Subject: NA Digest V87 #13

From: NA Digest <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu 5 Mar 87 18:02:00 PST

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

This weeks Editor: Gene Golub

Today's Topics:

                        POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 87 10:04:33 cst
From: [email-masked] (Willard Miller)
To: [email-masked]

                  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
              [email-masked]                           [email-masked]

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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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