NA-Digest index for 1998

Digest for Monday, December 28, 1998

In this digest:

SIAM Election Results
Numerical Analysis in the 20th Century
Low-discrepancy Sequences
Workshop on Boundary Integral Methods
IMACS Conferences on Parallel Processing and Imaging Science
Parallel Computing Classes at the San Diego Supercomputer Center
Faculty Positions at University of Leicester
Faculty Position at Wichita State University
Faculty Positions at Temple University
Contents, BIT
Contents, Journal of  Approximation Theory
Contents, East-West Journal of Numerical Math

Digest for Sunday, December 20, 1998

In this digest:

ILAS Linear Algebra Prize
Low Discrepancy Sequences
Workshop Honoring Ludwig Elsner 
Mathematical Modelling and Analysis '99
Addendum to Scientific Supercomputing Internet Book
Conference on Numerical Methods for Transport-Dominated Problems
Feng Kang Prize
New Interface Package for Semidefinite Programming
Copper Mountain Conference Special Themes
Video Archive of Workshop on Object Oriented Methods
Faculty Position at University of Wyoming
Conference in Beirut on Scientific Computations
ICIAM 99 Travel Grants
Euro-Par'99
Conference in Honor of Richard Varga
Faculty Positions at University of Rhode Island
Dean Position at North Dakota State University
Postdoctoral Position at North Carolina State University
Contents, Computing and Visualization

Digest for Sunday, December 13, 1998

In this digest:

Low Discrepancy Sequences
Test Set for IVP Solvers
The TOMLAB Optimization Environment in MATLAB
ICIAM 99 in Ediburgh
AMS/IMS/SIAM Summer Research Conference
High Performance Computing for Financial Planning
Conference on Scientific Computing and Differential Equations
Godunov Conference in Novosibirsk
Workshop on Optimisation in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Householder Fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Postdoctoral Position at University of Kentucky
Postdoctoral Position at Cardiff University
Faculty Positions at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Contents, Linear Algebra and Its Applications

Digest for Sunday, December 6, 1998

In this digest:

Messages for John Butcher
Change of Address for Jane Cullum
Change of Address for Marlis Hochbruck
Change of Address for Wenyu Sun
Java Applets for Teaching Linear Programming
Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Devices 
Using Regular Meshes on Parallel Computers
The Ralph E. Kleinman Prize
Numerical Analysis Session at AMS Sectional Meeting
Java Grande Conference
One Day SIAM Meeting at Imperial College 
Conference on Rational Approximation
IMACS Congress 2000
Wilkinson Fellowship in Scientific Computing
Postdoctoral Postion at University of Karlsruhe
Postdoctoral Position at Argonne National Laboratory
Postdoctoral Position at University of Southern Mississippi
Faculty Position at University of Bergen
Faculty Positions at University of California, Davis

Digest for Sunday, November 29, 1998

In this digest:

NA Digest Calendar
Report on Java for High-End Computing
ADMAT, Automatic Differentiation for MATLAB
Conference on Mathematical Modelling of Nonlinear Systems
Conference on Parametric Optimization
Conference on Modern Trends in Computational Physics
Minisymposium on Matrices with Sparsity Structure
von Neumann Fellowship at Sandia Labs
Assistantships at University of Notre Dame
Position at Societe de Calcul Mathematique, Paris
Research Position at MathSoft, Seattle
Readership at the University of Surrey
Graduate Positions at University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Digest for Sunday, November 22, 1998

In this digest:

Large Low Rank Submatrices
Nearest Multiple of a Vector
Web Resource Site in Control
Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering
New Book, High Performance Comptuing in Science and Engineering
ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry
Anniversary Meeting for Stanford SCCM Program
Conference on System Modelling and Optimization
Workshop on Mathematics from Physics
Foundations of Computational Mathematics Conference
Special Issue on Graph Partitioning and Parallel Computing
Workshop on High Performance Numerical Methods
High Performance Fortran User's Group
Postdoctoral Position at Politecnico di Torino
Graduate Research Positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Faculty Position at George Southern University
Research Position at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Faculty Position at Stanford University
Postdoctoral Positions at NIST
Faculty Position at Carnegie Mellon University
Systems Administrator Position at LSU
Faculty Positions at Southern Methodist University
Research Position at CERFACS
Postdoctoral and Research Assistants at University of Erlangen
Faculty Position at University of Kansas
Research Position at University of Southern Queensland
Contents, Journal of Approximation Theory
Contents, Optimization Methods and Software

Digest for Sunday, November 15, 1998

In this digest:

Formula for Three-by-three Determinant
Unsymmetric Tri-diagonal Eigensolver
New Book, Numerical Linear Algebra for High-Performance Computers
MATLAB Tutorials for Freshman
Conference in Beirut on Scientific Computations
Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations
Conference on Environmental Modeling and Numerical Analysis
Conference on Parallel CFD
Conference on New Generation Solution Methods for PDE
Euro-Par'99
Chair Position at Old Dominion University
Research Position at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Faculty Positions at Georgia Southern University
Faculty Position at Montana State University
Faculty Position at University of Akron
Faculty Positions at Uppsala University
Positions at RWTH-Aachen
Postdoctoral Position at University of Washington

Digest for Sunday, November 8, 1998

In this digest:

James W. Longley (1913-1998)
Seeking Copies of Classic Books
Determinant of 3x3 Matrix
New Book, Open Problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory
New Book, Mathematical Visualization 
Householder Symposium and Householder Prize
BLAS Technical Forum
Workshop on Numerical Methods in Viscoelastic Flows
Conference on Preconditioning Techniques
Conference for Bob Plemmons
Workshop on the Complexity of Multivariate Problems
European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications
Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference
Special Issue of LAA on Linear Algebra in Self-validing Methods
Positions at University of London
Staff Position at Virginia Tech
Positions Available at University of California, Los Angeles
Faculty Positions at University of Minnesota
Faculty Position at the U. of New Mexico
Faculty Position at North Dakota State University
Faculty Positions at Baylor University
Positions at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg 
Positions at Southampton University
Postdoctoral Positions at SUNY Stony Brook
Postdoctoral Positions at Texas A&M University.
Graduate Traineeships and Postdoctoral Fellowships at CU-Boulder 
Studentship at University of Manchester
Contents, Constructive Approximation 

Digest for Sunday, November 1, 1998

In this digest:

Fox Prize, Call for Entries
New Book, Multigrid Methods
New Book, Finite Element Analysis of Acoustic Scattering
Southern California Matrix Meeting
Deadlines for SIAM Meetings
Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies
Workshop on Semidefinite Programming
Chair Position at Old Dominion University
Faculty Positions at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Faculty Positions at San Diego State University
Faculty Position at University of Delaware
Postdoctoral Position at Boston University
Postdoctoral Positions at University of Washington, Seattle
Contents, Linear Algebra and Its Applications
Contents, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
Contents, Journal of Complexity

Digest for Sunday, October 25, 1998

In this digest:

SLDRIVER, Interactive Sturm-Liouville Package
Fortran Library and Fortran Market
Egervary-ABS prize
Aztec 2.0, A Parallel Iterative Package for Linear Systems
PLAPACK R1.2 (BETA) Available
New Book, Delaunay Triangulation and Meshing
Special Issue of Linear Algebra and Its Applications
Numerical Techniques for Composite Materials
European Symposium on Algorithms
Conference on Stochastic Optimization
Canadian Number Theory Conference
Conference in Hong Kong on Scientific Computing
Workshop on Numerical Software in Control Engineering
Symposium on New Directions in Parallel and Concurrent Computing
Short Course on Delay Equations
Householder Fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Graduate Positions at Colorado State University
Faculty and Graduate Student Positions at Penn State
Faculty Positions at Case Western Reserve University
Position at Old Dominion University
Position at San Diego State University
Temporary Lectureship at Durham
Temporary Lectureship at University of Durham
Lectureships at UMIST
Postdoctoral Positions at The University of Leeds
Contents, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems
Contents, Computational and Applied Mathematics

Digest for Sunday, October 18, 1998

In this digest:

Symmetric Matrices
Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
Best Paper Award, Journal of Complexity
Special Issue of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Special Issue of Parallel Computing Journal
Package for Solving Systems of Linear Equations
First Southern Symposium on Computation
Southern California Matrix Theory Meeting
Symposium on Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Conference at University of Central Oklahoma
Faculty Positions at Simon Fraser University
Faculty Position at Colorado School of Mines
Faculty Position at ETH Zurich
Faculty Position at Pennsylvania State University
Faculty Position at New Mexico Tech
Faculty Position at Rutgers University
Faculty Position at UMass Dartmouth
Postdoctoral Position at Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"
Postdoctoral Position at University of Cambridge
Graduate Positions at University of Trier
Position at University of Heidelberg
Position at ILOG, UK
Contents, Journal of Integral Equations and Applications
Contents, Numerical Algorithms
Contents, Computational and Applied Mathematics
Contents, Linear Algebra and Its Applications

Digest for Sunday, October 11, 1998

In this digest:

Hononary Degree for B. B. Mandelbrot
Symmetric Models
Semidefinite Relaxations in a Branch and Bound Strategy
Numerical Solution of Markov Chains
Workshop on Computational Structural Mechanics
Symposium in Honour of John Butcher
International Conference on Optimization
Research Position at UMIST and Manchester University
Postdoctoral Position at University of Kentucky
Faculty Positions at University of Michigan
Faculty Positions at Colorado State University
Faculty Position at Bowling Green State University
Postdoctoral Position at Swedish Royal Institute of Technology
Faculty Position at Tufts University
Postdoctoral Position at Argonne National Laboratory
Research Position at Argonne National Laboratory
Contents, Computational Optimization adn Applications
Contents, Siberian Journal of Numerical Mathematics

Digest for Sunday, October 4, 1998

In this digest:

NA Digest Calendar
Congrats, Dick
Malicious Deletions from NA Digest
Looking for Fast Effective Point in a Polyhedra Test
Question on Perimetric Inequality
SIAM Student Travel Awards
SIAM Optimization Prize 
New Book, Computational Integration
Journal of the Korea Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Conference on Air Pollution
Workshop in Bulgaria on Scientific Computations
Faculty Position at University of Regina
Faculty Position at Florida State University
Faculty Position at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Faculty Position at NTNU, Norway.
Research Position at Rice University
Contents, East-West Journal of Numerical Math
Contents, Optimization Methods and Software
Contents, Transactions on Mathematical Software

Digest for Sunday, September 27, 1998

In this digest:

Assistance with Knapsack/Assignment Problem
Faster DFTs than FFTW
Automatic Differentiation Version of DONLP2
Multigrid Software Package
A Parallel Graph Partitioning and Sparse Matrix Ordering Library
Dahlquist Prize
Change of Address for Slimane Adjerid.
Change of Address for Bill Henshaw
New Book, Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics VI
New Book, Introduction to Partial Differential Equations
1999 Dundee NA Conference
Workshop on Frontiers of Parallel Numerical Computations  
Workshop on Adaptive Finite Element Methods and Optimzation
International Linear Algebra Society Conference
Conference on Complex Systems
Wavelet Workshop
Conference on Enabling Technologies for Petaflops Computing
Postdoctoral Positions at North Carolina State
Postdoctoral Position at CWI-GMD
Positions at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Faculty Positions at North Carolina State
Faculty Postion at Emory University
Faculty Position at Southern Methodist University
Faculty Position at Indian Institute of Technology
Faculty Positions at  Louisiana Tech University
Faculty Positions at San Diego State University
Faculty Positions at Iowa State University
Contents, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems

Digest for Sunday, September 20, 1998

In this digest:

History of Krylov-type Methods
Announcing a Computing Research Repository
Change of Address for Gregory Kozlovsky
Change of Address for Ashok Srinivasan
New Edition of Book on Regularization of Inverse Problems
Software for Graphs, Meshes and Sparse Matrices
Computational Mathematics Driven by Industrial Applications
International Meshing Roundtable
Two SIAM Meetings, Geosciences and Optimization
Workshop on Irreguarly Sturctured Problems
Report on the ANODE Meeting in New Zealand
Postdoctoral Position at University of Auckland
Postdoctoral Positions at Air Force Research Laboratory
Faculty Position at Colorado School of Mines
Research Position at University of Dundee
Faculty Position at University of Maryland Baltimore County
Faculty Positions at Drexel University
Contents, Journal of Approximation Theory

Digest for Sunday, September 13, 1998

In this digest:

Pat Eberlein
Change of Address for Jos van Dorsselaer
Fastest Fourier Transform in the West
Prize for Achievement in Information-Based Complexity
SIAM Student Paper Prizes
Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra
Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics 
Applications of Interval Analysis to Systems and Control
Postdoctoral Positions at University of New South Wales
Contents, Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra
Contents, Computer Physics Communications
Contents, Applications of Mathematics
Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications

Digest for Monday, September 7, 1998

In this digest:

Pankov Awarded Kyrgyzstani State Prize
Need Help With SPLP Under g77
New Book on Numerical Methods for Differential Equations
New Section for Optimization Methods and Software
Change of Address for Scott Lett
Change of Address for David L. Brown
Computational Analysis and Applications Web Page
NICONET Newsletter
NICONET Workshop
Optimization Workshop in Rio de Janeiro
Surface Approximation and Visualisation Conference
Performance Modeling Workshop
Workshop on Parallel Symbolic Computation
Pacific Northwest Numerical Analysis Seminar
Postdoctoral Position at Sandia National Laboratories
Faculty Position at the University Bonn, Germany
Position at RWTH Aachen
Position of Director, CERCA
Postdoctoral Position at Oxford University
Lectureship at University of Leicester
Faculty Position at University of Tuebingen
Contents, BIT
Contents, Constructive Approximation

Digest for Sunday, August 30, 1998

In this digest:

LA Times Article on Applied Math
Journal of Complexity Best Paper Award
New Version of FEATFLOW
Column Minimum Degree Ordering Algorithm
HPF 1.1 Compliant Interface to ScaLAPACK
Global CO2 Model Update
Change of Address for Jun Zhang
Change of Address for Laurent Jay
VideoMath-Festival at ICM '98
Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques
SIAM Regional Workshop
Symposium Honoring David Young
Southern California Matrix Meeting
Conference on Preconditioning Techniques in Industrial Applications 
Postdoctoral Position at Strathclyde, UK
Research Studentship at Cranfield University
Faculty Positions at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Faculty Position at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Positions at NAG, Downers Grove

Digest for Saturday, Auguest 22, 1998

In this digest:

SciMark Java Benchmark Now Available
New Sparse Matrix Visualization Tool
New Book, Computer Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations
Intersection of Convex Polygons
Change of Address for Dave Bond
Change of Address for Sebastian Reich
Florida Workshop Honoring T. W. Anderson
Scottish Computational Mathematics
Conference on Rational Approximation
Conference Honoring Bob Plemmons
Postdoctoral Postion at University of Durham
Position at University of Bristol
Postdoctoral Position at Virginia Tech
Research Position at University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications

Digest for Sunday, August 16, 1998

In this digest:

NA Digest Calendar
Pat Eberlein
SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Prize
Parallel Symbolic Workshop
New Book, Nonsmooth Approach to Optimization Problems
Postdoctoral Position at CERFACS
Positions at Old Dominion University
Research Position at the University of Tennessee
Contents, Journal of Approximation Theory

Digest for Monday, August 10, 1998

In this digest:

Jama, A Java Matrix Package
ICM'98 Opening Ceremony Live in the Internet
Automatic Differentiation for MATLAB
Undigestify for Microsoft Outlook
Help on Gibbs-Poole-Stockmeyer_King Algorithms
New Contact Info for John A. Crow
Special Issue on Parallel Processing and Statistics
50th Anniversary of the Seminar for Applied Math ETH Zuerich
SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing
Canadian Operational Research Society
Worshop on Scientific and Engineering Computing in India
Postdoctoral Position at LBL/NERSC
Postdoctoral Positions at FORTH, Crete
Postdoctoral Position at the University of Kentucky
Research Position at CERFACS, France
Position at Nichols Research Corp., Vicksburg
Contents, Reliable Computing

Digest for Wednesday, August 5, 1998

In this digest:

Quadrature over Tetrahedra
Question on Hybrid Methods in Elastodynamics
Cray T3E User's Guide available in Web
FEATFLOW Software and Virtual Album of Fluid Motion
Comment on Sir James Lighthill
SIAM Conference Deadlines
Conference on Continuum Mechanics
Positions at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Postdoctoral Position at INRIA, France
Postdoctoral Position at UVEG-Valencia, Spain
Research Position at CERFACS, France
Postdoctoral Position at Rice University
Postdoctoral Position at CERCA/Universite de Montreal
Research Position at MathSoft, Seattle
Contents, SIAM Review

Digest for Sunday, July 26, 1998

In this digest:

Sir James Lighthill
Doctor Dobbs Interview with W. Kahan
Announcement of New Software: MINOPT
Deadlines for SIAM Parallel Processing Meeting
Numerical Analysis Workshop in Cuba
SYNAPSE*3 Matrix- and Neurocomputing Workshop
Optimization in Computational Chemistry and Molecular Biology
Positions at University of Wisconsin, Madison
Position at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications
Contents, Computer Physics Communications
Contents, Numerical Algorithms

Digest for Sunday, July 19, 1998

In this digest:

History of Splines
Quadrature Over Tetrahedra
Hankel Transform
Bernstein-Bezier Applet
A Nonlinear Eigenproblem
Change of Address for Armin Iske
Change of address for Robert G. Owens
Parallel Random Number Generator Library
Householder Symposium
Householder Prize
Scottish Computational Mathematics Symposium
Canadian Operational Research Society Conference
SIAM Conference on Geometric Design 
Lecture Series on High Order Discretization Methods in CFD
Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods
Conference on Advances in Convex Analysis and Global Optimization
Postdoctoral Positions at Coventry and Oxford
Positions at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
Research Position at Eindhoven University of Technology
Faculty Position at Brown University
Postdoctoral Position at Duke University
Positions at the University of Manchester
Postdoctoral Positions at University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Position at University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Research Position at University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Contents, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis 

Digest for Monday, July 6, 1998

In this digest:

NA Digest Calendar
Distributed Computing Workshop
Workshop on Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering
Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Validated Numerics
Symposium Celebrating David M. Young's Birthday
Postdoctoral Position at Oxford University
Postdoctoral Position at the Weizmann Institute
Postdoctoral Position at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Graduate Research Positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Position at University of Linz, Austria
Contents, Computer Physics Communications
Contents, East-West J. of Numerical Math
Contents, Transactions on Mathematical Software
Contents, Surveys on Mathematics for Industry
Contents, Computational Geosciences
Contents, Numerical Algorithms
Contents, Applications of Mathematics

Digest for Sunday, June 28, 1998

In this digest:

History of Splines
Change of Address for Jeffrey Saltzman
New Book, Mathematical Control Theory
New Generation Solution Methods for PDEs
Workshop on Application of Adjoint Methods  
Southern Symposium on Computation
Faculty Position at Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci
Research Positions at Cardiff University
Contents, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications
Contents, Computer Physics Communications

Digest for Tuesday, June 23, 1998

In this digest:

Change of Address for Ted Stern
Change of Address for Chris Bischof
Special Issue on Computational Electromagnetics
New Electronic Journal from London Mathematical Society
New Book, Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation
New Book, Incompressible Flow and the Finite Element Method
Multigrid Course at the GMD
Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science
Approximation and Complexity in Numerical Optimization
Workshop on Applied Linear Algebra
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems 
Graduate Student Positions at Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden
Position at Technical University Braunschweig

Digest for Monday, June 15, 1998

In this digest:

Euclidean Distance from a Point to a Conic 
New Book, The Geometry Toolbox for Graphics and Modeling
New Book, Incompressible Flow and the Finite Element Method
Internet Book Scientific Supercomputing
School on Wavelets in the Geosciences
Workshop on Nonlinear and Improperly Posed Problems
IMACS Conference on Monte Carlo Methods
Position at University of New Hampshire
Contents, BIT
Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications
Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications
Contents, Siberian Journal of Numerical Mathematics

Digest for Sunday, June 7, 1998

In this digest:

Two Weddings
Norm Minimization Question
Piecewise Polynomial Approximation
Multiple Precision Package
Theodore von Karman Prize
Special issue of JCAM
Course Material on Computational Science
Conference on Dynamics, Monitoring and Control
Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics
Foundations of Computational Mathematics
European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications
Large-Scale Scientific Computation Workshop in Bulgaria
SIAM Conference on Optimization
SIAM Workshop on Object Oriented Methods
Research Position at CERFACS
Scholarship at University of Bergen, Norway
Faculty Position at Umea Univ, Sweden
Graduate and Postdoctoral Positions at University of Trier
Contents, Journal of Approximation Theory

Digest for Saturday, May 30, 1998

In this digest:

NA Digest Calendar
LAPACK-to-Java
Change of Address for Mike Heroux
Announcing PSPASES 1.0 and WSSMP 3.7
PDE in Marrakech
High Performance Optimization Techniques
Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing
IMACS Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra
IMACS Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers
Graduate Program at Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Research Position at the University of  Bonn
Postdoctoral Position at the German National Research Center
Research Position at University of Queensland
Positions at Massey University, Auckland
Contents, Optimization Methods and Software
Contents, Acta Numerica 1998

Digest for Sunday, May 24, 1998

In this digest:

Question About Associated Legendre Functions
Association for Women in Mathematics Web Site
History Has Got It Right
Registration for HPOPT Workshop
New Book, Numerical Methods in Multibody Dynamics
Modelling and Simulation Society
Conference on Front Propagation
Teaching and Postdoctoral Positions ETH, Zurich
Staff Positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Summer (and Longer) Visiting Positions at NASA Ames
Contents, Computational & Applied Mathematics
Contents, Journal of Approximation Theory

Digest for Sunday, May 17, 1998

In this digest:

Seeking Solvers for Heat Equation with Moving Boundaries
Hankel Transform
Change of Address for Folkmar Bornemann
A New Journal, Calcolo
Conference Honoring David Young
Seminar on Fluid Flow on Parallel Machines
Research Position at University of Amsterdam
Five-year Fellowships at the University of Durham
Scholarship at University of Huddersfield
Postdoctoral Position at University of Manchester
Contents, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems
Contents, East-West Journal of Numerical Mathematics

Digest for Sunday, May 10, 1998

In this digest:

Survey of Freely Available Linear Algebra Software
OpenGL for Fortran 90
Correct URL for Discovering Wavelets
Numerical Integration of Rapid Varying Function
IMANA Newsletter
Iterative Methods for the Elasticity Equations
Developments in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Plasma Physics
Dynamics Days 1998
International Conference Interval'98
IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis
Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra
Interior-Point Workshop
Dutch Community of Numerical Mathematicians
Workshop on Scientific Computing in Chemical Engineering
African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences
Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing
Postdoctoral Position at Rice University
Postdoctoral Position at Leicester University 
Postdoctoral Position in Vicksburg, Mississippi
Contents, Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices
Contents, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Contents, SIAM Review

Digest for Monday, May 4, 1998

In this digest:

NA Digest Calendar
Forum for High Performance Computing
NPACI Parallel Computing Institute
Web Site, Discovering Wavelets
New Book Series, Mathematics and Visualization
Computer Physics Communications Alert Service
Workshop on Independent Component Signal Analysis
Computational Methods in Decision-Making & Finance
Postdoctoral Position at Argonne National Laboratory
Postdoctoral Positions at Univ. de Concepcion, Chile
Postdoctoral Positions at Oxford University
Graduate Fellowships at Old Dominion University
Research Position at University of Leeds

Digest for Saturday, April 25, 1998

In this digest:

Change of Position for Robert Voigt
New Methods for PDEs
Math Awareness Week at UCLA
Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
IMA Conference on Mathematics of Surfaces
Korean Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Conference on Curves and Surfaces
Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing
Workshop on Eigenvalue Problems
Minisimposium on Iterative Solution Methods
Scholarships at Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology
Research Position at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Postdoctoral Position at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Faculty Position at Memorial University of Newfoundland
Staff Position at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Contents, Computational Optimization and Applications
Contents, Journal of Approximation Theory

Digest for Sunday, April 18, 1998

In this digest:

Polya and DiPrima Prize Winners Announced
Math Modeling Web Page
New Edition of PLTMG Package
Nominations for the Sidney Fernbach Award
Venice Symposium on Applied and Industrial Mathematics
Seminar on Simulation of Fluid Flow on Parallel Machines
Conference in Honor of Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Workshop on Nonlinear and Improperly Posed Problems
Symposium on Iterative Methods
ILAS Conference in Honor of Hans Schneider
ICM '98 Early Registration Deadline
Faculty Positions at the University of Haifa
Postdoctoral Position at CWI/GMD
Faculty Position at Lund University
Faculty Position at North Carolina State University
Postdoctoral Position at Federal Energy Technology Center
Lectureship Position at University of Sussex
Graduate Positions at the Technical University Freiberg
Papers Sought for Parallel and Distributed Computing
New Journal, Computational Analysis and Applications
Journees Methodes Numeriques
Contents, SIAM Journal on Optimization
Contents, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
Contents, SIAM Journal on Computing
Contents, Optimization Methods and Software
Contents, Applications of Mathematics

Digest for Wednesday, April 8, 1998

In this digest:

Eigenvalues of Block Toeplitz Matrices
Pseudo-spectral Code for Navier-Stokes
SIAM Classics in Applied Mathematics Series
Peter John's Book on Statistical Design
Andrew Teel Wins SIAM Prize
Jacques-Louis Lions Wins SIAM Prize
New Area Code for LLNL, SNLL
Change of Address for Beidi Hamma
LP/QP Solver Binaries
New Book on Optimal Control of Viscous Flows
New Book on Optimization and Decision Support
PLAPACK Correction
Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Vision
International Conference on Optimization
Workshop Course on Wavelets and Filter Banks
Symposium on Validated Numerics
Mathematical Programming Modeling Workshop
Conference in Bulgaria on Numerical Methods and Applications
SIAM Workshop on Computer-Aided Design
UFE Workshop Announcement
Southern Ontario Numerical Analysis Day
Postdoctoral Position at Texas A&M University
Postdoctoral Position at Unilever Research
Faculty Positions at Saint Mary's University
Contents, Constructive Approximation   

Digest for Sunday, March 29, 1998

In this digest:

NA Digest Calendar
AMPL Optimization Solvers on NEOS
GMRES Implementations for Real and Complex Arithmetic
New Prize for Achievement in Information-Based Complexity
Numerical Tests on High Dimensional Integrals
Special Issue of the Parallel Computing Journal
Update on Auckland Numerical ODE Workshop
Two SIAM Meetings, Discrete Math, Parallel Processing
Congress on Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations 
Conference on Discrete Simulation of Fluids
Conference on Complex Systems
Half-Day Meeting for Dave Sloan's 60th Birthday
GAMM Workshop on Multigrid Methods
Dalian Symposium on Large Scale Matrix Computations
Conference on Derivative Securities Markets
Conference on Quantifying Uncertainty in Predictions
Position at University College Cork
Position at Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci
Postdoctoral Position at Oxford University
Postdoctoral Position at Bell Labs
Postdoctoral Position at National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Postdoctoral Position at Penn State
Contents, Journal of Approximation Theory
Contents, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Digest for Tuesday, March 24, 1998

In this digest:

Linux BLAS for Intel Architecture
Gronwall's Lemma
Bivariate Minimax Rational Approximation Wanted
Searching for PLOD Package
Subsystem Modeling and Estimation
New Book, Optimisation et analyse convexe
Conference on Simulation of Devices and Technologies
Minisymposium on Black Box Routines for Parallel Computing". 
PDE Meeting in the Sun
Voronoi Conference on Analytic Number Theory and Space Tilings
Workshop on Object Oriented Methods for Scientific Computing
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences 
Positions at University of Leicester
Position at National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Position at University of Strathclyde
Position at RWTH Aachen
Positions at SRI International
Positions at Chalmers, Goteborg, Sweden
Contents, Numerical Algorithms
Contents, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
Contents, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Contents, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
Contents, Computer Physics Communications

Digest for Sunday, March 15, 1998

In this digest:

Email to People at Bell Labs
3D Interpolation Question
Correct URL for Introduction a l'Analyse Numerique
ETNA's Copper Mountain Proceedings
New Book, Topics in Semidefinite and Interior-Point Methods
New Book, Network Design: Connectivity and Facilities Location
PLAPACK Positive Definite System Solver Available
Workshop on High Performance Monte Carlo Tools
Workshop on on Scientific Computing in  Chemical Engineering
Conference in Croatia on Operational Research
Conference in Australia on Complex Systems
Numerical Analysis Summer School at Leicester University
IMACS Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations
NATO Workshop on Large Scale Computations in Air Pollution Modelling
Workshop in Hong Kong on Scientific Computing
Lectureships at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Faculty Position at University of Leeds
Research Positions at University of Manchester
Fellowship at University of New Orleans 
Postdoctoral Position at the Weizmann Institute
Contents, BIT
Contents, J. Approximation Theory
Contents, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Digest for Monday, March 9, 1998

In this digest:

Golub Establishes Award at Urbana
Mathieu and Spheroidal Wave Functions
Polynomials with Random Coefficients
Approximation of Polynomial-exponential Expression
Change of Address for Richard Brent
Change of Address for Jos Maubach  
New Book, Introduction a L'Analyse Numerique
Parallel Linear Algebra Package General Solver Available
SIAM Student Paper Prize
Conference on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering
ASME Forum on Parallel Computing Methods 
Workshop in Hong Kong on Finite Element Methods
Arab Scientific Conference
Workshop on Industrial Mathematics
GAMM Workshop on Iterative Processes
Danish Symposium on PDE
Conference in India on Operations Research
Faculty Position at University of New Brunswick
Research Position at Johannes Kepler Universitaet, Linz 
Research Position at Trinity College, Dublin
Postdoctoral Position at University of Rhode Island
Postdoctoral Position at Northwestern University
Contents, Numerical Algorithms
Contents, Numerical Algorithms
Contents, Computer Physics Communications
Contents, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
Contents, Linear Algebra and Its Applications
Contents, Optimization Methods and Software
Contents, Applications of Mathematics

Digest for Tuesday, March 3, 1998

In this digest:

NA Digest Calendar
Capturing Output from AUTO 94
Nearest Multiple of a Vector
New Address for Magolu monga-Made
Computer Physics Communications Program Library
Global Optimization Package for Mathematica
MLBiCGStab Code for MATLAB
Numerical Analysis and Computers Conference at Manchester
NATO Institute on Error Control and Adaptivity
Conference in Bulgaria on Numerical Methods
Conference on Industrial Flow Problems
Conference in Venice on Applied and Industrial Mathematics
Frank & Brennie Morgan Prize
NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Special Issue of Algorithmica on Algorithm Engineering
Lectureship Positions at Leicester University
Postdoctoral Position available at University of Minnesota
Faculty Position at Chalmers, Goteborg, Sweden
Faculty Position at Carnegie Mellon
Research Position at Flinders University
Research Position at University of Heidelberg
Position at Wolfram Research
Positions at Morgan Stanley
Graduate School Opportunities at Clarkson University
Contents, SIAM Journal on Computing
Contents, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
Contents, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Digest for Sunday, February 22, 1998

In this digest:

Change of Address for Paul T. Boggs
Industrial Mathematics Initiative Reports Available
KDI Workshop March 7 at the IMA
Copper Mountain Deadlines and Program
Computational and Optimization Algorithms
Conference on Expert Systems for Numerical Computing
Conference on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing
Mini-symposium Multilevel methods for Incompressible Visous Flow
Workshop Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering
Conference on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics
Conference in Bulgaria on Numerical Methods and Applications
Industrial Mathematics Modeling Workshop
Directorship of Maxwell Institute
Lectureships at Edinburgh University
Faculty Position at University of Twente
Research Positions at University of Wales

Digest for Sunday, February 15, 1998

In this digest:

NSF KDI Initiative
Sine and Cosine Transforms on Crays
School on Wavelets in the Geosciences
Parallel Computing in Mechanical Engineering
CAGD and Wavelet Methods for Reconstructing Functions
Conference on Multivariate Scattered Data Fitting
European Symposium on Algorithms
Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing,
Graduate Student Positions at Chalmers University
Manager Position at European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Contents, Computational and Applied Mathematics

Digest for Sunday, February 8, 1998

In this digest:

NetSolve Version 1.1 is Now Available
AWM Workshop at SIAM Meeting
Conference on Computational Physics
Monte Carlo Mini-symposium in Bulgaria
Conference on Partial Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis
Conference on Operator Theory 
Course on Optimal Design
Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Method
Postdoctoral Position at Columbia University
Postdoctoral Position at Manchester
Lecturership Position at University of the Witwatersrand
Faculty Position at Louisiana State University
Graduate Fellowships At Arizona State University
Position at the Fujitsu European Centre
Special Issue on Biomedical Signal Processing
Contents, Reliable Computing
Contents, Reliable Computing
Contents, Computational Geosciences
Contents, Monte Carlo Methods and Applications

Digest for Sunday, February 1, 1998

In this digest:

NA Digest Calendar
Invitation to the Helix
Bivariate Interpolation of Scattered Data
New 2D/3D Unstructured Mesh Generator
New Book on Functional Analysis and Finite Elements
New Book on Inequalities
Conference on System Modelling and Optimization
Midwest NA day
Hellenic Europen Conference on Computer Mathematics
Speedup Workshop on Process Engineering
Graduate Fellowships at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Graduate Program at College of William and Mary
Postdoctoral Positions at University of Trier
Research Position at Universitdt Trier
Faculty Position at Universitaet Wien 
Positions at University of Patras
Positions at Beam Technologies
Position at Silvaco International
Contents, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
Contents, SIAM Review
Contents, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
Contents, SIAM Journal on Optimization

Digest for Monday, January 26, 1998

In this digest:

Old Egyptian Games
History of Nabla
W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize
New Book on Interval Computations
New Internet Book on Scientific Supercomputing
International Congress of Mathematicians
Conference in Kuwait on Fourier Analysis and Applications
Benelux Signal Processing Symposium
SIAM Great Lakes Section Form on PDEs
Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel
Final Announcement & Programme for the PINEAPL Workshop
Finite Element Circus
Numerical Methods and Computational Mechanics
Position at Universite Claude Bernard Lyon
Postdoctoral Positions at University of New South Wales
Special Issue of Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Contents, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Contents, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
Contents, Surveys on Mathematics for Industry
Contents, Computing and Visualization in Science

Digest for Saturday, January 17, 1998

In this digest:

Richard Hamming
Nabla
Doubledouble Floating Point Arithmetic
Computing the Pfaffian
Computing the Adjoint
Announcing PSPASES and WSSMP
New Book, Projection Methods for Systems of Equations
New Book on Satisfiability
New Book, Complexity and Real Computation
Conference for Bob Plemmons
SIAM Southeastern-Atlantic Section 
GAMM-Seminar Kiel on Concepts of Numerical Software
23rd SPEEDUP Workshop
PARA98, Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing
Position at Hong Kong Baptist University
Postdoctoral Position at University of Technology, Munich.
Postdoctoral Positions at Sandia National Laboratories
Assistenten-Position in Erlangen
Summer Graduate Student Positions at Argonne
Contents, East-West Journal of Numerical Mathematics
Contents, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems
Contents, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
Contents, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 
Contents, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics

Digest for Wednesday, January 7, 1998

In this digest:

NA Digest Calendar
1997 Babuska Prize awarded
Zhaoyong You
Help With High Precision Computation
LGO Application Development System for Global Optimization
Special Issue of Algorithmica on Algorithm Engineering
1998 SIAM Annual Meeting
Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics
Mathematical Programming with Data Perturbations
Fellowships at U. Cal. San Francisco
Postdoctoral Position at University of Utah
Lectureship at the University of Surrey
Research Position at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Graduate Studies in Computer Science at U. of Toronto
Contents, Constructive Approximation 
Contents, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications
Contents, Applications of Mathematics
Contents, SIAM Journal on Computing