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. - - -