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From: Hongguo Xu <xu@math.ukans.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:21:57 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Change of Address of Hongguo Xu
Dear Colleague,
I have moved to the University of Kansas recently. My new address is
Hongguo Xu
Department of Mathematics
University of Kansas
405 Snow Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045
USA
email: xu@math.ukans.edu
phone: (785) 864-3005 (office)
(785) 842-2607(home)
fax: (785) 864-5255
Have a good summer!
Hongguo
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From: Michele Benzi <benzi@c3serve.c3.lanl.gov>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:52:23 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Change of Address for Michele Benzi
Effective August 1st, my new address is:
Michele Benzi
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
USA
E-mail: benzi@mathcs.emory.edu
Phone: +1 404 727 7580
Fax : +1 404 727 5611
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From: Harvey Greenberg <hgreenbe@carbon.cudenver.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:58:22 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Virtual Cooperative Learning, Request for Partners
Request for Partners in Virtual Cooperative Learning for LP
The central ingredient of cooperative learning (CL) is that students
work together on problems. I have organized "virtual" CL (VCL) to
have students at different places work together on a common set of
problems. I am now eliciting VCL partners for a linear programming
(LP) course that I am teaching this Fall. If you are teaching LP at
the senior undergraduate/graduate level, please continue.
I did this for nonlinear programming with Leon Lasdon and Soren
Nielsen, and you can see our description at
http://www.cudenver.edu/~hgreenbe/courses/earlier/optmodeling/
exercises/exchange/exchange.html
(sorry for the long url). I taught Optimization Modeling that
semester, so the problems were about formulation, rather than about
the algorithms that solve them. Thus, we might teach different
kinds of LP courses, yet we could agree to a set of problems that
we want our students to solve.
My previous Network Flows class (S99) used VCL with Paul Jensen who
added a series of "short answer questions," which proved to be
extremely valuable. You can see these (and related things) at
http://www.cudenver.edu/~hgreenbe/courses/earlier/netflows/S99/vcl.html
While I am open to new ideas for its conduct, what I have in mind is
having groups of our students work cooperatively on a set of problems.
The idea is to have the problems near the beginning of the semester
and have students use the internet to communicate. Hypernews is
particularly suitable for transmitting mathematical notation, using
latex or HTex, and I can setup our page as in the two previous cases.
What we need is a problem set and a due date. I am thinking that
some date in late October or early November the students would
turn in their problems. We can decide whether we shall grade them
or have other students review them. In the latter case, we might
want to grade the reviews. In any case, it is not necessary for
us to grade the same way, but it is necessary for us to agree on
the what and when in order for the VCL to succeed (i.e., the
students learn more effectively).
There is no limit to the number of participating groups of
students, but I require each participating teacher to contribute
to the problem set that we shall derive. The goal is to have this
before August 21, which is when my class starts, but we could extend
it to September 1, if necessary. If I get any partners, I can
distribute a first draft early August, so we should have a couple
of weeks to iterate.
Please contact me via e-mail if you are interested in participating.
Harvey J. Greenberg
Mathematics Dept, University of Colorado at Denver
hgreenbe@carbon.cudenver.edu http://www.cudenver.edu/~hgreenbe/
Currently visiting Computing Research Institute,
Sandia National Laboratories
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From: Jerzy Wasniewski <Jerzy.Wasniewski@uni-c.dk>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:03:37 +0200 (METDST)
Subject: Report on the PARA2000 Workshop
Report on the PARA2000 Workshop
http://www.ii.uib.no/para2000/
The PARA2000 Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing was held in Bergen,
Norway June 18-21, 2000. The Workshop was well organized by Professors
Petter Bjorstad and Tor Sorevik and their team. There were 9 invited
speakers and 40 contributed talks. The Workshop attracted about 70
participants from several countries. The papers presented will be
published by Springer Verlag in their "Lecture Notes in Computer Science"
series.
The Workshop was preceded by a tutorial on "OpenMP" (June 18). Two social
events were organized. 1) A reception, hosted by the mayor of Bergen, at
the Old City Museum (June 19). Before turning to politics, the mayor had
been a computer scientist at the Bergen University Computing Center. 2)
The Conference Dinner, which was held at a beautiful mountain-top
restaurant (June 20).
During the dinner the PARA Steering Committee, consisting of Petter
Bjorstad (Norway), Bo Kagstrom (Sweden) and Jerzy Wasniewski (Denmark),
reported on the results of their earlier deliberations. The main points:
1) Thanks were due to Petter Bjorstad and his team for the excellent
PARA2000 organization. 2) Professor Jari Jarvinen from the Finnish Center
for Scientific Computing (Finland) was selected as an additional member of
the Committee. 3) Jari Jarvinen invited the PARA02 Workshop to be held in
Finland in June 2002. The precise dates and place will be announced soon.
Jerzy.Wasniewski@uni-c.dk
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From: HPF User Group <hug2000@tokyo.rist.or.jp>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:55:15 +0900
Subject: High Performance Fortran User Group
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
HUG2000: The 4th Annual HPF User Group meeting
October 19-20, 2000
Hotel Inter-Continental Tokyo Bay, Tokyo, Japan
(http://www.tokyo.rist.or.jp/jahpf/hug2000)
The Fourth Annual High Performance Fortran User Group (`HUG') meeting will
be held on October 19-20, 2000 at Hotel Intercontinental Tokyo Bay,
Tokyo, Japan. This meeting follows the first three meetings in the series
held in 1997 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, in 1998 in Porto, Portugal,
and 1999 in Redondo Beach, California, USA.
It provides an opportunity for users of HPF to meet each other, share
ideas and experiences, and obtain up-to-date information on current HPF
implementations and future plans.
The HUG meeting will include:
* invited presentations by HPF users & technology providers
* contributed talks
* poster session
There will also be a panel session focussed on achieving high performance
in scientific applications using Fortran and its extensions, including
HPF, OpenMP, MPI, PVM, etc.
Call for submissions
We invite abstracts for presentations from all those working on topics of
relevance for High Performance Fortran. Relevant subject areas include,
but are not limited to:
* applications in HPF
* HPF software, e.g.:
-- compilers
-- HPF programming support tools
-- libraries
* HPF features, e.g.:
-- HPF evaluations
-- extensions and improvements to HPF
-- interoperability of HPF with other languages
Abstracts of up to 500 words must be submitted electronically by July 31,
2000 to hug2000@tokyo.rist.or.jp. They must be in HTML format
readable by Netscape 2.0 or later. Authors will be notified of
acceptance by August 23, 2000.
The selected abstracts will be posted on the Web prior to the conference.
Proceedings will be distributed at the meeting.
Important dates
July 31, 2000: deadline for submission of abstracts
August 23, 2000: notification of acceptance
September 22, 2000: deadline for camera ready manuscripts
Program committee
Yoshiki Seo NEC Corp, Japan (co-Chair)
Piyush Mehrotra ICASE, Hampton, USA (co-Chair)
Sigi Benkner Univ. Vienna, Austria
Thomas Brandes GMD, Germany
Barbara Chapman University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Masahiro Fukuda National Aerospace Laboratory, Japan
Ken Kennedy Rice University, Houston, USA
Chuck Koelbel Rice University, Houston, USA
Hidetoshi Iwashita Fujitsu Ltd., Japan
Hiroshi Ohta Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
Hitoshi Sakagami Himeji Institute of Technology, Japan
Vince Schuster Portland Group, Portland, USA
Henk Sips Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Eric de Sturler University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Prior to the HUG meeting, the third International Symposium on High
Performance Computing (ISHPC2K) will take place also in Tokyo in
October 16-18, 2000.
http://alice.ics.nara-wu.ac.jp/ishpc2k/
International Workshop on OpenMP: Experiences and Implementations
(WOMPEI) will be held as a part of ISHPC2K.
Further information about HUG2000 will be available on the HUG2000 Web
page at: http://www.tokyo.rist.or.jp/jahpf/hug2000
Enquiries may be sent to hug2000@tokyo.rist.or.jp.
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From: Peter Wilders <p.wilders@its.tudelft.nl>
Date: Wed, 12 July 2000
Subject: Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference
PARALLEL CFD 2001 CONFERENCE
May 21-23, 2001
Hotel Zuiderduin
Egmond aan Zee
The Netherlands
Parallel CFD 2001, the thirteenth in an international series of meetings on
computational fluid dynamics for parallel computers, will be held from
May 21-23, 2001 in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands. The technical program
planned for the 3-day conference features nine invited speakers and three
tracks of contributed presentations.
The conference covers all relevant subjects with practical and industrial
issues as one of the traditional highlights. Keywords are: industrial
applications, turbulence, reactive flow, multiphase flow, multiphysics
flow, environmental flow, parallel multiblock/multigrid solvers for fluids
(domain decomposition, multigrid, Krylov methods, Newton/Krylov). In 2001
special attention will be paid to multidisciplinary questions exploring
parallel computers for its solutions and the usage of parallel flow solvers
as a building block therein (optimal design, parameter sensitivity, parameter
estimation, reliability analysis).
For further information, please consult the web page:
http://www.parcfd.org
Dr. P. Wilders
Dept. of Information Techn. and Systems
Delft Univ. of Techn.
P.O. Box 5031
2600 GA Delft
The Netherlands
Tel. (31) 15 2787291
Fax (31) 15 2787209
Email p.wilders@its.tudelft.nl
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From: Marijke Brondeel <marijke.brondeel@rug.ac.be>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:59:40 +0200
Subject: Research Position at University of Ghent
Job Opportunity for Jr. Researcher
(Civil Engineer / Mathematician / Informatician / Bio Engineer)
Project: Hydrographic Survey-system for dredging
Responsibilities: R&D of implementable algorithms in the field of
Computational Geometry to develop efficient filter techniques for echo
sounder and multibeam data for real-time building, editing and crossing of
digital triangulation- and/or interpolation models (so called Digital
Elevation Models).
Skills and Requirements: Highly interested in comparable analysis of
mathematical algorithms, capable of optimal implementation of suitable
algorithms in Delphi or Visual C++, willing to publish and to advise to the
programmers.
Duties to commence: as soon as possible.
Duration: 1 year (9 months extendable with 3 months).
This project can be a perfect preparation to a PhD in this field. The
experience from this research will augment the changes of success when
asking for a PhD scholarship (IWT, FWO of BO).
More information: contact as soon as possible Prof. A. De Wulf
University Ghent
Dept. GEOGRAPHY
Surveying
Prof. Dr. ir. A. De Wulf
Krijgslaan 281 ( S8 - B2.60 )
B-9000 Gent
Belgium
Tel : 09-264.46.87 - Fax : 09-264.49.85
GSM: 0477.66.49.83
E - mail : Alain.DeWulf@rug.ac.be
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From: Michael Renardy <renardym@calvin.math.vt.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:52:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Faculty Position at Virginia Tech
FACULTY POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
Virginia Tech Department of Mathematics
COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Virginia Tech Mathematics Department seeks applicants to fill a tenure
track position in Computational and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics.
The appointment is at the assistant or associate professor level.
RESPONSIBILITES
Each person appointed will have the following responsibilities:
1) active participation in teaching those undergraduate and graduate courses
assigned by the department chair;
2) the development and maintenance of an internationally recognized research
program
within the framework of her/his individual areas of interest and expertise and
consistent with the goals and objectives of a university environment;
3) participation in department and university administrative governance and
advising functions as deemed necessary by the chair of the department;
4) the continuing development of her/his own scholarly activities and
professional capabilities; and
5) adherence to the responsibilities of the general faculty as delineated by the
Faculty Handbook (http://ate.cc.vt.edu/PROVOST/fhb/fhbtoc.html).
QUALIFICATIONS
Applicants must have earned a doctorate in mathematics or an applied discipline.
They must have an active research program in computational and theoretical
fluid dynamics. We are particularly interested in applicants who can
complement and enhance existing strengths in our department.
All applicants must have a strong commitment to excellence in research and
teaching and a desire to advise and teach a student body that is diverse with
respect to socio-economic status, interests, and abilities. Criteria for the
selection of candidates also include an ability to discern future
trends in the discipline; vision, creativity, and leadership skills;
commitment/sensitivity to address issues of diversity in applied mathematics
at the time of appointment.
DEADLINE
For full consideration, applications should be received by November 30, 2000.
However, applications and nominations will be considered until the position is
filled.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a summary of research plans,
together with four letters of recommendation to: Computational Fluid Dynamics
Search Committee, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg,
VA 24061-0123.
Virginia Tech is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and
complies with all Federal and Commonwealth of Virginia laws, regulations,
and executive orders regarding affirmative action requirements in all
programs. The College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech is deeply
committed to recruiting, selecting, promoting, and retaining women, persons
of color, and persons with disabilities. We strongly value diversity in the
college community, and seek to assure equality in education and employment.
Individuals with disabilities desiring accommodations in the application process
should contact Pat Ray, Department of Mathematics, 540-231-6536
(TDD/PC 1-800-828-1120 -Voice 1-800-828-1140).
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From: Chris Toomer <ctoomer@cscs.ch>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:54:47 +0200
Subject: Research Position at CSCS, Switzerland
The Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (CSCS), located near Lugano in
southern Switzerland, has an immediate opening for an experienced
Research Scientist in Computational Modeling
The position is within the Computational Modeling Group (CMG) of CSCS
which engages in collaborative projects and consulting in the areas of
computational fluid dynamics (CFD), combustion modeling, multiphase flows,
electrostatics, structural mechanics, and design optimization.
CSCS offers leading-edge expertise in five enabling technology areas:
computational modeling, graphics and visualization, information processing,
software engineering, and systems and networks. The center develops
integrated solutions for computational science problems via interdisciplinary
R&D projects with academic and industrial partners in Switzerland and abroad.
In the context of its technology and knowledge transfer program, CSCS is
engaged in educational initiatives targeting academic and industrial
organizations.
The CMG is seeking practitioners in one or more of the fields of combustion,
fluid-structure coupling, multiphase flow, chemical reaction kinetics,
electrostatics, aerodynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics or other areas of
multiphysics modeling with an emphasis on applications. The successful
candidate will be expected to participate in ongoing projects within the CMG
and to contribute to original and applied research in the group. Duties
include model development, application, analysis and publication of results.
Proven project management skills, as well as the demonstrated ability to
conceive, plan and acquire innovative new projects, are highly desirable.
Applicants should have an advanced degree in engineering, mathematics,
applied physics or computer science; experience in CFD or a similar field;
advanced programming skills in C, C++ or Fortran; and a good knowledge of
numerical methods for solving systems of differential equations.
Some exposure to object-oriented software design and high performance
computing techniques would be highly valuable. Familiarity with commercial
CFD modeling packages would be an advantage. Applicants should have excellent
written and oral communication skills, the proven ability for working alone
and as part of a team, and the proven ability to make constructive
contributions beyond the scope of specific technical activities. Fluency in
English is necessary, knowledge of Italian is an advantage, knowledge of
German and/or French would be an additional asset.
This appointment at CSCS, part of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich (ETH Zurich), will initially be for three years with the possibility
of a three year extension based on performance. The position does not
involve regular teaching duties. CSCS offers competitive salaries, excellent
working conditions and individual development of expertise and skills.
The canton of Ticino, located south of the Alps, offers an Italian
life-style, mild winters, pleasant spring and a long, warm summer with
plenty of sunshine throughout the year.
Applicants should send a CV, in English, and covering letter including
contact information for two or three references by August 31th 2000 to:
Ms. Dagmar Doege
Personnel Department
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
ETH Zentrum, TUR E 20
CH-8092 Zurich
SWITZERLAND
Fax: +41 (1) 632 1445
Email: doege@pa.ethz.ch
Further information about CSCS can be found at http://www.cscs.ch.
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From: Harry Dym <dym@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:12:05 +0300 (IDT)
Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowships at Weizmann Institute
Weizmann Institute of Science Postdoctoral Fellowships
A number of postdoctoral fellowships in pure and applied mathematics
and computer science are available to suitably qualified holders
of the PhD degree. Applications are
considered twice a year. The deadlines for applying are January 1st and
May 15th, respectively. Application forms and additional information may be
downloaded from
www.weizmann.ac.il/feinberg
or by writing to:
The Feinberg Graduate School
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot 76100, Israel
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