Information via e-mail about NA-NET: Mail to na.help@na-net.ornl.gov.
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From: Joseph Traub <traub@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:08:53 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Journal of Complexity Best Paper Award
Journal of Complexity 2001 Best Paper Award
The Award Committee consisting of Ian H. Sloan and Arthur G. Werschulz
has selected the paper "Quantum Complexity of Integration" by Erich Novak
which appeared in March 2001, Vol. 17, No. 1, Pages 2-16.
Erich Novak will receive $3,000 and a plaque. The Award will be
presented during the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM)
meeting in Minneapolis, August 5-14, 2002.
Harald Niederreiter
Joseph F. Traub
Henryk Wozniakowski
Editors
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From: Juan Meza <JCMeza@lbl.gov>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:56:23 -0700
Subject: Change of Address for Juan Meza
Friends,
As of April 8, 2002, I have moved to Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory to take on the Department Head position for the High
Performance Computing Research Department.
My new coordinates are:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, MS: 50B-2239
Berkeley, CA 94720
Email: JCMeza@lbl.gov
Phone: 510-486-7684
Best regards,
Juan
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From: Rosemary Renaut <renaut@asu.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:24:48 +0200
Subject: Special Issue of Future Generation Computer Systems
We invite you to contribute to the following special issue:
Special Issue on "Education in the Computational Sciences" of the journal
Future Generation Computer Systems
www.elsevier.com/locate/future
The special issue will consist of 10-15 papers, each of 10-15 pages, and each
of which will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers.
Authors are invited to submit their papers for this special issue by May
31,2002. The special issue provides a forum to expand the discussion of the
workshop and panel at the workshop Education in Computational Sciences
at the ICCS 2002 meeting in Amsterdam
http://www.science.uva.nl/events/ICCS2002/
Special Issue Guest Editors:
Professor Rosemary Renaut
Technische Universitaet Muenchen,
Arcistrasse 21
Zentrum Mathematik
D 80290 Muenchen Germany
49 89 289 22033, Fax 49 89 289 28234
renaut@asu.edu
and
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ruede, Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik X
Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Cauerstr. 6
D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
e-mail: ruede@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Tel: +49 9131 85 28924, Fax: +49 9131 85 28928
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From: Pablo Parrilo <parrilo@aut.ee.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:57:00 +0200
Subject: SOSTOOLS, Sum of Squares Optimization Toolbox
SOSTOOLS: sum of squares optimization toolbox
We are pleased to announce the initial release of SOSTOOLS, a free MATLAB
toolbox for formulating and solving sum of squares (SOS) optimization
programs. SOSTOOLS uses a simple notation and a flexible and intuitive
high-level user interface to specify the sum of squares programs. Currently
these are solved using SeDuMi, a well-known semidefinite programming solver,
while SOSTOOLS handles internally all the necessary reformulations and data
conversion.
The SOS convex programming ideas used in SOSTOOLS are extremely powerful,
easy to understand, and ideally suited for many diverse applications,
ranging from global optimization and Lyapunov function synthesis, to
geometric theorem proving and quantum mechanics. These ideas encapsulate
many old and new approaches to attacking unresolved problems, and have
provided insightful solutions to them. Numerous demo files are included with
the toolbox, illustrating the commands, as well as the potential and various
applications of the SOS techniques.
The toolbox, its documentation, and references can be downloaded from either
the Caltech or ETH websites:
http://www.cds.caltech.edu/sostools
http://www.aut.ee.ethz.ch/~parrilo/sostools
Stephen Prajna
Antonis Papachristodoulou
Pablo A. Parrilo
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From: Murphy <murphy@siam.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:34:35 -0400
Subject: New Book, Finite Element Method
SIAM is pleased to announce the April 2002 publication of THE FINITE
ELEMENT METHOD FOR ELLIPTIC PROBLEMS by Philippe G. Ciarlet in our
Classics in Applied Mathematics series.
This is the only book available that analyzes in depth the
mathematical foundations of the finite element method. It is a
valuable reference and introduction to current research on the
numerical analysis of the finite element method, as well as a working
textbook for graduate courses in numerical analysis. It includes many
useful figures, and there are many exercises of varying difficulty.
List price: $55.00 SIAM Member price: $38.50
Ordering alternatives:
Secure online order form: http://www.ec-securehost.com/SIAM/CL40.html
Phone (worldwide): 215-382-9800, x319
Phone (U.S. and Canada): 1-800-447-SIAM (7426)
Fax: 215-386-7999
Email: service@siam.org
If ordering by phone, please have information ready when you call.
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From: Ute McCrory <Ute.McCrory@springer.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:55:04 +0200
Subject: New Series, Mathematics in Industry
New Springer Series "Mathematics in Industry"
Aims and Scope
Mathematics in Industry focuses on the research and educational aspects of
mathematics used in industry and other business enterprises. Books for
Mathematics in Industry are in the following categories:
research monographs,
problem-oriented multi-author collections,
textbooks with a problem-oriented approach,
conference proceedings.
Relevance to actual practical use of mathematics in industry is the
distinguishing feature of the books in Mathematics in Industry
Editors:
Hans-Georg Bock
Frank de Hoog
Avner Friedman
William Langford
Helmut Neunzert
William R. Pulleyblank
Torgeir Rusten
Anna-Karin Tornberg
Editors of ECMI (European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry) Subseries:
Vincenzo Capasso (Managing Editor)
Robert Mattheij
Helmut Neunzert
Volume 1 has now been published in the ECMI subseries:
Anile, A.M., University of Catania, Italy; Capasso, V., University of
Milano, Italy; Greco, A., University of Palermo, Italy (Eds.)
Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2000
2002. XV, 666 pp. 221 figs., 4 in color. Hardcover.
3-540-42582-9
The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) was founded in
1986 by leading groups of mathematicians in Europe for the following scopes:
i) direct involvement of mathematicians in R&D activities;
ii) international cooperation at a European scale;
iii) education of industrial mathematicians to meet the growing demand for
such experts.
ECMI 2000 shows that ECMI has offered a unique example of effective
international cooperation thanks to the financial support of the European
Framework programmes. In particular they have helped ECMI establishing a set
of Special Interest Groups to favour interaction with industry. This volume
includes minisymposia about their activities, in particular
microelectronics, glass, polymers, finance, traffic, and textiles. Applied
mathematicians and other professionals working in academia or industry will
find the book to be a useful and stimulating source of mathematical
applications related to industrial problems.
More information on this title including a detailed Table of Contents can be
found at
http://www.springer.de/cgi/svcat/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-42582-9
In Preparation:
Capasso, V., University of Milano, Italy (Ed.)
Mathematical Modelling for Polymer Processing Polymerization,
Crystallization, Manufacturing
More Information on this title:
http://www.springer.de/cgi/svcat/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-43412-7
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From: T. E. Simos <tsimos@mail.ariadne-t.gr>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:29:58 +0300
Subject: New Journal, Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics
Dear Colleagues
Recently Wiley-VCH has decided to create a new journal in Numerical
Analysis and Computational Mathematics. The title of the new journal is:
Journal of Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics(JNACM) and I
have the honor to be the Founder and the Editor-in-Chief of this new
journal.
The current members of the Editorial Board are: Guido Vanden Berghe,
Jeff Cash, G.A. Watson, Henk A. van der Vorst, Ian Gladwell, Dirk Roose,
Annie Cuyt, Bernd Fischer, Isabel Beichl, William Mitchell, Francis
Sullivan, Marlis Hochbruck, Ronald Cools.
With this message we call for nominations in order to have the Editorial
Board completed and in order to have the 2 Regional Editors: One for USA
and the other for Japan and Asia specified.
Please send your nominations until 15/5/2002 to my e-mail address:
tsimos@mail.ariadne-t.gr In each nomination one who proposes a
colleague should also clarify the reasons for his-her nomination.
With best regards
Dr. T. E. Simos
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From: ISSAC <Conference.Issac2002@lifl.fr>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:59:53 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Live Software Demonstrations at ISSAC
SECOND CALL FOR LIVE SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS
ISSAC 2002
International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
University of Lille I, France, July 7-10, 2002
http://www.lifl.fr/issac2002
ISSAC is the yearly premier international symposium on Symbolic and
Algebraic Computation. It provides an opportunity to learn of new
developments and to present original research results in all areas of
symbolic mathematical computation.
This year ISSAC organises a new live software demonstration session.
Important Dates
30 April 2002: Software demonstration submissions must be received.
31 May 2002: Notification of acceptance.
This session is intended to promote software development activities in
the areas of symbolic mathematical computation.
To encourage submissions of good quality, two best demonstration
prizes will be awarded. Demonstrations will be judged by the program
committee and the attendees independently, both based on content and
presentation.
More informations are available at:
http://www.lifl.fr/issac2002/calldemos.html
Sponsorship
Independently of your submission, if your company or institution is
interested in taking the opportunity to sponsor the conference and
present its latest products to the international community of
specialists on symbolic computation in Lille, please contact directly
Marc Moreno Maza at Marc.Moreno-Maza@lifl.fr.
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From: C. Young <cyoung@siam.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:36:37 -0400
Subject: SIAM 50th Anniversary and 2002 Annual Meeting
Conference Name: SIAM 50th Anniversary and 2002 Annual Meeting
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
Dates: July 8-12, 2002
Program Schedule is now available. Please visit:
http://www.siam.org/meetings/SIAM50
Hotel reservation and pre-registration deadline: June 6, 2002
For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at
siam@meetings.org
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From: Simeon Simoff <simeon@it.uts.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:47:22 +1000
Subject: Workshop in Edmonton on Multimedia Data Mining
CALL FOR PAPERS
MDM/KDD2002 - The Third International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining
in conjunction with
8th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data
Mining July 23 - 26, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Paper submission due 24th May 2002.
Workshop Website: http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~simeon/mdm_kdd2002/
Workshop contact: mdm-chairs@cs.ualberta.ca
Workshop Date: 23 July, 2002
Workshop chairs:
Simeon J. Simoff (simeon@it.uts.edu.au) and Chabane Djeraba
(djeraba@irin.univ-nantes.fr)
Local chair:
Osmar R. Zaiane (zaiane@cs.ualberta.ca)
Paper submission due 24th May 2002.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The major topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
- theoretical frameworks for multimedia data mining;
- multimedia data mining methods and algorithms;
- multimedia data sampling and preprocessing;
- data sonification and visualization;
- representation and reuse of discovered knowledge;
- multimedia data descriptions languages and formats;
- evaluation of 'interestingness', 'novelty' and validity of results;
- topic and event detection in multimedia data (including video);
- extracting semantics from multimedia databases;
- integrated data mining of text and image data;
- integrated mining of medical multimedia data;
- mining scientific multimedia data
- integrated data mining in multimedia information systems
- discovering patterns in musical and architectural data
- knowledge discovery in facial data
- man-machine interfaces for multimedia data mining;
- complexity, efficiency and scalability of multimedia data mining algorithms;
- data mining virtual communities and virtual worlds;
- data mining in collaborative virtual environments and virtual reality systems;
- visual and audio support for multimedia mining;
- visual data mining of multimedia data;
- multiagent environments for concurrent mining of heterogeneous data;
- real-time multimedia data mining systems;
- mining digital video, audio and other multimedia components.
We also encourage submissions, which present early stages of research work,
software applications and solutions.
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From: Simeon Simoff <simeon@it.uts.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:57:45 +1000
Subject: Workshop in Helsinki on Visual Data Mining
Call for papers
VDM@ECML/PKDD2002 - Workshop on Visual Data Mining
in conjunction with ECML/PKDD2002 - The 13th European Conference on Machine
Learning (ECML'02) and The 6th European Conference on Principles and
Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD-02), 19-23 August, 2002,
Helsinki, Finland
Paper submission due 24th May 2002.
Workshop Website: http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~simeon/vdm_pkdd2002/
Workshop contact: vdm-chairs@it.uts.edu.au
Workshop Date: 9 or 20 August 2002
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Simeon J. Simoff (simeon@it.uts.edu.au), Monique Noirhomme-Fraiture
(mno@info.fundp.ac.be)
and Michael H. B=F6hlen (boehlen@cs.auc.dk)
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The scope of the workshop covers the intersection of broad range of
disciplines. The major topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
- methods for visual data analysis
- multimedia support for visual data mining
- data and knowledge representation and metaphors visualization for visual
data mining
- metrics for evaluation of visual data mining methods
- virtual environments for data visualisation and exploration
- visual reasoning and cognitive aspects of visual data mining
- results validation
- complexity, efficiency and scalability in visual data mining
- fractals visualisation - fractal dimensions, self-similarity and
symmetry - in visual data mining
- immersive visual data mining in virtual reality systems
- collaborative visual data exploration and model building
- interactivity and iterativity in visual data mining
- frameworks for visual data mining and its integration with other data
mining approaches
We also encourage submissions, which present early stages of research work,
software applications and demonstrations.
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From: Loa Nowina-Sapinski <loa@msri.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:44:32 -0700
Subject: MSRI Workshop in New York City on Event Risk
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute presents a workshop on
Event Risk
November 6-8, 2002
Alliance Capital Conference Center, 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York City
Organized by: Marco Avellaneda (New York University), Sanjiv Das (Santa
Clara University), Lisa Goldberg (BARRA), David Hoffman (MSRI), Francis
Longstaff (UCLA), Mark Rubinstein (UC Berkeley), Michael Singer (MSRI), and
Domingo Tavella (Octanti Associates)
Event Risk is rapidly becoming an area of great interest in mathematical
finance. Two specific domains of event risk that have recently attracted
high levels of academic and practitioner interest are credit risk and
insurance risk. The increasing level of global linkages, and the growing
number of assets at risk has made large-scale event risk management an
essential function of the financial markets.
For more detailed information (fee, submissions, schedule, etc.), see:
http://zeta.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/238/show_workshop
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From: Yang Xiaoqi <mayangxq@polyu.edu.hk>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:58:42 +0800
Subject: Conference in China on Optimization and Control
The Second International Conference on Optimization
and Control with Applications, August 18-22, 2002,
Yellow Mountain International Hotel, Tunxi City, China.
Topics include:
Duality
Engineering Applications
Financial Optimization
Global Optimization
Nonlinear Programming
Optimal Control
Software of Optimization and Control
Stochastic Programming
Structural Optimization
Systems of Nonlinear Equations
Variational Inequalities
Organizing Committee consists of
Directors: Liqun Qi (PolyU) and Kok Lay Teo (PolyU);
Scientific Advisors: David Gao (USA), Lei Guo (ISS) and Xinghe Zhou (NUU);
Local Chair: Wenxiang Zhang (AUST);
Program Chairs: Wenyu Sun (NNU), Shouyang Wang (ISS) and Xiaoqi Yang (PolyU)
Treasurer: Zhicai Xu (AUST)
Invited Speakers include
N.U. Ahmed, University of Ottawa, Canada
John A. Burns, Virginia Tech Univ, USA
Daizhun Cheng, The Institute of System Sciences, CAS, Beijing
Xiuli Chao, North Carolina State University, USA
Xiaotie Deng, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jiu Ding, The University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Ivar Ekeland, University of Paris-Dauphine, France
Masao Fukushima, Kyoto University, Japan
Jaroslav Haslinger, Charles University, Czech
C.T. Kelley, North Carolina State University, USA
Masakazu Kojima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Qiang Lu, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Zhiquan Luo, McMaster University, Canada
John B. Moore, The Australian National University, Australia
Dumitru Motreanu, Universite de Perpignan, France
Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Alex M. Rubinov, University of Ballarat, Australia
Jie Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Michel Thera, Universite de Limoges, France
Soon-Yi Wu, The National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Chengxian Xu, The Xian Jiao Tong University, Xian
Shuzhong Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
If you wish to contribute a talk in OCA2002, please send your abstract before
May 15, 2002, to one of the Program Chairs. The e-mail addresses of three
Program Chairs are:
Wenyu Sun, <wysun@pine.njnu.edu.cn>
Shouyang Wang, <sywang@rose.nsfc.gov.cn>
Xiaoqi Yang, <mayangxq@polyu.edu.hk>
Homepage Address:
http://www.polyu.edu.hk/~ama/events/conference/OCA2002/an1.html
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From: SCA <sca2002@scl.csd.uwo.ca>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:10:59 -0400
Subject: Conference at Western Ontario on Symbolic Computational Algebra
Symbolic Computational Algebra 2002
Fields Institute special meeting on Symbolic and Numeric Computation
in Geometry, Algebra and Analysis
15-19 July 2002
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CANADA
http://www.orcca.on.ca/sca2002
Supported by grants from Fields Institute (Canada)
and the National Science Foundation (USA).
SCA2002 will bring together researchers from active areas within
symbolic computation and computational algebra, including
commutative and non-commutative algebra and algebraic geometry,
polynomial and differential equation solving, differential
algebra, coding theory, symbolic-numeric methods, real algebraic
geometry, and geometric invariant theory.
ONE HOUR TALKS (July 15-19):
*Alicia Dickenstein: The beautiful world of A-discriminants
*Karin Gatermann: Toric geometry and dynamics of chemical reactions
*Arieh Iserles: Computing the exponential in a Lie algebra
*Gregor Kemper: An introduction to computational invariant theory
*George Labahn : Fraction-free arithmetic with systems of linear
differential operators
*Peter Olver: Moving frames for pseudo-groups
*Lorenzo Robbiano: Commutative algebra and statistics
*Joachim Rosenthal: Public key cryptography and semi-group actions
*Frank Sottile: Common transversals and tangents
*Jan Verschelde: Symmetric functions applied to decomposing solutions
of polynomial systems
HALF-HOUR SPEAKERS (July 15-19):
F. Boulier, M. Boutin, J. De Loera, I. Emiris, A. Jarrah,
A. Khetan, I. Kogan, G. Lecerf, J. Little, D. Maclagan,
E. Mansfield, M. Morena-Maza, L. Matusevich, P. Parillo,
H. Schenck, W. Sit, H. Stetter, S. Sullivant, L. Zhi
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP (July 13-14):
is intended for graduate students and postdocs. The workshop lecturers are:
*Peter Olver: Moving Frames
*Joachim Rosenthal: Algebraic Geometry and Symbolic Computation
in Cryptography and Coding Theory
*George Labahn and Laureano Gonzalez-Vega:
Introduction to Symbolic-Numeric Computational Algebra
REGISTRATION, FUNDING, TRAVEL INFO:
Please visit the conference website at http://www.orcca.on.ca/sca2002/.
All participants need to fill in the online registration form.
There is funding available for accomodation and travel expenses.
For information on accomodation, meals, travel etc check out the
website. Any other questions could be directed via e-mail
to sca2002@orcca.on.ca.
We hope to see you in London, Ontario.
Robert Corless, Edward Green, Serkan Hosten, Reinhard Laubenbacher,
Victoria Powers, Greg Reid
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From: Vitor Costa <vcosta@astro.up.pt>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:11:22 +0100
Subject: Summer School in Portugal on Neural Networks
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
SUMMER SCHOOL NN-2002
NEURAL NETWORKS in SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING
July 8-12, 2002, ISEP - Porto, Portugal
GENERAL INFORMATION
This is the second announcement of a Summer School which will be held at
Porto, Portugal, jointly with the Polytechnic School of Engineering of
Porto (ISEP) and the Faculty of Engineering, Porto University.
COURSE CONTENTS
Neural networks (NN) have become a very important tool in classification
and regression tasks. The applications are nowadays abundant, e.g. in
the > Engineering, economy and biology areas. The Summer School on NN is
dedicated to explain the main NN paradigms, namely multilayer perceptrons
(MLP), radial basis function networks (RBF) and support vector machines
(SVM), used for classification and regression tasks, illustrated with
applications to real data. Specific topics are also presented, namely the
relation between decision trees and NN, co-operative structures of NN,
time series analysis with NN, financial applications of NN and data mining
using NN. Classes include practical sessions with appropriate software tools.
The trainee has, therefore, the opportunity to apply the taught concepts and
become conversant with a broad range of NN topics and applications.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
P. Brazdil (Portugal), W. Duch (Poland), M.J. Embrechts (USA),
M. Fernandes (Portugal), J. Gama (Portugal), S.R. Gunn (UK), M. Kamel
(Canada), M. Oldemiro (Portugal), J.M. de Sa (Portugal), L. Torgo (Portugal)
CONTACT ADDRESS
Further information can be found at
http://www.nn-2002.isep.ipp.pt
E-mail:=A0 nn-2002@isep.ipp.pt
Snail Mail:
Summer School NN-2002
Departamento de Matematica
Instituto Superior de Engenharia
Rua=A0 Dr. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida 431
4200-072 PORTO / PORTUGAL
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From: J. F. Blowey <J.F.Blowey@durham.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:06:28 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Summer School at University of Durham on Numerical Analysis
The 10th LMS/EPSRC Summer School in Numerical Analysis
will take place in the University of Durham, United
Kingdom on the 9th-21st July, 2002.
The speakers and topics will be
Week 1: Sunday 7th July - Friday 12th July 2002
Professor Franco Brezzi: Recent trends in Finite Element approximation of PDEs
Professor Dr Gerd Dziuk: Mean curvature flow and related topics
Professor Tom Hou: Multiscale problems/methods
Week 2: Sunday 14th July - Friday 19th July 2002
Professor Ernst Hairer: Symplectic methods
Dr. Professor Volker Mehrmann: Generalized eigenproblems, control applications
Professor Nick Gould: Optimization
The purpose of the Summer Schools has always been the
delivery of high quality instructional courses at
postgraduate level. The intended audience is a wide one,
and will include research students, academics and people
from industry. The lecturers will be encouraged to enable
a person with an elementary knowledge of a subject to
attain reasonable competence in it, or with a good
initial knowledge to identify and begin work on unsolved
problems.
Each week LMS/EPSRC will fund thirty five places for
post-graduate students based in the UK. There is also a
smaller tranche of funding available for PhD students
from other EU countries. The funding covers the cost of
accommodation, but does not include travel expenses. A
nominal registration fee is charged for LMS/EPSRC
supported participants. Details of the fees are included
on the web page linked below.
Others not eligible for LMS/EPSRC support are liable for the
cost of registration, accommodation and meals.
For further details (including online registration) see
the web page
http://maths.dur.ac.uk/nass/
or contact
James Blowey
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Durham
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE
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From: Lev Krukier <krukier@rsu.ru>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:51:00 +0400
Subject: Summer School in Rostov on Matrix Computations
ATTENTION YOUNG SCIENTISTS FROM THE NIS.
An International summer school, "Iterative Methods and Matrix
Computations" (IMMC02) will be held June 2 -9, 2002, Rostov-on-Don,
RUSSIA and will be supported by INTAS. Deadlines for registration and
submission of abstracts have been extended to May 5, 2002 for young
scientists (up 35 years) from the NIS. Young scientists can receive
financial support for travel and accomodation. If you have any
questions, please contact us, using the address immc02@rsu.ru Updates
to this information will be posted on this web page
http://conf.rsu.ru/immc02/. Registration is available on
http://conf.rsu.ru/immc02/registration.
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From: T. Terlaky <terlaky@mcmaster.ca>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:33:01 -0400
Subject: Conference at McMaster on Optimization
2nd Annual McMaster Optimization Conference:
Theory and Applications
(MOPTA 02)
August 1-3, 2002, McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~mopta
The 2nd annual McMaster Optimization Conference (MOPTA 02) will be
held at the campus of McMaster University. It will be hosted by the
Advanced Optimization Lab at the Department of Computing and Software
and is co-sponsored by the Fields Institute.
SCOPE
The conference aims to bring together a diverse group of people from
both discrete and continuous optimization, working on both theoretical
and applied aspects. We aim to bring together researchers from both the
theoretical and applied communities who do not usually get the chance
to interact in the framework of a medium-scale event.
Distinguished researchers will give one-hour long
invited talks on topics of wide interest.
Confirmed invited speakers include:
John Betts, The Boeing Company
An Optimal Low Thrust Trajectory to the Moon
Steve Boyd, Stanford University, TBA
C.A. Floudas, Princeton University
Deterministic Global Optimization: Advances and Challenges
Robert Freund, MIT
Computational and Theoretical Perspectives on Complexity for Linear, Conic,
and Non-conic Convex Optimization
Aravind Srinivasan, University of Maryland
Incremental Randomization in Combinatorial Optimization
Richard Tapia, Rice University
Interpreting the Classical Inverse, Shifted, Inverse, and Rayleigh Quotient
Iteration Methods as a Standard Formulation of Newton's Method from the
Nonlinear Programming Literature
Yinyu Ye, Stanford University
Improved Complexity Results on Solving Real-Number Linear Feasibility Problems
CONTRIBUTED TALKS
Each accepted paper will be allotted a 25 minute talk. Authors wishing
to speak should submit an abstract in ASCII or LaTex source, to
terlaky@mcmaster.ca
by April 30, 2002.
Please use "MOPTA" in the email subject line.
Notification of acceptance / Program available: May 31, 2002.
Deadline for early registration: June 30, 2002.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The Organizing Committee
Tamas Terlaky, terlaky@mcmaster.ca (Chair, McMaster University)
Stavros Kolliopoulos (McMaster University)
Tom Luo (McMaster University)
Jiming Peng (McMaster University)
Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo)
Registration information is available at
http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~mopta/
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From: Milo Dorr <milodorr@llnl.gov>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:28:01 -0700
Subject: Director Position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Director for Center For Applied Scientific Computing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is seeking an energetic
leader to be Director of its Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC).
With about 100 employees (more than 80 of whom hold Ph.D's) and a research
budget of nearly $15M, CASC carries out research in scientific computing and
applies it to problems of national importance, including national security,
energy, biomedicine, and environmental science. CASC's scientific investigations
combine the power of high-performance computers with the efficiency of modern
computational methods. Its research involves collaborators from all over the
world, representing industry, academia, and other government laboratories.
CASC's expertise includes high-performance computing, numerical mathematics,
computational physics, algorithm development, and scientific data management
and visualization.
The CASC Director will lead the Center toward further advances in scientific
and high-performance computing. The Director will be responsible for maintaining
and expanding CASC's expertise, and for representing CASC throughout LLNL and in
interactions with the Department of Energy, the University of California,
industry, and other academic collaborators.
Candidates for this position should have demonstrated leadership skills and the
ability to run an organization of similar size and scope. They should also have
nationally recognized expertise in scientific computing and experience in
research program development.
Send your resume to cascdirdi@llnl.gov and reference AJDI4E2CO. LLNL is a U.S.
Department of Energy Laboratory operated by the University of California. U.S.
citizenship is required. LLNL is proud to be an equal opportunity employer
with a commitment to workforce diversity.
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From: Nick Higham <higham@maths.man.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:08:09 +0100
Subject: Faculty Positions at University of Manchester
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
As part of its continuing commitment to high quality research and teaching
the Department of Mathematics invites applications for two lectureships.
Both posts offer an outstanding opportunity for a mathematician to develop
a strong research programme early in his or her career, although the
Department will also consider applications from more established researchers.
Lecturer in Numerical Analysis (Ref no. 302/02)
This post will be within the Applied Mathematics Unit, which was rated 5 in
the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. Candidates should have, or be about
to obtain, a doctorate in some area of applied mathematics, with research
interests in numerical analysis. Preference may be shown to candidates
whose interests lie in the numerical solution of differential equations.
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor P W Duck (Head of Department)
tel: +44 (0)161-275-5831; e- mail: duck@ma.man.ac.uk or to Professor
N J Higham, tel: +44 (0)161-275-5822, e-mail: higham@ma.man.ac.uk
Starting salary in the range: GBP20470 - GBP24435 per annum.
Lecturer in Mathematical Statistics (Ref no. 303/02)
This post will be within the Statistical Laboratory, which was rated 4 in
the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. Candidates should have, or be about
to obtain, a doctorate in some area of statistics, with research interests
in any branch of mathematical statistics. Evidence of enthusiasm and
innovation in teaching is desirable. Informal enquiries may be made to
Professor P W Duck (Head of Department) tel: +44 (0)161-275-5831; e-mail:
duck@ma.man.ac.uk or to Professor R A Doney, tel: +44 (0)161-275-5914,
e-mail: rad@ma.man.ac.uk
Starting salary in the range: GBP20470 - GBP24435 per annum.
Application forms and further particulars are available at
http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies or from the Office of the Director of
Personnel, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
tel: +44 (0)161 275 2028; fax: +44 (0)161 275 2471; Minicom (for the
hearing impaired): +44 (0)161 275 7889; e-mail: personnel@man.ac.uk.
Please quote appropriate reference number.
Closing date for applications: 15 May 2002.
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From: John Barrett <j.barrett@ic.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:17:59 +0100
Subject: Faculty Positions at Imperial College, London
Imperial College is advertising a number of positions in Applied Mathematics
(Closing date 30th May 2002).
For details click on http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk.
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From: P K Jimack <pkj@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:33:34 +0100
Subject: Faculty Position at University of Leeds
The School of Computing, University of Leeds, is currently seeking to
fill a permanent post at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader level.
Successful applicants will be required to undertake leading edge research
and teaching of the highest standard within our broadly based degree
programmes and should strengthen one of our existing research groups,
which include Scientific Computation and Visualization.
For further details of this position, the School of Computing and the
University of Leeds, please visit our Web pages at:
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/
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From: Martin Stynes <m.stynes@ucc.ie>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:21:17 +0100
Subject: Postdoctoral and Student Positions at National University of Ireland
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK
Boole Centre for Research in Informatics
Some of the most fundamental problems of the information society are to be
found at the interface between computer science and mathematics. The connection
between these two disciplines goes back to George Boole, the first Professor of
Mathematics at the National University of Ireland, Cork. The Boole Centre for
Research in Informatics (BCRI, see http://www.bcri.ucc.ie) has been established
with an award of Euro5.2m from the Higher Education Authority under Cycle 3 of
the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI-3). BCRI invites
immediate applications for up to 5 Postdoctoral Research Fellows and 1 PhD
student. Further positions will become available within 12 months.
BCRI has three thematic areas - Information Theory, Theory of Computation, and
Computing Paradigms. Applicants should clearly indicate the position(s) in
which they are interested. Project descriptions and leaders are as follows.
Research Fellowship Level II (Prof. Patrick Fitzpatrick)
Structural properties and decoding algorithms for certain classes of error
correcting codes
Research Fellowship Level II (Dr Anthony Seda)
Applications of topology and domain theory to semantics of logic programming
systems involving uncertain reasoning.
Research Fellowship level II (Prof. Alexei Pokrovskii)
Parallel and distributed computing based design of
reliable mathematical models for complex nonlinear dynamical systems
Research Fellowship Level I (Dr Kieran Herley)
Software that combines expert knowledge and parallelism to realize fast
searches in graph theory and other areas of discrete mathematics
Research Fellowship Level I (Prof. Martin Stynes)
Parallel and distributed computing based design of algorithms for the
solution of convection-diffusion problems
PhD studentship (Dr Simon Foley)
Cryptographic protocols and analysis techniques for trust establishment
and management across untrusted networks
The Research Fellowships are for one year initially with possible renewal for
a further two years. Applicants for positions at Level II (salary Euro33.5k)
should have a PhD and a strong track record of publication and will be expected
to play a leading role in the research teams. Applicants for positions at
Level I (salary Euro23.5k) should already have obtained, or be about to
graduate with, the PhD degree. The PhD studentship (Euro12.5k) is for three
years. Applicants should have obtained, or be about to graduate with, a good
honours degree in a relevant discipline, and meet the requirements for PhD
registration in the Faculty of Science.
For informal discussion of these positions, please contact
Prof. Patrick Fitzpatrick, Department of Mathematics, University College Cork,
Ireland (fitzpat@ucc.ie)
Dr John Morrison, Department of Computer Science, University College Cork,
Ireland (john.morrison@cs.ucc.ie)
Applications should be sent to: posts@bcri.ucc.ie
The closing date for applications is Friday 17th May 2002.
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From: Andrew Stuart <stuart@maths.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:30:36 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Postdoctoral Postion at Warwick University
EPSRC POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT
WARWICK UNIVERSITY, MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE
Algorithms for Extracting Effective Stochastic Dynamics
An individual with expertise in computational applied mathematics
or computational statistics is sought. The project is concerned with
the analysis and development of algorithms for the extraction of
simple stochastic models for components of large and complex deterministic
dynamical systems. The project involves both theoretical and
computational work, and the balance between the two can be determined
by the interests and strengths of the succesful applicant. Both simple
model problems, and more involved applications, will be studied.
Applications include a range of problems in molecular dynamics of
materials. Knowledge of any one (or more) of the following will be
advantageous: stochastic processes, dynamical systems, computational
PDE, Markov chains and hidden Markov models.
Application forms can be obtained from the Personnel Office,
University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, Tel: (UK)-(0)24-7652-3627,
or electronically from
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/jobs/jobs24941.html
and
http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~stuart/pdoc.html
Start Date: October 1st 2002 (some flexibility)
Duration: upto 2 or 3 Years
Closing Date for Applications: May 17th
For more information, or to express interest in applying, contact
Andrew Stuart stuart@maths.warwick.ac.uk
http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~stuart/
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From: Dominique Chapelle <Dominique.Chapelle@inria.fr>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:35:58 +0200
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at INRIA-Rocquencourt
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position in computational
biomechanics at INRIA-Rocquencourt, France (Paris area).
The objective will be to participate in :
- formulating a 3D continuum mechanics model for the cardiac muscle
contraction due to the electrical actuation;
- developing appropriate numerical (finite element) procedures for the model;
- performing validations by comparing the results with experimental data
(collaborations with clinical teams).
This post-doc will be part of the INRIA collaborative research project
ICEMA-2 ("Images of the Cardiac Electro-Mechanical Activity"):
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/sosso/icema2/icema2.html
This position is open for an initial duration of 12 months.
Requirements :
- Applicants should hold a PhD in numerical analysis or mechanical engineering;
- Prior extensive experience with non-linear continuum/structural
mechanics and finite element development is essential.
In addition, we strongly encourage applications of young researchers
(less than about 30).
Send CV, statement of interests, 2 most prominent publications, and one
(at least) letter of recommendation to:
D. Chapelle
INRIA-Rocquencourt
BP 105
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France
Or by email: Dominique.Chapelle@inria.fr
(Use email for informal enquiries also)
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From: Raimondas Ciegis <Raimondas.Ciegis@fm.vtu.lt>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:20:11 +0200 (WET)
Subject: Contents, Mathematical Modelling and Analysis
Mathematical Modelling and Analysis: Volume 7, Number 1, 2002
ISSN 1392-6292
Electronical edition: http://kipras.vtu.lt/rc/mma/
CONTENTS
V. N. Abrashin, R. {\v C}iegis, V. Pakenien{\. e}, N. G. Zhadajeva
Stability analysis of Seidel type multicomponent iterative method . . . 1
M. Baravykaite, R. {\v S}ablinskas
The Template Programming of Parallel Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
A. Buikis, H. Kalis
Calculation of electromagnetic fields, forces and temperature in a finite
cylinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
L. Frolova, D. Kauzena
Assessment methods for impact of environmentally friendly entrepreneur-
ship and driving forces to the quality of environment . . . . . . . . 33
M. Galanin, E. Savenkov
Fedorenko finite superelement method as special Galerkin approximation 41
G. Gromyko, G. Zayats
On the oxide films effect on the thermal processes in the particle-
substrate system during plasma spraying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
J.Januteniene, G. Pridotkas, R. Didziokas
Investigation of metal treatment process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
N. Jushchenko, V. Denisov
Software implementation of finite-difference method for parameter iden-
tification in agroecological modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
J. Kirjackis
On the boundary of convexity of univalent functions class in half-plane. 79
A. V. Kolesnikov, O. P. Fedorov
System of the complicated practical problems analysis . . . . . . . .. .83
V. Kremenetsky
On the self-similar heat boundary layer problems in magnetohydrody-
namics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
K. Kubilius
On the asymptotic behavior of an approximation of SIEs driven by p-
semimartingales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
T.Leonavi{\v c}iene, K. Pileckas
The mathematical model of compressible fluid flow . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
J. Majewski
An isotropic adaptation for simulation of compressible flows . . . . . 127
D.N. Malkhede, H.C. Dhariwal, M.C. Joshi
On optimization of the PID governor for diesel engine . . . . . . . . . . 135
P. Mi{\v s}kinis
Some properties of fractional Burgers equation . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 151
S. V. Rogosin
On classical formulation of Hele-Shaw moving boundary problem for
power-law uid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
J.Saltyte, K. Ducinskas
Comparison of two estimators of mean function in LDA of spatially
correlated Gaussian data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
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From: Oleg Burdakov <olbur@mai.liu.se>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:04:31 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Contents, Optimization Methods and Software
Table of Contents
Optimization Methods and Software (OMS)
Volume 17, Number 1 (2002)
Marko M. Makela
Survey of bundle methods for nonsmooth optimization
1-29
Adil M. Bagirov
A method for minimization of quasidifferentiable functions
31-60
Jianzhong Zhang and Zhenhong Liu
An oracle strongly polynomial algorithm for
bottleneck expansion problems
61-75
S. Volkwein
Mesh-independence of Lagrange-SQP methods with Lipschitz-continuous
Lagrange multiplier updates
77-111
M. Gaviano and D. Lera
A complexity analysis of local search algorithms in global
optimization
113-127
Chr. Faure
Adjoining strategies for multi-layered programs
129-164
Forthcoming papers and complete table of contents for the journal OMS:
http://www.mai.liu.se/~olbur/OMS.contents
Latex style files:
http://www.mai.liu.se/~olbur/STYLES/
Free sample copy:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10556788.html
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