NA-Digest index for 1988

Digest for Thursday, December 29, 1988

In this digest:

ISSAC-89 Conference Announcement
Complexity of Approximating Eigenvalues
Exponential and Logarithm of Power Series
New Address for George Cybenko
Address Change for Sanzheng Qiao
Fourth Parallel Circus
DIMACS and Special Year
Symmetric Band Generalized Eigenvalue Problems
Intnl. Conf. on Supercomputing 89
Simulating Vehicular Motion
RIACS/NASA Postdoc Fellowship in Parallel Processing
Season's Greetings from SIAM

Digest for Sunday, December 18, 1988

In this digest:

Dundee NA Conference Speakers
Computational Mathematics Positions at NIU
Change of address for Martin Berzins.
Position at University of Bristol
Nonlinear Least Squares in MATLAB
LAA Thanks and Greetings
And Finally, A Bidiagonal Matrix

Digest for Sunday, December 11, 1988

In this digest:

Peter Lax Honored
Positions at SMU
Conference on Computational ODEs
Finite Element Program Sought
Graduate Study at SUNY, Stony Brook
Postdoctoral Positions at SUNY, Stony Brook
Positions at Rice
Special PDE Year in Australia
More on the Army High Performance Computering Research Center
Position at Bristol
Where is Roland England
LAA News
European Workshop on Hypercube and Distributed Computers
Positions at Arizona State University

Digest for Sunday, December 4, 1988

In this digest:

Argonne Parallel Programming Class
Manager of Supercomputing Support at Berkeley
Complexity of Approximately Solved Problems
Army High Performance Computing Research Center
Discrete Laplace Transform
Position at the University of Kansas
Software for 8087 Emulation
Visiting Position for a Chinese Numerical Linear Algebraist
Positions at Stanford

Digest for Sunday, November 27, 1988

In this digest:

New NA-net members in South America
New Members of NA-net
Fourth Leslie Fox Prize Competition
Changes of Address for Chris Paige
Quadratically Constrained Optimization Question
Effects of Finite Precision
Connection Machine Benchmarks
Position in Linz, Austria

Digest for Sunday, November 30, 1988

In this digest:

Short Corse in Hypersonics at Air Force Academy
Army High Performance Computing Research Center
Year on Numerical Analysis in Finland
Graduate Study in Numerical Analysis at Maryland
IMA Applied Linear Algebra Year at Minnesota
Maximum Likelihood Programmer Wanted
SIAG/LA Election Results

Digest for Sunday, November 13, 1988

In this digest:

Looking for Code for L-p Approximation
New na.<lastname> facility
Re: Knuth's Spectral Test
Positions at SMU
Conference on Computational ODEs
IMA Conference on Signal Processing
LAA Special Issue on Matrix Canonical FOrms
International Linear Algebra Society
Graduate Study at the Courant Institute
Sturm-Liouville Problems
Faculty Positions at Drexel University
Conference to Honor Richard Varga

Digest for Sunday, November 6, 1988

In this digest:

Who is Working on Moving Boundary Problems?
Representation in Terms of Vertices
Stability of Block Toeplitz algorithms
Knuth's Spectral Test
Loss of Significance Register
Optimal Coefficient Lookup
Special Issue of LAA on Image Reconstruction
GAMM Meeting in Karlsruhe
Conference Announcement
IFIP WG 2.5 Conference Scheduled in 1991

Digest for Sunday, October 30, 1988

In this digest:

Nonlinear Least-squares Software
Symmetric Circulant matrices
Special Issue of IEEE Computer on Visualization
Fourth Leslie Fox Prize
NA Faculty Position at the University of Toronto.
Positions at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Supercomputing '88
Conference on Computational ODEs
Dundee NA Conference Registration Form

Digest for Sunday, October 23, 1988

In this digest:

The Sixth Texas Symposium on Approximation Theory
Job opening at IMSL
Positions at Bergen Scientific Centre
Faculty Positions in Statistics at Temple University
GAMS Software
More About the Catalog of Algorithms for Approximation
London ODE Conference

Digest for Sunday, October 16, 1988

In this digest:

Walking Through a Database of Algorithms for Appoximation
IEEE Digital Signal Processing Programs on IBM/PC
Conference on Computational Aeronautical Fluid Dynamics
Senior Position in Numerical Analysis at Delaware
Available Faculty Position at Chapel Hill
Positions at Southwestern Louisiana
Wilkinson Followship at Argonne National Laboratory
Positions Available at the University of Kansas
Field Positions with Ardent Computer

Digest for Sunday, October 9, 1988

In this digest:

Pascal QZ Software Wanted
Basis for Linear Equalities
Conference in Chile
Numerical Expert System
Positions Available at University of Florida
Singularity of 0-1 Matrices
Faculty Position at Cornell

Digest for Sunday, October 2, 1988

In this digest:

Basis for Linear Equalities
Minnesota CS Department Gets New Address
Frontiers of Science Conference Announcement
Position of Department Head at North Carolina State
Junior Positions Available at North Carolina State
NA-Net Introduction

Digest for Sunday, September 25, 1988

In this digest:

Fourth Parallel Circus
Factoring Polynomials
Position in North Carolina
Riccati Equation Meeting in Italy
Nineteenth Annual USL Mathematics Conference
Dundee Biennial NA Conference 1989
Position in OR at Stanford

Digest for Sunday, September 18, 1988

In this digest:

Backwards Error Analysis and Chaos
Condition Number Estimator for Polynomial Roots Wanted
Position at North Carolina State
Workshop on Adaptive Methods for PDEs
Errata for LAA Index
International Symposium on Numerical Methods in Engineering
Positions at Oklahome State

Digest for Sunday, September 11, 1988

In this digest:

Int. Conf. on Supercomputing 1989
Reciprocal of Complementary Error Function
Sensitivity of Householder Tridiagonalization
Conference on Iterative Methods for Large Linear Systems

Digest for Sunday, September 4, 1988

In this digest:

Thanks from Caviness
Relaxation Time of Markov Process
Block-tridiagonal Toeplitz Matrices
Change of Address for Zlatev
New Version of MACHAR Available
IEEE Computer Special Issue on Visualization
LAA Special Issue on Linear Programming
ISCA '89 Workshops

Digest for Sunday, August 28, 1988

In this digest:

Changes of Address for Daniel Herschkowitz
Short Term Academic Appointments in Queensland
Position in Zurich
4th Copper Mountain Conference
Hypersonics Conference

Digest for Sunday, August 21, 1988

In this digest:

Cellular Automata,PDEs,Boundary Conditions
Franke Joins ONR, London
FFT for IBM PC Wanted
Perturbation of singular vectors
GAMM Conference on CFD
ANSI C - Third Public Review
NATO Advanced Study Institute in Leuven
Program Director Needed at NSF
Congratulations Joe Keller
Differentiation Arithmetic: Examples & applications

Digest for Sunday, August 14, 1988

In this digest:

National Medal of Science
John Gilbert moving

Digest for Sunday, August 7, 1988

In this digest:

Precise Origin of Quote
Cubic Spline
Exp Function Needed
Scientific Applications of the Connection Machine
Conference on Iterative Methods for Large Linear Systems
Bergen Scientific Centre Petroleum Competence Group
SIAM Conference on Sparse Matrices

Digest for Sunday, July 31, 1988

In this digest:

AMS Matrix Short Course
Finite Element Software Needed
Floating-point Software Support Position at Sun Microsystems
Statistical Computing Group in Argentina
Software for PDEs Wanted

Digest for Sunday, July 24, 1988

In this digest:

Bob Russell Sabbatical
Soviet Bibliographic Project
SAC-I and SAC-II sought

Digest for Sunday, July 17, 1988

In this digest:

NA-NET
4th Copper Mountain Multigrid Conference
Symposium on Computer Architecture in Israel
Floating-Point Indoctrination: Final Lecture
Ascher's Sabbatical Year

Digest for Monday, July 11, 1988

In this digest:

NAG Moves to "Wilkinson House"
Workshop on Adaptive Methods for PDEs

Digest for Sunday, July 3, 1988

In this digest:

NSF Program Director in Advanced Scientific Computing
Two Positions at University of New South Wales
SVD Code in C Wanted

Digest for Sunday, June 26, 1988

In this digest:

Cornell Workshop in Matrix-Based Signal Processing
Argonne Parallel Programming Class
Almost Incompressible Computational Fluid Dynamics
Re: Rational Approximation of Floating Point Numbers

Digest for Sunday, June 19, 1988

In this digest:

LOEN II, Report from Tromso
Change of Address for Jim Pool
T3 Technical Word Processing Mailing List
Job opening at IMSL

Digest for Monday, June 13, 1988

In this digest:

Conference on Iterative Methods for Large Linear Systems
First SIAG/LA Linear Algebra Prize
Source for DEROOT and ODERT
Winnipeg Numerical Analysis Meeting
NATO Institute on Orthogonal Polynomials
Contributions to Floating-Point Indoctrination
AMS Reviews in Partial Differential Equations
Two Tenured Positions at University of Umea
Minnesota IMA Summer Program on Signal Processing
Conference on Applications of the Connection Machine
Rational Approximation of Floating Point Numbers

Digest for Thursday, June 2, 1988

In this digest:

Level 3 BLAS update notice
Job at Bath, UK
Hyperbolic conf. 1990 in Uppsala
Linear programming
LAA: new editors
CERFACS
Tromsoe reminder
Toronto ODE Conference
Request for information

Digest for Monday, June 13, 1988

Digest for Sunday, May 22, 1988

In this digest:

3rd Parallel Circus
Professorship in Lund
Need Sparse SVD Code
LAA Special Issue on Matrix Valued Functions
October Workshop on Iterative Methods
Supercomputing Conference in France

Digest for Sunday, May 15, 1988

In this digest:

Argonne Parallel Programming Class
"Industrial Mathematics" Course in Linz
LISP Matrix Inversion Routine
Deadline for Tromsoe Meeting
Nominations for Wilkinson Prize
Hans Schneider Honored

Digest for Sunday, May 8, 1988

In this digest:

Re: Fast Floating Point Software for Microprocessors
IMACS World Congress
Signal Processing Software
Special Issue on Parallel Optimization
Index Issue of Linear Algebra and its Applications
Graduate Assistantships at Utah State

Digest for Sunday, May 1, 1988

In this digest:

Super-Accurate ODE Methods
NA-NET report
Interpolation of Multidimensional Data
Post-Doc Position at University of Washington
Wind Waves
Fast Floating Point Software for Microprocessors
Eigenvalues of Diagonally Modified Matrices
Sabbatical Positions at Bergen Scientific Centre
Position at Western Michigan University
Numerical Analysis Year in Helsinki
Happy Birthday to Van Vleck Hall

Digest for Sunday, April 24, 1988

In this digest:

Factoring an Inverse Toeplitz Matrix
Appeal for Spase Matrix Test Problems
Research Associate Positions at RIACS
More on the Tromsoe, Norway, Conference
"Boundary Element Research" for Sale
Postdoc Position at Cornell

Digest for Sunday, April 17, 1988

In this digest:

Opening at Digital Equipment Corp.
Gordon Research Conference

Digest for Tuesday, April 12, 1988

In this digest:

Fortran Code Generation by Computer Algebra Systems
Temporary Address Change for Hans Mittlemann
Models of the Human Head or Ear
Transcendental Functions on the 80387
Inverse Square Root of a Matrix
International Conference on Applications of Supercomputers
Floating-Point Indoctrination by Kahan

Digest for Saturday, April 2, 1988

In this digest:

Positions at University of Linz, Austria
Jobs at Bristol
Leslie Fox Prize 1988
Constrained Approximation Problem
Using Netlib
AMS Reviews in Numerical Analysis

Digest for Sunday, March 27, 1988

In this digest:

New Editors for LAA
Re-orthonormalization
Signal Processing Workshop at Cornell
Position at Manchester
Defense University Research Instrumentation Program
ANSI C Deadline Nears
Third Parallel Circus
SVD software in Pascal or C

Digest for Sunday, March 20, 1988

In this digest:

A Double Series
Fredholm Equations of First Kind
IEEE Floating Point Routines
Bill Pell
SIAM's New Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
Madison Linear Algebra Meeting/Van Vleck Celebration
Madison Matrix Meeting/SIAM Matrix Journal
Argonne Parallel Programming Class
IMACS Conference on Expert Systems for Numerical Computing
Conference on Iterative Methods for Large Linear Systems
Tromsoe Conference on Vector and Parallel Computing
SPIE Conference on Signal Processing III
Domain Decomposition Workshop

Digest for Sunday, March 13, 1988

In this digest:

Visiting Positions at NTH, Norway
Hankel and Toeplitz Matrices
NATO summer workshops
New Book on Boundary Value Problems for ODEs
Solution of Quartic Equations

Digest for Saturday, March 5, 1988

In this digest:

Finding Degenerate Eigenvectors
Numerical Analysis Course Numbering
Gateaux
Re: Triangulation of 2-d domains
Request for DAE test problems
Supercomputing '88 Conference

Digest for Saturday, February 27, 1988

In this digest:

Happy Birthday, Gene
Workshop at Berkeley's MSRI
Short Term ARO Contracts
Ardent Computer Announces New Machine

Digest for Saturday, February 20, 1988

In this digest:

New, improved NA-NET
NA-NET statistics
Change of Address for Jim Pool
Special Issue, ACM Transactions on Graphics
PDE solver needed
Format bug in PARANOIA
Triangularization of 2-d Domains
Query about singular forcing functions

Digest for Saturday, February 13, 1988

In this digest:

Oops, Two Issues Numbered 5
SIAM SIAG Supercomputing Newsletter
Polynomial Zeros in C
Numerical Analysis Position at Johns Hopkins University
Special Issue of Mathematical Programming
Congratulations Alan George
New Address for Margaret Wright
MILP/MINLP Software

Digest for Monday, February 8, 1988

In this digest:

Re: Paranoia Results
Re: SIAM Membership List
Re: Numerical Software Tools in C
Positions at Illinois Supercomputing Center
Report on a Conference in Nigeria
Workshop on Large-Scale Optimization
Parallel Research Position in Sweden
A New Numerical Linear Algebra Book
Motorola Manual Published by Prentice Hall
International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems
SIAM Annual Meeting in Minneapolis

Digest for Monday, February 8, 1988

In this digest:

Re: Paranoia Results
Re: SIAM Membership List
Re: Numerical Software Tools in C
Positions at Illinois Supercomputing Center
Report on a Conference in Nigeria
Workshop on Large-Scale Optimization
Parallel Research Position in Sweden
A New Numerical Linear Algebra Book
Motorola Manual Published by Prentice Hall
International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems
SIAM Annual Meeting in Minneapolis

Digest for Tuesday, January 26, 1988

In this digest:

Computer Science Openings at the University of Haifa
"Numerical Recipes" in C
Conference on Signal Processing at Warwick
Conference on Boundary Element Method at Kentucky
Nondifferentiable Optimization
Legendre Functions of Half-integer Degree
This Digest

Digest for Saturday, January 16, 1988

In this digest:

Argonne Parallel Programming Class
Numerical Software at Cray
Old "Supercomputer" for Sale
Change of address
Conference to Honor Werner Rheinboldt

Digest for Friday, January 8, 1988

In this digest:

Department Head at Clemson
Large eigenvalue problems
Senior Numerical Analyst Seeking Position
Stewart's Temporary Electronic Address
Position at Bristol
Golub's New Temporary Address

Digest for Friday, January 1, 1988

In this digest:

NEW PROGRAM: SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING & COMPUTATIONAL MATH