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From: Bruce Wade <wade@uwm.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 11:23:17 -0500
Subject: CMMSE Prize Winners
The CMMSE 2005 Prize Winners have been announced.
The CMMSE prize is given every year to researchers
whose contributions in the areas of applied and computational
mathematics are exceptional. At the recent international conference on
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering,
Alicante, Spain, June 27-30, 2005, the following prizes were announced:
CMMSE 2005 Mid Career Prize Winner
Donald Estep, Colorado University, USA
CMMSE 2005 Prize Winner
Shinnosuke Oharu, Chuo University, Japan
-Jesús Vigo-Aguiar & Bruce A. Wade
Co-General Chairs, CMMSE
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From: Centre for Environment <ceser_info@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 22:29:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Special Issue of IJEES in Honor of Charles Perrings
Call for Papers
International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics (IJEES)
Special Issue in Honor of Professor Charles Perrings
International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics? (IJEES)
(http://www.geocities.com/ceser_info/ijees.html)
announces a special issue in honor of Professor Charles Perrings.
The purpose of this issue is to respect his outstanding work and fundamental
contributions on ecological and environmental economics.
The International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics (IJEES)
publishes refereed, well-written original research articles, and studies that
describe the latest research and developments in Ecological Economics /
Ecological Statistics / Environmental Statistics.
IJEES is interdisciplinary within the context of contemporary environmental
issues and the associated economics/ mathematical /statistical tools, concepts
and methods.
For more details, visit us: http://www.geocities.com/ceser_info/ijees.html
Dr. Kaushal K. Srivastava,
Executive Editor,
International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics (IJEES),
Post Box No. 113,
Roorkee-247667,
INDIA.
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From: Ke Chen <K.Chen@liverpool.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 13:56:28 +0100 (BST)
Subject: New Book, Matrix Preconditioning Techniques and Applications
Dear Colleagues
It is a pleasure to announce the publication of my new
book on "Matrix Preconditioning Techniques and Applications"
by Ke Chen, ISBN 0521838282, Cambridge University Press
as No 19 in the Series 'Cambridge Monographs on Applied and
Computational Mathematics'. It just came out this week.
After standard introduction to
Numerical Methods (Chapter 1)
Direct Methods (Chapter 2)
Iterative Methods (Chapter 3)
seven main topics (T1-T7) of Matrix Preconditioning Techniques are
covered in Chapters 4-10:
Matrix splitting preconditioners [T1];
Approximate inverse preconditioners [T2];
Multilevel methods and preconditioners [T3];
Multilevel recursive Schur complements preconditioners [T4];
Wavelet preconditioners [T5]
Wavelet Schur preconditioners [T6];
Implicit wavelet preconditioners [T7].
The book ends with a discussion on selected computational challenges
from applications (Chapters 11-15):
Acoustic scattering modelling;
Coupled matrix problems;
Image restoration and inverse problems;
Voltage stability bifurcation problems;
Parallel computing.
See
http://www.cambridge.org/0521838282
http://www.liv.ac.uk/maths/ETC/mpta
where accompanied Mfiles can be downloaded.
Ke Chen
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From: Dario Bini <bini@dm.unipi.it>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:20:14 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: New book, Numerical Methods for Structured Markov Chains
Dario A. Bini, Guy Latouche, and Beatrice Meini
Numerical Methods for Structured Markov Chains
Oxford University Press
Intersecting two large research areas - numerical analysis and applied
probability/queuing theory - this book is a self-contained introduction to
the numerical solution of structured Markov chains, which have a wide
applicability in queuing theory and stochastic modeling and include M/G/1
and GI/M/1-type Markov chain, quasi-birth-death processes, non-skip free
queues and tree-like stochastic processes. Written for applied
probabilists and numerical analysts, but accessible to engineers and
scientists working on telecommunications and evaluation of computer
systems performances, it provides a systematic treatment of the theory and
numerical algorithms for important families of structured Markov chains
and a thorough overview of the current literature.
The book, consisting of nine Chapters, is presented in three parts. Part 1
covers a basic description of the fundamental concepts related to Markov
chains, a systematic treatment of the structure matrix tools, including
finite Toeplitz matrices, displacement operators, FFT, and the infinite
block Toeplitz matrices, their relationship with matrix power series and
the fundamental problems of solving matrix equations and computing
canonical factorizations. Part 2 deals with the description and analysis
of structure Markov chains and includes M/G/1, quasi-birth-death
processes, non-skip-free queues and tree-like processes. Part 3 covers
solution algorithms where new convergence and applicability results are
proved. Each chapter ends with bibliographic notes for further reading,
and the book ends with an appendix collecting the main general concepts
and results used in the book, a list of the main annotations and
algorithms used in the book, and an extensive index.
Contents
Part I: TOOLS; Introduction to Markov chains; Structured matrix
analysis; Matrix equations and canonical factorization
Part II: STRUCTURED MARKOV CHAINS; M/G/1-type Markov chains;
Phase-type queues;
Part III: ALGORITHMS; Functional iterations; Logarithmic reduction and
cyclic reduction; Alternative approaches; Specialized structures
Appendix; Notation; List of Algorithms; Bibliography
Price: £45.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 0-19-852768-3
Publication date: 3 February 2005; 340 pages, 234mm x 156mm
Series: Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation
To order, go to http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-852768-3
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From: Luc Giraud <Luc.Giraud@cerfacs.fr>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:25:57 +0200
Subject: Conference in Toulouse on Preconditioning Techniques
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT -- PRECONDITIONING 2007
2007 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRECONDITIONING TECHNIQUES
JULY 11-13, 2007 [right before ICIAM 2007]
Toulouse, France.
This conference is a sequel to four successful "Preconditioning" meetings, the
first held in Minneapolis in 1999, the second in Tahoe City in 2001, the third
in Napa in 2003, and the fourth in Atlanta in 2005. The theme of the conference
is preconditioning methods, in a broad sense, with some emphasis on industrial
and large-scale problems and applications.
A forthcoming announcement will give details on paper submission, important
dates, program committee members, and invited speakers.
The organizers,
Luc Giraud, CERFACS
Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yousef Saad, University of Minnesota
Wei-Pai Tang, The Boeing Company
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From: Angela Kunoth <kunoth@ins.uni-bonn.de>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 20:05:48 +0200
Subject: Workshop in Bad Honnef on Nonlinear/Adaptive Approximation
IHP-EU Network Workshop/Winter School
Breaking Complexity: Nonlinear/Adaptive Approximation in High Dimensions
Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany
December 14-18, 2005
Numerical problems in high spatial dimension arise in an increasing number of
active and important research areas:
* mathematical finance
* data mining and computational biology
* ab initio electronic structure calculation
* numerical solution of stochastic PDEs and
* numerical solution of multiple-scale problems.
The well-known curse of dimension prevents efficient numerical treatment for
most of these problems by standard discretizations of tensor product type.
The resulting enormous computational challenges cannot be met merely by larger
computational platforms, but require fundamentally new mathematical and
algorithmic ideas.
The meeting aims at bringing together leading experts from those areas in
order to compile an account of the current state of the art. We plan to address
applications to stochastic PDEs as well as solution concepts such as sparse
grid methods, hyperbolic wavelet expansions, linear and nonlinear approximation
theory for sparse spaces, l_1-minimization techniques for the identification
of sparse substructures, mathematical learning theory, and modelling PDEs in
high dimensions.
Invited Speakers:
Emmanuel Candes (Caltech)
Albert Cohen (Paris VI)
Wolfgang Dahmen (RWTH Aachen)
Hans-Juergen Flad (MPI Leipzig)
Stefan Goedecker (Basel)
Michael Griebel (Universitaet Bonn)
Wolfgang Hackbusch (MPI Leipzig)
George Karniadakis (Brown, USA)
Hermann Matthies (TU Braunschweig)
Pal-Andrej Nitsche
Tobias von Petersdorff (University of Maryland, USA)
Reinhold Schneider (Kiel)
Christoph Schwab (ETH Zuerich)
Vladimir Temlyakov (University of South Carolina, USA)
Radu Alexandru Todor (ETH Zuerich)
Harry Yserentant (TU Berlin)
Organizers:
Silvia Bertoluzza (CNR Pavia)
Wolfgang Dahmen (RWTH Aachen)
Angela Kunoth (Universitaet Bonn)
Christoph Schwab (ETH Zuerich)
Further Information: http://www.igpm.rwth-aachen.de/ihp-ws/
E-Mail: ihp-ws@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
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From: Fran Moshiri <fran@rice.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:00:45 -0500
Subject: Faculty Position at Rice University
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAAM)
Rice University
The Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics (
<http://www.caam.rice.edu/> http://www.caam.rice.edu/) invites applications
for a tenure track assistant professorship beginning AY 06-07, from
exceptionally well qualified candidates with research interest in discrete
and/or continuous numerical optimization. Candidates for this position
should have a PhD and have demonstrated potential for excellence in both
research and teaching.
Rice University is a private research university with a long tradition of
excellence in undergraduate and graduate science and engineering education.
The Department of computational and Applied Mathematics hosts research
programs in optimization, numerical linear algebra, control and inverse
problems, and partial differential equations. Interdisciplinary work is a
fundamental aspect of the Department's program. Amongst many other
interdisciplinary collaborations, CAAM faculty are active in the Keck Center
for computational Biology, <http://www.bioc.rice.edu/>
http://www.bioc.rice.edu, and the Rice/Baylor Neuroscience Program,
<http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~neurosci> http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~neurosci.
Applicants should send a letter of application, current vita, and a
description of research to
Staffing Committee
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
MS-134
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005-1892
At least three letters of reference are required; the candidate should have
these sent directly to the above address.
Rice University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.
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From: Petra Hildebrand <hilde@mathematik.uni-ulm.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:59:30 +0200
Subject: Research Associate Position, University of Ulm
Position of Research Associate at the University of Ulm, Department of
Numerical Analysis
At the Department of Numerical Analysis, Faculty of Mathematics and
Economics at the University of Ulm there are
3 positions as Reserach Associates available, starting 1st of October
2005
The assistants are payed according to the German BAT IIa (1/2).
Two of the positions are available within the scope of the reoccupation
of the professorship Numerical Analysis (Prof. Stefan Funken), one
position is part of the working group of Prof. Karsten Urban.
The positions are suited to excellent graduates of mathematical course
of studies with extensive knowledge in the area of Numerical Analysis,
especially Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations.
Additional data about the department is available on
http://numerik.uni-ulm.de
Meaningful applications (copies of certificates, curriculum vitae,
photo) should be sent, no later than July 31, 2005, to
Prof.Dr. Karsten Urban
Universität Ulm
Abteilung Numerik
Helmholtzstraße 18
89069 Ulm
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From: Greg Kochanski <gpk@kochanski.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:56:01 +0100
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at Oxford University
The Phonetics Laboratory at Oxford University has a post-doctoral position
open involving computational modelling of muscle control in speech,
medium-scale nonlinear least-squares, along with some experimental work.
For details, see http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/0407model/FP.html .
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From: Magne Haveraaen <Magne.Haveraaen@ii.uib.no>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:19:05 +0200
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at University of Bergen
One of the positions in the posted announcement would suite a person
within numerics/applied mathematics and with an interest for numerical
software (especially coordinate-free numerics).
The announcement is for a ph.d. position and a post.doc. position on the
SAGA-GEO project, see http://www.ii.uib.no/saga/. The application
deadline is less than two weeks away.
Regards,
Magne Haveraaen
official information at http://melding.uib.no/umeny?Ledige_stillinger
subpage http://melding.uib.no/doc/Ledige_stillinger/1119611985.html
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From: Tim Phillips <phillipstn@Cardiff.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:59:50 +0100
Subject: Postdoctoral Positions at Cardiff University
Three Postdoctoral Positions at Cardiff University
Successful applicants will undertake research as part of an EPSRC funded
Portfolio Partnership on Complex Fluids and Complex Flows, a collaborative
inter-disciplinary initiative with the University of Wales Swansea, in the
following areas:
* Droplet dynamics in complex flows (3 years);
* Computational tools for kinetic theory models (3 years);
* Computational studies of lubricant flows (2 years).
Applicants should have, or expect to obtain in the near future, a PhD in
applied mathematics or engineering. An ability to write numerical software
would be an advantage.
These posts are fixed-term for up to 3 years.
Salary: £19460 - £29128 per annum
Further information and details of the application procedure please visit
www.cardiff.ac.uk/schoolsanddivisions/divisions/humrs/jobs/
academicresearchsenior/ref448.html
For further details contact Professor Tim Phillips, School of Mathematics,
Tel: +44 (0) 29 2087 4194 or by email at PhillipsTN@cardiff.ac.uk
Closing Date: 22 July 2005
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From: Frank Knoben <frank@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:17:04 +0200
Subject: Two Positions at RWTH Aachen, Germany
At the IGPM (Institut fuer Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik) we are
currently developing the new multidimensional flow solver QUADFLOW.
This is part of the interdisciplinary collaborative research center
SFB401 "Flow Modulation and Fluid-Structure-Interaction" funded by
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
QUADFLOW is an adaptive solver. Multiresolution techniques based on
biorthogonal wavelets are employed for grid adaptation. In recent years,
this concept has successfully been implemented and validated by numerous
CFD applications. In the future the multiscale
concept will be employed to design a new multilevel solver for the
efficient solution of nonlinear problems arising from implicit time
discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations.
In this project we can offer a full PhD/Postdoc position which
can be filled immediately. The salary is according to BAT IIa.
We are looking for candidates with a strong background in numerical
analysis. Basic knowledge in computational fluid dynamics are desirable.
The successful candidate has good programming skills in C++.
Employment equity is one of our goals. We also welcome applications from
persons with disabilities.
For further details, see
http://www.igpm.rwth-aachen.de/www/forschung1_e.html#SFB401:A4
http://www.lufmech.rwth-aachen.de/sfb401/welcome_win.html
Applications should be sent to:
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Dahmen
Institut fuer Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik
RWTH Aachen
Templergraben 55,
52056 Aachen,
Germany
Within the bilateral DFG-CNRS research group FOR 563 "Micro-Macro
Modelling and Simulation of Liquid-Vapor Flows" we can offer a full
PhD/Postdoc position which can be filled immediately.
The primary objective of our project
"Dynamics of cavitation bubbles in compressible two-phase fluid flow"
(http://www.igpm.rwth-aachen.de/~mueller/dfg-cnrs_engl.html)
is to provide an accurate description and prediction of all wave and
flow phenomena arising in the dynamical two-phase system formed by a
collapsing cavitation bubble. These phenomena include waves propagating
into the liquid and to the center of the bubble as well as the
spatiotemporal evolution of pressure and velocity fields around the
bubble, in particular, their interaction with a neighboring solid or
free boundary.
We are looking for candidates with a strong background in the numerics
of partial differential equations. Basic knowledge in computational
fluid dynamics and continuum mechanics are desirable. The successful
candidate (mathematician, physicist, engineer) has good programming
skills in C++.
The salary is according to BAT IIa. The appointment covers a period of 3
years, but can be extended for additional 3 years, provided that DFG
will continue funding the project.
Employment equity is one of our goals. We also welcome applications from
persons with disabilities.
Applications should be send to
Priv.-Doz. Dr.Siegfried Mueller
Institut fuer Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik
RWTH Aachen
Templergraben 55, 52056 Aachen, Germany
mueller@igpm.rwth-aachen.de Phone : +49 / 241 / 8096469
http://www.igpm.rwth-aachen.de/~mueller Fax : +49 / 241 / 8092317
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From: Hans Schneider <hans@math.wisc.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 14:12:44 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications
Linear Algebra and its Applications
Volume 405, Pages 1-328 (1 August 2005)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5653-2005-995949999-600626
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) Editorial board
Pages ii-iii
2) Eigenstructure of order-one-quasiseparable matrices. Three-term and
two-term recurrence relations
Pages 1-40
Y. Eidelman, I. Gohberg and Vadim Olshevsky
3) A limit result concerning the QR factorization of banded Toeplitz matrices
Pages 41-44
Samir Karaa
4) Ordering trees by their Laplacian spectral radii
Pages 45-59
Aimei Yu, Mei Lu and Feng Tian
5) Eigenvalues of Hadamard powers of large symmetric Pascal matrices
Pages 60-66
Ashkan Ashrafi and Peter M. Gibson
6) On semigroups of matrices with eigenvalue 1 in small dimensions
Pages 67-73
Janez Bernik and Jan Okni˙˙ski
7) When are dynamic and static feedback equivalent?
Pages 74-82
J.A. Hermida Alonso, M.M. López-Cabeceira and M.T. Trobajo
8) Tensor algebras and displacement structure. IV. Invariant kernels
Pages 83-103
T. Banks, T. Constantinescu and Nermine El-Sissi
9) On some perfect codes with respect to Lee metric
Pages 104-120
Sapna Jain, Ki-Bong Nam and Ki-Suk Lee
10) Feedback invariants of matrices with prescribed rows
Pages 121-154
Marija Dodig
11) Involutions in incidence algebras
Pages 155-162
E. Spiegel
12) A construction technique for generalized complex orthogonal designs and
applications to wireless communications
Pages 163-176
Jennifer Seberry, Sarah A. Spence and Tadeusz A. Wysocki
13) -Aluthge transforms and Schatten ideals
Pages 177-199
Jorge Antezana, Pedro Massey and Demetrio Stojanoff
14) Fundamental gaps of numerical semigroups generated by two elements
Pages 200-208
J.C. Rosales
15) Stability of polytopes of matrices via affine parameter-dependent Lyapunov
functions: Asymptotically exact LMI conditions
Pages 209-228
Ricardo C.L.F. Oliveira and Pedro L.D. Peres
16) Weyl˙˙s theorem for analytically hyponormal operators
Pages 229-238
Xiaohong Cao
17) On factor width and symmetric H -matrices
Pages 239-248
Erik G. Boman, Doron Chen, Ojas Parekh and Sivan Toledo
18) The isometries of certain maximum norms
Pages 249-263
Boris Lavri˙˙
19) Numerical computation of minimal polynomial bases: A generalized resultant
approach
Pages 264-278
E.N. Antoniou, A.I.G. Vardulakis and S. Vologiannidis
20) Steinberg unitary Leibniz algebras
Pages 279-303
Dong Liu and Naihong Hu
21) A geometric estimate on the norm of product of functionals
Pages 304-310
Máté Matolcsi
22) Adjacency preserving maps on the space of symmetric operators
Pages 311-324
Runling An, Jinchuan Hou and Liankuo Zhao
23) Special Issue devoted to papers presented at the Aveiro Workshop on
Graph Spectra, 10-12 April 2006
Page 325
24) Author index
Pages 327-328
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