NA Digest Sunday, May 10, 1998 Volume 98 : Issue 17

Today's Editor:
Cleve Moler
The MathWorks, Inc.
moler@mathworks.com

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From: Jack Dongarra <dongarra@cs.utk.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 20:45:10 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Survey of Freely Available Linear Algebra Software

Survey of Freely Available Linear Algebra Software

I'm updating a survey I did last year on freely available software
for the numerical solution of linear algebra problems.
Of interest is software for high-performance computers
that's available on the web in source form for solving problems
in numerical linear algebra, specifically dense, sparse direct and
iterative systems and sparse iterative eigenvalue problems.
The current list is at:
http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/la-sw.html
Please let me know about updates and corrections.
I'll post the updated list in a few weeks.

Thanks,
Jack


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From: William Mitchell <mitchell@cam.nist.gov>
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 13:05:39 -0400
Subject: OpenGL for Fortran 90

Recently the OpenGL Architecture Review Board approved the Fortran 90
bindings for the OpenGL 2D and 3D graphics library. These bindings are
defined in NISTIR 6134 "A Fortran 90 Interface for OpenGL: Revised
January 1998", which is available at the web site below.

I am pleased to announce the availability of f90gl version 1.1, a public
domain implementation of the OpenGL Fortran 90 bindings. This version
implements the interface for OpenGL 1.1 (or Mesa), GLU 1.2, GLUT 3.6 and
several OpenGL extensions. It supports most Unix workstations and
Windows 95/NT.

OpenGL is a software interface for applications to generate interactive 2D
and 3D computer graphics. OpenGL is designed to be independent of operating
system, window system, and hardware operations, and is supported by many
vendors. The OpenGL Fortran 90 bindings represents a significant development
for scientific visualization in the Fortran community. Until now there has
never been an industry standard for generating graphics from Fortran programs;
instead, only proprietary libraries that support a limited number of systems
have been available. With the new bindings, a Fortran programmer can write
standard-conforming graphics applications that will be portable over most
computing platforms.

More information and the f90gl package are available at the f90gl web page.
http://math.nist.gov/f90gl

Bill

William F. Mitchell | william.mitchell@nist.gov
Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division | na.wmitchell@na-net.ornl.gov
National Institute of Standards and Technology | Voice: (301) 975-3808
Gaithersburg, MD 20899 | Fax: (301) 990-4127
http://math.nist.gov/~mitchell

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From: Edward Aboufadel <aboufade@gvsu.edu>
Date: Tue, 05 May 98 08:56:39 -0500
Subject: Correct URL for Discovering Wavelets

I made an error in last week's posting about our web site. In what
ended up in NA-digest, I said the URL is:

www.gvsu.edu/mathstat/wavelets.

when it should be

www.gvsu.edu/mathstat/wavelets.htm

I apologize for the error.

Ed Aboufadel
aboufade@gvsu.edu

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From: Roberto Bernetti <bernetti@tin.it>
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 17:17:43 +0200
Subject: Numerical Integration of Rapid Varying Function


Consider a 3D surface, partitioned into finite elements, let's call "Ek" one
of these elements. The element Ek is defined by 4 point called node, each
node belong to the 3D surface.
Let P=(x[1],x[2],x[3]) be a point belonging to Ek, it means that the
coordinates of "P" in the global cartesian system, can be obtained by the
following coordinate transformation :

x[i]= N(u,v)[j]*x[j][i]

in which:

x[i] cartesian coordinate "i" of P

x[j][i] cartesian coordinate "i" of node "j" j=1,2,3,4

N(u,v)[j] shape function [j] j=1,2,3,4

u surface coordinate -1< u < +1
v surface coordinate -1< v < +1

Let's consider the following arrays

un=[-1,-1,1,1] vn=[-1,1,1,-1]

now, the shape function can be defined as follow:

N(u,v)[j] = 1/4(1 + un[j]*u)*(1+vn[j]*v)

Over this element Ek the following function is to be integrated :

Exp[ I k | Y-X | ]/(4 PI | Y-X | )

in which
k is the wave number
I is the imaginary unit
Y a point that belongs to the element "Ek"
X a point in the three-dimensional space (X can belongs to Ek)
| Y - X | distance between the point Y and X
PI the greek p

Using the foregoing coordinate transformation the integrand become:

Exp[ I k | Y(u,v)-X | ]/(4 PI | Y(u,v)-X| )* | J(u,v) | * d u * d v

in which
| J(u,v) | is the modulus of the vector product of the tangent vectors to
the family of line u=cost and v=cost

Up to now I've been using an iterative subdivision with Gaussian
quadrature formulas for precision purposes and an extrapolation technique
to increase the speed of convergence.

Speed and precision are critical for this application, so any suggestions
to increase one or both will be appreciated and acknowledged.

Roberto Bernetti e-mail:bernetti@tin.it
via S.da Vecchia del Pinocchio 1/a
60131 ANCONA
ITALY tel/fax (071)-2867103


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From: Iain Duff <I.Duff@rl.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 16:41:59 +0100 (BST)
Subject: IMANA Newsletter

IMANA Newsletter Volume 22(3). April 1998.

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: karen@ima.org.uk

who will supply further information and subscription rates.

To get a copy, ftp to matisa.cc.rl.ac.uk. When prompted for a userid,
reply with "anonymous" and give your email address as a password.
Then cd to pub/imana. Set mode to binary (bin)
Copy is in file april98.gz (get april98.gz)
The conference section can be found in file april98.conf.gz.
Both files should be gunzipped whence they should be found to be in plain ASCII
format.


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From: Alexander Padiy <padiy@sci.kun.nl>
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 09:45:09 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Iterative Methods for the Elasticity Equations

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

Conference on
Iterative solution methods for the elasticity
equations as arising in mechanics and biomechanics
IMMB'98
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
September 28-30, 1998

SCOPE:
Recently there has been much progress reported on iterative solution
methods for the solution of the algebraic systems which arise in finite
element methods in structural engineering, geomechanics and biomechanics.
The purpose of the conference is to report on this and to enable
people from both the theoretical side and the practical, application side
to meet and exchange their views on the topic.

THE PRIMARY TOPICS OF THE MEETING ARE:
- Preconditioned conjugate gradient methods
- Incomplete factorization methods, ordering strategies
- Inner-outer iteration methods
- Subspace iteration methods
- Aggregation techniques
- Superelement-by-element preconditioners
- Algebraic multilevel methods
- Multilevel domain decomposition methods
- Locking phenomena
- nearly incompressible materials
- thin structures, limit cases (membrane state, bending state)
- Mixed variable methods
- Reduced integration methods
- Nonlinear materials and elasto-plastic problems
- Incremental approaches
- Newton-type methods
- Finite element software packages, implementation aspects
- Parallelization aspects
- Applications in Biomechanics

INVITED SPEAKERS:
- prof. D.Arnold (Penn State University, USA)
- prof. N.Bakhvalov (Moscow State University, Russia)
- prof. P.Bochev (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
- prof. D.Braess (Ruhr-University, Germany)
- prof. Z.Cai (Purdue University, USA)
- prof. I.Kaporin (Academy of Sciences, Russia)
- prof. G.Kobelkov (Moscow State University, Russia)
- prof. J.F.Maitre (Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France)
- prof. J.Nedoma (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
- dr. Y.Notay (University Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
- dr. B.Rietbergen (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
- prof. R.Stenberg (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
- prof. E.Stephan (University of Hannover, Germany)
- dr. A.Yeremin (Moscow State University, Russia)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
O. Axelsson or J. Padiy
University of Nijmegen
Department of Mathematics
Toernooiveld 1
NL-6525 ED Nijmegen

E-mail: immb98@sci.kun.nl
URL: http://www-math.sci.kun.nl/math/immb98
Fax : +31 (0)24 3652140


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From: Xiao Lin Li <linli@math.iupui.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 08:51:10 -0500
Subject: Developments in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Plasma Physics

Modern Developments in Computational Fluid Dynamics and
Computational Plasma Physics
Symposium to Celebrate the
70th Birthday of Prof. C. K. Chu

Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Columbia University

Shapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Research
(CEPSR Auditorium)

Thursday, May 14, 1998

Stephen Schneider
Chjan Lim "Vortex dynamics on a sphere"
Bjorn Engquist
Wonchull Park "3D Simulations of Plasmas using Multilevel Physics Models"
Kun Xu "Gas-Kinetic Scheme for MHD Equations"
David Gottlieb "On the direct Fourier method for computer tomography"
S. T. Yau
Kunio Kuwahara "Simulation of high-Reynolds-number flows by
multi-directional finite-difference method"
Xiaolin Li "A Numerical Study of 3-D Fluid Interface Instabilities
and Front Tracking Method"
Joseph Wright "Numerical Instability due to Varying Time Steps in
Explicit Wave Propagation and Mechanics Calculations"
Grafton Hui
Amitava Bhattacharjee "Finite-time Singularity in a Highly Symmetric Euler Flow"
Thomas Y. Hou "Numerical Study of Fluid Interfaces Using Boundary
Integral Methods"

Friday, May 15, 1998

Heinz Otto Kreiss
Theodore Wu "Nonlinear Water Waves"
Paul Garabedian
Stanley Osher
Roy Gould


Michael E. Mauel Office: (212) 854-4455
Department of Applied Physics FAX: (212) 854-8257
Columbia University <mailto:mauel@columbia.edu>
New York, NY 10027 U.S.A. <http://www.columbia.edu/~mem4/>


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From: Alan Champneys <A.R.Champneys@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 09:05:26 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Dynamics Days 1998

Dynamics Days 1998, Edinburgh

A registation [deadline 1st June] form is available on:
http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/icms/1998/dynamics98/dynamics.html

International Conference on Chaos & Nonlinear Dynamics

UK Dynamics Days 1998 Edinburgh, Scotland
June 28 - July 1, 1998
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland

UK Dynamics Days 1998 brings together, in the UK for the
first time, researchers interested in a wide variety of
phenomena associated with nonlinear dynamical systems.

Invited Speakers (all confirmed):
V. Anishchenko (Russia)
L. Arnold (Germany)
M. Berry (UK)
M. Feigin (Russia)
M. Fink (France)
J. Keener (US)
Y. Kuramoto (Japan)
R. Mackay (UK)
T. Mullin (UK)
K. Popp (Germany)
D. Rand (UK)
S. Scott (UK)

There will be a limited number of contributed 15-minute
talks as well as several poster sessions.
Contributions are welcomed on any current research topic in
which nonlinear dynamics plays a significant role.

Organisers:
Professor J. Brindley (University of Leeds)
Professor J. Hogan (University of Bristol)

This meeting has been made possible by generous donations
from the London Mathematical Society.

Support is available for UK postgraduate students holding
EPSRC grants.

The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences,
Edinburgh, Scotland provides invaluable assistance in
putting on this meeting.

John Hogan
s.j.hogan@bristol.ac.uk


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From: vladik@cs.utep.edu (Vladik Kreinovich)
Date: Tue, 5 May 98 10:36:26 MDT
Subject: International Conference Interval'98

INTERVAL'98, the fourth in a series of biannually
organized conferences, was held in Nanjing, China, April 20-23.
It was attended by more than 30 researchers from 15 different
countries all over the world. The conference was organized by:
* Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University
* The Editorial Board of the International Journal
"Reliable Computing"

Whereas the previous meetings focused on relationships of interval
mathematics to other areas, Interval, 98 having global optimization as
an application area in mind, put strong emphasis on traditional
interval methods. New results on well established methods were
presented, and complexity issues were discussed. Several talks dealt
with new, efficient implementation techniques.

Nevertheless, a number of interesting and surprising applications were
suggested. Take the foundations of physics or a combination of
Western and Oriental medicine as some striking examples.

All in all, there were 31 talks. The refereed proceedings of the
conference will be published as a special issue of the "Reliable
Computing" journal.

The conference took place in the relaxed atmosphere of the Holiday Inn
Hotel and was supported by the national Natural Science Foundation of
China and Nanjing University. The German Research Association (DFG)
supported some of the German participants.

Due to the facilities in the hotel, the everlasting friendliness of
the Chinese organizers, and a very interesting bus excursion to the
touristic highlights of Nanjing, there were lots of possibilities to
establish new scientific contacts or intensify existing ones.

Juergen Wolff von Gudenberg


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From: Ravi Malladi <malladi@math.lbl.gov>
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 11:46:35 -0700
Subject: IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis

The final program of the IEEE Workshop on Biomedical
Image Analysis to be held in conjunction with
CVPR'98 may be found at the following web site:
http://www.lbl.gov/~malladi/wbia_program


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From: IMACS ACA'98 <aca98@siduri.fjfi.cvut.cz>
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 07:02:48 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra

S E C O N D A N N O U N C E M E N T
I M A C S - A C A ' 9 8

The Fourth International IMACS Conference
on Applications of Computer Algebra

(IMACS = International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation)

August 9-11, 1998
Czech Technical University
Hotel Krystal
Prague, Czech Republic
Just before ISSAC'98, August 13-15, Rostock, Germany

General Chair: Richard Liska (liska@siduri.fjfi.cvut.cz)

Program Chairs:
Victor Edneral (edneral@theory.npi.msu.su),
Wolfgang Kuchlin (kuechlin@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)

Organizing Committee:
Stanly Steinberg (stanly@math.unm.edu),
Michael Wester (wester@math.unm.edu)

Local Arrangements:
Jiri Limpouch ( limpouch@lilit.fjfi.cvut.cz),
Milan Sinor( sinor@antu.fjfi.cvut.cz),
Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering,
Czech Technical University

Scope:
The meeting will focus on actual or possible applications of
nontrivial computer algebra techniques to other fields and substantial
interactions of computer algebra with other fields.

List of Sessions:(preliminary)

High Energy Physics
General Relativity
Quantum Theory
Control Theory
Robotics
Computer Algebra Methods in Integration and Symmetry Analysis of ODEs
Dynamical Systems and Mechanics
Approximate Algebraic Computation
Computation in Algebra and Geometry
Applications of Grobner Bases
High Performance Symbolic Computing
Industrial Applications
Financial Modeling
CA Applications in Biology, Ecology and Medicine
Problem Solving Environments
Automatic Differentiation for adjoint codes generation
Applications to Artificial Intelligence,
Education meets Computer Algebra: A Double Challenge
History of Computer Algebra Applications

More Information:
For more information see
http://www-troja.fjfi.cvut.cz/aca98
or US mirror
http://math.unm.edu/ACA/1998/index.html
or send e-mail to
aca98@siduri.fjfi.cvut.cz.


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From: Melanie Preusser <mathopt@dm5.uni-trier.de>
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 10:16:07 +0200
Subject: Interior-Point Workshop

Mathematical Optimization
Department of Mathematics
University of Trier
Germany

Interior-Point Workshop '98
University of Trier
July, 6./7. 1998

Interior-Point Methods:
Theory and Applications
with presentations by

E. Andersen (Odense University, Denmark),
C. Helmberg (ZIB, Berlin),
J. E. Mitchell (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. New York/Delft University),
A. Nemirovskii (Technion, Israel),
F. Rendl (University of Graz, Austria),
K. Roos (Delft University, Netherlands),
J. Stoer (University of Wuerzburg),
T. Terlaky (Delft University, Netherlands).

For submission of contributed talks please contact the organizers.

Organizers:
F. Jarre (Trier/Wuerzburg) and E. Sachs (Trier).

Information/Registration:

Geschaeftsstelle GK Mathematische Optimierung
Universitaet Trier, D-54286 Trier
Telefon: (0651) 201-3477 Telefax: (0651) 201-3973
E-Mail: mathopt@uni-trier.de
Internet: http://mathopt.uni-trier.de/ipwork.html


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From: Jan Kok <Jan.Kok@cwi.nl>
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 10:48:51 +0200
Subject: Dutch Community of Numerical Mathematicians

1998 Conference of the Dutch Community of Numerical Mathematicians
23 - 25 September 1998, at Woudschoten (NL)

The next conference of the Dutch Community of Numerical Mathematicians
(WNW) has been scheduled for 23, 24 and 25 September 1998, to be held
at the Woudschoten Conference Centre, Zeist, The Netherlands.

Topics of the 1998 conference are:

1. aspects of the integration of initial-value problems
2. wavelets and hierarchical bases

Invited speakers are:
Theme 1: Kevin Burrage (University of Queensland),
Andrew Stuart (Stanford University),
Marino Zennaro (Universit&agrave; di Trieste)
Theme 2: Jean-Pierre Antoine (Universit&eacute; Catholique de Louvain),
Wolfgang Dahmen (RWTH Aachen)
(the name of the third speaker on theme 2 will be announced on
the conference webpage shortly)

For information please apply to the secretary of the organizing committee:
Jan Kok
CWI - Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
Organizing committee Woudschoten Conference
P.O. Box 94079
NL-1090 GB Amsterdam
Telephone: +31 20 592 4107
Mail to: Jan.Kok@cwi.nl

Conference URL: http://www.cwi.nl/~jankok/woudschotEn.html


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From: Heinrich Voss <voss@tu-harburg.de>
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 11:09:42 +0200
Subject: Workshop on Scientific Computing in Chemical Engineering

SCCE II - International Workshop on
on Scientific Computing in Chemical Engineering
May 26-28, 1999, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH)
D-21071 Hamburg, Germany

(see http://www.tu-harburg.de/mat/scce/scce.html)

Second Call for Papers

The Sonderforschungsbereich 238 ("In-situ measuring techniques
and dynamic modelling of multiphase flow systems") of the German
Science Foundation

in cooperation with

DECHEMA (German Society for Chemical Apparatus, Chemical
Engineering and Biotechnology e.V.),
DMV Special Interest Group "Scientific Computing",
DMV Special Interest Group "Industrial Mathematic",
DMV-GAMM-GI Joint Special Interest Group "Numerical Software"
GAMM Special Interest Group "Scientific Computing"

is organizing a second workshop on Scientific Computing in
Chemical Engineering (SCCE II) in May 26-28, 1999
at TUHH, Hamburg.

Invited and (refereed) contributed papers (of about 8 pages)
will be published by Springer Verlag.

The themes of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

Simulation of reactive flows, reaction diffusion
problems, computer aided process design, control,
intelligent systems, combustion and flame,
molecular properties, polymer modelling,
as well as
chemical engineering applications of visualization
of complex data, expert systems, data bases,
pattern recognition, image processing and neural
networks.

The workshop will highlight the mutual interactions between
engineers, natural scientists, mathematicians and computer
science experts so as to devise, apply and further develop
scientific computing techniques in chemical engineering
environment.

The following invited speakers have accepted our invitation

- H. Georg Bock, Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany
- Hans Burkhardt, Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
- Peter Deuflhard, Konrad Zuse Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik,
Berlin, Germany
- Ignacio E. Grossmann, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburg, USA
- Keith E. Gubbins, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
- M.-V. Heitor, Technical University Lissabon, Portugal
- Dan Luss, University of Houston, Houston, USA
- Ulrich Maas, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
- Manfred Moravi, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
- Costas C. Pantelides, Imperial College, London, UK
- Olivier Simonin, Institute de Mechanique des Fluides, Toulouse, France
- George Stephanopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
- Gabriel Wittum, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany

The SCCE II Organization Committee:
- Frerich Keil, Chemical Engineering, TUHH
- Wolfgang Mackens, Mathematics, TUHH
- Heinrich Voss, Mathematics, TUHH
- Joachim Werther, Chemical Engineering, TUHH

Questions regarding SCCE II should be addressed to
scce@tu-harburg.de


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From: Donald Craig Williams <donald@caam.rice.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 03:28:02 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences

Fourth Conference for African-American Researchers in the
Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS4)

June 16-19, 1998
Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC)
Rice University
6100 Main Street, MS-41
Houston, Texas 77005-1892

Conference web site:
http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/CAARMS4/

Supported by CRPC, Rice University, and
Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies

CAARMS4 will highlight current work by African-American researchers and
graduate students in mathematics, facilitate working relations between them,
and identify common research interests and goals. Participants will attend
talks, graduate student poster presentations, and tutorials in mathematics
and computer science. These talks and presentations will bring a broader
perspective to the critical issues involving minority participation in
mathematics. The conference also will enable attendees to network and
communicate, enhancing the growth of individual researchers as well as the
general growth of mathematics among African-Americans.

Keynote Banquet Speaker:
Luther Williams, National Science Foundation, "Science, Mathematics, and
Engineering Scholarship: A Sacred Vocation, the Last Frontier"

Main topics of talks include:
Complex Analysis, Dynamical Systems, Algebraic Geometry, Statistics,
Computer Science, Control Theory, Functional Analysis, Optimization,
and Topological Semigroups.

Invited Speakers:
Johnny E. Brown (Purdue University)
James Curry (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Amassa Fauntleroy (University of North Carolina)
Stacy Hill (Johns Hopkins)
Yves Darly Jean (Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies)
Roderick Moten (Colgate University)
Mark Anthony Smith (AT&T Labs Research)
Christine McMillan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Robert Megginson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Richard Tapia (Rice University)
Pamela Williams (Rice University)
Elaine Terry (St. Joseph's University)

Organizers:
William A. Massey (908) 582-3225 and Pamela J. Williams (713)
527-8101, x2859. To register for the conference, contact Theresa Chatman,
CRPC Manager of Outreach Programs at tlc@cs.rice.edu, (713) 285-5180
(phone), or (713) 285-5136 (fax). Registration forms and more information
are available at http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/CAARMS4/. Please
check conference web page periodically for updates.


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From: Tianruo Yang <tiaya@ida.liu.se>
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 14:36:43 +0200
Subject: Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing

Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing
with Applications

CALL FOR PAPERS

The above workshop is organized in the 10th IASTED International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS-98)
at Las Vegas, Nevada from October 28-31, 1998.

Parallel and distributed scientific and engineering computing
has become a key technology which will play an important part in
determining, or at least shaping, future research and development
activities in many academic and industrial branches.
This workshop is to bring together computer scientists, applied
mathematicians and researchers to present, discuss and exchange
idea, results, work in progress and experience of research in the
area of parallel and distributed computing for problems in science
and engineering applications.

Among the main topics (are not limited) are:
1. development of advanced parallel and distributed methods,
2. parallel and distributed computing techniques and codes,
3. applications to numerical fluid mechanics and material sciences,
4. applications to signal and image processing, dynamic systems,
semiconductor technology, and electronic circuits and systems
design etc.

Further information about the conference proceedings and
registration fee can be found by responding to the e-mail address:
pan@udcps.cps.udayton.edu, or check either of our WWW-pages:
http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdcs98
or contact the conference organizer:
IASTED, PDCS-98 Conference Secretariat
1811 West Katella Avenue, Suite 101
Anaheim, CA, 92804 USA
Tel: 714-778-3230 Fax. 714-778-5463 Email: isted@iasted.com

Workshop organizers:
Tianruo Yang
Department of Computer and Information Science
Link=F6ping University, 581 83 Link=F6ping, Sweden
Email: tiaya@ida.liu.se Tel: 0046-13-281763 Fax: 0046-13-282666

Hai-xiang Lin
Department of Technical Mathematics and Computer Science
Delft University of Technology
P.O. Box 356, 2600 AJ Delft, The Netherlands
h.x.lin@twi.tudelft.nl


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From: Jun Tian <juntian@rice.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 13:47:29 -0500
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at Rice University

Postdoctoral Research Position
Computational Mathematics Laboratory, Rice University

Applications are solicited for a postdoctoral position in the Computational
Mathematics Laboratory at Rice University. The applicant should have a
doctorate in mathematics, applied mathematics, or electrical engineering
(signal processing) with a strong mathematics background. In particular, a
background in wavelet analysis and/or wavelet signal processing is
essential. Matlab is an essential tool that will be necessary, and
additional programming languages (such as C, C++, etc.) would be useful.
The problems involve applications of wavelets to pattern recognition and
image processing issues involving sonar and synthetic aperture radar
imagery data, as well as medical and geophysical imaging problems. The
Computational Mathematics Laboratory is a part of the Computer and
Information Technology Institute at Rice and involves faculty, researchers
and students in the departments of mathematics and electrical and computer
engineering. Applicants should send their resumes with a list of three
references and any other supporting documents (e.g. publications) before 1
June 1998 to:

Professor R. O. Wells, Jr.,
Director, Computational Mathematics Laboratory
Department of Mathematics
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005

Electronic submissions should be sent to: cml@math.rice.edu

Fax applications could be sent to: 713-285-5437


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From: Mark Ainsworth <ain@mcs.le.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 12:01:40 +0100
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at Leicester University

Leicester University
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Associate

A post-doctoral research assistant is required for two years for this EPSRC
funded post commencing in October 1998. The appointment will be made on the
research grade RA1A with initial salary in the range 15,159-16,927 pounds per
annum, according to qualifications and experience.

The successful candidate would work on the numerical analysis of adaptive
finite element methods for numerical approximation of singularly perturbed
partial differential equations equations. The ideal candidate would have,
or expect to have, a doctorate in the area of numerical analysis of partial
differential equations or, a strong mathematical background and experience
of finite element methods.

Further details are available electronically at http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~ain
or, from: Dr M. Ainsworth, Mathematics Department, Leicester University,
Leicester LE1 7RH. Closing date: 5th June 1998. Application forms are
available from Personnel Office, Leicester University, Leicester LE1 7RH,
(Tel: +44 116 252 2439), quoting reference R7168/GD/TH.


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From: Phil Bording <bording@aloner.wes.hpc.mil>
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 15:43:52 -0500
Subject: Postdoctoral Position in Vicksburg, Mississippi

Postdoctoral positions in Computational Science
with an emphasis on parallel programming.

Nichols Research Corporation has one or more postdoctoral openings in
the Computational Migration Group. This group is dedicated to scalable
computing, a major area of high performance computing. This work will be
conducted at the DOD High Performance Computing, Major Shared Resource
Center at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station,
in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

The CEWES MSRC is managed by Nichols Research Corporation for the U.S.
Department of Defense. The CEWES MSRC ranks in the top ten most powerful
high performance computing centers in the world. We currently operate a
Cray C90 (16 CPUs), a Cray T3E (336 CPUs), a SGI Origin 2000 (128 CPUs),
and two IBM SP supercomputers (256 and 126 CPUs).

Research conducted with these computational facilities covers several
areas, including computational fluid dynamics, computational structural
modeling, climate weather and ocean modeling, environmental quality modeling,
and forces modeling and simulation. Interested parties should visit our WWW
site (apollo.wes.army.mil) for additional information.

Applicants should possess a recent Ph.D. in science or engineering, Fortran
and/or C experience, demonstrated experience in a computational area and strong
parallel programming experience (preferably using MPI). The applicant should
also have a strong desire to work in existing codes. U.S. citizenship or
permanent residency is required. The appointment is for one year with
possible renewal and salary and benefits are competitive.

If you have an intense interest in Computational Science, please send a cover
letter expressing your interests, vita, and the names of references via land
mail to:

Dr. R. Phillip Bording
Nichols Research Corporation
1165 Porters Chapel Road, TL 112
Vicksburg, MS 39180

Please do not e-mail or telephone. All land mail inquiries will receive
prompt attention.


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From: Parallel and Dist. Comp. Practices <pdcp@orca.st.usm.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 20:41:42 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Contents, Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices

Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices -- Volume 1, Number 1
TABLE of CONTENTS
(abstracts available at http://orca.st.usm.edu/pdcp)

Editorial 1

OVERVIEW PAPER

Asynchrony in Parallel Computing: From Dataflow to Multithreading 3
J. Silc, B. Robic and T. Ungerer


RESEARCH PAPERS

Parallel Computing with Generalized Cellular Automata 31
W.A. Maniatty, B.K. Szymanski and T. Caraco

A Functional Approach to Radix-R FFTs 51
D. Bollman, J. Seguel and J. Feo

Visualization of Do-Loop Performance Using AVS 75
O. Naim and A.J.G. Hey

Parallel Algorithms for Multidimensional Integration 89
J.M. Bull and T.L. Freeman

Comparing Parallel Multidimensional Integration Algorithms 103
I. Gladwell and M.A. Napierala


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From: Beth Schad <tschoban@siam.org>
Date: Mon, 04 May 98 09:08:36 -0500
Subject: Contents, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

CONTENTS
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Volume 35, Number 3, JUNE 1998

Chebyshev--Legendre Spectral Viscosity Method for Nonlinear Conservation Laws
Heping Ma

Chebyshev--Legendre Super Spectral Viscosity Method for Nonlinear Conservation
Laws
Heping Ma

Convergence Analysis for a Class of High-Order Semi-Lagrangian Advection Schemes
Maurizio Falcone and Roberto Ferretti

Postprocessing the Galerkin Method: A Novel Approach to Approximate Inertial
Manifolds
Bosco Garcia-Archilla, Julia Nova, and Edriss S. Titi

Stability of Time-Stepping Methods for Abstract Time-Dependent Parabolic
Problems
C. Gonzalez and C. Palencia

Analysis of Velocity-Flux First-Order System Least-Squares Principles for the
Navier--Stokes Equations: Part I
P. Bochev, Z. Cai, T.A. Manteuffel, and S.F. McCormick

Balanced Implicit Methods for Stiff Stochastic Systems
G.N. Milstein, E. Platen, and H. Schurz

Asymptotic Analysis Relating Spectral Methods in Fluid-Solid Vibrations
Carlos Conca, Axel Osses, and Jacques Planchard

Analysis and Convergence of a Covolume Approximation of the Ginzburg--Landau
Model of Superconductivity
Qiang Du, R.A. Nicolaides, and Xiaonan Wu

An Asymptotic-Induced Scheme for Nonstationary Transport Equations in the
Diffusive Limit
Axel Klar

Error Estimates for A Class of Degenerate Parabolic Equations
Carsten Ebmeyer

Method of Absorbing Boundary Conditions: Phenomena of Error Stabilization
H. Barucq, F. Delaurens, and B. Hanouzet

Global and Superlinear Convergence of Inexact Uzawa Methods for Saddle Point
Problems with Nondifferentiable Mappings
Xiaojun Chen

Convergence of a Difference Scheme for the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck System
in One Dimension
Jack Schaeffer

A P^1--P^1 Finite Element Method for a Phase Relaxation Model I: Quasi-Uniform
Mesh
Xun Jiang and Ricardo H. Nochetto

The Error in Linear Interpolation at the Vertices of a Simplex
Shayne Waldron

V-Cycle Convergence with Unsymmetric Smoothers and Application to an Anisotropic
Model Problem
Nicolas Neuss

Minimum Residual Adaptive Multilevel Finite Element Procedure for the Solution
of Nonlinear Stationary Problems
O. Axelsson and I.E. Kaporin

An FEM Scheme of a PDE System from Bioreactor Theory with Stability Results
Jouko Tervo

The Travelling Wave Scheme for the Navier--Stokes Equations
Suzanne L. Weekes

Convergence of a Reduced Integration Method for Computing Microstructures
Charles R. Collins


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From: Deidre Wunderlich <wunderlich@siam.org>
Date: Wed, 06 May 98 10:29:07 -0500
Subject: Contents, SIAM Review

CONTENTS
SIAM Review
Volume 40, Number 2, JUNE 1998

ARTICLES
A Probabilistic Look at the Wiener-Hopf Equation
Soren Asmussen

Bayesian Assessment of Network Reliability
Nicholas Lynn, Nozer Singpurwalla, and Adrian Smith

Optimization Problems With Perturbations: A Guided Tour
J. Frederic Bonnans and Alexander Shapiro

New Perspectives in Turbulence: Scaling Laws, Asymptotics, and
Intermittency
G. I. Barenblatt and A. J. Chorin

CASE STUDIES
Calculation of Cam-Form Errors
L. Kohaupt

Computing Geodetic Coordinates
Stephen P. Keeler and Yves Nievergelt

CLASSROOM NOTES
Numerical Verification of Second-Order Sufficiency Conditions for
Nonlinear Programming
Terrence K. Kelly and Michael Kupferschmid

Circular Billiard
Michael Drexler and Martin J. Gander

Eliminating Gibb's Effect from Separation of Variables Solutions
T. E. Peterson

ODE Models for the Parachute Problem
Douglas B. Meade

A Riemann Sum Upper Bound in the Riemann-Lebesgue Theorem
Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

Real Matrices with Positive Determinant are Homotopic to the Identity
Amit Bhaya

How to Ride a Wave: Mechanics of Surfing
Takeshi Sugimoto

Solutions of Linear Differential Algebraic Equations
Mazi Shirvani and Joseph W.-H. So

Transmission Line Modeling: A Circut Theory Approach
Pedro L. D. Peres, Ivanil S. Bonatti, and Amauri Lopes

The Poisson Formula Revisited
Hongwei Chen

Lithotripsy: The Treatment of Kidney Stones with Shock Waves
Laurens Howle, David G. Schaeffer, Michael Shearer, and Pei Zhong

PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

BOOK REVIEWS
A Posteriori Error Estimation and Adaptive Mesh-Refinement Techniques
(Rudiger Verfurth), Mark Ainsworth

Linear Algebra (Peter D. Lax), H. Amann

On Being a Department Head: A Personal View (John B. Conway), Hassan
Aref

Inverse Logarithmic Potential Problem (V. G. Cherednichenko), Carlos
A. Berenstein

Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Godel (John W. Dawson),
Samuel R. Buss

Modern Spectrum Analysis of Time Series (Prabhakar S. Naidu), Collin
C. Carbno

Theory of Integro-differential Equations (V. Lakshmikantham and M.
Rama Mohana Rao), J. M. Cushing

Mathematical Topics in Fluid Mechanics. Vol. 1. Incompressible Models
(Pierre-Louis Lions), Reinhard Farwig

Geometric Applicatiaons of Fourier Series and Spherical Harmonics (H.
Groemer), William J. Firey

A First Course on Wavelets (Eugenio Hernandez and Guido Weiss),
Richard F. Gundy

Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods (Stephen J. Wright), Anthony J.
Kearsley

Partial Differential Equations I: Basic Theory (Michael E. Taylor),
Partial Differential Equations II: Qualitative Studies of Linear
Equations (Michael E. Taylor), Partial Differential Equations III:
Nonlinear Equations (Michael E. Taylor), Peter D. Lax

Matrix Analysis (Rajendra Bathia), Charles R. Johnson

An Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing (Lloyd D.
Fosdick, Elizabeth R. Jessup, Carolyn J. C. Schauble, and Gitta
Domik), Robert Manning

Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetism (Michel Cessenat), Peter Monk

Mathematical Algorithms in Visual Basic for Scientists and Engineers
(Namir C. Shammas), John C. Nash

Aspects of Statistical Inference (A. H. Welsh), Guohua Pan

Elliptic Boundary Value Problems in the Spaces of Distributions (Yakov
Roitberg), Martin Schechter

Handbook of Analysis and Its Foundations (Eric Schechter), Jet Wimp

Elliptic Marching Methods and Domain Decomposition (Patrick J.
Roache), Zhimin Zhang

Selected Collections

Later Editions

Chronicle


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