Today's Editor:
David S. Bindel
Cornell University
bindel@cornell.edu
Today's Topics:
New Book on the Limitations of Computing
Workshop on high-order time discretization methods for PDEs, May 2025
IPCO 2025: Call for participation and Call for posters (June 2025)
30th Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference, Glasgow, June 24-27, 2025
Registration Open, Summer School at the University of Birmingham, July 2025
Short Course on Peridynamics at USNCCM18, July 2025
Chemnitz Workshop and Summer School on Applied Analysis, September 2025
Conference AQMCSE - Aachen, Germany October 2025
Lecturer Positions, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Post-Doc and two PhD positions in scientific computing for female scientists at Magdeburg University, Germany
Postdoc position in Computational Mathematics at EPFL
See this issue of NA Digest on the web at:
https://na-digest.coecis.cornell.edu/na-digest-html/25/v25n9.html
Submissions, FAQs, and archives:
https://na-digest.coecis.cornell.edu/
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From: John Lawrence Nazareth larrynaz@uw.edu
Date: February 23, 2025
Subject: New Book on the Limitations of Computing
The Nature of No – Thing: Reflections of an Algorithmic Scientist on
an Era Between Gods by John Lawrence Nazareth
Atmosphere Press, Austin, Texas, USA/January 2025/xiv+171 pgs./
ISBN: 979-8-89132-504-3/Softcover and E-Book/
Science today is largely governed by an expanded version of Descartes
famous dictum: “I compute, algorithmically, therefore I think,
symbolically, therefore I am, experientially.” The overarching thesis
of this book argues that this dictum must be reversed. Only then can
the natural sciences move beyond their current focus on the world of
“things” and develop a deeper understanding of the psychological and
phenomenological realms of nature, the world of “no-thing” (hence the
book’s title). Rooted in the “natural philosophy of organism”
espoused by four great philosopher-scientists---Henri Bergson, William
James, Gustav Theodor Fechner, and Alfred North Whitehead---this book
offers insights into the limitations of algorithmic computing, the
mystery of consciousness, and the spiritual malaise of the present
(hence the book’s subtitle). Its exploration extends to the
implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT, considering
how these emerging technologies intersect with and challenge the
book’s overarching thesis.
The publisher’s link to the book is as follows:
https://atmospherepress.com/books/the-nature-of-no-thing-by-john-lawrence-nazareth/
The book is available from Amazon websites worldwide (in paperback and
Kindle versions) and from the usual chain and local bookstores.
Feedback sent to the author at his e-address above is welcome. And a
JPEG image of the book’s front and back covers, which provides
additional information and endorsements, is available from him upon
request.
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From: Giuseppe Izzo giuseppe.izzo@unina.it
Date: February 22, 2025
Subject: Workshop on high-order time discretization methods for PDEs, May 2025
Dear Colleagues,
we are glad to announce that the Third Edition of the International
Workshop "Efficient high-order time discretization methods for PDEs"
(PDETD25) will be held in Anacapri, Italy, on May 13-16, 2025.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together young researchers and
leading scientists interested in high-order time discretization methods for
the solution of evolutionary partial differential equations, with special
emphasis on implicit-explicit (IMEX), semi-implicit, strong stability preserving
(SSP) and asymptotic preserving (AP) methods.
All the information about invited speakers, abstract submission, registration
and important dates can be found on the web site:
https://www.dma.unina.it/pdetd25/
If you want to keep up to date with the workshop, please sign up here:
https://www.dma.unina.it/pdetd25/mailinglist.php
Please, note that, due to logistic reasons, a maximum number of 50
participants will be admitted.
With our best regards,
The Scientific Committee
Giovanni Russo
Lorenzo Pareschi
Sebastiano Boscarino
Giuseppe Izzo
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From: Amitabh Basu basu.amitabh@jhu.edu
Date: February 26, 2025
Subject: IPCO 2025: Call for participation and Call for posters (June 2025)
IPCO 2025: Call for participation & Call for posters
*Call for Participation*
The 26th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial
Optimization (IPCO) will take place on June 11–13, 2025 at the Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore (MD), USA. The conference will be
preceded by a summer school (June 9-10). IPCO is a forum for
researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of integer
programming and combinatorial optimization. The aim is to present
recent developments in theory, computation, and applications in these
areas. The website of IPCO 2025 can be found at
https://ipco25.cs.jhu.edu/
Registration is now open! The registration link is (also available on the IPCO
2025 website) here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ipco-2025-johns-hopkins-tickets-1250885665699?aff=oddtdtcreator
*Call for Poster Submissions*
IPCO 2025 will feature a poster session and a best poster award. The
poster session will take place on June 11, 2025.
We particularly welcome posters from Ph.D. students and
postdocs. Poster abstracts can be submitted to the email address:
basu.amitabh@jhu.edu. The abstract format is: a PDF file, one
letter-size page maximum, one-inch margins, 11-point font,
single-space. The deadline for poster abstract submissions is April
13, 2025.
The local organizing committee will select poster presenters, subject
to the number of available poster slots. A committee will evaluate
posters during the poster session and select the best poster. We have
some funding to provide travel support to a limited number of poster
presenters, as judged by the local organizing committee.
The committee will communicate notifications of acceptance by April
20, 2025. Poster presenters are required to register for the
conference.
Please contact Amitabh Basu at basu.amitabh@jhu.edu if you have any
questions.
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From: Gabriel R. Barrenechea gabriel.barrenechea@strath.ac.uk
Date: February 28, 2025
Subject: 30th Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference, Glasgow, June 24-27, 2025
The organisation of the forthcoming Biennial Conference in Numerical
Analysis is well underway, and we wanted to send a reminder of
deadlines and some updates:
* the deadline to submit mini symposia is the 31st of March;
* the deadline to submit the abstract of a talk (either contributed or
associated to a mini symposium) is the 30th of April;
* we have negotiated special rates with some hotels near the
university campus. June is typically a very busy period in Glasgow,
so we recommend participants to book their accommodation as soon as
possible;
* finally, on Monday the 23rd of June, the IMA Leslie Fox Prize
meeting will take place at the University of Strathclyde.
More details on these, and other topics, can be found in the
conference web page
https://numericalanalysisconference.org.uk/
We look forward to meeting you all in Glasgow next June!
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From: Xiaocheng Shang x.shang.1@bham.ac.uk
Date: February 23, 2025
Subject: Registration Open, Summer School at the University of Birmingham, July 2025
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that the Summer School on Sampling High-
Dimensional Probability Measures with Applications in (Non)Equilibrium
Molecular Dynamics and Statistics will take place at the University of
Birmingham, 7-11 July 2025 (more information is available at
https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/summer-school-on-sampling-high-dimensional-probability-measures-with-applications-in-nonequilibrium-molecular-dynamics-and-statistics-1448).
Confirmed Speakers:
-Paola Carbone (University of Manchester)
-Sam Livingstone (University College London)
-Gabriel Stoltz (École des Ponts ParisTech)
-Grigoris Pavliotis (Imperial College London)
-Pierre Monmarché (Sorbonne Université)
-Alessandra Iacobucci (Université Paris Dauphine)
-Urbain Vaes (École des Ponts ParisTech)
-Elisa Marini (Université Paris Dauphine)
-Joe Greener (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
We greatly acknowledge financial support from the CCP5 and CECAM via
the CECAM/CCP5 Sandpits.
We very much look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham in July.
Best wishes,
Xiaocheng Shang and Gabriel Stoltz
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From: Pablo Seleson selesonpd@ornl.gov
Date: February 23, 2025
Subject: Short Course on Peridynamics at USNCCM18, July 2025
A short course on the Peridynamic Theory of Solid Mechanics will be
held at the 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics
(USNCCM18), which will take place July 20–24, 2025, in Chicago,
Illinois. The course will cover both the fundamentals of peridynamics
as well as advanced topics and applications, including a hands-on
computational tutorial. Students, postdocs, and both early-career and
senior researchers are welcome to participate.
Instructors:
Pablo Seleson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John Foster, The University of Texas at Austin
David Littlewood, Sandia National Laboratories
Website:
https://usnccm18.usacm.org/short-courses
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From: Franziska Nestler franziska.nestler@math.tu-chemnitz.de
Date: February 27, 2025
Subject: Chemnitz Workshop and Summer School on Applied Analysis, September 2025
Chemnitz Workshop and Summer School on Applied Analysis 2025
September 22-26, 2025, Chemnitz, Germany
The Chemnitz summer school has been a tradition since 2006 and will be
held again this year from 22 to 26 September. Five invited
distinguished researchers from mathematical fields including
functional analysis, approximation theory, numerical analysis and
machine learning will each give two lectures during the morning
sessions. In the afternoon, participants are invited to give
contributed talks or present posters about their current research. In
addition to the lectures and talks, there will be enough time for
discussions and networking.
There will be five general lectures given by the following speakers.
- Markus Bachmayr (RWTH Aachen University):
High-Dimensional Approximations for Parametric and Random PDEs
- Clarice Poon (University of Warwick):
Inverse Optimal Transport
- Audrey Repetti (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh):
Proximal Optimization and Deep Learning Methods in Inverse Imaging
Problems
- Manuel Schaller (TU Chemnitz):
Data-Driven Methods in Control: Error Bounds and Guaranteed
Stability
- Jonathan Siegel (Texas A&M University):
The Approximation Theory of Neural Networks
The registration fee is 40 Euro. Further information and
online registration are available on the website:
https://www.chemnitz-am.de/cms2025/
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From: Matthias Moller M.Moller@tudelft.nl
Date: February 26, 2025
Subject: Conference AQMCSE - Aachen, Germany October 2025
We are pleased to announce the 1st ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on
Applied Quantum Methods in Computational Science and Engineering
(AQMCSE2025) which will be held in Aachen, Germany, October 8-10,
2025.
AQMCSE is not just another quantum conference but it specifically aims
to bring together the quantum industry and academia to discuss applied
quantum methods that target real-world applications from the
computational sciences. Fields like computational fluid dynamics and
structural analysis, optimization, materials science, scientific
machine learning, cryptography, and more stand to benefit from the
breakthroughs shared at AQMCSE. With this first-of-its-kind thematic
conference, we aim to create a platform where participants can
exchange ideas about the non-orthodox, creative ways of using quantum
devices in hybrid configurations.
The call for abstracts is open until April 30, 2025.
For further details, please visit our homepage at
https://aqmcse.com
or contact us at aqmcse@cats.rwth-aachen.de
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From: MONTAZ ALI montaz.ali@wits.ac.za
Date: February 22, 2025
Subject: Lecturer Positions, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Two lecturer positions (Applied Mathematics)
Description: The School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
undertakes high-quality research in a wide variety of areas and is
home to several South African National Research Foundation (NRF) rated
scientists. In the domain of Applied Mathematics, the School’s main
research areas include symmetry methods of differential equations,
mathematical modelling, control theory, optimization, numerical
analysis and continuum mechanics. Further research areas are in
mathematics of finance, they include but are not limited to, portfolio
optimization, risk management, risk measurement, stochastic processes
in finance and interest rate modelling. We seek applicants with
tertiary teaching experience in the area of Applied Mathematics; and a
strong teaching and learning interest.
Qualifications: Applicants must hold a doctorate in Applied
Mathematics with a strong focus on Numerical Analysis and or
Mathematical Modelling. The following factors will be taken into
account: (i) evidence of publications in accredited journals, (ii)
current or future research areas and how this research will be
compatible with and/or strengthen the research activity within the
School, (iii) teaching experience at a tertiary institution. New PhD
graduates will be considered.
Duties: The successful applicant will be expected to teach a range of
applied mathematics courses at undergraduate and postgraduate
levels. This includes Mathematical Modelling, Dand Numerical
Techniques; supervise and/or co- supervise Honours students,
participate in academic administration and develop a productive
research programme.
Applications: Submit a covering letter accompanied by a detailed and
updated curriculum vitae, NRF rating (if available), description of
research interests, description of a teaching philosophy or portfolio,
certified copies of all educational qualifications and identity
document. Please provide the names and e-mail addresses of three
referees.
Remuneration: The successful candidate will be offered a generous
remuneration package which includes a retirement fund, medical aid,
leave, bonus and study benefits, subject to the University’s rules and
regulations.
Closing date: 15 March 2025
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From: Carolin Mehlmann carolin.mehlmann@ovgu.de
Date: February 23, 2025
Subject: Post-Doc and two PhD positions in scientific computing for female scientists at Magdeburg University, Germany
As part of the MathFEM project, three positions (PhD/PostDoc) are
available for a period of three years each at Otto von Guericke
University Magdeburg, starting as soon as possible. The program is
based at the Faculty of Mathematics. Thematically, the positions focus
on scientific computing/numerical analysis of partial differential
equations. This call is exclusively open to female applicants. More
information can be found at https://cloud.ovgu.de/s/3p4ewFda7rWCKdf
Interested applicants should send a short, informal cover letter along
with a brief CV to carolin.mehlmann@ovgu.de.
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From: Michael Herbst michael.herbst@epfl.ch
Date: February 27, 2025
Subject: Postdoc position in Computational Mathematics at EPFL
Dear all
The mathematics for materials modelling group (MatMat,
https://matmat.org) at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL) invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position. We
seek an outstanding candidate with a PhD in computational mathematics
or a related subject and an interest towards modelling materials at
the atomic scale, such as electronic structure theory or statistical
learning on atomistic structures.
The position will focus on employing algorithmic differentiation
techniques on density-functional theory simulations to accelerate
property-guided inverse materials design. The ideal candidate should
have expertise in multiple of the following aspects: Bayesian
techniques for surrogatisation, Bayesian optimisation, method
development for inverse problems, first-principle methods in materials
science (such as density-functional theory). Screening of candidates
will be done on a rolling basis until the position has been
filled. Expected starting date is the second half of 2025.
For more information and details how to apply, see
https://matmat.org/jobs/.
We would be grateful if you could forward this announcement to any
candidates, who could be interested.
For further questions on the position, feel free to contact
michael.herbst@epfl.ch
Best
Michael Herbst
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