Subject: NA Digest V88 #4

From: NA Digest <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue 26 Jan 88 13:51:00 PST

NA Digest   Tuesday, January 26, 1988   Volume 88 : Issue 4

This weeks Editor: Cleve Moler

Today's Topics:

         Computer Science Openings at the University of Haifa
                       "Numerical Recipes" in C
              Conference on Signal Processing at Warwick
          Conference on Boundary Element Method at Kentucky
                    Nondifferentiable Optimization
              Legendre Functions of Half-integer Degree
                             This Digest

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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 88 11:05:54 IST
>From: Jonathan Golan <[email-masked]>
Subject: Computer Science Openings at the University of Haifa
To: [email-masked]

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of
Haifa, Haifa, Israel, is looking for Hebrew-speaking faculty members
in computer science, and especially in artificial intelligence, software
engineering, and in the application of advanced mathematical techniques
to the design of computer systems.

Applicants are requested to send a curriculum vitae to me via BITNET or
to write to directly to the university.

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 88 17:53:58 CST
>From: Lee Schneider <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject:  "Numerical Recipes" in C

Does anyone know of a book that gives examples of numerical computation
using C, along the lines of "Numerical Recipes?"  Such books seem
not to exist.

Please reply to me directly if possible, as I am not a regular reader.

    Lee Schneider

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>From: J.G.McWhirter <[email-masked]>
To: na <@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK:[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 88 15:46
Subject: Conference on Signal Processing at Warwick
conference please write to:
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 88 08:56:02 EDT
>From: Richard Heiberger <[email-masked]>
Subject: Positions in Statistics at Temple
To: [email-masked]

                     Faculty Positions

                  Department of Statistics
                      Temple University

We have the following openings for September 1988: at least
one tenure-track position, rank open, for a statistician with
an excellent record of published theoretical and applied
research, and several visiting positions for statisticians
active in research and teaching.  Biostatisticians and
researchers specializing in categorical data analysis are
particularly encouraged to apply.

The Department of Statistics has 24 full-time and 10
affiliated faculty, and 50 students in our M.S.-Ph.D.
programs.  We have our own UNIX-based VAX 11/750 computer
and Sun Workstations, and Statistics Library.  Extensive
computing and library facilities are also available
throughout the University.  The Department is located on
the main Temple Campus, close to Philadelphia's center
city with its many cultural, dining and shopping
opportunities.

To apply, send your CV and three letters of reference to
Burt Holland, Recruiting Committee Chair, Department of
Statistics, Speakman Hall, 006-00, Temple University,
Philadelphia PA  19122.  Temple University is an
affirmative-action/equal opportunity employer.  Women
and minorities are encouraged to apply.

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 88 15:07:01 EST
>From: Graeme Fairweather <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Conference on Boundary Element Method at Kentucky

                      NSF-CBMS REGIONAL CONFERENCE
                                   ON
        MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD

The University of Kentucky will host an NSF-CBMS Regional Conference on
Mathematical Foundations of the Boundary Element Method with Wolfgang L.
Wendland of the University of Stuttgart as the Principal Lecturer.  This
conference has been funded by the National Science Foundation and will
be held on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington,
Kentucky, during the period May 9-13, 1988.  Professor Wendland will
deliver a series of ten lectures covering the following topics:

            - Representation formulas and boundary potentials

            - Boundary integral equations as pseudo-differential
              operators

            - Variational formulation and strong ellipticity

            - Stability and convergence of Galerkin methods for strongly
              elliptic problems

            - Boundary element Galerkin methods for strongly elliptic
              problems

            - Collocation boundary element methods for two-dimensional
              problems

            - Collocation boundary element methods in three dimensions

            - Numerical integration

            - Singularities

            - Open problems

There will be additional lectures by invited speakers, and time will be
provided for group discussions among participants.  Some contributed
talks may also be scheduled.  Partial support for a limited number of
participants is available.

To obtain registration forms for the conference, contact

                   Graeme Fairweather
                   NSF-CBMS Conference Director
                   Department of Mathematics
                   715 Patterson Office Tower
                   University of Kentucky
                   Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027

 Electronic mail addresses:  [email-masked]
                             [email-masked]
Acknowledge-To: <MAT110@UKCC>

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Date: 22 Jan 88   16:26 MST
To: [email-masked]
>From:  H.D.Mittelmann <[email-masked]>  <na.mittelmann>
Subject: Nondifferentiable Optimization

Which public-domain programs are available for the minimization of
non-convex piecewise-smooth real functions f(x), x a vector of n>>1
real variables (no constraints), and how can they be obtained?
Any information is appreciated.

Hans D. Mittelmann, Dept. Math., Arizona State University
                    Tempe, AZ 85287-1804
                    (602) 965 6595

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 88 13:39:46 PST
>From: Bas Braams <[email-masked]>
Subject: Legendre Functions of Half-integer Degree
To: [email-masked]

I would like to know of good software for evaluating Legendre functions of
the first kind, degree equal to half an odd integer, order either integral
or half-integral, and argument real and greater than one.  That is:
  P_sub_nu_super_mu(cosh(eta))
where
  nu+1/2 is an integer,
  either mu is an integer or mu+1/2 is an integer,
  eta is real.
Please reply to [email-masked] or to
[email-masked] .
 -- Bas Braams (princeton plasma physics laboratory)

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 88 11:31:26 PST
>From: [email-masked] (The NA-NET)
To: [email-masked]
Subject: This Digest

This digest is the first to be sent out through our new distribution
mechanism.  This same digest almost made it out yesterday but there
was a problem and I suspect that hardly anybody got it.  So here it
is again.

If anybody gets this message twice please let me know.  Yesterdays
attempt didn't have this addition and I am not interested to know
if anybody got yesterdays attempt, only this exact message.

Externally, everything should be the same:

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-mark kent

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