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NA Digest Tuesday, June 23, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 58 This weeks Editor: Gene Golub Today's Topics: UCLA meeting on Domain Decomposition Moler & Kent substitute for Golub ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail-From: MOLER created at 23-Jun-87 21:57:57 Date: Tue 23 Jun 87 21:57:57-PDT From: Cleve Moler <MOLER@Score.Stanford.EDU> Subject: UCLA meeting on Domain Decomposition To: na@Score.Stanford.EDU FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS University of California, Los Angeles January 14 - 16, 1988. THEME Domain Decomposition is a class of methods for solving mathematical physics problems by decomposing the physical domain into smaller subdomains and obtaining the solution by solving smaller problems on these subdomains. The motivation may be: the ability to use different mathematical models and approximation methods in different subdomains, use of fast direct methods in subdomains, memory limitations of the computer and suitability for implementation on parallel computers. Applications can be found in many areas of scientific computing, such as computational fluid dynamics and structural mechanics. This is a sequel to the First International Symposium on Domain Decomposition Methods held in Paris in January, 1987. The aim is to bring together the leading researchers in this rapidly expanding and highly interdisciplinary field to survey and review the progress that have been made since the last symposium. There will be approximately 25 invited papers and a small contributed papers/poster session. In selecting invited and contributed papers, the organizational committee will try to keep a balance between the mathematical development, the implementation on parallel computers and applications. ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE James Bramble (Cornell), Tony F. Chan (UCLA), Roland Glowinski (Houston/INRIA), Olof Widlund (NYU) OTHER RELATED CONFERENCES The annual AIAA meeting will be held in Reno, Nevada in the beginning of the same week. The Third conference on Hypercube Concurrent Computers and Applications will be held the following week (January 19-20, 1988) in nearby Pasadena. FURTHER INFORMATION Further information will become available shortly. If you are interested in participating in the symposium, please write to: Prof. Tony F. Chan, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024. (Electronic mail: chan@math.ucla.edu) ------------------------------ Mail-From: MOLER created at 23-Jun-87 21:59:03 Date: Tue 23 Jun 87 21:59:03-PDT From: Cleve Moler <MOLER@Score.Stanford.EDU> Subject: Moler & Kent substitute for Golub To: na@Score.Stanford.EDU Colleagues-- As Gene indicated in a note last week, he and his portable computer (a Zenith 181 -- a really nice machine) are off on a year-plus long sabbatical. While he is gone, I'll be acting as moderator for the NA.NET. Mark Kent, a Stanford CS grad student who has been assisting Gene with some of the networking and administrative details, will be even more help to me, since I don't know the Score operating system very well. Before Gene left, he, Mark and I talked about how we would like to see the Net evolve. We all would like to see more contributions. Personal items, problems, recommendations on equipment, software and books, job opportunities, meeting and workshop announcements, and so on. For example, a couple of months ago, Morven Gentleman described a MacIntosh mathematical editing system that he particularly liked. A few months before that, Alan Karp summarized a workshop he has been to. Both contributions represented informed opinion about topics of potential interest to this community. I'd like to see more like them. As moderator, I'll intercept contributions that I judge to be irrelevant, in bad taste, or blatantly commercial. One rule used on the Unix network seems to be a good one -- product announcements from the companies originating the product are out of bounds, but product critiques by disinterested users are welcome. Submit contributions to NA@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU I plan to log to the Stanford system almost every day and, if there is enough material, to send it out a couple of times per week. On a personal note, as many of you already knew, or saw from Gene's announcement, I've recently changed jobs. That's what brings me close enough to SCORE.STANFORD to make it a local phone call. I'm now with a Silicon Valley startup called Dana Computers. We're building what we call a "single user supercomputer" -- a merger of a graphics workstation and, for a single user, a good fraction of a supercomputer in vector floating point performance. My title is Manager of Scientific Software, but so far there is nobody else in my group to manage. I'll be working with the math libraries and third party application packages. I'll also be working a lot with the compiler and graphics groups. The machine will be terrific for MATLAB, but that's beginning to sound too commercial. If anybody wants more information about either Dana or MATLAB/MathWorks, let me know at NA.MOLER@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU. --Cleve Moler ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------