NA Digest Sunday, September 14, 2008 Volume 08 : Issue 37

Today's Editor:
Tamara G. Kolda
Sandia National Labs
tgkolda@sandia.gov

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From: Charles Van Loan <cv@cs.cornell.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:54:47 -0400
Subject: Householder Prize (Corrected)

The Householder Award for the best PhD dissertation in the area of
numerical linear algebra was awarded at the Householder XVII
Symposium, held earlier this summer in Zeutheun, Germany. The award
is given every three years and there were twenty submissions.

First place was awarded to:

David Bindel (UC Berkeley), ''Structured and Parameter-Dependent
Eigensolvers for Simulation-Based Design of Resonant MEMS,'' James
Demmel and Sanjay Govindjee, thesis advisors.

Three submissions received honorable mention:

Steve Mackey (University of Manchester), "Structured Linearizations for
Matrix Polynomials", Nick Higham, thesis advisor.

Ivan Markovsky (KU Leuven), "Exact and Approximate Modeling in the Behavioral
Setting", Sabine Van Huffel and Bart deMoor, thesis advisors.

Emre Mengi (NYU), ``Measures for Robust Stability and Controllability,''
Michael Overton, thesis advisor.

The prize committee members: James Demmel (UC, Berkeley), Howard Elman (U.
Maryland), Sabine Van Huffel (K.U. Leuven), Volker Mehrmann (TU Berlin), and
Charles Van Loan (Cornell, Chair).

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From: andrew stuart <a.m.stuart@warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:27:16 -0400
Subject: 14th Leslie Fox Prize In Numerical Analysis

The Fourteenth Leslie Fox Prize meeting will take place on Monday,
June 29th 2009, at the Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick.

Entries for the Fourteenth Leslie Fox Prize competition can now be submitted.
Any person who is less than 31 years old on January 1st, 2009 and has
not already won a first prize is eligible. Each entry should consist of
a paper, describing some of the candidate's research, that is suitable for a
40 minute lecture at a numerical analysis meeting.

The entries will be considered by an Adjudicating Committee of Andrew
Stuart (Warwick, Chairman), Mark Ainsworth (Strathclyde) and Nick
Higham (Manchester). Entries should be received, by the Chairman,
by January 31st, 2009, either electronically as a pdf file, or as
three hard copies by regular mail. The receipt of all entries will
be acknowledged.

Full details of the prize, and the submission procedure, may be found at:

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~masdr/fox/

Andrew Stuart
Chair, Fox Prize Committee
University of Warwick

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From: "J. M. Littleton" <Littleton@siam.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:44:04 -0400
Subject: Call for Nominations - SIAG/Geo Career Prize & Junior Scientist Prize

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

SIAG/Geosciences Career Prize & Junior Scientist Prize

The SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences (SIAG/GS) will make the first
award of two new prizes at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical and
Computational Issues in the Geosciences (GS09), to be held June 15-19,
2009, in Leipzig, Germany.

The SIAG/GS Career Prize will be awarded to an outstanding senior
researcher who has made broad and distinguished contributions to the
field of geosciences. The award may be given to any scientist who has
held a PhD or equivalent degree for at least 15 years.

The SIAG/GS Junior Scientist Prize will be awarded to an outstanding
junior researcher in the field of geosciences for distinguished
contributions to the field in the three calendar years prior to the year
of the award. At least one of the papers containing this work must be
published in English in a peer-reviewed journal bearing a publication
date in the calendar years 2006-2008. The recipient must be a graduate
student or the paper's publication date must be no more than three
calendar years later than the year in which the author received the PhD
or equivalent degree.

For both prizes, the award will consist of a plaque and a certificate
containing the award citation. The recipient will be invited to present
a plenary talk at the conference. The recipient will be reimbursed for
travel expenses to attend the meeting to accept the award and give the
talk.

Nominations should be addressed to Professor Omar Ghattas, Chair,
SIAG/GS Prize Committee and sent by October 31, 2008, to J. M. Littleton
at littleton@siam.org. Inquiries should be addressed to
littleton@siam.org. Complete calls for nominations for SIAM prizes can
be found at www.siam.org/prizes/nominations.php.

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From: "J. M. Littleton" <Littleton@siam.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:31:09 -0400
Subject: Call for Nominations - Germund Dahlquist Prize

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Germund Dahlquist Prize

The Germund Dahlquist Prize is awarded to a young scientist (normally
under 45) for original contributions to fields associated with Germund
Dahlquist, especially the numerical solution of differential equations
and numerical methods for scientific computing.

The Dahlquist Prize will be awarded at SciCADE 2009, to be held May
25-29, 2009, in Beijing, China. The award consists of a certificate and
a cash award of $1000. The recipient is expected to give a lecture at
the meeting. SIAM will reimburse the recipient's travel expenses to
attend the meeting and deliver the lecture.

Nominations should be addressed to Professor Desmond J. Higham, Chair,
Germund Dahlquist Prize Committee and sent by October 15, 2008, to J. M.
Littleton at littleton@siam.org. Inquiries should be addressed to
littleton@siam.org. Complete calls for nomination for SIAM prizes can
be found at www.siam.org/prizes/nominations.php.

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From: "J. M. Littleton" <Littleton@siam.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:51:08 -0400
Subject: Call for Nominations - James H. Wilkinson Prize

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

James H. Wilkinson Prize

The James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific
Computing is awarded every four years for research in, or other
contributions to, numerical analysis and scientific computing during the
six years preceding the award. The purpose of the prize is to stimulate
junior contributors and to help them in their careers.

SIAM will award the Wilkinson Prize at the SIAM Annual Meeting, to be
held July 6-10, 2009, in Denver, Colorado. The award will consist of a
certificate and a cash award of $1000. The recipient will be expected
to present a lecture. SIAM will reimburse the recipient's expenses to
attend the meeting and deliver the lecture.

Nominations should be addressed to Professor Howard Elman, Chair, James
H. Wilkinson Prize Committee and sent by November 1, 2008, to J. M.
Littleton at littleton@siam.org. Inquiries should be addressed to
littleton@siam.org. Complete calls for nominations for SIAM prizes can
be found at www.siam.org/prizes/nominations.php.

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From: Daniela di Serafino <daniela.diserafino@unina2.it>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:18:18 -0400
Subject: New Fortran 95 package of parallel multilevel preconditioners

MLD2P4 - Multi-Level Domain Decomposition Parallel Preconditioners Package
based on PSBLAS, v. 1.0, has been released.

MLD2P4 implements various versions of one-level additive and of multi-level
additive and hybrid Schwarz preconditioners. In the multi-level case, an
algebraic approach based on smoothed aggregation is applied to generate
coarse-level corrections. The matrix is required to be square, real or
complex, with a symmetric sparsity pattern.

MLD2P4 has been designed to provide scalable and easy-to-use preconditioners
in the context of the PSBLAS (Parallel Sparse Basic Linear Algebra
Subprograms) computational framework and can be used in conjuction with the
Krylov solvers available in this framework. The package has been designed
employing object-oriented techniques, using Fortran 95, with interfaces to
additional third party libraries, that can be exploited in building multi-
level preconditioners. Single and double precision versions of MLD2P4 are
available for both the real and the complex case, that can be all used
through a single interface. The parallel implementation is based on a SPMD
paradigm for distributed-memory architectures; the inter-process data
communication is based on MPI and is managed mainly through PSBLAS.

For more details see http://www.mld2p4.it.

Alfredo Buttari, alfredo.buttari@ens-lyon.fr
Pasqua D'Ambra, pasqua.dambra@na.icar.cnr.it
Daniela di Serafino, daniela.diserafino@unina2.it
Salvatore Filippone, salvatore.filippone@uniroma2.it

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From: FranoisPELLEGRINI <francois.pellegrini@labri.fr>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:27:41 +0200
Subject: Scotch 5.1 is out!

We announce the release, as libre/free software, of revision 5.1 of the
SCOTCH and PT-SCOTCH software package and library for sequential and
parallel graph partitioning, sequential mesh/hypergraph partitioning and
static mapping, and sequential and parallel sparse matrix block ordering.

IMPORTANT FEATURES: PT-Scotch now provides an interface for parallel
graph partitioning and static mapping. At the time being, target
architectures other than complete graphs, whether weighted or not, are
not taken into account, such that only parallel graph partitioning is
available, not full parallel static mapping. Parallel static mapping
will be available in a future release. Parallel graph partitioning is
performed to date by the means of recursive parallel graph
bipartitioning, not direct k-way partitioning. PT-Scotch is therefore
slower than direct parallel k-way partitioners, yet yields high
quality partitions.

WHAT IS SCOTCH: SCOTCH is a project carried out at the Laboratoire
Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI) of the Universite
Bordeaux I. It is part of project ScAlApplix of INRIA Bordeaux -
Sud-Ouest. Its goal is to apply graph theory, with a ``divide and
conquer'' approach, to scientific computing problems such as graph
partitioning, static mapping, and sparse matrix ordering.

HOW TO GET SCOTCH: Scotch can be freely downloaded, under the terms of
the CeCILL-C license. To ease the development, diffusion, and
circulation of information regarding the SCOTCH project, most of its
resources are now hosted on the InriaGforge platform provided by
INRIA. Please refer to the SCOTCH web page at :

http://www.labri.fr/~pelegrin/scotch/

for more information. People interested in the SCOTCH project are welcome to
subscribe to the "scotch-announces" mailing list at :

http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/scotch-announces

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From: Erich Novak <novak@math.uni-jena.de>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:10:28 -0400
Subject: New book, Tractability of Multivariate Problems

New book, Tractability of Multivariate Problems
Volume I: Linear Information, by Erich Novak and Henryk Wozniakowski

September 2008 / Approx. 400 pages / ISBN 978-3-03719-026-5
Hardcover 68 Euro, 98 USD, Eur. Math. Society

Multivariate problems occur in many applications. These problems are defined
on spaces of d-variate functions and d can be huge. Some high-dimensional
problems can be solved efficiently to within epsilon, i.e., the cost increases
polynomially in epsilon^{-1} and d. However, there are many multivariate
problems for which even the minimal cost increases exponentially in d.
This exponential dependence on d is called intractability or the curse of
dimensionality.

The book is of interest for researchers working in computational mathematics,
especially in approximation of high-dimensional problems. It may be also
suitable for graduate courses and seminars. The text concludes with a list
of 30 open problems that can be good candidates for future tractability research.

For more information please visit http://www.ems-ph.org/books/book.php?proj_nr=85

You can download the first three chapters from
http://users.minet.uni-jena.de/~novak

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From: Lothar Reichel <reichel@math.kent.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:40:47 -0400
Subject: Conference in honor of Richard Varga, Kent State Univ, Ohio, Oct 2008

CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF RICHARD S. VARGA

We are planning a conference on Friday and Saturday, October 17-18, 2008, at
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, on the occasion of Richard Varga's 80th
birthday. For further information; see

http://www.math.kent.edu/~li/RSV80

If you are interested in attending the conference, then please send e-mail to
reichel@math.kent.edu. If you would like to present a talk, then send e-mail
with your title and abstract to the same address by Friday 9/19.

The organizing committee:

Laura Dykes, Paul Farrell, Jing Li,
Lothar Reichel, Arden Ruttan, Laura Smithies

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From: Sue Dollar <sue.dollar@stfc.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:30:40 -0400
Subject: Annual Meeting UK & Republic of Ireland SIAM Section, Jan 2009

Annual Meeting
UK & Republic of Ireland SIAM Section
University of Limerick
9 January 2009

Full details available at
http://www.numerical.rl.ac.uk/people/hsd/ukiesiam/

Free to all SIAM Members
(10 Euros for non-SIAM Members)

To register send an email sue.dollar@stfc.ac.uk

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From: Bartosz Protas <bprotas@mcmaster.ca>
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 21:16:32 -0400
Subject: Call for papers, High Performance Computing Symposium, Mar 2009

Call for Papers
High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2009)
Part of the 2009 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'09)
Sponsored by: The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS)
March 22 - 27, 2009
Doubletree Hotel San Diego-Mission Valley
San Diego, CA

Advances in networking, high-end computers, large data stores, and middleware
capabilities are ushering in a new era of high-performance parallel and
distributed simulations. Along with these new capabilities come new challenges
in computing and system modeling. The goal of HPC 2009 is to encourage
innovation in high performance computing and communication technologies and to
promote synergistic advances in modeling methodologies and simulation. It will
promote the exchange of ideas and information between universities, industry,
and national laboratories about new developments in system modeling, high
performance computing and communication, and scientific computing and
simulation.

Key Information:
HPC 2009 Organization: http://hosting.cs.vt.edu/hpc2009/organization.php
HPC 2009 Program: http://hosting.cs.vt.edu/hpc2009/program.php
HPC 2009 Submission guidelines: http://hosting.cs.vt.edu/hpc2009/submission.php

Key Dates:
24 Oct 2008 Abstract / Full Paper Submission due.
13 Dec 2008 Program committee will review the papers and notify authors.
11 Jan 2009 The final version of accepted papers, incorporating changes based
on reviewer comments, are due.

There is also a poster session at SpringSim’09 that welcomes HPC posters (see
http://www.scs.org/confernc/springsim/springsim09/cfp/poster09.htm)

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From: Phan Thanh An <hpsc2009@math.ac.vn>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:32:11 -0400
Subject: Int. Conf. High Performance Scientific Computing, Hanoi, Mar 2009

Int. Conf. High Performance Scientific Computing
Institute of Mathematics
Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology
18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Cau Giay District, Hanoi, Vietnam
March 2009
http://hpsc.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/HPSCHanoi2009

TOPICS: mathematical modeling; numerical simulation; methods for
optimization and control; parallel computing: architectures,
algorithms, tools, environments; software development; applications of
scientific computing in; physics, mechanics, hydrology, chemistry,
biology, medicine, transport, logistics, site location, communication,
scheduling, industry, business, finance.

PLENARY SPEAKERS: Robert E. Bixby (Houston), Olaf Deutschmann
(Karlsruhe), Iain Duff (Chilton), Roland Eils (Heidelberg), Laszlo
Lovasz (Budapest), Peter Markowich (Cambridge), Volker Mehrmann
(Berlin), Alfio Quarteroni (Lausanne), Horst Simon (Berkeley),
Ya-xiang Yuan (Beijing)

PROCEEDINGS: The conference proceedings with selected high-quality
contributions will be published by Springer.

DETAILED INFORMATION can be found at the CONFERENCE WEBSITE:
Participants can register, reserve hotel and submit data needed for
applying for a Vietnamese visa by using this conference website.

DATES TO REMEMBER
Registration and submission of abstracts: November 7, 2008.
Notification of acceptance for presentation: January 5, 2009.
Deadline to apply for a business visa: January 9, 2009.
Deadline for full papers for the conference proceedings: May 8, 2009.

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From: Raimondas Ciegis <Raimondas.Ciegis@fm.vgtu.lt>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:41:53 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Intl. Conf. on Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, Latvia, May 2009

14th International Conference Mathematical Modelling and Analysis
May 27 - 30, 2009, Daugavpils, Latvia

Topics: Analysis of numerical methods for solving problems of
mathematical physics; Application of numerical methods to industrial
and engineering problems; Analysis of ODE and PDE problems and
applications; Parallel algorithms and parallel computing;
Computational Fluid Dynamics; Image processing; Financial mathematics
and mathematics in economics; Scientific computation

The scientific program includes invited plenary talks (40 min) and
contributed talks (20 min). We also invite participants to organize
mini-symposiums. The format for a mini-symposium might be a principal
lecture and a number of communications of 20 minutes given by the
other speakers. The mini-symposia will be scheduled in parallel
sessions.

Abstracts and Proceedings and Conference materials: Authors are
requested to send an abstract (1 page) before March 30, 2009 to
e-mail: mma2009@du.lv. The selected papers of the Conference will be
published in Vol.15 of "Mathematical Modelling and Analysis" (The
Baltic Journal on Mathematical Applications, Numerical Analysis and
Differential Equations), http://inga.vgtu.lt/~art/ All papers will be
peer-reviewed.

Correspondence address
Dr. A. Gritsans (MMA2009), Daugavpils University, Parades 1,
LV-5400, Daugavpils, Latvia Tel. (+371) 6 54 22302 Fax: (+371) 6
54 25452 E-mail: mma2009@du.lv Questions regarding MMA2009 should
be addressed to e-mail: mma2009@du.lv

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From: "pdcof09 (Parallel and Distributed Computing in Finance)" <pdcof@cs.umanitoba.ca>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:56:18 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Wksp, Parallel and Distributed Computing in Finance, Rome, May 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed
Computing in Finance (PDCoF09-Computational Finance - Friday, May 29, 2009)
http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~pdcof

to be held in conjunction with the
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS08)
May 24-29, 2009, Rome, Italy
(http://www.ipdps.org)

Please visit the conference website for scope, interests and other details:
http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~pdcof

Important Dates:
Paper submission due: October 17, 2008
Notification of acceptance: December 05, 2008
Camera-ready paper due: February 15, 2009

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From: "Kirsten Wilden" <Wilden@siam.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:31:57 -0400
Subject: SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, Denver, Jul 2009

SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT09)
Sheraton Denver Hotel, Denver, Colorado
Dates: July 6-8, 2009

The Call for Presentations for this conference is available at:
http://www.siam.org/meetings/ct09/

**Deadlines**

Deadlines are midnight Eastern Standard Time
January 12, 2009: Minisymposium proposals
January 26, 2009: Abstracts for contributed and minisymposium speakers

For additional information, contact the SIAM Conference Department
(meetings@siam.org).

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From: Costas Bekas <bek@zurich.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:35:13 -0400
Subject: 2nd Call For Papers: PARCO Special Issue on Parallel Matrix Algorithms

5th Special Issue of Parallel Computing (Elsevier)
on Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Applications

Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2008.

This 5th special issue of Parallel Computing on Parallel Matrix
Algorithms and Applications is devoted to various novel, efficient
linear algebra techniques and their applications in diverse areas of
science and industry. The special issue is to follow the PMAA'08
Workshop, which was held in Neuchatel, Switzerland, June, 20-22, 2008
(http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/pmaa08/). However, the papers solicited in
this call for papers are not restricted to the contributions presented
during the Workshop. Submissions from other researchers, which fit the
scope of this special issue are also welcomed.

Papers submitted to the special issue should have a strong parallel
computing and numerical linear algebra component. Topics to be
covered in the issue include, but are not limited to:

* Parallel methods for solving large linear systems of equations:
direct, iterative, domain decomposition.
* Parallel eigenvalue and singular value computations.
* Parallel matrix multiplication and combinatorial scientific
computing.
* Parallel linear algebra methods in Data Mining.
* Automatic tuning and performance modeling.
* Novel architectural paradigms (e.g. GPU and multicore) and their use
in matrix computations and applications.
* Large scale scientific applications from diverse fields which have
an emphasis on parallel matrix computation.

Manuscripts will undergo the standard Parallel Computing
peer-reviewing process. They should be submitted electronically via
the Journal's online submission system http://ees.elsevier.com/parco/
and the authors should follow the instructions in the Guide for
Authors. In particular, when choosing the Article type during the
submission, make sure you select the title of this special issue
"Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Applications (PMAA'08)".

The guest editors of this special issue are:
Costas Bekas, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
Pasqua D' Ambra, CNR, Naples, Italy
Ananth Grama, Purdue University, USA
Yousef Saad, University of Minnesota, USA
Petko Yanev, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

For any questions, please contact Costas Bekas at bek@zurich.ibm.com

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From: Daniel B Szyld <szyld@temple.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:06:17 -0400
Subject: Computational PDE job at Temple University, Philadelphia (Fall 2009)

Temple University. Department of Mathematics. Assistant Professor.

Applications are invited for a junior tenure-track faculty position
beginning in Fall 2009, at the Assistant Professor level.

The successful candidate is expected to pursue a vigorous research program,
to be currently funded or have strong funding potential, and to teach
graduate as well as undergraduate students. The current search is primarily
in Computational Partial Differential Equations, with emphasis on nonlinear
phenomena. Exceptional candidates in other areas will also be considered.

Applicants should have completed the Ph.D. degree by the time the
appointment begins and are expected to present evidence of excellence in
research and teaching.

Temple University is a state-related institution with a vibrant urban campus
and an enrollment of over 35,000 students. The academic program is enhanced
by the cultural and intellectual life of Philadelphia, the nation's fifth
largest city and the second largest on the east coast.

Applications should include the standard AMS Cover Sheet for Academic
Employment, curriculum vita, a statement about current and future research,
a statement on teaching experience, evidence of teaching excellence, at
least three letters of reference addressing research, and one letter of
reference addressing teaching. All application materials must be submitted
online at http://www.mathjobs.org.

The deadline for applications is December 1, 2008, although applications
will be accepted past that date. Review of applications will commence on
November 1, 2008, and applicants may be interviewed starting in November 2008.

Temple University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, and
is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. We especially
encourage applications from women, minorities and other under-represented
groups.

Feel free to contact me for any questions you might have.

Daniel B. Szyld szyld@temple.edu www.math.temple.edu/szyld

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From: Des Higham <djh@maths.strath.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:27:12 -0400
Subject: Post doc position at University of Strathclyde

Theory and Tools for Complex Biological Systems

Applications are invited for this EPSRC-funded post doctoral position in the
Department of Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde. The project will
develop novel, generic computational and modelling tools, focusing on
techniques in computational linear algebra and network science. The work will
involve collaboration with statisticians and life scientists. Funding is
available for approximately 20 months. An additional one-year extension to
develop links with a biotech company under the Collaborative Training Account
scheme is currently under negotiation.

For an application pack visit http://vacancies.strath.ac.uk/ or contact
Human Resources, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ.
Tel. 0141 553 4133, quoting ref: JA/R68/2008.

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From: Jun.-Prof.Dr.-Ing.MarkusBl <m.boel@tu-bs.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:44:47 -0400
Subject: PhD/postdoc position: Micromechanical Modelling of Skeletal Muscle

Description:
The goal of this project is the development of an efficient three-dimensional
model for the mathematical description and simulation of the physiological
behaviour of skeletal muscles. The research will involve experimental,
theoretical and computational mechanics.

Requirements:
We are looking for a science-driven, enthusiastic candidate with experience in
mechanics, continuum/numerical mechanics, biomechanics, mathematics, or
physics. Experience with basic mechanical testing techniques is also appreciated.

Location:
The position is situated at the University of Technology Braunschweig, in the
Institute of Solid Mechanics.

Contact:
Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Böl
Tel.: +49 (0)531/391-7052
Mail: m.boel@tu-bs.de
URL: http://www.tu-bs.de/fm

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From: Soeren Bartels <bartels@ins.uni-bonn.de>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:10:56 -0400
Subject: PhD/Postdoc Position in Numerical Analysis at the University of Bonn

Applications are invited for a PhD/Postdoc position in the research group of
Professor Bartels at the Institute for Numerical Simulation of the University
of Bonn. The successful applicant is expected to work on the numerical
analysis and simulation of nonlinear partial differential equations.
Prerequisites are basic programming skills and a good background in the theory
of partial differential equations.

Applications should be sent by email to bartels@ins.uni-bonn.de and must include:
a) curriculum vitae
b) thesis
c) letter of recommendation

The salary will be according to TV-L 13 and qualification. The position is for
a period of two years with the possibility for extension. For further
information please send an email to bartels@ins.uni-bonn.de

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From: G K Saha <ijcit@rediffmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:34:34 -0400
Subject: Contents, Int'l Journal of Computing & Information Technology (IJCIT)

International Journal of Computing & Information Technology (IJCIT), a
peer- reviewed Journal, Published twice in a year in June and December by the
Serials Publications, New Delhi (Editor-in-Chief: Goutam Kumar Saha)
<http://www.serialspublications.com/contentnormal.asp?jid=328&jtype=1 >
Paper Submission to <ijcit@rediffmail.com>

IJCIT Vol.1, No.1, January-June 2008, Contents:-

"ISD – Information System Development: An Executive Report," (Vol. 1
no. 1 Jan-June 2008), Pages: 42-46, Joseph Bih (USA)

"Handover Function Design in Heterogeneous Mobile Environments," (Vol.
1 no. 1 Jan-June 2008), Pages: 36-41, Abdessadek Aaroud (Morocco) and
Goutam K Saha (India)

"The Role of WIMAX Technology in Future Data Communication," (Vol. 1
no. 1 Jan-June 2008), Pages: 31-35, S.S.Riaz Ahamed (India)

"An Intelligent Bengali Text Parsing Technique," (Vol. 1 no. 1
Jan-June 2008), Pages: 26-30, Goutam Kumar Saha (India)

"Information Hiding Using Enzyme Substrate Watermarking Technique,"
(Vol. 1 no. 1 Jan-June 2008), Pages: 21-25, S.K. Bandyopadhyay,
D. Bhattacharyya, S. Phani,and P. Das (India)

"The Habits of Computer Use," (Vol. 1 no. 1 Jan-June 2008)
Pages: 17-20, Robert Rosenberger (USA)

"Variable Code Block Size in JPEG 2000 Standard for Image Compression
and its Implications," (Vol. 1 no. 1 Jan-June 2008), Pages: 1-16,
Ping-Sing Tsai and Tinku Acharya (USA)

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From: Maya Neytcheva <Maya.Neytcheva@it.uu.se>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:45:32 +0200
Subject: Contents, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications

Contents
Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications
Vol. 15, issue 7, September 2008

Effective condition number for numerical partial differential equations
Zi-Cai Li, Hung-Tsai Huang (p 575-594)

On some versions of the element agglomeration AMGe method
Ilya Lashuk, Panayot S. Vassilevski (p 595-620)

On growth factors of the modified Gram-Schmidt algorithm
Musheng Wei, Qiaohua Liu (p 621-636)

A handy proof of Gay's theorem
Majid Adib (p 637-642)

A generalized LSQR algorithm
Lothar Reichel, Qiang Ye (p 643-660)

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From: Raimondas Ciegis <Raimondas.Ciegis@fm.vgtu.lt>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:04:12 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Contents, Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, V.13 #3

MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND ANALYSIS

The Baltic Journal on Mathematical Applications, Numerical Analysis
and Differential Equations

ISSN 1392-6292, ISSN 1648-3510 online, Electronical edition:
http://www.vgtu.lt/mma/

Raimondas Èiegis (Editor)

Volume 13, Number 3, 2008 (p. 313-460)

CONTENTS

N.G. Abrashina-Zhadaeva and A.A. Egorov.
Multicomponent Iterative Methods Solving Stationary Problems of
Mathematical Physics. pp. 313-326

R. Èiegis, M. Radziunas and M. Lichtner.
Numerical Algorithms for Simulation of Multisection Lasers by Using
Traveling Wave Model. pp. 327-348

T. Garbuza.
On Solutions of One 6-th Order Nonlinear Boundary Value Problem. pp. 349-355

J. Henderson, S.K. Ntouyas and I.K. Purnaras.
Positive Solutions for Systems of m-Point Nonlinear Boundary Value
Problems. pp. 357-370

H. Kalis and I. Kangro.
Vortical Flow of Incompressible Viscous Fluid in Finite Cylinder. pp. 371-381

M. Koleva.
Finite Element Solution of Boundary Value Problems with Nonlocal Jump
Conditions. pp. 383-400

J.C. Misra, S.D. Adhikary and G.C. Shit.
Mathematical Analysis of Blood Flow Through an Arterial Segment with
Time-Dependent Stenosis. pp. 401-412

M. Rychlik, W. Stankiewicz and M. Morzyñski.
Applications of 3D PCA Method for Extraction of Mean Shape and
Geometrical Features of Biological Objects Set. pp. 413-420

G.I. Shishkin.
Grid Approximation of Singularly Perturbed Parabolic Equations with
Moving Boundary Layers. pp. 421-442

J. Tumwiine, J.Y. T.Mugisha and L.S. Luboobi.
Threshold and Stability Results for a Malaria Model in a Population
with Protective Intervention among High-Risk Groups. pp. 443-460

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From: eal@aueb.gr
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:21:15 +0300
Subject: Contents, HERMIS Journal, Vol. 10, 2008

Journal: HERMIS- An International Journal of
Computer Mathematics and its Applications
ISSN: 1108-7609
Volume: 10
Date: September 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SUGIHARA K. and NISHIDA T.
Stable computation of the optimal path for a boat on a water stream
and its applications
1--5

SAMPSON M., VOUDOURIS D., KALATHAS M. and PAPAKONSTANTINOU G.
A Quandum algorithm for finding minimal exclusive-or expressions
for incompletely specified Boolean functions
6-12

SUN W., WU J. and ZHANG X.
Nonconforming spline collocation methods in irregular domains
13-32

VIOLENTIS J.B., PLATIS A.N., GRAVVANIS G.A. and LIPITAKIS E.A.
Performance analysis of an electrical substation via a semi-Markov process
computed by generalized approximate inverse preconditioning
33-45

KAMIYAMA N., KATOH N. and TAKIZAWA A.
Theoretical and practical issues of evacuation planning in urban areas
46--52

TOKUYAMA T.
Efficient-net construction for an application to ad-hoc network
53--60

SALAMANOS N., ALEXOGIANNI E. and VAZIRGIANNIS M.
AD-SHARE: An advertising method in P2P systems based on reputation management
61--74

LIPITAKIS A.
Adaptive algorithmic treatment of e-business problems and
strategic management methodologies
75-90

ANDREADIS I., SPYROU G., ANTARAKI A., GIANNAKOPOULOU G., KOULOHERI D.,
ZOGRAFOS G., NIKITA K. and LIGOMENIDES P.A.
Combining SVM and rule based classifiers for optimal classification
in breast cancer diagnosis
91--104

ITO H. and MIYAGAWA H.
Snaky is a winner with one handicap
105--112

IZUMI T. and WADA K.
A crash-tolerant consensus algorithm in presence of probabilistic
message omission
113--114

ASANO T. and TERAMOTO S.
On line uniformity of points
115--116

Published on behalf of the AUEB-RG-ACMPP by LEA, Athens, Hellas

ISSN: 1108-7609

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