From na-net@patience.stanford.edu Sat Jul 28 15:11:59 1990 Received: from sparky.EPM.ORNL.GOV by cs.utk.edu with SMTP (5.61++/2.4s-UTK) id AA17645; Sat, 28 Jul 90 15:11:46 -0400 Received: from msr.epm.ornl.gov by sparky.EPM.ORNL.GOV (4.1/1.34) id AA08688; Sat, 28 Jul 90 15:10:35 EST Received: from beauty.Stanford.EDU by msr.epm.ornl.gov (5.61/1.34) id AA19202; Sat, 28 Jul 90 15:10:52 -0400 Received: from patience.Stanford.EDU by beauty.Stanford.EDU (4.0/inc-1.5) id AA00706; Sat, 28 Jul 90 12:07:37 PDT Received: from bravery.Stanford.EDU by patience.Stanford.EDU (4.0/inc-1.5) id AA09088; Sat, 28 Jul 90 11:33:06 PDT Received: by bravery.Stanford.EDU (4.0/inc-1.5) id AA02609; Sat, 28 Jul 90 11:33:05 PDT Date: Sat, 28 Jul 90 11:33:05 PDT From: na-net@patience.stanford.edu Message-Id: <9007281833.AA02609@bravery.Stanford.EDU> Return-Path: Subject: NA-NET distribution message Maint-Path: maintainer@na-net.stanford.edu To: na-net@patience.stanford.edu Reply-To: na-net@patience.stanford.edu Comment: requests, comments or problems to nanet@na-net.stanford.edu Comment: submissions to na@na-net.stanford.edu Status: RO NA Digest Saturday, July 28, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 26 Today's Editor: Cleve Moler Today's Topics: New book: "A History of Scientific Computing" Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software The Australian Journal of Combinatorics SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications ------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Chan Date: Thu, 26 Jul 90 21:20:11 -0700 Subject: New book: "A History of Scientific Computing" I'd like to call my fellow colleaques' attention to the recently published book "A History of Scientific Computing", Stephen G. Nash (ed.), ACM Press, History Series, 1990. It contains the proceedings of a conference with the same title held in Princeton, NJ, in 1987 (which I attended). The book has interesting articles by many pioneers in our field, and should make interesting readings for professionals and graduate students alike. Here is the list of authors: Goldstine, Parlett, Varah, Cohen, Buneman, Birkhoff, Gear and Skeel, Peaceman, Cooley, Dantzig, Oden, Hestenes, Young, Block, Varga, Isaacson, Rice, Froberg, Metropolis, Todd, Wheeler, Fox, Gutknecht, Babuska and Kublanovskaya. Certainly a who's-who list in scientific computing! Since I don't have space to list all the titles, I leave that to your imagination! Happy reading, Tony Chan ------------------------------ From: Jorge More Date: Mon, 23 Jul 90 16:15:12 CDT Subject: Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software In honor of the outstanding contributions of James Hardy Wilkinson to the field of numerical software, Argonne National Laboratory, the National Physical Laboratory, and the Numerical Algorithms Group announce a numerical software prize of US $ 1000. The first prize will be awarded at the International Conference in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 91), July 8-12, 1991. Entries for the first award should be sent to the Board of Trustees, Wilkinson Prize for Numerical software, at one of the following two addresses: Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd Argonne National Laboratory Wilkinson House Mathematics and Computer Science Division Jordan Hill Road 9700 South Cass Avenue Oxford OX2 8DR Argonne, Illinois, 60439 United Kingdom United States The Board of Trustees of the Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software will make the award to the entry that best addresses all phases of the preparation of high quality numerical software. The software must be written in a widely available high-level programming language, and must execute on a significant class of computers. Each author of an entry must be under 40 years of age on the first of January of the year of the award. Each entry must be accompanied by a paper describing the software and its implementation. If no entry meets the minimum standard for the award, the Board of Trustees reserves the right not to award the prize. The Board of Trustees may decide that the prize is to be shared by two or more entries. The deadline for submission of entries for the first Wilkinson Prize has been extended to November 1, 1990. RULES FOR SUBMISSION Each entrant or group of entrants must supply: 1. Software written in a widely available high-level programming language. The software must execute on a significant class of computers. The machines on which the software is executable must be stated. 2. A paper describing the algorithm and the software implementation. If appropriate, the paper should give an analysis of the algorithm and the software. Special programming features should be indicated. 3. Documentation of the software which describes its purpose and method of use. 4. Examples of use of the software, including a test program and data. 5. A one or two page summary of the main features of the algorithm and software implementation. Submissions must be in English. Software can be submitted on 9-track ascii tape (1600bpi), 9-track tar tape, cartridge tar tape, or MS-DOS formatted diskettes. The award will be made to the entrant who best addresses all phases of the preparation of high quality numerical software. Among them: Clarity of the paper describing the algorithm, of the software implementation, and of the documentation of the software. Portability, reliability, and efficiency of the software implementation. Depth of analysis of the algorithm and the software. Importance of application addressed by the software. Quality of the test software. ------------------------------ From: John Holt Date: Thu, 19 Jul 90 16:32:18 +1000 Subject: The Australian Journal of Combinatorics THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS The Australian Journal of Combinatorics is a new journal devoted to the publication of research concerning all aspects of combinatorics, pure and applied. It is intended that at least two volumes of the journal will appear each year. Volume 1 appeared in March this year, and Volume 2 will be out around September. An important area which the the Editors wish to encourage is combinatorial optimization and its applications in Operations Research. Editor -in-Chief: Professor A.P. Street (aps@axiom.maths.uq.oz.au) Managing Editor : Dr A.J. Rahilly (ajr@axiom.maths.uq.oz.au) Associate Editors: Dr E.J. Billington (ejb@ ...) Dr D.M. Donovan (dmd@ ...) Dr J.N. Holt (jnh@ ...) Dr S. Oates-Williams (sw@ ...) all located at Editorial Office of The Australian J. of Combinatorics Department of Mathematics The University of Queensland 4072 Queensland AUSTRALIA Submission Details: Intending contributors should submit two copies of manuscripts to any of the above. The journal is produced using a photo-offset process. Because of this, it is important that manuscripts are prepared so as to occupy a 6 inch * 9 inch (152mm * 229mm) rectangular area centred on each page. The title page should exhibit the order: title, author(s), abstract, followed immediately by the body of the paper. ------------------------------ From: SIAM Publications Department Date: Tue, 24 Jul 90 10:09 EDT Subject: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 21-6 November 1990 Table of Contents Michael Renardy Local existence of solutions of the Dirichlet initial-boundary value problem for incompressible hypoelastic materials Ricardo Ricci Traveling wave solutions of the Stefan and the ablation problems Gabriel Nguetseng Asymptotic analysis for a stiff variational problem arising in mechanics J. Bebernes and A. Lacey Finite-time blowup for a particular parabolic system Christoph Pospiech A Dirichlet problem exhibiting global bifurcation with symmetry breaking Martin Krupa Bifurcations of relative equilibria A. Bamberger and A. S. Bonnet Mathematical analysis of the guided modes of an optical fiber Alan R. Bishop, Randy Flesch, M. Gregory Forest, David W. McLaughlin, and Edward A. Overman Correlations between chaos in a perturbed Sine-Gordon equation and a truncated model system David Colton and Lassi Paivarinta Far-field patterns for electromagnetic waves in an inhomogeneous medium Asher Ben-Artzi and Amos Ron On the integer translates of a compactly supported function: dual bases and linear projectors Mohamed Sami ElBialy Collision singularities in celestial mechanics T. M. Dunster Uniform asymptotic solutions of second-order linear differential equations having a double pole with complex exponent and a coalescing turning point A. Fitouhi and M. M. Hamza A uniform expansion for the eigenfunction of a singular second-order differential operator Yang Kuang and Alan Feldstein Monotonic and oscillatory solutions of a linear neutral delay equation with infinite lag A. Baider and R. C. Churchill On monodromy groups of second-order Fuchsian equations For additional information, please contact Vickie Kearn, Publisher, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 3600 University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688; telephone: (215) 382-9800; Fax: (215) 386-7999; e-mail: siampubs@wharton.upenn.edu. ------------------------------ From: SIAM Publications Department Date: Tue, 24 Jul 90 10:09 EDT Subject: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications October 1990 Volume 11, Number 4 Table of Contents Roger A. Horn and Roy Mathias An Analog of the Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality for Hadamard Products and Unitarily Invariant Norms G. Cybenko and M. Berry Hyperbolic Householder Algorithms for Factoring Structured Matrices Nicholas J. Higham Bounding the Error in Gaussian Elimination for Tridiagonal Systems Paul Binding Simultaneous Diagonalisation of Several Hermitian Matrices Dario Bini and Fabio Di Benedetto Solving the Generalized Eigenvalue Problem for Rational Toeplitz Matrices Yitsak M. Ram, Joab J. Blech, and Simon G. Braun Eigenproblem Error Bounds with Application to Symmetric Dynamic System Modification Daniel Hershkowitz and Hans Schneider On the Inertia of Intervals of Matrices Jesse L. Barlow and Udaya B. Vemulapati An Improved Method for One-Way Dissection with Singular Diagonal Blocks W. Glunt, T.L. Hayden, S. Hong, and J. Wells An Alternating Projection Algorithm for Computing the Nearest Euclidean Distance Matrix William F. Trench Spectral Evolution of a One-Parameter Extension of a Real Symmetric Toeplitz Matrix Daniel Hershkowitz Positive Semidefinite Pattern Decompositions A. Hadjidimos and D. Noutsos The Young-Eidson Algorithm: Applications and Extensions Daniel Boley Estimating the Sensitivity of the Algebraic Structure of Pencils with Simple Eigenvalue Estimates Christian H. Bischof, John G. Lewis, and Daniel J. Pierce Incremental Condition Estimation for Sparse Matrices For additional information, please contact Vickie Kearn, Publisher, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 3600 University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688; 215-382-9800; fax: 215-386-7999; e-mail: siampubs@wharton.upenn.edu. ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------