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From: Ronald Cools <Ronald.Cools@cs.kuleuven.be>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:03:24 +0200
Subject: Philip Rabinowitz (1926-2006)
I have just learned that Philip Rabinowitz passed away on July 21, 2006,
a few weeks before his 80th birthday.
Although this happened about a year ago, it appears that this was
not noticed by the numerical analysis community. Many know the book
"Methods of Numerical Integration" he wrote with Phil Davis.
Some biographical notes and anecdotes are given in the text
"Remembering Philip Rabinowitz" by P.J. Davis & A.S. Fraenkel,
see http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~fraenkel/ .
Sadly,
Ronald Cools
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From: Graham de Vahl Davis <gdvd@cfd.mech.unsw.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:42:44 +1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)
Subject: Packages vs languages
Earlier this year there was an interesting discussion in NA Digest on the
relative merits of Matlab and Fortran for teaching Numerical Analysis. I
would be interested in contributions to a discussion of the following
related topic: the relative merits of commercial CFD/CHT packages (CFX,
FIDAP, Fluent, Phoenics, etc. etc.) and programming languages (APL, BASIC,
C++, Fortran, etc. etc.) for teaching computational fluid dynamics and
heat transfer.
On the one hand, packages are generally fairly easy to learn and students
can get to solving "real" problems quickly. On the other hand (and you may
detect my personal bias here!), do they really know what they are doing?
Given that commercial codes are not open, can they understand the models
and methods used? On the third hand, if a package will give them "the"
answer, do they need to understand models and methods?
In my view, if students do not have that understanding, they cannot
properly verify and validate the results they obtain.
Best wishes,
Graham de Vahl Davis.
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From: "Kreinovich, Vladik" <vladik@utep.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:18:54 -0600
Subject: A new website on contraints solving
Martine Ceberio from University of Texas at El Paso and her student
Geethanjali Mesineni have recently launched a new website on contraints
solving and constraints programming, feel free to browse at
http://www.constraintsolving.com
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From: Iain Duff <I.Duff@rl.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:28:10 +0100 (BST)
Subject: CERFACS Sparse Days ... 20th Anniversary meeting, Oct 2007
Sparse Days at CERFACS ... CERFACS 20th Anniversary Meeting
As announced earlier, the Parallel Algorithms Team at CERFACS split its
annual "Sparse Days at CERFACS" this year between the Preconditioning 2007
meeting, which finished a couple of weeks ago, and the CERFACS Anniversary
meeting in October.
CERFACS will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary on October 10-12. There
will be general CERFACS activities on the afternoon and evening of
Thursday 11th with talks by Algo related people including Gene Golub,
Gerard Meurant, Philippe Toint and Alan Edelman.
The Parallel Algorithms Team will hold a Sparse Days meetings on
Wednesday 10th and the morning of Thursday 11th and a one-day meeting on
Friday 12th. Our plan for the Friday is that
Algo old boys (or girls) would give reflective talks ... partly
saying what they are doing now and relating it to the influence of
the Algo experience. This would not preclude the possibility of a straight
technical talk on the Friday although the conference room has been booked
on Wednesday and Thursday morning for this purpose.
We already have a draft programme for the Friday and a couple of talks for
Wednesday but there is still room for additions to either day.
In order that we can plan the meeting and book some place for the banquet,
we would like to get some ideas of the numbers both attending and speaking.
Although there is no official registration (and no registration fee!),
we would appreciate it if you could let us know by email whether you plan to
come by 7 September after which we will put the draft programme on the web.
So could you let us know by email whether you will come, whether you will
speak (and if so whether for Wed/Thurs or Friday ideally with a title for
your talk ... default of 30 minutes but let us know if you need more or less).
We do have some rooms booked in the meteo residences and are pleased to offer
free accommodation there on a first come first served basis.
We anticipate that the autumnal sparse days will be a fun event and look
forward to welcoming you to Toulouse in October.
We hope that you can come.
Slainte
Iain Duff (duff@cerfacs.fr) and Serge Gratton (gratton@cerfacs.fr)
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From: Joab Winkler <j.winkler@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:39:22 -0400
Subject: UK Summer School, Polynomials and approximate GCDs, Sep 2007
Summer School on: Approximate GCD Computations and New Methods for Solving
Polynomial Equations of High Degree with Multiple Roots
Venue: Oxford University Computer Laboratory, Oxford University, England
Dates: 17-21 September 2007
The Summer School will consist of lectures and laboratory classes on new
methods for solving polynomial equations of high degree with multiple roots. These
methods involve approximate greatest common divisor computations, resultant
and subresultant matrices, structured matrix methods, methods of information
theory and non-linear least squares.
The invited speakers are:
Professor Rob Corless (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Professor Gershon Elber (The Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Professor Gene Golub (Stanford University, USA)
Dr Ivan Markovsky (Southampton University, UK)
Professor Zhonggang Zeng (Northeastern Illinois University,USA)
More details are at http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ml/summer_school/
Dr Joab Winkler
The University of Sheffield
Department of Computer Science
211 Portobello Street
Sheffield S1 4DP
England
E-mail: j.winkler@dcs.shef.ac.uk
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From: Zhilin Li <zhilin@math.ncsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:52:55 -0400
Subject: SAMSI Program on Random Media: Opening Workshop, Sep 2007
The NSF Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) at
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, will host a year-long program on
Random Media. The Research Foci of the program include
Time Reversal
Interface Problems
Imaging Problems and Inverse Problems
Scattering Theory
Porous Media
See http://www.samsi.info/workshops/2007ranmedia-opening200709.shtml
for more information. The Opening Workshop will be held on Sunday - Wednesday,
September 23 - 26, 2007 at the Radisson Hotel RTP in Research Triangle Park,
NC. Confirmed speakers and invited discussants include:
Liliana Borcea (Rice)
Weinan E (Princeton)
Bjorn Engquist (UT Austin)
Lisa Fauci (Tulane)
Tom Hou (Cal Tech)
Karl Kunisch (University of Graz)
Randy LeVeque (Washington)
John Lowengrub (UC Irvine)
Stanislav Molchanov (UNC Charlotte)
George Papanicolaou (Stanford University)
Gretar Tryggvason (WPI)
Gunther Uhlmann (Washington)
Eric Vanden-Eijnden (NYU)
Wojbor Woyczynski (Case Western Reserve University)
Jack Xin (UC Irvine)
The list will be updated constantly.
Interested individuals are encouraged to apply to participate/speak in the
program, using the ON-LINE APPLICATION FORM. The on-line form also includes
the application for financial support. The deadline for the opening workshop
is August 16. You will be notified as soon as possible after your application
if your participation will be possible; regrettably, limited seating will
preclude acceptance of all applications. New researchers (graduate students,
postdocs, and faculty in the early stages of their careers) and members of
underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Please make
reservations at the Radisson as soon as possible. The SAMSI room block and
rate ($99) is effective until September 2, 2007. After this date, there is no
guarantee a room will be available.
More workshops/conferences will be announced later.
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From: Flavio Sartoretto <sartoret@dsi.unive.it>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:26:01 +0200
Subject: PhD Position at Venice University (Italy)
PhD position at Venice University (Italy)
Flavio Sartoretto
Universita` "Ca' Foscari" di Venezia
(sartoret@dsi.unive.it)
July 25, 2007
Description
A beautiful opportunity to live in Venice, a unique city in the world,
"where water melt art into a magnificent stage", and (last but not the
least) earn a PhD in "Scienze Ambientali" (Environmental Sciences), a
3-year PhD scholarship at the University "Ca' Foscari" of Venezia.
The annual net salary will be of Euro 10.140. It is required that the
person employed satisfies the requirements for PhD students,
participates in the course program of the PhD studies and finishes the
PhD degree within 3 years, with possible extension to a 4-th year.
There are no teaching obligations. Further information (in Italian)
on the application forms is available at the URL
http://venus.unive.it/scienzeambientali/dottorato/
The candidates must come from EC countries. The ideal PhD candidate
is expected to hold a master's degree (or equivalent) and has basic
knowledge on
o fluid dynamics,
o scientific computing and programming skills.
The PhD is a part of VEDYM project, see the URL
http://www.dsi.unive.it/~sartoret/project/index.html,
whose partners are
o Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica, Universita` "Ca' Foscari" di
Venezia;
o Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita` "Ca' Foscari" di
Venezia;
o Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Universita` "Ca' Foscari"
di Venezia;
o Edison SpA;
o ENEL SpA;
o ENI SpA, Div R&M;
o Polimeri Europa SpA.
Further information about the position may be obtained from Prof.
Achille Giacometti, e-mail: achille@unive.it, phone +39 041 234 8685,
fax +39 041 234 8594.
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From: Petra Hildebrand <petra.hildebrand@uni-ulm.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:33:47 -0400
Subject: 1 PhD Scholarship at University of Ulm, Germany
Within in the DFG (German Science Foundation) Research Training Group
(Graduiertenkolleg) Modeling, Analysis and Simulation in Economic
Mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Economics of the
University of Ulm there is
1 PhD Scholarship
available for three years starting September 1st, 2007.
Further information is found on:
http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/gradkoll/
The amount of the scholarships is based on the guidelines of the DFG:
http://www.dfg.de/forschungsfoerderung/formulare/download/1_30a_w.pdf
Alumnis of mathematical based courses of studies are asked to send
their significant application documents (copies of certificates, CV,
photo) up to the August 6, 2007 to the speaker:
Prof. Dr. Karsten Urban
University of Ulm
Institut for Numerical Analysis
Helmholtzstrasse 18
89069 Ulm
Phone: +49-731-502-3535
Fax: +49-731-502-3548
email: petra.hildebrand@uni-ulm.de
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From: Liz Martin <liz.Martin@iop.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:38:30 +0100
Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems, volume 23, issue 4, August 2007
INVERSE PROBLEMS
Volume 23, Issue 4, August 2007
Pages: 1329--1758
Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on
the web. This issue is available at: http://stacks.iop.org/IP/23/i=4
PAPERS
1329
Seismic velocity estimation from time migration
M K Cameron, S B Fomel and J A Sethian
1371
Efficient binary reconstruction for non-destructive evaluation using
gammagraphy
Marc Allain and J\'er\^ome Idier
1395
Sampling theorem, bandlimited integral kernels and inverse problems
Kedar Khare
1417
Stopping rules for Landweber-type iteration
Tommy Elfving and Touraj Nikazad
1433
New type of Kadomtsev--Petviashvili equation with self-consistent sources
and its bilinear B\"acklund transformation
Xing-Biao Hu and Hong-Yan Wang
1445
On the convergence of the Born series in optical tomography with diffuse
light
Vadim A Markel and John C Schotland
1467
A linear sampling approach to inverse elastic scattering in
piecewise-homogeneous domains
Bojan B Guzina and Andrew I Madyarov
1495
A variational formulation for frame-based inverse problems
Caroline Chaux, Patrick L Combettes, Jean-Christophe Pesquet and Val\'erie
R Wajs
1519
Displacement of artefacts in inverse scattering
Raluca Felea
1533
A direct imaging method using far-field data
Songming Hou, Knut Solna and Hongkai Zhao
1547
Convergence and application of a modified iteratively regularized
Gauss--Newton algorithm
Alexandra Smirnova, Rosemary A Renaut and Taufiquar Khan
1565
Generalized Fourier transform for the Camassa--Holm hierarchy
Adrian Constantin, Vladimir S Gerdjikov and Rossen I Ivanov
1599
On combining model reduction and Gauss--Newton algorithms for inverse
partial differential equation problems
Vladimir Druskin and Mikhail Zaslavsky
1611
Local regularization for $n$-dimensional integral equations with
applications to image processing
Changjun Cui, Patricia K Lamm and Thomas L Scofield
1635
Krasnoselski--Mann iteration for hierarchical fixed-point problems
Abdellatif Moudafi
1641
Multipole moment decomposition for imaging hydraulic fractures from remote
elastostatic data
B Lecampion and A Peirce
1659
Adaptive finite volume method for distributed non-smooth parameter
identification
Eldad Haber, Stefan Heldmann and Uri Ascher
1677
Stability for the inverse resonance problem for a Jacobi operator with
complex potential
Marco Marletta and Rudi Weikard
1689
On increased stability in the continuation of the Helmholtz equation
Deepak Aralumallige Subbarayappa and Victor Isakov
1699
The Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for the heat equation on a moving boundary
S De Lillo and A S Fokas
1711
Inverse scattering transform for the integrable discrete nonlinear
Schr\"odinger equation with nonvanishing boundary conditions
Mark J Ablowitz, Gino Biondini and Barbara Prinari
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From: "Badih Ghusayni" <badih@futureintech.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:07:07 +0300
Subject: Contents, Intl.Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science 2(2):2007
International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science
Contents of Vol. 2, No. 2, 2007
G. Landi, Total Variation Minimization Subject to a Noise
onstraint........95
Brian King, Optimal Bandwidth for Elliptic Curves defined over GF()
.........117
K. Rauf, T. O. Opoola, On a Differential Subordination of a Certain
Subclass of Univalent Functions.........................127
Paul Manuel, Indra Rajasingh, Bharati Rajan, Helda Mercy, Exact
Wirelength of Hypercube and Enhanced Hypercube Layout on Regular
Caterpillars........137
Indra Rajasingh, Bharati Rajan, Joice Punitha, Kernel in Cycle Related
Graphs.................................147
Indra Rajasingh, Bharati Rajan, Sharmila Mary Arul, Albert William, An
Approximation Algorithm for the Achromatic Number of Mesh-like
Topologies....155
J. Baskar Babujee, R. Jagadesh, On Lexicographic Product of
Graphs........163
S. Koilraj, S. K. Ayyaswamy, Consecutive Labelings for the Subdivision
of Swings and Dove tailed Graphs......................169
B. Gayathri, M. Duraisamy, M. Tamil Selvi, Even Edge Graceful Labeling
of some Cycle Related Graphs......................179
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