NA Digest Tuesday, February 17, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 3 This weeks Editor: Gene Golub Today's Topics: Stanford NA Reunion Networking paper in CACM na. Lectureship at Bath na.lastname status message II notice of NATO ASI MPS standard form for LPs? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail-From: GOLUB created at 14-Feb-87 15:39:58 Date: Sat 14 Feb 87 15:39:57-PST From: Gene H. Golub Subject: Stanford NA Reunion To: NA@Score.Stanford.EDU Dear Friend, As you may know, the CS department of Stanford is having a reunion: "Computer Science at Stanford: the impact of the first ten years" at Stanford from March 26 to March 28. As part of this reunion, we are having a reunion of the greater Stanford NA community (this includes former or present students, faculty, visitors and friends): "Numerical Analysis at Stanford: Rememberance of Things Past", to be held on the afternoon of Saturday, March 28. The tentative program consists of a tour of Serra House, the drafting of a "family tree", several informal talks and a cocktail party at Gene's followed by a banquet in a Chinese restaurant. Several people have agreed to talk and here is their tentative titles: Ake Bjorck (Linkoping/USC): On Being a Frequent NA Visitor at Stanford; Alan George (Univ. of Tenn./ORNL): Life at the Top: On Being a Dean; Eric Grosse (Bell Labs): The Greater World of Bell Labs: the Netlib Revolution; Jack Herriot (Stanford Emeritus): In The Beginning ....; Cleve Moler (Intel): Fond Memories of George Forsythe; John Palmer (Ncube): Standards and Startups; Beresford Parlett (Berkeley): The Pleasures and Work of Jim Wilkinson; Jim Varah (UBC): All in the Family: the Stanford NA Family Tree. The cost of the festivities (including the banquet) is $25 per person. Please send a check to Gene (made out to him) by March 21. We really do hope that you can come and join us in this unique celebration! Feel free to bring your family and friends. And bring your memorabilia too! Tony Chan Gene Golub PS: If you are unable to come, please feel free to send a brief reminiscence and/or photos. ------------------------------ From: prlb2!mswe.DECNET!woltring@seismo.css.gov Date: Mon, 26 Jan 87 08:52:58 +0100 To: golub@score.stanford.edu Subject: Networking paper in CACM Resent-To: na@score.stanford.edu The following paper is worth-while reading for current developments in short- and long-distance research networking; perhaps, it should be mentioned on NANET? John S. Quarterman & Josiah C. Hoskins, Notable Computer Networks. Communications of the ACM 29(1986)10, 932-971. Herman J. Woltring ------------------------------ Date: Thu 29 Jan 87 17:20:28-PST From: "Gene H. Golub" Subject: na. To: na@score.stanford.edu Resent-To: na@score.stanford.edu We have just changed our system so that na. will be incorporated into the system more quickly. You might want to try a test on your own name. You can send a msg to na. and you should get a msg from yourself. Gene Golub ------------------------------ Date: 2 Feb 1987 13:15:09 GMT To: NA <@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK:NA@score.stanford.edu> Subject: Lectureship at Bath From: Alastair Spence <@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK:ma_as@ux63.bath.ac.uk> Resent-To: na@score.stanford.edu UNIVERSITY OF BATH,U.K. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES LECTURER IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS Applications are invited for the above post in the Mathematics group of the School of Mathematical Sciences, which is tenable from 1st. September 1987. The successful candidate will be expected to have interests which are compatible in broad terms with existing research activities in continuum mechanics, which relate mainly to solid mechanics and aspects of wave propagation, though expertise in mechanics of suspensions or the numerical solution of partial differential equations would be welcome. Duties will include teaching to students within the School of Mathematical Sciences and in other Schools where a substantial service teaching commitment exists. Particular emphasis will be placed however on the successful candidate's achievements and potential in research. Salary in the range 8,020 - 15,700 UK pounds. All lectureships are subject to a probationary period of three years. Closing date : 25th. February 1987. Further particulars from: Professor J R Willis, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, BATH, BA2 7AY U.K. UK Telephone: 0225 826184 (School Office) 0225 826241 (Professor Willis) or Alastair Spence on NANET: na.spence@su-score ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 87 16:14:44 PST From: Mark Kent Subject: na.lastname status message II To: na@score.stanford.edu (These messages will not become a regular thing.) Two new improvements have been installed that should improve reliability. 1) In the past the na.lastname messages were shipped out of Stanford from a Vax called Navajo. Quite a few messages were going nowhere because Navajo had trouble either opening connections with hosts or maintaining a connection long enough to get the mail through. This is probably caused by increased arpanet traffic and lack of flexibility in certain parameters in the mail system. I have noticed that other Unix systems have encountered the same problem recently. Score, a Dec-20, has better luck with out-going messages. Maybe this is because Score has a direct arpanet connection. Now, all NAnet messages (both broadcast and individual) go through Score. (Score also seems more forgiving with addresses.) 2) Previously, messages were shipped out as if the sender was daemon@navajo. This caused some troubles as people could not conveniently use the "reply" command to such messages. Also, messages sent to na.netlib@score.stanford.edu would seem to get no reply. As it turns out, the mailbox for daemon@navajo was collecting replies from netlib. The daemon was also collecting mail errors for things further down the line. So if you sent a message to na.xxxx and the corresponding address was unreachable for 5 days then you would never know it. This has been fixed. You should now get error messages as if you had typed the real address rather than the na.lastname address. Hence, if some host is down and your message cannot get through then you will know it. Unfortunately, while I was installing these changes the database for the na.lastname facility was somehow garbled. In fact it was empty. So some of you may have got messages like "na.someone not recognized" The database has been fixed and everything should work from now on. -mark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 87 14:42:47 pst From: "Alan J. Laub" Posted-Date: Thu, 5 Feb 87 14:42:47 pst To: na@score.stanford.edu Subject: notice of NATO ASI Resent-To: na@score.stanford.edu NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE (ASI) "THE APPLICATION OF ADVANCED COMPUTING CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES IN CONTROL ENGINEERING" SEPTEMBER 14-25, 1987 IL CIOCCO, TUSCANY, ITALY AIM: This ASI is intended to bring together both academic and industrial control systems engineers who are active or who wish to become active in the application of advanced computing concepts and techniques in the design and imple- mentation of control systems. The main areas to be covered in the Institute lie at the interface between computer sci- ence and control and include: * expert systems in design and implementation of control systems * control of distributed and discrete event processes * parallel computing algorithms and architectures for control and signal processing A series of tutorial-level lectures will be presented by invited lecturers in each of these main areas while a few research-level contributions will be presented as short papers by selected participants. MAIN LECTURERS: The main lecturers for the Institute will include: K.J. Astrom (Lund), G. Blankenship (Maryland), G. Cybenko (Tufts), M.J. Denham (Kingston Polytechnic), A.J. Laub (UC Santa Barbara), E.H. Mamdani (Queen Mary College), J.P. Quadrat (INRIA), A.H. Sameh (Illinois), P. VanDooren (Philips), and W.M. Wonham (Toronto) FEES: The attendance fee of $600 includes accommodation and all meals for the duration of the Institute (13 nights) and transportation to and from Pisa airport. DIRECTORS: The co-directors of the Institute are: Professor Michael J. Denham Professor Alan J. Laub Kingston Polytechnic Dep't. of Electrical and Kingston upon Thames Computer Engineering KT1 2EE University of California England Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Tel. (44) (1) 549-1366 Tel. (1) (805) 961-3616 APPLICATIONS: Attendance is by personal invitation only. Further details and application forms are obtainable from the above. Please note that Professor Denham will be at the Santa Barbara address until Apr. 1, 1987. To ensure full consideration by the organizing committee, applications should be submitted by May 15, 1987 at the latest. ------------------------------ To: na@score.stanford.edu Subject: MPS standard form for LPs? Date: Mon, 16 Feb 87 14:14:40 -0500 From: boncelet@huey.udel.edu Can someone help me? What is the MPS standard form for Lp's and, more importantly, how to I translate the MPS form to numerical form suitable for an LP program? Of course, this is some sort of standard, but what is it? charlie (boncelet@huey.udel.edu) ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------