NA-Digest index for 1992

Digest for Sunday, December 27, 1992

In this digest:

Change of Address for Anthony Skjellum
Temporary Change of address for Nick Gould
MATLAB Materials for Undergraduate Numerical Analysis
SIAM Student Paper Competition
Dundee Conference 93
Northern Universities' Numerical Analysis Day
Symposium on Parallel I/O and Databases
Position at New South Wales
Chair of Applied Mathematics, University of Reading, UK
Position at Berkeley in Scientific Computing
Positions at Dartmouth
Report on the Twelvth Parallel Circus
Season's Greetings

Digest for Sunday, December 20, 1992

In this digest:

Computational Science and Engineering -- Survey
Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
Conference on Simulation and Monte Carlo Methods
Conference on Domain Decomposition
Conference in Beijing on Nonlinear Mechanics
Positions at University of Illinois
Positions at ETH Zuerich
Positions at Australian National University

Digest for Sunday, December 13, 1992

In this digest:

Large Dense Linear Algebra Survey
Question about Paranoia
Brochure "Lothar Collatz 1910--1990"
Change of Address for Murli Gupta
Medical Imaging Algorithms (Tomography)
RKTEC v1.1 Available
MATLAB News Group Proposed
New Almost Block Diagonal Solver
Offspring of LCAS: LIA-1 public review
Parallel Algorithms for Unstructured and Dynamic Problems
Northern Universities' Numerical Analysis Day
IMA Summer Program on Adaptive Numerical Methods  
Workshop on VLSI Signal Processing
Message Passing Interface Forum
Mathematical Circus at ENS-LYON, France
Postdoc at JPL in High Performance Computing
Position at Colorado School of Mines 
Caltech Prize Fellowship in Concurrent Computing
Fellowship at Sandia National Laboratories
FAA LAA LAA LAA LAA
How to Determine Which Programming Language You're Using

Digest for Sunday, December 6, 1992

In this digest:

A Proposal for a Fast QR Algorithm
Medical Imaging Algorithms (Tomography)
Workstations for a Blind Numerical Analyst
Leslie Fox Prize
Maple V Release 2
Postdocs at Cornell
New Positions at University of South Florida
Chaotic Numerics Conference
Computational Techniques Conference
Bristol-Bath Numerical Analysis Day
IMACS Conference on Expert Systems for Numerical Computing
Workshop on Network Optimization
Numerical Analysis with Automatic Result Verification
IMACS Annals of Computing and Applied Mathematics

Digest for Sunday, November 29, 1992

In this digest:

LAPACK's Second Update
Lanczos International Centenary Conference
PASE 92 Workshop

Digest for Tuesday, November 25, 1992

In this digest:

Polynomials Orthogonal Over an Equilateral Triangle
Block Tridiagonal Linear Systems
L-1 Solution of Overdetermined Systems
Resnick Center for Physics Education
Buying Books
Calculating Runge-Kutta TEC's
Report on Summer Institute at Leuven
Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods
Nonlinear Numerical Methods and Rational Approximation
IMACS Symposium on Symbolic Computation '93
Computaional Sciences at Indiana Univ.
Position at University of Colorado, Boulder
Postdoctoral Positions at the AHPCRC
Postdoc at Argonne/Northwestern
New Journal: Advances in Computational Mathematics
Contents: SIAM Control and Optimization
Contents: SIAM Scientific Computing

Digest for Sunday, November 8, 1992

In this digest:

Request for Good Matrices and Exercises
Displacement Non-Newtonian Flow
Classification of Books
Re: Direct Poisson Solvers / Rapid Elliptic Solvers
SIAG/OPT Prize
Boundary Element Day at University of Bradford
Object Oriented Numerics Conference
Two Positions, Univeristy of Texas, Permian Basin
Chairman Position at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Positions at Temple 
Positions at Southern Methodist University
Special Issue of Quaestiones Mathematicae 
Contents, SIAM Optimization
Contents: SIAM Discrete Mathematics

Digest for Sunday, November 1, 1992

In this digest:

Change of Address for Bert Pohl
Direct Poisson Solvers / Rapid Elliptic Solvers
New Computational Science & Engineering Degree at Rice University
Computational Problems in Liquid Crystals
ICBGM'93: International Conference on Bond Graph Modeling
Conference on Large Scale Optimization
Dundee Biennial Conference 1993
Householder Fellowship at ORNL
Postdoctoral Position at SUNY Stony Brook
Position at University of Waterloo
Chairperson Position at West Virginia
Contents: SIAM Computing

Digest for Sunday, October 25, 1992

In this digest:

2-D Surface Fitting
Manchester Centre for Computational Mathematics
University of Kent Reports Available via FTP
SCAN-93 Symposium in Vienna
Parallel CFD '93 in Paris
Computer Systems and Applied Math
Workshop on the Reliability of Computations
Position at Virgina Polytechnic Institute
Position at Iowa State University
Wilkinson Fellowship in Scientific Computing
Contents: Computing
Contents: SIAM Applied Math

Digest for Sunday, October 18, 1992

In this digest:

New Address for C. A. de Moura
New Address for Nick Papamichael
Families at Householder Symposium
Renumbering of Mesh Nodes
Postscript and LaTeX
Overlaying postscript figures with LaTeX fragments
Leicester University Numerical Analysis Day
New Center at Simon Fraser University
Computational Neuroscience
European Multigrid Conference
One Day Tutorial Introduction to MATLAB
Postdoctoral Research Position at Argonne
Fellowship Positions at Sandia National Laboratories
New Publisher for Mat. Aplic. Comp.
Contents: IMA Numerical Analysis

Digest for Sunday, October 11, 1992

In this digest:

National Science Foundation News
E-mail Address Change for John Nash
Special Issue of LAA for Fiedler and Ptak
Automatic Result Verification Conference
Postdoctoral Positions at Minnesota IMA
Positions at University of Colorado
Contents: SIAM Matrix Analysis

Digest for Sunday, October 4, 1992

In this digest:

Special Issue for Farouk Odeh
Temporary Address Change for Craig Douglas
Publications Available by FTP
Symbolic SVD and Eigensystem Algorithms
The Householder Award VI
Mathematics of Computation, 1943-1993 
Conference on Expert Systems for Numerical Computing
NATO Advanced Study Institutes Programme
1993 ATLAST Linear Algebra Workshops
Position at University of Washington
Contents: Numerical Algorithms
Contents: Applied Numerical Mathematics
Contents: SIAM Computing

Digest for Friday, September 25, 1992

In this digest:

Parallel BLAS3 for SPARC
Multidimensional Laplace Transform
Trivariate Interpolation
Bibliography on Rank Revaling Factorizations
Physical Review E, Computational Physics
Two Special Issues of LAA 
SCADE93 Conference in Auckland
Householder Symposium on Numerical Algebra
Conference on Approximation and Probability
Workshop on Real-Time Vehicle Simulation
Positions at Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Position at Convex Computer Corporation
Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications
Contents: SIAM Applied Mathematics
Contents: SIAM Scientific Computing

Digest for Saturday, September 12, 1992

In this digest:

Change of Address for Michael Knorrenschild
Position Sought
Eigenvalues of Large Sparse Matrices
BLAS3 on Sparc-stations
Numerical Inverse Laplace Transform
Change of Address for CSRD
ICMS Newsletter
Program for Parlett/Kahan Conference
Pacific Northwest Numerical Analysis Seminar
International Linear Algebra Society
Celebration at N. C. State
Computational Problems in Liquid Crystals
Shanghai Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra
SIAM Conference on Geosciences
PASE Workshop 1992
Faculty Position at University of Wollongong
Position at University of Minnesota
Numerical Software Position in California
Contents: SIAM Review

Digest for Wednesday, September 2, 1992

In this digest:

Schedule for the Digest
Introduction of SC-Net
Wanted: Photos of Machines Past
NORTIM meeting and Gene Golub Prize
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems
Automatic Result Verification Conference
Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods
Workshop on Computational Methods in Materials Science
Two Positions at Liverpool University
Position at the University of Dortmund
Contents: SIAM Numerical Analysis

Digest for Sunday, August 16, 1992

In this digest:

Encrypted SIAM Membership List Available
Looking for Tricks of the Trade
Huge Sparse Eigenvalue Problem
Unix "tar" on DOS.
Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications
Contents: SIAM Optimization

Digest for Sunday, August 9, 1992

In this digest:

Change of Address for Jim Gentle
Professor Leslie Fox
Computer Arithmetic
Seeking Global Optimum of Nonconvex Problem
Workshop on C++ for Scientific Computing
SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications
SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing
Conference in New Zealand on Scientific Computation
New Journal: Advances in Computational Mathematics

Digest for Sunday, August 2, 1992

In this digest:

Leslie Fox
Change of Address for Roger Horn
Two David Youngs
LINPACK in C
Fortran-to-C Converter
VAX Fortran to SQL Translator
MATLAB Primer, 2nd Edition
On-line Info. from NSF (STIS)
Registration for Parlett/Kahan Meeting
7-th Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods
Tutorial in Power System Optimization
Workshop in Denmark on Parallel Algorithms
Position at the EPF-Lausanne

Digest for Sunday, July 26, 1992

In this digest:

Again: C Programs for Linear Algebra
Sparse Inverse Subspace Iteration Solver
Netlib News: Searching for Files
Contents: SIAM Control and Optimization
Contents: SIAM Computing

Digest for Sunday, July 19, 1992

In this digest:

Change of Address for Guangye Li 
C Programs for Linear Algebra
Lectureship in Computational/Numerical Mathematics at Strathclyde
Contents: SIAM Mathematical Analysis
Contents: SIAM Scientific and Statistical Computing

Digest for Sunday, July 12, 1992

In this digest:

Temporary Change of Address for Murli Gupta
New Address for Beth Ong
New ODE Solvers Available
Wavelets Mailing List
Matrix Inverse
Conference on Vector and Parallel Processing
Conference in France on Curves and Surfaces
Parlett/Kahan Meeting at Berkeley
Two Positions at the University of Surrey
Contents: SIAM Matrix Analysis and Applications

Digest for Sunday, July 5, 1992

In this digest:

Seeking a Temporary Position in Rhode Island Area
MasPar Software
From the _Mathematical_Enquirer_
Software for Bordered Matrices
LAPACK Update
Braziliam Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
Contents: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Digest for Sunday, June 28, 1992

In this digest:

New Address for Alan Karp
LINPACK benchmark on PCs
Availability of RKSUITE
Auckland Workshop on Matrix Methods for Statistics
SIAM National Meeting
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
Special Issue of LAA
Scottish Computational Mathematics Symposium 92
Frontiers '92 Meeting
IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization
Position at Northern Illinois University
Post-doctoral Position at University of North Carolina
Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications
Contents: SIAM Numerical Analysis
Contents: SIAM Applied Mathematics

Digest for Thursday, June 18, 1992

In this digest:

Where are NATO Summer Conferences?
Looking for Access to an Ada Compiler
New Book on Parallel Numerical Algorithms
GAO Report-"Patriot Missile Defence"
Bibliography on Interior Point Methods
Programs from Schiesser's Book Available
Multigrid Short Course at University of Colorado at Denver
NAGUA Workshop on Fortran 90
Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems
ERCIM Course on Large-Scale Scientific Parallel Computing
Positions at Australian National University
Position at University of New South Wales

Digest for Monday, June 8, 1992

In this digest:

Lawson & Hanson Least Squares Code
Re:  Did Roundoff Cause Patriot Failure?
Who was Raphson? (an answer)
Overlaying Postscript Figures with LaTeX Fragments
SISSC Table of Contents Online
New Book by Bryne and Schiesser
Two New Books
CERFACS Annual Report by FTP
CTAC93 Meeting in Australia
Parallel Numerical Analysis Workshop `92: PROGRAM
Positions at University of Bergen
Linear Algebra and its Applications

Digest for Monday, June 1, 1992

In this digest:

Patriot Missle Bug Report
Why is Raphson in "Newton-Raphson"?
Errata, Bibliography on Soviet Works
PICL/ParaGraph Users
CSRD Reports Available via E-mail and FTP
Solving Least Squares Problems
Help Request to LaTeXperts
High Performance Computing in Japan
Travel to Minnesota's IMA
MATLAB Supplement for NUMERICAL METHODS
Faculty Position at University of Wollongong
SIAG/OPT Prize Nomination
Book in Sinc Methods from SIAM

Digest for Tuesday, May 26, 1992

In this digest:

Difficulties with the NA-Net Machine
Change of Address for Roland Freund
Did Roundoff Cause Patriot Failure?
Argonne Tech Reports via FTP
Looking for LU Decomposition Software on the CM-2
Mailing list for Auckland conference
Undergraduate Use of MATLAB
Multidimensional Convolution
Lancelot: A Nonlinear Optimization Package
Ten Lectures on Wavelets
LAPACK Users' Guide Now Available
Bibliography of Soviet Works on Interval Computations
Conference on Scientific Database Management
Announcement of Sup'Eur '92
High Performance Computing in Japan
Method of Lines Session
IMACS PDE7 Conference Announcement
Contents: Numerical Algorithms
Contents: SIAM Control and Optimization
Contents: SIAM Scientific and Statistical Computing
Contents: SIAM Mathematical Analysis

Digest for Monday, May 18, 1992

In this digest:

This Week's Digest
Processing NA Digest with GNU EMACS' Rmail
Sameh Replaces Kuck as Head of CSRD
Help with Software Review
Scientific Databases
Summer Position at Lawrence Livermore Labatory
Multigrid Short Course
IMA Workshop on Linear Algebra for Control Theory
International Conference on Supercomputing
Workshop on Parallel Computing in Denmark
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
Wyoming Numerical Analysis Day
Contents: IMA Numerical Analysis
Contents: SIAM Discrete Mathematics
Contents: SIAM Optimization

Digest for Sunday, May 10, 1992

In this digest:

Farouk Odeh
Congratulations to Alan George
Photos from Golub Festivities
Address Change for Andrew Stuart
Info on PC-style Math Coprocessors
Laplace's Equation with Nontrivial Boundary Condtions
Bibtex File on Least Squares
Date of Conference in Bangalore, India
Any Large Linear Algebra Problems?
U. S. Legislation on Foreign Research Assistants
Conference: Scientific Computation on Workstations
Brazilian School on High Performance Scientific Computing
Parallel Course at CERFACS
Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications

Digest for Sunday, May 3, 1992

In this digest:

Ben Rosen's Birthday
Hessenberg Solvers Wanted
Lagendre Functions of Fractional Orders
A Matrix Equation
Xnetlib 3.0 is Now Available from NETLIB
Two Positions at the National Center for Atmospheric Research
LAA Special Issue on Generalized Inverses
Special Issue of Interval Computations
Parallel Numerical Analysis Workshop `92
Conference in Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics
Computational Methods in Materials Science
Conference in Bangalore, India
Contents: SIAM Computing

Digest for Sunday, April 26, 1992

In this digest:

Multiprecision Computation Translator
Multivariate Optimization
SIAM Meeting Advance Registration Deadlines
Position at University of Vienna
Contents: Journal of Supercomputer Applications

Digest for Monday, April 20, 1992

In this digest:

Introduction to Parallel Computing Sought
Out-of-core SVD
Preprints Available for FTP from UMBC
Mathematical Software Archive at Washington University
The 2nd Annual Large Dense Linear Algebra Survey
Postdoctoral Positions at Johannes-Kepler-Universitaet
Southern Ontario NA-Day '92
Short Course on Large Scale Scientific COmputation
Announcement of the Third EuroBen Workshop
ISSAC '92, Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
Contents: Papers from Southeastern Approximation Theory Conference

Digest for Sunday, April 12, 1992

In this digest:

Phone Prefix Change for Argonne National Labs
Proceedings of Bristol Conference on Dynamics
Old Volumes of NA-Journals for Sale
Workshop in Matrix Theory, Universiyt of Bielefeld
Panamerican Workshop in Applied and Computational Mathematics
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms 
Neural Networks and Parallel Distributed Processing
Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials and their Applications

Digest for Sunday, April 5, 1992

In this digest:

Solution of Sparse Linear Least Squares Problems
Markov Moment Problem
MATLAB -> Mathematica Wanted
New Journal, Applied Analysis and Stochastics
International Symposium On Numerical Analysis - ISNA '92
European Multigrid Conference 1993
Contents: Linear Algebra and Its Applications

Digest for Sunday, March 29, 1992

In this digest:

Fast Hartley Transform
Mesh Generation Bibliography
Who Solves ODEs of the form y''=f(x,y)?
Three Dimensional Singular Elements
Temporary Change of Address for Jim Bunch
New Jersey Section of SIAM Spring Meeting
Conference on Approximation and Probability
35th British Theoretical Mechanics Colloquium
Parlett-Kahan Meeting
XI Parallel Circus
Positions at University of Vermont
Visiting Positions at Arizona State
Contents: SIAM Scientific and Statistical Computing

Digest for Sunday, March 22, 1992

In this digest:

Today's Topics for Last Week's Digest
Approximation Theory Network
Delay Differential Equations
Software Available for Boundary Value Problems
Preprints/Software Available via Anonymous FTP.
Mathematical Circus at Ecole Nationale Superieure de Lyon, France.
Workshop on PDEs at RPI
Neural Networks and Parallel Distributed Processing
Contents: SIAM Control and Optimization

Digest for Sunday, March 15, 1992

In this digest:

Change of Address for Cleve Moler
New Address for Siamak Hassanzadeh
Address Change for C. A. de Moura
Bracewell on the Hartley Transform
Errata for Strikwerda's Textbook
Conference on  Applications of Dynamical Systems
Short Course on Numerical Optimization and Software
Scalable High Performance Computing Conference
IMA Workshop on Linear Algebra for Signal Processing
Visiting Positions at RIACS
Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications

Digest for Sunday, March 8, 1992

In this digest:

LAPACK is Now Available
Second Release of XNETLIB
New Address for Bob Voight
Butcher's Birthday Problem for Gene
Looking for E-Mail Addresses
High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative
Conference at Kent State on Numerical Linear Algebra
Intelligent Scientific Computation at AAAI Meeting
One Day MATLAB Short Course in UK
Copper Mountain Progran and Information
Householder Symposium XII
Appalachian Numerical Analysis Day
Conference in Italy on Innovative Methods in Numerical Analysis
Report on the Tenth Parallel Circus
Contents: Numerical Algorithms

Digest for Sunday, March 1, 1992

In this digest:

New Address for Francoise Chatelin
Computational Sciences Workshop
IMA Mathematical Modeling Course
Head of Mathematical Computing, MSRI, Berkeley CA
Position at NAG Ltd
New Publication, Acta Numerica
Contents: Numerical Algorithms
Contents: International Journal of Supercomputer Applications
Contents: SIAM Computing
Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications

Digest for Saturday, February 22, 1992

In this digest:

New Version of NETLIB at ornl.gov
Information on CFD Codes Sought
TEX Torture Test
CAC-NET (Continuous Algorithms and Complexity)
The Responsibilities of Editors to Referees
Fortran Tools
Parallel Circus XI: Preliminary Announcement
IMA Workshop on Linear Algebra in Signal Processing
Workshop in Bulgaria
Postdoctoral Position at Argonne National Laboratory
Contents: SIAM Numerical Analysis 

Digest for Sunday, February 16, 1992

In this digest:

Congratulations to Bill Gear and Dick Tapia
A Reception at the IMA Workshop
Help Needed with SPARSE1.3
Whittaker Confluent Hypergeometric Functions
Special Issue of LAA Honoring Chandler Davis
Re: LCAS, LAPACK and LINPACK
Re: LCAS, LAPACK and LINPACK
Re: LCAS, LAPACK and LINPACK
Two Forthcoming SIAM Meetings
Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation
World Congress on Computational Mechanics
Mathematical Circus at ENS Lyon, FRANCE
Symposium at the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics
Position at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Position at CSRD, University of Illinois
Position at University of Bath, UK
Contents: IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
Contents: SIAM Applied Mathematics
Contents: Interval Computations
Contents: SIAM Optimization

Digest for Sunday, February 9, 1992

In this digest:

Happy New Year
Past Issues of the NA-Net Digest.
Is the CPC Program Library Online?
Don't Supresss the Wiggles
SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications
Refereeing
NSF Grand Challenge Application Groups
IFIP WG2.5 Position Paper on LCAS
Permian Basin Supercomputing Conference 1992
IMA Workshop on Linear Algebra for Control Theory
Scientific Computing Workshop for Faculty
Scientific Computing Workshop for Students
Announcement for SIAM Texas--Oklahoma Meeting
Team Leader position at CERFACS
Position at University of Dortmund
Position at National Central University of Taiwan
Report on Extrapolation and Rational Approximation meeting

Digest for Sunday, February 2, 1992

In this digest:

New NA-Net Welcome Message
Re: Fortran Tools
High Accuracy Probability Distribution Functions
Article by Pietrzykowsky Sought
SIAM Student Paper Competition
PICL Upgrade Now Available on Netlib
Question about Distributed-Memory Sparse Matrix Packages
Southern Ontario NA-Day '92
IMA Workshop on Iterative Methods
CONPAR92-VAPP V  Conference on Parallel Processing
Brazilian Workshop on Inverse Problems
Boulder Distributed Language Workshop
Summer Workshops on Teaching Linear Algebra
Postion at Australian National University
Cornell Postdoc in Optimization
Position at North Carolina State
Contents, SIAM Mathematical Analysis

Digest for Sunday, January 26, 1992

In this digest:

Joseph Flaherty Honored
Temporary Change of Address for Jim Demmel
Phone Number Change for Kresimir Veselic
Reference to an Old Paper Sought
Parallel Assembly of FEM Stiffness Matrices
Radix-4 and Radix-8 FFTs on Hypercubes
Re: 3-D Attitude "Vectors"
Very Large Optimization Problem
Book and Software on Extrapolation
Fortran Tools Sought
Deadline for SIAM Conference on Control
Deadline for SIAM National Meeting
Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization
NATO Institute in Belgium on Linear Algebra Applications
Lancaster NA Summer School
IBM Supercomputing Conference
Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation
Positions at The University of Tulsa
Positions at Cray Research
Contents, SIAM Scientific and Statistical Computing

Digest for Sunday, January 19, 1992

In this digest:

CRA Database on Female Computer Scientists
Good Random Numbers, Response to Jeffrey Dunn
Re: Good Random Number Generators
3-D Attitude "Vectors"
Graduate Computational S & E Degree at Rice University
Postdoc at SUNY, Stony Brook
Postdoc Position at Lawrence Berkeley Lab
IMACS Conference on Computer Methods for PDE's
Conference at Kent State on Linear Algebra and Computing
Contents, Surveys on Mathematics for Industry
Contents, SIAM Control and Optimization
Contents, Linear Algebra and Applications

Digest for Tuesday, January 14, 1992

In this digest:

Celebration for Gene!
Temporary Change of Address for Nick Higham
Good Random Number Generators
APL and Fractals
University of Toronto Technical Reports
Workshop on Fluid Mechanics and Statistical Physics
SIAM 40th Anniversary Meeting -- Abstract Deadline
New Book on General Sparse Matrices
Special Session on PDE's at Lehigh Conference
First Panamerican Workshop
Workshop on Numerical Ranges and Radii
Conference on Material Design and Process Simulation
NASA Graduate Student Research Program
Position at University of Colorado
Positions in Lyon, France
Positions at Georgia Tech
Position at Queen's University
Position at NC State University
Contents, SIAM Matrix Analysis
Contents, Special Issue of Parallel Computing

Digest for Sunday, December 29, 1992

In this digest:

New Address for Franklin Luk
Temporary Address Change for Bob Plemmons
Biharmonic Solver Wanted
New Book on Multigrid
Numerical Algorithms WS at RIMS, Kyoto, Nov. 91
Contents, SIAM Computing