NA Digest Sunday, April 18, 1999 Volume 99 : Issue 16

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From: NA Digest <na.digest@na-net.ornl.gov>
Date: Sun, 04/18/1999, 17:28:02
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 #

Apr. 19-21 PDE and CFD Pisa, Italy 09
Apr. 23 Meshing Montrea, Canada 15
Apr. 24 Midwest Numerical Analysis Day Chicago, IL 06
Apr. 29 Southern Ontario NA Day Hamilton, Ontario 08

May 2- 7 Computational Sciences and Engineering Ascona, Switzerland 13
May 7- 9 Optimization in Computational Chemistry Princeton, NJ 27
May 10-14 Theoretical and Computational Acoustics Trieste, Italy 34
May 10-12 SIAM Conference on Optimization Atlanta, GA 41
May 12-15 SIAM Annual Meeting Atlanta, GA 41
May 17-20 Conference Honoring Larry Schumaker Nashville, TN 08
May 19-22 Mathematics from Physics Urbana, IL 44
May 20-25 Computational Heat Transfer Palm Cove, Australia 16
May 21-22 Differential Equations Mississippi State, MS 43
May 23-26 Parallel CFD Williamsburg, VA 14
May 24-26 Discontinuous Galerkin Methods Newport, RI 08
May 24-28 Applications of Dynamical Systems Snowbird, UT 23
May 24-31 Environmental Modeling Rostov-on-Don, Russia 07
May 31-June 4 Computer Algebra Munich, Germany 02
May 31-June 12 Multiscale Approaches for PDE Marseilles, France 12

June 2- 6 Large Scale Scientific Computations Sozopol, Bulgaria 08
June 2- 6 Matrices with Sparsity Structure Sozopol, Bulgaria 45
June 3- 4 Mathematical Modelling and Analysis Vilnius, Lithuania 48
June 6-11 Rational Approximation Antwerp, Belgium 11
June 7- 9 Operational Research In Motion Windsor, Ontario 29
June 7-11 Monte Carlo Methods Varna, Bulgaria 22
June 9-12 Complementarity Problems Madison, WI 13
June 10-12 Sparse Matrices Minneapolis, MN 12
June 11 Computational Methods in Engineering Uppsala, Sweden 03
June 11-13 CAIMS Annual Meeting Quebec, Canada 05
June 12-14 Java Grande Conference Palo Alto, CA 46
June 12-17 Problem Solving Environments San Feliu de Guixols, Spain 10
June 13-16 Computational Geometry Miami Beach, FL 44
June 13-19 Summer School Sozopol, Bulgaria 04
June 14-18 Householder Numerical Algebra Symposium Whistler B.C., Canada 42
June 15-20 Computational Physics Dubna, Russia 45
June 16-18 Wavelet Workshop Braunschweig, Germany 04
June 16-18 Numerical Dynamical Systems Milano, Italy 09
June 17-18 Conference Honoring George K. Lea Arlington, VA 16
June 20-24 Number Theory Winnipeg, Canada 40
June 21-25 Matrix Theory Haifa, Israel 08
June 21-25 Parallel Computing Pune, India 12
June 21-26 Continuous Optimization Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 33
June 21-27 Course on Computational Mathematics Martina Franca, Italy 05
June 21-27 Course on Industrial Applications Apulia, Italy 13
June 22-25 Finite Elements and Applications Brunel, UK 05
June 24-25 Bifurcations Gent, Belgium 13
June 24-27 Computer Algebra Madrid, Spain 13
June 27-30 Scientific Computing Hong Kong 10
June 27-July 1 Structured Matrices Boulder, CO 04
June 28-July 1 Parallel Processing and Imaging Las Vegas, NV 49
June 28-July 1 Differential Equations Las Vegas, NV 05
June 28-July 2 Numerical Analysis Dundee, Scotland 04

July 1- 4 Scientific and Enginnering Computing Beijing, China 06
July 1- 7 Curves and Surfaces Saint-Malo, France 98:15
July 3- 6 Accurate Solution of Eigenvalue Problems Hagen, Germany 06
July 4- 8 Circuits, Systems, Comms and Computers Athens, Greece 08
July 5- 9 ICIAM Edinburgh, Scotland 47
July 12-16 System Modelling and Optimization Cambridge, UK 44
July 14-19 Biomathematics Antalya, Turkey 15
July 15-17 Viscosity Crete, Greece 08
July 16-18 Algorithms Prague, Czech Republic 40
July 18-28 Foundations of Computational Mathematics Oxford, U.K. 44
July 19-22 International Linear Algebra Society Barcelona, Spain 36
July 19-23 Finite Volumes for Complex Applications Duisburg, Germany 06
July 26-30 Numerical Mathematics Jyvaskyla, Finland 42
July 26-Aug. 3 Mathematics Modeling Workshop Raleigh, NC 12

Aug. 1- 2 High Performance Fortran Redondo Beach, CA 13
Aug. 2- 6 Computational Physics Beijing, China 04
Aug. 4- 6 Semiconductor Technology Boulder, CO 02
Aug. 9-13 SciCADE99 Queensland, Australia 47
Aug. 15-18 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining San Diego, CA 06
Aug. 16-20 Ordinary Differential Equations Auckland, New Zealand 08
Aug. 17-21 High Performance Computing Users Group Stony Brook, NY 12
Aug. 21-25 IMACS Congress 2000 Lausanne, Switzerland 46
Aug. 25-28 Conference Honoring Sergei Godunov Novosibirsk, Russia 47
Aug. 25-28 Viscoelastic Flows Vaals, Netherlands 42
Aug. 27-29 Computational Plasticity Kiel, Germany 13
Aug. 31-Sep. 3 Euro-Par'99 Toulouse, France 04

Sep. 6-10 Numerical Solution of Markov Chains Zaragoza, Spain 38
Sep. 6-10 Parallel Computing Technologies St.-Petersburg, Russia 41
Sep. 6-21 Numerical Simulation of Flows Heidelberg, Germany 09
Sep. 13-18 Applied Math and Computation Dubrovnik, Croatia 04
Sep. 13-18 Cubature Formulae Krasnoyarsk, Russia 05
Sep. 20-24 Computational Techniques Canberra, Australia 42
Sep. 20-23 Transport-Dominated Problems Magdeburg, Germany 48
Sep. 27-30 Optimization and Numerical Algebra Nanjing, China 07
Sep. 25-Oct. 2 School on Parallel Techniques Natal, Brazil 15
Sep. 27-Oct. 1 Boundary Integral Methods Sydney, Australia 49
Sep. 28-Oct. 3 Global Optimization Firenze, Italy 05

Oct. 4- 8 Parametric Optimization Dubrovnik, Croatia 45
Oct. 4- 8 Complexity of Multivariate Problems Hong Kong 06
Oct. 7- 8 Computational Neuroscience Minneapolis, MN 12
Oct. 9 Conference Honoring Cleve Moler Natick, MA 04
Oct. 18-22 Conference Honoring S. K. Godunov Manchester, UK 06

Nov. 2- 5 SIAM Conference on Geometric Design Albuquerque, NM 14
Nov. 14-19 Forum on Parallel Computing Methods Nashville, TN 11

Dec. 6- 8 CFD Modelling Melbourne, Australia 06
Dec. 12-17 Applied and Computational Math TBD, Chile 14
Dec. 20-22 Interval Computation Bhubaneswar, India 11

2000
Jan. 10-12 High Performance Computing Vienna, Austria 13
Mar. 5- 8 Numerical Combustion Amelia Island, FL 13
July 12-14 Matrix Analytic Methods Leuven, Belgium 16

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From: Merrell Patrick <mpatr@concentric.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1904 18:42:13 -0500
Subject: Change of Address for Merrell Patrick

Change of address for Merrell Patrick:

I have retired from the National Science Foundation and am now self employed
doing some contract work for the Department of Energy through ORISE. The
address of my home office is

Merrell Patrick
33 Curle Road,
Hampton, VA 23669
tel: 757-850-8247
email: mpatr@concentric.net


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From: Craig Loehle <Craigloehl@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:48:20 EDT
Subject: Global Optimization Package for Mathematica

Loehle Enterprises announces the release of Version 2.0 of its package Global
Optimization. This product is a general purpose operations research tool
designed to work with the Mathematica system. It solves nonlinear
optimization problems with or without constraints. It is one of the few
tools that allows nonlinear constraints. It is capable of solving problems
with hundreds of variables and performs well on problems with many local
minima. A free student version and manual are available by request to
craigloehl@aol.com. For further information, refer to
www.Wolfram.com/info/GlobalOpt.


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From: Siegfried Rump <rump@tu-harburg.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:38:11 +-200
Subject: Interval Arithmetic Package for MATLAB

This is to announce

INTLAB - A Matlab library for interval arithmetic routines.

Elements (toolboxes) of INTLAB are

- arithmetic operations for real and complex intervals,
vectors and matrices over those including sparse matrices,
- rigorous (real) interval standard functions,
- automatic differentiation including interval data,
- automatic slopes including interval data,
- multiple precision including interval data,
- rigorous input and output,
- some sample verification routines.

All INTLAB code is written in Matlab for best portability. There is exactly
one exception to that statement, that is one assembly language
routine for switching the rounding mode of the processor (provided for
some hardware platforms).

Major objective of INTLAB is speed and ease of use. The first is achieved
by a special concept for arithmetic routines, the second by the operator
concept in Matlab.

Sample timings in seconds on my lame duck 120 Mhz Laptop for a
200x200 dense linear system are

0.56 sec real point system, no verification (pure Matlab),
3.35 sec real point system with verification,
4.23 sec real interval system with verification.

The code for generating the computing times is

n=200; a=2*rand(n)-1; b=a*ones(n,1);
tic, a\b; toc
tic, verifylss(a,b); toc
tic, verifylss( midrad(a,1e-10) , midrad(b,1e-10) ); toc

INTLAB code is easy to read and write, almost like a specification.
For example, for a given function "f" and some approximate value "xs",
the following code performs one step of Newton's iteration for xs:

x = gradientinit(xs);
y = f(x);
xs = xs - y.dx\y.x;

Note that y.dx is the Jacobian and "\" is the Matlab function for solving
a linear system. The corresponding code using verified operations looks like

x = gradientinit(intval(xs));
y = f(x);
xs = xs - y.dx\y.x;

As expected, nonlinear function evaluation slows down significantly due to
interpretation overhead. INTLAB is available for Windows and Unix systems,
prerequisite is Matlab Version 5. For more details and downloading, see

http://www.ti3.tu-harburg.de/rump/intlab/

If you have comments etc., let me know. Have fun :-)

With best regards,

Siegfried M. Rump


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From: Moshe Olshansky <OLSHANSK@HAIFA.VNET.IBM.COM>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:15:30 +0200
Subject: Correctly Rounded Elementary Function Library

I am pleased to announce that ml4j has been posted on IBM's alphaWorks and
can be freely downloaded from http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com
ml4j stands for Mathematical Library for Java. However, our library can be
called from C as well as from Java (we include an example of doing this).
The 12 functions are sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, atan2, exp, log, pow,
sqrt and IEEEremainder. We did not include functions like floor, ceil etc.
since they are implemented correctly on most platforms. We did include
IEEEremainder (which has nothing to do with rounding) and sqrt (which is
correctly rounding on most platforms) just for completeness.
The unique feature of our library is the correct rounding, i.e. the result
produced by us identical to one obtained by rounding the exact (infinitely
precise) result to the nearest/even double precision number. And the
performance price paid for this is not too high (our library is written in
standard and portable C and it's speed is comparable to platform specific
libraries which do not round correctly).

You can download binaries for PowerPC/AIX, Pentium/WindowsNT and
Sparc/Solaris from alphaWorks. See the above URL for more details.

Any comments are more than welcome.

Moshe Olshansky
IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa
e-mail: olshansk@haifa.vnet.ibm.com


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From: Mark Adams <madams@cs.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:40:35 -0700
Subject: Prometheus, Parallel Multigrid Finite Element Library

We would like to announce the alpha release of the Prometheus library: a
fully parallel multigrid-based linear system solver for unstructured 3D
Finite Element problems. Prometheus takes a FE mesh distributed across
multiple processors, automatically generates all the coarse representations
and operators for standard multigrid algorithms, and solves the linear
system.

Prometheus is designed for distributed memory machines, and has been used
to solve irregular 40 million degree-of-freedom problems, with large (10^4)
jumps in material coefficients and incompressible materials (v=0.49), on
960 IBM PowerPC processors with over 50% parallel efficiency. It uses C++
with MPI, is built on PETSc (www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc) and ParMetis
(www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis), and is correspondingly portable.
It has been tested extensively on the Cray T3E and IBM PowerPC cluster;
support for more platforms will be added depending on demand.

Prometheus has been developed for large scale solid mechanics problems and
has only been run on symmetric positive definite systems. However,
Prometheus can in principle be used for any problem for which effective
Krylov and multigrid algorithms exist (multigrid conference proceedings
are one source for such algorithms e.g., www.mgnet.org). Prometheus uses
no explicit information about the partial differential equation being
solved (it only uses geometric information about the fine grid mesh). The
primary purpose of Prometheus is to construct standard multigrid operators
for unstructured FE meshes for use in multigrid preconditioners for Krylov
solvers. The current version supports only first order hexahedral and
tetrahedral elements; the next release will support shell and beam elements
as well.

Prometheus-1.0 documentation and library can be found at
www.cs.berkeley.edu/~madams/Prometheus-1.0. It is freely available. We
are interested in interacting with potential users to get feedback on the
effectiveness and usability of the algorithms and code, to help in the
continued development of Prometheus.

Mark Adams (madams@cs.berkeley.edu)
Jim Demmel (demmel@cs.berkeley.edu)
R.L.Taylor (rlt@ce.berkeley.edu)


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From: Graham de Vahl Davis <cht01@cfd.mech.unsw.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:47:55 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT: CHT'01. The International Centre for Heat and
Mass Transfer will hold its 2nd International Symposium on Advances in
Computational Heat Transfer in Palm Cove, Cairns, North Queensland,
Australia on May 20-25, 2001. Papers on all aspects of CFD/HT will be
welcome. The program will include invited keynote lectures, contributed
lectures and poster presentations, and discussion panels on specialized
topics. The Proceedings will be published as a book and on CD-ROM.

Proceedings of CHT'97 (in hard copy or on CD-ROM) are available from
Professor Faruk Arinc, Secretary-General, ICHMT: arinc@metu.edu.tr

Chairman: Professor Graham de Vahl Davis, CFD Research Laboratory,
Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of NSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2052.
Fax: (+61 2) 9663 1222 Email: cht01@cfd.mech.unsw.edu.au
http://ichmt.me.metu.edu.tr/upcoming-meetings/CHT-01/announce.html


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From: Beatrice Meini <meini@paley.dm.unipi.it>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:01:04 +0200
Subject: Conference on Matrix Analytic Methods

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Third International Conference on
Matrix-Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models

July 12--14, 2000. Leuven, Belgium

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference will provide an international forum for the
presentation of recent results on matrix-analytic methods in
stochastic models. Its scope includes development of the methodology
as well as the related algorithmic implementations and applications in
communications, production and manufacturing engineering; it also
includes computer experiments in the investigation of specific
probability models.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

methodology,
general theory,
computational methods,
computer experimentation,
queueing models,
telecommunications modeling,
spatial processes,
reliability problems,
risk analysis, and
production and inventory models.

As well as sessions representing the research papers submitted, there
will be invited presentations by leading researchers in the field.

SOFTWARE PACKAGES
A session will be specifically devoted to software packages. Authors
will present their software tool during a regular lecture, explaining
what it does and what design issues had to be resolved. Afterwards,
they will have the opportunity to demonstrate the functioning of their
package to interested participants.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Prospective authors (of research papers as well as software packages)
are invited first to submit a 1 to 2 page abstract. The abstract
will be used to verify whether the subject matter falls under the
scope of the conference. On the basis of the abstracts, full papers
will be solicited from the authors. Manuscripts will be refereed and
proceedings published.

STUDENT PAPERS
The organizers wish to encourage students to attend the conference.
To that effect, financial assistance will be made available on a
limited basis and a streamlined submission procedure will be
implemented. Details will be published on the conference web page.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Conference chair

Herlinde Leemans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Programme co-chairs

Guy Latouche, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Peter Taylor, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Programme committee

Attahiru S. Alfa, University of Manitoba, Canada.
S{\o}ren Asmussen, University of Lund, Sweden.
Dieter Baum, University of Trier, Germany.
Nigel Bean, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Srinivas Chakravarthy, Kettering University, USA.
Alexander Dudin, Byelorussian State University, Belarus.
Malcolm Faddy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Richard Gail, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA.
Jorge Garcia Vidal, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain.
Naoki Makimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Beatrice Meini, University of Pisa, Italy.
Valery Naoumov, Department of Information Technology, Finland.
Marcel F. Neuts, University of Arizona, USA.
Colm O'Cinneide, Purdue University, USA.
V. Ramaswami, AT\&T Laboratories, USA.
Marie-Ange Remiche, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Bhaskar Sengupta, NEC Research Laboratories, USA.
Mark Squillante, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA.
G.W. Stewart, University of Maryland, USA.
Erik van Doorn, University of Twente, The Nertherlands.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Abstract submission: 1st of May, 1999
Notification of paper solicitation: 1st of June, 1999
Full paper submission: 1st of September, 1999
Notification of acceptance/revision required/rejection: 20th of December, 1999
Revised version due: 1st of March, 2000
Final notification for papers with delayed decision: 15th of March, 2000

FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information will be published on the conference web page at
http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/mam3

Queries should be addressed to
MAM3@econ.kuleuven.ac.be


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From: David Keyes <keyes@icase.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:44:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Computational Engineering Workshop in Honor of George K. Lea

Second Announcement and Registration Reminder
A Workshop on the Evolution and Future
of Computational Engineering
In Honor of the Retirement of
George K. Lea
from the National Science Foundation

June 17-18, 1999
Washington, DC

A workshop in honor of the retirement of George K. Lea from the National
Science Foundation will be held at NSF headquarters in Arlington, VA
(metropolitan Washington) and at George Washington University, on June 17
and 18, 1999.

Computational Science & Engineering (CS&E) is now widely accepted as a
third modality for scientific investigation and engineering design, along
with theory and experiment. It is easy to forget that it was difficult to
find institutionalized support for research in CS&E until relatively
recently. George Lea's program in Computational Engineering at the
National Science Foundation has long been an exception, and upon his
retirement from the NSF it is both appropriate and timely to take
retrospective and prospective looks at CS&E. George has not only helped to
define and promote the interdisciplinary content of CS&E; he has also
galvanized many interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborations
through his introductions of CS&E researchers to each other at national
conferences and at NSF-sponsored workshops.

Colleagues, friends, and former PIs of George --- and all who are
interested in retracing the past and speculating on the future of
Computational Engineering --- are therefore invited to a full day of
technical presentations and two surrounding evenings of social events at
the workshop.

Those tentatively scheduled to speak include:

Jacobo Bielak, CMU
Ray Chin, IUPUI
Charbel Farhat, CU Boulder
Karl Hess, UIUC
Bert Hesselink, Stanford
Daniel Joseph, Minnesota
George Karniadakis, Brown
David Keyes, ODU
Bart Ng, IUPUI
Dennis Parsons, UIUC
Tony Patera, MIT
Joe Thompson, Mississippi State
Sheila Widnall, MIT

Details are available at http://www.icase.edu/~keyes/gkl , and on-line
registration is available at http://titan.colorado.edu/~rtezaur/wr.html .


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From: Jens Burmeister <jb@numerik.uni-kiel.de>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 11:52:19 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Positions at Max-Planck-Institute, Leipzig

The

Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in Sciences
Leipzig, Germany

invites applications for several postdoctoral and phd positions
in the field of "Scientific Computation". The successful candidate
is expected to have experience in Numerical Mathemematics and
implementational techniques.

The positions commence May 1, 1999. However, it
may be possible to begin at a later date with mutual consent.

The positions are for two years with the possibility for an extension.

Physically challenged will be given preferential consideration.
The Max-Planck-Institute aims at increasing the percentage of women in
those areas in which they are underrepresented. Women are hence especially
encouraged to apply.

Applicants are requested to submit a curriculum vitae, exam
certificates, recommendations of professors; for phd-students:
a copy of their diploma thesis, if finished, otherwise a description
of the topic; for postdocs: dissertation, list of publications
and a short statement of research interests. All material should
be sent by April 15, 1999 and addressed to

Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik
in den Naturwissenschaften
to Prof. Dr. W. Hackbusch
Inselstrasse 22-26
D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

With best regards
Jens Burmeister


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From: Osman Yasar <oyasar@brockport.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:12:25 -0400
Subject: Administrative Position at SUNY Brockport

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK - COLLEGE AT BROCKPORT

Position:
Associate Vice President for Information Technology Services

SUNY Brockport is seeking an effective manager to lead its
newly-structured Information and Technology Services operation.
Reporting to the Academic Vice President, the Associate VP will
be the Chief Information and Technology Officer and will provide
creativity, balance and perspective for information technology
throughout the college, including computing services, library
services and instructional technologies.

Working in concert with the campus-wide College Technology Council
and other campus governing bodies, the Associate VP will develop,
promote and implement a coherent vision of technology that is
consistent with the College's strategic plan. The Associate VP
must be able to: develop an in-depth understanding of the College's
institutional priorities; build teams that recognize diverse
stakeholder needs; design appropriate technical solutions to meet
student, faculty and staff requirements; and, manage a significant
budget, selecting among competing priorities.

Responsibilities:

* Work collaboratively with faculty and staff to enhance the use of
technology in promoting student success
* Develop ways to provide efficient and effective use of technology
resources, while accomplishing the goals and objectives of the college
* Provide unified campus management for information and technology
* Provide high quality information services across a broad spectrum
of users

Qualifications necessary:

* Graduate degree required; master's or doctorate in information or
technology field preferred
* A global view of the role of technology within higher education
* A record of accomplished and successful information and technology
administration; higher education experience preferred
* Experience in managing substantial financial resources
* Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills
* Experience working in a team-based environment

SUNY Brockport is a comprehensive college of arts and sciences,
committed to serving the region and New York state. Among its
many strong programs, Brockport has the only international business
major and the largest study-abroad program in SUNY. Brockport has 39
undergraduate majors and master's degree programs in 20 disciplines.
For a complete overview, visit Brockport at www.brockport.edu.

For additional information about this position, please contact either
the Search Committee Chair: Julie A. Wash, Drake Memorial Library at
(716) 395-5688 (jwash@brockport.edu) or Timothy J. Flanagan, Vice
President for Academic Affairs at (716) 395-2524 (flanagan@brockport.edu).
All applications and nominations, which should include a letter of
interest and qualifications, a curriculum vitae, and three letters
of reference, should be sent to:

Richard D. Meade, Director
Faculty/Staff Recruitment Office
SUNY College at Brockport
350 New Campus Drive
Brockport, NY 14420-2929.

Review of applications will begin May 1, 1999

SUNY Brockport is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.


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From: Object Reservoir <resumes@objectres.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 09:54:15 -0500
Subject: Positions at Object Reservoir, Austin

Object Reservoir Inc., a venture-backed software firm in Austin, Texas, has
immediate openings in the following areas:
Geometric Modeling
Unstructured Mesh Generation
Error Estimation and Finite Element Algorithms for Fluid Mechanics
Candidates should have a Master's or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science
or Engineering, and have several years of experience in the
development of commercial software, in an object-oriented software
environment. Qualified candidates, please email a brief resume to
resumes@objectres.com.


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From: Wei Cei <wcai@uncc.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:33:26 -0400
Subject: Visiting Faculty Position at the UNC Charlotte

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Department of Mathematics

Applications are invited for a visiting assistant professor position in

mathematics beginning in fall 1999. Minimum requirements includes
a Ph.D. in numerical analysis and experience in scientific computing.

Please send a letter of application, vita, a short statement of your
specific teaching and research objectives, and at least three letters of

recommendation to Prof. Wei Cai, Department of Mathematics,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223.
E-mail application is accepted.

AA/EOE. Women bad underrepresented minorities are
encouraged to apply.

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From: Thomas Hogan <hogan@math.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:33:17 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Contents, Journal of Approximation Theory

Table of Contents: J. Approx. Theory, Volume 97, Number 2, April 1999

P\'adraig Kirwan, Yannis Sarantopoulos, Andrew M. Tonge
Extremal homogeneous polynomials on real normed spaces
201--213

Fernando Mazzone
On the norm of the metric projections
214--219

S. B. Damelin
Smoothness theorems for Erd\H{o}s weights, II
220--239

Song Li, Ren Tai Wang
The characterization of the derivatives for linear combinations of
Post-Widder operators in $L_p$
240--253

I. H. Sloan, W. Wendland
Commutator properties for periodic splines
254--281

Yingkang Hu
On equivalence of moduli of smoothness
282--293

Di-Rong Chen
Algebraic properties of subdivision operators with matrix mask and
their applications
294--310

J. Levesley, A. K. Kushpel
Generalised sk-spline interpolation on compact Abelian groups
311--333

Vladimir Andrievskii, Hans-Peter Blatt
Erd\H{o}s-Tur\'an type theorems on quasiconformal curves and arcs
334--365

Grzegorz Lewicki
Minimal extensions in tensor product spaces
366--383

Konstantin Yu. Osipenko
Optimal recovery of the derivative of periodic analytic functions from
Hardy classes
384--395

Author index for Volume 97
396



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