NA Digest Thursday, March 5, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 13

This weeks Editor: Gene Golub

Today's Topics:

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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 87 10:04:33 cst
From: miller%umn-cs-fsa@umn-cs.arpa (Willard Miller)
To: NA@score.stanford.edu

INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
514 Vincent Hall
206 Church Street S.E.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
(612)624-6066

WORKSHOP ON SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE
March 23-26, 1987
Workshop Organizer: John R. Rice, Purdue University

Program as of 3/5/87



This workshop is made possible by grants from the
Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation



ALL LECTURES IN VINCENT HALL 16

MONDAY, MARCH 23
9:30 - 10:30 am John R. Rice Purdue University
"Mathematical aspects of scientific software - part I"

10:30 - 11:00 am break

11:00 - 12:00 am John R. Rice Purdue University
"Mathematical aspects of scientific software - part II"

1:30 - 2:45 pm Richard Jenks IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
"Scratchpad II: A new computer algebra language and system based
on abstract datatypes"

2:45 - 3:15 pm break

3:15 - 4:30 pm Robert Caviness University of Delaware
"Decision procedures for solving differential equations in
closed form"


TUESDAY, MARCH 24
9:30 - 10:30 am Mathematical Systems Panel
Carl deBoor University of Wisconsin
Clarence Lehman CPT Corporation
Bradley Lucier Purdue University and IMA
Richard McGehee University of Minnesota

10:30 - 10:45 am break

10:45 - Noon Paul Wang Kent State University
"Integrating symbolic, numeric, and graphics computing techniques"

1:30 - 2:45 pm Stephan Wolfram University of Illinois
"New approaches to mathematics using computers"

2:45 - 3:15 pm break

3:15 - 4:30 pm Elias Houstis Purdue University
"Performance of scientific software"

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
9:00 - 10:15 am Lennart Johnsson Yale University & Thinking Machines Corp
"Devising algorithms for high performance on parallel and vector
architectures"

10:15 - 10:45 am break

10:45 - Noon Dennis Gannon Indiana University
"Building analytical estimates of the performance of numerical
programs on parallel computers"

1:30 - 2:45 pm Larry Snyder University of Washington
"Parallel programming by playing poker"

2:45 - 3:15 pm break

3:15 - 4:30 pm Francine Berman University of California, San Diego
"The mapping problem in parallel computation"


THURSDAY, MARCH 26
9:00 - 10:15 pm John Hopcroft Cornell University
"Modelling of physical objects"

10:15 - 10:45 am break

10:45 - 12:00 am Bruno Buchberger University of Linz
"Solving problems in non-linear computational geometry by Grobner
bases"

1:30 - 2:45 pm Christoph Hoffman Purdue University
"Algebraic curves"

2:45 - 3:15 pm break

3:15 - 4:30 pm G. Farin Arizona State University
"The Bezier approach to computational geometry"

For further information contact:

John R. Rice Hans F. Weinberger
Computer Sciences Inst. Math. Applications
Purdue University University of Minnesota
W.Lafayette, IN 47907 Minneapolis, MN 55455
317-494-6003 612-624-6066
jrr@cs.purdue.edu weinberg@umn-cs.csnet

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Mail-From: GOLUB created at 5-Mar-87 14:28:28
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 87 16:05:38 cst
From: pool@anl-mcs.arpa (Pool)
To: na.golub@Score.Stanford.EDU
Subject: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS
ReSent-Date: Thu 5 Mar 87 14:28:28-PST
ReSent-From: Gene H. Golub <GOLUB@Score.Stanford.EDU>
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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS

COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICIAN, COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICIAN

The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) is seeking two additional Members of Techn-
ical Staff to:

interact with scientists and engineers using the NAG Fortran Library and/or
statistical packages such as GLIM and GENSTAT to solve mathematical and
statistical problems; and

participate in software R&D projects, including implementation of numerical
software on state-of-the-art workstations and vector/parallel computers.

QUALIFICATIONS

Masters degree or equivalent (e.g., Bachelors degree and experience including
knowledge of Fortran) in numerical analysis, statistics, mathematics, computer
science, science, engineering, or economics

Computational Statistician: a knowledge of the algorithms in statistical pack-
ages, ideally including GLIM and GENSTAT, and their use in science and engineer-
ing

Computational Mathematician: a knowledge of a broad class of numerical algo-
rithms and their use in selected areas of science and engineering


Send a resume including references and employment history to:

James C. T. Pool
NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS GROUP
1101 31st Street, Suite 100
Downers Grove, IL 60515-1263

(312) 971-2337
USENET: ihnp4!nag!pool

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