NA Digest Sunday, April 23, 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 17

Today's Editor:

Cleve Moler

The MathWorks, Inc.

moler@mathworks.com

Today's Topics:
• Intro. to Scientific, Symbolic, and Graphical Computation
• Fortran 90 Tutorial
• Software for Hankel Transform Sought
• Educational Finite Element Software Sought
• Multiresponse Nonlinear Least Square Fitting
• IMANA Newsletter
• WWW Server for BIT
• Band Systems Survey
• Colloquium on Systems, Control and Computation
• Dundee Conference 1995
• IMACS Iterative Linear Algebra Symmposium in Bulgaria
• Method of Lines Workshop
• PhD Studentship at University of Salford
• Postdoctoral Position at MIT
• Postdoctoral Position at University of Durham
• Contents, Advances in Computational Mathematics
• Contents, BIT Numerical Mathematics
• Contents, SIAM Scientific Computing
• Contents, SIAM Numerical Analysis

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From: Eugene Fiume <elf@dgp.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 09:30:10 -0400
Subject: Intro. to Scientific, Symbolic, and Graphical Computation

Announcing a new book:

An Introduction to Scientific, Symbolic and Graphical Computation
Eugene Fiume
ISBN 1-56881-051-2

Published by:
AK Peters, Ltd.
289 Linden Street
Wellesley, MA 02181
U.S.A.

617 235-2210 (phone)
617 235-2404 (fax)

kpeters@math.harvard.edu

Courseware: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/elf/ssgc.html

Overview

Through the use of symbolic and graphical techniques, this book
explores parametric curves, interpolation and approximation, signal
theory (sampling, filtering, reconstruction, and the sampling theorem),
quadrature, and the solution of nonlinear equations. The emphasis is
on doing rather than proving, which makes it a good precursor to more
rigorous courses in scientific computation, signals and systems, and
computer-aided geometric design. A main theme of this book is that
there is a fundamental unity among these topics that symbolic and
graphical techniques can help to amplify.

More detail on the book, including table of contents, preface and index
is available via the WWW at the URL

http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/elf/ssgc.html

An extensive repository of courseware is also available.

I have developed a first/second year undergraduate course based on this
material, and have taught it for several years. In my department, it
is viewed as an introduction to mathematical computation that
complements a traditional introduction to computer science. I would be
happy to chat with potential instructors about putting together a
course based on my book. I can be reached at elf@dgp.toronto.edu, or

Eugene Fiume
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
10 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5S 1A4

(+1) 416 978-5472 (office)
(+1) 416 978-5184 (fax)

Regards to all,
Eugene.


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From: Bo Einarsson <boein@nsc.liu.se>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 08:47:25 +0200
Subject: Fortran 90 Tutorial

Dear NA-NET

I have revised the Fortran 90 tutorial by Yurij Shokin and myself,
"Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 Programmer", into an hypertext
document, complete with both internal and external links. It is
readable on WWW with Mosaic or Netscape. You can find the main page
for the tutorial using the following URL

http://www.nsc.liu.se/f77to90.html

Best wishes,

Bo Einarsson


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From: George Miel <miel@cleanhead.CS.UNLV.EDU>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 12:58:30 -0700
Subject: Software for Hankel Transform Sought

Can someone recommend robust software, in double precision
if possible, for evaluating the Hankel Transform

     F(y) = integral(0 to 1) x*J_0(xy)*f(x) dx ?



A concern is that the given function in my application has

a right-hand singularity,



     f(x) = g(x)/sqrt(1-x*x),  smooth g(x), 

   i > j & (i-j) > bl   ->   A(i,j) = 0, and 

   j > i & (j-i) > bu   ->   A(i,j) = 0.