Subject: NA Digest, V. 95, # 18 NA Digest Sunday, April 30, 1995 Volume 95 Issue 18 Today's Editor Cleve Moler The MathWorks, Inc. moler@mathworks.com Today's Topics NA Digest Calendar National Academy of Sciences Richard Sinkhorn E-mail Address of IMACS Symposium in Bulgaria Workshop on Inertial Manifolds in China European Conference on Numerical Mathematics Inversion Conference in Denmark South-Central Student Conference Nonlinear Programming Conference in Beijing South East German Colloquium on Numerical Mathematics Graphics Interface Conference Symposium in Honor of Herb Keller Meeting of the DSS/2 User Group Search for ICASE Director Postdoctoral Position at Imperial College Position at Convex Computer Corporation Position with NEC in Texas Position at Cray Research Contents, SIAM Review Contents, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis Submissions for NA Digest: Mail to na.digest@na-net.ornl.gov. Information about NA-NET: Mail to na.help@na-net.ornl.gov. URL for the World Wide Web: http://www.netlib.org/na-net/na_home.html ------------------------------------------------------- From: NA Digest Date: Sun Apr 30 10:54:37 EDT 1995 Subject: NA Digest Calendar NA Digest Calendar Date Topic Place NA Digest # May 5 SE German Colloquium on Numerical Math. Chemnitz, Germany 18 May 9-12 Agriculture & Bio-Industries Brussels, Belgium 42 May 12 Southern Ontario NA Day Waterloo, Canada 16 May 12 Systems, Control and Computation Reading, UK 17 May 14-17 Homogenization Theories Mierki, Poland 05 May 15-19 Graphics Interface '95 Quebec City, Canada 36 May 16-20 Domain Decomposition Methods Beijing, China 45 May 16-20 Applied Computer Algebra Albuquerque, NM 46 May 21-24 Object-Oriented Numerics Conference Jackson Lake, WY 32 May 21-26 Centenial Hurwitz on Stability Theory MonteVerita,Switzerland49 May 22-24 Interdisciplinary Inversion Conference Aarhus, Denmark 18 May 22-26 Flow through Porous Media Saint-Etienne, France 48 May 29... Haifa Matrix Theory Conference Haifa, Israel 05 May 29-31 Diffraction St.Petersburg, Russia 04 May 31... Method of Lines Workshop Lexington, KY 17 June 1- 3 ABS Methods Beijing, China 04 June 5- 9 Spectral And High Order Methods Houston, TX 44 June 5- 9 Control and Information Shatin NT, Hong Kong 33 June 6-10 Inertial Manifolds Xi'an, China 18 June 12-16 Parallel Numerical Linear Algebra San Francisco, CA 11 June 13-21 Nonlinear Optimization Erice, Sicily, Italy 11 June 17-20 IMACS Symposium on Iterative Methods Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria 17 June 17-20 Iterative Methods in Linear Algebra Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria 39 June 19-22 Intertial Manifolds Xi'an, China 04 June 19-20 Symposium in Honor of Herb Keller Pasadena, CA 18 June 20-24 Honoring G. I. Marchuk Novosibirsk, Russia 28 June 21-24 Interface Computing and Statistics Pittsburgh, PA 50 June 22-23 MPI Developers Conference Notre Dame, IN 16 June 22-23 Software for Nonlinear Optimization Capri, Italy 15 June 22-29 Finite Element Approximations St.-Petersburg, Russia 46 June 26-27 Stockholm Optimization Days Stockholm, Sweden 06 June 26-30 Systems Analysis and Simulation Berlin, Germany 50 June 26... Mechanics of Continuous Media St.Peterbourg, Russia 01 June 27-30 Numerical Analysis Dundee, Scotland 17 June 28-30 DSS/2 User Group Mons, Belgium 18 July 3- 7 Computational Techniques Melbourne, Australia 10 July 3- 7 ICIAM, Int'l Cong. Indust. Appl. Math. Hamburg, Germany 23 July 3- 7 Mathematics of Neural Networks Oxford, UK 48 July 9-12 Error Bounds for Numerical Algorithms Oldenburg, Germany 05 July 9-13 Conjugate Gradient Methods Seattle, WA 10 July 9-14 Ill-posed Inverse Problems San Diego, CA 48 July 9-14 Math Methods in Geophysical Imaging San Diego, CA 51 July 10-12 Linear Algebra and Its Applications Manchester, UK 11 July 10-12 South African N.A. Symposium Scottburgh, So. Africa 52 July 10-14 Computational Mathematics Shushenskoe, Siberia 11 July 15-16 Matrix Methods for Statistics Montreal, Quebec 09 July 10-21 Nonlinear Waves Sapporo, Japan 43 July 16... Mathematics of Numerical Analysis Park City, UT 11 July 17-18 Identification and Optimization Prague, Czech. 12 July 17-19 Boundary Element Techniques Madison, WI 04 July 17-21 Distributed Parameter Systems Warsaw, Poland 25 July 17-21 Modelling and Optimization Warsaw, Poland 32 July 31... Rocky Mountain Numerical Analysis Salt Lake City, UT 32 July 31... Summer School Jyvaskyla, Finland 11 Aug. 2- 4 Computer Methods in Water Resources Beirut, Lebanon 50 Aug. 7-16 Industrial Mathematics Modeling Raleigh, NC 12 Aug. 16-19 International Linear Algebra Society Atlanta, GA 07 Aug. 19-22 Operations Research Beijing, China 05 Aug. 21-23 Workshop on Conservation Laws Trondheim, Norway 44 Aug. 21-24 Applied Parallel Computing Lyngby, Denmark 15 Aug. 23-27 Biology, Ecology and Medicine Sofia, Bulgaria 09 Aug. 24-29 Differential Equations Rousse, Bulgaria 06 Aug. 27-31 Circuit Theory and Design Istanbul, Turkey 42 Aug. 28-30 European Simulation Meeting Gyor, Hungary 07 Aug. 28... Computational and Applied Mathematics Curitiba, Brazil 03 Aug. 29... Parallel Statistics and Economics Trier-Mainz, Germany 41 Sep. 5-14 Computing Techniques in Physics Skalsky dvur, Czech. 08 Sep. 12-15 Parallel Computing in Russia St.-Petersburg, Russia 45 Sep. 17-21 Acoustics of Submerged Structures Boston, MA 22 Sep. 18-22 European Conference on Numerical Math. Paris, France 18 Sep. 23 Pacific NorthWest Numerical Analysis Bellingham, WA 15 Sep. 26-29 Scientific Computing, Validated Numerics Wuppertal, Germany 16 Sep. 26... Cerfacs Linear Algebra Year Toulouse, France 15 Sep. 27-30 Mathematical Tools in Metrology Oxford, UK 51 Oct. 9-15 Cubature Formulae Krasnoyarsk, Russia 08 Oct. 13-14 Differential Equations Raleigh, NC 08 Oct. 15-19 Parallel Algorithms Wuhan, China 08 Oct. 16-18 1995 MATLAB Conference Cambridge, MA 12 Oct. 20-22 South-Central Student Conference Houston, TX 18 Oct. 23-26 SIAM Annual Meeting Charlotte, NC 05 Nov. 1- 4 Complementarity Problems Baltimore, MD 05 Nov. 6- 9 Geometric Design Nashville, TN 04 Nov. 15-17 Simulation of Devices and Technologies Kruger, South Africa 01 Nov. 19-22 Pure and Applied Mathematics Isa Town, Bahrain 38 Dec. 10-14 Global Optimization Szeged, Hungary 10 Dec. 14-16 Dynamical Systems/Numerical Analysis Atlanta, GA 49 Dec. 14-20 Winter School on Iterative Methods Hong Kong 09 1996 Jan. 28-30 Discrete Algorithms Atlanta, GA 10 Feb. 12-14 Network Optimization Problems Gainesville, FL 47 Apr. 1- 4 State of the Art in Numerical Analysis York, England 06 May 21-24 Graphics Interface Conference Toronto, Canada 18 June 13-15 Algebraic Multilevel Iteration Methods Nijmegen, Netherlands 11 June 17-21 Householder XIII Symposium Pontresina,Switzerland 44 July 8-12 Prague Mathematical Conference Prague, Czech Rep. 03 July 15-19 Computational Mechanics Miskolc, Hungary 10 July 27-30 Conference Honoring Mike Powell Cambridge, England 48 Aug. 25-31 Congress Theor. & Appl. Mechanics Kyoto, Japan 46 Sep. 2- 5 Nonlinear Programming Beijing, China 18 ------------------------------ From: Gene Golub Date: Sat, 29 Apr 95 22:57:35 PDT Subject: National Academy of Sciences Congratulations to Persi Diaconnis, Charles Peskin and C R Rao on their recent election to the National Academy of Sciences. Gene Golub ------------------------------ From: Giles Auchmuty Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 12:21:15 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Richard Sinkhorn We are sorry to say that Richard D. Sinkhorn, who was well known for his work in linear algebra and matrix theory, passed away in Houston on April 8th, 1995 following a stroke. Richard received his Ph.D. degree in 1962 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and then joined the Mathematics department of the University of Houston. At UH, he quickly became a full Professor and supervised 11 Ph.D. theses as well as many Masters students. In 1985 he was voted Top Professor by the University Mortar Board Society, (a student organization) and received the College Teaching Excellence Award in 1992 from the College of Natural Science and Mathematics. He leaves a sister, two step-daughters and their children as well as many friends and admirers. He was a very kind person and will be missed. Giles Auchmuty and Mike Friedberg Mathematics Department, U. of Houston. auch@uh.edu and frosro@math.uh.edu ------------------------------ From: Panayot S. Vassilevski Date: Sat, 29 Apr 95 10:28:26 +0300 Subject: E-mail Address of IMACS Symposium in Bulgaria 2nd IMACS Symposium on Iterative Methods in Linear Algebra, Blagoevgrad, June 17-20, 1995, BULGARIA We are experiencing difficulty with our bitnet e-mail address for some time. For this reason you can try to send messages to the following Internet addresses: margenov%iscbg.acad.bg@atgbox.cc.univie.ac.at panayot%iscbg.acad.bg@atgbox.cc.univie.ac.at Please note that you have to use the complete address as specified above (automatic reply will not work). Panayot Vassilevski and Svetozar Margenov Local Organizing Committee ------------------------------ From: Jie Shen Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 14:54:59 -0400 Subject: Workshop on Inertial Manifolds in China FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON INERTIAL MANIFOLDS, APPROXIMATE INERTIAL MANIFOLDS AND RELATED NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS JUNE 19-22, 1995, XI'AN, CHINA Sponsored by National Nature Science National Science Fundation of Fundation of China the United States State Educational Committee of China SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Shui-Nee Chow (Georgia Tech, USA) Ciprian Foias (Indiana, USA) David Gottlieb (Brown, USA) Daqian Li (Fudan, China) Kaitai Li (Xi'an, China) Jacque-Louis Lions (Chair: France) Jie Shen (Penn State, USA) Roger Temam (Cochair: Orsay, France) Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard, USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Boling Guo (IAPCM, China) Aixiang Huang (Xi'an, China) Kaitai Li (Chair: Xi'an, China) Jie Shen (Penn State, USA) Zhong-Qin Xu (Cochair: CNSF, China) HOW TO CONTRIBUTE: Potential contributors should submit, no later than May 5, 1995, an abstract of no more than one page to: Professor Jie Shen Tel: 814-863-2036 Department of Mathematics Fax: 814-865-3735 Penn State University E-mail: shen@math.psu.edu University Park, PA 16802, USA FINANCIAL AID: A limited fund is available to support partial travel expenses of US participants. Those who would like to apply for support should so indicate. ------------------------------ From: Alexander Bespalov Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 10:25:44 +0200 Subject: European Conference on Numerical Mathematics First Announcement and Call for Papers ENUMATH 95 The First European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications Paris, France, 18 - 22 September, 1995 Organized by GAMNI/SMAI in association with CNRS, ECCOMAS, INRIA and Universite Pierre et Marie Curie ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Y. Maday (Chairman, France) J.-F. Maitre (France) Yu. Kuznetsov (Russia) J. Periaux (France) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: F. Brezzi (Italy) J. Periaux (France) R. Glowinski (France/USA) R. Rannacher (Germany) Yu. Kuznetsov (Russia) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: O. Axelson (Netherlands) U. Langer (Germany) N. Bakhvalov (Russia) R. Lazarov(Bulgaria/USA) J. Ball (U.K.) P. Le Tallec (France) A. Bermudes de Castro (Spain) Y. Maday (France) M. Dryja (Poland) J.-F. Maitre (France) M. Feistauer (Czech Republic) P. Neittaanmaki (Finland) M. Geradin (Belgium) O. Pironneau (France) W. Hackbusch (Germany) A. Quarteroni (Italy) R. Jeltsch (Switzerland) W. Wendland (Germany) C. Johnson (Sweden) OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE The main goal of the Conference is to bring together leading experts and actively working scientists in the field of numerical mathematics and to discuss the most recent results and new trends with special attention to the contributions of Europe. Theoretical analysis of numerical methods and algorithms as well as their applications to challenging scientific and industrial problems is the key point of the conference. The organizers strongly believe that numerical mathematics progress through interactions between numerical analysts, applied scientists, applied mathematicians and researchers engaged in mathematical modelling and scientific computings. Special attention will be given to multidisciplinary applications of numerical mathematics and to new parallel algorithms through several problems oriented minisymposia being held within the framework of the conference. INVITED SPEAKERS: H. Bock (Germany), J. Bramble (USA), C. Canuto (Italy), H. Kawarada (Japan), J.L. Lions (France), G. Marchuk (Russia), B. Parlett (USA), B. Perthame (France), W. Symes (USA), E. Tadmor (Israel) MINISYMPOSIA: Adaptive FE-methods Multifields methods and nonmatching grids Multidimensional hyperbolic conservation laws Acoustics and electromagnetism Particle and kinetic methods Challenging industrial problems The conference will be hosted in the building of CNRS in Paris. The official E-mail address of the Organizing Committee is enumath@menusin.inria.fr Please, use it for all inquiries. ------------------------------ From: Per Christian Hansen Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:32:33 +0200 Subject: Inversion Conference in Denmark Interdisciplinary Inversion Conference on Methodology, Computation and Integrated Applications University of Aarhus, Denmark May 22-24, 1995 Organized by the Danish Interdisciplinary Inversion Group Invited speakers: - Douglas Gough, Cambridge University, UK - Fernando Sanso, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - John Scales, Colorado School of Mines, USA - Philip Stark, University of California, Berkeley, USA - Albert Tarantola, Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, France For more information about the conference, see the following Web page: http://www.aau.dk/home/geofbhj/public_html/diig/iic95.html Per Christian Hansen UNI-C, Bldg. 305 Technical University of Denmark ------------------------------ From: Chenyi Hu Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 17:07:41 +0600 Subject: South-Central Student Conference CALL FOR PAPERS The First SC COSMIC Student Conference on Computational Sciences & Engineering October 20-22, 1995 the University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas. To promote Computational Sciences & Engineering education and research at minority institutions in the South and Central United States, the Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University and SC COSMIC (South-Central Computational Science at Minority Institutions Consortium) are jointly organizing the First SC COSMIC Student Conference on Computational Sciences and Engineering. The Conference will be held from October 20-22, 1995, at the University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas. Students from the Consortium institutions are welcome to submit abstracts of their research projects on Computational Science and Engineering, and their applications to the conference for presentations. Professors from all institutions are welcome to recruit prospective minority graduate students at the conference. For further information on SC COSMIC and the conference, please see http://www.cs.rice.edu/CRPC/SC-COSMIC ------------------------------ From: Yuan Ya-xiang Date: Thu, 27 Apr 95 15:52:43 +0800 Subject: Nonlinear Programming Conference in Beijing First Announcement and Call for Papers International Conference on Nonlinear Programming (Beijing, Sept 2-5, 1996) An International Conference on Nonlinear Programming will be held at the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, from September 2-5, 1996. It is organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Natural Science Foundation. Invited lectures on recent advances of nonlinear programming will be given. Invited Speakers (Preliminary list) will include: J. Burke R. Byrd A.R. Conn J. More J. Nocedal M.J.D. Powell R.B. Schnabel K. Tanabe R. Tapia Ph. Toint H. Wolkowitz M.H. Wright A limited number of short (20 minutes) papers will be accepted for presentation. Papers on theoretical, computational and practical aspects of nonlinear programming are welcome. In part, this meeting is intended to honour the many contributions of Professor M.J.D. Powell to Optimization. It is hoped that this meeting will be similar to the one that Professor M.J.D. Powell organised in Cambridge in 1981. There will be no parallel sessions. Apart from the invited lectures and submitted short talks, there will be also discussion sessions. The conference proceedings will be published by an international publisher, and all the papers will be reviewed. One or two sightseeing tours, including visiting the Great Wall, will be organized by the conference. There is also a possibility of organizing a post conference tour to Xi-an, an ancient capital of China, depending on the number of participants who are interested in such a trip. Dates and deadlines: Prospective participants (except invited speakers) should send their preregistration giving address (postal and e-mail, if available) and accommodation preference(single or double bedroom in hotel) to the address below by post or e-mail before July 31 1995. A second announcement will be sent in September 1995 to all those who preregister. International Organizing Committee: A.R. Conn, (IBM Watson Research Center, Yorks. USA) J. Nocedal (Northwestern University, USA) Ph. Toint (University of Namur, BELGIUM) Y. Yuan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA) Address for correspondence: For further information, please contact the following address or any of the International organizing committee. Prof. Ya-xiang Yuan State Lab. of Scientific and Engineering Computing ICMSEC, Chinese Academy of Sciences P.O. Box 2719, Beijing 100080, China Tel: +86-10-255-9001, +86-10-254-5820 FAX: +86-10-254-2285 e-mail: yyx@lsec.cc.ac.cn ------------------------------ From: Werner Rath Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 11:38:37 MESZ Subject: South East German Colloquium on Numerical Mathematics The first South East German Colloquium on Numerical Mathematics will be held May 5, 1995 at the TU Chemnitz-Zwickau, Chemnitz, Germany. Details are available via WWW at the URL http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~rath/SODK.html Werner Rath | Tel.: (049) (0)371-531-3953 (office) Fakultaet fuer Mathematik | (049) (0)2151-308119 (private) TU Chemnitz-Zwickau | email: w.rath@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de D-09107 Chemnitz, FRG | na.wrath@na-net.ornl.gov ------------------------------ From: Richard Bartels Date: Thu, 27 Apr 95 18:59:50 -0400 Subject: Graphics Interface Conference First Call for Papers GI'96 (Graphics Interface '96) To be held 21-24 May 1996, Toronto, Canada Submission deadline 31 October 1995 Organized by the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Contact: Richard Bartels Computer Graphics Laboratory Computer Science Department University of Waterloo 200 University Ave. W. Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada Phone: 1-519-888-4567 ext. 4534 FAX: 1-519-885-1208 E-mail: rhbartel@uwaterloo.ca Languages: English, French Manuscripts are solicited describing unpublished research results and applications experience in all areas of computer graphics, specifically including the following: Image Synthesis & Realism, User Interfaces, Shading & Rendering Algorithms, Windowing Systems, Geometric Modeling, Computer Cartography, Computer Animation, Image Processing, Interactive Techniques, Medical Graphics, Graphics for CAD/CAM, Graphics in Education, Computer-Aided Building Design, Graphics & the Arts, Industrial & Robotics Applications, Visualization, Graphics in Business, Graphics in Simulation. Film and video tapes that illustrate the use of computer graphics and interactive techniques are also solicited. This visual material could present new techniques, the artistic application of computer graphics, or a historical perspective of the field. Manuscripts and films will be refereed. Accepted manuscripts will appear in a published proceedings, avaliable with registration at the conference and through the publisher thereafter. Accepted films and tapes will be given a presentation showing at the conference. For submission instructions and other information, see the "Contact" above or the WWW page "http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~rhbartel/GI96/info.html" ------------------------------ From: evdv@ama.caltech.edu (Eric Van de Velde) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 11:19:40 -0700 Subject: Symposium in Honor of Herb Keller REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MAY 15th!!! SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF HERBERT B. KELLER ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 70th BIRTHDAY The Department of Energy, the Engineering and Applied Science Division of the California Institute of Technology, and the Center for Research on Parallel Computation are sponsoring a two-day symposium to honor Herbert B. Keller on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The evening of June 19th, there will be a reception and banquet dinner at the Athenaeum (the Caltech faculty club). When: June 19th and 20th, 1995 Where: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California Invited talks: Heteroclinic Cycles in Load-Coupled Josephson Junctions, Eusebius Doedel, Concordia University Accurate Integration of Differential Equations, Donald Estep, Georgia Institute of Technology Simulation and Control of Linear and Nonlinear Wave Problems, Roland Glowinski, University of Houston and Universite de Paris Large Scale Matrix Computation Problems from QCD, Gene H. Golub, Stanford University Integral Operators and Numerical Methods for Differential Equations, Tom Hagstrom, University of New Mexico The Mathematics of Heart Attacks, James Keener, University of Utah Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions, Joseph B. Keller, Stanford University Numerical solution of problems with different time scales, Heinz O. Kreiss, University of California at Los Angeles Hopf Bifurcation with Strong Resonance, William Langford, University of Guelph Positive Schemes, Peter Lax, New York University Bifurcation Phenomena in Water Waves, Philip G. Saffman, California Institute of Technology TBA, Andrew B. White, Jr., Los Alamos National Laboratory For more information: check out our WWW page http://www.ama.caltech.edu/~hbk70 or use the finger program: finger hbk70@ama.caltech.edu or send e-mail to hbk70@ama.caltech.edu or call JoAnn at (818)395-4562 or write to HBK/70 217-50 Caltech Pasadena, CA 91125 ------------------------------ From: Nicolas Point Date: Sun, 30 Apr 95 14:01:28 +0200 Subject: Meeting of the DSS/2 User Group SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS MEETING OF THE DSS/2 USER GROUP Faculte Polytechnique de Mons Mons, Belgium June 28-30, 1995 GENERAL INFORMATION The package DSS/2 is a common tool for solving problems in partial differential equations using the method of lines (MOL). A first meeting of users will take place at the Control and Mathematics Departments of the Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium, June 28-30, 1995. The aim of the meeting is to provide a platform for discussions and presentations of DSS/2 applications and related problems. TOPICS OF THE MEETING 1. Modeling of distributed parameter systems. 2. Method of lines - Numerical methods and algorithms. 3. MOL software tools. 4. Process simulation, control and optimization. 5. Applications in industry, economics, ecology, demography, others. TECHNICAL PROGRAM The technical program of the meeting will feature: -Plenary lectures by W.E. Schiesser, Lehigh University, USA: 1. Present Status of DSS/2 and PDESOL. (PDESOL is a Windows-based version of DSS/2) 2. A general approach to PDE boundary conditions within the method of lines. -Discussions introduced by the meeting organizers: 1. Other new software. 2. Methods for handling the boundary conditions: differential- algebraic equations versus constraints ? 3. Process simulation and optimization. -Contributed papers. CALL FOR PAPERS Participants are invited to present papers in any of the areas listed above. Deadlines: Abstract should be sent prior to June, 2, 1995. Full manuscript (4 pages in english) should be sent prior to June, 23, 1995. Further information on the technical program is available from the secretary: Dr. Alain Vande Wouwer Laboratoire d'Automatique Faculte Polytechnique de Mons Boulevard Dolez 31 7000 Mons , Belgium Tel: +32-65-374141 Fax: +32-65-374300 Email: vdw@autom.fpms.ac.be ------------------------------ From: Millen Shelly Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 10:14:18 -0400 Subject: Search for ICASE Director DIRECTOR, ICASE (INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING) A search is being conducted for a Director for the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), which is co-located with NASA's Langley Research Center (LaRC) in Hampton, Virginia. The Institute is funded by NASA through the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). Since its establishment in 1972, ICASE has conducted unclassified basic research in three major areas: i) applied and numerical mathematics, including numerical analysis, algorithm development, and multidisciplinary design optimization; ii) theoretical, computational, and experimental research in fluid mechanics in areas of interest to LaRC, including acoustics and combustion; and iii) applied computer science and parallel computing. The Institute helps promote cooperative research activities among scientists and their institutions, and in addition, enhances communication among researchers in related disciplines by providing an academic setting within which academic and industrial scientists can collaborate with NASA scientists and engineers on problems of mutual interest. The institute maintains a small, permanent staff, augmented by postdoctoral fellows and visiting scientists from universities and industry. It has been responsible for introducing several innovations in numerical analysis into computational aerodynamics practice including spectral methods, multigrid methods, and high-order upwind schemes. Salaries and benefits are competitive and attractive, and will depend on the individual's qualifications. The applicant should be an individual with demonstrated leadership and vision, outstanding communications skills, a proven research record in one or more of the research areas of interest to the Institute, and a thorough understanding of research management. Apply no later than 30 June 1995. An application, containing a complete resume on academic, professional, and personal data, including three references, should be sent to: W. D. Cummings, Executive Director, Universities Space Research Association, The American City Building, Suite 212, Columbia, MD 21044. The Universities Space Research Association is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ------------------------------ From: John Barrett Date: Mon, 24 Apr 95 18:26:25 BST Subject: Postdoctoral Position at Imperial College POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION A Postdoctoral Research Assistant is required to work with Dr. John W. Barrett (j.barrett@ic.ac.uk) for 18 months on an EPSRC project Finite Element Approximation of Some Problems in Nonlinear Elasticity and Non-Newtonian/Viscoelastic Flows The starting salary is in the range 17,700 - 20,620 pounds sterling (inclusive of London Weighting). Applicants should send a CV and the name of two referees to Dr. John W. Barrett, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College Of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK. Closing date for applications is 2 June 1995. Starting date before 1 October 1995. This post was advertised a year ago, the successful candidate has now moved on to a permanent academic position. Previous applicants are therefore invited to re-apply. ------------------------------ From: Dave Dodson Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 15:02:43 -0500 Subject: Position at Convex Computer Corporation CONVEX COMPUTER CORPORATION Mathematical Software Development Background: CONVEX Computer Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets affordable supercomputers for the high-performance engineering and scientific computing marketplace. CONVEX's Mathematical Software Group is chartered with producing efficient, robust mathematical software, packaged as subroutine libraries, that can be incorporated into FORTRAN programs to ease program development, conversion, and optimization. Responsibilities: You will develop and maintain highly efficient mathematical software routines for inclusion in the ConvexMLIB Library. Ingenuity will be required to devise and implement parallel algorithms to solve problems that occur frequently in engineering and scientific computing on Convex's RISC-based globally shared memory Exemplar(tm) system. In addition, you will serve an important role as a company resource in numerical analysis, program optimization, and high-speed scientific computing. Job Requirements: U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency. Strong background in scientific computing or numerical analysis. Experience in programming algorithms in numerical linear algebra, the finite element method, or signal processing. Two or more years of FORTRAN programming experience. Desired Experience: Five or more years experience in scientific computing. Programming experience on parallel processors is a plus. Familiarity with mathematical library software development. A working knowledge of UNIX and an assembly language is desirable. Education: Preference will be given to applicants with a Masters or Ph.D. degree in a relevant discipline. Special Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required. For immediate consideration, please send your resume, in confidence, to Human Resources, Attn. David Dodson CONVEX Computer Corporation P.O. Box 833851 Richardson, Texas 75083-3851 email: dodson@convex.com CONVEX is an equal oportunity employer, M/F/D/V. ------------------------------ From: Paresh G. Pattani Date: Wed, 26 Apr 95 10:24:01 CDT Subject: Position with NEC in Texas APPLICATIONS ANALYST NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc. The Woodlands, TX NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc. is a subsidiary of NEC, a Fortune 50 world leader in the computer and communications market. NEC produces more than 15,000 different products in more than 140 countries through a network of 198 consolidated subsidiaries, and employs about 160,000 people worldwide. Our Supercomputer Center in The Woodlands, Texas has immediate openings for Applications Analyst. This is an opportunity for an analyst in the area of high performance computing with an advanced degree in engineering/computer science. This applications specialist will be responsible for tuning, porting and benchmarking the strategic third party engineering and scientific applications on NEC systems, such as, NEC SX-3 and SX-4 vector-parallel systems and Cenju-3 distributed memory parallel (DMP) system. The ideal candidates will have demonstrated ability/experience in one or more of the following areas: - engineering/scientific applications development and porting - benchmarking on vector-parallel and DMP systems - proficient in FORTRAN, FORTRAN90 and C - knowledge of HPF, MPI, and/or PVM - experience in sparse matrix solvers on vector-parallel and DMP systems - familiarity with leading ISV software packages a plus - knowledgeable in UNIX We offer employees competitive salaries, outstanding benefits and an excellent work environment. NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V Please forward resumes to: Human Resources NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc. 1414 Massachusetts Ave. Boxborough, MA 01719 Fax: 508-266-4689 email: pattani@hstc.necsyl.com ------------------------------ From: Bill Harrod Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 08:08:50 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Position at Cray Research The Mathematical Software Group at Cray Research, Inc. located in Eagan, Minnesota has an immediate opening for a numerical analyst to support, improve, and add to the scientific library, LIBSCI, on SPARC-based computer systems. The Mathematical Software Group does research on algorithm development, develops, optimizes, and supports numerical software for Cray Research's scientific library, and works with application programmers to provide highly optimized computation kernels and libraries for use as building blocks in application programs. Preference will be given to candidates with an M.S. in computer science or applied mathematics, with 1) Experience developing mathematical software in the following areas: numerical linear algebra, sparse matrix methods, signal processing, sorting and searching methods. 2) A good understanding of high-performance computer architectures and the issues involved in optimizing algorithms for these architectures. Familiarity and experience implementing scalable algorithms. 3) FORTRAN, C, and assembly code programming experience on RISC based parallel computers. Good debugging, testing and performance analysis skills are critical. C++ programming experience is helpful. Experience in developing and maintaining a large software project is desirable. Cray Research offers an excellent compensation plan that includes, flexible career paths, stock purchase plan, relocation assistance and more. For consideration, send your resume to: William J. Harrod Cray Research, Inc. 655F Lone Oak Drive Eagan MN 55121 or harrod@cray.com ------------------------------ From: SIAM Date: Thu, 27 Apr 95 09:04:56 EST Subject: Contents, SIAM Review SIAM REVIEW VOL. 37, NO. 2, JUNE 1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLES Software Libraries for Linear Algebra Computations on High Performance Computers Jack J. Dongarra and David W. Walker A Survey of the Maximum Principles for Optimal Control Problems with State Constraints Richard F. Hartl, Suresh P. Sethi, and Raymond G. Vickson Stabilization of the Inverted Linearized Pendulum by High Frequency Vibrations Mark Levi and Warren Weckesser Finite Catenary and the Method of Lagrange K. Veselic CLASSROOM NOTE IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS A Nonlinear Programming Algorithm for Hospital Management Frank H. Mathis and Lenora Jane Mathis PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS BOOK REVIEWS An Introduction to Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (J. D. Logan) Karen Ames Numerical Solution of Sturm-Liouville Problems (John D. Pryce) Alan L. Andrew Time Series: Forecasting, Simulation, Applications (Gareth Janacek and Louise Swift) David F. Findley Introduction to Multidimensional Integrable Equations (B. G. Konopelchenko) J. D. Gibbon General Pattern Theory: A Mathematical Study of Regular Structures (U. Grenander) Daniel Keenan Non-Standard Rank Tests (A. Janssen and D. M. Mason) Jana Jureckova Markov Models and Optimization (M. H. A. Davis) Suzanne Lenhart Linear Partial Differential Operators in Gevrey Spaces (Luigi Rodino) Otto Liess Fundamentals of Grid Generation (P. Knupp and S. Steinberg) C. Wayne Mastin Duality and Perturbation Methods in Critical Point Theory (N. Ghoussoub) Jean Mawhin Mathematical Computational Techniques for Multilevel Adaptive Methods (U. Rude) Steve McCormick Normal Forms and Bifurcation of Planar Vector Fields (Shee-Nee Chow, Chengzhi Li, and Duo Wang) Kenneth R. Meyer Model-Free Curve Estimation ( M. E. Tartar and M. D. Lock) Guy Nason Numerical Solutions of the Euler Equations for Steady Flow Problems (Albrecht Eberle, Arthur Rizzi, and Ernst Heinrich Hirschel) Paul D. Orkwis Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations (Peter E. Kloeden and Eckhard Platen) Matthias Gelbrich and Werner Romisch Box Splines (C de Boor, K. Hollig, and S. Riemenschneider) Amos Ron Numerical Hamiltonian Problems (J. M. Sanz-Serna and M. P. Calvo) Robert D. Skeel The Couette-Taylor Problem (Pascal Chossat and Gerard Iooss) Juergen Scheurle Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Steven H. Strogatz) Douglas S. Shafer The Fuzzy Systems Handbook: A Practioner's Guide to Building, Using, and Maintaining Fuzzy Systems (Earl Cox) Rod Taber ------------------------------ From: ETNA Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 16:32:41 -0500 (EDT) Subject: Contents, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis Contents, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA) Volume 3, March 1995. 1. Orthonormal polynomial vectors and least squares approximation for a discrete inner product. M. Van Barel and A. Bultheel. vol.3.1995/pp1-23.dir/pp1-23.ps. 24. Parallel, synchronous and asynchronous two-stage multisplitting methods. Rafael Bru, Violeta Migall, Jose Penades, and Daniel B. Szyld. vol.3.1995/pp24-38.dir/pp24-38.ps. 39. On graded QR decompositions of products of matrices. G. W. Stewart. vol.3.1995/pp39-49.dir/pp39-49.ps. 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