[ut.na] NA Digest 87:15

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NA Digest   Thursday, March 12, 1987   Volume 87 : Issue 15

This weeks Editor: Gene Golub

Today's Topics:

                        Director of MCS at ANL

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 87 15:56:05 cst
From: cody@anl-mcs.ARPA (Jim Cody)
To: na.dis@su-score.arpa
Subject: Director of MCS at ANL

   
    DIRECTOR OF THE MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE DIVISION
                   ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY
   
   
   Applications are invited for the position of Director of the
   Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division of Argonne
   National Laboratory.  The Director is responsible for the
   overall scientific quality of the division's research
   programs. Important aspects of this responsibility are
   long-range planning, establishing divisional policy and
   priorities, preparing research and funding proposals, and
   interacting with funding agencies and other research
   establishments. The MCS Division has vigorous programs in
   advanced computing, applied analysis, computational
   mathematics, software engineering, and automated reasoning.
   The MCS Division is also responsible for running the
   Advanced Computing Research Facility which is operated as a
   national user facility for state-of-the-art parallel
   computers.
   
   
   Applicants should have a Ph.D in mathematics or computer
   science with a minimum of 5 years of research experience,
   and at least 3 years of experience in a supervisory
   position. Candidates from other disciplines with a strong
   background and research interest in mathematics and computer
   science will be considered.
   
   
   Additional information can be obtained from W. J. Cody,
   Chairman Search Committee, Mathematics and Computer Science
   Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois,
   60439, (312) 972-7231, arpa: cody@anl-mcs.arpa.  Applicants
   should send a resume to R. A. Johns, Appointments Officer,
   Box D-MCS-28290-83, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne,
   Illinois, 60439.  Applications will be accepted until the
   position is filled.
   
   
   Argonne National Laboratory, located 25 miles southeast of
   Chicago, is a multidisciplinary laboratory operated by the
   University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy.
   Argonne National Laboratory is an Affirmative Action Equal
   Opportunity Employer.

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NA Digest   Thursday, March 12, 1987   Volume 87 : Issue 16

This weeks Editor: Gene Golub

Today's Topics:

                    A new floating-point standard
                    Reunion/Symposium March 26-28
                       Announcement for NA-net

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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 87 11:15:15 cst
From: cody@anl-mcs.ARPA (Jim Cody)
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Subject: A new floating-point standard

As of 11:32 EST this morning, 3/12/87, P854, the draft
Radix-Independent Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic,
is an official IEEE standard.  This culminates an effort
that began in 1977 with the first work on what is now
ANSI/IEEE Std 754-1985, the standard for binary
floating-point arithmetic.

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			Computer Science at Stanford
		     The Impact of the First Ten Years
			    1987 March 26-28

Thursday, March 26	5:30 to 8:00	reception at Faculty Club
					Red and Gold Lounges
					(no-host bar)

Friday, March 27

7:30 a.m.		reg & continental brk	Terman Bldg Loobby

8:30			Welcome - Jim Gibbons	Terman Aud

8:40			symposium Intro	- John Levy

8:50			Computer Science ADvisory Com. - Cuthbert Hurd

9:00			Origins of CS at Stanfrod - Bill Miller

9:35			Impact of Stanford CS on Academia and Industry
			Tom Bredt 

10:10   		coffee break

10:40			resources for computing at Stanford	
			Ed Feigenbaum

11:15			CS program at Stanford
			Nils Nilsson

11:50			lunch at Tresidder

1:20			Theoretical Foundations:  Then and Now - Don Knuth

1:55			Numerical Analysis:  Then and Now - Gene Golub

2:30			Systems and Languages:  Then and Now - Forest Baskett

3:05			coffee break

3:35			AI:  then and now - John McCarthy

4:10 			Student Perspectives:  Then and Now 
			panel discussion (current and former students)

4:45			closing presentations

5:00			end of symposium session

5:30			cocktails (cash bar)		faculty club

6:30			banquet				faculty club
			(prime rib, salmon, chicken, veggie dish - buffet)

7:30			Keynote address:  "Has Computer Science Instruction
			Helped the Development of High Quality Software?"
			Edsger W. Dijkstra, Professor, CSD, UT Austin

8:30			What's Happening:  open microphone
			CS Alumni - 5 minutes per speaker

11:30			end of banquet session

Saturday, March 28

10:00		Tours of various facilities -- meet at Palm Drive Circle

12:00		picnic lunch -- Memorial Court at Inner Quad

COST:  full conference	$110 ($75 for current faculty & Staff - $55 for
		current students) (includes Thursday reception, full day 
		Friday symposium [cont. brk., coffee breaks and lunch,]
		banquet, Sat. picnic, t-shirt, proceedings).

banquet only	$30
picnic only	  9
proceedings only 20
t-shirt only (s, m, l, xl)  $8

For registration:  contact John Levy (Levy@sushi) or call
		   415/327-4296
		   Computer Structures, 580 College Ave., Palo Alto, CA
			94306

The Computer Science Department is sponsoring the reunion/symposium,
but not underwriting it.  IF there is a profit, it will be turned over
to the department.  If there is a deficit (heaven help us).

Committee:  
General Chairman	John Levy
Program			Tod Bredt & Bill White
Local Arrangements	Linda Lorenzetti & Carolyn Tajnai
Registration		Skip Stritter & John Levy
Archiving arrangements  John Shoch (includes videotaping)
picnic arrangements	Dani Beaudry
Student coordinator     Haym Hirsh

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       S C I E N T I F I C   C O M P U T A T I O N

                   Special Sessions at
  The 833rd Meeting of the American Mathematical Society
         Kent State University -- Student Union

                Friday, April 3, 1987
Special Session on Scientific Computation, I      Room 313

 9:00- 9:30     Jesse Barlow                    833-65- 22
                Dept. of Computer Science
                Pennsylvania State Univ.

 9:40-10:10     Max Gunzburger                  833-65-117
                Dept. of Mathematics
                Carnegie-Mellon Univ.

10:20-10:50     Bill Hager                      833-65- 46
                Dept. of Mathematics
                Pennsylvania State Univ.

Invited Hour Address                        Kiva Auditorium
11:00-12:00     Ridgway Scott                   833-65- 46
                Dept's of Computer Science and Mathematics
                Pennsylvania State Univ.

Special Session on Scientific Computation, II     Room 313

 3:00- 3:30     Janet Petersen                  833-65-130
                Computer Research and Applications
                Los Alamos National Laboratory

 3:40- 4:10     George Majda                    833-65- 76
                Dept. of Mathematics
                Ohio State Univ.

 4:20- 4:50     Ricardo Nochetto                833-65- 58
                Inst. for Math. & Applic.
                Univ. of Minnesota

 5:00- 5:30     Nic Nicolaides                  833-65-125
                Dept. of Mathematics
                Carnegie-Mellon Univ.

                Saturday, April 4, 1987
Special Session on Scientific Computation, III    Room 313

 9:00- 9:30     Werner Rheinboldt               833-65- 63
                Dept. of Mathematics
                Univ. of Pittsburgh

 9:40-10:10     Bram van Leer                   833-65- 36
                Dept. of Aero.Eng.
                Univ. of Michigan

10:20-10:50     Ed Overman                      833-65- 60
                Dept. of Mathematics
                Ohio State Univ.

For further information, see the January and February issues
   of the NOTICES of the  American Mathematical Society

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