URL for the World Wide Web:
http://www.netlib.org/na-net/na_home.html
-------------------------------------------------------
From: SIAM <bdilisi@siam.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 09:29:28 EST
Subject: Lanczos Book on Linear Differential Equations Sought
SIAM will be reprinting Cornelius Lanczos' book on Linear
Differential Equations in our Classics in Applied
Mathematics series. We are looking for someone who has
a copy of the book and who would like to donate it to
SIAM--we will have to cut and paste the pages. In exchange,
SIAM will give two complimentary copies of the new edition.
Please contact Vickie Kearn, Publisher, SIAM, 3600
University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688;
e-mail: kearn@siam.org. Thank you very much.
------------------------------
From: Jim Epperson <epperson@s10.math.uah.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 09:57:53 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Sideways Heat Equation
A colleague and I are studying what might be called the "sideways"
heat equation: no initial data, ordinary boundary data at one end
of the spatial interval, overdetermined data (fcn & deriv) at the
other end. We are aware of two papers on numerical solution of
this problem, one by Ewing and Falk in Math. Comp.(1979), and one by
Monk in SIAM J. Num. Anal.(1986).
Is anyone aware of more recent work on this problem, especially
numerical methods? We have a decently working code, but before
we invest too much time we would like to know if we are re-inventing
the wheel here.
Jim Epperson
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Computer System Administrator
epperson@math.uah.edu
------------------------------
From: Jim Epperson <epperson@s10.math.uah.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 10:02:33 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Integer Solutions to Linear Systems
A graph theory colleague has asked about numerical approximation of
solutions to linear systems Ax = b, where the solution x is
constrained to take on values only in a set of discrete values,
typically [0,1], but not always. This isn't an area I have any
knowledge of, so I thought I'd post a query. Does anybody have
any references for something like this?
Jim Epperson
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Computer System Administrator
epperson@math.uah.edu
------------------------------
From: Barry Smith <jbsmith@rsrch.econ.yorku.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 20:09:55 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Quadratic Programming Code
Hi:
I am looking for a fast quadratic programming program (preferably in
FORTRAN) that can be used to solve very well behaved problems where the
number of constraints will almost never exceed 100 or 200. Speed is quite
important because the program has to be called many times as part of a
statistical estimation problem.
I appreciate any assitance you may be able to offer.
Barry
J. Barry Smith jbsmith@rsrch.econ.yorku.ca
Department of Economics Office: (416) 736-2100 x20586
York University, Toronto. Fax: (416) 736-5987
CANADA M3J 1P3
------------------------------
From: Tatyana Luzyanina <Tatyana.Luzyanina@CS.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 18:11:14 +0100
Subject: Partial Difference Equations with Delays
I would like to know something about numerical and analytical analysis
of Partial Difference Equations (in particular, parabolic equations)
with Delays: mathematical software, references, ...
I'd be grateful for any information to related topics.
Tatyana Luzyanina
tatyana@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
------------------------------
From: David H. Bailey <dbailey@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:41:24 -0800
Subject: Sidney Fernbach Award
The 1995 Sidney Fernbach Award
Nominations for the 1995 Sidney Fernbach Award are now being solicited
by the Fernbach Award Subcommittee.
The award, which includes a certificate and a $2000 honorarium, is
presented annually by the IEEE Computer Society to an individual for
"an outstanding contribution in the application of high performance
computers using innovative approaches." The presentation of the award
is made at the annual IEEE-sponsored Supercomputing conferences.
Supercomputing '95 will be held Dec. 3-8 in San Diego, California.
The Sidney Fernbach Award was established in 1992 by the Board of
Governors of the IEEE Computer Society. It honors the memory of the
late Dr. Sidney Fernbach, one of the pioneers in the development and
application of high performance computers for the solution of large
computational problems.
The deadline for submission of nominations for this year's award is
April 24, 1995. To obtain further information or instructions for
submitting a nomination, please contact David H. Bailey at NASA Ames
Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA; tel.:
415-604-4410; e-mail: dbailey@nas.nasa.gov.
------------------------------
From: Jerzy Wasniewski <unijw@unidhp1.uni-c.dk>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 19:01:56 +0200 (METDST)
Subject: Parallel Scientific Computing Session at IFIP95
THE PARALLEL SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SESSION
at the IFIP Conference
MODELLING and OPTIMIZATION OF DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER SYSTEMS
with APPLICATIONS to ENGINEERING
in
Warsaw, Poland
July 17-21, 1995
organized by
the Systems Research Institute
of the Polish Academy of Sciences
A limited number of contributed, either 20 or 30 min. talks will be
selected for this session. Extended abstracts no more than two pages
should be sent to me before March 31, 1995. The text can be in Latex,
Postscript or pure ASCII. Selected presented papers will be published
after the conference in a book form by Chapman & Hall. My email address,
where the Parallel Scientific Computing Session abstracts should be sent
is:
jerzy.wasniewski@uni-c.dk
The conference contact address (payments, registration, hotel reservation)
is:
Malgorzata Peszynska, IFIP Conference
Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
Newelska 6, PL 01- 447 Warsaw, POLAND
phone (+4822) 364414, 370521 fax (+4822) 372772
E-mail: ifip@ibspan.waw.pl
Jerzy Wasniewski, UNI*C
The Danish Computing Center
for Research and Education
Lyngby, Denmark
------------------------------
From: Joseph Traub <traub@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 8:22:17 EST
Subject: Report on HPCC Initiative
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS INITIATIVE
In 1994, congress mandated a National Academy of Sciences study of the
High Performance Computing and Communication Initiative to be delivered
to the President Clinton's Science Advisor and to the Secretary of
Defence by February 1, 1995. Congress wanted advice concerning the
goals, management, and progress of this five year initiative. The
Initiative plans call for federal expenditures of 1.1 billion dollars
in 1995.
We have completed the Study. You may be particularly interested in
Recommendation 3: Continue funding a strong experimental research
program in software and algorithms for parallel computing machines.
The report is called "Evolving the High Performance Computing and
Communications Initiative to support the Nation's Information
Infrastructure" It should be available from the National Academy
Press in Washington, D.C. in a few weeks. I do not know what its price
will be.
To order, I suggest you call the National Academy Press. The main number
for the Academy is (202) 334-2000. The Study was done under the aegis of
the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. For information on
ordering the Study, you can also contact Leslie Wade, a member of
the Board's staff. Her address is lwade@nas.edu
------------------------------
From: Claude Brezinski <Claude.Brezinski@univ-lille1.fr>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 16:43:56 +0100
Subject: Formal Orthogonal Polynomials
Formal Orthogonal Polynomials
The connection between formal orthogonal polynomials (FOP), a
generalization of the usual ones, and the Lanczos' method for
solving systems of linear equations is known since Lanczos own
papers of 1950 and 1952. Nowadays, more and more people working
on Lanczos and affiliated methods refer to FOP.
I would like to point out that FOP are well-known for a long
time, for instance, to those working on Pad\'e approximants
and continued fractions. Here are some references, in chronological
order, that could be quoted.
These polynomials were in fact already treated in Chapter 11
of
* H.S. Wall, Analytic Theory of Continued Fractions, Van
Nostrand, Princeton, 1948.
They can also be found in
* E.L. Stiefel, Kernel polynomials in linear algebra and their
numerical applications, in "Further Contributions to the
Solution of Simultaneous Linear Equations and the Determina-
tion of Eigenvalues", NBS Appl. Math. Series, vol. 49,
1958, pp. 1-22.
It seems that one of the first papers entirely devoted to this
topics in relation with the Pad\'e table is
* P. Wynn, A general system of orthogonal polynomials,
Quart. J. Math. Oxford, (2) 18 (1967) 81-96.
Then, there are two papers by Gragg
* W.B. Gragg, The Pad\'e table and its relation to certain
algorithms of numerical analysis, SIAM Rev., 14 (1972)
1-62.
* W.B. Gragg, Matrix interpretations and applications of the
continued fraction algorithm, Rocky Mt. J. Math.,
4 (1974) 213-225.
Let me mention my own book on the subject where the connection
between FOP, the Lanczos method and the topological epsilon-algorithm
is treated in detail
* C. Brezinski, Pad\'e-Type Approximation and General Orthogonal
Polynomials, ISNM vol. 50, Birkh\"auser, Basel, 1980.
The non-definite case was treated in the book by Draux where it
seems that the word "formal" first appeared
* A. Draux, Polyn\^omes Orthogonaux Formels, Applications,
LNM vol. 974, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1983.
More recently, the algebra of linear functionals on the space of
polynomials was formalized by Maroni in a series of papers
* P. Maroni, Sur quelques espaces de distributions qui sont des
formes lin\'eaires sur l'espace vectoriel des polyn\^omes, in
"Polyn\^omes Orthogonaux et Applications", C. Brezinski et al.
eds., LNM vol. 1171, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1985, pp; 184-194.
* P. Maroni, Prol\'egom\`enes \`a l'\'etude des polyn\^omes
orthogonaux, Ann. Mat. Pura ed Appl., 149 (1987) 165-184
* P. Maroni, Le calcul des formes lin\'eaires et les polyn\^omes
orthogonaux semi-classiques, in "Orthogonal Polynomials and
their Applications", M. Alfaro et al. eds., LNM vol. 1329,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988, pp. 279-288.
* P. Maroni, Une th\'eorie alg\'ebrique des polyn\^omes orthogonaux,
applications aux polyn\^omes semi-classiques, in "Orthogonal
Polynomials and their Applications", C. Brezinski et al. eds.,
J.C. Baltzer, Basel, 1991, pp. 95-130.
Biorthogonal polynomials also play a role in some generalizations
of the Lanczos method. They can be found in
* C. Brezinski, Biorthogonality and its Applications to Numerical
Analysis, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1992.
For the connection between FOP and the Lanczos method, two papers
by Gutknecht should be mentionned
* M.H. Gutknecht, A completed theory of the unsymmetric Lanczos
process and related algorithms, Part I, SIAM J. Matrix Anal.
Appl., 13 (1992) 594-639; Part II, idem, 15 (1994) 15-58.
There are, of course, many other sources that could have been
quoted but, for length reasons, they have not been given here.
Claude Brezinski
Laboratoire d'Analyse Num\'erique et d'Optimisation
UFR IEEA - M3
Universit\'e des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
59655 -Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex, France
------------------------------
From: Helen Ramsey <ramsey@wiley.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 16:33:20 PST
Subject: Wiley Index on the Web
John Wiley & Sons are pleased to announce the availability of a
cumulative index on the internet, accessible via the World Wide Web,
for the following journals:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING
Coverage from first issue (1969) forwards
COMMUNICATIONS IN NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING
Coverage from first issue (1985) forwards
* On-line access to a Cumulative Index covering a wealth of
engineering research material
* Facilitates research
* Offers field searching by keyword, author, volume/issue number, year
* Regular updates
ACCESSIBLE VIA URL http://www.ep.cs.nott.ac.uk/wiley/numeng.html
------------------------------
From: Danny Hershkowitz <hershkow@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 12:43:10 +0200 (EET)
Subject: ILAS Web Links
IIC (ILAS INFORMATION CENTER) is happy to announce a new service:
Links to members' home pages.
Those of you who wish to have links from our database center to their
home page should e-mail their home page address to Danny Hershkowitz at
hershkow@techunix.technion.ac.il
------------------------------
From: Ronald Cools <Ronald.Cools@CS.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 13:02:45 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Conference in Russia on Cubature Formulae
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
3TH CONFERENCE ON CUBATURE FORMULAE AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
Dear Colleague,
The Krasnoyarsk State Technical University and the Institute of
Mathematics and Computer Science have the pleasure to inform you
about of the third conference on
"CUBATURE FORMULAE AND THEIR APPLICATIONS"
which will be held in Krasnoyarsk October 9-15, 1995.
Organising Committee
Prof. Dr. Mikhail V. Noskov
Department of Appl. Math.
Krasnoyarsk State Technical University
Kirenskogo 26
Krasnoyarsk 660074, Russia
E-mail: vsid@depte.Kgtu.Krasnoyarsk.su
fax: ++7-391-2-43-06-92
tel.: ++7-391-2-43-59-86
Prof. Dr. Ronald Cools
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Department of Computer Science
Celestijnenlaan 200 A
B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium
E-mail: ronald@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
fax: ++32-16-32-79-96
tel.: ++32-16-32-75-62
Prof. Dr. Marat D. Ramazanov
Institute of Math. and Computer Science
Chernishevskogo 112
Ufa, Bashkiria, 450000, Russia
Prof. Dr. Iakov M. Zhileikin
Moscow State University
NIIVC, Leninskie gori, Moscow.
Prof. Dr. Anatolii M. Fedotov
Department of MO EVM
Krasnoyarsk State Technical University
Kirenskogo 26,
Krasnoyarsk 660074, Russia.
The Organising Committee is happy to invite all persons
interested in cubature formulae (theory, constructions and
applications connected with cubature formulae). [Please observe
that at these meetings, quadrature is considered to be a special
case of cubature. -- R.C.]
If you wish to take part in the Conference, please inform
Prof. M. Noskov. He can give some addition information about
the Conference.
Abstracts should be send to the address of Prof. Ramazanov.
The deadline for sending your abstract (1 page) is May 15, 1995.
Sincerely yours
Prof. M. Noskov
Chairman of the Organising Committee
------------------------------
From: Jeanne C. Butler <jeanne@tc.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 07:15:11 -0500
Subject: Supercomputing Program for Undergraduate Research
CORNELL THEORY CENTER
SUPERCOMPUTING PROGRAM FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
(SPUR)
JUNE 4 - AUGUST 4, 1995
The Cornell Theory Center is pleased to announce our 1995 Supercomputing
Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR). Please forward this
announcement to others who might be interested.
Additional information about SPUR, including a complete list of
this year's projects, registration form, last year's program, projects,
and students, is available on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/CTC/EduUndergrad.html
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF SPUR
SPUR offers undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue a
computational science research project while developing skills in
the use of high performance computing technologies. Students
may apply to work on a specific research project under the guidance
of a faculty or staff member at Cornell University. The proposed projects
explore current research problems in areas such as acoustics, climate
modeling, chemistry, social dynamics, earthquake modeling, pollution
remediation, and fractals. Several of the projects include a strong
visualization component.
Successful applicants will attend a nine week research program at Cornell
University and will pursue the research projects using the high-performance
computing resources of the Cornell Theory Center. Students will receive a
$2,000 stipend, travel allowance, room (shared dorm room) and partial board
(dinner allowance at campus dining facilities) during the nine week program.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
An applicant must be an undergraduate student (graduating not before December
1995) who is a U.S. Citizen or permanent resident. Students should have
relevant coursework for the research area, as well as coursework or
programming experience in FORTRAN or C. Students who participated in 1994
are not eligible in 1995.
Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to
apply. Students from four-year colleges with limited research facilities
are also encouraged to apply.
HOW TO APPLY
An applicant must submit a completed application form, two faculty
letters of recommendation, and college transcript(s).
Applications must be received by February 28, 1995. Students
will be notified of their acceptance no later than March 22.
For more information or an application form (email or hardcopy), contact:
Donna Smith, Workshop Coordinator
Cornell Theory Center
422 Engineering and Theory Center Building
Ithaca, New York 14853-3801
Email: spur@tc.cornell.edu
Telephone: 607/254-8614
Fax: 607/254-8888
It is anticipated that this program will be sponsored by the National Science
Foundation; the program is dependent upon approval of funding through the
Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program.
------------------------------
From: Irwin Pressman <ipress@math.carleton.ca>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 16:54:34 EST
Subject: Analysis Day at Carleton University
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics:
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
17th PURE AND APPLIED ANALYSIS DAY
SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1995
ROOM 103, STEACIE BUILDING
PROFESSOR CHRISTIANE ROUSSEAU (Universite de Montreal)
Finite Cyclicity of Graphs and Hilbert's 16th Problem
for Quadratic Vector Fields
PROFESSOR LEE LORCH (York University)
Monotonicity Properties of Bessel Functions
PROFESSOR P.G. ROONEY (University of Toronto)
On Mellin Multipliers
Further information may be obtained by writing:
Dr. G. Zelmer
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6
(613) 788-2600 (ext. 2123 )
E-mail: gzelmer@math.carleton.ca - Fax No. (613)788-3536
------------------------------
From: Irwin Pressman <ipress@math.carleton.ca>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 17:07:02 EST
Subject: Discrete Math Day at Carleton University
CARLETON UNIVERSITY
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Discrete Mathematics Day
Friday, April 7, 1995
Farid Alizadeh (Rutgers)
Semidefinite programming and its application to combinatorial optimization
Andrew Odlyzko (AT & T Bell Labs)
Increasing subsequences in random permutations
Carsten Thomassen (Technical University of Denmark)
Determinants, permanents, and cycles in graphs
For further information please contact Bruce Richter
E-mail: brichter@math.carleton.ca; FAX (613)-788-3536
or, Irwin Pressman, ipress@math.carleton.ca)
------------------------------
From: Jianping Shao <jshao@piper.cs.colorado.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 16:04:28 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Conference in China on Parallel Algorithms
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
ICPA'95
International Conference On Parallel Algorithms
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
October 15--19, 1995
Organized by Wuan University (China)
Co-organized by Loughborough University of Technology (United Kingdom), Beijing
Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (China), Australian
National University (Australia) and Changsha Institute of Technology (China)
Sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Defence
Research Council of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Computer Society
and State Education Committee of China
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
o High performance parallel computer systems and their performance evaluation
o Theory and implementation of parallel and distributed computing
o Parallel algorithms based on domain decomposition methods and multigrid
o Design and analysis of numerical and non-numerical parallel algorithms
o Theory of celluar automation models and their applications
o Lattice gas and lattic Boltzmann
o Evolutionary algorithms and parallel problem solver from nature
o Neural networks and applications
o Software tools and environments for parallel computers
o Systolic algorithms and parallel implementations
o Software engineering aspects relating to parallel computing
o Industrial, scientific and commercial applications for pipelined, vector array, parallel and distributed computers
o Other aspects and applications relating to massively parallel computations
Organizing Committee:
Lishan Kang, Chairman (Wuhan Univ., China),
David J.Evans, Co-Chairman (Loughborough Univ. of Tech., United Kingdom)
Baolin Zhang (Beijing Inst. of Applied Phys. & Comput. Math., China),
Bill Buzbee (National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States),
Garry Rodrigue (Univ. of California--Davis, United States),
Heinz Muehlenbein (GMD, Germany),
Janusz S.Kowalik (Boeing Computer Services, United States),
Qiming He, Secretary in General (Wuhan Univ., China)
Xiaomei Li (Changsha Inst. of Tech., China)
Technical Program Committee:
Richard Brent, Chairman (Australian National Univ., Australia)
Ann H.Hayes (Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States),
Chi-Wang Shu (Brown Univ., United States),
Criag C.Douglas (IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, United States),
Horst D.Simon (NASA Ames Research Center, United States),
Jacques Periaux (Dassault Aviation, France),
N.Petkov (Univ. of Groningen, Netherlands),
Olof Widlund (New York Univ., United States),
R.C.T.Lee (Providence Univ., Taiwan Univ., China),
Roland Glowinski (Univ. of Houston, United States),
Thomas Y.Hou (California Inst. of Tech., United States),
Toshio Shimada (Nagoya Univ., Japan),
Yuanxiang Li (Wuhan Univ., China),
Yuri Boglaev (Laurentian Univ., Canada).
Professor Lishan Kang
Chair, ICPA'95
Director, Institute of Software Engineering
Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, P.R.China
Tel:+86-27-7822712 ext. 2438 Fax:+86-27-7812661
------------------------------
From: Bill McKinney <mckinney@newton.math.ncsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 19:36:25 EST
Subject: Southeastern-Atlantic Conference on Differential Equations
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL
SOUTHEASTERN-ATLANTIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
OCTOBER 13-14, 1995
North Carolina State University
PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS
Christopher I. Byrnes, Washington University
Michael G. Crandall, University of California at Santa Barbara
Christine A. Shoemaker, Cornell University
In addition to the three principal lectures, there will also be
sessions for twenty minute contributed talks. A second announcement
with a tentative list of conference participants and details
regarding registration and reservations will be mailed in July
1995. Anyone who wishes to participate or remain on the mailing
list should either notify one of the organizers below or send
e-mail to searcde@math.ncsu.edu by July 1, 1995.
For further information contact:
Ben Fitzpatrick (919) 515-7552, bfitz@math.ncsu.edu
Bill McKinney (919) 515-3265, mckinney@math.ncsu.edu
Michael Shearer (919) 515-3298, shearer@math.ncsu.edu
Department of Mathematics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8205
------------------------------
From: Zi-Cai Li <zcli@ibm24.math.nsysu.edu.tw>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 17:17:27 -1600
Subject: Workshop in Taiwan on Scientific Computation
Workshop on Scientific Computation in Southern Taiwan
Department of Applied Mathematics
National Sun Yat-Sen University
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
February 25, 1995
Topics include numerical methods, mathematical modelling, computer simulation,
and their applications in Chemistry, Engineering, Mechanics, etc.
I. Keynote Speeches:
(1). A Review of Numerical Solutions of ODEs,
T. D. Bui, Concordia University, Canada.
(2). Fast Algorithms for Scientific Computation,
C.I. Chern, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
II. Invited lectures:
(1) Elastic Waves Modelling-Generalized Ray Method,
C. F. Shieh, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan.
(2) Computational Issues in Robust Control,
J. C. Juang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan.
(3) The Generalized Stream Structure for HEN/MEN Synthesis,
C. T. Chang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan.
(4) Computer Simulation Applied on Polymer Dynamics,
C. L. Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan.
(5) Design Vehicle SIR System by using Computer Simulation Technique,
D. S. Liu, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan.
(6) Simulation of Radiation Effects on Printed Circuits,
T. S. Horng, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan.
(7) High Performance Computing in Taiwan,
D. Lee, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan.
Workshop Correspondence:
Z. C. Li, and T. T. Lu,
National Sun Yat-Sen University,
Department of Applied Mathematics,
Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
E-mail: zcli@math.nsysu.edu.tw, and ttlu@math.nsysu.edu.tw
Fax: (886)-7-5319479 or (886)-7-5327951
Tel: (886)-7-5316171, ext 4824 and 3707
------------------------------
From: Bette Byrne <Bette.Byrne@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 07:27:19
Subject: Conference on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics
CONFERENCE ON NUMERICAL METHODS
FOR FLUID DYNAMICS: OXFORD:
3 - 6 APRIL 1995
Organising Committee
Professor K W Morton (Oxford)
Dr M J Baines (Reading)
Dr M J P Cullen (Meteorolgical Office)
Dr C L Farmer (INTERA)
Dr M G Hall (DRA, Farnborough)
Invited Speakers include:
H Deconinck (VKI, Belgium)
J C R Hunt (Meteorological Office)
M A Leschziner (UMIST)
D Mavriplis (ICASE, NASA Langley)
K W Morton (Oxford)
K G Powell (Michigan)
A Quarteroni (Milan)
S Rill (Deutsche Aerospace Airbus GmbH, Germany)
A N Staniforth (Quebec)
B Stoufflet (Avions Marcel Dassault, France)
J Thomas (NASA Langley)
N P Weatherill (Swansea)
P Wesseling (Delft)
This is the fourth international conference on CFD
organised by the ICFD (Institute for Computational Fluid
Dynamics), a joint research organisation at the
Universities of Oxford and Reading set up in 1983 with
the support of the SERC to collaborate with industry in
this area. Previous conferences were held at the
University of Reading in 1985 and 1992 and at the
University of Oxford in 1988 in a series of conferences
on the same theme held on the two sites over the last
thirteen years.
The aim of the conference, as in previous years, is to
bring together mathematicians and engineers and other
scientists in the field of computational aerodynamics and
computational fluid dynamics to review recent advances in
mathematical and computational techniques for modelling
fluid flows.
Enquiries regarding registration for the conference should
be addressed to:
Mrs B Byrne
ICFD Secretary
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Wolfson Building
Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3QD
UK
Telephone: 01865 273883
Facsimile: 01865 273839
Email: bette@comlab.ox.ac.uk
------------------------------
From: Jerzy Wasniewski <unijw@unidhp1.uni-c.dk>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:46:17 +0200 (METDST)
Subject: Summer School on Computing Techniques in Physics
A n n o u n c e m e n t
a n d
C a l l f o r P a p e r s
10th Summer School on Computing Techniques in Physics
"High Performance Computing in Science"
September 5-14, 1995
Skalsky dvur, Czech Republic
Director
Dr. J. Nadrchal, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
Scientific Advisory Committee
Dr. P. H. Borcherds, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr. M. Bubak, Institute of Computer Science, Cracow, Poland
Prof. A. Hansen, NTH, Trondheim, Norway
Dr. M. Hodous, CSCS Manno, Switzerland
Dr. E. Lingeman, NIKHEF Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. J. Masek, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
Prof. D. Stauffer, University of Cologne, FRG
Dr. I. Veltrusky, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
Organized by
European Physical Society/Computational Physics Group
Local Organization by
Physical Scientific Section of the Union of Czech
Mathematicians and Physicists
Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Place
The School will be held in the hotel "Skalsky dvur" in central
Moravia near small town Bystrice nad Pernstejnem.
Aims and Scope
The School will address problems and needs of high-performance
computing on vector and parallel supercomputers, and workstation
clusters.
The scientific programme will include a survey of modern means
of high-performance computation and presentations of methods of
their application in theoretical physics, physical chemistry and
other sciences, inc. successful programs and results. A special
attention will be devoted to the comparison of various scientific
fields. It is intended to spend 90 per cent of time by invited
lectures, the rest by panel discussions and scientific communications
of participants.
A special emphasis is put on bringing together people from Central
and Eastern Europe with those from the West to share experiences with
the most advanced computer means that are more and more available in
the East of Europe.
Scientific Programme:
A. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS
J. Dongarra, University of Tennesse and Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
USA: PVM and MPI: Tools for Concurrent Computing
P. Marksteiner, Vienna University Computer Center, Austria: High
Performance Computing - An Overview
F. L. VanScoy, West Virginia University, USA: Converting Traditional
Sequential or Vector Algorithms to Data Parallel Algorithms
R. Roskies, University of Pittsburgh, USA: High Performance Computing
in the NSF Centers in the U.S.
I. Duff, CERFACS Toulouse, RAL Chilton, France: A Review of Frontal
Methods for Solving Linear Systems
M. Livny, Computer Sciences Department, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison,
USA: High-performance Computing on Workstation Clusters
A. M. Cohen, Technical University, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Lie
Algebraic Computation
B. SIMULATION TECHNIQUES IN PHYSICS
D. W. Heermann, University of Heidelberg, Germany: Parallelization of
Algorithms for Physics Problems
G. Batrouni, GMCM, University of Rennes, France: World Line Simulations
of the Bosonic Hubbard Model Phase Diagram in the Ground State
P.H. Borcherds, University of Birmingham, UK: Interactive Computing
and Nonlinear Dynamics
M. Kotrla, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic: Numerical
Simulations in the Theory of Crystal Growth
A. Maksymowicz, AGH Cracow, Poland: Computer Simulation of Dynamics
of Surface Growth
D. Stauffer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Cologne University,
Germany: Algorithms for Biological Ageing
W. Selke, IFF-Research Centre, Juelich, Germany: Monte Carlo Simulations
of Ising Models
C. QUANTUM MECHANICS AND CHEMISTRY
V. Drchal, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic: Ab initio
Calculations of the Atomic and Electronic Structure of Solids and
their Surfaces
D. MISCELLANEOUS
J.W. Perram, Odense University, Denmark: Object Oriented Development of
Parallel Application in Polymer Dynamics
W. Duch, Nikolas Copernicus University Torun, Poland: Psychophysics
Proceedings:
A copy of the abstracts of all invited and submitted papers will be
available to the participants at the time of registration. The School
proceedings will be published by Elsevier in 1996.
Deadlines:
Abstracts -- April 31, 1995
Registration -- June 15, 1995
For more information contact:
Dr. J. Nadrchal
Institute of Physics
Cukrovarnicka 10, 162 00 Praha 6
Czech Republic
Email: hpcs@fzu.cz
------------------------------
From: Gerardo Toraldo <toraldo@matna2.dma.unina.it>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 15:49:27 -0600
Subject: Conference in Naples on Nonlinear Optimization
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
Short Conference on ``High Performance Software for
Nonlinear Optimization: Status and Perspectives''.
On June 22-23 1995 (following the Workshop in Erice on Nonlinear
Optimization) the CPS will host a short conference on
``High Performance Software for Nonlinear Optimization: Status
and Perspectives''.
The conference, which will be held in Naples, will
focus on the current state of optimization software, mainly
referring to the high performance computing aspects. The presen-
tations will be an authoritative overview of the field, including
its algorithmic developments, current software and applications
and future perspectives. There will be a series of longer lec-
tures given by invited speakers (availability as been already
given by Dr. P.Matstoms, Prof J. J. More', Prof. P.M. Pardalos,
and Prof. P.L. Toint) , as well as a selection of contribution
papers will be presented. The conference will be an informal
forum for researchers on the field of numerical optimization to
present their results. The conference Committee includes Prof.
Jorge More' (Argonne National Laboratory) , Prof. Almerico Murli
(Univerity of Naples), Prof. Panos Pardalos (University of Florida)
Anyone who is currently working on
Numerical Optimization Software or on a related field, or would
like to learn about the area, should not miss this Conference!
For more information or for registration, send an e-mail message
to hpsno@matna2.dma.unina.it
or send a letter to: Prof. Almerico Murli (Head of the CPS)
Universita` di Napoli "Federico II"
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni,
Complesso Monte S.Angelo, ed. T, Via Cintia
80126, Napoli - ITALY . E-MAIL murli@matna2.dma.unina.it
------------------------------
From: Omar Ghattas <Omar_Ghattas@ptarmigan.warp.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 01:38:01 EST
Subject: Graduate Assistantships at Carnegie Mellon
The Computational Mechanics Laboratory, Dept. of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University seeks
outstanding applicants for doctoral research assistantships in the
area of computational biomechanics.
You will be part of an interdisciplinary team of bioengineers,
computational mechanicists, roboticists, and computer scientists that
has recently been awarded an NSF National Challenge award in the area
of medical robotics. Background and interests in biomechanics and
scientific computing are highly desirable.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your resume and
a brief letter of interest (ascii or postscript) to ghattas@cmu.edu as
soon as possible. Minorities and women are particularly encouraged to
apply.
------------------------------
From: Marcia Saito <saito@BEST.CIMS.NYU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 15:55:48 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Position at NYU Courant Institute
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University/the Courant Institute anticipate at least one
interdisciplinary faculty position in the biosciences, to begin as early
as September 1995. The appointment may be at either a junior or senior
level, with some preference for a senior scientist. Applicants should
have outstanding research accomplishments in one of the biosciences, with
interdisciplinary, computational, and mathematical interests.
Applications should be addressed to: Frances Adamo, Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012. New York
University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.
------------------------------
From: Geometry Center <mbp@geom.umn.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 11:07:21 -0600
Subject: Position at Minnesota's Geometry Center
Technical Research Staff
The Geometry Center
University of Minnesota
The Geometry Center is an NSF Science and Technology Research
Center at the University of Minnesota. The Center has a unified
mathematics computing environment supporting math and computer
science research, mathematical visualization, software and tool
development, application development, video animation production, and
K-16 math education and research.
The Geometry Center is seeking candidates to fill up to two
technical research staff positions. The individuals will perform the
following functions:
* Develop interactive software and educational modules aimed at
communicating and teaching mathematics to K-16 undergraduate
students; write professional articles about these efforts.
* Lead in the development, release, and distribution of software
tools to assist professional mathematicians in their efforts to
teach, research, and present mathematics more effectively; write
professional articles about these efforts.
* Direct one or more of the following labs: (1) DOS/Windows
mathematical visualization lab, (2) Mac mathematical
visualization lab, (3) mathematical videotape production lab.
* Represent the Geometry Center to the public through speaking and
writing.
* Consult with visiting mathematics researchers working in a wide
variety of areas, assisting them in the use of visualization
equipment and techniques.
* Train and supervise apprentices and undergraduate student
workers who help carry out the above functions.
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:
* Masters degree in mathematics, mathematics education, or computer science
* Experience in using and programming mathematical visualization software
* Experience with Unix and graphics workstations
* Graduate study of some area of mathematics involving visualization
* Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
* Ability to work with and supervise others effectively
* Organizational skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
* PhD in mathematics, mathematics education, or computer science
* Experience in teaching mathematics
* Mastery of Mathematica or Maple
* Extensive mathematical visualization and programming experience with
DOS/Windows PCs or Macintosh computers
The salary is negotiable, depending on background and experience.
Positions are annually renewable.
On or before March 15, 1995, applicants should submit (1) vita, (2) a
written statement explaining your interest in and qualifications for
this position, and (3) two letters of recommendation, at least one of
which specifically addresses your qualifications for this position,
to:
Chair, Technical Research Staff Search
Geometry Center
Suite 500, 1300 South Second Street
Minneapolis, MN 55454
For more information about the Geometry Center, see our Web page at
http://www.geom.umn.edu/
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
------------------------------
End of NA Digest
**************************
-------