NA-Digest index for 1991

Digest for Sunday, December 29, 1991

In this digest:

Greetings!
Temporary Change of Address for Pete Stewart
Bit Reversal Citations
Bit Reversal for FFTs
New Book on Global Optimization
Short Course on Large Scale Scientific Computing
Extended Deadline For PBSC 1992

Digest for Sunday, December 22, 1991

In this digest:

Book on INA by Hestenes and Todd
Bit Reversal Citations
A Question in Interpolation
Pade Approximants
Change of E-mail Address for Volker Mehrmann
New Book on Fast Solver for Large Sparse Systems
SEAS-SIAM meeting in Huntsville
Parallel CFD '92
Fifth Annual IMSL User Group North America
Conference in Tokyo on Visual Computing
Postdoc Position at ETH
Position at University of New South Wales
Contents, SIAM Numerical Analysis

Digest for Sunday, December 15, 1991

In this digest:

Transportation LP for PC
Multi-dimensional Runge-Kutta code in C
New Book on Linear Quadratic Control
University of Waterloo Technical Reports
IMA Workshop on Linear Algebra
Conference Honoring Parlett and Kahan at Berkeley
Copper Mountain Reminder
Conference in Japan on Materials and Molecular Science
Appalachian Numerical Analysis Day
Fifth Annual IMSL User Group Europe
Positions at University of Lyon
Contents: SIAM Applied Mathematics

Digest for Sunday, December 8, 1991

In this digest:

More on "Fingering"
Test Version of Xnetlib Available
The Definition of Numerical Analysis
Results of the 1991 SIAM Election
Technical Reports Available by FTP
Bath-Bristol Numerical Analysis Day
Applied Math Conference in Raba, 15-17 July, 1992
NA Meeting in Bulgaria
Linear Algebra Curriculum Study Group
Information Sought on Message Passing Systems
High Performance Computing in Health Sciences
Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing
NASECODE VIII Announcement
Special Issue on Computer Aided Geometric Design
NATO Institute on Linear Algebra
Position at University of Durham
Position at Sandia National Laboratories
Contents, SIAM Mathematical Analysis

Digest for Sunday, December 1, 1991

In this digest:

SIAM Announces Internet Connection
Need Faster Exponential Function Approximation
New Book: Boundary and Interior Layers
Position at Western Illinois University
Position at the Australian National University
Visualization '92
Announcing Allerton Conference 1992
Algorithms for Approximation, 1992
Neural and Stochastic Methods in Image and Signal Processing

Digest for Sunday, November 24, 1991

In this digest:

Change of Address for Sam Eldersveld
Helmholtz Solver
Finding Saddlepoints
Honorary Doctorate for Richard Varga
SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics
ICFD Conference Abstracts - last call
Correction: Permian Basin Supercomputing Conference
NO Mathematics Chair Position at Naval Postgraduate School
Position at Northwestern University
Position at Montana State
Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials
Workshop on Matrix Methods in Statistics
1ST African Conference in Computer Science
Contents, SIAM Scientific and Statistical Computing

Digest for Monday, November 18, 1991

In this digest:

Solving Polynomial Systems
SDSU Undergrad Curriculum in Supercomputing
IMACS Proceedings on Iterative Methods in Linear Algebra
Scalable High Performance Computing Conference
International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
NASECODE VIII International Conference
Position at Queen's University, Kingston
Fellowship at Sandia National Laboratories
Position in Parallel Computation, Indiana University
Department Chair Position at SMU
Postdoctoral Fellowships from NSF
Contents, SIAM Numerical Analysis

Digest for Sunday, November 10, 1991

In this digest:

Legendre's Associated Functions
Change of Address for Phuong Vu
Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs in Scientific Computation
NETLIB Bestsellers
Abstracts Due for SIAM Discrete Math Meeting
C++ Codes for Range Arithmetic Available
Bay Area NA Day at Berkeley
Domain Decomposition Conference at University of Kentucky
Workshop in Winnipeg on Matrix Computations and Applications
SIAM Student Paper Competition
SIAG/LA Officer Nominees
Positions at Southern Methodist University
Position Announcement, Drexel University
Contents, Linear Algebra and Applications
Contents, SIAM Control and Optimization
Contents, SIAM Optimization

Digest for Sunday, November 3, 1991

In this digest:

Need Integration and Hankel Function Routines
RKF45 in C
New Book by Steve Vavasis
Large Sparse Linear Least Squares
References on Parallel and Vector Computing
Celebration for Gene Golub
Proceedings of Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
Bulgarian Mathemtician Looks for a Position
London Meeting on Cellular Automata
Utah Workshop in Distributed Computing 
Domain Decomposition Mini-conference
Faculty Position at Boston University
Mathematics Chair Position at the Naval Postgraduate School
Contents, Linear Algebra and Applications

Digest for Monday, October 27, 1991

In this digest:

Complete Pivoting Conjecture Rumors
Who's Got the Best Arithmetic?
Special Sessions at AMS Meetings
Magnus Hestenes Memorial Symposium
SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing
Student Volunteers for SUPERCOMPUTING '91
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
ACM Conference on Supercomputing
Table of Contents, SIAM Scientific and Statistical Computing

Digest for Saturday, October 20, 1991

In this digest:

ODE Test Problems
Directorship at ICASE
Referees Do Have Some Leverage
Journal Refereeing
Proposal Reviewing
LAA Special Issue Honoring Marvin Marcus
IEEE & SLI Arithmetics
ICFD Conference on Fluid Dynamics
Minnesota IMA Workshop
1993 Conference on Interval Methods
IMPA Summer Workshop in Rio de Janeiro
Symposium on Massively Parallel Computation
Table of Contents, SIAM Applied Mathematics
Table of Contents, SIAM Scientifc and Statistical Computing

Digest for Saturday, October 12, 1991

In this digest:

New address for June Donato
Phone Numbers at U. British Columbia
Bay Area NA Day
LP Codes and Call for Information
Adaptive Methods for PDEs
Information Sought About "Gold Codes" 
More on Refereeing
About Journal Refereeing
More on Breakdown of the Refereeing Process
Journal of Computational Physics Editors
SIAM Conference on Optimization
Workshop in Numerical Ranges and Radii

Digest for Sunday, October 6, 1991

In this digest:

NA-NET Whitepages
Journal of Computational Physics Editors Resign
Change of Address for Brian C. Morris
Re: Journal Refereeing is Breaking Down
Refereeing Delays
Journal Refereeing
Journal Refereeing is Breaking Down
Fortran Code for NETFLO
Numerical Recipes Algorithms
Harwell Subroutine Library
Tech Reports Available on Anonymous ftp
Bibliography on Non-normal Matrices and Pseudospectra
Second Announcement of the Tenth Parallel Circus
Symposium on Matrix Analysis and Applications
Openings for Postdocs and R.A.'s at Minnesota
CFD Position at the University of Kentucky
New Journal in Computational Optimization
Ron Mitchell Issue of IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
Scalable High Performance Computing Conference
Hestenes Memorial Symposium
Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods
Tutorial on Polynomial Iterative Methods
IMACS Conference on PDE's
Mini-Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods
Permian Basin Supercomputing Conference

Digest for Sunday, September 29, 1991

In this digest:

Changed address for Sven-Ake Gustafson
New Address for Alfio Quarteroni
New Address for Angelika Bunse-Gerstner 
Student Support for Parallel Circus
Looking for a Research Position
Journal Refereeing is Breaking Down
3-level block-Toeplitz solver
6th ACM Conference on Supercomputing
FTPing Technical Reports
Matrix Calculator with C Syntax
Errata to "Numerical Recipes" by Press et all
Special Issue of "Computing" for H.-J. Wacker
Positions at the University of Minnesota.
Householder Fellowship at Oak Ridge
On the Odor of IEEE Arithmetic

Digest for Sunday, September 22, 1991

In this digest:

Meeting in Honor of Golub's 15th Birthday
Request for References on a MinMax Problem
First Annual Large Dense Linear System Survey
Nonlinear Regression
New Address for Murray Kirch
Recommendations for ODE Software
Wilkinson Fellowship in Scientific Computing
Visualization '91
Summer School at Lancaster 1992
Robert Todd Gregory Memorial Lecture

Digest for Sunday, September 15, 1991

In this digest:

New Address for P.M. Pardalos
Change of Address for Andy Cleary
Sparse LP Software Sought
Collocation of 1st Kind Integral Equations
FEM Information Requested
Non-linear Least Squares Package in C
Software for Sparse Linear Programming
Fingering, Gambling, and Pythagoreas
Position at the Universitaet Tuebingen (Germany)
Position at Carnegie Mellon
6th Domain Decomposition Conference
Contents, SIAM J. Control and Optimization

Digest for Sunday, September 8, 1991

In this digest:

Can you be "fingered"?
Retarded Differential Equations
Hyperbolic PDEs
SLI vs Floating-point
Position Available in Santa Monica
Position Available at Leeds
Research Fellowships at Sandia, Albuquerque
AMS Session on Numerical Linear Algebra
Contents: Surveys on Mathematics for Industry
Symposium in Greece on Method of Lines
IMA Sparse Matrix Workshop
Nigeria Meeting

Digest for Saturday, August 31, 1991

In this digest:

SLI vs IEEE arithmetic
C Language Interface to the BLAS
Restoration of Address for Cecilia Jea
Change of Address for Jorg Peters
New Address for Lothar Reichel
Change of Address for Richard Brualdi
IMA Applied Linear Algebra Year Begins
Special Issue of LAA Honoring Ingram Olkin
Rules for Bell Prize
New Journal -- Interval Mathematics
IMACS Symposium in Bangalore, India
Cubic Roots Formula
Position at Virginia Tech
Postions at New South Wales

Digest for Saturday, August 24, 1991

In this digest:

Cubic & Quartic Equation Solvers
GMRES Fortran Code
UGLY Optimization Problems Wanted
SIAM Conference in Minneapolis
Does IEEE Arithmetic Stink?
IEEE Arithmetic Stinks Less Than ...
IEEE Arithmetic
Japanese Receive US Researchers
Postdoc Position at ORNL
Workshop on Total Least Squares
Pacific N.W. Numerical Analysis Seminar
Netlib News: Big Files

Digest for Sunday, August 18, 1991

In this digest:

Change of address for Doug Meade
Clarification of Florida Research Position
IEEE Arithmetic Stinks
Book on Total Least Squares
Tenth Parallel Circus at Oak Ridge
Ninth Parallel Circus Summary
Contents: SIAM J. Optimization
Contents: SIAM J. Computing

Digest for Sunday, August 11, 1991

In this digest:

Correction to Report on Dundee Conference
Square Roots of Matrices
SIAM Manuscript Submittal
Comments on Parallel Programming
IMA Workshop on Graph Theory and Sparse Matrix Computation
Research Posts and Collaborations at CRS4, Sardinia
Position Available at Oak Ridge
Request for Papers, Supercomputer Applications
Contents, SIAM J. Applied Mathematics
Linear Algebra and Its Applications

Digest for Sunday, August 4, 1991

In this digest:

Restoration of Address for Liz Jessup
David Watkins is on the Road
Problems for Networks with Gains and Losses
Discrete Sine Transforms 
Fractal Dimension Code Request
Looking for a Research Assistant
Report on Dundee Numerical Analysis Conference
Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods
IMA Conference on Parallel Computation
CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computer Science

Digest for Sunday, July 28, 1991

In this digest:

Wilkinson Prize to Petzold and to Tang
Change of Address for Ahmed Sameh
Restoration of Addresses for Loyce Adams and Randy LeVeque
SVD for Banded Matrices
Multigrid and CFD
Need Access to a 64k processor CM2
e-MATH Available from AMS
SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra
Course in Germany on Simulation
Ada on Super-Computers Workshop
Contents: SIAM J. Math. Anal.

Digest for Sunday, July 21, 1991

In this digest:

Applied Linear Algebra Year
Change of Address for Linda Petzold
Methods for Parabolic Equations on (0,inf).
Timing Routine for the RS6000
Position at Johannes Kepler Universitaet
Chair in Operations Research at Auckland
Conference Parallel Computing 91, London, 3-6 Sept. 91
Contents: SIAM Matrix Analysis and Applications
Contents: SIAM Control and Optimization
Contents: SIAM Scientific and Statistical Computing

Digest for Sunday, July 14, 1991

In this digest:

Diffusion Problem in Anisotropic Media
Request for Systems of Linear Equations
International Joint Research
Fox Prize Meeting 1991

Digest for Sunday, July 7, 1991

In this digest:

Gene Golub Honored at Midwest NA Day
Is Someone Taking This Down?
Conference on Discrete Algorithms
EuroBen Benchmarking Workshop
Conference on Algorithms for Approximation
Surveys on Mathematics for Industry
Contents of IMA Journal Numerical Analysis
Report on Multigrid Conference

Digest for Sunday, June 30, 1991

In this digest:

Arnoldi's method.
Change of Address Paul Van Dooren
PRLB Going Down .. Forever
Maybe We Should Call It "Lagrangian Elimination"
Special Issue of LAA
Contents: SIAM Review
IUTAM Symposium on Inverse Problems

Digest for Sunday, June 23, 1991

In this digest:

Sparse Matix Eigenvals: Lanczos vs. Householder?
Contents: Linear Algebra and Its Applications
2nd ILAS Meeting

Digest for Saturday, June 15, 1991

In this digest:

Enhancements to the NA-NET Whitepages.
Magnus Hestenes
Matrix Exponential Code Wanted, #1
Matrix Exponential Code Wanted, #2
FFT in 386 Assembly Language Wanted
PICL Update
Position Wanted
Position at University of Leicester
SERC Research Studentship at Manchester
Seminar on Incomplete Decompositions
Table of Contents: SIAM J. Appl. Math.
Table of Contents: SIAM Computing

Digest for Sunday, June 9, 1991

In this digest:

Looking for Very Large, Unsymmetric, Sparse Matrices
Boundary Element Method
Question on Non-Linear Least Squares
SVD and Signal Processing Book Available
New Edition of Lambert's ODE book
Vacant Position at Brussels Free University
Opening for Contract Software Tester
Dundee Conference Talks
Parallel Numerical Analysis Workshop
Symposium on Computer Arithmetic
Conference in Italy on Domain Decomposition
Conference in France on High Performance Computing
Guidelines for The Hans Schneider Prize

Digest for Sunday, June 2, 1991

In this digest:

Change of Address for Michael Berry
Using Conjugate Gradient for Navier Stokes
LSODA (ODE integration) Request
Looking for Strassen's Methods
Constrained Non-linear Optimization
New Book by Yves Robert
Special Session on Numerical Linear Algebra
Postdoctoral Fellowship at LBL
Proceedings of ILIAM VIII
Table of Contents: Linear Algebra and Its Applications
Table of Contents: SIAM Scientific and Statistical Computing

Digest for Sunday, May 26, 1991

In this digest:

NA Net Whitepages Facility
Housing at ICIAM meeting
D. H. Lehmer
Do Approximate Methods for Singular Value Decomposition Exist?
Separable Least Squares: Seeking Fastest Method
Volume II on Stiff and Differential-Algebraic Problems
ILAS Seed Grants 
Student Position at Shrivehnam and NPL
Hensinki Workshop on Symbolic and Numeric Computation
Eighth Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering
Supercomputing Symposium in Fukuoka
Multigrid/Domain Decomposition Workshop

Digest for Sunday, May 19, 1991

In this digest:

Preregistration Deadline for ICIAM 91
Alexandre Chorin Elected to NAS
Prof. Dr. Hansjoerg Wacker
Advice on Scientific Workstations Sought
Non-separable Elliptic PDE Solver
Very Fast Poisson Solvers
Vectorized Spherical Harmonics Routine
Iterative Method for Sparse Least Squares Problems
Computational Experiments for Numerical Analysis Instruction
Fox Prize, 1991
Parallel Numerical Analysis Workshop

Digest for Sunday, May 12, 1991

In this digest:

Hamilton Jacobi Equation
Looking for Gear's Method for MATLAB
High Dimensional Integration
Mathieu Functions
SIAM Supercomputer Newsletter
MGNet (Multigrid Network) Announcement
Summary of Sparse Least Squares Response

Digest for Sunday, May 5, 1991

In this digest:

Parallel Algorithms for Optimization
Software Request, Constrained Minimization
Describing Floating Point Arithmetic
Numerical ODEs Mailing List
Interpolation on a Large Grid
Association for Women in Mathematics
Contents: Linear Algebra and Applications
New Journal: Computational and Graphical Statistics
Midwest NA Day, Final Announcement

Digest for Saturday, April 27, 1991

In this digest:

Netlib/NA-Net Machine Will Be Down a Few Days
Stone's Strongly Implicit Procedure
Solving a Nonlinear Initial BVP
References Sought for Parallel SOR
2nd Annual Midwest NA Day
New Measures of Precision in Floating-Point Arithmetic

Digest for Sunday, April 21, 1991

In this digest:

Last Call for SIAG/LA Prize
Sparse Solvers for Overdetemrined Systems
Block Tridiagonal Matrices
Shampine/Gordon Integrator in C
C Source for a Stiff ODE Integrator
Three Measures of Precision in Floating Point Arithmetic
Meeting on Mathematics, Computations, and Reactor Physics
Second NIU Conference
Position at the University of Auckland
Postgraduate Opportunity at University of Durham
Position at Centenary College of Louisiana
Position at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

Digest for Sunday, March 24, 1991

In this digest:

NA Net List Tops 2000 Names
Splines in Sailmaking
New Book by Golub and Ortega
New Book from SIAM
The First Annual Large Dense Linear System Survey  
Douglas Arnold Wins Giovanni Sacchi Landriani Prize
Finite Element Methods for 3D Diffusion Equation
Shampine/Gordon Integrator in C
Software for Hypergeometric Function Sought
Software for Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions Sought
Some Remarks on Reciprocal Pythagorean Sums
The Toeplitz Lectures in Tel Aviv
Computational Science Workshop at Los Alamos
Workshop on Symbolic and Numeric Computing, Helsinki
Kahaner Report from Japan
SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra
2nd Annual Midwest NA day
CERFACS Short Course
Contents: IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis

Digest for Sunday, April 7, 1991

In this digest:

NA Enhancements of Application Packages
Software to Visualize Stability Regions
Eigenvalues for Banded Non-symmetric Matrices
Real Applications of Numerical Analysis Sought
Virginia Computer Users' Conference Announcement
The Electronic Software Library eLib
New Soviet Journal
Contents: Linear Algebra and Applications
Contents: SIAM Scientific and Statistical Computing
Contents: SIAM Computing

Digest for Sunday, March 31, 1991

In this digest:

Fast N-dody Code Wanted
Bessel Functions with Imaginary Index
High Precision Arithmetic
ICS'91 Advance Program
ILAS 108 - Workshop
Position at NIST in Boulder, CO
Job Opening at Simon Fraser University

Digest for Sunday, March 24, 1991

In this digest:

A Wonderful Report
Applied Math Is ... 
Reciprocal Pythagorean Sums
Query About Floating Point Models
First Annual Large Dense Linear System Survey
Request for Domain Decomposition Bibliography
Venice Summer School on Applied Mathematics
Workshop for Industry in Venice
Positions at Delft University of Tehcnology
Positions at Australian National University
Professur C4 fuer Mathematik in Aachen
Contents, Linear Algebra and Its Applications

Digest for Sunday, March 17, 1991

In this digest:

Information on Network Resource Allocation Software
Pari-1.35 for Computational Number Theory
Position at Apple
Summer internships at Apple
Position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Digest for Sunday, March 10, 1991

In this digest:

Information About Finite Element Software
Numerical Solution of Time Delayed Differential Equations
Large Dimensional Dynamic Models
SLICOT, Software Library for Control Theory
IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Linear Algebra
Multigrid Short Course

Digest for Sunday, March 3, 1991

In this digest:

Congratulations to J-L Lions
E-mail to Eastern Europe
New Address for Mike Heath
Change of Address for Jim Cooley
Bibtex Reference Base Available
Numerical Methods in Smalltalk
Public Domain ODE Boundary Value Programs
Information Sought on Parallel Computers
SVD in C or C++
Solid Dynamics Code Available
Job Openings at MathWorks 
Position at the University of Tennessee
Positions at George Mason University
Positions at Australian National University
Grants and Scholarships at RMCS, Shrivenham, England
Barrett Lectures at the Univ. of Tennessee
MAPLE Course
SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing
Computational Experiments for Numerical Analysis Instruction
Program to Honor Garrett Birkhoff

Digest for Saturday, February 23, 1991

In this digest:

NA-Net's Expansion
Congratulations to Joe Traub
New Book by David Watkins
Adaptive Mesh Refinement Techniques
Solution of Block Toeplitz Linear System
Seeking Recent Version of PITCON
Sparse Least Square Solvers
Department Head Position at University of Akron
International Linear Algebra Society
Workshop on Analytic, Intelligent and Database Computing

Digest for Sunday, February 17, 1991

In this digest:

1991 Householder Fellow Named
Two Matrix Questions
Postdoc Position at Cornell
Board on Mathematical Sciences
Call for Images
CTAC91, Computational Techniques and Applications
Conference on Computational Issues in Nonlinear Science

Digest for Monday, February 11, 1991

In this digest:

SIAG/LA Prize
Programs Which Use LINPACK
Optimization Servers for Workstations
Three Dimensional Grid Generation
SPIE Conference on Signal Processing
Summer Semester in Finland
Workshop on Automatic Differentiation
Position at University of Leeds, U.K.
Position at Kent State University
Position in Computational Mathematics at AFOSR
Contents, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Contents, SIAM Journal on Computing

Digest for Sunday, February 3, 1991

In this digest:

New Book on Solving Linear Systems
Cyclic Reduction Software
Node Renumbering Schemes
Financial Calculations
SIAM Student Paper Competition
Ninth Parallel Circus
Multigrid Conference at George Washington University
Second Annual Midwest NA Day
Conference in Italy on Parallel Methods for ODEs
SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
Position at University of Tulsa
Position at Northern Illinois University
Visiting Research Positions at RIACS

Digest for Sunday, January 27, 1991

In this digest:

Need Help Finding Vicsek and Hegedus
Richard Brent Elected IEEE Fellow
Change of Address for CU Denver
Strang's New Calculus Book
Lotus "Household marketplace" Cancelled
Hans Lewy Postdoctoral Fellowships at LBL
Complexity Issues for Numerical Optimization

Digest for Sunday, January 20, 1991

In this digest:

Seminar on Applied Mathematics, Venice 91
Grid Selection with Boundary Layers
The 8 Queens Problem
Oxford Meeting on Parallel Computation
Netlib News
SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing
Neural Net Course and Conference

Digest for Sunday, January 13, 1991

In this digest:

Navier-Stokes Code
Address for Webb Miller
Errata for Book by Stewart and Sun
Roundoff Error in Nonlinear Iterative Processes
Circular Splines
Lotus "Household marketplace" CD-ROM
Ninth Parallel Circus
Special Issue of Journal of Supercomputing
Some Comments on Visualization '90
Position at Kent State
Contents for SIAM Review

Digest for Sunday, January 6, 1991

In this digest:

Help for Teaching NA
IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis