Subject: NA Digest, V. 97, # 05 NA Digest Sunday, February 2, 1997 Volume 97 : Issue 05 Today's Editor: Cleve Moler The MathWorks, Inc. moler@mathworks.com Today's Topics: NA Digest Calendar Matrix Inequalities Web site Questionnaire on Systems and Control Software Computational Finance Change of Address for Willy Schilders Change of Address for Bracy Elton Elliptic PDE Eigenfunction Software Sought Linux Version of MODLER Complete US Census on One CD-ROM Popov Prize in Approximation Theory Computational Heat Transfer Symposium Workshop on Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement High Performance Optimization Techniques Summer School on Multilevel Preconditioning Methods AFOSR Conference on Large Eddy Simulation Conference on Theory and Applications of Multiwavelets Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces Workshop on Electronic Publications Parallel and Distributed Computing for Computational Mechanics Summer Undergraduate Research Experience at Utah State Workshop on Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering Workshop on Parallel Programming Conference on Optimal Control Workshop in Bulgaria on Large Scale Scientific Computations Workshop in Honor of Hoang Tuy Opportunities for Graduate Study at Delaware Faculty Position at Oregon State University Staff Position at Boeing Staff Position at Concordia University Positions at Uppsala University Faculty Position at Carnegie Mellon University Postdoctoral Position at Claremont Graduate School Postdoctoral Position at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory IMANA Newsletter Contents, Advances in Computational Mathematics Contents, Numerical Algorithms Contents, SIAM Control and Optimization Contents, Journal of Approximation Theory Submissions for NA Digest: Mail to na.digest@na-net.ornl.gov. 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URL for the World Wide Web: http://www.netlib.org/na-net/na_home.html ------------------------------------------------------- From: NA Digest Date: Sun Feb 2 15:42:10 EST 1997 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 # Feb. 2- 6 Australian Applied Mathematics Lorne, Australia 40 Feb. 24-28 Optimization and Optimal Control Lambrecht, Germany 37 Feb. 27-28 Optimal Control University of Florida 05 Feb. 27-28 BLAS Technical Forum Dallas, TX 04 Mar. 2- 7 Multiscale Phenomena Eliat, Israel 01 Mar. 10-12 Scientific Computing Hong Kong 25 Mar. 12-13 Adaptive Mesh Refinement Minneapolis, MN 05 Mar. 12-14 Algorithms and Complexity Rome, Italy 24 Mar. 13-14 SPEEDUP Workshop Cadro-Lugano, Switz. 41 Mar. 14-17 SIAM Parallel Processing Minneapolis, MN 32 Mar. 16-18 CAD for MEMS'97 Zurich, Switzerland 03 Mar. 16-21 Approximation and Optimization Caracas, Venezuela 21 Mar. 20-22 Barrett Lectures Knoxville, TN 02 Mar. 20-22 Multiwavelets Huntsville, TX 05 Mar. 21-22 AMS Session on Approximation Theory Memphis, TN 11 Mar. 23-25 Financial Engineering New York City, NY 46 Mar. 24-27 Numerical Treatment of ODEs and DAEs Regensburg, Germany 48 Apr. 1- 3 Monte Carlo Methods Brussels, Belgium 16 Apr. 4- 5 SIAM Southeastern-Atlantic Section Raleigh, NC 04 Apr. 5 Parallel Combinatorial Optimization Geneva, Switzerland 48 Apr. 9-13 Copper Mt. Multigrid Copper Mountain, CO 33 Apr. 12 Midwest Numerical Analysis Day Ames, IA 03 Apr. 14-16 Parallel Solution of PDEs Ithaca, NY 47 Apr. 14-18 Computational Issues in Drug Design Minneapolis, MN 32 Apr. 17-18 Meeting Honoring Bill Morton Oxford, England 26 Apr. 24-26 Electronic Publications Novosibirsk, Russia 05 Apr. 26-.. Computational Mechanics Lochinver, Scotland 05 Apr. 28-29 Techniques des Matrices Creuses Lille, France 47 Apr. 28-30 Network Design Princeton, NJ 03 May 2- 4 Partial Differential Equations Detroit, MI 40 May 12-14 Materials Science Philadelphia, PA 32 May 12-16 Fluid Dynamic Applications Cheshire, England 03 May 16-17 Differential Equations and Simulations Mississippi State, MS 46 May 19-21 Applications of Dynamical Systems Snowbird, UT 27 May 21-24 Macromolecular Modelling Berlin, Germany 31 May 22-23 Mathematical Programming Washington, DC 45 May 26-28 Differential-Algebraic Equations Grenoble, France 45 May 26-30 Computational Heat Transfer Cesme, Turkey 05 May 27-28 Computational Science and Engineering Hefei, China 38 May 27-30 Radial Basis Functions Asilomar, CA 45 May 27-29 Preconditioned Iterative ethods Nijmegen, Netherlands 04 May 30-.. Canadian Applied Mathematics Society Toronto, Canada 45 June 1- 5 Computer Science Education Uppsala, Sweden 38 June 3- 7 ISAAC Congress Newark, DE 47 June 6- 8 Control, Signals and Image Processing Winnipeg, Canada 46 June 7-11 Large Scale Scientific Computations Varna, Bulgaria 05 June 9 Session on Linear Algebra Winnipeg, Canada 46 June 11-13 IRREGULAR'97 Paderborn, Germany 45 June 16-18 Computer Methods in Water Resources Byblos, Lebanon 35 June 16-18 Mathematical Issues in Geosciences Albuquerque, NM 18 June 16-21 Iterative Methods Milovy, Czech Rep. 37 June 18-20 Scientific Computing in EE Darmstadt, Germany 05 June 18-21 Principles + Practice of Parallel Prog. Las Vegas, NV 27 June 22-28 Dirichlet Forms Heraklion, Crete 02 June 24-27 Dundee NA Conference Dundee, Scotland 13 June 24-30 Conference Honoring D. K. Faddeev St. Petersburg, Russia 46 June 26-28 Numerical Analysis and Approximation Pretoria, South Africa 44 June 29-.. Nonlinear Dispersive Waves Heraklion, Crete 02 June 30... Lie Groups and Symmetry Analysis Nordfjordeid, Norway 46 July 3- 4 CFD in Minerals, Metal & Power Melbourne, Australia 33 July 3- 8 Curves and Surfaces Lillehammer, Norway 05 July 4- 5 Honor Lothar Collatz Hamburg, Germany 32 July 9-11 Computational Fluid Dynamics Twente, Netherlands 38 July 9-12 Iterative Methods Laramie, WY 36 July 11-12 Randomization and Approximation Bologna, Italy 03 July 13-18 SIAM Annual Meeting Stanford, CA 36 July 13-15 AWM Workshop at SIAM Meeting Stanford, CA 01 July 14-18 Theoretical and Computational Acoustics New York, NY 14 July 21-23 Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation Maui, Hawaii 44 July 24-25 Matrix Methods in Stochastic Models Winnipeg, Canada 47 Aug. 4- 8 Large Eddy Simulation Ruston, LA 40 Aug. 10-13 Finite Difference Methods Rousse, Bulgaria 46 Aug. 10-14 Domain Decomposition Boulder, CO 40 Aug. 11-15 Computational Mathematics Guangzhou, China 48 Aug. 17-24 Continuum Mechanics Models Zhukovskii, Russia 03 Aug. 20-22 From Local to Global Optimization Linkoping, Sweden 05 Aug. 20-22 Automated Timetabling Toronto, Canada 47 Aug. 24-29 IMACS World Congress Berlin, Germany 96:07 Aug. 24-29 Fast Algorithms Berlin, Germany 37 Aug. 26-29 Euro-Par'97 Passau, Germany 43 Aug. 28-31 Stochastic Modelling of Biointeraction Sofia, Bulgaria 47 Sep. 1- 5 Numerical Solution of ODEs Halle, Germany 13 Sep. 2- 5 ALGORITMY'97, Scientific Computing Tatra, Slovakia 03 Sep. 8-11 Continuum Mechanics Prague, Czech Republic 47 Sep. 8-12 Applied and Computational Mathematics Serrano, Brasil 45 Sep. 8-12 Parallel Computing Technologies Yaroslavl, Russia 39 Sep. 9-12 Boundary Element Method Rome, Italy 41 Sep. 10-12 Computer Arithmetic Lyon, France 41 Sep. 11-13 Algorithm Engineering Venice, Italy 42 Sep. 15-18 Boundary Integral Methods Manchester, England 27 Sep. 24-26 Dutch Numerical Mathematicians Zeist, Netherlands 38 Sep. 15-19 Scientific Computing & Diff. Eqns. Grado, Italy 26 Sep. 29... ENUMATH 97 Conference Heidelberg, Germany 47 Oct. 13-16 Computational Methods, Function Theory Nicosia, Cyprus 34 Oct. 17-18 London Math Society on PDEs London, England 47 1998 Feb. 9-13 Hyperbolic Problems Zuerich, Switz. 41 Aug. 31... IFIP World Computer Congress Vienna and Budapest 46 ------------------------------ From: Roy Mathias and Chi-Kwong Li Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:59:56 -0500 Subject: Matrix Inequalities Web site We are announcing a new website on Matrix Inequalities in Science and Engineering The objective of this site is to facilitate communication between researchers interested in either theoretical or applied problems in this area. The success of this site depends on your support. Your comments and submissions will be most appreciated. Please visit http://www.wm.edu/CAS/MINEQ/matrix.html to see or post problems, solutions, preprints, general references links to people interested in matrix inequalities, links to sites related to matrix inequalities. Please feel free to distribute this message. ------------------------------ From: Sabine Van Huffel Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:49:15 +0100 Subject: Questionnaire on Systems and Control Software Working Group on Software Worldwide web: URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/wgs/wgs.html queries (email): rkool@win.tue.nl ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE SET UP BY THE EUROPEAN NUMERICS IN CONTROL NETWORK N I C O N E T More about NICONET (http://www.win.tue.nl/wgs/niconet.html) The Commission of the European Communities has given an exploratory award to WGS in order to set up a thematic Numerics in Control network in the field of Industrial and Applied Technologies, entitled NICONET (contract number: BRRT-CT96-0038). The aim is to formalise and extend our current collaboration into a European network to coordinate the development of robust numerical software for control systems analysis and design. Such software is an essential ingredient in modern computer aided control system design (CACSD) and thus for the future of high-tech European industry. In order to evaluate the proposed network, we have set up a questionnaire for obtaining: 1. an inventory of existing research activities in control software; 2. a list of potential partners ready to contribute actively to NICONET, 3. an assessment of the relevance of the NICONET objectives and activities. The results of this questionnaire are now available and reported in our WGS newsletter 11, which can be obtained: - via WWW at http://www.win.tue.nl/wgs/newslet.html), - via anonymous ftp from wgs.esat.kuleuven.ac.be as a compressed file issue11.ps.Z in the directory pub/WGS/NEWSLETTER. Readers who are interested in this activity can still fill in the questionnaire in order to identify themselves for potential future collaboration. This questionnaire should be returned to Sabine Van Huffel and is available by anonymous ftp (at wgs.esat.kuleuven.ac.be in the directory pub/WGS/NEWSLETTER) and as a form on the World Wide Web (http://www.win.tue.nl/wgs/niconet.html). ------------------------------ From: Joseph Traub Date: Mon, 27 Jan 97 9:24:47 EST Subject: Computational Finance VALUING FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES USING LOW DISCREPANCY SEQUENCES In 1992 it was generally believed that low discrepancy sequences were not suitable for high dimensional integration. In the Autumn of that year, software construction and testing of low discrep- ancy sequences for valuing financial derivatives was started at Columbia. A model CMO provided by Goldman Sachs, which involved the calculation of 360 dimensional integrals, was tested using Monte Carlo and an improvement of the Sobol sequence. The conclusion was that the modified Sobol sequence consistently outperformed Monte Carlo. This was first reported in January, 1994 [1] with more details provided in [2], [3]. Papageorgiou and Traub [4] tested what Tezuka called generalized Faure points. They concluded that these points were superior to Sobol points for the model problem. Particularly important for financial computation, a reasonably small error could be achieved with few evaluations. For example, just 170 generalized Faure points were sufficient to achieve an error of less than one part in a hundred for the hardest tranche of the 360 dimensional CMO. We have been testing low discrepancy sequences for other financial derivatives and for problems in other disciplines. Results will be made available in the near future. References [1] J.F. Traub and H. Wozniakowski, "Breaking Intractability", Scientific American, January, 1994, pp 102-107. [2] S.H. Paskov and J.F. Traub, "Faster Valuation of Financial Derivatives", Journal of Portfolio Management, Fall, 1995, pp 113-120. [3] S. H. Paskov, "New Methodologies for Valuing Derivatives", Mathematics of Derivative Securities, edited by S. Pliska and M. Dempster, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University Press, 1997. [4] A. Papageorgiou and J.F. Traub, "Beating Monte Carlo", RISK, June, 1996, pp 63-65. ------------------------------ From: Willy Schilders Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 08:36:40 +0100 (MET) Subject: Change of Address for Willy Schilders Change of address for Willy Schilders I have moved to the VLSI Design, Automation and Test group of the sector on IC Design. My new address is: Schilders, dr. W.H.A. VLSI Design, Automation and Test Philips Research Laboratories -- Building WAY 4.77 Prof. Holstlaan 4 5656 AA Eindhoven The Netherlands Phone: +31-40-2744008 E-mail: schildr@natlab.research.philips.com ------------------------------ From: Bracy Elton Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 20:07:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: Change of Address for Bracy Elton Greetings! I am now with Tera Computer. Here's how to reach me: Bracy H. Elton, Ph.D. Computational Scientist E-mail: elton@tera.com Applications & Benchmarking Tera Computer Company Phone: 206/325-0800 x488 2815 Eastlake Avenue East Seattle, WA 98102-3027 FAX: 206/325-2433 Cheers. --Bracy ------------------------------ From: Mike Bieterman Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 17:37:39 -0800 Subject: Elliptic PDE Eigenfunction Software Sought Greetings NA digesters, I'm seeking software suggestions for a current interest of mine. My interest is in manipulating and doing various calculations with constant-value contours of numerically computed elliptic PDE eigenfunctions. More specifically, of interest are contours for the principal eigenfunction and others corresponding to low magnitude eigenvalues of the Laplace operator on general 2D domains. The domains usually (but not always) would be simply connected. Dirichlet conditions would apply on their boundaries. The ideal PDE eigenfunction software for me would perform well on a workstation, minimize the amount of code development and integration I need to do, and include some graphical output capabilities. I could integrate the pieces (e.g., a grid generator with a finite element eigensolver, ...), but is that necessary in 1997? Any suggestions you might have on available 2D elliptic PDE eigenfunction software would be greatly appreciated. (I am aware of the MATLAB PDE Toolbox product, but haven't spoken with anyone who has used it.) Thanks! Mike Bieterman The Boeing Company, Seattle michael.bieterman@boeing.com 1-206-865-3862 ------------------------------ From: Harvey Greenberg Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 15:54:57 -0700 (MST) Subject: Linux Version of MODLER You can now get a free version of MODLER to run under linux. For details, please go to the software section of my web page. (Let me know if you have any problem getting it.) Thanks, Harvey Greenberg hgreenbe@carbon.cudenver.edu http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~hgreenbe ------------------------------ From: Craig Cornelius Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:10:55 Subject: Complete US Census on One CD-ROM CensusCD contains the entire US Census, over 1.3 billion demographics, with an easy to use yet powerful Windows interface on one(1) CD-ROM. 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Craig Cornelius GeoLytics Main Office P.O Box 10 East Brunswick, NJ 08816 USA ------------------------------ From: Andrey Stefanov Andreev Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 11:08:23 -0500 Subject: Popov Prize in Approximation Theory VASIL A. POPOV PRIZE in Approximation Theory Call for 1998 Nominations The second Vasil A. Popov Prize will be awarded at the Ninth Texas International Conference on Approximation Theory to be held in January of 1998. The prize has been established in memory of Vasil A. Popov and his contributions to approximations theory and related areas of mathematics. The prize is awarded every three years for outstanding research contributions in fields related to Vasil Popov's work. Albert Cohen was the first recipient of the Vasil A. Popov Prize awarded in 1995. Eligibility for this prize is restricted to mathematicians who did not have their terminal degree on June 1, 1991. The winner of the prize will be asked to deliver a plenary lecture at the Texas conference. The Selection Committee for the Vasil A. Popov Prize consists of Charles Chui, Ronald A. DeVore, Paul Nevai, Alan Pinkus, Pencho Petrushev, and Edward Saff. Nominations should include a brief description of the research related to the nomination. Other supporting material may also be submitted. Nominations should be made to the Chairman of the Selection Committee: Professor Ronald A. DeVore Department of Mathematics University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 THE CLOSING DATE FOR NOMINATIONS IS JUNE 1, 1997 ------------------------------ From: Graham de Vahl Davis Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:18:27 +1000 (EET) Subject: Computational Heat Transfer Symposium INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER CHT-97 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL HEAT TRANSFER 26 - 30 May, 1997 Golden Dolphin Holiday Village, Cesme, Turkey http://www.metu.edu.tr/~wwwichmt SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT OBJECTIVE The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for the exposure and exchange of ideas, methods and results in computational heat transfer. Papers will be presented on: * internal flow and heat transfer - ducts, cavities, compact heat exchangers * single and multiphase flow, solidification/melting, double diffusive convection, turbulent heat transfer, conduction, radiation * computational solutions and solution methods * validation of computational solutions CODE VALIDATION A special section of the symposium will be devoted to the last theme. Two problems have been chosen as benchmark exercises, details of which are available on request. Computational solutions are invited to these problems. PRESENTATIONS / PUBLICATIONS There will be oral and poster presentations of contributed papers as well as several keynote lectures by prominent researchers including Pinhas Bar-Yoseph, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel "Novel Spectral and Finite Element Methods for Unsteady Heat Transfer Problems" Selcuk Guceri, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA "The Role of Computational Research in Materials Processing" Yogesh Jaluria, Rutgers University, USA "Transport Processes in Polymer Extrusion and Optical Fiber Drawing" Tomasz Kowalewski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland "Experimental Validation of Numerical Codes in Thermally Driven Flows" Mikhail Mikhailov, Universite Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil "Computational Heat Transfer with Mathematica" George Raithby, University of Waterloo, Canada "Computational Radiation Using the Finite Volume Method" Ramesh Shah, University of Kentucky, USA "Numerical Analysis of Compact Heat Exchanger Surfaces" Tien-Mo Shih and W.J. Minkowycz, University Maryland and University of Illinois at Chicago (respectively), USA "Information Highway and Numerical Heat Transfer" (provisional) SCHEDULE OF DATES Early-bird registration deadline: April 15, 1997 Deposit for hotel room due: April 15, 1997 REGISTRATION Early-bird Registration fee (due 15 April) $ US 350 Late Registration fee $ US 400 Student Registration fee $ US 85 (A letter from a Faculty member certifying student status is required to obtain this discount) TRAVEL SUPPORT A limited amount of financial support from the United States National Science Foundation is available to researchers early in their careers who are US citizens or green card holders. Please apply to Professor de Vahl Davis (address below). TOURS AND SOCIAL EVENTS A welcome reception, symposium dinner, optional evening boat cruise on the Aegean, an accompanying persons' program, an optional guided tour to Ephesus, and post-symposium tours to Istanbul and Cappadocia will be arranged. CORRESPONDENCE Professor Faruk Arinc, ICHMT Secretary-General Mechanical Engineering Department Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey. Tel: +90 312 210 1429 Fax: +90 312 210 1331 E-mail: arinc @ metu.edu.tr Professor Graham de Vahl Davis School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering University of NSW, Sydney, Australia, 2052 Tel: +61 2 9385 4099 Fax: +61 2 9663 1222 E-mail: g.devahldavis @ unsw.edu.au The ICHMT Web page is: http://www.metu.edu.tr/~wwwichmt ------------------------------ From: Scott Baden Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:24:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: Workshop on Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Workshop on Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Grid Methods March 12-13, 1997 Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications University of Minnesota Organizing Committee: Scott B. Baden (University of California at San Diego, baden@cse.ucsd.edu) Nikos P. Chrisochoides (university of Notre Dame, nikos@cse.nd.edu) Dennis Gannon (dennis@cs.indiana.edu, Indiana University) Mike Norman (norman@ncsa.uiuc.edu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) IMA has agreed to publish a Springer-Verlag IMA Book series of refereed papers presented at the meeting. The papers may not have appeared or been submitted elsewhere. For Further infromation: http://www.cse.nd.edu/amr/wshop.html Note: The workshop immediately precedes the SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, to be held March 14-17. ------------------------------ From: Etienne de Klerk Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:35:07 +0100 Subject: High Performance Optimization Techniques Second workshop on High Performance Optimization Techniques (HPOPT97) Wednesday, August 20 to Friday, August 22, 1997 (just before the ismp97 symposium in Lausanne) To be held at Erasmus University Rotterdam or Delft University of Technology The Netherlands (including a one-day tutorial on interior point methods) Aim of the workshop: The goal of the meeting is twofold. * The first day of the workshop will be devoted to a tutorial, in which the basic principles of interior point techniques applied to linear optimization will be explained. Computational aspects of these methods will be discussed and an overview on available computer codes will be given. This tutorial is meant for researchers and/or Ph.D students with a background in applied mathematics, operations research, or quantitative economics. At the same time they will be useful for university lecturers interested in presenting courses in this new area. * During the remaining two days, the goal is to bring together some of the most active researchers working on interior point methods; to exchange ideas and research plans and to discuss future developments in the field. Each day will contain roughly ten lectures, where each morning and afternoon session will be started with an invited presentation by a leading expert in the field. Course lecturers: C. Roos (Delft University of Technology) T. Terlaky (Delft University of Technology) E.A. Andersen (University of Odense) R. Freund (M.I.T.) Proceedings: Refereed conference proceedings will be published as a book by Kluwer at the end of the year. Speakers are invited to submit a paper to the proceedings. Invited workshop speakers: Yu. Nesterov (CORE, Louvain la Neuve) L. Vandenberghe (Stanford University) Y. Ye (University of IOWA) A. Nemirovskii (Technion, Haifa) Z.-Q. Luo (McMaster University, Hamilton) M. Kojima (Tokyo Institute of Technology) (closing lecture) Pre-registration, Submission of Papers The registration fee will be NLG 100 (Dutch guilders, about $55) for the tutorial (excluding the course book, see above), and NLG 300 for the second part (including a copy of the forthcoming proceedings). Coffee, tea and lunches are included in the registration fee. Accomodation is not included. We have room for about 15-20 presentations in the form of plenary talks. The *deadline* preliminary registration and for submitting a title and abstract is April 30, 1997. For more information and registration, we have started a web page at http://ssor.twi.tudelft.nl/~hpopt/ If you have any questions, please contact us at our e-mail address hpopt@twi.tudelft.nl ------------------------------ From: Maya Neytcheva Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 10:16:34 +0100 (MET) Subject: Summer School on Multilevel Preconditioning Methods SUMMER SCHOOL on Multilevel preconditioning methods with parallel implementation aspects and applications in Scientific Computing May 19--26, 1997, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands The summer school will concentrate on methods, concepts, techniques for solving large scale Scientific Computation problems. The methods in focus are iterative methods with multilevel preconditioning, which offer rates of convergence, (almost) independent of the size of the problems (a crucial issue for very large scale real-life applications) and optimal computational complexity. Two important issues are specially emphasized: - efficient parallel implementations of methods of the above type, and - applicability of the methods to practical problems in which large scale linear and nonlinear systems have to be solved, especially for problems originating from material sciences, biomedical computations, and computational mechanics. The summer school is a non-profit event organized by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Nijmegen, with the financial support of TMR (EU), the Mathematical Research Institute (MRI), The Netherlands. The summer school is primarily intended to provide training in the above topics for students and researchers from countries from the European Community. TOPICS: -algebraic multilevel iteration methods, multigrid methods, domain decomposition methods, level set methods, -adaptive mesh refinement techniques, error estimators -symmetric, nonsymmetric, indefinite problems, -robust solution methods, uniform convergence with respect to meshsize and small perturbation parameters, -nonstandard problems, applications, mostly in material and in medical sciences; -parallel computations, scalability, efficiency, optimality. DEADLINE: Application form sent before April 10, 1997. NOTE: The number of participants is not restricted but we aim at 30. The target groups for TMR projects are: - researchers aged 35 or under, within the Community and the Associated States; - researchers whose place of work is in a less-favoured region; - women researchers; - researchers who work in industry. FURTHER INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM: Summer School'97 Attn. Maya Neytcheva, Department of Mathematics Toernooiveld 1, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands e-mail: summer97@sci.kun.nl fax: +31 (0)24 3652140 http://www-math.sci.kun.nl/math/summer97 ------------------------------ From: Chaoqun Liu Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 08:17:14 -0600 (CST) Subject: AFOSR Conference on Large Eddy Simulation Announcement And Call For Papers FIRST AFOSR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND LARGE EDDY SIMULATION (DNS/LES) August 4-8, 1997 Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, USA Sponsored by US Air Force Office of Scientific Research 1. CONFERENCE TOPICS . DNS/LES toward understanding fundamental flow physics . DNS/LES for complex flows . DNS/LES for flow transition . DNS/LES for fully developed turbulent flow . DNS/LES for aeroacoustics . DNS/LES for heat transfer applications . DNS/LES for combustion applications . LES for for atmospheric boundary layers . DNS/LES for engineering applications . DNS/LES for transition and turbulence modeling . Development on filter and subgrid model for LES . Boundary condition treatment for DNS/LES . Numerical algorithm developments for DNS/LES . Parallel computation implementations/applications for DNS/LES 2. INVITED SPEAKERS . Chasnov, Jeff (Hong Kong) . N.A. Adams (Switzerland) . Fasel, Hermann (University of Arizona) . Herbert, Thorwald (Ohio State University) . Horiuti, Kiyoshi (Japan) . Jansen, Kenneth (RPI) . Johansson, Arne (Sweden) . Joslin, Ronald (NASA Langley Research Center) . Karniadakis, George (Brown University) . Lesieur, Marcel (France) . Mankbadi, Reda (Univ. of Cincinati & Cairo Univ., Egypt) . Miyake, Yutaka (Japan) . Nieuwstadt, Frans (Netherlands) . Piomelli, Ugo (University of Maryland) . Reed, Helen (Arizona State University) . Spalart, Philippe (Boeing) . Streett, Craig (NASA Langley Research Center) . Zhang, Zhaoshun (China) 3. CALL FOR PAPERS The conference proceedings will be formally published by a scientific publisher. The deadline for the extended abstract (2-3 pages) is March 1, 1997. 4. STUDENT SUPPORT A few fellowships for supporting graduate students to attend the conference will be provided by the US AFOSR and are open for application now. Applications should be sent to Dr. Chaoqun Liu for consideration. 5. FURTHER INFORMATION Prof. Chaoqun Liu, FAICDL Chairman Department of Mathematics and Statistics Louisiana Tech University P.O. Box 3189 Ruston, LA 71272-0001, USA Tel : (318) 257-2257 Fax : (318) 257-2437 email : cliu@math.latech.edu http://www.math.latech.edu/\~cliu ------------------------------ From: Wasin So Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 08:28:00 EST Subject: Conference on Theory and Applications of Multiwavelets Second Announcement and Call for more papers Conference on Theory and Applications of Multiwavelets Sam Houston State University (SHSU) Huntsville, Texas March 20-22, 1997 The purpose of this second announcement is to call your attention to the deadline for submission of abstracts. Abstracts received before February 1, 1997 will be given schedule preference. Abstracts received after this date will be considered if scheduling time allows. Some confirmed speakers and titles are: Douglas Hardin (Vanderbilt University, Nashville) "Orthogonal Piecewise Polynomial Multiwavelets" Rong-Qing Jia (University of Alberta, Edmonton) "Multiple Refinable Functions and Multiple Wavelets" Gilbert Strang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge) "Multiple Basis Functions" Gilbert Walter (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Sampling and Interpolation for Multiwavelets" Victor Wickerhauser (Washington University, St Louis) "Custom Wavelet Packet Image Compression Design" Further details on submission of abstracts, registration and lodging can be obtained from our homepage: http://galois.shsu.edu/~waveconf or email to waveconf@galois.shsu.edu or exl_mep@shsu.edu or call 409-294-3469. ------------------------------ From: Oyvind Hjelle Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 15:45:23 +0100 (MET) Subject: Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces The Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces Lillehammer, Norway, July 3-8, 1997 Organizers Morten Daehlen Tom Lyche Larry L. Schumaker Invited lectures, minisymphosia and contributed sessions on themes which include: Curve and surface approximation Multidimensional modelling Scattered data modelling Decomposition techniques Visualization Applications Information: Mariane Rein/SINTEF WWW: http://www.oslo.sintef.no/cagd P.O. Box 124, Blindern, email: cagd@si.sintef.no 0314 Oslo, Norway You can register to receive updated information about the meeting by sending an empty email message to the above address. Deadline: Registration and submission of abstracts: April 10. 1997 Supported by: Research Council of Norway, University Of OSLO and SINTEF. ------------------------------ From: Anatolii Fedotov Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 18:56:32 +0600 Subject: Workshop on Electronic Publications SIBERIAN BRANCH OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SECOND EMNET/NIS WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS El-Pub-97 Euromath Center (EmC) in Copenhagen Siberian Branch of RAS (Novosibirsk) Institute of Computational Technologies SB RAS (Novosibirsk) Russia, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, April 24-26 1997. The First Announcement Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences and Euromath Center in Copenhagen hold the Second EmNet/NIS Workshop on Electronic Publications (El-Pub-97). The Workshop will take place April 24-26 1997 in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok (Russia) at the Institute of Computational Technologies SB RAS. This Workshop is the part of EuroMath Net/NIS/II Project (INTAS IA-003) and RFBR Internet Project of SB RAS (in Russian). The main problems treated at El-Pub-97 concerned the methods and means of preparing the electronic versions of scientific and technical publications, information systems and making use of Internet technology for scientific and mathematical publications For details see Home Page of WS El-Pub-97 and the Russian version of Home Page: Code Page MS Windows (CP1251) Code Page KOI8-R ------------------------------ From: Lutz Laemmer Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:56:49 +0100 Subject: Parallel and Distributed Computing for Computational Mechanics PLEASE NOTE FUNDING IS STILL AVAILABLE TO ASSIST RESEARCHERS UNDER 35 YEARS TO ATTEND THE FOLLOWING MEETING THE FIRST EURO-CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING FOR COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS LOCHINVER, HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND 26th April - 1st May 1997 Funded by the TMR Programme of the European Commission INTRODUCTION This is the first in a short series of Euroconferences, concerned with Parallel and Distributed Computing for Computational Mechanics, funded by the European Commission through a contract with Civil-Comp Limited, Edinburgh, UK. The second conference to be held in Portugal during April 1998, is concerned with the solution of non-linear and interaction problems. The third conference is concerned with optimization and design and will be held in Germany during April 1999. The themes of the first conference are pre-processing and solution techniques. The themes particularly include: unstructured meshing, adaptivity, domain decomposition, visualisation, graphics, model generation, solution procedures, techniques for parallelisation, development tools for parallelisation, message passing, etc. The Euro-Conference will consist of a series of lectures and short research presentations. The provisional list of lecturers includes: Professor M. Cross,University of Greenwich, UK Dr P.K. Jimack, University of Leeds, UK Dr L. Laemmer, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Dr G. Lonsdale, NEC Europe Limited, Germany Dr R. Luling, University of Paderborn, Germany Professor M. Papadrakakis, National Technical University, Greece Professor G. Thierauf, University of Essen, Germany Professor B.H.V. Topping, Heriot-Watt University, UK Professor N.P. Weatherill, University College of Swansea, UK FUNDING AND FEES The fees for the Euro-Conference are 120 UK pounds. Funding is available for researchers, under 35 years working within the European Union and of European nationality. This funding is available to cover the cost of accommodation. A partial grant towards travel costs is also available. It is anticipated that the European Commission funding will pay 50% of the apex air/rail fare plus the accommodation costs estimated at 365 UK pounds in a shared twin bedded room with bathroom. Potential participants should contact: Professor Barry Topping Heriot-Watt University Tel: 44(0) 131 451 3141 Fax: 44(0) 131 451 3593 They should send a fax clearly stating: their age, address, telephone, fax, email, nationality and sex. A one page curriculum vitae should be faxed indicating any experience in either computational mechanics or parallel computing. Short presentations (25 minutes) are invited. Potential participants should therefore indicate the provisional title for presentation(s) that they would like to make and send a short abstract of the presentation as soon as possible. Participants for the 1998 and 1999 Euro-Conferences should contact Professor Barry Topping after May 10th 1997. See updated information at http://www.saxe-coburg.co.uk/ ------------------------------ From: Emily Stone Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 13:50:10 -0700 Subject: Summer Undergraduate Research Experience at Utah State RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF NONLINEAR DYNAMICS UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY LOGAN, UTAH JUNE 23-AUGUST 15, 1997 Supported by funds from the National Science Foundation and from the Office of the Vice President for Research, Utah State University and with assistance from the Mathematics and Statistics and Physics Departments. The USU REU is a highly interdisciplinary program involving research mentors from the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, Physics, Biology, Forest Resources, Hydrology and Electrical Engineering. Projects deal with modeling nonlinear biological and physical phenomena, using differential equations and cellular automata. All projects emphasize numerical and visualization methods and the participants selected for this program will be expected to have some computer literacy. Participants will be exposed to such tools as MatLab, Mathematica, and Stella, and, in some cases, to be responsible for generating code in some standard programming language such C, C++, or FORTRAN. Participants will receive $2500 for the 8 weeks, plus housing in University facilities. They will receive course credit for attending a class dealing with the applications of nonlinear dynamics and attend lectures by and socialize with guests who will speak on topics related to the program. Participants will also be eligible for travel funds. For more information on possible projects see our website at: www.physics.usu.edu/reu.html. Applicants should request an application form from either of the project directors (see below) or apply electronically at our website: www.physics.usu.edu/reu.html. Applicants should also have a letter of recommendation sent to the address below. Deadline for completed applications is March 24th. If you have further questions, please contact either of the REU project directors: Professor Emily Stone Department of Mathematics and Statistics Utah State University Logan, UT 84322-3900 stone@sunfs.usu.edu 801-797-3302 or Professor David Peak Physics Department Utah State University Logan, UT 84322-4415 peakd@cc.usu.edu 801-797-2884 Participants must be undergraduates as of fall 1997 and must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. ------------------------------ From: Michael Guenther Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 17:41:01 MEZ Subject: Workshop on Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering Workshop "Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering: electrical circuits --- electromagnetic fields" Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, June 18-20, 1997 Organisation: Fachgruppe "Scientific Computing" of the "Deutschen Mathematiker Vereinigung" (DMV) Dr. M. Guenther (TH Darmstadt) Prof. Dr. U. Langer (Johannes-Kepler University Linz) Dr. U. van Rienen (TH Darmstadt) The object of the workshop is to bring together scientists from both academics and industry, who work in the fields of modelling and numerical simulation of electrical circuits and electromagnetic fields. The interdisciplinary approach of the new discipline scientific computing demands the exchange of ideas between numerical mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists. Sections: Finite Integration Methods (Dr. van Rienen, Darmstadt, and Dr. Steinhaeuser, Rockwell Automation) Numerical Simulation of Electric Circuits (Dr. Guenther, Darmstadt and Dr. Gilg, Siemens AG Adaptive Finite Element Methods (Dr. van Rienen, Darmstadt and Dr. Hebermehl, WIAS) Numerical Simulation of Electromagnetic Fields (Prof. Dr. Langer, Linz and Prof. Dr. Wachutka, Muenchen) Poster sessions and Computer Demonstrations Information: DMV-Workshop WR-ET, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Fachbereich Mathematik, AG 13, Frau Semler, Schlossgartenstr. 7, D-64289 Darmstadt, Tel.: +49(0)6151 16-6846, Fax: +49(0)6151 16-4424, e-Mail: dmvwkshp@mathematik.th-darmstadt.de WWW-site: http://www.th-darmstadt.de/fb/et/temf/DMV-Workshop.html ------------------------------ From: Kathy Shippos Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 15:33:07 -0400 Subject: Workshop on Parallel Programming Workshop on Parallel Programming for the IBM RS/6000 SP Tuesday, April 1 - Friday, April 4, 1997 Cornell Theory Center Cornell University Ithaca, NY Registration deadline: February 26, 1997 The Cornell Theory Center (CTC), a nationally funded high-performance computing center, is offering a four-day workshop including lectures and laboratory sessions on parallel programming for the IBM SP. CTC's SP, which consists of 512 RISC processors connected by a high-performance switch, is the largest of its kind in the world. The SP architecture is distributed memory. Announcement and registration form: http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/Workshops/1997/SP.Apr/sp.html This workshop will offer lectures and lab sessions on the following topics: CTC Essentials: Using CTC's IBM SP Effectively The Message Passing Interface (MPI) Standard Library High Performance Fortran; Fortran90 All topics are presented through a combination of lecture and lab exercise. The workshop is intended to give participants a working knowledge of the fundamental issues involved in writing parallel programs for the IBM SP at CTC. Kathy Shippos Conference Assistant Cornell Theory Center Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 kshippos@tc.cornell.edu (607) 254-8640 ------------------------------ From: Bill Hager Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:50:15 -0500 Subject: Conference on Optimal Control CONFERENCE OPTIMAL CONTROL: THEORY, ALGORITHMS, AND APPLICATIONS FEBRUARY 27-28, MARCH 1, 1997 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA ORGANIZED BY Bill Hager Panos Pardalos Gang Bao Bernard Mair hager@math.ufl.edu pardalos@math.ufl.edu bao@math.ufl.edu bam@math.ufl.edu Center for Applied Optimization (Partial Funding by NSF) Information at http://www.math.ufl.edu/~hager/cao/conference CURRENT SPEAKERS: George Avalos, H. T. Banks, Francesca Bucci, John Burns, Mehmet Camurdan, Yanzhao Cao, Sung Kag Chang, Richard Datko, Michel Delfour, Asen Dontchev, Joseph Dunn, Richard H. Fabiano, Hector Fattorini, Chris Floudas, H. Goldberg, Erik Hendrickson, Matthias Heinkenschloss, Karl-Heinz Hoffman, Mary Ann Horn, Kazi Ito, Heidi Jager, Guangcao Ji, Detlev Kleis, Werner Krabs, Irena Lasiecka, Urszula Ledzewicz, Suzanne Lenhart, Guenter Leugering, Guangye Li, P.O. Lindberg, Walter Littman, Kazimierz Malanowski, Clyde Martin, J. E. Masters, Helmut Maurer, Christine McMillan, Boris Mordukhovich, Jean-Pierre Puel, Ekkehard Sachs, Fadil Santosa, Heinz Schaettler, Hector Sussmann, Jan Sokolowski, Roberto Triggiani, Fredi Troltzsch, Vladimir Veliov, Luther White, Jianxin Zhou ------------------------------ From: Svetozar Margenov Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:24:16 +0200 Subject: Workshop in Bulgaria on Large Scale Scientific Computations Ist WORKSHOP ON "LARGE-SCALE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATIONS" organized by O.P. Iliev, S.D. Margenov and P.S. Vassilevski June 7- June 11, 1997, Varna WWW-site: HTTP://COPERN.ACAD.BG (the full announcement is already available) Organizer: The Central Laboratory on Parallel Processing (formerly, the Center of Informatics and Computing Technology), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in cooperation with the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI), BAS. The workshop topics of specific interest are: adaptive methods; MG/DD methods; multiscale methods; conservative schemes and mixed FEM computations; parallel performance; modeling of contaminant transport and related applications. To strengthen the scientific program related to some of the above topics, the following SPECIAL SESSIONS are announced: 1) "High-performance methods for coupled elliptic systems and convection diffusion problems", by Lutz Tobiska, University of Magdeburg, Germany 2) "Parallel algorithms for structured sparse matrices", by Marcin Paprzycki, UTPB, USA and Plamen Yalamov, Rousse Univ., Bulgaria 3) "Large-scale computations in air pollution modelling", by Zahari Zlatev, National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark and Krassimir Georgiev, CLPP, Bulgaria The regular deadline for submission the full papers (approximately 10 pages limit) is February 15, 1997 (needed if intended to appear in the Proceedings after a standard but speeded-up journal-type refereeing procedure). Please contact the SPECIAL SESSIONS ORGANIZERS for the specific deadlines related the sessions they organize. Important e-mail addresses: (a) conference secretary: scicom97@iscbg.acad.bg (b) Lutz Tobiska: Lutz.Tobiska@Mathematik.Uni-Magdeburg.DE (c) Marcin Paprzyycki: PAPRZYCKI_M@utpb.edu Plamen Yalamov: yalamov@iscbg.acad.bg (d) Zahari Zlatev: luzz@sun2.dmu.dk Krassimir Georgiev: georgiev@parallel.acad.bg ------------------------------ From: JOGO Date: Sat, 1 Feb 97 20:05:36 EST Subject: Workshop in Honor of Hoang Tuy Workshop in Honor of Prof. Hoang Tuy (August 20 - 22, 1997, Sweden) WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT: FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Hoang Tuy, who did pioneering work in Global Optimization and general mathematical programming, a three-day workshop is being organized at the Link{\"o}ping Institute of Technology, Sweden, with the theme: "From Local to Global Optimization" The workshop will feature a number of invited and contributed papers. Please submit an extended abstract by March 30, 1997. A collection of refereed papers will be included in a book dedicated to Prof. H. Tuy. The final manuscript is due by June 1, 1997. It is expected that at least one author of each accepted paper will be registered by June 1. The registration fee of $500 will cover all local expenses, including hotel, meals, local transportation, as well as the proceedings that are to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Organizers Athanasios Migdalas (samig@math.liu.se, +46-13-281777) Panos Pardalos (pardalos@ufl.edu, +1-352-392-9011) Kristina Holmqvist (krhol@math.liu.se, +46-13-282187) Peter V{\"a}rbrand (pevar@math.liu.se, +46-13-281406) Submission of abstracts and manuscripts to: Kristina Holmqvist Division of Optimization, Link{\"o}ping Institute of Technology, S-581 83 Link{\"o}ping, Sweden TEL. +46-13-281406, FAX +46-13-100746 E-MAIL: krhol@math.liu.se Dates August 20 -- 22, 1997 (before the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, August 24 -- 29, 1997) Location Division of Optimization, Link{\"o}ping Institute of Technology, S-581 83 Link{\"o}ping, Sweden TEL. +46-13-281777, FAX +46-13-100746 ------------------------------ From: Peter Monk Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 16:45:37 -0500 Subject: Opportunities for Graduate Study at Delaware GRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE As a results of a recent NSF grant to our department and increased departmental support for our program, the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Delaware has some exciting new opportunities for graduate study. NSF Sponsored Initiative in Industrial Applied Mathematics Fellowships, including summer support, are available for our industrial applied mathematics program. Students will intern at an industrial location during their graduate study. See our web page at http://www.math.udel.edu/~braun/imath.html Departmental Fellowships Generous departmental fellowships are available for high quality applicants in any area of mathematics covered by our department. Applied areas include materials science, fluid dynamics, inverse problems, electromagnetism and numerical methods. Pure areas include functional analysis, partial differential equations, topology and combinatorics. For more information about our program look at http://www.math.udel.edu/programs/grad/index.html or send e-mail to Peter Monk . Department of Mathematical Sciences Phone: 302-831-1873 University of Delaware FAX : 302-831-4511 Newark, DE 19716 USA ------------------------------ From: Enrique Thomann Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 20:29:42 PST Subject: Faculty Position at Oregon State University POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR-FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS The Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the area of financial mathematics. It is a full-time appointment based on an academic year (September 16 thru June 15). Salary commensurate with experience. Appointment begins September 16, 1997. For full consideration, apply by February 15, 1997. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. If an appropriate candidate cannot be found, the position will be filled with a visitor. For complete job description, list of faculty research areas, statement of selection criteria, and application materials, write to: Ronald B. Guenther, Chair Staff Selection Committee Department of Mathematics Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4605 Contact can also be made through Lois Brittin at (541) 737-5133 or e-mail lois@math.orst.edu. ------------------------------ From: Roger Grimes Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:02:22 -0800 Subject: Staff Position at Boeing THE BOEING COMPANY The Mathematics and Engineering Analysis Unit of The Boeing Company invites applications for a position as specialist in Linear Algebra. The Mathematics and Engineering Analysis Unit, located in Bellevue, Washington, is a group of over 75 analysts working in applied mathematics, supporting applications throughout The Boeing Company. The person who fills this position will apply linear algebra techniques to diverse application areas, including optimization, computational geometry, fluid dynamics, metrology, design and analysis of control systems, signal processing and statistics. Applicants should be skilled in a variety of linear algebra technical areas, with some particular area of specialization well-represented in a solid implementation on a serial or parallel computer. The successful applicant will have demonstrated the ability to apply linear algebra to applications. Applicants should have a PhD or equivalent in mathematics, computer science, or related area. Experience is not required but is highly desirable. It is also essential that applicants have o the ability and desire to work in teams of individuals with diverse backgrounds; o an awareness of disciplines of particular interest to Boeing or the desire to learn such o enthusiasm for working on applications o good communication skills o excellent software development skills o the ability to do independent research o excellent leadership skills or potential Rank and salary are negotiable; senior scientists are encouraged to apply. Applications should be sent to: Roger G. Grimes Manager, Computational Mathematics The Boeing Company P. O. Box 3707, M/S 7L-22 Seattle, WA 98124-2207 The Boeing Company is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. ------------------------------ From: Yves Bourgault Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 15:52:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: Staff Position at Concordia University STAFF POSITION: CFD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER/COORDINATOR The CFD Lab of Concordia University, Montreal, is seeking a talented Software Developer/Coordinator whose responsibilities would include the following: * Programming aspects for mesh generation and mesh optimization activities, * Coordination, integration, optimization and productionization of all software developed at the CFD Lab, in particular for the CFD Lab's FENSAP finite element code, * Acquisition, maintenance, update and staff training of all PC and Workstation software acquired by the Laboratory, * Coordination of all software exchange with industries interacting with the CFD Lab, * Creation and maintenance of professional software manuals, * Other tasks that may be assigned by the Director of the Laboratory. The successful candidate should possess some or all of the following characteristics: * A Masters in Computer Science or Engineering (NO PhD'S, PLEASE), * Strong programming skills in FORTRAN and C/C++, * Experience in software development and maintenance tools, * Knowledge of CAD systems, * Knowledge of the UNIX operating system, * Knowledge in parallelization on shared-memory and distributed-memory machines, * Flexibility in accepting new assignments in a rapidly evolving research atmosphere, * Interaction skills with other members of the CFD Lab and with industrial members, sometimes on their premises. The position is for one year, renewable, and is paid from research funds. Salary is at a University Research Associate level, with an additional generous performance bonus component. Please send your resume, by e-mail or Fax, including a minimum list of 3 referees, by Feb. 15, 1997, to Dr. W.G. Habashi Director, CFD Lab Department of Mechanical Engineering Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., ER 301 Montreal, Qc, Canada H3G 1M8 Tel: +1-514-848-3165 Fax: 8601 ------------------------------ From: Anders Sjoberg Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:14:46 +0100 Subject: Positions at Uppsala University Two positions as senior lecturers at the Department of Scientific Computing, Uppsala University, Sweden are open for application. The candidates must have a PhD and interests in numerical analysis, especially high-performance computing. Applicants must also have a solid background in computing. The lecturers are expected to teach numerical analysis and scientific programming at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level. They are also supposed to cooperate with other departments and industry in joint research projects. The applicants must be fluent in English and able to, after some time, teach in Swedish. Applications from women are especially encouraged. Applications with CV, lists of scientific and pedagogical merits and copies of the publications mentioned in the lists should be addressed to the Vice Chancellor of Uppsala University and sent, not later than February 20, 1997, in two sets to Registrar's office, Uppsala University, Box 256 S-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden. More information can be obtained from the chairman of the Department of Scientific Computing, Anders Sj=F6berg (Anders.Sjoberg@tdb.uu.se) or by Professor Bertil Gustafsson (Bertil.Gustafsson@tdb.uu.se). ------------------------------ From: Patsy Mccarthy Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:26:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: Faculty Position at Carnegie Mellon University CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Department of Mathematical Sciences Assistant Professorship The Carnegie Mellon Department of Mathematical Sciences seeks to make one tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level. This position will commence in the Fall of 1997. The Department's search will focus on someone working in Optimization and Mathematical Programming whose research has a strong computational component and we are also interested in candidates in Applied Analysis and Continuum Mechanics. Applicants should have an interdisciplinary scientific outlook. Applicants should send a vita, list of publications, and a statement describing current and planned research. Candidates should also arrange to have at least four letters of recommendation (with one describing your teaching experience) sent to: Appointments Committee, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. For more information about the Department, please consult our website at: http://www.cmu.edu/mcs/math/. Carnegie Mellon University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. ------------------------------ From: Mary Solberg Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 11:52:37 -0800 Subject: Postdoctoral Position at Claremont Graduate School POST-DOC POSITION McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, Long Beach/ Claremont Graduate School Applications are invited from recent math sciences Ph.D's for a post-doc position jointly funded by the NSF Mathematical Sciences University-Industry Post-Doctoral Program and McDonnell Douglas Aerospace. The mentors are Tuncer Cebeci from Douglas and Ellis Cumberbatch from Claremont. The research will involve studies in multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization; the project involves the interaction between aerodynamics and structure design. Candidates should have strong backgrounds in numerical analysis, computer programming, large-scale computing, and other disciplines required in integrated product development. The position is open immediately, and is currently funded for twelve months. The position requires US citizenship or permanent resident status. Applications will be closed June 2, 1997, but an appointment may be made before that date. A vita and three reference letters should be sent to Ellis Cumberbatch, Mathematics Department Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA 91711 Phone 909-621-8080. Email: cumberbe@cgs.edu CGS is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from minorities and women. ------------------------------ From: Jennifer Scott Date: Fri, 31 Jan 97 11:46:01 GMT Subject: Postdoctoral Position at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION IN NUMERICAL ANALYSIS A postdoctoral research position is available at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (URL http://www.cclrc.ac.uk/ral/index.html) to work in the Numerical Analysis Group (URL http://www.dci.clrc.ac.uk/Groups/NAG/). The post is supported by a Long Term Research (LTR) Project funded by the European Union. The Project is charged with developing new parallel algorithms for the direct solution of sparse systems of equations and for their preconditioning. These algorithms will be implemented as portable prototypes and will be integrated into a public-domain Library. The prototype codes will be extensively tested on a range of industrial applications. The work can commence immediately. The position is for the two years to 31st December 1998. Applicants must have considerable experience of programming in Fortran and of using standard numerical analysis libraries such as BLAS and LAPACK. Applicants should also have experience of working in a parallel computing environment and be familiar with the message passing systems MPI. A strong research capability in numerical analysis, with emphasis on numerical linear algebra techniques for solving large-scale problems, is essential. Applicants must be able to demonstrate their ability to communicate effectively in both spoken and written English, and to work both independently and as part of a group. Applicants must be willing to travel within Europe and collaborate closely with European partners. Appointment will be to the Council Pay Band 5 which has a pay range of 14,828 to 24,333 pounds; starting salary will depend on experience. Potential applicants should register their interest in the position by sending a CV by email to Jennifer Scott (J.Scott@rl.ac.uk) no later than Thursday 6 February 1997. Applicants should indicate when they would be available to take up the position should their application be successful. Applicants should mention that they are interested in the postdoctoral research position at RAL which was advertised in The Guardian on Saturday January 25, quoting ref 1379/96. COUNCIL FOR THE CENTRAL LABORATORY OF THE RESEARCH COUNCILS ------------------------------ From: I.Duff@letterbox.rl.ac.uk (Iain Duff) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 97 15:47:37 GMT Subject: IMANA Newsletter A machine readable copy of most of the material for the IMANA Newsletters can be obtained by anonymous ftp from Rutherford. There are separate files for the main section and the forthcoming conferences. To obtain the files (in plain ascii text) you should ftp to 130.246.8.22 then log in as anonymous with your email address as password. Change to binary transfer mode bin then change directory cd pub/imana then do a get for the file get jan97.gz and, for main conference information, get jan97.conf.gz [For earlier issues, substitute appropriate month:year for jan97] You will then need to decompress these files using gunzip. Iain Duff Editor IMANA Newsletter ------------------------------ From: Baltzer Science Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:13:01 +0100 Subject: Contents, Advances in Computational Mathematics Online Availability Volume 6, No 1-2 are now available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format on http://www.baltzer.nl/adcom, for researchers from subscribing institutes only. Please enter the details of your institute's subscription at http://www.baltzer.nl/register.html For more information contact subscribe@ns.baltzer.nl. Advances in Computational Mathematics 6 (1996) 2 Joe Warren Barycentric coordinates for convex polytopes 97-108 James H. Bramble and J. Thomas King A finite element method for interface problems in domains with smooth boundaries and interfaces 109-138 William F. Ford, Yuesheng Xu and Yunhe Zhao Derivative corrections for quadrature formulas 139-157 James H. Bramble, Joseph E. Pasciak and Andrew V. Knyazev A subspace preconditioning algorithm for eigenvector/eigenvalue computation 159-189 M. Laghchim-Lahlou and P. Sablonniere C^r -finite elements of Powell-Sabin type on the three direction mesh 191-206 ------------------------------ From: Baltzer Science Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:40:01 +0100 Subject: Contents, Numerical Algorithms Online Availability Volume 13 is now available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format on http://www.baltzer.nl, for researchers from subscribing institutes only. Please enter the details of your institute's subscription at http://www.baltzer.nl/register.html For more information contact subscribe@ns.baltzer.nl. Comments are welcome. Numerical Algorithms 13 (1996) 3-4 Helmut Brass On the quality of algorithms based on spline interpolation 159-177 Dario Andrea Bini Numerical computation of polynomial zeros by means of Aberth's method 179-200 P. Ciarlet, Jr and F. Lamour Does contraction preserve triangular meshes? 201-223 Zi-Cai Li Analysis of discrete techniques for image transformation 225-263 J.-C. Fiorot and P. Jeannin A blossoming approach to accuracy of the degree elevation process 265-306 Thomas Hermann On the stability of polynomial transformations between Taylor, Bernstein and Hermite forms 307-320 A. Bultheel, P. Gonzalez-Vera, E. Hendriksen and O. Njastad On the convergence of multipoint Pade-type approximants and quadrature formulas associated with the unit circle 321-344 J. M. Carnicer and M. S. Floater Piecewise linear interpolants to Lagrange and Hermite convex scattered data 345-364 Tony F. Chan and Jun Zou A convergence theory of multilevel additive Schwarz methods on unstructured meshes 365-398 C. Brezinski Book Reviews 399-404 ------------------------------ From: SIAM Date: Mon, 27 Jan 97 11:00:10 EST Subject: Contents, SIAM Control and Optimization SIAM JOURNAL ON Control and Optimization MARCH 1997 Volume 35, Number 2 CONTENTS Centralized and Decentralized Supervisory Control of Nondeterministic Systems Under Partial Observation Ratnesh Kumar and Mark A. Shayman On Controllability Conception for Stochastic Systems Agamirza E. Bashirov and Kerim R. Kerimov Deterministic Exit Time Control Problems with Discontinuous Exit Cost Alain-Philippe Blanc Nonlinear Filtering Revisited: A Spectral Approach Sergey Lototsky, Remigijus Mikulevicius, and Boris L. Rozovskii Descriptor Systems Without Controllability at Infinity Ralph Byers, Ton Geerts, and Volker Mehrmann A Behavioral Approach to Delay-Differential Systems Heide Glusing-Luerssen Feedback Stabilization of Affine in the Control Stochastic Differential Systems by the Control Lyapunov Function Method Patrick Florchinger Optimal Strategies for Bilevel Dynamic Problems Jane J. Ye A Predictor-Corrector Algorithm for a Class of Nonlinear Saddle Point Problems Jie Sun, Jishan Zhu, and Gongyun Zhao The Synthesis of Universal Feedback Pursuit Strategies in Differential Games F. H. Clarke, Yu. S. Ledyaev, and A. I. Subbotin Brachistochrone with Coulomb Friction Stephen C. Lipp Boundary Exact Controllability of Interface Problems with Singularities II: Addition of Internal Controls Serge Nicaise Infinite-Dimensional Linear Programming Approach to Singular Stochastic Control Michael I. Taksar The Differentiability of the Drag with Respect to the Variations of a Lipschitz Domain in a Navier-Stokes Flow Juan Antonio Bello, Enrique Fernandez-Cara, Jerome Lemoine, and Jacques Simon Partial Exact Controllability for Spherical Membranes Paola Loreti and Vanda Valente Dynamics for Controlled Navier-Stokes Systems with Distributed Controls L. S. Hou and Y. Yan On-line Parameter Estimation for Infinite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems J. Baumeister, W. Scondo, M. A. Demetriou, and I. G. Rosen ------------------------------ From: Edit Kurali Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 17:39:52 -0500 (EST) Subject: Contents, Journal of Approximation Theory Table of Contents: J. Approx. Theory, Volume 88, Number 1, January 1997 R. A. Kerman Strong and weak weighted convergence of Jacobi series 1--27 Xue-Zhang Liang and Chun-Mei L\"u On the convergence of Hakopian interpolation and cubature 28--46 Bernard Delyon and Anatoli Juditsky On the computation of wavelet coefficients 47--79 Daniel Duverney Explicit computation of Pad\'e-Hermite approximants 80--91 Grzegorz Lewicki Minimal projections onto two dimensional subspaces of $l^{(4)}_\infty$ 92--108 Vladimir Andrievskii and Hans-Peter Blatt Erd\H{o}s-Tur\'an theorems on piecewise smooth curves and arcs 109--134 Note A. Z. Grinshpan and E. B. Saff Estimating the argument of some analytic functions 135--138 ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------