## NA Digest Saturday, January 3, 2004 Volume 04 : Issue 01

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From: Juan Jose Torrens <jjtorrens@unavarra.es>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 17:22:37 +0100
Subject: Bounds for Basis Functions

Dear colleagues,

I am searching and collecting references about bounds for the basis
functions in finite element spaces. Using TeX notation, I am mainly
interested in the uniformity condition

$$\vert \varphi_j \vert \leq C h^{s-l}$$

where $\varphi_j$ is any basis function, $h$ is the mesh size, $s$ is
the order of the derivatives appearing in the definition of the degree
of freedom associated to $\varphi_j$ and $\vert . \vert$ is a Sobolev
semi-norm of order $l$. I would greatly appreciate any hint about
references where these bounds are explicitly proven for specific
elements (such as Argyris, Bell, Clough-Tocher) or where general
techniques of proof are developed.

Juan Jose Torrens
Public University of Navarre (Spain)
jjtorrens@unavarra.es

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From: Petr Prikryl <prikryl@math.cas.cz>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:58:14 +0100
Subject: 2003 Babuska Prize

2003 BABUSKA PRIZE AWARDED

In December 2003, the Czech Association for Mechanics and the Union
of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists again awarded the I. Babuska
Prize for the best work in scientific computing submitted by students
and young scientists.

The Prize winner for 2003 is Dr Jan Zeman from the Klokner Institute
of the Czech Technical University in Prague. The work honored is his
PhD thesis Analysis of composite materials with random
microstructure.

Further winners were delivered diplomas of honor. The second and
third positions were shared by Dr Milan Hokr from the Faculty of
Mechatronics of the Technical University in Liberec who presented his
PhD thesis Model of flow and solute transport in dual-porosity media
and Dr Alena Pozivilova from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of
the Czech Technical University in Prague who submitted her PhD thesis
Constitutive modelling of hyperelastic material using the logarithmic
description.

Further diplomas of honor were delivered to MS theses. The first
position in this category was taken by Martin Zitka from the Faculty
of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague for his
thesis Higher-order finite element method for systems of nonlinear
parabolic differential equations.

The second and third positions were awarded jointly to Martin
Lanzendoerfer (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles
University in Prague) for his thesis Numerical simulation of flow in
a bearing and to Petr Stehlik (Faculty of Applied Sciences of the
University of West Bohemia in Pilsen) for his thesis Methods of
nonlinear analysis for differential equations on time scales.

The prize as well as the diplomas are awarded every year and they are
connected with a financial support.

The prize was established in 1994 by an outstanding Czech
mathematician Ivo Babuska. He was born in Prague and after graduating
from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical
University in Prague he started his work in the Mathematical
Institute of the Academy of Sciences. He was appointed professor at
Charles University in Prague in 1968 and since fall 1968 he has been
working in the United States. Since 1995 he is at the Institute for
Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas, Austin,
TX. His scientific work is focused on numerical and applied
mathematics and computational mechanics, and their use in practice.
His results in the finite element method belong to the fundamentals
of the method. He is the author of several monographs. In 1956 he
established the journal Applications of Mathematics published in
Prague. He also has initiated several famous scientific meetings
being organized both in Europe and the United States.

Karel Segeth
segeth@math.cas.cz

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From: Raimondas Ciegis <Raimondas.Ciegis@fm.vtu.lt>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 07:59:16 +0200 (WET)
Subject: Conference in Latvia on Mathematical Modelling and Analysis

First Announcement
MMA 2004
9th International Conference
Mathematical Modelling and Analysis
May 27 - 29, 2004, Jurmala, Latvia

Conference organizers:
The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI)
Institute of Mathematics, Latvian Academy of Sciences and University of Latvia
University of Latvia
Transport and Telecommunication Institute (Latvia)

The Conference focuses on various aspects of mathematical modelling and
usage of finite difference and finite element methods for numerical
solution of modern problems of science and engineering. It aims, in
particular, at fostering cooperation among practitioners and theoreticians
in this field. Another very important aim of the MMA meetings is to assist
in the creation and maintenance of contacts between scientists from West and
East.

Working language of the Conference is English.

The basic topics:
Analysis of numerical methods for solving problems of mathematical physics;
Application of numerical methods to engineering problems;
Analysis of ODE and PDE problems and applications;
Navier - Stokes equations and applications;
Parallel algorithms and parallel computing;
Scientific computation

The scientific program includes invited plenary talks (40 min) and
contributed talks (20 min)

Abstracts and Proceedings
Authors are requested to send an abstract ( maximum 1 page ) before April
10, 2004. Instructions and a style file for the preparation of the abstracts
are available at http://www.vtu.lt/rc/mma2004/abstr.html

Conference materials
The selected papers of the Conference will be published in the vol. 9
of "Mathematical Modelling and Analysis", Technika, Vilnius,
http://www.vtu.lt/rc/mma/
All papers will be pair-reviewed

Local Organizing Committee:
A.Buikis (Chairman,Latvia),
J.Cepitis (Latvia),
R.Ciegis (Vice - chairman, Lithuania),
Sh.Guseinov (Latvia),
I.Kabashkin (Latvia),
E.Kopitov (Latvia),
H.Neunzert (Vice - chairman, Germany),
A.Pedas (Estonia),
A.Reinfelds (Vice - chairman, Latvia),
M.Sapagovas (Lithuania),
A.Stikonas (Lithuania),
A.Zemitis (Latvia)

Dr. J.Cepitis
Institute of Mathematics,
Akademijos l. 1, LV-1524, Riga, Latvia
Tel. (+371) 7033719, (+371) 7033722, (+371) 7225674
Fax: (+371) 7227520
E-mail: lzalumi@latnet.lv
Questions regarding MMA2004 should be addressed to e-mail: : lzalumi@latnet.lv
To receive the Second Announcement you must register at
http://www.mma2004.lv or to fill the registration form and send it by e-mail

The health resort town of Jurmala is situated approximately 20 km from Riga,
the capital of Latvia, on the shore of the Baltic Sea. Jurmala is a tourist
town with many shops and restaurants and the prices seem very reasonable for
those who traveling from the European Union. The general information about
Latvia You can find on the WWW page (http://www.latinst.lv). More

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From: Peter Messmer <messmer@txcorp.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:18:40 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Minisymposium in Lyngby on HPC in Earth and Space Science

CALL FOR PAPERS
Minisymposium on
"High-Performance Computing in Earth and Space Science"
to be held in conjunction with the
PARA'04 Workshop on
State-of-the-Art in Scientific Computing
June 20-23, 2004
Technical University of Denmark
Lyngby, Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~jw/para04/

SCOPE:
High-performance computing facilities enable simulations of physical
phenomena with ever increasing fidelity and accuracy. The range of
resolved scales in a single simulation, as well as the number of physical
processes included, yield results that can be directly compared with
observational data.

However, these simulations face complexity on various levels. The codes
have to be carefully designed in order to make use of the sophisticated
hardware. Combining legacy codes into multi-physics models requires the
choice of appropriate data structures to avoid excessive data
transformation. And finally, sophisticated tools are needed for the
analysis, reduction and management of the large data sets generated by
these codes.

Our primary goal is to present state-of-the-art examples of large-scale
earth and space science simulations. Scientific success resulting from
such simulations, as well as present limitations, are both of interest.
In addition to providing an overview of high-performance computing in
earth and space science, this mini-symposium is expected to identify key
areas where new efforts will be required.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Space and laboratory plasmas
- Dusty plasmas
- Global climate models
- Multi-physics models
- Astrophysical dynamics and flows
- Gravitational models
- Kinetic, fluid and hybrid models
- Unconventional models and new algorithms
- Performance optimization
- Libraries for earth and space science problems
- Data handling, analysis and visualization
- Model validation and comparison with observations

CONTRIBUTIONS:
A limited number of contributed, either 15 or 20 minutes talks will be
selected for this minisymposium. Short abstracts at most one page
should be sent before February 1, 2004. The text should be in pure ASCII
format. The acceptance of these abstracts will be sent no later than
February 29, 2004.

After acceptance, extended abstracts, at most 7 pages, should be sent
before April 15, 2004. Two format versions are needed, the latex, and
postscript or pdf. The pictures must be as encapsulated postscript files
(eps). The extended abstracts will be handed out at the beginning of the
Workshop.

After the conference, full papers, at most 10 pages, formatted according to
the rules of the LNCS, in order to be published in the PARA'04 proceedings,
should be sent before September 15, 2004. The author's instructions and
style files for the LNCS can be found at

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

These submitted papers will be reviewed, and the incorrect and wrongly
formatted papers will have to be submitted again. Some papers may be
selected for publication in special issues of regular scientific journals.

LOCATION:
Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, DENMARK
Key lectures, topical mini-symposia, a limited number of
contributed talks, and Poster sessions will be selected for
the workshop.

Abstracts (no more than one A4 page): January 31, 2004
Notification of acceptance: February 29, 2004
Extended abstracts (4 and 7 pages): April 15, 2004
The PARA'04 Workshop: June 20-23, 2004
Proceeding papers (at most 10 pages): September 15, 2004

SUBMISSION:
The short abstracts, extended abstracts and the papers of this
Workshop should be sent to Peter Messmer, messmer@txcorp.com

FURTHER INFORMATION:
registration, hotel reservation etc., please visit
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~jw/para04/

The minisymposium organizer:
Peter Messmer
Tech-X Corporation
Boulder, CO 80301, USA

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From: Romas Baronas <romas.baronas@maf.vu.lt>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:12:44 +0100
Subject: Contents, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control

Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, ISSN 1392-5113
Volume 8, Number 2, 2003

A free on-line edition is available at:
http://www.mif.vu.lt/lana/nonlin/issues.htm#iss82

Optimum Mass Matrices for Short Wave Pulse Propagation Finite Element Models,
Pages 3-25
R.Barakauskas

On Joint Distribution of General Dirichlet Series, Pages 27-39
J.Genys and A.Laurincikas

Geometric Zeta-Function and Euclidean Action, Pages 41-53
A.Javtokas

Analysis of One Model of the Immune System, Pages 55-63
A.Kavaliauskas

Modeling Enzymes Inhibition During Microparticles Formation, Pages 65-70
J.Kulys

FDVis: the Interactive Visualization and Steering Environment for the
Computational Processes Using the Finite-Difference Method, Pages 71-82
A.Kurtinaitis, R.Vaicekauskas, F.Ivanauskas

Stability Analysis of a Stochastic Model for Prey-Predator System with
Disease in the Prey, Pages 83-92
D.Mukherjee

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From: Science Direct <sciencedirect@prod.lexis-nexis.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 09:25:52 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications

Linear Algebra and its Applications Volume 378, Pages 1-293 (1 February 2004)

Fitting conics of specific types to data, Pages 1-30
Yves Nievergelt

Minimal and systematic convolutional codes over finite Abelian groups,
Pages 31-59
Fabio Fagnani and Sandro Zampieri

On the normal matrix of the polynomial LS problem over the Chebyshev points,
Pages 61-69
Paolo Pugliese

Surface volumes of rounding polytopes, Pages 71-91
Mathias Drton and Udo Schwingenschlogl

A note on 2-local automorphisms of digraph algebras, Pages 93-98
Jinhai Xie and Fangyan Lu

A rank theorem for Vandermonde matrices, Pages 99-107
Pascal Koiran, Natacha Portier and Gilles Villard

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From: Chi-Wang Shu <shu@smtp.dam.brown.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 12:07:20 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Contents, Journal of Scientific Computing

Journal of Scientific Computing
http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0885-7474

Volume 20, Number 2, April 2004

Time Explicit Schemes and Spatial Finite Differences Splittings
J.-P. Chehab and B. Costa, pp.159-189.

The Mortar Finite Element Method for the Cardiac Bidomain Model
of Extracellular Potential
M. Pennacchio, pp. 191-210.

Multiresolution Wavelet Based Adaptive Numerical Dissipation
Control for High Order Methods
B. Sjogreen and H.C. Yee, pp.211-255.

Application of Multiblock Grid and Dual-Level Parallelism in
Coastal Ocean Circulation Modeling
P. Luong, C.P. Breshears and L.N. Ly, pp.257-275.

An Implementation of Fast Wavelet Galerkin Methods for Integral
Equations of the Second Kind
W. Fang, Y. Wang and Y. Xu, pp.277-302.

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