IPNet Digest Volume 3, Number 10 October 31, 1996 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm Michigan State University Today's Topics: Special Session: Inverse Problems in Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow Conference: Finite Difference Methods - Theory and Applications Employment Opportunity: Industrial Mathematics Position Tutorial: Scale-Space Theory Tutorial on Web Table of Contents: SIAM J. Numerical Analysis Table of Contents: SIAM J. Computing Submissions for IPNet Digest: Mail to ipnet-digest@math.msu.edu Information about IPNet: Mail to ipnet-request@math.msu.edu http://www.mth.msu.edu/ipnet ------------------------------ From: kwoodbur@me.ua.edu (Keith A Woodbury) Subject: 97 NHTC I.P. Session Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 CALL FOR PAPERS for the session on INVERSE DESIGN PROBLEMS IN HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW 1997 National Heat Transfer Conference Baltimore, Maryland, August 10- 12, 1997 The Ad Hoc Committee on Computational Heat Transfer of the Heat Transfer Division of ASME is sponsoring a stand-up session on "Inverse Design Problems in Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow" at the 1997 National Heat Transfer conference. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to inverse conjugate thermal problems involving: conduction and convection, conduction and radiation, radiation and convection, all three heat transfer modes, electromagnetics and/or acoustics, phase change and/or combustion. In addition, papers on topics involving- inverse determination of: unknown thermal boundary and initial conditions, thermal properties of the material, the appropriate governing system of equations, locations and strengths of heat sources/sinks, time variation of friction heating in slide contacts, etc. are solicited. Papers on inverse shape design for over-specified thermal and flow field boundary conditions are especially welcome. Contributions dealing with optimization of: 2-D and 3-D cooling passage shapes, sizes and locations-, thermal coating thickness distributions, unsteady quenching and freezing/thawing protocols, etc. are welcome. The prospective authors should mail three (3) copies of an extended abstract of not less than 500 words to either of the session organizers. In addition, they should mail one (1) copy of the extended abstract to: Prof. Matthew D. Kelleher, Mech. Eng. Dept., Naval Postgraduate School, 700 Dyer Rd., Code ME/KK, Monterey, CA 93943. Abstracts and eventually complete papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted full papers will be published in a bound volume available at the meeting. Feel free to get additional information about the conference from http://www.asme.org. DEADLINES Mail your abstracts (3 + 1 copy) by 25 October, 1996 Notification about acceptance of your abstract by 8 November, 1996 Submit your complete manuscript (4 copies) by 31 December, 1996 Notification of final acceptance by 1 March, 1997 Final papers on mats to session organizers by 1 April, 1997 ORGANIZERS Prof. George S. Dulikravich Prof. Keith A. Woodbury Dcpt. of Aero. Eng., 233 Hammond Department of Mechanical Engineering The Pennsylvania State University The University of Alabama University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A. Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, U.S.A. phone: (814) 863-0134 phone: (205) 348-1647 FAX: (814) 865-7092 FAX: (205) 348-6419 e-mail: GSD@ECL.PSU.EDU e-mail: woodbury@me.ua.edu ------------------------------ From: Lubin Georgiev Vulkov Subject: Conference Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 Finite Difference Methods: Theory and Applications Rousse,Bulgaria, August 10-13, 1997 The Conference "Finite Difference Methods: Theory and Applications" is organized by Institute of Numerical Modelling, Russian Ac.Sci. Institute of Mathematics, Ac.Sci. of Belarus University of Rousse, Bulgaria Technical University of Gabrovo, Bulgaria The scope of the Conference is concerned with problems of development, validation and practical usage of finite difference methods for numerical solution of modern problems of science and engineering. Basic topics: Validation of finite difference methods for solving problems of mathematical physics Iterative methods and parallel algorithms for solving grid equations Finite difference methods for nonlinear problems Inverse problems and problems of control Finite difference methods in continuum mechanics Application of difference methods to engineering problems International Programme Committee A.A.Samarskii,Russia (Chairman),... Organizing Committee L.Vulkov,Bulgaria (Chairman), P.N.Vabishchevich,Russia, P.P.Matus, Belorus,... Programme of the Conference includes plenary lectures, invited lectures, reports at sessions, minisymposiums. For contacts: P.N.Vabishchevich Lubin Vulkov Institute for Mathematical Modelling Center of Applied Mathematics Russian Academy of Sciences and Informatics Miusskaya Square University of Rousse Moscow 125047, RUSSIA 7017 Rousse, BULGARIA e-mail:vab@imamod.msk.su e-mail:vulkov@ami.ru.acad.bg ------------------------------ From: "PROF.HEINZ W. ENGL" Subject: digest submission Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY For a joint research and development project between the Department of Industrial Mathematics at the University of Linz (Austria) and the affiliated company MathConsult GmbH, we are looking for a mathematician (with at least a degree comparable to a Master's degree or diploma) to be employed at MathConsult from January 1,1997, for one year initially (renewable in case of success). The project involves modelling and numerical simulation of solid and gas flows and chemical reactions. Programming should be done in C++. Competitive salary. For employment law reasons, citizenship of a European Union country or of Norway or Switzerland required. For further information contact Prof.Heinz Engl, University, A-4040 Linz, Austria; fax: +43-732-2468855, E-Mail: engl@indmath.uni-linz.ac.at ------------------------------ From: "Bart M. ter Haar Romeny" Subject: Tutorial on Scale-Space Theory Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 Tutorial on Scale-Space Theory: Many people find the mathematics of scale-space theory quite difficult to enter, and often search for a more intuitive introduction to the field. A short tutorial on scale-space theory is now available. The bottom line of the Web page of the First International Conference on Scale-Space Theory, 2-4 July 1997 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, contains a pointer to the (Acrobat or PostScript) tutorial: http://www.cv.ruu.nl/Conferences/ScaleSpace97.html Originated as a tutorial given at the VBC'96 conference in Hamburg, and based on contributions by many in the field, it is an excerpt of a much more elaborating book, appearing in 1997 with Kluwer. Bart M. ter Haar Romeny Ph.D. E-mail: Bart.terHaarRomeny@cv.ruu.nl Imaging Center Utrecht Tel: +31-30-2508197 University Hospital Utrecht, E01.334 Fax: +31-30-2513399 Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, ftp: ftp.cv.ruu.nl The Netherlands http://www.cv.ruu.nl ------------------------------ From: tschoban@siam.org Subject: SINUM 33-6 Table of Contents Date: Tue, 15 Oct 96 SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis December 1996 Volume 33, Number 6 Table of Contents Convergence of a Weighted Particle Method for Solving the Boltzmann (B.G.K.) Equation D. Issautier Error Estimates for Regularization Methods in Hilbert Scales Ulrich Tautenhahn Analysis of Preconditioners for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations Kurt Otto Adaptive Boundary Element Methods for Some First Kind Integral Equations Carsten Carstensen and Ernst P. Stephan A Numerical Method for Steady State Free Boundary Problems Zhimin Zhang and Ivo Babuska Algorithms for Computing Motion by Mean Curvature Noel J. Walkington Optimal Polynomials for (T, M, S)-Nets and Numerical Integration of Multivariate Walsh Series G. Larcher, A. Lauss, H. Niederreiter, and W. Ch. Schmid Stability Analysis of Numercial Schemes for Stochastic Differential Equations Yoshihiro Saito and Taketomo Mitsui Finite Difference Preconditioning for Solving Orthogonal Collocation Equations for Boundary Value Problems Weiwei Sun, Weizhang Huang, and Robert D. Russell A Best Approximation Property of the Moving Finite Element Method P. K. Jimack Convergence of Waveform Relaxation Methods for Differential-Algebraic Systems Z. Jackiewicz and M. Kwapisz Transfer of Boundary Conditions for DAEs of Index 1 Katalin Balla and Roswitha Marz Computation and Parametrisation of Invariant Curves and Tori Gerald Moore A Two-Level Method for the Discretization of Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems O. Axelsson and W. Layton Preconditioning Chebyshev Spectral Collocation Method for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations Sang Dong Kim and Seymour V. Parter A Domain Decomposition Method with Coupled Transmission Conditions for the Optimal Control of Systems Governed by Elliptic Partial Differential Equations Jean-David Benamou On the Least Squares Solution of Inverse Eigenvalue Problems Xuzhou Chen and Moody T. Chu A Posteriori Error Estimators for the Raviart-Thomas Element D. Braess and R. Verfurth Snakes in Movement V. Caselles and B. Coll A New Class of Mixed Finite Element Methods for Reissner-Mindlin Plates C. Lovadina Second-Order Spectral Differentiation Matrices G. E. Sneddon Error Estimates for Finite Difference Methods for a Wide-Angle "Parabolic" Equation G. D. Akrivis, V. A. Dougalis, and G. E. Zouraris ------------------------------ From: spiegelman@siam.org Subject: SICOMP 25-6 (12/96) TOC Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 SIAM Journal on Computing Volume 25, Number 6 December 1996 Table of Contents Kolmogorov Complexity and Instance Complexity of Recursively Enumerable Sets Martin Kummer An o(n^3)-Time Algorithm Maximum-Flow Algorithm Joseph Cheriyan, Torben Hagerup, and Kurt Mehlhorn A Deterministic poly(log log N)-Time N-Processor Algorithm for Linear Programming in Fixed Dimensions Miklos Ajtai and Nimrod Megiddo Feasible Time-Optimal Algorithms for Boolean Functions on Exclusive-Write Parallel Random-Access Machines Martin Dietzfelbinger, Miroslaw Kutylowski, and Rdiger Reischuk Lower Bounds for Geometrical and Physical Problems Jrgen Sellen Average and Randomized Complexity of Distributed Problems Nechama Allenberg-Navony, Alon Itai, and Shlomo Moran Learning Behaviors of Automata from Multiplicity and Equivalence Queries Francesco Bergadano and Stefano Varricchio Prefix Codes: Equiprobable Words, Unequal Letter Costs Mordecai J. Golin and Neal Young On Unapproximable Versions of NP-Complete Problems David Zuckerman A Linear-Time Algorithm for Finding Tree-Decompositions of Small Treewidth Hans L. Bodlaender An Optimal O(log log N)-Time Parallel Algorithm for Detecting All Squares in a String Alberto Apostolico and Dany Breslauer The Wakeup Problem Michael J. Fischer, Shlomo Moran, Steven Rudich, and Gadi Taubenfeld Erratum: Fast Parallel Computation of the Polynomial Remainder Sequence via Bezout and Hankel Matrices Dario Bini and Luca Gemignani ------- end -------