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NA Digest Sunday, December 11, 1988 Volume 88 : Issue 49 Today's Editor: Cleve Moler Today's Topics: Peter Lax Honored Positions at SMU Conference on Computational ODEs Finite Element Program Sought Graduate Study at SUNY, Stony Brook Postdoctoral Positions at SUNY, Stony Brook Positions at Rice Special PDE Year in Australia More on the Army High Performance Computering Research Center Position at Bristol Where is Roland England LAA News European Workshop on Hypercube and Distributed Computers Positions at Arizona State University ------------------------------------------------------- From: Rolf Jeltsch <JELTSCH%DACTH51.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 88 15:15:16 CET Subject: Peter Lax Honored Peter Lax receives an Honorary Degree from the University of Technology in Aachen, RWTH, West Germany. On November 18. 1988 Peter Lax was honoured here in Aachen. We all know that Peter Lax has made tremendous contributions to mathematics, especially in partial differential equations and has therfore been hounoured already many many times. Of course here in Aachen his deep contributions to mathematics have been honoured too but in addition one wanted to stress especially the importance his work has had in the field of engineering. For this reason the celebration was a joint event of the Faculty in Engineering and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. It was held on the occasion of the 75 anniversary of the Aerodynamical Institute here in Aachen whose first director was Theodore von Karmann. Peter Lax was also honoured for his positive attitude to use computers in mathematics, research and teaching, and his effort to convince non mathematicians that we do need this modern computer power. Without him many of us would not have access to super computers. The banquet was held in the old City Hall of the town of Aachen where for many hundred years the german kings have been crowned. Rolf Jeltsch ------------------------------ From: Ian Gladwell <smu!gladwell@uunet.UU.NET> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 88 11:54:51 CST Subject: Positions at SMU Southern Methodist University Department of Mathematics The Department of Mathematics at Southern Methodist University seeks applications for one senior and several junior tenure track positions with employment beginning Fall 1989. Candidates should be active researchers in applied or numerical mathematics and should have a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching. Preference will be given to applicants who can contribute to the doctoral program in applied mathematics, numerical analysis and scientific computation. For the senior position, candidates should have an outstanding research record and experience in advising Ph.D. students. The teaching load for each position is two courses (six hours) per semester. There may also be visiting positions available in academic year 1989-90. Southern Methodist University has about 8000 students. The Mathematics Department has a strong and ongoing commitment to the development of classical and modern applied mathematics. Eleven of the fifteen full-time faculty are applied or numerical mathematicians. Current areas of research include mathematical modeling of physical and biological phenomena, nonlinear waves, perturbation methods, parameter estimation, numerical bifurcation, mathematical software for differential equations and parallel computation. Candidates should be active in one of these areas or a related one. Senior faculty and their interests include D.H. Anderson (biomathematics), W.E. Ferguson (numerical partial differential equations), I. Gladwell (mathematical software), R. Haberman (nonlinear waves), G.W. Reddien (bifurcation theory) and L.F. Shampine (numerical ordinary differential equations). Among its computers, the university has a Sequent Symmetry for research use. Complete applications must be received by January 1st, 1989. Send a letter of application, a vita and three letters of recommendation to: I. Gladwell, Chairman, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275 (Tel: (214) 692-2506) who may also be contacted with any questions concerning the positions. SMU is an equal opportunity/affirmative action/Title IX employer. I. Gladwell email addresses: gladwell%smu.uucp@uunet na.gladwell@na-net.stanford.edu h5nr1001@smuvm1.bitnet ------------------------------ From: Ian Gladwell <smu!gladwell@uunet.UU.NET> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 88 11:55:10 CST Subject: Conference on Computational ODEs Conference on COMPUTATIONAL ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS Imperial College, London 3rd--7th July, 1989 CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS The IMA is organising a conference on Computational Ordinary Differential Equations, to be held at Imperial College, London, in July, 1989. The aim of this meeting is to bring together research workers and practitioners in theory and algorithms for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations. All relevant topics are to be covered and contributions in application areas will be encouraged. The invited speakers are J.C. Butcher (Auckland) H.B. Keller (Caltech) R.E. O'Malley Jr. (Rensselaer Polytech. Inst.) L.R. Petzold (Lawrence Livermore) R.D. Russell (Simon Fraser, Vancouver) J.M. Sanz-Serna (Valladolid) L.F. Shampine (Southern Methodist, Dallas) M.N. Spijker (Leiden) In addition, the programme will feature ``highlighted'' talks, contributed papers and posters. The highlighted and contributed papers will be of 40 and 20 minutes presentation time respectively. The highlighted papers will be selected by the Organising Committee on the basis of an extended abstract (approx. 1000 words), contributed papers and posters on the basis of a approx. 300 word abstract. Abstracts for all categories should be sent to the IMA and must be received by 15th January 1989. Authors will be notified of the committee's decision during March 1989. The members of the Organising Committee are: Dr. J.R. Cash (Imperial College of Science and Technology, London), Dr. R. England, AFIMA (The Open University, Milton Keynes), Prof. I. Gladwell, FIMA (Southern Methodist University, Dallas) and Dr. A. Iserles, AFIMA (University of Cambridge). There will be a reduced conference fee for full-time research students. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Oxford University Press in the IMA Conference Proceedings Series. Abstracts and all other enquiries should be sent to: Conference Officer, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Maitland House, Warrior Square, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 2JY or, by electronic mail, to NA.CASH@NA-NET.STANFORD.EDU ------------------------------ From: Lewis Geer <lewis@castor.wustl.edu> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 88 20:13:01 CST Subject: Finite Element Program Sought I am very much interested in finding a freeware finite element analysis program. We are trying to model the human lung. I would appreciate any pointers to FEM programs. Thank you, Lewis Geer lewis@castor.wustl.edu Lewis Yuchan Geer Campus Box 8131 Radiation Oncology/MIR Washington University Medical Center 510 S. Kingshighway St. Louis, MO 63110 (314) 362-2951 ------------------------------ From: Reginald Tewarson <RTEWARSO%SBCCMAIL.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 88 10:26 EDT Subject: Graduate Study at SUNY, Stony Brook The Stony Brook Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics offers one of the largest comprehensive programs in the applied mathematical sciences. A stimulating interplay of theory and practical applications characterizes the teaching and research programs. The department awards about 160 BS, 30 MS, and 8 PhD degrees annually. Our graduates hold positions in lead- ing academic departments and industrial laboratories. There are 24 faculty members in the department and 13 affiliated faculty from Biostatis- tics, Computer Science, Ecology, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Management, Mathematics, Sociology, and regional research laboratories. Top research prizes won by faculty include the Heineman Prize in mathe- matical physics, the Lanchester Prize in operations research and the Well- ington Medal in structural design. Financial support in the form of Teaching and research assistantships is available for qualified students. Faculty in Computational Applied Mathematics Edward Beltrami, Professor; Ph.D. 1962, Adelphi University: Ecological models, nonlinear optimization. Yung Ming Chen, Professor; Ph.D. 1963, New York University: numerical solution of inverse problems, remote sensing. Daniel Dicker, Professor; D.Sc. 1961, Columbia University: porous flow pro- blems, structural analysis. James Glimm, Leading Professor and Chairman; Ph.D. 1959, Columbia University: nonlinear equations, conservation laws, front tracking. John Grove, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 1984, Ohio State University: shock waves, front tracking. Thomas Hagstrom, Assistant Professor; Ph.D.1983, California Institute of Tech- nology: computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis. Brent Lindquist, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1981, Princeton University: front tracking, reservoir simulation. Ram Srivastav, Professor; Ph.D. 1963, Glasgow University: nonlinear crack pro- blems, numerical solution of integral equations. Reginald Tewarson, Professor; Ph.D. 1961, Boston University: sparse matrices, numerical analysis, mathematical models in physiology. Several additional appointments in computational mathematics are planned over the next twelve months. Postdoctoral positions will also be available. For more information about opportunities at Stony Brook, please write or call Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794 (516-632-8360; RTEWARSON@SBCCMAIL.BITNET). ------------------------------ From: Brent Lindquist <lindquis@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 88 12:56:10 EST Subject: Postdoctoral Positions at SUNY, Stony Brook POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS AVAILABLE One or more postdoctoral positions may be available for work in computational fluid dynamics and hyperbolic conservation laws. Diverse applications including oil reservoir modeling, gas dynam- ics and fluid instabilities are being studied using front track- ing, grid refinement and related methods. To apply for these po- sitions please send a vita, resume and a statement of scientific interests to James Glimm at The Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3600. Applicants should also list three references, who have been requested to send letters of recommendation to the above address. ------------------------------ From: John Dennis <dennis@rice.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 88 11:24:51 CST Subject: Positions at Rice RICE UNIVERSITY, MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES DEPT, P.O.BOX 1892, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77251. Applications are invited for a tenure-track assistant professor position to start August, 1989 in parallel and large-scale scientific computation. Applicants should demonstrate both breadth of interest and promise in research and teaching. We especially invite applications in numerical linear algebra, mathematical programming, and numerical solutions of partial differential equations. Rice University is a private research university with a long tradition of excellence in undergraduate science and engineering education. The Mathematical Sciences Department also hosts an active and expanding graduate program, has superb computing facilities and ongoing research in Operations Research, Computational Mathematical Programming, and Optimal Design and Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Equations. The department has excellent relations with other departments at Rice and the University of Houston, with industrial and governmental research groups, and is actively involved in the recently-announced NSF Science and Technology Center for Research in Parallel Computation. The department would petition the administration to upgrade the position for the right internationally recognized senior applicant. Furnish vita, transcripts, reprints, and three letters of recommendation to J.E. Dennis, Chair, Staffing Committee. Rice University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. ------------------------------ From: Gene Golub <golub@na-net.stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 88 15:24:21 PST Subject: Special PDE Year in Australia THE APPLICATION AND NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDE) In 1990 the Centre of Mathematical Analysis at the Australian National University will host a special year-long program devoted to THE APPLICATION AND NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF PDE. THE PROGRAM 1. LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR WAVES AND COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) (including Spectral Methods) Co-ordinator: Frank de Hoog Time: February--April, 1990 2. FREE AND MOVING BOUNDARY AND DIFFUSION PROBLEMS Co-ordinator: Bob Anderssen Time: May--July, 1990 3. INVERSE PROBLEMS IN PDE Co-ordinator: Bob Anderssen Time: August--September, 1990 4. APPROXIMATE METHODS FOR LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR BVP (including Singular Perturbation, Eigenvalues, Bifurcation) Co-ordinators: Mike Osborne, Vidar Thomee Time: October--December, 1990 The Organzization Committee consists of Bob Anderssen (CSIRO), Frank de Hoog (CSIRO), Mike Osborne (IAS,ANU), Vidar Thomee (Goteborg) and Neil Trudinger (Director,CMA). A more detailed announcement will be circulated in early 1989 listing the names of longterm visitors as well as other relevant information. The aim of this notice is to give potential participants advance notification so that they can commence planning at an early stage. Funds will be available to support the attendance of Australian and overseas mathematicians. However, in order to maximize participation, only partial support will in general be available. Expressions of interest in attending, requests for further information, etc. should be forwarded to the Director, ANSPDE--1990, CMA, ANU, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601 (Phone:(61)(62)49 2897; e-mail:NST851@CSC1.ANU.OZ). ------------------------------ From: Arthur Wouk <wouk@BRL.MIL> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1988 13:30:52 PST Subject: More on the Army High Performance Computering Research Center Army High Performance Computing Research Center Pre-Solicitation As is usual when dealing with the army, things slip. Please note that the pre-solicitation meeting scheduled for December 16 has now slid to the week of January 9. For further information you may have to contact the procurement people listed in my original notice. By the way, the notice appeared in Commerce Business Daily on Nov 21-22. If I get further information before taking 12 days off on Dec. 1, I will let you know by email. --Arthur Wouk ------------------------------ From: Andy Wathen <Wathen%qgb.bristol.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 88 09:46:41 GMT Subject: Position at Bristol UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, ENGLAND DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS Applications are invited for a LECTURESHIP IN NUMERICAL ANALYSIS. Applicants should have a good research record in any area of numerical analysis. The salary scale for lecturers is UK pounds 9,260 - 19,310 (under review) and the initial salary will be determined according to qualifications and experience. The post is tenable from 1 August 1989 or a mutually agreeable date. Further particulars should be obtained from the Registrar, University of Bristol, Senate House, Bristol BS8 1TH, England, by whom applications should be received before 10 February 1989, quoting reference JPB. For informal enquiries please contact Prof. P.G.Drazin, tel:UK 0272 303291 or on e-mail: na.wathen@na-net.stanford.edu ------------------------------ From: Steve Hurley <steve%computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 88 12:45:00 gmt Subject: Where is Roland England Does anyone know the current whereabouts of Roland England. The last I heard he had just returned from South America. shy@uk.ac.cf.cm.v1 OR na.hurley@na-net.stanford.edu ------------------------------ From: Hans Schneider <hans@pade.math.wisc.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 88 09:40:16 cst Subject: LAA News LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS The following LAA Special Issues are due to appear in 1989: In honor of Alan Hoffman (vols 114/115, March 1989), Proceedings of the Valencia Conference on Linear Algebra and Applications, Proceedings of the Fourth Haifa Conference om Linear Algebra, Linear Systems and Control, Linear Algebra and Statistics. Contributions are invited for the following LAA Special Issues: Title of Issue: Linear Algebra in Image Reconstruction from Projections Special editors: Y.Censor, T. Elfving, G.T. Herman Full announcment: LAA vol. 99, Feb, 1988 Submission deadline: January 1989 Title of Issue: Matrix Valued Functions Special editors: J.A.Ball, L.Rodman, P. Van Dooren Full announcment: LAA vol. 106, Aug. 1988 Submission deadline: July 1989 Title of Issue: Interior Point Methods for Linear Programming Special editors: D.Gay, M. Kojima, R.Tapia Full announcment: LAA vol. 110, Nov. 1988 Submission deadline: August 1989 Title of Issue: Matrix Canonical Forms Special editors: R.A.Horn, T.J.Laffey, R.L.Merris Full announcment: LAA vol. 113, Feb. 1989 Submission deadline: November 1989 Title of Issue: ILAS (IMG) meeting Provo UT, Aug.1989 Special editors: W.Barrett, D.Hershkowitz, D.Robinson Full announcment: with conference material Submission deadline: November 1989 Title of Issue: Iteration Methods in Linear Algebra and in Applications Special editors: O.Axelsson, J. de Pillis, M.Neumann, W.Niethammer, R.J.Plemmons Full announcment: LAA vol. 116, April 1989 Submission deadline: March 1990 A full announcement of the special issue on Iteration Methods will shortly be circulated over this net. Full announcments of the other special issues have previously been circulated. ------------------------------ From: Clifford Addison <mcvax!kheops.cmi.no!cliff@uunet.UU.NET> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 88 15:04:56 +0100 Subject: European Workshop on Hypercube and Distributed Computers 1st European Workshop on Hypercube and Distributed Computers Rennes, France October 4-6, 1989 CALL FOR PAPERS PRESENTATION Recently, the evolution of parallel architectures has led to the advent of new highly concurrent, message passing communication based computers. Since the early laboratory prototype realizations, such as the Cosmic Cube of Caltech (California Institute of Technology), many computers are now available and commercialized by companies: Intel, FPS, Ametek, Thinking Machines, NCube, Meiko,... Such distributed computers are now used in several European Research Centers. The aim of this Workshop is to bring together researchers and engineers to exchange their views and experiences in the field. INRIA (INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE) and IRISA (INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET SYSTEMES ALEATOIRES) will organize this first Workshop in Rennes, October 4-6, 1989. TOPICS - Parallel and distributed architectures: Technology, communication networks, new architectures. - Concurrent programming: Languages, algorithms, parallelization methods. - Programming environments: Operating systems, verification and debugging tools. - Performance evaluation: Measurement methods, performance modeling. - Applications INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS a) Paper submission Authors are invited to submit unpublished original contributions reflecting their most recent work either as a full paper (for a communication) or an abstract (for a poster session). Four copies of the full paper (15 pages maximum) or the abstract (1 page) should be submitted. A front page should include the title, the name(s) of the author(s), the complete address (telephone, telex, electronic mail). In case of several co-authors, the name of the author in charge of the correspondence and of the preparation of the final version of the paper should be clearly indicated. Submitted contributions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Instructions relative to the final version of the accepted papers (full papers and abstracts) will be sent along with the notification of acceptance. The Workshop organizers will hold the copyright of the accepted papers which will be published in the Workshop proceedings. b) Presentation Authors of accepted full papers will present their work during the sessions. Lecture time will be indicated in the notification letter. Authors of the accepted abstracts will present their work during a ``Poster session''. The standards of the panels will be indicated in the notification letter. IMPORTANT DATES 15 February, 1989 4 copies of the full paper or abstract to be received by the Workshop Scientific Secretariat. 15 April, 1989 Notification of acceptance or refusal. 1st June, 1989 The final version of the accepted papers should be received by the Workshop Secretariat. June, 1989 Distribution of the Program 4-6 October, 1989 1st European Workshop on Hypercube and Distributed Computers. OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: French and English For further information contact: INRIA Relations Exterieures Bureau des Colloques 78153 LE CHESNAY Cedex-France Telephone: +33 1 39 63 56 00 Telex: 697033F Scientific Secretariat: Francoise ANDRE IRISA Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex-France Telephone: +33 99 36 20 00 Telex: UNIRISA 950473F ------------------------------ From: H. D. Mittelmann <aihdm@asuacad.bitnet, na.mittelmann> Date: 10 Dec 88, 14:29 MST Subject: Positions at Arizona State University Positions at Arizona State University The Department of Mathematics invites applications for tenure-track and visiting faculty positions at all ranks. The Department is in the second year of a major development program intended to build nationally recog- nized research groups of 4 to 7 faculty members in various areas inclu- ding Computational Mathematics. While the university provides CRAY-XMP and IBM 3090-500E/VF supercomputers the department is installing a net- work of graphics mini-supercomputers. Applications will be reviewed starting January 1, 1989. Applicants should send their resumes and arrange for at least three letters of re- commendation to be sent to: William T. Trotter, Chair, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85282-1804, U.S.A. A full display advertisement appeared on p. 27 of the Nov. issue of the SIAM News. ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** ------- Reposted by -- Kenneth R. Jackson, krj@na.toronto.edu (on Internet, CSNet, Computer Science Dept., ARPAnet, BITNET) University of Toronto, krj@na.utoronto.ca (CDNnet and other Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 X.400 nets (Europe)) (Phone: 416-978-7075) ...!{uunet,pyramid,watmath,ubc-cs}!utai!krj