Subject: NA Digest, V. 93, # 1 NA Digest Sunday, January 3, 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 1 Today's Editor: Cleve Moler The MathWorks, Inc. moler@mathworks.com Today's Topics: Chair of Stat. and CS department at WVU Correction to the report on the Twelvth Parallel Circus Southern Ontario NA Day Student Workshop in Supercomputing Faculty Workshop in Supercomputing Symposium on Parallel Optimization Contents: SIAM Applied Mathematics Submissions for NA Digest: Mail to na.digest@na-net.ornl.gov. Information about NA-NET: Mail to na.help@na-net.ornl.gov. ------------------------------------------------------- From: George Trapp Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 8:15:27 EST Subject: Chair of Stat. and CS department at WVU Applications and nominations are invited for the position of Chairperson of the Department of Statistics and Computer Science. The position requires a Ph.D. in Computer Science or an equivalent field, administrative experience, and research credentials sufficient to justify a tenured position as an Associate Professor or Professor of Computer Science. The department is seeking an academic leader who would be a strong advocate for the undergraduate and graduate degree programs in both Computer Science and Statistics with special emphasis on the recently established Ph.D. in Computer Science. The department was established in 1969 and consists of 15 Computer Science faculty, 9 Statistics faculty, 6 full-time support staff, and 51 teaching or research funded graduate students. Faculty have joint appointments with the DARPA funded Concurrent Engineering Research Center, are involved in a large NASA Independent Verification and Validation project, and have research projects funded through NSF, DOE, DARPA, USBOM, and Nippon T & T. Faculty work on several interdisciplinary project areas in engineering, agriculture, medicine, and materials science. The chairperson must administer and guide the Computer Science and Statistics programs, must work synchronously with the Concurrent Engineering Research Center, and must interface with the Software Valley high technology infrastructure development initiative. West Virginia University is a land-grant institution with an enrollment of 22,500 including 5,000 graduate students. The University ranks in the top 100 universities in the United States in dollars of externally sponsored research and development projects. Morgantown is a culturally diverse college community with a population of about 40,000, and is located on the Monongahela River, 70 miles south of Pittsburgh and 200 miles west of Washington, D.C. Applicants should provide a vita and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of five references. Applications and inquiries should be sent to Dr. Stanley H. Cohen, Chair of the Search Committee, 201 Woodburn Hall, West Virginia University, PO BOX 6286, MORGANTOWN WV 26506-6286. Questions and inquiries can be made by e-mail: scohen@wvnvm.wvnet.edu or FAX: (304) 293- 6858. However, applications and supporting material should be sent by post. Screening of applicants will begin on March 8, 1993 and will continue until a successful candidate is chosen. WVU is an equal opportunity/affirmative action/Title IX employer. ------------------------------ From: Todd Torgersen Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 18:03:18 EST Subject: Correction to the report on the Twelvth Parallel Circus My apologies for any errors in the report on the Twelvth Parallel Circus. Please note the following correction. > Gong Chen was next with a talk titled ``A Highly Parallel Algorithm > for Hessenberg Reduction.'' This talk described work done on an Intel > iPSC/860 to find methods for reducing matrices to Hessenburg form by > partitioning schemes suited to distributed memory type machines and > follows work done by Dongarra and van de Geijn. Youngbae Kim of University of Tennessee was next with a talk titled ``A Highly Parallel Algorithm for Hessenberg Reduction``. This talk described work which is in progress currently and will be implemented on the Intel Paragon to find methods for reducing matrices to Hessenberg form by partitioning schemes suited to mesh-connected distributed-memory type machines. ------------------------------ From: Sanzheng Qiao Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 16:19 EST Subject: Southern Ontario NA Day PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT ELEVENTH ANNUAL SOUTHERN ONTARIO NA DAY The Eleventh Annual Southern Ontario Numerical Analysis Day is to be hosted at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario on Saturday, May 1, 1993. The distinguished speaker for the day is Gene Golub. In addition to the distinguished speaker, there will be contributed talks of 15 to 25 minutes. Any interested persons are invited to submit abstracts for consideration. In keeping with our tradition, we encourage graduate students to give contributed talks. Talks in all areas of numerical analysis will be considered. Anyone wishing to present a talk should contact: Sanzheng Qiao Dept. of Computer Science and Systems McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1 Tel. (416)525-9140 ext. 7234 Fax (416)546-9995 qiao@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca Please submit abstracts before March 22. Speakers will be notified of acceptance by March 29. ------------------------------ From: Liz Jessup Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 13:50:36 MST Subject: Student Workshop in Supercomputing Summer Workshop for Undergraduates High-Performance Scientific Computing University of Colorado, May 24 - June 4, 1993 This residential workshop is designed for upper division undergraduate students who are interested in learning about the use of supercomputers, high-performance workstations, and visualization in scientific computing. Workshop participants will use a Connection Machine (CM-2), a Cray Y-MP, DEC 5000 and SGI Indigo workstations, AVS and IDL (scientific visualization tools) for solving problems in molecular dynamics, wave motion, and visualization of data. Participants will reside in Kittredge Residence Halls on the University campus. Classes and laboratory sessions will be held in the Engineering Center located nearby. Residence expenses (room and board) will be paid by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Transportation expenses will not be covered. Attendance at the workshop will be limited to sixteen students. Selection of participants will be based on the following criteria: Statement of interest. This statement describes why the applicant is interested in participating in the workshop, relevant academic experience and interests, and long-range goals. Letter of recommendation by faculty member. This letter should be written by a faculty member who has served as the student's academic advisor or teacher. It should describe the student's strengths, academic performance, and potential for achievement. Satisfying the prerequisites. The prerequisites are experience with the Unix operating system, two semesters of calculus, one semester of numerical analysis, two semesters of courses in physical or biological science. Inquiries and applications should be sent to: Professor Elizabeth Jessup, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0430; tel. (303) 492-0211; e-mail jessup@cs.colorado.edu. APPLICATION DEADLINE MARCH 31 ------------------------------ From: Liz Jessup Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 13:51:09 MST Subject: Faculty Workshop in Supercomputing Summer Workshop for Faculty High-Performance Scientific Computing University of Colorado, June 7 - 18, 1993 This residential workshop is designed for college faculty members interested in teaching scientific computing to undergraduate students. Its objectives are to present an early draft of course material we have developed to potential instructors, to critique it, and to discuss ways of incorporating it into a college curriculum. This material was developed for an undergraduate course in "High-Performance Scientific Computing" under a grant from the National Science Foundation. Students in our course learn to use high-performance workstations and supercomputers through laboratory exercises representative of scientific applications. The exercises include numerical computation, scientific visualization, and performance measurement. Our laboratory is equipped with DEC 5000 and SGI Indigo workstations and Xterminals; we access supercomputers over a network. Approximately 60% of the workshop time will be devoted to laboratory sessions. The remainder will be devoted to tutorials on the course material and to discussions of how to teach this subject to undergraduates, including practical matters of hardware and software requirements, teaching methodology, and breadth and depth of the subject matter. Participants will reside in Crosman Residence Hall on the campus. Classes and laboratory sessions will be held in the Engineering Center located nearby. Residence expenses (room and board) will be paid by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Transportation expenses will not be covered. Attendance will be limited to sixteen participants, selected according to these criteria: Statement of interest. This statement describes the applicant's interest in participating in this workshop and relevant academic experience. Satisfying the prerequisites. The prerequisites are experience with the Unix operating system and C or Fortran, knowledge of undergraduate numerical analysis. Faculty members from four-year colleges are especially encouraged to apply. Inquiries and applications should be sent to: Professor Elizabeth Jessup, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0430; tel. (303) 492-0211; e-mail jessup@cs.colorado.edu. APPLICATION DEADLINE MARCH 31 ------------------------------ From: Robert Meyer Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 15:15:05 -0600 Subject: Symposium on Parallel Optimization SYMPOSIUM ON PARALLEL OPTIMIZATION 3 7 - 9 July 1993 Center for Parallel Optimization Computer Sciences Department 1210 W. Dayton Street University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53706 A 3-day symposium of invited presentations on state-of-the-art algorithms and theory for the parallel solution of optimization and related problems will be held at the University of Wisconsin at Madison with support from the AFOSR. Emphasis will be on algorithms implementable on parallel and vector architectures. Refereed proceedings of the Symposium are planned as a special volume to be published by SIAM. Speakers include the following: Kristin P. Bennett, University of Connecticut, Storrs Renato De Leone,Universities of Wisconsin and Camerino,Madison & Camerino, Italy John E. Dennis, Jr., Rice University, Houston Jonathan Eckstein, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge Michael C. Ferris, University of Wisconsin, Madison Alexei A. Gaivoronski, ITALTEL and University of Milan, Milan, Italy Luigi Grippo, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy Joseph R. Litko, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois Z.-Q. (Tom) Luo, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Rich Maclin, University of Wisconsin, Madison Sanjay Mehrotra, Northwestern University, Evanston Jorge J. More', Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne John M. Mulvey, Princeton University, Princeton Jong-Shi Pang, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Klaus Ritter, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany J. Ben Rosen, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla Jude W. Shavlik, University of Wisconsin, Madison Paul Y. Tseng, University of Washington, Seattle Margaret H. Wright, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Stephen J. Wright, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne Stavros Zenios, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Xiru Zhang, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge Talks will be by invitation only but the symposium is open to all persons wishing to attend. For further information contact the SPO3 Secretary, Laura Cuccia, or one of the organizers, O. L. Mangasarian R. R. Meyer at the above address. Secretary (608)262-0017, email laura@cs.wisc.edu, FAX (608)262-9777. ------------------------------ From: SIAM Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 09:45:05 EST Subject: Contents: SIAM Applied Mathematics CONTENTS SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics Vol. 53, No. 2, April 1993 Reactive Flows in Layered Porous Media II. The Shape Stability of the Reaction Interface J. Xin, A. Peirce, J. Chadam, and P. Ortoleva Singular and Near Singular Integrals in the BEM: A Global Approach Dan Rosen and Donald E. Cormack Sampling in Fan Beam Tomography F. Natterer The Local Radon Transform and Variable Scale Resolution with Application to Time Dependent Wave Radiation B. Z. Steinberg and Ehud Heyman Effective Diffusion for a Parabolic Operator with Periodic Potential Serguei M. Kozlov and Andrei L. Piatnitski Reducing Nonlinear Systems of Transport Equations to Laplace's Equation Daniel R. Baker Decay of the Relative Error in the Formation of Acoustic Bullets Harry E. Moses and Reese T. Prosser Fluorescent Transfer of Light in Dyed Materials S. D. Howison and R. J. Lawrence Service-Adaptive Multitype Repairman Problems Donald P. Gaver, John A. Morrison, and Rogerio Silveira Diffusion Approximation for Head of the Line Processor Sharing for Two Parallel Queues J. A. Morrison A Finite Capacity PS Queue which Models Switching Times Xiaoming Tan and Charles Knessl On the Transient Behavior of the Erlang Loss Model: Heavy Usage Asymptotics Shisheng Xie and Charles Knessl ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------