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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 90 11:33:05 PDT

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  

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From: Tony Chan <[email-masked]>
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

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From: Jorge More <[email-masked]>
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.

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From: John Holt <[email-masked]>
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  ([email-masked])
Managing Editor : Dr A.J. Rahilly        ([email-masked])
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.

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From: SIAM Publications Department <[email-masked]>
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: [email-masked].

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From: SIAM Publications Department <[email-masked]>
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: 
[email-masked]. 

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