krj%csri.toronto.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Ken Jackson) (11/09/87)
[ IVP = Initial-Value Problems, and ODE = Ordinary Differential Equations ]
Preliminary Announcement for
The 1988 Conference on
The Numerical Solution of IVPs for ODEs
20-24 June 1988
Organized by
Professors W. H. Enright and K. R. Jackson,
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A4.
(enright@csri.toronto.edu or krj@csri.toronto.edu)
This is a preliminary announcement for The 1988 Conference on
the Numerical Solution of Initial-Value Problems for Ordinary
Differential Equations to be held in the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Toronto, 20-24 June 1988. (To
facilitate travel arrangements, the conference will close at noon of
the final day.) The language of the conference will be English.
The previous conference in this series was held in Albuquerque
in July of 1986, and its programme included talks on both Initial-
Value Problems (IVPs) and Boundary-Value Problems (BVPs) for
Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). Because of the large number
of researchers working in these two areas and the modest number of
them active in both fields, we chose to emphasize IVPs at the
Toronto meeting, although talks related to BVPs with a significant
IVP content will not be excluded.
The following distinguished researchers have agreed to present
50-minute invited lectures at the Toronto meeting: J. C. Butcher,
P. Deuflhard, J. Dormand and P. J. Prince, C. W. Gear, R. Jeltsch,
S. P. Norsett, and L. F. Shampine. In addition, we are still
waiting to receive acceptances from a few other invited speakers.
We hope to attain a balance between the practical and
theoretical aspects associated with the numerical solution of IVPs
for ODEs in the talks at this conference. In part, the invited
speakers were chosen with this in mind. In addition, since there
are so many distinguished researchers working in this field, we
decided to avoid an overlap between the invited speakers at the
Toronto meeting and those who gave "highlighted" talks at the 1986
ODE Conference in Albuquerque.
Titles and abstracts for 30-minute contributed talks will be
solicited in the next conference announcement to be distributed
early in 1988. To enable us to inform authors by 1 May 1988 whether
their paper has been accepted for presentation at the conference,
the deadline for receiving titles and abstracts will be 18 March
1988. However, if you require an early acceptance for your talk,
mail its title, names of authors, their institutions, and a single-
spaced typed abstract of at most 200 words to us and we may be able
to give you an early acceptance. The collection of titles and
abstracts for all accepted talks will be published as a technical
report to be distributed to participants at the conference. No
proceedings or special issue of a journal for this meeting is
planned.
We hope to keep the cost of attending this conference to a
minimum. By holding the meeting on the university campus, we hope
to keep the conference registration fee below $100, with a possible
further reduction for students. Also, we have reserved a block of
reasonably-priced rooms at one of the college residences, but, to
accommodate those participants who prefer less Spartan quarters, we
have also reserved a block of rooms in a nearby hotel. Details
concerning the conference registration and accommodation reservation
will be given in our next conference announcement.
We hope that there will be some funds available to defray the
expenses of those with no other means of travel support. If we are
successful in obtaining such funds, guidelines for applying for
travel assistance will be contained in our next conference
announcement also.
If you did not received an announcement similar to this one by
regular post and you are interested in attending the 1988 Toronto
ODE Conference, please send your name and address (regular and, if
possible, electronic) to either one of the conference organizers at
the address above.
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