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From: NA Digest <na.digest@na-net.ornl.gov>
Date:  Sun 02/28/1994 14:36:09 EST
Subject: NA Digest Calendar
The Netlib Conferences Database is on the Web at:
   http://www.netlib.org/confdb/Conferences.html
                          NA Digest Calendar
Date        Topic                                    Place         NA Digest #
Mar. 15     Parallel Sparse Matrix Solvers           Edinburgh, Scotland    06
Mar. 15-17  Scientific Computations                  Beirut, Lebanon        48
Mar. 16-18  BLAS Technical Forum                     Oak Ridge, TN          07
Mar. 22-24  Optimization                             Trier, Germany         03
Mar. 22-26  Numerical Analysis Workshop              Havana, Cuba           27
Mar. 25-26  SPEEDUP Workshop                         Cadro-Lugano, Switz.   07
Mar. 25-27  Conference Honoring Richard Varga        Kent, OH               48
Mar. 29-31  Numerical Mathematics               Stellenbosch, South Africa  08
Apr. 10-11  Numerical Analysis at AMS Meeting        Las Vegas, NV          46
Apr. 11-13  Computing for Financial Planning         Ischia, Italy          06
Apr. 11-16  Multigrid Methods                        Copper Mountain, CO    08
Apr. 12-14  High Performance Numerical Methods       Amsterdam, Netherlands 44
Apr. 12-15  British Applied Mathematics Colloquium   Bath, UK               05
Apr. 12-16  Kinetic and Hyperbolic Problems     S. Margherita Ligure, Italy 06
Apr. 15-20  Scattered Data Fitting              Puerto Vallarta, Mex.    98:06
Apr. 16     Irreguarly Sturctured Problems           San Juan, Puerto Rico  08
Apr. 19-21  PDE and CFD                              Pisa, Italy            09
Apr. 24     Midwest Numerical Analysis Day           Chicago, IL            06
Apr. 29     Southern Ontario NA Day                  Hamilton, Ontario      08
May   7- 9  Optimization in Computational Chemistry  Princeton, NJ          27
May  10-14  Theoretical and Computational Acoustics  Trieste, Italy         34
May  10-12  SIAM Conference on Optimization          Atlanta, GA            41
May  12-15  SIAM Annual Meeting                      Atlanta, GA            41
May  17-20  Conference Honoring Larry Schumaker      Nashville, TN          08
May  19-22  Mathematics from Physics                 Urbana, IL             44
May  21-22  Differential Equations                   Mississippi State, MS  43
May  23-26  Parallel CFD                             Williamsburg, VA       07
May  24-26  Discontinuous Galerkin Methods           Newport, RI            08
May  24-28  Applications of Dynamical Systems        Snowbird, UT           23
May  24-31  Environmental Modeling                   Rostov-on-Don, Russia  07
May  31-June 4  Computer Algebra                     Munich, Germany        02
June  2- 6  Large Scale Scientific Computations      Sozopol, Bulgaria      08
June  2- 6  Matrices with Sparsity Structure         Sozopol, Bulgaria      45
June  3- 4  Mathematical Modelling and Analysis      Vilnius, Lithuania     48
June  6-11  Rational Approximation                   Antwerp, Belgium       46
June  6-11  Rational Approximation                   Antwerp, Belgium       31
June  7- 9  Operational Research In Motion           Windsor, Ontario       29
June  7-11  Monte Carlo Methods                      Varna, Bulgaria        22
June 10-12  Preconditioning Techniques               Minneapolis, MN        09
June 11     Computational Methods in Engineering     Uppsala, Sweden        03
June 11-13  CAIMS Annual Meeting                     Quebec, Canada         05
June 12-14  Java Grande Conference                   Palo Alto, CA          46
June 13-16  Computational Geometry                   Miami Beach, FL        44
June 13-19  Summer School                            Sozopol, Bulgaria      04
June 14-18  Householder Numerical Algebra Symposium  Whistler B.C., Canada  42
June 15-20  Computational Physics                    Dubna, Russia          45
June 16-18  Wavelet Workshop                         Braunschweig, Germany  04
June 16-18  Numerical Dynamical Systems              Milano, Italy          09
June 17-18  Honor of George K. Lea                   Arlington, VA          06
June 20-24  Number Theory                            Winnipeg, Canada       40
June 21-25  Matrix Theory                            Haifa, Israel          08
June 21-26  Continuous Optimization                  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 33
June 21-27  Course on Computational Mathematics      Martina Franca, Italy  05
June 21-27  Industrial Applications                  Apulia, Italy          35
June 22-25  Finite Elements and Applications         Brunel, UK             05
June 27-July 1  Structured Matrices                  Boulder, CO            04
June 28-July 1  Parallel Processing and Imaging      Las Vegas, NV          49
June 28-July 1  Differential Equations               Las Vegas, NV          05
June 28-July 2  Numerical Analysis                   Dundee, Scotland       04
July  1- 4  Scientific and Enginnering Computing     Beijing, China         06
July  1- 7  Curves and Surfaces                      Saint-Malo, France     15
July  3- 6  Accurate Solution of Eigenvalue Problems Hagen, Germany         06
July  4- 8  Circuits, Systems, Comms and Computers   Athens, Greece         08
July  5- 9  ICIAM                                    Edinburgh, Scotland    47
July 12-16  System Modelling and Optimization        Cambridge, UK          44
July 15-17  Viscosity                                Crete, Greece          08
July 16-18  Algorithms                               Prague, Czech Republic 40
July 18-28  Foundations of Computational Mathematics Oxford, U.K.           44
July 19-22  International Linear Algebra Society     Barcelona, Spain       36
July 19-23  Finite Volumes for Complex Applications  Duisburg, Germany      06
July 26-30  Numerical Mathematics                    Jyvaskyla, Finland     42
Aug.  2- 6  Computational Physics                    Beijing, China         04
Aug.  4- 6  Semiconductor Technology                 Boulder, CO            02
Aug.  9-13  SciCADE99                                Queensland, Australia  47
Aug. 15-18  Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining      San Diego, CA          06
Aug. 16-20  Ordinary Differential Equations          Auckland, New Zealand  08
Aug. 21-25  IMACS Congress 2000                      Lausanne, Switzerland  46
Aug. 25-28  Conference Honoring Sergei Godunov       Novosibirsk,  Russia   47
Aug. 25-28  Viscoelastic Flows                       Vaals, Netherlands     42
Aug. 27-29  Computational Plasticity                 Kiel, Germany          03
Aug. 31-Sep. 3  Euro-Par'99                          Toulouse, France       04
Sep.  6-10  Numerical Solution of Markov Chains      Zaragoza, Spain        38
Sep.  6-10  Parallel Computing Technologies          St.-Petersburg, Russia 41
Sep.  6-21  Numerical Simulation of Flows            Heidelberg, Germany    09
Sep. 13-18  Applied Math and Computation             Dubrovnik, Croatia     04
Sep. 13-18  Cubature Formulae                        Krasnoyarsk, Russia    05
Sep. 20-24  Computational Techniques                 Canberra, Australia    42
Sep. 20-23  Transport-Dominated Problems             Magdeburg, Germany     48
Sep. 27-30  Optimization and Numerical Algebra       Nanjing, China         07
Sep. 27-Oct. 1  Boundary Integral Methods            Sydney, Australia      49
Sep. 28-Oct. 3  Global Optimization                  Firenze, Italy         05
Oct.  4- 8  Parametric Optimization                  Dubrovnik, Croatia     45
Oct.  4- 8  Complexity of Multivariate Problems      Hong Kong              06
Oct.  9     Conference Honoring Cleve Moler          Natick, MA             04
Oct. 18-22  Conference Honoring S. K. Godunov        Manchester, UK         06
Nov. 14-19  Forum on Parallel Computing Methods      Nashville, TN          08
Dec.  6- 8  CFD Modelling                            Melbourne, Australia   06
Dec. 12-17  Applied and Computational Math           Chile                  08
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From: Ian Michael Mitchell <imitchel@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 17:01:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Stanford's SCCM Celebrates Decade
The Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics (SCCM) program
at Stanford celebrated its tenth (+1) anniversary on Feb. 6, 1999 with
a one-day meeting on scientific computing.  A series of talks was
organized by current SCCM director Andrew Stuart and presided over by
founding director Gene Golub (and his new laser pointer).
General talks covering various aspects of scientific computing were given by
        Parvis Moin of Stanford on turbulence research,
        Stan Osher of UCLA on PDE based image processing,
        John Hennessy of Stanford on high performance computing and
        Jim Demmel of UC Berkeley on linear algebra.
SCCM also welcomed back program graduates Liliana Borcea
(Computational Science at Rice) and Hongyuan Zha (Computer Science at
Penn State), who gave talks on their current research activities.
More than forty-five faculty, students and other researchers attended
the talks, and the day was rounded out by a dinner at the faculty club
that evening.
   Ian Mitchell
   SCCM Ph.D. student
   mitchell@sccm.stanford.edu
------------------------------
From: G. W. Stewart <stewart@cs.umd.edu> 
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:37:13 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Jampack, A Package for Manipulating Matrices in Java
I am pleased to announce the initial release of Jampack, a package for
manipulating matrices in Java.  The package was developed at
NIST and the University of Maryland.  It has the following features.
1. Classes for general, diagonal, and triangular complex matrices.
   (In the future real matrices and a band matrix class will be
   added.)
2. Suites of methods to implement the common matrix operations and
   functions, including the solution of linear systems.
3. Classes implementing the common matrix decompositions.
4. Classes to generate and apply plane rotations and Householder
   transformations.
5. A feature for keeping track of matrix decompositions so they
   do not need to be recomputed when they are used later.
Jampack is not a finished package.  The purpose of this preliminary
release is to find out if there is enough interest in the package
to justify its further development.  Jampack and its documentation
can be obtained from the University of Maryland at
ftp://thales.cs.umd.edu/pub/Jampack/Jampack/AboutJampack.html
or from NIST at
ftp://gams.nist.gov/pub/Jampack/Jampack/AboutJampack.html
   G. W. (Pete) Stewart
------------------------------
From: Jack Dongarra <dongarra@cs.utk.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:07:09 -0500
Subject: ATLAS Version 2.0 is Now Available
ATLAS version 2.0 is now available. 
To obtain a copy of the ATLAS 2.0 see: http://www.netlib.org/atlas/
The existing BLAS have proven to be very effective in facilitating the
production of portable, efficient software for sequential, vector and
shared memory high-performance computers.  However, hand-optimized BLAS
are expensive and tedious to produce for any particular architecture,
and in general will only be created when there is a large enough market,
which is not the true for all platforms. The process of generating an
optimized set of BLAS for a new architecture or a slightly different
machine version can be a time consuming process. The programmer must
understand the architecture, how the memory hierarchy can be used to
provide data in an optimal fashion, how the functional units and
registers can be manipulated to generate the correct operands at the
correct time, and how best to use the compiler optimization.
ATLAS is an approach for the automatic generation and optimization of
numerical software for processors with deep memory hierarchies and
pipelined functional units. ATLAS has been designed to automate much of
this process. This version of ATLAS focuses on the Level 3 BLAS. ATLAS
optimizes the operations to account for many parameters such as blocking
factors, loop unrolling depths, software pipelining strategies, loop
ordering, register allocations, and instruction scheduling. ATLAS does
this by carrying out a parameter study on the target architecture and
generating the "optimal" code. ATLAS' performance wins are evident in a
number of cases. On a system where there is presently no vendor supplied
BLAS (viz. DEC ALPHA 21164 running Linux), the portable Fortran
reference implementation gets less than 8% of the performance that ATLAS
achieves. On platforms where vendors have hand-tuned this kernel
library, ATLAS produces software that runs at roughly the same rate.
ATLAS generally requires only 1-2 hours on new hardware in order to tune
itself to the same level of efficiency. 
While the present release is for the Level 3 BLAS, much of the
technology and approach developed here can be generalized relatively
easily.  We therefore plan to support the level 1 and 2 BLAS in the near
future.  Indeed, we plan to extend the ATLAS concept to cover other
operations as well. In particular, we would like to provide sparse
linear algebra and Java language support.  The release of ATLAS as well
as documentation can be found at http://www.netlib.org/atlas/. 
   Regards,
   C. Whaley and J. Dongarra
------------------------------
From: Ron Shuval <info@www.apmath.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 23:11:14 +0200
Subject: GISOLV2, A Package for Solving Linear Systems
APMATH announces the release of GISOLV2.
GISOLV2 is a package of routines based on new algorithm
for solving symmetric and non-symmetric linear systems.
It almost eliminates the stagnation phenomenon related
to other iterative algorithms and it is highly efficient
for solving sets of linear equations which share the same
matrix. A free beta version can be downloaded at
http://www.apmath.com
------------------------------
From: Sivaguru S. Sritharan <srith@spawar.navy.mil>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:24:00 -0800
Subject: Change of Address for S. S. Sritharan
Hello Numerical Analysis colleagues, here is my new contact information:
Dr. S. S. Sritharan, Head
Surveillance Radar Technology (Code D73H)
Joint & National Systems Division
SPACE & NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS CENTER (SPAWAR SSD)
San Diego, CA 92152-5001
Ph: 619-553-1201
Fax: 619-553-1586
Email: Srith@spawar.navy.mil
http://www.nosc.mil
http://nrad70.nosc.mil
------------------------------
From: Daniel Hershkowitz <hershkow@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:26:35 +0200 (IST)
Subject: New Editors for Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra
The ELECTRONIC Journal of LINEAR ALGEBRA (ELA) is happy to announce the
appointment of five new advisory editors and three new associate editors. 
The new advisory editors are:
 Richard A. Brualdi 
 Ludwig Elsner 
 Miroslav Fiedler 
 Shmuel Friedland 
 Hans Schneider 
The new associate editors are:
 Ravindra B. Bapat 
 Steve Kirkland 
 Bryan L. Shader 
Our entire board is shown in ELA's primary homepage: 
 
 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/iic/ela/ 
 
and in ELA's mirror sites are: 
 
 http://www.math.temple.edu/iic/ela          (Temple University) 
 http://hermite.cii.fc.ul.pt/iic/ela/        (Univ. Lisbon) 
 http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/ftp-home/pub/ela  (Univ. Chemnitz) 
 http://www.emis.de/journals/ELA/            (EMIS) 
------------------------------
From: Marcin Paprzycki <marcin@orca.st.usm.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:31:43 -0600 (EST)
Subject: New Book Series, Advances in Computation
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce that the book series "Advances in the
Theory of Computation and Computational Mathematics" has been revived
under new name, new publisher and a considerably modified editorship. The
new series:
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATION. Theory and Practice
http://orca.st.usm.edu/actp
will be published by NOVA Science Books. Its Editorial Board consists of:
 Ilan Bar-On,                         Technion University 
 Charles Dunham,                 University of Western Ontario 
 Graeme Fairweather,                 Colorado School of Mines 
 Daniele Funaro,                 Universita di Modena
 Dan Grigoras,                         Technical University Iasi
 Andreas Karageorghis,                 University of Cyprus
 Michal Karonski,                 Adam Mickiewicz University
 Erricos John Kontoghiorghes,         Universite de Neuchatel
 Anna Lawniczak,                 University of Guelph
 Michael Mascagni,                 University of Southern Mississippi
 Nikos E. Mastorakis,                 Hellenic Naval Academy
 Lawrence F. Shampine,                 Southern Methodist University
 Jurij Silc,                         Jozef Stefan Institute
 Wojciech Szpankowski,                 Purdue University
 Daniel B. Szyld,                Temple University
 Gyorgy Turan,                         University of Illinois at Chicago
 Jerzy Wasniewski,                 Danish Computing Center, UNI-C
 Plamen Yalamov,                 University of Rousse
We intend to publish books from any area of mathematics or computer
science involved with computation broadly understood.
We plan to publish four types of high quality manuscripts:
-     monographs 
-     topic-oriented volumes consisting of contributed papers devoted to
        the current research 
-     topic-oriented volumes consisting of invited overview papers,
        summarizing the state of the art 
-     proceedings from selected Workshops/Conferences/Minisymposia 
To discuss a possible contribution, please contact the Managing Editor at
the address below.
Sincerely,
Lee Keener, Editor-in-chief
College of Science and Management
University of Northern British Columbia
Prince George, BC V2N 4Z9, CANADA
keener@unbc.edu 
Marcin Paprzycki, Managing Editor
Department of Computer Science and Statistics
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5106, USA
m.paprzycki@usm.edu
------------------------------
From: G. Wittum <wittum@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 00:06:50 +0100
Subject: Summer School on Numerical Simulation of Flows
EMS - WiR Summer School on
Numerical Simulation of Flows
Heidelberg, September 6-21, 1999
The numerical simulation of flows is one of the central problems in
Scientific Computing. Complexity of flow simulations is so high that 
a realistic description requires sophisticated mathematical methods 
and models. In particular modeling and simulation of turbulent flows, 
nearly incompressible flows, and multi-phase flows are challenging 
problems for mathematical models and numerical methods.
There is a strong interest in this topic by numerous groups from
mathematical modelling and numerical simulation. Recently a number 
of new mathematical models and methods have been introduced which 
are highly relevant for flow simulations. Amongst others these are 
multiscale modelling and numerics, homogenization, finite-element 
and finite volume methods, spectral and h-p discretizations, grid
adaptivity and error estimators, multigrid and conjugate-gradient type
methods and wavelets. Another field of increasing importance is the 
development of methods for the visualization of flows. The numerical 
simulation of flows requires cooperation of several mathematical 
disciplines as Analysis, Numerics, Mathematical Physics and 
Computational Science.
The European Mathematical Society (EMS) together with the research
network WiR will organize a summer school on Numerical Simulation 
of Flows from Sept. 6 - 21, 1999 in Heidelberg.
The Summer school will consist from a theoretical and a practical part,
each one lasting a week. The first week (Sept. 6-10) is devoted to basic
instruction. There mathematical models and methods are presented in 
lectures given by specialists. In the second week (Sept. 13-17) the 
participants will work on problems posed by the lecturers in several 
places. Finally the results of this work will be presented in a plenary 
meeting (Sept. 20-21).
Scientific Comittee:
P. Bastian (Heidelberg), G. Dziuk (Freiburg), M. Gutknecht (Zuerich),
R. Jeltsch (Zuerich), D. Kroener (Freiburg), C.-D. Munz (Stuttgart),
R. Rannacher (Heidelberg), W. Rodi (Karlsruhe), G. Wittum (Heidelberg),
H. Yserentant (Tuebingen)
Local Organizer:
Prof. Dr. G. Wittum, IWR, Technische Simulation, Universitaet
Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, 
------------------------------
From: Pavani Raffaella <rafpav@mate.polimi.it>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 12:58:14 +0100
Subject: Workshop in Milan on Numerical Dynamical Systems
     WORKSHOP ON NUMERICAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
                MILANO - ITALY
               June 16-18, 1999
INVITED SPEAKERS
              Luca Dieci (Georgia Institute of Technology)
              Peter Kloeden (Goethe University - Frankfurt am Main)
              Arieh Iserles (Cambridge University)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Laura Gotusso (Politecnico di Milano)
Raffaella Pavani (Politecnico di Milano)
Sandro Salsa (Politecnico di Milano)
WORKSHOP TOPICS
The topics  include:
- Smooth orthonormal factorization of matrices with applications to 
  computation of etheroclinic orbits and Lyapunov exponents
- Nonautonomous attractors and their numerical discretization
- Numerical analysis of differential equations in Lie groups
WORKSHOP WEBSITE
More details can be found on the WEB page
http://www.mate.polimi.it/WNDS/Main.html
WORKSHOP E-MAIL ADDRESS
Further information and second announcement at
dynsist@mate.polimi.it
------------------------------
From: Fabio Schoen <schoen@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:34:05 +0100
Subject: Workshop in Florence on Global Optimization
                              GO.99
                           (GOdot 99)
             International Workshop on Global Optimization
           Firenze (Italy), September 28th - October 3rd 1999
The International Workshop on Global Optimization which will take place
in Florence, Italy.  But we have to remind you that the deadline for
pre-registration is February 28.  Please, if you plan to attend (we hope so!),
check the home page http://www.dsi.unifi.it/go.99
or its mirror at http://schoen.dsi.unifi.it/ciro/go99.html)
------------------------------
From: Francois Beux <fbeux@dream.pisa.ccr.it> 
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:26:04 +0100
Subject: Workshop in Pisa on PDE and CFD
Workshop on:
Advances in Stabilized Methods for Partial Differential
Equations with Emphasis on Fluid Dynamics
April 19 -21, 1999  Scuola Normale Superiore  Pisa, Italy
This workshop is sponsored by the "Associazione Amici della Scuola 
Normale Superiore di Pisa" and by ESF through the program AMIF
Scientific direction:
Prof. G. Da Prato - Scuola Normale Superiore
Prof. T.J.R. Hughes - Stanford University
Prof. A. Quarteroni - Politecnico Milano/EPFL Lausanne
Organized by
T. J. R. Hughes
The Mary and Gordon Crary Professor of Engineering
Chair, Mechanics and Computation Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305   U. S. A.
PROGRAM
The workshop will consist of invited lectures given by nine
leading international expert on recent advances in the theory and
application of stabilized methods.
The following topics will be covered :
C. Canuto, Politecnico of Torino
- Stabilization of non-coercive problems by multilevel  devices
L. Franca, Univ. of Colorado - Denver
   - What are residual free bubbles?
- Beyond residual free bubbles: Two-level finite element
methods in computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
T. Hughes, Stanford  University
-  The variational multiscale method in CFD
C. Johnson, Chalmers Institute - Goteborg
- Adaptive error control in CFD
E. Onate, Polit. Univ. Of Cataluna - Barcellona
- Stabilization of numerical solution of advective-diffusive and
fluid flow problems via a finite increment calculus approach
A. Quarteroni, Politecnico Milano /EPFL Lausanne
-  Algebraic splitting methods for Navier-Stokes equations
Multifield methods for flow problems
A. Russo, Istituto An. Numerica, Pavia
-  Stabilization of hyperbolic problems via residual-free bubbles
E. Suli, Oxford  University
- A posteriori error analysis of stabilised finite element methods
for hyperbolic problems
T. Tezduyar, Houston  University
- Computational methods for three-dimensional simulation of
fluid-object interaction
-  Computational methods for three-dimensional simulation of
free-surface flows
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION (AMIF grant, registration form, ...) 
please see the web page: 
http://www.sns.it/~Amici_della_Normale/amici7b.html
or contact us
Associazione Amici della Scuola Normale Superiore
Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7 - 56126 Pisa
Tel.(+39) 050 509058   Fax (+39) 050 563513
pag. web: http://www.sns.it/~Amici_della_Normale
E_mail: amicisns@sns.it
------------------------------
From: Yousef Saad <saad@cs.umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:43:23 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Deadline Extended for Sparse 99
1999 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE  ON PRECONDITIONING TECHNIQUES   
FOR  LARGE SPARSE MATRIX PROBLEMS IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS   
                                                                            
June 10 - 12, 1999                                             
                                                                            
University of Minnesota, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute,         
Minneapolis, Minnesota                                         
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING EXTENDED ABSTRACTS IS EXTENDED TO MARCH 5TH, 1999. 
Please see previous announcements in na-digest or consult the following
web-site for details: http://www2.msi.umn.edu/Symposia/sparse99/main.html 
------------------------------
From: Christoph Ueberhuber <christof@uranus.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:20:06 +0100
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at Technical University of Vienna
The Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics of the
Technical University of Vienna (Austria) has a post-doctoral 
research fellowship available starting on or around April 9, 1999.
The institute has ongoing research activities in a number of areas
of computational mathematics. Our interests range from applied analysis 
to the development of numerical algorithms and software for a variety 
of advanced computer architectures.
DUTIES: The appointee will participate in a research effort implementing 
large scale matrix problems on single-processor and multi-processor com-
puter systems. The position requires significant programming and technical 
interaction with other members of the research team and the scientific 
computing community in Vienna. 
The successful applicant must be able to work with and extend existing 
numerical software and develop reliable and readable code. Throughout 
the project, the appointee should be able to investigate issues of 
algorithmic design. She or he will also be expected to prepare results for
publication in scientific journals and for presentations at scientific 
meetings.
QUALIFICATIONS: Essential --Ph.D. in applied mathematics or computer 
science. Experience with the development of linear algebra library 
software on parallel architectures is highly desirable. Experience 
with Fortran, BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK would be very helpful.
Ability to summarize research results for publication and presentations. 
Ability to interact and collaborate with other members of the research 
team and other research groups. 
It is a full-time, one-year appointment with the possibility of renewal. 
Salary is on University's Research Associate level.
Qualified individuals are invited to submit application materials 
(c.v., publication list, and names of three references) by e-mail 
or Fax to:
Christoph W. Ueberhuber
Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics
Technical University, Vienna 
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10 / 115-2
A-1040 Vienna
Austria
Tel.:   +43/1/ 588 01 11512
Fax:    +43/1/ 588 01 11599
E-Mail: christof@uranus.tuwien.ac.at
Applications should be submitted as soon as possible and will be
accepted until the position is filled.
------------------------------
From: Jun Zhang <jzhang@cs.uky.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:44:28 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Graduate Research Assistantships at University of Kentucky
     Two Graduate Research Assistantships in
     High Performance Scientific Computing
Two graduate research assistantships in high performance 
scientific computing and computational mathematics are 
available in the Department of Computer Science at the 
University of Kentucky for highly motivated Ph.D. 
students starting Fall 1999.
The candidates need to be admitted into the Graduate 
Program in the Computer Science Department and will join
Jun Zhang's high performance scientific computing research
group consisting of a number of postdoctoral and graduate 
students. They should have solid background in applied 
numerical analysis and computational (programming) skills. 
Research topics include, but are not limited to:
1.) high performance robust preconditioning techniques for 
    general sparse linear systems; and
2.) robust parallel multigrid methods for CFD applications.
For detailed information, please check the web page at 
http://www.cs.uky.edu/~jzhang.
Interested person should e-mail a copy of his/her curriculum 
vitae in postscript or ASCII to Jun Zhang at 
jzhang@cs.uky.edu. Otherwise please fax it to (606)323-1971 
or send a postal mail to:
Professor Jun Zhang
Department of Computer Science
University of Kentucky
773 Anderson Hall
Lexington, KY 40506-0046
------------------------------
From: Chaman Singh Verma <csv@cdac.ernet.in>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:56:41 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Positions at Center for Development of Advanced Computing, India
              Scientific and Engineering Computing Positions 
                                   at 
        Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune, INDIA
Scientific and Engineering computing group at C-DAC is seeking highly 
motivated people for the following projects. 
1.        Development of Parallel Incompressible Flow simulation.
2.        Development of Parallel Visualization algorithms for 
          Computational Fluid Dynamics and Seismic data.
3.        Development of Parallel Seismic data processing algorithms.
4.        Development of Parallel Solvers for Partial Differential Equations.
Experience required:
Visualization Projects : C/C++, MPI, OpenGL and Spatial Data structures.
Flow Simulation        : F77/F90 ,Fluid Mechanics and iterative solvers.
Seismic Data Processing: F77/C, MPI and Geophysics.
PDE                    : Strong backgroud in Mathematics and expertise in
                         integration of different modules for commercial 
                         production.
Eligibility is limited to applicants with B.Tech( with high academic records),
M.Tech/Ph.D in Computer Science, AeroSpace Engineering, Mechanical, Geophysics
or related areas.
Because of Government of India rules, we are seeking only Indian citizens.
The projects are likely to start from May 1, 1999.
Please send a copy of your resumes latest by 20 March, 1999.
Dr. Dheeraj Bhardwaj/ Chaman Singh Verma,
Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),
Pune University Campus,Ganeshkhind
Pune-411007 ( Maharastra) INDIA
E-mail : dheerajb@cdac.ernet.in
E-mail : csv@cdac.ernet.in
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From: Scott Baden <baden@cs.ucsd.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:36:53 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Research Position at U. C. San Diego
RESEARCH PROGRAMMER
Scientific Computation Group
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Scott B. Baden, baden@cs.ucsd.edu
The KeLP Project in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at
UC San Diego (http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/groups/hpcl/scg/kelp) is looking for
a staff member to play a lead role in developing and evaluating run time
software techniques for compute- and data- intensive scientific
applications on high performance parallel computers.  The position is
funded by the NPACI.
The duties for this position include: point-of-contact for KeLP users for
supported applications; evaluating and implementing performance
enhancements and extensions; retargeting KeLP to emerging computer
architectures such as the NPACI IBM SP Tflops machine due to arrive later
this year.  Prior parallel computing experience is  required.
For a full description of the requirements see the URL
http://www-hr.ucsd.edu/~eob/prog1.html and look for position C3504-S
This position is part of the SOURCE...UCSD Hiring System Pilot and requires
a resume and resume supplement. Please do not fax resumes for this
position.  If you have previously applied to become part of the SOURCE
pilot, you will automatically be considered for this position and do not
need to reapply. See http://www-hr.ucsd.edu/~staffing for more
information.  UCSD is an equal opportunity employer.
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From: P. K. Jimack <pkj@scs.leeds.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:59:22 GMT
Subject: Lectureship Positions at University of Leeds
         School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Two permanent lectureships are currently available in the School 
and applications are invited from candidates with any of a wide
range of reseaarch interests, including Scientific Computation.
Preference will be given to candidates who strengthen our existing
research activities:
* Artificial Intelligence (automated reasoning, computer vision,
  natural language processing)
* Information Systems (information modelling and management)
* Internet Computing (virtual working systems, virtual prototyping,
  networking, scalable high-performance systems, visualization)
* Scheduling and Constraint Management (transport scheduling, linear
  programming, metaheuristics, constraint programming)
* Scientific Computation (computational PDEs, parallel algorithms)
* Theoretical Computer Science (algorithms and complexity, formal
  methods, safety-related systems)
You should have a PhD (or equivalent experience) in a relevant
discipline. Prior experience in teaching, preferably in higher
education, would be an advantage.
Salary: Lecturer A/B scales (currently 16,555 to 29,048 ukp p.a.)
according to qualifications and experience.
Further details may be obtained from the School's Web Pages at:
              http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/
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From: J. Sun <jsun@nus.edu.sg>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:55:53 +0800
Subject: Graduate Fellowships at Singapore-MIT Alliance
Applications are invited for admission to the following full-time Graduate
courses at National University of Singapore (NUS) in the 1999-2000 academic
year (commencing 1 July 1999):
    1. Master of Science in Advanced Materials 
    2. Master of Science in High Performance Computation for Engineered Systems
or
    3. Master of Engineering
    4. Doctor of Philosophy
                            
Programmes 1 & 2 are based on course work while Programmes 3 & 4 are based
on research and course work as well as a thesis.
SCHOLARSHIPS
All successful applicants for any one of the above programmes will be
awarded a scholarship which will carry monthly emoluments of S$1,400.
Top-up grants will be available for the Master of Engineering and Doctor of
Philosophy programmes. In addition, the tuition fee for all the programmes
will be waived.
CANDIDATURE
The period of candidature for Programmes 1 & 2 is one year, which comprises
two semesters.  ( One semester is 17-18 weeks ). All candidates will be
required to attend two weeks of intensive classes ( Immersion Programme)
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT) in the U.S. 
The minimum period of candidature for Programme 3 is one and a half years. 
The minimum period of candidature for Programme 4 is three years. 
All candidates for Programmes 3 & 4 will be required to spend a term at the
MIT campus.
TEACHING
Selected NUS/Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and MIT Professors will
jointly conduct courses offered by SMA. MIT Professors will be at the NUS
campus for a certain period of time throughout the duration of the
programmes and continue to interact with students via long distance learning
when at MIT via state-of-the-art IT and communications technology.
APPLICATION FORMS
Application forms and other information can be obtained personally from the
SMA Office at Engineering Block 4, 6th Floor, Room 21 or in writing to :
        The Director
        Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)
        National University of Singapore
        10 Kent Ridge Crescent
        Singapore 119260
Fax no. : (65) 775 2920
E-mail address : smart@nus.edu.sg
Homepage address : http://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/SMA
        
CLOSING DATE
The closing date for receipt of applications is 25 March 1999.
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From: Thomas Hogan <hogan@math.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:27:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Contents, Journal of Approximation Theory
Table of Contents: J. Approx. Theory, Volume 96, Number 2, February 1999
Ernst G\"orlich and Alfred P. Rohs
Polynomial projections in $C[-1,1]$ and $L^1(-1,1)$ with growth
   $n^\gamma$, $0<\gamma\le 1/2$
171--181
Sigrid Fredenhagen, Hans Joachim Oberle, and Gerhard Opfer
On the construction of optimal monotone cubic spline interpolations
182--201
D. Legg and Y. Pan
Discontinuity of best harmonic approximants
202--212
Y. K. Hu, K. A. Kopotun, and X. M. Yu
Weak copositive and intertwining approximation
213--236
Vladimir N. Sorokin and Jeannette Van Iseghem
Matrix continued fractions
237--257
Bl. Sendov
Adaptive multiresolution analysis on the dyadic topological group
258--280
X.-S. Jin and R. Wong
Asymptotic formulas for the zeros of the Meixner polynomials
281--300
Renato Spigler, Marco Vianello, and Francesca Locatelli
Liouville-Green-Olver approximations for complex difference equations
301--322
Luis Bernal-Gonz\'alez
Hypercyclic sequences of differential and antidifferential operators
323--337
Simon J. Smith
On the positivity of the fundamental polynomials for generalized
   Hermite-Fej\'er interpolation on the Chebyshev nodes
338--344
H. T. Koelink
Some basic Lommel polynomials
345--365
L. Bos and S. De Marchi
Limiting values under scaling of the Lebesgue function for polynomial
   interpolation on spheres
366--377
Francisco Luquin and Concepci\'on Besga
Estimation of norms of multivariate polynomials with integral
   coefficients
378--398
D. S. Lubinsky
On boundedness of Lagrange interpolation in $L_p$, $p<1$
399--404 
Note
Dawei Shen
On the coefficients and zeros of a polynomial
405--410
Author index for Volume 96
411
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From: Ake Bjorck <akbjo@mai.liu.se>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:56:48 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Contents, BIT
CONTENTS BIT Volume 39, No. 2  (June 1999) 
http://math.liu.se/BIT/  ISSN 0006-3835
Optimal multipliers for linear congruential pseudo random 
   number generators with prime moduli: Parallel 
   computation and properties
D. BRUNNER and A. UHL                                      193
Backward error bounds for constrained least squares
   problems
A. J. COX and N. J. HIGHAM                                 210
Quasi-Newton methods for nonlinear least squares focusing
   on curvatures
J. ERIKSSON                                                228
How to solve nonlinear equations when a third order method
   is not applicable
M. A. HERN\'ANDEZ and M. A. SALANOVA                       255
Stability analysis of Runge--Kutta methods for non-linear 
   delay differential equations
C. HUANG, H. FU, S. LI, and G. CHEN                        270
On the implementation of the method of Magnus series for 
   linear differential equations
A. ISERLES, A. MARTHINSEN, and S. P. N\O RSETT             281
The sensitivity of a spline function to perturbations of
   the knots
T. LYCHE and K. M\O RKEN                                   305
Block-projections algorithms with blocks containing 
    mutually orthogonal rows and columns
C. POPA                                                    323
The Bezout number for piecewise algebraic curves
X. SHI and R. WANG                                         339
Remarks on non-linear spectral perturbation
V. SIMONCINI                                               350
SCIENTIFIC NOTES                                 
Bounds for the positive root of a class of polynomials 
    with applications
J. HERZBERGER                                              366
A note on an error bound for the AOR method
Y. SONG                                                    373
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