NA Digest Thursday, March 5, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 13
This weeks Editor: Gene Golub
Today's Topics:
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 87 10:04:33 cst
From: miller%[email protected] (Willard Miller)
To: [email protected]
INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
514 Vincent Hall
206 Church Street S.E.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
(612)624-6066
WORKSHOP ON SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE
March 23-26, 1987
Workshop Organizer: John R. Rice, Purdue University
Program as of 3/5/87
This workshop is made possible by grants from the
Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation
ALL LECTURES IN VINCENT HALL 16
MONDAY, MARCH 23
9:30 - 10:30 am John R. Rice Purdue University
"Mathematical aspects of scientific software - part I"
10:30 - 11:00 am break
11:00 - 12:00 am John R. Rice Purdue University
"Mathematical aspects of scientific software - part II"
1:30 - 2:45 pm Richard Jenks IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
"Scratchpad II: A new computer algebra language and system based
on abstract datatypes"
2:45 - 3:15 pm break
3:15 - 4:30 pm Robert Caviness University of Delaware
"Decision procedures for solving differential equations in
closed form"
TUESDAY, MARCH 24
9:30 - 10:30 am Mathematical Systems Panel
Carl deBoor University of Wisconsin
Clarence Lehman CPT Corporation
Bradley Lucier Purdue University and IMA
Richard McGehee University of Minnesota
10:30 - 10:45 am break
10:45 - Noon Paul Wang Kent State University
"Integrating symbolic, numeric, and graphics computing techniques"
1:30 - 2:45 pm Stephan Wolfram University of Illinois
"New approaches to mathematics using computers"
2:45 - 3:15 pm break
3:15 - 4:30 pm Elias Houstis Purdue University
"Performance of scientific software"
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
9:00 - 10:15 am Lennart Johnsson Yale University & Thinking Machines Corp
"Devising algorithms for high performance on parallel and vector
architectures"
10:15 - 10:45 am break
10:45 - Noon Dennis Gannon Indiana University
"Building analytical estimates of the performance of numerical
programs on parallel computers"
1:30 - 2:45 pm Larry Snyder University of Washington
"Parallel programming by playing poker"
2:45 - 3:15 pm break
3:15 - 4:30 pm Francine Berman University of California, San Diego
"The mapping problem in parallel computation"
THURSDAY, MARCH 26
9:00 - 10:15 pm John Hopcroft Cornell University
"Modelling of physical objects"
10:15 - 10:45 am break
10:45 - 12:00 am Bruno Buchberger University of Linz
"Solving problems in non-linear computational geometry by Grobner
bases"
1:30 - 2:45 pm Christoph Hoffman Purdue University
"Algebraic curves"
2:45 - 3:15 pm break
3:15 - 4:30 pm G. Farin Arizona State University
"The Bezier approach to computational geometry"
For further information contact:
John R. Rice Hans F. Weinberger
Computer Sciences Inst. Math. Applications
Purdue University University of Minnesota
W.Lafayette, IN 47907 Minneapolis, MN 55455
317-494-6003 612-624-6066
[email protected] [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 87 16:05:38 cst
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Subject: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS
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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICIAN, COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICIAN
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) is seeking two additional Members of Techn-
ical Staff to:
interact with scientists and engineers using the NAG Fortran Library and/or
statistical packages such as GLIM and GENSTAT to solve mathematical and
statistical problems; and
participate in software R&D projects, including implementation of numerical
software on state-of-the-art workstations and vector/parallel computers.
QUALIFICATIONS
Masters degree or equivalent (e.g., Bachelors degree and experience including
knowledge of Fortran) in numerical analysis, statistics, mathematics, computer
science, science, engineering, or economics
Computational Statistician: a knowledge of the algorithms in statistical pack-
ages, ideally including GLIM and GENSTAT, and their use in science and engineer-
ing
Computational Mathematician: a knowledge of a broad class of numerical algo-
rithms and their use in selected areas of science and engineering
Send a resume including references and employment history to:
James C. T. Pool
NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS GROUP
1101 31st Street, Suite 100
Downers Grove, IL 60515-1263
(312) 971-2337
USENET: ihnp4!nag!pool
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