NA Digest Sunday, April 2, 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 14

Today's Editor:
Cleve Moler
The MathWorks, Inc.
moler@mathworks.com

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From: Cleve Moler <moler@mathworks.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 20:32:42 -0500 (EST)
Subject: MATLAB incorportates LAPACK

We have posted new versions of the LAPACK-based numerics library for
use with MATLAB 5.3 (Release 11 of the MathWorks CD). The library
is described in the "Cleve's Corner" article in the Winter 2000 issue
of MATLAB News and Notes. See:

http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletter/clevescorner/winter2000.cleve.shtml

The new versions fix a bug associated with "balancing" in eigenvector
calculations for nonsymmetric matrices. For some matrices, the
statement [V,D] = eig(A) was producing incorrect eigenvectors.

The libraries are available as links from the Cleve's Corner Supplement:

http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletter/clevescorner/win00.cleve.shtml

or via anonymous FTP from

ftp.mathworks.com

in directory pub/tech-support/numerics. Versions are available for Windows,
Solaris on HyperSPARC (sun4m), Solaris on UltraSPARC (sun4u) and Linux on x86.
Please replace any libraries you may have downloaded earlier with these
corrected versions.

-- Cleve Moler
moler@mathworks.com


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From: T. E. Simos <tsimos@mail.ariadne-t.gr>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:37:52 +0300
Subject: Special Issue of IJASC on Numerical Solution of ODEs

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Journal of
APPLIED SCIENCE & COMPUTATIONS (IJASC)
Recent Developments in
Numerical Solution of ODEs.

Submission Deadline: December 17, 2000

The past years have witnessed the rapid development of Numerical
Solution of ODEs. Intenational Journal of Applied Science and
Computation is planning a special issue devoted to researchers and
developers interested in theory, methods and practice aspects of
numerical solution of ODES. In particular, it will focus on four aspects

1) Numerical methods preserving certain qualitative features of the flow
( e.g. symplecticity, unitaryness, isospectrality, phase, etc).
Development of new techniques that allow to gain insight into the
behaviour of numerical methods.

2) Numerical methods for special types of equations (e.g. molecular
dynamics, celestial mechanics, quamtum mechanics) whose demands cannot
be satisfactorily provided by standard numerical integrators.
Experimental fitting tecniques and methods based on Difference equations
are especially wellcome.

3) Parallel Computations. Higher accurate numerical methods and methods
with minimun computational cost.

The deadline for submissions is December 17, 2000. To submit please send
three copies of a full paper to any of the

Editors:

Dr. M. Calvo (calvo@posta.unizar.es)
Dpt. of Applied Mathematics
University of Zaragoza
50009 Zaragoza, SPAIN

Dr. T.E. Simos (tsimos@mail.ariadne-t.gr)
26 Menelau Street
Amfithea Paleon Faliron
GR-17564 Athens, GREECE

Dr. J. Vigo-Aguiar (jvigo@gugu.usal.es)
Dpt. of Applied Mathematics
University of Salamanca
37008 Salamanca, SPAIN
Phone: +34+923+29 44 00 ext. 1537
Fax:+ 34 + 923 + 294583

Papers will be written according to the standards of IJASC, all the
IJASC norms are applicable to this volume. To further expedite
publication delays, electronic submission of PostScript files are
acepted.


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From: Larry Meadows <lfm@ha2mpk-mail.eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:20:54 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
WOMPAT 2000
Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools
San Diego SuperComputer Center, San Diego, California
July 6th-7th 2000

Deadline for abstracts: May 5, 2000
Deadline for early registration: June 9, 2000

OpenMP has recently emerged as the definitive standard for
shared memory parallel programming. For the first time, it
is possible to write parallel programs which are portable
across the majority of shared memory parallel computers.

The Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools (WOMPAT 2000)
will be held on July 6 and 7 at the San Diego Supercomputer
Center, San Diego, California. It is dedicated to the OpenMP
language and its use. It is intended to provide an opportunity
for users and developers of OpenMP to meet, share ideas and
experiences, and to discuss the latest developments in OpenMP
and its applications.

The program will consist of invited presentations, contributed
talks, and a panel discussion. Contributions to the program are
encouraged on all aspects of this subject.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

. OpenMP implementations
. Proposals for, and evaluation of, language extensions
. Applications development experiences and case studies
. Comparisons with other approaches such as MPI and HPF
. Benchmarking and performance studies
. Compilers, debuggers and performance analysis tools for
OpenMP

TUTORIAL

The workshop will be preceded by a half-day tutorial on OpenMP
on July 5 (afternoon), to be delivered by Tim Mattson.
It will include hands-on exercises. The number of participants
is strictly limited to 16.

CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

We invite abstracts for presentations on topics of relevance
to OpenMP. Abstracts of up to 1000 words should be submitted
electronically in text format to wompat-sub@cs.uh.edu by
May 5, 2000. They should contain enough technical content for
the program committee to evaluate the contribution of the
presentation to the workshop.

DEADLINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION

Submission of abstracts: 5 May 2000
Notification of acceptance: 29 May 2000
Early registration deadline: 9 June 2000

Information on registration will be made available on the web.
The number of attendees is limited, and early registration is
strongly encouraged.

ORGANIZATION

The workshop is organized by Barbara Chapman in co-operation
with the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Program Committee

Barbara Chapman, University of Houston (chair)
Mats Brorsson, Lund University, Sweden
Michael Ham, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Timothy Kaiser, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Tim Mattson, Intel Corporation
Larry Meadows, Sun Microsystems
Punyam Satya-narayana, Raytheon at the ARL Major Shared Resource Center

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The organisers can be contacted at wompat2000@cs.uh.edu
or WOMPAT Workshop,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Houston,
Houston TX 77204-3475

Please see our website for further information:
http://www.cs.uh.edu/wompat2000/

Related Meetings:

Note that there will also be a workshop focussed on
OpenMP and applications in Europe on September 14-15.
See http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/ewomp2000/ for details.

A Workshop on OpenMP Experiences and Implementations
(WOMPEI) will be held in Tokyo on October 16 - 18.
see http://www.oscar.elec.waseda.ac.jp/wompei.html for details.


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From: Michael Olesen <symposia@msi.umn.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:52:34 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Conference

2000 Midwest Thermodynamics and
Statistical Mechanics Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 14-16, 2000

Organizers:
Richard McClurg and J. Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota

Sponsored by:
University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation
and Advanced Computation
IBM
National Science Foundation (proposal pending)

Overview:

The 2000 Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Conference
will bring together researchers in the areas of experimental and
computational thermodynamics and statistical mechanics for the exchange
of ideas and most recent research results. Particular attention will be
paid to phase equilibria, adsorption, macromolecules, and biological
systems. Overall, this conference is designed as a platform for young
researchers (graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior
faculty members) to present and discuss their ideas and research
accomplishments.

Additional information:

Additional information information is available on the web at:

www.msi.umn.edu/general/Symposia/thermo/

or by contacting Michael Olesen, the symposium administrator, at
thermo@msi.umn.edu or (612) 624-1356.


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From: Uri Ascher <ascher@fluid.impa.br>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:19:25 -0300 (EST)
Subject: Conference on Scientific Computing and Differential Equations

Conference on Scientific Computing and Differential Equations
Scicade01
Coast Plaza Hotel, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
July 29 - August 3, 2001

This meeting is concerned with scientific computing involving
the numerical solution of differential equations:
* ordinary differential equations
* partial differential equations
* dynamical systems
* differential algebraic equations
* software
Numerical techniques in applications will be emphasized.
These include:
o optimization and optimal control
o chemical and mechanical engineering
o stochastic differential equations
o level-set methods
o molecular dynamics
o computer graphics
o robotics
and more.

Previous Scicade meetings have been held approximately every two years,
with the three most recent taking place in Stanford (California),
Grado (Italy) and Fraser Island (Queensland).

The meeting format includes plenary talks, minisymposia and
contributed talks in the SIAM or ICIAM pattern.
In addition, there will be a special session on
new software technologies for scientific computing.

Short courses will be given on Sunday, July 29, on
geometric integration and on
optimization and differential equations.

Please visit our web site for more details at

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/ascher/scicade01
or
http://jobim.fluid.impa.br/~ascher/scicade01

or drop us a line at

ascher@cs.ubc.ca

We very much hope you will take part in this event.


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From: Jose Moreira <jmoreira@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 23:07:54 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Workshop on Java for High Performance Computing

CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED: MARCH 31st, 2000

SECOND WORKSHOP ON JAVA FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
to be held in conjunction with ICS '00
http://www.research.ibm.com/ninja/jhpc.html
May 7th, 2000,
Santa Fe, New Mexico

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission Acceptance Final version
March 31, 2000 April 7, 2000 April 21, 2000

Workshop Co-Chairs: Manish Gupta, Sam Midkiff, and Jose Moreira
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Yortkown Heights, NY 10598-0218

Workshop Committee: Sid Chatterjee - University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Vladimir Getov - University of Westminster
Manish Gupta - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Mohammad Haghighat - Intel Corporation
Joe Hummel - University of Illinois at Chicago
Kathryn McKinley - University of Texas at Austin
Sam Midkiff - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Jose Moreira - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Toshio Nakatani - IBM Japan, Tokyo Research Lab
David Padua - University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Michael Philippsen - The University of Karlsruhe
Assaf Schuster - The Technion
George Thiruvathukal - DePaul University

OVERVIEW

Welcome to the Second Workshop on Java for High Performance
Computing. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum where
researchers can report recent developments in the field of high
performance computing with Java. The workshop will consist of invited
talks and presentations by authors of submitted papers.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Authors interested in contributing to the workshop are invited to
submit manuscripts that report new technologies and practical
experience related to the use of Java for high-performance
computing. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

Parallel and distributed computing with Java
Numerical computing in Java
Compilation and optimization techniques for Java
Computationally intensive applications developed in Java
Use of Java in database and other server-oriented applications
Java frameworks and libraries for high-performance computing
Tools and techniques for developing high-performance applications in Java
Object-oriented techniques for scientific computing

Accepted papers will be published in a technical report of the
workshop. Authors are welcome to submit papers on work that has been
submitted elsewhere. Selected papers from last year's workshop will
be published in a special issue of Future Generation Computer
Systems. This year the program committee will pursue journal
publication for submitted papers of exceptional quality.


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From: Wayne Mastin <mastin@aloner.wes.hpc.mil>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:12:13 -0600
Subject: Handheld Supercomputing Workshop

Handheld Supercomputing Workshop
12-13 July 2000
School of Computational Science
and Information Technology (CSIT)
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306

Organizing Committee: Dennis Duke(FSU),
Gordon Erlebacher(FSU), Geoffrey Fox(FSU),
Steve Jones(ERDC), John West(ERDC)

Program Committee: Gordon Erlebacher(FSU),
Louis Turcotte(ERDC)

We are pleased to announce a small informal workshop
sponsored by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and
Development Center (ERDC) Major Shared Resource Center
(MSRC) as part of the Programming Environment and
Training program.

Personal digital assistants, digital appliances, E-books,
wearable computers, wireless networking, and emerging
software infrastructures represent some of the
technologies that are likely to form part of the
everyday interface to a variety of computing environments.
The convergence of these technologies with the Grid - the
evolving information architecture integrating computing,
data exploration, large databases, and remote
instrumentation - creates many new opportunities for
ubiquitous access to the nation's high performance
computing infrastructure. This workshop will bring
together people from the HPC community to exchange
information about this future.

There will be a registration fee of $100, and some travel
assistance for students may be available.

Please respond as soon as possible to hhsc@csit.fsu.edu
with your expression of interest in participating in
this workshop.

U. S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
ATTN: C. Wayne Mastin, CEERD-IH-C
3909 Halls Ferry Road
Vicksburg, Ms 39180-6199
Phone: 601-634-3063
FAX: 601-634-3808
Email: mastin@wes.hpc.mil


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From: Kaj Madsen <km@imm.dtu.dk>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:58:46 +0200 (METDST)
Subject: Workshop on Surrogate Modelling

First International Workshop on
SURROGATE MODELLING AND SPACE MAPPING
FOR ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION
Technical University of Denmark
November 16 - 18, 2000

The workshop focuses on techniques and practical applications suited to
physically-based design optimization of computationally expensive engineering
devices and systems through fast, inexpensive surrogate models and space
mapping technology.
The objective is to provide a forum to review and discuss the state-of-the-art
in the theory and practice of non-linear optimization using surrogates.
The Workshop will feature four 1-hour lectures by leading experts in the
field. The remaining time will be devoted to half-hour presentations by
other participants. There will be no parallel sessions.
The four keynote speakers and their tentative titles are

John W. Bandler, McMaster University:
Space mapping technology with applications in
electromagnetics-based device modeling and circuit optimization
John E. Dennis, Rice University:
Rigorous Surrogate Management Framework for General Constrained
Optimization Without Derivatives
Bernard Grossman, Virginia Tech:
Effective use of surrogate models in aircraft design
Q.J. Zhang, Carleton University:
Neural Network Approaches to Circuit Modeling and Design

Further information can be found at: http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~km/smsmeo/

Organisers: John W. Bandler, McMaster University and Bandler Corporation.
Martin Bendsoe and Kaj Madsen, Technical University of Denmark.

Contact address: km@imm.dtu.dk


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From: SCEE <scee-2000@etechnik.uni-rostock.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:43:29 -0500
Subject: Workshop on Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering

Third International Workshop
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
SCEE-2000
August 20-23, 2000
Warnemuende, Germany
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The Third International Workshop "Scientific Computing in Electrical
Engineering" SCEE-2000 with the main subjects Computational
Electrodynamics and Circuit Simulation and Design will be held
August 20-23, 2000 in Warnemuende, Germany.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together scientists from
universities and industry with the goal of intensive discussions
about modelling and numerical simulation of electronic circuits and
electromagnetic fields.
The workshop is mainly directed at mathematicians and electrical
engineers. Developers of algorithms and programs shall come to
know recent advances on the other fields as well as open problems
coming from industry; industry shall come to know new program
tools and mathematical methods.

This meeting continues a small series of earlier workshops,
held in Darmstadt (1997) and Berlin (1998), Germany, under the
auspices of the DMV.

Readers of the NA-Digest that are interested are especially invited
to participate in the Workshop.

Program Committee:

Dr. Michael Guenther, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TU), Germany
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Langer, Universitaet Linz, Austria
Prof. Dr. Ursula van Rienen, Universitaet Rostock, Germany
Dr. E. Jan W. ter Maten, Prof. Dr. Wil H. A. Schilders,
Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Dr. Uwe Feldmann, Infineon Technologies, Germany

Advisory Committee:

Prof. Dr. Marcello Anile, Universita di Catania, Italy
Dr. Andreas Blaszczyk, ABB, Heidelberg, Germany
Dr. Alain Bossavit, EDF, France
Prof. Dr. Peter Deuflhard, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik
(ZIB) Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Ewald, Fachhochschule Wismar, Germany
Prof. Dr. Albert Gilg, Siemens, Germany
Prof. Dr. Kay Hameyer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Volkert Hansen, Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany
Dr. Georg Hebermehl, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and
Stochastics, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Lauri Kettunen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Prof. Dr. Roswitha Maerz, Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Irina Munteanu, Politehnica University of Bukarest, Romania
Prof. Dr. Peter Rentrop, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Dr. Peter Thoma, CST GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
Prof. Dr. Dirk Timmermann, Universitaet Rostock, Germany
Prof. Dr. Thomas Weiland, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

Local Organising Committee:

Prof. Dr. Ursula van Rienen, (Chairman)
Dr. Hans-Walter Glock,
Dr. Dirk Hecht,
Universitaet Rostock,
Fakultaet fuer Ingenieurwissenschaften
Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
Institut fuer Allgemeine Elektrotechnik
D-18051 Rostock
Germany

Important Dates

Deadline for the receipt of abstracts: 20.04.2000
Deadline for early registration (reduced fee): 15.06.2000

Contacts and further information

For all items concerning the conference please contact:

mailto:scee-2000@etechnik.uni-rostock.de

For up-to-date information about the conference see:

http://www.SCEE-2000.uni-rostock.de


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From: Iain Duff <I.Duff@rl.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:19:19 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Research Position at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

RESEARCH POSITION IN NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire
Fixed Term (4 years with possible extension)

A research position is available within the Numerical Analysis Group
at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the Central Laboratory of
the Research Councils. Duties will involve performing independent
but relevant research, with the goal of publication in the open
literature and presenting the results at national and international
conferences. Duties will include the production of high-quality
numerical software connected with this research and the promotion of
the Group's activities within the UK academic community. There will
also be the opportunity to lecture in occasional Laboratory courses
on numerical analysis and computing areas.

The ideal candidate will hold a doctoral degree in numerical
analysis or a closely related mathematical area. Preference will be
given to candidates with a high international profile whose research
interests overlap those of existing members of the Group,
particularly in the solution of large-scale linear or nonlinear
equations, and of eigenvalue and numerical optimization problems.
Although the successful applicant will be expected to interact with
other members of the Group, strong evidence of the ability to work
independently will be expected. Considerable experience of
programming in Fortran and of using standard numerical analysis
libraries such as BLAS and LAPACK is essential. Additional
programming skills will be considered an advantage. Further
information on the Group can be found on
http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/Group/CSENAG

The post will be available from the beginning of May 2000 and
applicants should indicate when they would be able to take up the
position should their application be successful.

The salary range is between 18,620 and 26,600 pounds (Band 5) or
23,240 and 33,200 pounds (Band 4), depending on qualifications and
experience. A non-contributory pension scheme and a generous leave
allowance are offered.

Application forms can be obtained from: Operations Group, HR
Division, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot,
Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX. Telephone (01235) 445435 (answerphone)
quoting reference VN1920, or e-mail recruit@rl.ac.uk. More
information about CCLRC and application forms are available from
CCLRCs World Wide Web pages at http://www.cclrc.ac.uk

All applications must be returned by 27 April 2000.

The CCLRC is committed to Equal Opportunities and to achieving the
Investors In People standard. A no smoking policy is in operation.


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From: Claire Poulin <poulin@CERCA.UMontreal.CA>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:52:30 -0500
Subject: Positions at CERCA, Montreal

THREE OPENINGS AT THE
CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN CALCUL APPLIQUE
(CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON COMPUTATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS-CERCA)

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP in the area of Mesoscale Atmospheric Modelling

For more information;
http://www.cerca.umontreal.ca/divers/posteMeso.html
CERCA - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The incumbent will be part of a team including university professors,
research professionals and students using high resolution regional models to
simulate atmospheric flows. A Ph.D. in meteorology or a related field, with
experience in mesoscale modelling, is required.

In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, preference will be
given to permanent residents of Canada.

A working knowledge of French is an asset.

Interested persons should submit a detailed curriculum vitae, with names,
addresses and telephone numbers of three professional references, to:

Claire Poulin
Office Management Technician
CERCA
5160 Decarie Blvd., Suite 400
Montreal, Quebec=20
CANADA H3X 2H9
poulin@cerca.umontreal.ca

Applications received before March 31, 2000 will be considered.

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP in the areas of Multi-disciplinary Design and
Optimization (MDO) Strategies for Applications in Aeronautics

For more information;
http://www.cerca.umontreal.ca/divers/posteMDO.html
CERCA - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The incumbent will be part of a team including university professors,
research professionals and students involved in the elaboration of a
software framework enabling the application of MDO technologies in the
context of high-fidelity aeronautical design and analysis. The incumbent's
work will be part of industry transfer activities mainly aimed at CERCA's
industrial partners.

The ideal incumbent holds a Ph.D. degree in MDO, preferably with experience
in aeronautical design and analysis, and has a concrete knowledge of MDO
decomposition strategies such as CSSO, CO and BLISS. A good knowledge of
UNIX based systems as well as a proficiency in object-oriented programming
is an asset.=20

In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, preference will be
given to permanent residents of Canada.

A working knowledge of French is a requirement.

Interested persons should submit a detailed curriculum vitae, with names,
addresses and telephone numbers of three professional references, to:

Claire Poulin
Office Management Technician
CERCA
5160 Decarie Blvd., Suite 400
Montreal, Qu=E9bec H3X 2H9
poulin@cerca.umontreal.ca

Applications received before April 14, 2000 will be considered.

JAVA PROGRAMMER ANALYST

For more information;
http://www.cerca.umontreal.ca/divers/posteMDO.html
CERCA - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The incumbent will be part of a team including university professors,
research professionals and students involved in the elaboration of a
software framework enabling the application of computation based design in
the context of aeronautical design and analysis. The incumbent's
work will be part of industry transfer activities mainly aimed at CERCA's
industrial partners.

The ideal incumbent holds a bachelor's degree in computer science or in
computer engineering and demonstrates interest for the field of research in
engineering. Good knowledge of UNIX and Windows development environments and
experience in C++ or JAVA object-oriented programming is essential.
Knowledge of distributed objects technologies such as COM, DCOM,
RMI or JVA will be considered.

In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, preference will be
given to permanent residents of Canada.

A working knowledge of French is a requirement.

Interested persons should submit a detailed curriculum vitae, with names,
addresses and telephone numbers of three professional references, to:

Claire Poulin
Office Management Technician
CERCA
5160 D=E9carie Blvd., Suite 400
Montreal, Quebec H3X 2H9
poulin@cerca.umontreal.ca

Applications received before April 28, 2000 will be considered.


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From: J. F. Blowey <J.F.Blowey@durham.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:47:19 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Lectureship at the University of Durham

University of Durham, UK
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Lectureship in Applied Mathematics (Numerical Analysis)

Closing date: 28 April 2000

Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Applied Mathematics
(Numerical Analysis), tenable from 1 October 2000. The successful
candidate will already have an excellent research record in Numerical
Analysis or a related area complementing the interests of the existing
Numerical Analysis group and will be appointed at an appropriate point
of the Lecturer A/B scale (17,238 pounds - 30,065 pounds pa),
depending on experience.

More information about the department and its research groups may be
found on the department WWW pages

http://maths.dur.ac.uk/

For the job description see

http://jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/GB277.html

and for further particulars see

http://www.dur.ac.uk/Personnel/vacancies/A130D.html

Further details and an application form may be obtained from the
Director of Personnel, University of Durham, Old Shire Hall, Durham
DH1 3HP (tel:0191 374 7258, fax:0191 374 7253 or email:
Acad.Recruit@durham.ac.uk).

James Blowey


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From: Ake Bjorck <akbjo@mai.liu.se>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:50:41 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Contents, BIT Numerical Mathematics

CONTENTS BIT Numerical Mathematics
Volume 40, Issue 2 (June 2000)
For information to contributers and about subscriptions see
http://math.liu.se/BIT/

Higher approximation of eigenvalues by the sampling method
A. Boumenir, 215--225

Stochastic methods for ill-posed problems
K. Burrage and S. Piskarev, 226--240

Spectral deferred correction methods for ordinary differential
equations
A. Dutt, L. Greengard and V. Rokhlin, 241--266

Robust bounds for Krylov methods
S. Hyv\"onen and O. Nevanlinna, 267--290

Convex-concave extensions
C. Jansson, 291--313

Dynamical systems and adaptive timestepping in ODE solvers
H. Lamba, 314--335

Fast preconditioned iterative methods for convolution-type
integral equations
F.-R. Lin and M. K. Ng, 336--350

The approximate Runge--Kutta computational process
H. Olsson and G. S\"oderlind, 351--373

On the attainable order of collocation methods for delay
differential equations with proportional delay
N. Takama, Y. Muroya, and E. Ishiwata, 374--394

SCIENTIFIC NOTES

A note on $\sin\Theta$ theorems for singular subspace variations
F. M. Dopico, 395--403

A-stability and stochastic mean-square stability
D. J. Higham, 404--409

A recursive test for P-matrices
M. J. Tsatsomeros and L. Li, 410--414


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From: Lothar Reichel <reichel@mcs.kent.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:37:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Contents, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis

Table of Contents, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA),
vol. 10, 2000. ETNA is available at http://etna.mcs.kent.edu and several
mirror sites as well as on CDROM.

Special Issue on Multilevel Methods

The Ninth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods was held April
11-16, 1999, at Copper Mountain, Colorado, U.S.A.. The major theme of this
meeting was "General Scalable Multigrid Methods: Algebraic Algorithms and
Parallel Techniques". The seven papers in this volume were presented there
and selected for publication in this dedicated issue. The range of topics
covered by these papers demonstrates the breadth and strength of this still
vibrant area of research.

Seymour Parter, Guest Editor
Tom Manteuffel and Steve McCormick, Conference Co-Chairs

Achi Brandt,
General highly accurate algebraic coarsening.

Craig C. Douglas, Jonathan Hu, Markus Kowarschik, Ulrich Rude,
Christian Weiss,
Cache optimization for structured and unstructured grid multigrid.

Gundolf Haase,
A parallel AMG for overlapping and non-overlapping domain decomposition.

Johannes Korsawe and Gerhard Starke,
Multilevel projection methods for nonlinear least-squares finite element
computations.

Michael Pernice,
A hybrid multigrid method for the steady-state incompressible
Navier-Stokes equations.

Ignacio M. Llorente and N. Duane Melson,
Behavior of plane relaxation methods as multigrid smoothers.

Jun Zhang.
On preconditioning Schur complement and Schur complement preconditioning.


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From: Oleg Burdakov <olbur@mai.liu.se>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:53:30 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Contents, Optimization Methods and Software

Table of Contents
Optimization Methods and Software (OMS)
Volume 13, Number 2 (April, 2000)

M.G. Gasparo
A nonmonotone hybrid method for nonlinear systems
79-92

B. Hamma, S. Viitanen and A. Torn
Parallel continuous simulated annealing for global optimization
93-116

J.L. Nazareth
The DLP decision support system and its extension to
stochastic programming
117-154


Forthcoming papers and complete table of contents for the journal OMS:
http://www.mai.liu.se/~olbur/OMS.contents

Instructions for authors, subscription information, free sample copies:
http://www.gbhap.com/Optimization_Methods_Software/

Latex style files:
http://www.mai.liu.se/~olbur/STYLES/


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