions to some important class of MP problems) coupled with documentation of the applications of the software to this class of problems, (note: the award would be presented for the paper which describes this work and not for the software itself), c) the development of a new computational method that improves the state-of-the art in computer implementations of MP algorithms coupled with documentation of the experiment which showed the improvement, or d) the development of new methods for empirical testing of mathematical programming techniques (e.g., development of a new design for computational experiments, identification of new performance measures, methods for reducing the cost of empirical testing). 2) It must have appeared in the open literature. 3) If the paper or book is written in a language other than English, then an English translation must also be included. 4) Papers eligible for the 1991 award must have been published within the years 1987 through 1990. These requirements are intended as guidelines to the screening committee but are not to be viewed as binding when work of exceptional merit comes close to satisfying them. Frequency and Amount of the Award: Previous recipients of the award were Michael Saunders (1985) and Tony J. Van Roy and Lawrence Wolsey (1988). The 1991 prize of $1500 and a plaque will be presented in August, 1991 in Amsterdam at the Awards Session of the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming sponsored by the Mathematical Programming Society. Judgement Criteria: Nominations will be judged on the following criteria: 1) Magnitude of the contribution to the advancement of computational and experimental mathematical programming. 2) Originality of ideas and methods. 3) Clarity and excellence of exposition. Nominations: Nominations must be in writing and include the title(s) of the paper(s) or book, the author(s), the place and date of publication and four copies of the material. Supporting justification and any supplementary materials are welcome but not mandatory. The awards committee reserves the right to request further supporting materials from the nominees. Nominations should be mailed to: Professor Robert R. Meyer Computer Sciences Department 1210 W. Dayton Street The University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 USA The deadline for submission of nominations is November 1, 1990. ------------------------------ From: R. Spigler Date: Mon, 01 Oct 90 10:47:18 SET Subject: Applied and Industrial Mathematics Here are the abstracts of the five articles "of numerical interest" in the KLUWER volume "Applied and Industrial Mathematics. Venice-1,1989",ed. by R.Spigler,to appear in November 1990. 1. "The Hamiltonian way for computing Hamiltonian dynamics",by Feng Kang. We present a survey of a recent comprehensive study on the numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems based on symplectic geometry,together with the motivations for the research,justification for the symplectic approach adopted,some of the main results,their ramifications and their implications. 2. "The speed of waveform methods for ODEs",by C.W.Gear and Fen-Lien Juang. This paper considers iterative solution techniques for ordinary differential equations and investigates the speed of convergence of various processes. The iterates are defined as solutions of a sequence of differential equations. The solutions are the "waveforms". Waveform iterations are superlinearly convergent so a measure of the speed of convergence is defined and this is used to compare the value of various waveform methods. This measure is the rate of increase of the order of accuracy. The speed of the waveform Gauss Seidel method depends on the numbering of the directed graph specifying equation dependencies. We show how to compute the rate of order increase from the structure of the numbered graph and hence the optimum numbering,that is,the one which maximizes the speed of convergence. 3. "Computational methods for the Boltzmann equation",by F.Gropengiesser,H.Neunzert,and J.Struckmeier. This paper contains the basic ideas and practical aspects for numerical methods for solving the Boltzmann equation. The main field of application considered is the reentry of a apace shuttle in the transition from free molecular flow to continuum flow. The method used will be called Finite Pointset Method,approximating the solution by finite sets of particles in a rigorously defined way. Convergence results are cited while practical aspects of the algorithm are emphasized. Ideas for the transition to theNavier-Stokes domain are shortly discussed. 4. "Theory and application of Steklov-Poincare' operators for boundary-value problems",by A.Quarteroni and A.Valli. This paper deals with interface operators in boundary-value problems. How to define them,which is their meaning in both mathematical and physical sense,how to use them to derive numerical approximations based on domain decomposition approaches. 5. "Numerical analysis for compressible viscous isothermal stationary flows",by C.BernardiM.O.Bristeau,O.Pironneau,and M.G.Vallet. In this paper we address the problem of approximation of viscous compressible flows by the finite element method. Should one use the same approximation for the density and the velocity as in Euler flows,or should one use two different spaces as for the Stokes problem ? When the pressure is a function of the density (isothermal flow as an academic example),we show theoretically and numerically convergence of the approximations if the density and the velocity are approximated as in the Stokes problem,with two different grids or if artificial viscosity is used in the equation of conservation of mass. (R. Spigler) ------------------------------ From: Ian Sloan Date: Mon, 1 Oct 90 11:34:59 +1000 Subject: Positions at University of New South Wales MATH POSITIONS AT UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES Later this year we expect to fill several math positions (four or more), to start some time in 1991. The offical advertisement follows. I will be happy to give further advice. Ian Sloan. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES Equality of employment opportunity is University Policy SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS LECTURERS/SENIOR LECTURERS 2 Positions (Tenured/Tenurable Appointment) (Ref. 614) (Fixed Term Appointment) (Ref. 616) Appointments in the areas of pure mathematics, applied mathematics or mathematical computer science are envisaged. Applicants should have a PhD or equivalent qualification and proven research achievement in an area that reinforces and extends existing strengths in the School. The School currently has research strengths in many areas of pure and applied mathematics and statistics, and is committed to further developing its involvement in mathematical computer science. One appointment in algebra, discrete mathematics or related areas would be favoured. Although appointment at the level of lecturer is preferred, appointment at senior lecturer level may be considered for an applicant with exceptional qualifications. An appointee with interests in the commercial or industrial applications of mathematics could be seconded for a fixed term as Director of the School's Industrial Mathematics and Statistics Group. The positions will be available from February, 1991. Appointment to one position will be either with tenure or on the basis of a contract with provision for conversion to tenure. Appointment to the other position will be for a fixed term of 3 years. Applicants should indicate the type of appointment for which they wish to apply. Salary: Senior Lecturer $Aust.43,984 - $Aust.51,015 per annum Lecturer $Aust.33,163 - $Aust.43,096 per annum Commencing salary according to qualifications and experience. Applications close 31 October, 1990 Further information from Professor I H Sloan, Head of School on Telephone 61 2 697 2957, or Fax 61 2 6626445 PLEASE QUOTE Ref. 614 (Tenured/Tenurable Appointment), Ref. 616 (Fixed Term) FOR THE ABOVE POSITIONS: Please submit written application, QUOTING REFERENCE NUMBER and indicate business and private telephone numbers, together with the names, addresses (and preferably facsimile numbers) of two referees, curriculum vitae and transcript of academic record to: The Recruitment Officer, Staff Office, PO Box 1, Kensington NSW 2033, Australia ------------------------------ From: George Corliss Date: Tue, 2 Oct 90 6:27:29 CDT Subject: FORTRAN-SC is available FORTRAN - SC is a programming language for scientific/engineering computation on IBM s/370 architecture machines. It is particularly suited for the development of numerical algorithms delivering highly accurate and automatically verified results. It includes an extensive library to support interval arithmetic. I used a predicessor to write a package for numerical quadrature with guaranteed bounds. The new product is more extensive, easier to use, and better documented. You might want to contact your IBM salesperson for more details. I have not seen a price list, but I understand that it is inexpensive, at least for universities. The IBM program number of ACRITH-XSC is 5684-129 . General Information is available as IBM publication GC33-6461-01 . There is a hot-line number: (Germany: +49) 7031 / 16-4052 . Feel free to ask for the IBM demonstration package GK2T-0108-00 . If you have questions, you can contact me George Corliss Department of Mathematics Marquette University Milwaukee, WI 53233 georgec@boris.mscs.mu.edu 6591CORL@MUCSD.bitnet or a member of the development team: Wolfgang Walter Institute for Applied Mathematics University of Karlsruhe Kaiserstr. 12 D-7500 Karlsruhe Germany AE38@DKAUNI2.bitnet ------------------------------ From: SIAM Publications Department Date: Tue, 2 Oct 90 11:09 EDT Subject: SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing SIAM JOURNAL ON SCIENTIFIC AND STATISTICAL COMPUTING January 1991 Volume 12, Number 1 CONTENTS Limits on Parallelism in the Numerical Solution of Linear Partial Differential Equations Patrick H. Worley A Parallel QR Factorization Algorithm with Controlled Local Pivoting Christian H. Bischof A Theoretical Comparison of the Arnoldi and GMRES Algorithms Peter N. Brown The Fast Gauss Transform Leslie Greengard and John Strain Recursive Least Squares on a Hypercube Multiprocessor Using the Covariance Factorization Charles S. Henkel and Robert J. Plemmons Algorithms for Generating Discrete Random Variables with a Given Generating Function or a Given Moment Sequence Luc Devroye The Reformulation and Numerical Solution of Certain Nonclassical Initial-Boundary Value Problems Graeme Fairweather and Rick D. Saylor Programming Abstractions for Dynamically Partitioning and Coordinating Localized Scientific Calculations Running on Multiprocessors Scott B. Baden A Fast Algorithm for the Evaluation of Legendre Expansions Bradley K. Alpert and Vladimir Rokhlin The Riemann Problem for Longitudinal Motion in an Elastic-Plastic Bar John A. Trangenstein and Richard B. Pember Timely Communications A Note on the Parallel Efficiency of the Frederickson-McBryan Multigrid Algorithm Naomi H. Decker Normalized Convergence Rates for the PSMG Method Paul O. Frederickson and Oliver A. McBryan For additional information, please contact Vickie Kearn, Publisher, SIAM, 3600 University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688; telephone: (215) 382-9800; fax: (215) 386-7999; e-mail: siampubs@wharton.upenn.edu. ------------------------------ From: Phuong Vu Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 18:39:13 CDT Subject: Positions at Cray Research, Inc. The Mathematical Software Group at Cray Research, Inc. located in Eagan, Minnesota has immediate openings for two numerical analysts to conduct algorithm development and implementation of numerical software for both current and future Cray machines. One of the position will be for the section leader who should provide a pro-active technical leadership role for a group of 5-6 analysts. Preference will be given to candidates with a Ph.D. or equivalent experience in computer science / mathematics with experience in computations on vector/parallel computers in one of the following areas (numerical linear algebra, sparse matrix methods, numerical PDE, signal processing, optimization) and a working knowledge of UNIX. Previous management experience is desirable but not required for the section leader position. Cray Research offers a competitive salary and benefits package along with an excellent working environment. Interested candidates should send a resume, letters of recommendation, salary history and other supporting documents to, or call Phuong Vu - Email: pav@cray.com Tel: (612) 683-5615 or Mark Furtney - Email: mf@cray.com Tel: (612) 683-5554 Cray Research, Inc. 655F Lone Oak Drive Eagan, Minnesota 55121 ------------------------------ From: Jorge More Date: Sat, 6 Oct 90 21:33:41 CDT Subject: MINPACK-2 Positions at Argonne and Minnesota POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS/RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS FOR MINPACK-2 The Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) at the University of Minnesota and the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory have initiated a collaboration for the development of the software package MINPACK-2. This package will provide state-of-the art optimization software for high-performance computers. As part of this collaboration, the University of Minnesota will hire three postdoctoral fellows/research assistants (PDF/RA) for a period of two years (one-year appointments, renewable for one year) for the development of MINPACK-2. The University of Minnesota will assign two PDF/RA to work with the optimization group at Argonne National Laboratory, in coordination with the third PDF/RA at the AHPCRC. Applicants for the PDF/RA positions are encouraged to contact Jorge More' (more@mcs.anl.gov) at Argonne or Ben Rosen (rosen@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu) at the University of Minnesota. Applicants with a Ph.D. in applied mathematics or computer science will be given preference; however, outstanding candidates with M.S. degrees will be considered. The position requires extensive knowledge of computational mathematics and advanced computer architectures. The PDF/RA will have access to the computing facilities at the Minnesota Supercomputing Center, and at Argonne's Advanced Computing Research Facility. These facilities include a network of advanced scientific workstations, a 4-processor CRAY-2, an 8-processor Alliant FX/8, a 45-processor Butterfly TC2000, a 64-processor NCube-2, a 16K-processor Connection Machine CM-2, and a 32K-processor Connection Machine CM-2. ------------------------------ From: J. C. Mason Date: Mon, 8 OCT 90 10:17:47 BST Subject: Fifth Leslie Fox Prize FIFTH LESLIE FOX PRIZE - June 24, 1991. Second Call for Entries Entries are invited for the fifth Leslie Fox prize competition. Any person who is less than 31 years old on January 1 1991 and has not already won a first prize is eligible. Each entry should consist of three copies of a paper, describing some of the candidate's research, suitable for a 40 minute lecture at a numerical analysis symposium that will be held at the University of Dundee on Monday, June 24, 1991 (the day prior to the Dundee Biennial Conference in Numerical Analysis of June 25-28). The Adjudicating Committee may award any number of first and secondary prizes. Previous first prize winners include L.N.Trefethen, J.W.Demmel, N.I.M.Gould, N.J.Higham, M.D.Buhmann, B.L.R. de Moor, and A.M.Stuart. Entries should reach Professor J.C. Mason (Applied and Computational Mathematics Group, RMCS, Shrivenham, Swindon, Wilts. SN6 8LA, England) not later than January 15, 1991. Contact him for any further details. ------------------------------ From: Michael Osborne Date: Tue, 9 Oct 1990 14:10:43 EST Subject: Positions at Australian National University Possible Openings in ADVANCED COMPUTATION at the Australian National University It is expected that the School of Mathematical Sciences will shortly be advertising positions to augment its existing research programs in areas of Advanced Computation. These include active programs in the solution of partial differential and integral equations, optimization, computer intensive statistical methods, and symbolic and exact computation, which stress the development both of algorithms appropriate to innovative computer architectures and of data visualisation techniques. These activities are well supported by the University with computing facilities which include a Fujitsu VP100 supercomputer (expected to be upgraded shortly) and several parallel machines in addition to medium scale machines and workstations. The University through its Centre for Information Sciences Research is an affiliate of the Argonne ACRF and is receiving a prototype Fujitsu CAP machine for joint development work. These positions will be full time research positions at the level of Postdoctoral, Research, and Senior Research Fellow with salaries in the (approximate) range $30,000 to $55,000 depending on qualifications and experience. Enquiries and requests for further information can be addressed to Dr. M.R. Osborne (email mro250@csc2.anu.oz.au or na.osborne...,FAX 61-06-2490759). Mike will be in the USA from October 11 to November 8, and will be attending the SIAM Linear Algebra meeting in San Francisco. ------------------------------ From: Rachid Touzani Date: 11 Oct 90 14:32 +0100 Subject: Position at EPFL (Switzerland) Position at the Department of Mathematics Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (Switzerland) The Department of Mathematics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is offering a pre or post doctoral position for research in the field of numerical analysis of Maxwell's equations. This position is available for at least two years from the beginning of April 1991. Experience in Maxwell's equations and/or mixed finite element methods will be appreciated. Applicants should send their curriculum vitae to Rachid Touzani Departement de mathematiques Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne 1015 Lausanne Switzerland or send an e-mail to the address: touzani@masg13.epfl.ch ------------------------------ From: David Levine Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 13:47:46 CDT Subject: Argonne Parallel Programming Class The Advanced Computing Research Facility (ACRF) at Argonne National Laboratory is offering an introductory course on parallel computing December 5-7, 1990. The course is intended to familiarize potential users with the ACRF multiprocessors and parallel programming in general. The course is limited to 22 people on a first come first serve basis. Topics to be covered include: 1) Parallelizing compilers. 2) The Monitor package for portable parallel programming. 3) Programming the BBN TC2000. 4) Programming the Intel iPSC/860. 5) Programming the AMT DAP. 6) Programming the TMC Connection Machine-2. 7) Introduction to the LAPACK project. 8) The STRAND programming language. 9) The VecPar interactive parallelization tool The format of the course is alternating lectures and hands-on work with the parallel computers in the ACRF. All examples will use the Fortran programming language. Knowledge of Fortran and Unix will be assumed. Attendees can work on either class exercises or their own particular projects. Parallel computers currently in the ACRF are: 4-processor Ardent Titan 8-processor Alliant FX/8 8-processor Intel iPSC/860 hypercube 20-processor Encore Multimax 26-processor Sequent Symmetry 45-processor BBN TC2000 1024-processor Active Memory Technology DAP 16384-processor Thinking Machines CM-2 Those interested in the class should contact: Teri Huml Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL 60439-4844 (312) 972-7163 huml@mcs.anl.gov There will be a $25.00 registration fee per person for universities, federal laboratories and government organizations and $100.00 for commercial organizations. ------------------------------ From: D.F.Griffiths Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 13:35:59 BST Subject: Fourteenth Dundee Conference 14th BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON NUMERICAL ANALYSIS UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE SCOTLAND, UK 25 - 28 June 1991 Address for correspondence The Organising Secretaries Numerical Analysis Conference Department of Mathematics and Computer Science The University, Dundee, DD1 4HN Scotland, UK Telephone: 0382-23181 Ext 4467/4468/4471/4474 email: na.griffiths@edu.stanford.na-net dfg@uk.ac.dund.mcs The 14th Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis will be held at the University of Dundee from Tuesday 25 June - Fri- day 28 June 1991 inclusive. The conference will celebrate the 70th birthday of A R Mitchell and, to mark the occasion, there will be a special invited lecture in his honour to be presented by G H Golub. The other Principal Speakers will include A Bjorck A Iserles H Schwetlick J W Demmel J Lorenz I H Sloan J Dongarra K W Morton V Thomee N I M Gould M J D Powell L N Trefethen J A Gregory J M Sanz-Serna J G Verwer Brief Communications A limited number of short (20 minute) papers will be accepted for presentation. Prospective contributors should submit a title and short abstract as soon as possible and no later than 24 May 1991. Please indi- cate on the registration form whether or not you wish to present a paper. Registration Fee The registration fee will be #40.00 (# = Pounds Sterling). This includes the cost of morning coffee and afternoon tea. Proceedings The proceedings of the invited talks only will be pub- lished. Copies may be ordered on payment of #14.00 at the time of registration. Later requests for copies should be made to the publisher. Accommodation Accommodation for the conference will be provided in West Park Hall, a student residence which consists mainly of single study bedrooms. Full board (bed, breakfast, lunch and dinner) is available from Monday night to Friday evening at a cost of #90.00. Please note that this does not include dinner on Thursday night, when the conference dinner will be held. In addition, bed and breakfast will be available on the nights of Sunday 23 June (#15.00) and Friday 28 June (#13.00), as will dinner on Monday night (#6.00). Information on local hotels can be provided on request. Conference Dinner The conference dinner will be held on the Thursday evening in West Park Hall. The cost, inclusive of wine will be #15.00. The number of places available at the conference dinner is limited and will be allocated according to the date of booking. Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge financial support from the European Research Office of the US Army. Leslie Fox Prize The Conference will be preceded by a one day meeting on Monday 24 June at which talks will be given by those shortlisted for the Leslie Fox Prize. Please indicate on the Registration Form whether you plan to attend. A charge of #6.00 will be made to cover the cost of lunch. For more information, including an electronic registration form, contact na.griffiths@edu.stanford.na-net. A R Mitchell Fund The 1991 Dundee Numerical Analysis Conference will celebrate the 70th birthday of A R Mitchell. In addition to his distinguished contributions to numerical analysis extending over many years, Ron has been known for the outstanding encouragement he has given to young numerical analysts and the Organizing Committee therefore felt it appropriate to mark his birthday by instituting a special fund to provide assistance to young numerical analysts to attend this and subsequent Dundee meetings. We extend an invitation to all numerical analysts to contribute to this fund and cheques should be made payable to "The University of Dundee: A R Mitchell Fund". It is not intended that there should be any formal means of applying for support from the fund but the organisers welcome enquiries from anyone who feels that they may be eligible. Allocation of funds will be made on the basis of need, and also on the basis of abstracts of papers intended for presentation at the conference. ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------