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From: G. W. Stewart <stewart@cs.umd.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 14:06:25 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Matrix Algorithms, Volume 2
I am about half through the second volume of my series Matrix
Algorithms. It is titled Eigensystems and concerns the treatment of
dense and sparse eigenvalue problems. I have just posted the first
three chapters--Eigensystems, The QR Algorithm, and The Symmetric
Eigenvalue Problem--along with front material, an appendix, and a
bibliography. They may be obtained though my home page at
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~stewart/
or at
ftp://thales.cs.umd.edu/pub/survey/
They may also be obtained by anonymous ftp at thales.cs.umd.edu in
pub/survey.
If you have comments, suggestions, or errata please send them
to me at
stewart@cs.umd.edu
G. W. (Pete) Stewart
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20002
USA
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From: Joel Malard <JM.Malard@pnl.gov>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 12:00:42 -0800
Subject: Computing Volumes from Areas
Dear Na-Neters,
The area A of a triangle can be found from the
lengths x1, x2 and x3 of its sides using the formula:
A = 0.25*\sqrt{ 4*x1^2*x2^2 + 4*x1^2*x3^2 +
4*x2^2*x3^2 - (x1^2+x2^2+x3^2)^2 }.
Is there a more robust formula? In the end i would like
to compute the volume of a tetrahedron from the areas
of its facets? I thank you for your help.
Best Wishes,
Joel Malard
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Battelle Boulevard, PO Box 999
Richland, WA 99352
USA
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From: Wai Sun Don <wsdon@cfm.brown.edu>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 17:50:46 -0500 (EST)
Subject: PseudoPack, A Software Library for Numerical Differentiation
Hello, this message announces release of the PseudoPack 2000 Rio Edition.
PseudoPack is a software library for numerical differentiation by
pseudospectral methods.
It is being developed by Prof. Wai Sun Don at Brown University and
Prof. Bruno Costa at Departamento de Matematica Aplicada, IM-UFRJ, Brazil.
This special edition of the PseudoPack is dedicate to honor our dear friend and
colleague Prof. David Gottlieb. His pioneer work on Pseudospectral methods with
Prof. Steve Orzag in late 1970 leads to greater appreciation of the value of
high order scheme within the scientific computing community.
Without his guidance and encouragement, PseudoPack would be a Pseudo-reality.
Brief description of features :
1. Derivatives of up to order four are supported for the Fourier, Chebyshev
and Legendre collocation methods that are based on the Gauss-Lobatto,
Gauss-Radau and Gauss quadrature nodes.
2. Matrix-Matrix Multiply, Even-Odd Decomposition and Fast Fourier Transform
Algorithms are supported for computing the derivative/smoothing of
a function.
3. Native fast assembly library calls such as General Matrix-Matrix Multiply
(GEMM) from Basic Linear Algebra Level 3 Subroutine (BLAS 3),
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and Fast Cosine/Sine Transform (CFT/SFT)
when available, are deployed in the computational kernel of the PseudoPack.
4. Special fast algorithms, e.g. Fast Quarter-Wave Transform and Even-Odd
Decomposition Algorithm, are provided for cases when the function
has either even or odd symmetry.
5. Kosloff-Tal-Ezer mapping is used to reduce the roundoff error
for the Chebyshev and Legendre differentiation.
6. Extensive built-in and User-definable grid mapping function suitable
for finite, semi-infinite and infinite domain are provided.
7. Built-in filtering (smoothing) of a function and its derivative
are incorporated in the library.
8. Differentiation and Smoothing can be applied to either the first
or the second dimension of a two-dimensional data array.
9. Conservative and non-Conservative form of Derivative operators, namely,
Gradient, Divergence, Curl and Laplacian operators in the 2D/3D general
curvilinear coordination using pseudospectral methods are available.
10. Unified subroutine call interface allows modification of any aspect
of the library with minor or no change to the subroutine call statement.
It aims are to provide minimum roundoff error and good efficiency on
several computational platforms. They are SGI, Sun, IBM R6000 and Cray.
The software package is written in Fortran 90 with the C preprocessor.
It is freely available, at least to non-commercial users.
You can read the full description of the library from our Web page
http://www.labma.ufrj.br/~bcosta/PseudoPack2000/Main.html
or
http://www.cfm.brown.edu/people/wsdon/home.html
To obtain the package, please contact Prof. Bruno Costa at
bcosta@labma.ufrj.br
In the month of January 2000, please contact Prof. Wai Sun Don at
wsdon@cfm.brown.edu
instead since Prof. Bruno Costa will be on summer vacation.
Please send any questions, comments, or suggestions to wsdon@cfm.brown.edu or
bcosta@labma.ufrj.br
Thanks for your time.
-- Prof. Bruno Costa and Prof. Wai Sun Don
January 1, 2000
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From: Darrell Ross <ross@siam.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:17:03 -0500
Subject: SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra
Greetings,
I'm writing to inform the NA Digest that the Seventh SIAM Conference
on Applied Linear Algebra (LA00) call for papers is
now on the web at:
http://www.siam.org/meetings/la00/
The deadline for submission of contributed abstracts for a poster
presentation or lecture presentation is May 1, 2000.
Electronic submission are welcome using the new Conference Management
System at:
http://www.siam.org/meetings/la00/part.htm
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Regards,
Darrell Ross, Conference Program Manager
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics
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From: Esmond Ng <EGNg@lbl.gov>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:43:20 -0800
Subject: Bay Area Scientific Computing Day
BAY AREA SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING DAY
Saturday, February 26, 2000
8:45 am - 5:15 pm
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Building 66
One Cyclotron Road
Berkeley, CA 94720
GOAL:
The Bay Area Scientific Computing Day will be an informal gathering to
encourage the interaction and collaboration of researchers in the field
of scientific computing from the Bay Area. It is also meant to provide
students and young researchers an opportunity to gain experience in
presenting their work to a large group setting.
FORMAT:
The one-day workshop will begin at 8:45am with some opening remarks.
Technical presentations will begin at 9:00am. The workshop will finish at
about 5:15pm. All presentations will be 30 minutes long. This will allow
us to accommodate a total of 13 talks.
SPEAKERS:
Speakers will be selected from the three major DOE labs in the Bay Area
(Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab, and Sandia Nat'l Lab),
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, as well as from Stanford University
and University of California at Berkeley.
SPECIAL POST-WORKSHOP EVENT:
Tentative evening banquet at a local restaurant (location and time to be
announced).
REGISTRATION:
The workshop registration form is available on WWW
(http://www.nersc.gov/research/SCG/forms2.html).
It is also available from Eric Essman (epessman@lbl.gov, fax: 510-486-5812).
If you are interested in attending the workshop, please email or fax the
registration form to Eric Essman no later than January 19, 2000.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Additional information is available on WWW
(http://www.nersc.gov/research/SCG/bascd.html).
Also, please contact Gene Golub (golub@sccm.stanford.edu) or Esmond G. Ng
(egng@lbl.gov; Phone: 510-495-2851) if you have further questions.
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From: Kristen Dranikoski <ca@math.usf.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:52:09 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Contents, Constructive Approximation
CONSTRUCTIVE APPROXIMATION CONTENTS
Vol. 16, Number 2, 2000
161-199 Y.A. Brudnyi and N.J. Kalton
Polynomial Approximation on Convex Subsets of R^n
201-219 G.C. Donovan, J.S. Geronimo, and D.P. Hardin
Compactly Supported, Piecewise Affine Scaling Functions
on Triangulations
221-259 W. Dahmen, B. Han, R.-R. Jia, and A. Kunoth
Biorthogonal Multiwavelets on the Interval: Cubic Hermite
Splines
261-281 Vilmos Totik
Weighted Polynomial Approximation for Convex External Fields
283-311 P.M. Soardi
Biorthogonal M-Channel Compactly Supported Wavelets
RESEARCH PROBLEMS
313-316 D.S. Lubinsky
Asymptotic Behaviour of Entire Functions with Positive
Coefficients: Research Problems 2000-2
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