Subject: NA Digest, V. 95, # 51 NA Digest Sunday, December 24, 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 51 Today's Editor: Cleve Moler The MathWorks, Inc. moler@mathworks.com Today's Topics: PARA96 & Merry Christmas Konrad Zuse Draft of New Book Available Via FTP New Textbook in High-Performance Scientific Computing Change of Address for Michele Benzi Reorganisation of Swiss Computing Centers C Code for Gear Algorithm Satellite Trajectory Code Sought Workshop in Croatia on Numerical Linear Algebria Object-Oriented Numerics Conference Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics Supercomputing on IBM Systems Conference in Russia on Simulation of Devices Meeting in Portugal on Vector and Parallel Processing Position at University of Texas, Austin Positions at University of Minnesota Research Center Postdoctoral Position at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Postdoctoral Position at CERFACS Contents, IEEE Computational Science & Engineering Contents, J. Approximation Theory 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: Jerzy Wasniewski Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 14:04:01 +0100 (MET) Subject: PARA96 & Merry Christmas PARA96 WORKSHOP ON APPLIED PARALLEL COMPUTING IN INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS AND OPTIMIZATION August 18-21, 1996 http://uniweb.uni-c.dk/para/para96.html * + + A Merry Christmas and +O+ ============= + * + | . | . | a Happy New Year +* O+ | . | . | + O + | . | . | 1 9 9 6 + @ + | . | . | + @ * + |----+----| + @ O + | .| .. | + * O + | . | . | + OX O #+ | . | . | + O *#* + ============= +O o * @ + + % * + +O * * O & + --------------- ------ | | ------- |#-#-| ------- |#-#-#| ------ ------- Best Regards, Jerzy ------------------------------ From: Peter Deuflhard Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 14:40:04 +0100 Subject: Konrad Zuse It is extremely sad for me to inform the community about the death of Konrad Zuse. He died on Dec. 18 at the age of 85 in his home in Huenfeld near Fulda. For those of you, who do not yet know his name: on an international level, Konrad Zuse was the creator of the first really working fully automated, program-controlled and freely programmable computer using binary floating-point arithmetic. It was operational in 1941. He built this machine in the living room of his parents here in Berlin. Fortunately, as he used to state, the Nazi regime did not recognize the importance of his invention. After the Second World War Zuse started to design a rather future oriented programming language called "Plankalkuel" (plan calculus), which in fact shows certain construction principles of modern object oriented languages. He started a firm, the ZUSE KG, which, however, was later bought by Siemens, but not recognized as the jewel that it really was (Siemens transformed it into a production site, so that all know-how people left.) Konrad Zuse is the patron of the ZIB, the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin. As president of this Center I got to know Zuse personally quite well. I really admired his extremely abstract views, a high rank mathematician as well as a high rank engineer! A universal genius of the kind that is rare worldwide. The same degree of abstraction is also visible in his paintings, which were his hobby throughout his life and the main occupation during his late years. Zuse rather late enjoyed international recognition, only recently the History of Computer Science put him into the right place. The Washington Museum still does not (yet?) show him in the gallery of the main inventors of the field. Want to know more about him? Just look up URL:http://www.zib-berlin.de/Prospect/zuse.html . Do not hesitate to write me on the subject! Peter Deuflhard Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Berlin. ------------------------------ From: G. W. Stewart Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 11:33:16 -0500 Subject: Draft of New Book Available Via FTP I am currently writing a multivolume Survey of Matrix Algorithms. The present Volume I is entitled Basic Decompositions. Three chapters of this volume can be obtained by anonymous ftp from thales.cs.umd.edu in pub/survey The first two chapters contain introductory material from mathematics and computer science and the third chapter is on Gaussian elimination. A fourth chapter on the QR decomposition and a fifth on rank determination will complete the volume. For more information see the preface. I am distributing the book in the hope that it will be helpful to others and that others will be willing to help me with their comments and corrections. Please feel free to make copies for your personal use. However, if you want to make copies to distribute to a class, please ask my permission (it will generally be forthcoming). Pete Stewart ------------------------------ From: Elizabeth Jessup Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 15:38:08 -0700 Subject: New Textbook in High-Performance Scientific Computing It's finally done! The following textbook is supposed to be available from MIT Press for next semester's courses: An Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing by Lloyd D. Fosdick, Elizabeth R. Jessup, Carolyn J. C. Schauble, and Gitta Domik The authors begin with a survey of scientific computing and then provide a review of background (numerical analysis, IEEE arithmetic, Unix, Fortran) and tools (elements of MATLAB, IDL, AVS). Next, full coverage is given to scientific visualization and to the architectures (scientific workstations and vector and parallel supercomputers) and performance evaluation needed to solve large-scale problems. The concluding section on applications includes three problems (molecular dynamics, advection, and computerized tomography) that illustrate the challenge of solving problems on a variety of computer architectures as well as the suitability of a particular architecture to solving a particular problem. The ISBN number is 0-262-06181-3, and the purchase price is $50 (in the U.S.). The book, some lab materials, and syllabi are also available by anonymous ftp from cs.colorado.edu in the directory /pub/cs/HPSC. (Beware that you will use up a LOT of paper if you decide to grab and print the whole thing.) Liz ------------------------------ From: Michele Benzi Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 15:42:34 +0100 Subject: Change of Address for Michele Benzi Dear colleagues, Beginning January 2 I will be at CERFACS in Toulouse, on a leave from the University of Bologna. My address will be : Michele Benzi CERFACS 42 Ave. G. Coriolis 31057 Toulouse Cedex FRANCE (E-mail: benzi@cerfacs.fr) My current e-mail address will also work. Best wishes in the new year, Michele Benzi ------------------------------ From: Martin Gutknecht Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 16:14:13 +0100 (MET) Subject: Reorganisation of Swiss Computing Centers Reorganization of CSCS and IPS in Switzerland By January 1, 1996, the Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico (CSCS) at Manno near Lugano and the Interdisciplinary Project Center for Supercomputing (IPS) at ETH Zurich will merge into a single organization that runs under the acronym CSCS/SCSC; here, SCSC stands for the modified English name `Swiss Center for Scientific Computing'. All the current members of the IPS will keep their Zurich offices, but get new mail and email addresses: CSCS/SCSC [or SCSC] ETH-Zentrum, RZ name@scsc.ethz.ch CH-8092 Zurich This includes, in particular, the following numerical analysts: Armin Friedli friedli@scsc.ethz.ch Gabor G. Groh groh@scsc.ethz.ch Martin H. Gutknecht mhg@scsc.ethz.ch Urs von Matt vonmatt@scsc.ethz.ch Wesley P. Petersen wpp@scsc.ethz.ch Klaus J. Ressel kjr@scsc.ethz.ch Eric de Sturler sturler@scsc.ethz.ch Phone and fax numbers remain unchanged. The addresses of the Manno site, where some of us will take over additional responsibilities, are CSCS/SCSC [or CSCS] Via Cantonale name@cscs.ch CH-6928 Manno Along with the merger there goes a reorganization of the former CSCS. The new CSCS/SCSC will have only two sections, `Services' (operating the computing resources, which include a NEC SX-3 and a NEC SX-4, and providing machine specific support) and `Scientific Projects and Support' (SPS). The new organization is headed by a new director Jean-Pierre Therre (formerly with Cray Research (Suisse)), along with Djordje Maric (Director of Services) and Martin Gutknecht (Scientific Director), who are responsible of the respective sections. While the IPS will loose its name, it will survive as an enlarged new section of the new CSCS/SCSC, and we will continue our research and consulting work in scientific computing. The new SPS section will have the following groups (and group leaders): - Advanced Numerical Algorithms (ANA) - M. Gutknecht - Computational Chemistry (CC) - H.P. L\"uthi - Data Analysis/Solid State Physics (DA/SSP) - D. W\"urtz - Computational Particle Physics (CPP) - P. de Forcrand - Software Technology (ST) - K. Decker - Interdisciplinary and Industrial Applications (IIA) - N.N. - Scientific Visualization (SV) - R. Peikert Martin H. Gutknecht mhg@scsc.ethz.ch SCSC ETH-Zentrum, RZ CH-8092 Zurich ------------------------------ From: Arthur Sherman Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 12:07:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: C Code for Gear Algorithm Does anyone have or know of a C version of the Gear algorithm of comparable quality to the fortran codes LSODE, DDRIV, etc.? Has anyone tried f2c on those codes? Arthur Sherman National Institutes of Health NIDDK/Mathematical Research Branch BSA Building, Suite 350 9190 WISCONSIN AVE MSC 2690 BETHESDA MD 20892-2690 phone: (301) 496-4325 fax: (301) 402-0535 email: sherman@helix.nih.gov ------------------------------ From: Stephanie Rault Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 14:48:32 +0100 Subject: Satellite Trajectory Code Sought I work on satellite trajectory with perturbations and i would like to have programs in FORTRAN or formal calculus which give an analytic solution. Any reference would be helpful. Thank you for your help. Stephanie RAULT. (33) 99 84 75 05 srault@irisa.fr Institut de recherche en informatique et systemes aleatoires. Rennes. FRANCE. ------------------------------ From: Ivan Slapnicar Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 17:32:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Workshop in Croatia on Numerical Linear Algebria - first announcement - International Workshop on Accurate Eigensolving and Applications Split, Croatia, July 11-17, 1996. Organizers: Jesse Barlow, The Pennsylvania State University Ivan Slapnicar, University of Split (local manager) Kresimir Veselic, Fernuniversitaet Hagen Tentative speakers: Beresford Parlett, University of California at Berkeley James Demmel, University of California at Berkeley Ilse Ipsen, North Carolina State University Hongyuan Zha, The Pennsylvania State University Zlatko Drmac, University of Colorado at Boulder Jesse Barlow, The Pennsylvania State University Ivan Slapnicar, University of Split Kresimir Veselic, Fernuniversitaet Hagen The main theme is the accuracy in the EVD or SVD computation or even in solving linear systems. We will stress this to be a workshop and not overload the program with too many speakers. We rather prefer to give more time per speaker. We will therefore have invited lectures (one or two) in the morning, while the afternoon will be reserved for contributed lectures, including those from junior people, as well as for less formal discussions and working groups. Possible general themes for discussion are: (i) how to turn recent results on accurate algorithms systematically into a good software, (ii) how to present them in a monograph, (iii) how to let them influence the teaching of numerical linear algebra, (iv) real world engineering problems. In order to keep the local costs as low as possible, we expect to have a number of single and double bedrooms in a comfortable student dormitory located by the sea at a walking distance from the city centre. Split is a picturesque city with population around 200,000 which in this decade celebrates 1700 years of urban settlement. It is located on the Croatian Adriatic coast, the beauty of which is proverbial with its hundreds of islands and still quite unpolluted nature. Neither Split nor its neighbourhood carry traces of the (we may now hope) definitely passed war in Croatia. Split is accessible by train (9 hours trip from Zagreb), by ship (one night by ferry from Rijeka, Pescara or Ancona), by car (6 hours from Zagreb, 8 hours from Trieste), and by plane. Split airport has daily connections to all world destinations. There are direct flights from Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, and Rome on some days. All other connections are via Zagreb by Croatian Airlines. INFORMATION FOR YOUR TRAVEL AGENT: the Croatia Airlines timetable is accessed through the AMADEUS Distributive System. WWW sites: Workshop: http://adria.fesb.hr/~slap/workshop Split and the University: http://www.fesb.hr Croatia: http://tjev.tel.fer.hr For further information please contact Kresimir Veselic Fernuniversitaet Hagen LG Mathematische Physik P.O. Box 940 D-58084 Hagen Germany e-mail: Kresimir.Veselic@Fernuni-Hagen.de ------------------------------ From: Tony Skjellum Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 23:52:00 -0600 Subject: Object-Oriented Numerics Conference CALL FOR PARTICIPATION OONSCI '96 The Fourth Annual Object-Oriented Numerics Conference Mississippi State University March 27-29, 1996 Scientific application software continues to grow in complexity due to increasing functionality, evolution of codes, the use of parallelism, and other factors. As a result, more and more time is spent writing and maintaining computer code, and less time is spent on the application itself. Object technology offers a way to break this cycle. Structuring applications as assemblages of software objects, rather than as monolithic programs, may pave the way for more efficient and complex applications by making software reusable, distributable, and modular. The annual OONSCI conference promotes the use of object technology for constructing numerical applications. OONSCI provides a forum for computer scientists and scientific programmers, in both academia and industry, to learn about issues related to object-oriented programming and discuss their experiences. SCOPE: Examples of appropriate topics include: * Experiences with object technology * Use of non-programming language specific objects - for example, CORBA or Visual Basic controls. * Object-oriented languages and environments * Object-oriented design * Reusable software objects * Performance issues related to object-oriented programming Application domain specific papers should focus on the object-oriented techniques used. Sample application domains of interest to OONSCI are as follows: * Image processing * Computer graphics * PDE solvers * Engineering * CAD SUBMISSIONS: Submissions should be prepared for an audience with diverse backgrounds who come from many disciplines, rather than specialists in a particular discipline. General knowledge of object-oriented terminology can be assumed. Proposals are being solicited for: 1) Papers 2) Survey papers 3) Tutorials 4) Panel Discussions 5) Posters SUBMISSION DEADLINES: December 15, 1995 [extended to January 15, 1996] * Tutorials January 15, 1996 [Abstracts only are due] * Papers * Survey papers * Panels * Posters For submission guidelines see http://www.cs.msstate.edu/oonsci96/submission/ FOR MORE INFORMATION: Complete and up-to-the-minute information about the conference can be found on the Web at http://www.cs.msstate.edu/oonsci96/ or contact Anthony Skjellum Internet: tony@cs.msstate.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (601) 325-4524 Mississippi State University Phone: (601) 325-8435 Mississippi State, MS 39762 Fax: (601) 325-8997 ------------------------------ From: Adhemar Bultheel Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 15:10:22 +0100 (MET) Subject: Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics Seventh International Congress on COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium July 21-26, 1996 Purpose: The Congress will concentrate on the analysis of computational techniques for solving real scientific problems. There will be sessions on: -Parallel algorithms -Numerical conformal mapping -Constructive techniques for solving ordinary and partial differential equations -Computational complex analysis -Numerical quadrature and integral equations -Numerical software -Computational techniques in operations research and statistics -Mathematical techniques for financial and actuarial sciences Directors: Prof. F. Broeckx Prof. R. Piessens Prof. M. Goovaerts Prof. L. Wuytack Invited speakers: Prof. H. Brunner (Canada) Prof. M.E.H. Ismail (USA) Prof. F. Marcellan (Spain) Prof. M. Nakao (Japan) Prof. J. Nedoma (Szech Republic) Dr. W. Sweldens (Belgium) Prof. P. Toint (Belgium) Short Communications: Short Communications (20 minutes duration) will be accepted for presentation. Participants who would like to present a paper should submit a title and a short abstract (at most 1 page) not later than March,1, 1996 to Prof. M.J. Goovaerts K.U.Leuven huis Eygen Heerd CRIR Minderbroederstraat 5 B-3000 Leuven Belgium tel/fax (32) 16 29 53 46 e-mail : fdbaa35@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be This address should also be used if more information is required. ------------------------------ From: Glenn Luecke Date: Wed, 20 Dec 95 13:57:59 CST Subject: Supercomputing on IBM Systems SUPER! 96 - A Conference for HPC on IBM Systems Focus - The RISC System/6000 SP Iowa State University Ames, Iowa April 21 -24, 1996 SUPER!, a group of users and technical support staff involved in high performance parallel and clustered computing on IBM systems, announces the 1996 conference. The penetration of the SP2 computer into a variety of roles - academic and commerical; scientific, technical and data management - provides a focus for this year's conference. Researchers, computing center management and technical support staff from all SP sites are invited to attend, as well as those anticipating the arrival of an SP. Conference activities include the following: o Plenary talks by distinguished speakers in the field. o Technical sessions on systems management, emerging uses, computational applications and new products. o Panel discussion by SP sites on SP system administration. o Open Forum with IBM product executives - open mike Q&A for the audience. o Tutorial on SP Network Tuning. o An SP User Group BOF. o An SP User Gallery of SP sites. o Variety of informal discussion opportunities, including a special dinner excursion. Registration forms and updated information are available from the SUPER! Home Page: http://ike.engr.washington.edu/super96 and by email to super96@ike.engr.washington.edu. ------------------------------ From: Grigory Gadiyak Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 12:18:34 +0600 Subject: Conference in Russia on Simulation of Devices THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIMULATION OF DEVICES AND TECHNOLOGIES ICSDT'96 MAY 13-17, 1996 In Honour of P.L.Chebyshev's OBNINSK, RUSSIA, GENERAL TOPICS - Simulation of semiconductor devices - Simulation of processes in thin insulator films in strong electric fields - Simulation of technologies ( including simulation of crystall growth in microgravity, simulation of nuclear technologies and nuclear power plants) - Numerical methods for simulation devices and technologies All the correspondence should be sent to the V.Ginkin or G.Gadiyak. Addresses for correspondence: Dr. V. Ginkin, Bondarenko Sq.1.,Obninsk, Kaluga Region,249020, Russia Telex: 412509 URAN SU, Fax: (095)8833112, e-mail: ippe.ginkin@kris.kaluga.su Prof.G.Gadiyak Ac.Lavrentjev Ave. 6, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia ------------------------------ From: Ligia Ribeiro Date: Thu, 21 Dec 95 16:33:17 +0000 Subject: Meeting in Portugal on Vector and Parallel Processing FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS VECPAR'96 - SECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON VECTOR AND PARALLEL PROCESSING (Systems and Applications) Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal 1996, September 25--27 The Meeting is interdisciplinary in nature, bringing together people from Science, Engineering and Industry to explore some of the many challenges and promises of vector and parallel processing. The first edition of this Conference was held in Porto in September 1993, and was attended by more than 100 participants from 15 countries. The event aims at disseminating present knowledge on the topic and at providing a forum for presentation and discussion of basic research and applications in this area. The focus of the scientific section of the Meeting will be key invited lectures to describe the concepts behind vector/parallel processing and to highlight some of the major trends in the field. After these main talks, contributed papers of approximately 20 minutes duration will be presented. TOPICS OF INTEREST Papers may address a broad range of research fields of current interest. A list of possible topics includes (but is not limited to) the following: * Architectures, operating systems, environments, software tools and languages * Numerical and symbolical algorithms * Applications in Science and Engineering (e.g. computational fluid dynamics, reservoir modelling, etc.) * Industrial and commercial systems and applications (e.g. database based systems, traffic flow modelling, optimization) * Signal processing and both image processing and synthesis Papers on systems and applications to Science and Engineering will be encouraged. DATES TO REMEMBER * Extended abstracts due: 15 March 1996 * Notification of acceptance: 10 May 1996 * Final papers due: 30 August 1996 * Meeting in Porto, Portugal: 25, 26 and 27 September 1996 FURTHER INFORMATION If you are interested on receiving information on this Conference, please register on the mailing-list sending your name and address to VECPAR 96 Attention of Dr. Jose Laginha Palma Faculdade de Engenharia, DEMEGI-Seccao de Fluidos e Calor Rua dos Bragas 4099 Porto Codex, Portugal Tel.: International+2+2001746 Fax: International+2+312476 e-mail: vecpar96@garfield.fe.up.pt WWW address: http://garfield.fe.up.pt:8001/~vecpar96/ Dr. Jose M. Laginha M. Palma Faculdade de Engenharia Departamento de Engenharia Mecanica e Gestao Industrial Seccao de Fluidos e Calor Rua dos Bragas 4099 Porto Codex, Portugal FAX: International+2+312476 e-mail: jpalma@garfield.fe.up.pt ------------------------------ From: Robert van de Geijn Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 11:51:04 -0600 Subject: Position at University of Texas, Austin The Department of Computer Sciences of the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for tenure-track positions at all levels, particularly at the assistant professor level. Of interest to the department are candidates whose research accomplishments are in experimental systems that would broaden and complement the research interests of our faculty in architecture, compilers, computational mathematics, databases, graphics, networking, operating systems, and robotics. Candidates must hold or be making satisfactory progress towards a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in computer science or a related area, with a reasonable expectation of completion by August 31, 1996. Offers of employment are contingent upon completion of the Ph.D. degree requirements by that date. Successful candidates are expected to pursue an active research program, perform both graduate and undergraduate teaching, and supervise graduate students. The Department is ranked among the top ten computer science departments in the country. It has 40 faculty members across all areas of computer science, and participates in the university's Computational and Applied Mathematics interdisciplinary program. Women and minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply. The University of Texas is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. For further details see http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/UTCS/recruiting/1996 ------------------------------ From: Marek Behr Date: Tue, 19 Dec 95 13:19:24 CST Subject: Positions at University of Minnesota Research Center The Army High Performance Computing Research Center at the University of Minnesota is funded by the US Army to establish programs for collaborative research involving high performance computing, between University and Army researchers. Position(s) at the Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, require research experience in Material Science and Advanced Materials. Position(s) at the Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS, require research experience in Computational Fluid Mechanics or Computational Solid Mechanics. Position(s) at the Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, Warren, MI, require research experience in Computational Solid Mechanics or Multi-Body Dynamics. In addition, a Ph.D. in engineering, applied mathematics, physical sciences, computer science, or related fields is required. (Applicants who hold US citizenship at time of application will be given preference.) Salary range is $35,000 to $75,000 DOQ. Additional information is available on the www (http://www.arc.umn.edu/html/ahpcrc.html) or by email to anderson@ahpcrc.umn.edu. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer Anita Anderson Tel: 612-626-8095 Fax: 612-626-1596 Email: anderson@ahpcrc.umn.edu ------------------------------ From: Iain Duff Date: Fri, 22 Dec 95 15:16:57 GMT Subject: Postdoctoral Position at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION A Postdoctoral Research position is available at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (URL http://www.cclrc.ac.uk/ral/index.html) to work in the Numerical Analysis Group (URL http://www.cis.rl.ac.uk/struct/ARCD/NUM.html). The post is supported by a Long Term Research (LTR) Project funded by the European Union. The Project is charged with developing new parallel algorithms for the direct solution of sparse systems of equations and for their preconditioning. These algorithms will be implemented as portable prototypes and will be integrated into a public-domain Library. The prototype codes will be extensively tested on a range of industrial applications. The work can commence immediately. Normally the position is for one year with possible extensions to a second and even third year. Applicants should be comfortable at programming in Fortran and preferably a familiarity with message passing concepts. MPI will be principally used in the Project. A background in numerical analysis and knowledge of numerical linear algebra is important. Interested people should send an email message to Jennifer Scott (sct@letterbox.rl.ac.uk), preferably including a short CV and contact details for three people willing to provide a reference. Applications can also be sent by regular mail to: Dr Jennifer Scott Rutherford Appleton laboratory Chilton, Didcot OXON OX11 0QX England [Note that this LTR Project is the same as the one in which CERFACS is involved and that there are two positions, one in each laboratory] ------------------------------ From: Iain Duff Date: Fri, 22 Dec 95 15:17:26 GMT Subject: Postdoctoral Position at CERFACS POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION A Postdoctoral Research position is available at CERFACS in Toulouse France (http://www.cerfacs.fr) to work in the Parallel Algorithms Project (http://www.cerfacs.fr/algor/). The post is supported by a Long Term Research (LTR) Project funded by the European Union. The Project is charged with developing new parallel algorithms for the direct solution of sparse systems of equations and for their preconditioning. These algorithms will be implemented as portable prototypes and will be integrated into a public- domain Library. The prototype codes will be extensively tested on a range of industrial applications. The work can commence immediately. Normally the position is for one year with possible extensions to a second and even third year. Applicants should be comfortable at programming in Fortran and preferably a familiarity with message passing concepts. MPI will be principally used in the Project. A background in numerical analysis and knowledge of numerical linear algebra is important. Interested people should send an email message to Chiara Puglisi (Chiara.Puglisi@cerfacs.fr), preferably including a short CV and contact details for three people willing to provide a reference. Applications can also be sent by regular mail to: Dr Chiara Puglisi Parallel Algorithms Project CERFACS 42 Ave G Coriolis 31057 Toulouse Cedex France Fax: +33-61-19-30-00 [Note that this LTR Project is the same as the one in which the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is involved and that there are two positions, one in each laboratory] ------------------------------ From: IEEE CS&E Date: Mon, 18 Dec 95 17:25:25 est Subject: Contents, IEEE Computational Science & Engineering Contents of IEEE COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter 1995. http://www.computer.org/pubs/cs&e/cs&e.htm Editor-in-Chief through 12/31/95: Ahmed Sameh, U. of Minnesota, sameh@cs.umn.edu Editor-in-Chief as of 1/1/96: George Cybenko, Dartmouth Coll., george.cybenko@dartmouth.edu Associate EIC: Francis Sullivan, IDA Ctr. for Computing Sciences ARTICLES Reinventing Electromagnetics: Emerging Applications for FD-TD Computation Allen Taflove 24 Computational Science and the Future of Computing Research John R. Rice 35 Theme Editor's Introduction: Computational Inverse Problems in Medicine Christopher R. Johnson 42 A New Approach to Detecting Leukemia: Using Computational Electromagnetics David Colton and Peter Monk 46 Issues in Electrical Impedance Imaging Margaret Cheney and David Isaacson 53 MRI-Guided Optical Tomography: Prospects and Computation for a New Imaging Method Randall L. Barbour, Harry L. Graber, Jenghwa Chang, San-Lian S. Barbour, Ping C. Koo, and Raphael Aronson 63 DEPARTMENTS Editor-in-Chief 1 About the Cover 4 Visualizing Geophysical Data: Teasing Meaning from Models CSE Education 6 The Four A's of CSE Education Awards Recognize Excellence and Innovation in CSE Education Site Report 10 UVA Center for Computational Structures Technology CSE at Work 15 Crunching Numbers, Shaping Steel CSE in Europe 19 Europort's Parallelized Codes Yield Results About the Articles 22 Product News 78 In the News 82 Thin-film lubricants may damage disk drives Protein structures calculated quickly Supercomputer looking for oil Modeling ceramics may improve yields Geomagnetic field reversals simulated Distributed climate simulation Smart guitars More Book News & Reviews 85 Studies in Computational Science: Parallel Programming Paradigms, by Per Brinch Hansen; reviewed by Eric F. Van de Velde Scientific Visualization: Advances and Challenges, edited by Lawrence J. Rosenblum et al.; reviewed by Andrew J. Hanson Literature: Random Access 89 Conferences & Workshops 90 First Int'l Conf. on Complementarity Problems 11th ACM Symp. on Computational Geometry High-Performance Computational Chemistry Tutorial and Workshop 1995 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Int'l Symp. 1995 SIAM Annual Mtg. Calendar & Call for Papers 93 1995 Annual Index 94 Editor's Perspective 96 Margaret H. Wright on Medical Applications and Optimization ------------------------------ From: Marilyn Radcliff Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:39:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: Contents, J. Approximation Theory Table of Contents: J. Approx. Theory, Volume 83, Number 1, October 1995 Mourad E. H. Ismail and David R. Masson Generalized orthogonality and continued fractions 1--40 A. Kro\'o and J. Szabados Weighted polynomial approximation on the real line 41--64 Lefan Zhong and Lai-Yi Zhu The Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequality on a smooth simple arc 65--83 R. C. Gayle Inverse rational $L^1$ approximation 84--92 Dietrich Braess Asymptotics for the approximation of wave functions by exponential sums 93--103 Dorothee Haroske Approximation numbers in some weighted function spaces 104--136 Table of Contents: J. Approx. Theory, Volume 83, Number 2, November 1995 E. Belinskii Functional classes with "dominated" mixed derivative and the $K$-functional 137--140 Kirill A. Kopotun Coconvex polynomial approximation of twice differentiable functions 141--156 Dang Vu Giang and Ferenc M\'oricz Strong approximation by Fourier transforms and Fourier series in $L^\infty$-norm 157--174 Dimitar K. Dimitrov Markov inequalities for weight functions of Chebyshev type 175--181 S. L. Lee and Rohaisan Osman Asymptotic formulas for convolution operators with spline kernels 182--204 Fathi B. Saidi On the smoothness of the metric projection and its applications to proximinality in $L^p(S, X)$ 205--219 Rumen Kozarev Reconstruction of functions on the basis of sequences of linear functionals 220--237 Ian H. Sloan Polynomial interpolation and hyperinterpolation over general regions 238--254 M. A. Bokhari Interpolation mixed with $l_2$-approximation 255--265 M. Alfaro, F. Marcell\'an, M. L. Rezola, and A. Ronveaux Sobolev--type orthogonal polynomials: the nondiagonal case 266--287 Table of Contents: J. Approx. Theory, Volume 83, Number 3, December 1995 Henrik Laurberg Pedersen Stieltjes moment problems and the Friedrichs extension of a positive--definite operator 289--307 K. A. Driver Simultaneous rational approximants for a pair of functions with smooth Maclaurin series coefficients 308--329 Paul Sablonniere Positive Bernstein-Sheffer operators 330--341 Ulrich Schmid On the approximation of positive functions by power series 342--346 M. I. Ganzburg and E. R. Liflyand Estimates of best approximation and Fourier transforms in integral metrics 347--370 R. K. Kovacheva Zeros of Pad\'e error functions for functions with smooth Maclaurin coefficients 371--391 Leonid Golinskii, Paul Nevai, and Walter van Assche Perturbation of orthogonal polynomials on an arc of the unit circle 391--422 Manfred Sommer and Hans Strauss Interpolation by uni- and multivariate generalized splines 423--447 Author index for volume 83 448 ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------