Subject: NA Digest, V. 18, # 29 NA Digest Monday, July 23, 2018 Volume 18 : Issue 29 Today's Editor: Daniel M. Dunlavy Sandia National Labs dmdunla@sandia.gov Today's Topics: Advances in PDEs, USA, Aug 2018 Sparse Days at CERFACS, France, Sep 2018 Financial Support, Meshing Roundtable, USA, Oct 2018 Mod/Sim/Optim of the Cardiovascular System, Germany, Oct 2018 Large-Scale Models: Numerical Methods, Bulgaria, Jun 2019 Program Manager Position, Applied Math Program, DOE Postdoc Position, High Performance Numerical Techniques, France Postdoc Position, Univ of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Postdoc Positions and Other Opportunities, NSF-Simons Center, UCI Postdoc Positions, Air Force Institute of Technology Postdoc Positions, Optimization and Decision Support, Berkeley Lab PhD Position, HPC, Univ of Wuppertal PhD Position, Iterative Methods, EDF and Cerfacs, France PhD Position, Operations Research and Data Science Contents, Constructive Approximation, 48 (1) Contents, Evolution Equations and Control Theory (EECT), 7 (3) Contents, Numerical Algorithms, 78 (4) Contents, Statistics, Optimization & Information Computing, 6 (2) Subscribe, unsubscribe, change address, or for na-digest archives: http://www.netlib.org/na-digest-html/faq.html Submissions for NA Digest: http://icl.utk.edu/na-digest/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Jennifer Ryan Jennifer.Ryan@uea.ac.uk Date: July 16, 2018 Subject: Advances in PDEs, USA, Aug 2018 Travel support is available to attend the ICERM workshop: Advances in PDEs: Theory, Computation and Application to CFD, which will take place August 20-24, 2018 in Providence, RI, USA. The aim of this workshop is to review the recent progress in the type of PDEs arising from fluid dynamics and other related physical areas, in terms of their theory, computation, and applications. The invited speakers include PDE analysts, applied and computational mathematicians, and engineers. Many of the invited speakers have made fundamental contributions to the development of PDE numerical methods and mathematical analysis as well as cutting edge applications. In harmony with ICERM's mission, the most significant aspect of this workshop is cutting-edge computational mathematics, and reinforcing the critical role played by computation in the mathematical and experimental aspects of fluid dynamics. This workshop aims to showcase recent advances in the theory and computation of PDEs with applications in CFD. It is thus an excellent vehicle to commemorate Professor Saul Abarbanel, who has made fundamental contributions to fluid dynamics and PDEs, especially in their computation and application to CFD. To honor his memory, this workshop will focus on recent developments in the field, highlighting the exchange of current research ideas and setting the stage for future research. More details can be found on the workshop webpage: https://icerm.brown.edu/topical_workshops/tw18-6-apde/ If you would like to participate in the workshop, you are encouraged to apply through the link provided on the workshop web page, located at https://icerm.brown.edu/topical_workshops/tw18-6-apde/. Some funds are available to support participant travel. Those needing travel support can request it on the application form. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Iain Duff duff@cerfacs.fr Date: July 17, 2018 Subject: Sparse Days at CERFACS, France, Sep 2018 The annual Sparse Days meeting will be held at CERFACS in Toulouse on 27th and 28th September 2018. Registration for the Sparse Days is free but we ask people who are coming to register as soon as possible although the deadline is August 26th. Please complete the form on the website https://sparsedays.cerfacs.fr/en/ indicating whether you want to give a talk and whether you wish to attend the conference dinner. Although an emphasis will be on parallel aspects, any talk that has an association with sparsity is welcome. The length for a talk plus questions is 30 minutes although this is negotiable in either direction. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Suzanne Shontz shontz@ku.edu Date: July 18, 2018 Subject: Financial Support, Meshing Roundtable, USA, Oct 2018 The organizing committee for the 27th International Meshing Roundtable (http://www.imr.sandia.gov/27imr/index.html) is pleased to announce that financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is available to student and postdoc attendees from U.S. institutions to help defray their conference and travel expenses. Information on financial support for student and postdoc attendees from non-U.S. institutions will be available soon. See http://imr.sandia.gov/27imr/FinancialSupport.html for details on the financial support and application process. Applications for the travel grants are due on August 16, 2018. Decisions on the travel grants will be announced by August 22, 2018. The conference will be held on October 1-5, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Suzanne Shontz, Nancy Hitschfeld, Angela Herring, and Oleg Skipa 27 IMR Student and Postdoc Travel Funding Committee Scott Canann 27 IMR Communications Chair ------------------------------------------------------- From: Thomas Richter thomas.richter@ovgu.de Date: July 23, 2018 Subject: Mod/Sim/Optim of the Cardiovascular System, Germany, Oct 2018 Modeling and Simulation of the Cardiovascular System October 22-24, 2018, Lukasklause, University of Magdeburg http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/mscs Aims of the workshop: Discussion of topical challenges to mathematical modeling and simulation of the cardiovascular system with focus on the following subjects: Modeling, Analysis: Biomechanical interaction of blood flow with the vessel wall and tissue reactions and transport processes in blood flow and the vessel walll; Spatial and temporal multiscale effects; Mechanics of the vessel walls including damages; Blood flow in veines; Thrombus and plaque formation; Vessel occlusion and infarcts; Methods and techniques for calibration and validation based on medical data. Numerical methods and simulation: Methods for long time processes; Simulations of fluid-structure interaction and related free boundary problems; Handling complex wall models; Methods for processes with large deformations; Report and discussion of simulations results and their medical implications The Symposium will take place at a small meeting center close to the river Elbe in Magdeburg. The program of the Symposium will provide enough time for discussion and co-operation. Therefore the number and the time for lectures will be limited. There will be invited lectures and lectures selected from the offers of interested participants. Expected participants are experts and students from Mathematical Modeling, Analysis, Numerics and Medicine. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Krassimir Georgiev georgiev@parallel.bas.bg Date: July 18, 2018 Subject: Large-Scale Models: Numerical Methods, Bulgaria, Jun 2019 Special Session on Large-scale Models: Numerical Methods, Parallel Computations and Applications will be organized during the 12th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations (LSSC'19). The conference will take place in Sozopol (a very nice resort town on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria) from June 10 to June 14, 2019 (see more details: http://parallel.bas.bg/Conferences/SciCom19/). Proceedings will be published in the distinguish Springer Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Extended papers from this session will probably be published (as was done in the previous conferences) in an international journal with high index. Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2019 Notification of acceptance of the talks: January 31, 2019 Deadline for registration: February 15, 2019 Deadline for submission of full papers: March 1, 2019 An online registration will be opened. E-mails: scicom19@parallel.bas.bg; georgiev@parallel.bas.bg; zz@envs.au.dk ------------------------------------------------------- From: Steven Lee steven.lee@science.doe.gov Date: July 21, 2018 Subject: Program Manager Position, Applied Math Program, DOE This position is now posted for DOE Applied Mathematics Program Manager Open & closing dates: 7/19/2018 to 7/25/2018 For full details, see: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/505418500 Summary: This position is located in the Computational Science Research & Partnerships Division, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, and Office of Science (SC). The mission of the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) is to deliver forefront computational and networking capabilities to mathematicians nationwide that will enable them to extend the frontiers of science. The Division is responsible for funding and administering fundamental research programs in applied mathematics, computer science, networking, and advanced scientific computing software tools, and computational partnerships with other SC offices and with other DOE elements that utilize tera- to peta- scale computing resources for modeling and simulating complex scientific and engineering problems across the entire civilian scope of DOE. A successful candidate in this position will: - Serve as a Program Manager and technical authority in the field of applied mathematics relating to computational science - Plan, coordinate, implement and evaluate research program in the field on a national and international level. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Grigori laura.grigori@inria.fr Date: July 17, 2018 Subject: Postdoc Position, High Performance Numerical Techniques, France Deadline: July 31. We are looking to fill a postdoctoral position in high performance numerical techniques for Cosmic Microwave Background data analysis. The successful candidate will have a PhD in applied mathematics, high performance computing background or computational physics and expertise in at least one of the following: - solvers of large linear systems of equations with help of new, customized approaches suitable for massively parallel supercomputers with particular emphasis on preconditioning techniques; - large-scale optimization problems; - massively parallel, high performance programming on heterogeneous computational platforms; - solutions to large scales I/O problems in the context of massively parallel codes and huge data sets. No formal background in physics is required. The position is for up to two years with the starting date some time in the fall of 2018. The approximate salary after the burden will be on order of 2.4-2.9 kEuros per month, depending on candidate's experience. The position comes with full benefits. Travel founds are also allocated. The candidate will work within the context of the ANR-funded B3DCMB project, which gathers cosmologists, physicists, applied mathematicians, high performance computing experts, and statisticians and aims at a development of novel, high performance numerical methods and tools for cosmic microwave background analysis. S/he will be formally attached to the APC Laboratory and the group of cosmologists and physicists based there. However, arrangements can be made that s/he spends significant fractions of his/her time at the INRIA-Paris to work directly with computer scientists/applied mathematicians from the Alpines team led by Laura Grigori. While the candidate is expected to dedicate most of his/her work time to the goals of the B3DCMB project, time could be allocated for part-time personal projects upon mutual agreement. For more details and information, please contact: radek.stompor@in2p3.fr or Laura.Grigori@inria.fr To apply please send to the email addresses above: your CV, statement of research interests, and arrange for one or two recommendation letters. The formal deadline for applications is July 31 but we will continue considering applications until the position is filled. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Dietmar Oelz d.oelz@uq.edu.au Date: July 18, 2018 Subject: Postdoc Position, Univ of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia We are recruiting a full-time postdoctoral fellow to work on an Australian Research Council funded project that will involve the development, derivation and simulation of particle-based and continuum models for actomyosin dynamics. It is our goal to investigate contractility and pattern formation in the cell cortex. The project (CI: Dietmar Oelz, UQ, https://people.smp.uq.edu.au/DietmarOelz/) will involve collaboration with NYU (Courant Institute). The applicant will have a good background in Applied Mathematics, and a strong interest in Biology and Cell Biology. The postdoctoral fellow will be hosted at the University of Queensland (UQ, Brisbane, Australia). Applicants should possess a PhD in the area of Mathematics/Physics/Engineering with a specialisation in Applied Mathematics and evidence of contribution to research, including publication of research in peer-reviewed journals. Expert knowledge in the area of Mathematical Biology is desirable. All applicants must supply the following documents: Cover-letter, Resume and Selection Criteria responses. For information on completing the application (for job number 504714) please refer to http://jobs.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/504714/postdoctoral-research-fellow ------------------------------------------------------- From: Qing Nie qnie@uci.edu Date: July 23, 2018 Subject: Postdoc Positions and Other Opportunities, NSF-Simons Center, UCI The NSF-Simons Center on Multiscale Cell Fate Research at University of California, Irvine (http://cellfate.uci.edu/) has several exciting opportunities for researchers working at the interface between biology and mathematics. During the next three months, there are four major opportunities: a) Multiple job openings for the center postdoctoral fellows: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF04759 b) Annual Symposium (October 1-2, 2018): http://cellfate.uci.edu/symposium-2018/ c) Interdisciplinary Opportunity Award (joint with the Annual Symposium): http://cellfate.uci.edu/symposium-2018/symposium-2018-interdisciplinary-opportunity- awards/ d) Convergence Acceleration Team program: http://cellfate.uci.edu/program/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Sivaguru. S. Sritharan sivaguru.sritharan@afit.edu Date: July 22, 2018 Subject: Postdoc Positions, Air Force Institute of Technology The AFIT-AFRL HYPERSONICS COLLABORATIVE FOR EXCELLENCE led jointly by Dr. Thomas Jackson, AFRL/ST Chief Scientist of Hypersonics at Air Force Research Laboratory and Dr. Sivaguru S. Sritharan, Provost & Vice Chancellor at Air Force Institute of Technology, has immediate openings in postdoctoral fellowships (require US Citizenship) in the following areas: 1. Diagnostics of hypersonic combustion, scramjet combustion diagnostics - expertise in diagnostics or machine learning techniques applied to fluid mechanics or combustion. 2. Control of compressible fluid dynamics, boundary layer stability in compressible flow, machine learning of fluid dynamics. 3. High fidelity simulation, compressible Navier-Stokes or Boltzmann level, computations or machine learning techniques. Exact match is not essential but curiosity and interest to learn is what is desired. Postdoc salaries are typically around $75k-$80k with additional stipend to cover health insurance and also generous travel support to attend conferences, etc. If interested please contact me. Dr. Sivaguru. S. Sritharan, Provost & Vice Chancellor, Air Force Institute of Technology Wright Patterson AFB Dayton, OH 45433 sivaguru.sritharan@afit.edu ------------------------------------------------------- From: Juliane Mueller juliane.mueller2901@gmail.com Date: July 18, 2018 Subject: Postdoc Positions, Optimization and Decision Support, Berkeley Lab The Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering has an immediate opening for two postdoctoral researchers to work on the development of computational optimization algorithms and decision support systems. The focus of the first position is the development of methods for large-scale computationally expensive optimization problems. The second position focuses on the development of data-informed surrogate models for decision support systems in the water-energy nexus. We are looking for candidates with experience in nonlinear computational optimization including mixed-integer, derivative-free, or global optimization. Experience with surrogate models, data analysis, machine learning, and uncertainty quantification is a plus. The candidates will work independently as well as collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment that includes mathematicians, computer/computational scientists, and domain scientists. The candidates will have the opportunity to apply their developments to exciting application areas. For more information about optimization at LBL, please visit https://optimization.lbl.gov For more information about these particular openings, please contact Juli Mueller at JulianeMueller (AT) lbl.gov To apply, please go to the postings at decision support: https://lbl.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/computational-postdoctoral-scholar-water- energy-decision-support-957 large scale optimization: https://lbl.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/postdoctoral-scholar-center-for-computational- sciences-and-engineering-929 The posting shall remain open until the position is filled, however for full consideration, please apply by August 15, 2018. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Matthias Bolten bolten@math.uni-wuppertal.de Date: July 16, 2018 Subject: PhD Position, HPC, Univ of Wuppertal The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Wuppertal has an immediate opening for a 3-year position of a Research Assistant within the high performance computing group at 75 % of the standard working hours (pay scale: German public sector salary level E 13 TV-L). The candidate will work both independently and with members and collaborators of the research group on the development and analysis of methods for parallel-in-time integration of time-dependent partial differential equations. Part of the research will be carried out within the project "PASIROM - Parallele Simulation und robuste Optimierung von elektromechanischen Energiewandlern mit Unsicherheiten" (Parallel simulation and robust optimization of electromechanical energy convertors with uncertainties, http://www.pasirom.de/) Further information can be found at https://www.uni-wuppertal.de/universitaet/verwaltung/dezernat- 4/stellenangebote/ansicht/job/reference-number-18135-research-assistant/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Carola Kruse carola.kruse@cerfacs.fr Date: July 19, 2018 Subject: PhD Position, Iterative Methods, EDF and Cerfacs, France An industrially funded 3-year PhD position is available which will be jointly supervised by EDF R&D (French Electricity Company, Palaiseau), ISAE- SUPAERO and Cerfacs (Toulouse). The project focuses on iterative solution techniques for thermo-hydro- mechanical problems (THM). We are interested in the behaviour of a weakly compressible fluid flowing in a soil, represented as a porous medium. This problem is called the Biot's consolidation or poroelasticity problem and it is used for studying galleries of underground storage. For example, we seek to achieve the numerical modelling of two crossing galleries. This simulation remains difficult today mainly for reasons of the numerical performance of 3D poromechanical calculations. Requirements: MSc degree or equivalent with a background in one or several of the following topics: engineering, computational mechanics, high performance computing, numerical methods, applied mathematics. The PhD student will be based at Cerfacs (Toulouse, France) and EDF R&D (Palaiseau, France). Further information is available at https://cerfacs.fr/en/offer/phd-position-high-performance-linear-solver-for-thermohydro- mechanics-with-regularization/ Contacts: EDF - Nicolas Tardieu, nicolas.tardieu@edf.fr Cerfacs - Carola Kruse, carola.kruse@cerfacs.fr ------------------------------------------------------- From: Emiliano emiliano.traversi@lipn.univ-paris13.fr Date: July 23, 2018 Subject: PhD Position, Operations Research and Data Science We are looking for a highly motivated candidate for a PhD in operations research and data science. The PhD is in collaboration with Padam (www.padam.io), a company working on a turnkey platform and developping simulation tools for on-demand transportation systems. At the interface of 2 hot and trend topics, the project will be oriented on the following aspects: - The design of exact and heuristics algorithms for routing problems to efficiently tackle instance of the company - The use of original data science and probabilistic methods to improve routing decisions To achieve this goal, the candidate will have to suggest novel algorithms combining advanced optimization techniques (e.g. mathematical programming models, hyper- and meta- heuristics) with robust and data- driven optimization techniques. Applicants should have (or be about to finish) a relevant master degree. Good knowledge of operations research techniques (integer linear programming, graphs etc.) and data science/machine learning tools are strongly recommended. The applicant should also have good programming skills in any programming language. Expertise in working with a unix-like system (e.g. ubuntu) and knowledge in database models will be appreciated. The PhD thesis will take place in 2 locations: - Paris XIII University - 99, av. Jean-Baptiste Clement - 93430 Villetaneuse - Padam - 34 boulevard Sebastopol - 75001 Paris For more information contact: Emiliano Traversi traversi@lipn.univ-paris13.fr Roberto Wolfler Calvo wolfler@lipn.univ-paris13.fr ------------------------------------------------------- From: Edward B. Saff constr.approx@vanderbilt.edu Date: July 23, 2018 Subject: Contents, Constructive Approximation, 48 (1) Constructive Approximation Special Issue on Approximation and Statistical Physics - Part II Volume 48, Issue 1, August 2018 Introduction On Large Deviations for Gibbs Measures, Mean Energy and Gamma- Convergence, Robert J. Berman The Stolarsky Principle and Energy Optimization on the Sphere, Dmitriy Bilyk, Feng Dai and Ryan Matzke Large Deviation Principles for Hypersingular Riesz Gases, Douglas P. Hardin, Thomas Leble, Edward B. Saff and Sylvia Serfaty Point Processes, Hole Events, and Large Deviations: Random Complex Zeros and Coulomb Gases, Subhroshekhar Ghosh and Alon Nishry Polynomial Ensembles and Recurrence Coefficients, Adrien Hardy The Projective Ensemble and Distribution of Points in Odd-Dimensional Spheres, Carlos Beltran and Ujue Etayo Constructive Approximation An International Journal for Approximations and Expansions Published by Springer http://link.springer.com/journal/365 ------------------------------------------------------- From: irena lasiecka lasiecka@memphis.edu Date: July 16, 2018 Subject: Contents, Evolution Equations and Control Theory (EECT), 7 (3) I am pleased to inform you the new issue EECT 7-3 September 2018 regular issue is now online. http://aimsciences.org/journal/A0000-0000/2018/7/3 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Claude Brezinski claude.brezinski@univ-lille.fr Date: July 20, 2018 Subject: Contents, Numerical Algorithms, 78 (4) Table of Contents Numerical Algorithms, Vol. 78, No. 4 Shrink wrapping for Taylor models revisited, Florian Buenger Iterative methods for solving quasi-variational inclusion and fixed point problem in q-uniformly smooth Banach spaces, Pongsakorn Sunthrayuth, Prasit Cholamjiak Weak and strong convergence theorems for variational inequality problems, Duong Viet Thong, Dang Van Hieu Fully discrete second-order backward difference method for Kelvin-Voigt fluid flow model, Ambit Kumar Pany Construction of the optimal set of two or three quadrature rules in the sense of Borges, Tatjana V. Tomovic, Marija P. Stanic Two algorithms for solving systems of inclusion problems, R. Diaz Millan Adaptive high-order splitting schemes for large-scale differential Riccati equations, Tony Stillfjord Retraction algorithms for solving variational inequalities, pseudomonotone equilibrium problems, and fixed-point problems in Banach spaces, Zeynab Jouymandi, Fridoun Moradlou Exact solution to a parametric linear programming problem, Lubomir Kolev, Iwona Skalna Detailed error analysis for a fractional Adams method with graded meshes, Yanzhi Liu, Jason Roberts, Yubin Yan On the limit cycles, period-doubling, and quasi-periodic solutions of the forced Van der Pol-Duffing oscillator, Jifeng Cui, Wenyu Zhang, Zeng Liu, Jianglong Sun A new inexact SQP algorithm for nonlinear systems of mixed equalities and inequalities, Chao Gu, Detong Zhu, Yonggang Pei An improved Perry conjugate gradient method with adaptive parameter choice, Shengwei Yao, Donglei He, Lihua Shi An iterative algorithm for the least Frobenius norm Hermitian and generalized skew Hamiltonian solutions of the generalized coupled Sylvester-conjugate matrix equations, Baohua Huang, Changfeng Ma Matrix-free monolithic homotopy continuation with application to computational aerodynamics, David A. Brown, David W. Zingg ------------------------------------------------------- From: David G. Yu david.iapress@gmail.com Date: July 16, 2018 Subject: Contents, Statistics, Optimization & Information Computing, 6 (2) Contents,Statistics, Optimization & Information Computing, 6 (2) This issue is available at http://www.iapress.org/index.php/soic Hybridized Support Vector Machine and Recursive Feature Elimination, with Information Complexity, Hamparsum Bozdogan, Seung Hyun Baek Weighted Clustering for Anomaly Detection in Big Data, Rasim Alguliyev, Ramiz Aliguliyev, Yadigar Imamverdiyev, Lyudmila Sukhostat Inference on the Parameters and Reliability Characteristics of Generalized Inverted Scale Family of Distributions based on Records, Ajit Chaturvedi, Ananya Malhotra Optimization on the distribution of population densities and the arrangement of urban activities, Savin Treanta Locating Direction Finders Optimally under Risk of Detection, Suhwan Kim Approximate Homogenized Synthesis for Distributed Optimal Control Problem with Superposition Type Cost Functional, Olena A. Kapustian, Valentyn V. Sobchuk POT approach for estimation of extreme risk measures of EUR/USD returns, Ouadjed Hakim Buys-Ballot Technique for the Analysis of Time Series with a Cubic- Trend Component, Emmanuel Okereke Weak convergence of stochastic processes from spaces $F_\psi(\Omega)$, Yurii Yuriiovych Mlavets, Yurii Vasylovych Kozachenko, Nataliia Vasylivna Yurchenko Flexiblity of Using Com-Poisson Regression Model for Count Data, Esin AVCI The parameter estimation of the multivariate matrix regression models, Zerong Lin, Lingling He, Tian Wu, Changqing Xu DEA Window Analysis with slack-based measure of Efficiency in Indian Cement Industry, Arif Muhammad, Tirupathi Rao, Qaiser Farooq ------------------------------------------------------- End of Digest **************************