Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.cs.toronto.edu!krj Newsgroups: ut.na From: krj@na.toronto.edu (Ken Jackson) Subject: NA Digest Volume 89 : Issue 30 Message-ID: <89Aug9.191710edt.10797@neat.cs.toronto.edu> Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Distribution: ut Date: 9 Aug 89 23:17:56 GMT NA Digest Sunday, August 6, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 30 Today's Editor: Cleve Moler Today's Topics: Householder Prize Address Change for Ascher 2-D Integral Equations Attic Numerical Analysis Positions at University of New South Wales ------------------------------------------------------- From: G. W. Stewart Date: Wed, 2 Aug 89 13:13:59 -0400 Subject: Householder Prize Alston S. Householder Award V (1990) In recognition of the outstanding services of Alston Householder, former Director of the Mathematics Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Professor at the University of Tennessee, to numerical analysis and linear algebra, it was decided at the Fourth Gatlinburg Symposium (now renamed the Householder Symposium) in 1969 to establish the Householder Award. This award is in the area in which Professor Householder has worked and its natural developments, as exemplified by the international Gatlinburg Symposia [see A. S. Householder, The Gatlinburgs, SIAM Review 16:340-343 (1974)]. Recent recipients of the award include James Demmel (Berkeley), Ralph Byers (Cornell), and Nicholas Higham (Manchester). The Householder Prize V (1990) will be awarded to the author of the best thesis in Numerical Algebra. The term Numerical Algebra is intended to describe those parts of mathematical research which have both algebraic aspects and numerical content or implications. Thus the term covers, for example, linear algebra that has numerical applications or the algebraic aspects of ordinary differential, partial differential, integral, and nonlinear equations. The thesis will be assessed by an international committee consisting of Chandler Davis (Toronto), Beresford Parlett (Berkeley), Axel Ruhe (Goteborg), Pete Stewart (Maryland), and Paul Van Dooren (Phillips, Belgium). To qualify, the thesis must be for a degree at the level of an American Ph.D. awarded between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 1989. An equivalent piece of work will be acceptable from those countries where no formal thesis is normally written at that level. The candidate's sponsor (e.g., supervisor of his research) should submit five copies of the thesis (or equivalent) together with an appraisal to Professor G. W. Stewart Department of Computer Science University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 USA by 28 February 1990. The award will be announced at the Householder XI meeting and the candidates on the short list will receive invitations to that meeting. ------------------------------ From: Uri Ascher Date: 4 Aug 89 9:33 -0700 Subject: Address Change for Ascher To friends and colleagues, I have returned from my sabbatical leave. My address is now again Dept. Computer Science, UBC, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1W5, Canada phones: (604) 228-4907 (office) 731-9981 (home) 228-5405 (FAX) e-mail: ascher@cs.ubc.ca - Uri Ascher ------------------------------ From: Luca Dieci Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1989 10:55:35 EDT Subject: 2-D Integral Equations On behalf of a friend of mine, I would like to know of existing (and available) software for solving "2-dim Fredholm Integral Equations of the 1st kind over a rectangle". Any help is appreciated. Please reply to MA201LD@GITVM1.BITNET Thanks, Luca Dieci. ------------------------------ From: Y. Chang Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 08:55 PDT Subject: Attic Numerical Analysis I am in total disagreement with the final comment of Byrne & Hindmarsh. "The age of the lone mathematician working in his attic, encrypting his work is long past. Some of us need to realize this truth." The above statement is false. 1. I have perfected a general-purpose ODE solving package that have been proven to be much faster and 100 times more accurate than anything else. It has been ignored by most of the NA's for the past ten years. 2. I have perfected a general solution of DAE's with at least 6-digit accuracy, including multiple constraints, that has been suppressed in its publication. 3. I have perfected a polynomial solver that will solve up to 8,000 degree polynomials that was denied publication. 4. I have just completed the solution of Burger's equation using 2-D Taylor series. And, am now attacking the full Navier-Stokes problem. I expect to be able to solve all non-linear PDE's before the end of this year. This is all being done alone in my "attic". True advancement in science is not done by committee. ------------------------------ From: Ian Sloan Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 13:50:31 EST Subject: Positions at University of New South Wales POSITIONS AT UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES Appointments in many areas of pure and applied mathematics will soon be made at the University of New South Wales, in sunny Sydney, Australia. As the following advertisement states, the official closing date is August 15, but late applications are likely to be accepted, especially if an indication is given soon that an application is on the way. Ian Sloan email: sloan@napier.maths.unsw.oz or na.isloan@na-net.stanford.edu UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS LECTURERS (ONE TENURABLE AND ONE FIXED-TERM APPOINTMENT, FIELD UNSPECIFIED) REFERENCE NOS. 1084, 1085. Appointments in the areas of pure mathematics, applied mathematics or mathematical computer science are envisaged. Applicants should have a Ph.D. or equivalent qualification, and proven research achievement in an area that reinforces and extends existing strengths in the School. The School currently has research strengths in many areas of pure and applied mathematics and statistics, and is committed to further developing its involvement in mathematical computer science. An appointee with interests in the commercial or industrial applications of mathematics could be seconded for a fixed term as Director of the School's Industrial Mathematics and Statistics Group. The position will be available from February 1990. Appointments to two positions will be either with tenure or on the basis of a contract with provision for conversion to tenure. Appointment to the other position will be for a fixed term of three years. Futher information from Professor Ian H Sloan, Head of School, (02)697-2957. Applications close: August 15, 1989. Salary: Lecturer: $A31,259 range $A40,622. Senior Lecturer: $A41,459 range $A48,086. Commencing salary according to qualifications and experience. Applicants should forward two copies of their applications, including curriculum vitae, telephone number (home or business ), transcripts of academic record and the names and addresses of two referees to the Academic Staff Office, PO Box 1, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia. ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** ------- Reposted by Prof. Kenneth R. Jackson, krj@na.toronto.edu (on Internet, CSNet, Computer Science Dept., ARPAnet, BITNET) University of Toronto, krj@na.utoronto.ca (on CDNnet and other Toronto, Ontario, X.400 nets (Europe)) Canada M5S 1A4 ...!{uunet,pyramid,watmath,ubc-cs}!utai!krj