NA Digest Sunday, March 9, 2003 Volume 03 : Issue 10

Today's Editor:
Cleve Moler
The MathWorks, Inc.
moler@mathworks.com

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From: Ben Fang <fanginc@gte.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:04:31 -0800
Subject: Novel Interpolation Method

To those who are interested in "interpolation" for any dimensions (1D,
2D, 3D,......). We have good news to you.

To date, there are no existing publications regarding interpolation
methods that can be deduced analytically and extended easily to
arbitrary dimensions. In fact, there is no publication for interpolation
greater than 5-dimension. Based on the standard Monte-Carlo method as
well as the Dirac delta function, we are able to "derive" an
interpolation formulation which is good in any dimension. Please check
our site for more info and demo at: http://www.fanginc.com/main.htm

Feedback is welcome.

Dr. Ben Fang
FANG, INC.
fanginc@gte.net


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From: Yves Renard <Yves.Renard@gmm.insa-tlse.fr>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:11:37 +0100
Subject: GETFEM++, a C++/MATLAB package for Finite Element Methods

GETFEM++ 1.4 Available for Download with the MATLAB interface.

The GETFEM++ project is centred around the development of a
generic and efficient C++ library for elementary computations
for finite element methods. The goal is to build a library
allowing the computation of any elementary matrix (even for
mixed methods) on the largest class of methods and elements
and for arbitrary dimension (1 <= n <= 255). It offers a complete
separation between integration methods (exact or approximated),
geometric transformations (linear or not) and finite element
methods of arbitrary degrees.

Examples of available finite element methods : Pk on simplices
in arbitray degrees and dimensions, Qk on parallelepipeds,
P1, P2 with bubble functions, hierarchical elements ...

To define a new finite element method, it is sufficient to
describe it on the reference element (mainly, to define base
functions). Extensions are provided for Hermite elements,
non polynomials and vectorial elements.

Moreover, the library includes other tools for computation
with finite element such as assembly methods for classical
PDEs, interpolation methods, computation of norms, mesh
operations, boundary conditions ... This library allows to
build finite elements codes which are completely independent
of the dimension, the particular method or element. Examples
are provided.

It is possible to obtain mass matrices (or other type of
matrices) for finite element method defined on two different
meshes, allowing mortar methods or certain mixed methods.

A MATLAB interface to this library is available and fully
documented.

The release of GETFEM++ is under the LGPL license and may
be downloaded at: http://www.gmm.insa-tlse.fr/getfem

Yves Renard (renard@gmm.insa-tlse.fr)
Dept de Mathematiques, INSA de Toulouse
Complexe Scientifique de Rangueil
31077 Toulouse Cedex, FRANCE


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From: Michelle Montgomery <montgomery@siam.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:03:40 -0500
Subject: Elsevier Sponsors Travel Grants to SIAM Annual Meeting

Elsevier sponsors Travel Grants to the 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting.

Five grants are available.

Program information for 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting at
http://www.siam.org/meetings/AN03

To qualify:
Individuals must be mathematical scientists with full time appointments in
universities in "outreach" countries, for whom attendance would otherwise
not be within reach. Any country on the list of countries to which we
extend SIAM "outreach" membership rates -- you can find the list of
countries at https://www.siam.org/membership/outreachlist.htm -- will
qualify.

Award:
1. round-trip excursion rate airfare (most economical available) to the
2003 SIAM Annual Meeting
2. US$250 to help defray costs while at the meeting
3. one year paid SIAM "outreach" member dues
***SIAM will waive registration fees for the five awardees.

To apply:
Send a cover letter stating your intention to attend the 2003 SIAM Annual
Meeting and explaining the reasons for your request.

Provide a letter from your home university or institute expressing support
for your attendance at the meeting. The letter should confirm your
position, provide the title of your position and be signed by a department
chairman or supervisor. A commitment to fund the remainder of the cost of
travel/expenses not covered by the award should also be stated.

Individuals who will be presenting papers at the conference will be given
priority. Append to the letter a copy of the abstract of your
presentation. The presentation itself must be submitted by normal channels.

Potential awardees must be able to receive permission to travel to
Montreal, Canada, with the intent of attending the 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting.

Applications must be received by 1 April 2003.

Selection:
The awardees will be selected by a SIAM committee. The tentative list of
winners to be submitted to Elsevier Science for approval on or before 1 May
2003.

Applications for the Travel Grants should be sent to:
SIAM
Attn.: Elsevier/SIAM Travel Grant Application
3600 University City Science Center
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

Meetings@siam.org

Fax: 215-386-7999


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From: Erricos John Kontoghiorghes <erricos.kontoghiorghes@unine.ch>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:52:07 +0100
Subject: Special Issue of Matrix Computations and Statistics

Free access to special issue Matrix Computations and Statistics

Free access is available to all full text articles contained in the
special issue "Matrix Computations and Statistics", vol. 41/1 of the
journal "Computational Statistics and Data Analysis" published by
Elsevier. Guest editors of the special issue are J.L. Barlow,
M.W. Berry, A. Ruhe and H. Zha.

The papers can be downloaded from http://www.mathematicsweb.org.
(Check halfway down the page under "MathematicsWeb News".

A call for papers for a second special issue has been issued. For
details please contact:
Jesse Barlow <barlow@cse.psu.edu>.
Patrick J.F. Groenen <groenen@few.eur.nl>
Haesun Park <hpark@cs.umn.edu>
Hongyuan Zha <zha@cse.psu.edu>

Erricos John Kontoghiorghes


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From: Dan Sorensen <sorensen@caam.rice.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 05:05:51 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Special Issue of LAA on Model Reduction

LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on Order Reduction of Large-Scale Systems

Order reduction is a common theme within the simulation of complex
physical processes. Such simulations often result in very large
systems. For example, large systems arise due to accuracy
requirements on the spatial discretization of fluids or structures,
in the context of lumped-circuit approximations of distributed
circuit elements, such as the interconnect or package of VLSI chips,
or in simulations of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), which
have both electrical and mechanical components. Dimension reduction is
generally required for purposes of expediency and/or storage
reduction. Applications include compressed representation, efficient
data analysis and feature extraction, real-time analysis, construction
of low-order control mechanisms, and many others. Various reduction
techniques have been devised, but many of these are described in terms
that are discipline-oriented or even application-specific even though
they share many common features and origins. This special issue is
devoted to exposing the similarities of these approaches, identifying
common features, addressing application-specific challenges, and
investigating how recent reduction methods for linear systems might
be applied to nonlinear problems.

LAA has previously published four special issues devoted to the field
of Linear Systems and Control: 1983 (vol. 50), 1989 (vols. 122-124),
1994 (vols. 203-204) and 2002 (to appear). The cross fertilization
between numerical linear algebra and linear system theory has been
very fruitful. Now, we feel it is time to broaden the scope of these
interactions. In the past decade there has been considerable activity
in the area of dimension reduction for linear dynamical control
systems. However, dimension reduction has a much broader range of
application and interpretation. The goals of this special issue are
to highlight leading approaches and remaining problems in model
reduction for linear system theory, emphasize connections to POD,
extend theory and methodology to nonlinear problems, address
application-specific techniques.

This special issue will be open to all papers with significant new
results in dimension reduction of large systems where either linear
algebraic methods play an important role or new tools and problems of
linear algebraic nature are presented. Survey papers that illustrate
common themes across disciplines and application areas, and especially
where Linear Algebra techniques play a central role are highly
encouraged. Papers must meet the publication standards of Linear
Algebra and Its Applications and will be refereed in the usual way.

Areas and topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not
limited to:

* Methods and Theory for

- Linear (time-invariant and time-varying) dynamical systems
- Descriptor (singular) systems
- Nonlinear dynamical systems
- Second-order systems
- Passive systems
- Infinite-dimensional systems (e.g., PDE based systems)

* Application-Specific Techniques for

- Conservative systems (e.g. Molecular Dynamics)
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Structural analysis (e.g., condensation or sub-structuring)
- Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
- Image processing
- Chemical kinetics

* Low-Order Modeling

- Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD)
- Wavelet techniques in dimension reduction
- Reduced-order modeling of distributed circuit elements

* Low-Order Design

- Low-order filter design techniques
- Controller reduction techniques

The deadline for submission of papers is March 31, 2003, and
the special issue is expected to be published in 2004.
Papers should be sent to any of its special editors:

Peter Benner
Institut f. Mathematik, MA 4-5
TU Berlin
Strasse des 17. Juni 136
D-10623 Berlin (Germany)
benner@math.tu-berlin.de

Roland W. Freund
Bell Laboratories
Room 2C-525
700 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 (USA)
freund@research.bell-labs.com

Danny C. Sorensen
Dept. of Computational & Applied Mathematics
Rice University
6100 Main St. - MS 134
Houston, TX 77005-1892 (USA)
sorensen@rice.edu

Andras Varga
Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
P.O.Box 1116
D-82230 Wessling (Germany)
Andras.Varga@dlr.de


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From: Andrew Knyazev <imacs03@math.cudenver.edu>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:44:04 -0700
Subject: IMACS Symposium in Denver on Iterative Methods

The Final Announcement

Full rate $300 ($150 student)
registration is available for the
Sixth IMACS International Symposium
Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing
March 27-30, 2003
University of Colorado at Denver
(followed by the Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid
March 30-April 4, 2003).

Organized by the University of Colorado at Denver and
Front Range Scientific Computations, Inc.
Sponsored by the University of Colorado at Denver,
the National Science Foundation, and
the Center for Applied Scientific Computing of
the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

2003 CONFERENCE TOPICS
* Applications (with new emphasis on Computational Biology)
* Domain Decomposition and Multilevel Methods
* Nonsymmetric Solvers and Krylov Methods
* Nonlinear Systems and Eigenvalue Solvers
* Ill-conditioned problems
* Preconditioning
* Parallel Methods

A preliminary program is now available with
over 60 talks scheduled in two parallel sessions,
including Mini Symposia:
* Opportunities for Iterative Methods in Computational Biology
(Steve Billups and Harvey Greenberg)
* Industrial Applications of Iterative Methods (Gene Poole)
* Very Large Eigenvalue Problems (Richard Lehoucq)
* Large-Scale Iterative Computations (Charbel Farhat)
see http://math.cudenver.edu/IMACS03/program.html for details.

Please come and join ~100 participants!

FURTHER INFORMATION
University of Colorado at Denver
Fax 303.556.8550, Attn: IMACS
E-mail imacs03@math.cudenver.edu
Web http://www-math.cudenver.edu/IMACS03/

Front Range Scientific Computations, Inc.
Attn: Cathy Lee
1390 Claremont Drive
Boulder, CO 80305
Phone and Fax 303.554.1232


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From: Iain Duff <I.Duff@rl.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 11:19:10 GMT
Subject: Meeting in St Girons on Sparse Matrices and Grid Computing

Sparse Matrices and Grid Computing
St Girons Deux
10-13 June 2003

A meeting on Sparse Matrices and the Grid will be held in St Girons, in the
Pyreneean department of Ariege, France from 10th to 13th June 2003.

One day (Thursday 12th) will be devoted to GRID computing. This
will include presentation of a grid-based system for sparse matrices.
On the other days, there will be eighteen talks on sparse matrices in
areas that include:
Data assimilation
Inner outer iteration
Direct methods (including orderings, parallel computing and preconditioning)
Iterative methods (including preconditioning and Jacobi Davidson)
Eigensystem computations

There will also be poster sessions.

For further information and online registration see the Web site

http://www.cerfacs.fr/algor/Seminars/StGirons2/stGirons2003.html

St Girons is a small town so, In the event of too many people wanting to come,
we will operate on a first-come first-served basis; so you should register
early.

There is no registration fee as such. The cost for the whole meeting,
arriving on Monday leaving on Friday (including meals, hotel, local
transportation) is 300 euros.
Reduced rates are possible for shorter stays or for people willing to
share a room. The range of tariffs is given on our Web site.
The fee also includes transportation between Toulouse and St Girons.

NSF travel support is being sought for US participants.


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From: Shi Zhong-ci <shi@lsec.cc.ac.cn>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 17:34:13 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Conference in Beijing on Control, PDEs and Scientific Computing

An International Conference on Control, Partial Differential Equations
and Scientific Computing will be held at the Institute of Computational
Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing, China, from September 7-11, 2003.

This conference is dedicated to late Professor J.-L. Lions, a foreign
member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The theme of the conference is on
control, partial differential equations and scientific computing, areas
significantly influenced by J.-L. Lions.
Recent developments in these areas will be surveyed and future trends be
discussed. All lectures are based on invitation.

The Advisory Board:

Alain Bensoussan, CNES and Universite Paris-Dauphine, France
Hiroshi Fujita, University of Tokyo, Japan
Chao-Hao Gu, Fudan University, China
Peter Lax, Courant Institute, NYU, USA
Songde Ma, MOST, China
Gurii Marchuk, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Cathleen Morawetz, Courant Institute, NYU, USA
Bruno Revellin-Falcoz, Dassault Aviation, France
Jian Song, The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China
Roderick Wong, City University of Hong Kong, China

A tentative list of invited speakers:

Michel Bernadou, Pole Universitaire L. de Vinci, France
Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Kung-Ching Chang, Peking University, China
Han-Fu Chen, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, China
Philippe Ciarlet, City University of Hong Kong, China and
Academie des Sciences, France
Bernardo Cockburn, University of Minnesota, USA
Jean Antoine Desideri, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Weinan E, Princeton, USA and Peking University, China
Irene Gamba, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Roland Glowinski, Univ. Paris 6, France and University of Houston, USA
David Gottlieb, Brown University, USA
Francesco Grasso, University of Rome, Italy
Leslie Greengard, Courant Institute, NYU, USA
Bo-Lin Guo, Beijing Institute of Applied Physics and Computational
Mathematics, China
Bertil Gustafsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Anthony Jameson, Stanford University, USA
Hideo Kawarada, Chiba University, Japan
Patrick Letallec, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Da-Qian Li, Fudan University, China
Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute, NYU, USA and Zhejiang University, China
Qun Lin, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, China
Pierre Louis Lions, College de France and Universite Paris-Dauphine, France
Gerard Meurant, CEA, France
Olivier Monga, IRD, France
David Mumford, Brown University, USA
Roger Ohayon, CNAM, France
Stanley Osher, UCLA, USA
Jacques Periaux, Dassault Aviation, France
Olivier Pironneau, Univ. Paris 6 and Academie des Sciences, France
Zhong-Ci Shi, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, China
Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University, USA and USTC, China
Endre Suli, Oxford University, England
Zhouping Xin, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Scientific Committee:

Zhong-Ci Shi (co-Chair),
Chi-Wang Shu (co-Chair),
Kung-Ching Chang,
Philippe Ciarlet,
Jun-Zhi Cui (LSEC),
Roland Glowinski,
David Gottlieb,
Lei Guo (Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences),
Da-Qian Li,
Qun Lin,
Stanley Osher,
Olivier Pironneau,
Yu-lin Zhou (Beijing Inst. Appl. Phys. Comput. Math.).

Organizing Committee:

Ya-xiang Yuan (Chair, LSEC),
Zhi-ming Chen (Secretary, LSEC),
Falai Chen (USTC),
Qiang Du (Penn State and LSEC),
Bao-Gang Hu (LIAMA),
Pierre Nepomiatchy (INRIA),
Jacques Periaux,
Long-Jun Shen (Beijing Inst. Appl. Phys. Comput. Math.),
Tao Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University and LSEC),
Pingwen Zhang (Peking University).

For further information and for those who wish to attend the conference,
please contact:
Prof. Zhi-ming Chen,
Institute of Computational Mathematics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2719, Beijing 100080, China.
Tel: +86-10-6254-2823, FAX: +86-10-6254-5820,
e-mail: zmchen@lsec.cc.ac.cn or visit http://lsec.cc.ac.cn/~lions03

The conference site is: Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences,
Zhong-Guan-Cun, Haidian District, Beijing 100080, China.


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From: Donna Bower <dbower@cscamm.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:30:08 -0500
Subject: Workshop in College Park on Incompressible Flows

A workshop on

"Perspectives on incompressible flows.
Comparison of different computational strategies"

will be held April 7-11, 2003 at the new Center for Scientific
Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM) in the University of
Maryland College Park.

SCIENTIFIC CONTENT. The aim of the workshop, organized by S. Chen,
H. Elman, J.-G. Liu, E. Tadmor and D. Zhang, is to bring together
computational scientists working on diverse aspects of incompressible
flows, to compare notes on different solution strategies and to discuss
the potential advantages of blending different methods to form new,
more effective solution strategies in applications. Among the methods
to be discussed are
o variants of pressure-projection methods typically associated
with finite volume discretizations;
o solution algorithms associated with (mixed and stabilized)
finite element approximation methods;
o high order discretization approaches such as spectral methods
and associated domain decomposition solvers;
o grid-free methods such as particle methods and smoothed particle
hydrodynamics.
o efficiency-oriented methods -- multigrid, fast multipole method,
vorticity-based methods...

Issues to be addressed include computational costs and ease of
implementation of the different discrete approaches, adaptive refinement,
utility in engineering codes, and rigorous convergence analysis.

INVITED PARTICIPANTS
Peter Bernard - University of Maryland
Shiyi Chen - John Hopkins University
Anil Deane - University of Maryland
Ramani Duraiswami - University of Maryland
Max Gunzburger - Florida State University
Bill Henshaw - Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab.
Howard Hu - University of Pennsylvania
Tom Hughes - University of Texas, Austin
Hans Johnston - University of Michigan
George Karniadakis - Brown University
Robert Krasny - University of Michigan
Dan Lathrop - University of Maryland
John Leishman - University of Maryland
Shian-Jian Lin - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jian-Guo Liu - University of Maryland
Bill Matthaeus - University of Delaware
Mario Ohlberger - University of Maryland
Anthony Patera - M.I.T.
Blair Perot - University of Massachusetts
John Shadid - Sandia National Lab.
Jie Shen - Purdue University
David Silvester - U. of Manchester Institute Science & Technology
John Steinhoff - Univ. Tennessee Space Inst.
Tao Tang - Hong Kong Baptist University

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION is posted at
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/programs/icf03.
Those interested to attend are requested to register at
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/programs/icf03/rsvp.htm.

Registration is required due to space limitations.

A limited amount of funding for participants at all levels is available.
To apply contact online or write to:
Center for Scientific Computation
and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)
c/o ICF03
CSIC Building #406, Paint Branch Dr.
University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-3289
email: icf03@cscamm.umd.edu


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From: Olga Caprotti <ocaprott@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:37:21 +0100
Subject: Workshop in Eindhoven on Mathematics on the Semantic Web

Workshop Announcement and Call for Presentations
Mathematics on the Semantic Web
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
May 12-14, 2003
<http://www.win.tue.nl/dw/monet/>
Sponsors
European Community Project IST-2000-29719

Various European projects are concerned with communicating mathematics
across the Web. With this meeting, the MONET project together with the
OpenMath Thematic Network wants to create an opportunity for the
communities involved in these projects to meet and coordinate a
concerted effort.

The following projects have agreed to organize a special session at
the meeting: Calculemus, MKM, MONET, MOWGLI, OpenMath Thematic
Network, and Types. Each session will present an overview of the
project goals suitable to a general audience and highlights of
achievements possibly for a more specialized audience.

Program

The program will be structured in special sessions, main invited
lectures and short presentations intended as an opportunity for young
researchers to present their work. Topics include but are not limited to:

* Online Mathematical Knowledge
* Mathematical Web Services
* Semantic Web Technologies for Mathematics
* Doing and Communicating Mathematics on the WEB
* Interactive Mathematics: examples, implementations, challenges

Dates

The deadline for submitting a short presentation abstract is 1 April,
2003. The extended abstract should be at most 10 pages long, and
should be sent electronically to the workshop chair. Proceedings will
be electronic.

Further information and registration: http://www.win.tue.nl/dw/monet/

Organizing committee:

Andrea Asperti [MOWGLI]
Chris Benzmueller [Calculemus]
Olga Caprotti [OpenMath] (local organizer)
Arjeh M. Cohen [OpenMath] (chair)
Hans Cuypers (local organizer)
James Davenport [MKM]
Mike Dewar [MONET]
Herman Geuvers [Types]


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From: Siv Sivaloganathan <ssivalog@sumathi.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:38:45 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Workshop in Toronto on Mathematics and Medicine

Sponsored by the Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences, MITACS and
the University of Waterloo :

Summer School on Introduction to Mathematical Medicine
21 July - 26 July 2003

The summer school is comprised of five, introductory but intensive
courses suitable for beginning graduate students or strong final year
undergraduate students with a background in applied mathematics. The
courses will be given by enthusiastic and stimulating Instructors
who are all leading researchers in these fields.
Student support is available for Canadian-based graduate and
undergraduate students.

This will be followed by a workshop at the Fields Institute on:

Applications of Mathematics in Medicine
28 July - 30 July 2003

This will be very broad in scope with invited talks covering topics over a
wide range of medical specialties. The intention is to bring together
physicians, applied mathematicians as well as experts in scientific
computation to focus on current problems of mmedical interest. The invited
speakers (comprised of physicians and applied mathematicians) are all
leading authorities in their fields and workshop participants will have
the opportunity to interact with speakers and each other and to initiate
collaborations where interests overlap. The workshop will also provide
graduate students and researchers starting in this field with a good
overview of this vibrant and exciting field of interdisciplinary research.

Registration forms and details of both events can be found at:

www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/03-04/mathmedicine/index.html


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From: Nicoletta Del Buono <delbuono@dm.uniba.it>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:17:31 +0100
Subject: Workshop in Bari on Structural Dynamical Systems

Workshop on

STRUCTURAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS in Linear Algebra and Control:
Computational Aspects

June 22-25, 2003
Capitolo-Monopoli Bari Italy

Structural Dynamical Systems Workshop will have place at Hotel
Villaggio Porto Giardino (http://www.portogiardino.it),
Capitolo-Monopoli Bari (Italy). The aim of the workshop is discussing
important recent developments in numerical methods for :

1) geometric integration of ODEs,
2) dynamical systems on matrix manifold,
3) dynamical systems and inverse problems,
4) dynamical systems in linear algebra, systems theory and control,
5) dynamical systems and gradient flows.

The workshop consists of invited lectures and contributed talks on the
above topics. The invited speakers are:
Ben Leimkuhler (University of Leicester, England)
Brynjulf Owren (University of Sciences and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
Luca Dieci (Atlanta Georgia Tech, University, USA)
Moody Chu (North Carolina State, University, USA)
Paul Van Dooren (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
Peter Kunkel (Universitaet Leipzig, Germany)
Timo Eirola (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)Uwe Helmke
(Wuerzburg, University, Germany)
Each invited speaker will give a two lectures on one of the topic of
the workshop.

Researchers wishing to present a contributed talk are invited to
submit a title and an abstract by April, 15 2003.

Additional information (fees,programme, registration form, Hotel
reservation form and rates, local informations,...) may be found
following the URL
http://www.dm.uniba.it/~delbuono/sds2003.htm

ORGANIZING COMMITEE:
Luciano Lopez (Dept. of Mathematics, Universityof Bari)
Nicoletta Del Buono (Dept of Mathematics, University of Bari)
Tiziano Politi (Dept. of Mathematics, Politecnico of Bari)


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From: Darrell Ross <ross@siam.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:11:36 -0500
Subject: SIAM Conference in San Francisco on Data Mining

Conference Name: The SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM03)
Location: Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, CA, USA
Dates: May 1-3, 2003

The April 2, 2003 Pre-Registration Deadline date for the SIAM
International Conference on Data Mining is rapidly approaching!

We urge attendees to pre-register and save.

To qualify for the pre-registration rate, goto
http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm03/ and register or return the
Registration Form with payment to reach the SIAM office by Wednesday,
April 2, 2003. Any registration received at the SIAM office after
Wednesday, April 2, 2003 will be subject to the full registration fee. We
urge you to preregister and save $80.

It is SIAM policy that all speakers must preregister. Speakers who do not
pre-register will be required to register on-site at the higher rate.

For more information on this SIAM Conference please visit:

http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm03/

Or contact:

Darrell Ross
SIAM, Conference Program Manager
Conference Web Master
ross@siam.org


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From: Douglas Arnold <arnold@ima.umn.edu>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:02:35 -0600
Subject: Visiting Professorships at IMA

IMA NEW DIRECTIONS VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
Applicaton deadline: March 15, 2003.

The IMA invites applications by established mathematicians for two
Visiting Professorships for a period of 9 to 12 months including the
thematic program Probability and Statistics in Complex Systems:
Genomics, Networks, and Financial Engineering which runs from
September 2003 through June 2004. Visiting Professors will enjoy an
excellent research environment and stimulating scientific program with
broad mathematical connections including probability, statistics,
scientific computation, numerical analysis, dynamical systems, network
and graph theory, optimization, control, and visualization. They are
expected to be resident and active participants in the program but are
not assigned formal duties. The New Directions program will supply 50%
of faculty salary up to $45,000 maximum. For details and to apply see
www.ima.umn.edu/new-directions/NDprof.html


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From: Mario Arioli <m.arioli@rl.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:33:17 +0000
Subject: ERCIM Fellowships

ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics - co-ordinates the activities of several European National
Organizations in the sectors of Applied Mathematics and Computer
Science.

One of the principal activities in ERCIM is its Fellowship programme.
The two ERCIM Working Groups Applications of Numerical Mathematics in
Science (http://www.numerical.rl.ac.uk/ercim/WGanms.html) and Matrix
Computations and Statistics (http://www.irisa.fr/aladin/wg-statlin/)
encourage young mathematicians and scientists to apply to the
fellowship programme in the sectors:

Numerical Linear Algebra,
Numerical Solution of Differential Equations,
Continuous Optimization and Optimal Control,
Large Scale Scientific Computing,
Generic problems in Statistics,
Computational statistics,
Considered applications.

More details about the ERCIM fellowship programme can be found on the
web page:

http://www.ercim.org/activity/fellows/fellowship.html

The deadline for this round of fellowships is April 30 2003.

Mario ARIOLI e-mail: m.arioli@rl.ac.uk
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX,
UK.

Bernard PHILIPPE
INRIA/IRISA e-mail: Bernard.Philippe@irisa.fr
IRISA Campus de Beaulieu
35042 RENNES Cedex
FRANCE


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From: Geert van Kempen <Geert-van.Kempen@unilever.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:37:16 +0100
Subject: Marie Curie Fellowship at Unilever Research

In the Oil-based Product Technology group of Unilever R&D Vlaardingen, a Marie
Curie fellowship position is available for the mathematical modelling and
optimisation of fat blend compositions. We are seeking somebody with a degree
in Applied Mathematics, Statistics or Chemical Engineering.
Marie Curie fellowships are available to young scientists with an
EU-citizenship. For more information, please contact Dr. Ir. G.M.P. van Kempen,
e-mail: geert-van.kempen@unilever.com.

Additional Information:
www.unilever.com
http://www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/home.htm
http://research.unilever.worldonline.nl
http://www.unilever.com/Careers/ourpeople/researchanddevelopment/

G.M.P. van Kempen
Unilever R&D Vlaardingen


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From: William Dai <dai@lanl.gov>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:28:48 -0700
Subject: Resarch Positions at Los Alamos National Lab

Two positions are still open in the High Performance Computing Environment
Group of Los Alamos National Lab. Those are permanent positions, and
candidates with strong background in computer science, physical sciences
and mathematics are encouraged to apply. For the details of requirement,
see the following web page.

http://www.hr.lanl.gov/JPS/SingleJobAd.asp?ReqNumber=203714&ReqScope=INTERNAL%2FEXTERNAL&ReqTitle=STAFF+MEMBER&JobType=JobSearch&JobReopened=N



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From: Joseph Traub <traub@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:21:46 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Contents, Journal of Complexity

Contents
Journal of Complexity
Volume 19, Number 2, April 2003

Bounds for the Weighted L p Discrepancy and Tractability of Integration
Gunther Leobacher and Friedrich Pillichshammer

The Effective Dimension and Quasi-Monte Carlo Integration
Xiaoqun Wang and Kai-Tai Fang

P=NC Over the p-adic Numbers
Michael Maller and Jennifer Whitehead

Algorithmic Analysis of Irrational Rotations in a Single Neuron Model
Hayato Takahashi and Kazuyuki Aihara

Algebra Complexity Problems Involving Graph Homomorphism, Semigroups and
the Constraint Satisfaction Problem
Csaba Szabo and Steve Seif

Systems of Rational Polynomial Equations of Bounded Bit Length Have
Polynomial Size Approximate Zeros on the Average
D. Castro, L.M. Pardo and J. San Martin


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From: S. Friedla <sfriedla@wiley.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:20:51 -0500
Subject: Contents: Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Volume 19 - Number 2, 2003

Gabriel Mateescu, et al.
A domain decomposition preconditioner for hermite collocation problems
pp. 135-151

Biyue Liu
On a finite element method for unsteady compressible viscous flows
pp. 152-166

Mari=E1n Slodika
Semilinear parabolic problem with nonstandard boundary conditions: Error
estimates
pp. 167-191

Ivo Babuka, Gabriel N. Gatica
On the mixed finite element method with Lagrange multipliers
pp. 192-210

Hong Wang, Weidong Zhao
An upwind finite volume scheme and its maximum-principle-preserving ADI
splitting for unsteady-state advection-diffusion equations
pp. 211-226

M. J. Ludwig, et al.
Adaptive numerical solution of thick plates using first-order shear
deformation theory. Part II: Adaptivity
pp. 227-253

Hong Wang, Weidong Zhao
A modified alternating-direction finite volume method for modeling
secondary hydrocarbon migration and accumulation processes
pp. 254-270


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From: S. Friedla <sfriedla@wiley.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:25:04 -0500
Subject: Contents, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Volume 19 - Number 3, 2003
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/issuetoc?ID=3D103020787

Li Wu, et al.
A nonconventional Eulerian-Lagrangian single-node collocation method with
Hermite polynomials for unsteady-state advection-diffusion equations
pp. 271-283

B. Bid=E9garay
Time discretizations for Maxwell-Bloch equations
pp. 284-300

Hae-Soo Oh, Bongsoo Jang, Yichung Jou
The weighted Ritz-Galerkin method for elliptic boundary value problems on
unbounded domains
pp. 301-326

R. K. Mohanty, et al.
Single-cell discretization of O(kh2 + h4) for u/n for three-space
dimensional mildly quasi-linear parabolic equation
pp. 327-342

Hong Wang, et al.
An improved numerical simulator for different types of flows in porous
media
pp. 343-362

Z. Chen, et al.
Nonstandard discretizations of the generalized Nagumo reaction-diffusion
equation
pp.363-379

Ron Buckmire
Investigations of nonstandard, Mickens-type, finite-difference schemes for
singular boundary value problems in cylindrical or spherical coordinates
pp. 380-398

Hoonjoo Kim, et al.
Numerical methods and error analysis for one dimensional elliptic problems
containing singularities
pp. 399-420


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From: Hans Schneider <hans@math.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:48:27 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Linear Algebra and its Applications
Volume 364, Pages 1-326 (1 May 2003)

Classifying quadratic maps from plane to plane, Pages 1-12
R. Duran Diaz, J. Munoz Masque and A. Peinado Dominguez

Characterizations and lower bounds for the spread of a normal matrix,
Pages 13-31
Jorma Kaarlo Merikoski and Ravinder Kumar

Quadrature formulas for matrix measures--a geometric approach, Pages 33-64
Holger Dette and William J. Studden

Generalizations of the Ostrowski-Brauer theorem, Pages 65-80
L. Yu. Kolotilina

Eigenvalues of matrices with several prescribed blocks, II, Pages 81-89
Gloria Cravo and Fernando C. Silva

Minimal-volume projections of cubes and totally unimodular matrices,
Pages 91-103
M. I. Ostrovskii

Positivity of principal minors, sign symmetry and stability, Pages 105-124
Daniel Hershkowitz and Nathan Keller

Affine automorphisms that are isometries, Pages 125-134
Zbigniew Jelonek

The characterization of symmetric primitive matrices with exponent n-1,
Pages 135-145
Jun-Liang Cai and Bo-Ying Wang

The solvability conditions for the inverse eigenvalue problems of
centro-symmetric matrices, Pages 147-160
Fu-Zhao Zhou, Xi-Yan Hu and Lei Zhang

Optimal low-rank approximation to a correlation matrix, Pages 161-187
Zhenyue Zhang and Lixin Wu

Stability of eigenvalues and spectral decompositions under linear
perturbation, Pages 189-211
R. Alam and S. Bora

Condition for the numerical range to contain an elliptic disc, Pages 213-222
Hwa-Long Gau and Pei Yuan Wu

Permanents of woven matrices, Pages 223-233
Gi-Sang Cheon, Suk-Geun Hwang, Bryan L. Shader and Seok-Zun Song

Computing matrix-vector products with centrosymmetric and centrohermitian
matrices, Pages 235-241
Heike Fassbender and Khakim D. Ikramov

On the number of arcs in primitive digraphs with large exponents, Pages 243-251
Jian Shen and Cynthia J. Wyels

More on modifications and improvements of classical iterative schemes for
M-matrices, Pages 253-279
A. Hadjidimos, D. Noutsos and M. Tzoumas

Looking for nonnegative solutions of a Leontief dynamic model, Pages 281-316
Manuela S. Silva and Teresa P. de Lima

Spectrum and commutativity preserving mappings on H2, Pages 317-319
Tatjana Petek and Humberto Sarria

On the Craig-Sakamoto theorem and Olkin's determinantal result, Pages 321-323
Masaya Matsuura

Author index, Pages 325-326

Lists of editors, Pages ii-iii



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