IPNet Digest Volume 5, Number 01 January 30, 1998 Today's Editors: Patricia K. Lamm and Aaron C. Cinzori Michigan State University Today's Topics: New Book: Inverse Acoustic & Electromagnetic Scattering Theory Call for Papers: Ninth Inverse Problems in Engineering Seminar Announcement: The International Congress of Mathematicians Announcement: Optimization Methods and Applications Announcement: School on Wavelets in the Geosciences Announcement: International Conf. on Finite-Difference Methods Table of Contents: SIAM Review Table of Contents: SIAM J. Numerical Analysis Table of Contents: SIAM J. Applied Mathematics Table of Contents: SIAM J. Control and Optimization Table of Contents: SIAM J. Optimization Table of Contents: SIAM J. Computing Table of Contents: SIAM J. Matrix Analysis and Applications Table of Contents: SIAM J. Scientific Computing Table of Contents: Surveys on Mathematics for Industry Table of Contents: Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems 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: kress@math.uni-goettingen.de Subject: New Book: Inverse Acoustic & Electromagnetic Scattering Theory Date: Tue, 20 Jan 98 The following book has just appeared: D. Colton, R. Kress: Inverse Acoustic and Electromagnetic Scattering Theory Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 93. 2nd ed. 1998 Springer-Verlag, New York, Heidelberg ISBN 3-540-62838-X DM 118,-; 45,50; FF 445,-; Lit. 130.320; S 861,40; sFr 107,50; US $ 69,95 The inverse scattering problem is central to many areas of science and technology such as radar and sonar, medical imaging, geophysical exploration and nondestructive testing. This book is devoted to the mathematical and numerical analysis of the inverse scattering problem for acoustic and electromagnetic waves. To this second edition the authors have added new material on Newton's method for the inverse obstacle problem, a new elegant proof of uniqueness for the inverse medium problem, a discussion of the spectral theory of the far field operator and a presentation of a new method for determining the support of an inhomogeneous medium from far field data. In addition the text has been updated in various places. ------------------------------ From: Lijia Guo Subject: Ninth Inverse Problems in Engineering Seminar Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 Announcement and Call For Papers The Ninth Inverse Problems in Engineering Seminar Monday, June 8 -- Tuesday, June 9, 1998 Workshop on Selected Topics in Inverse Problem Solving Sunday, June 7, 1998 Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306 The Ninth Inverse Problems in Engineering Seminar is the continuation of the informal seminars which were initiated at Michigan State University in 1987. This seminar will be sponsored by the Department of Mathematical Science, Department of Computer Science, College of Science Humanities, and Center for Energy Research and Education at the Ball State University. Papers are solicited from all areas involving inverse methods and their applications. Four broad categories are being used to organize sessions. These categories, with some subtopics delineated, are: 1. Inverse Problems in Heat Transfer (Inverse Heat Conduction, Thermal Property Estimation) 2. Mathematical Aspects of and Techniques for Inverse Problems (Inverse Theory and Methods, Stability Considerations) 3. Design of Experiments and Applications of Inverse Methods (Optimal Experiment Design, Analysis of Actual Experimental Data) 4. Inverse Problems Exclusive of Heat Transfer (Bio-Engineering Inverse Problems, Shape Optimization, Inversion of Inferometric Data, Inverse Scattering and Tomography) Presentations will be informal twenty minute talks, followed by discussion. If the number of submissions warrants additional program time, a poster session will be included. About the Workshop: A workshop on selected topics in inverse problem solving is being planned in conjunction with this year's seminar. Tentative topics of coverage include mathematical aspects and relationships between different types of inverse problems, inverse problems in financial engineering, mollification techniques applied to inverse problems. Everyone registered for the seminar are welcome to attend the workshop. The workshop will provide general overviews in a tutorial format. The workshop will be on Sunday, June 7th, in the afternoon. How to Register or Submit a Paper: The seminar fee is $65. If you are interested in registering for this conference, please contact the chair to receive registration material. If you would like to submit a paper, please submit a tentative title and an abstract by March 1, 1998. Send titles and abstracts or other inquiries to: Chair: Prof. Lijia Guo Department of Mathematical Science Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306 Phone: (765) 285-8681 fax: (765) 285-1721 e-mail: lguo@bsu.edu ------------------------------ From: helmberg@zib.de (Christoph Helmberg) Subject: ICM'98 Second Announcement Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 Dear Colleague: The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the availability of The Second Announcement of THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS BERLIN, August 18-27, 1998 It can be retrieved from the homepage of the Congress with URL: http://elib.zib.de/ICM98 ICM'98 is one of the quadrennial congresses held under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union (IMU). Mathematicians from all countries gather to discuss recent developments in mathematics that are presented by leading scientists from all mathematical fields. Responsibility for the scientific program lies with the Program Committee appointed by IMU. There will be 21 one-hour Plenary Lectures covering the major areas of mathematics and about 160 forty-five-minute Invited Lectures in nineteen sections. The Fields Medals and the Nevanlinna Prize will be awarded during the Opening Ceremony on the first day of the Congress. This will take place in the International Congress Center Berlin (ICC). All other scientific events will be held at Technische Universitaet Berlin. No scientific activities are scheduled for Sunday, August 23. The Second Announcement of ICM'98 describes the scientific program and the social events of the Congress and gives instructions on how to complete the registration process and obtain accommodation. It contains a call for contributed short presentations, and provides guidelines regarding the submission of abstracts. The Second Announcement also includes advice on how to proceed upon arrival at airports and railway stations, and it will be accompanied by a brochure describing the day trips and tours organized by a professional tour and congress organizer. Postscript and LaTeX versions of the Second Announcement can be obtained from the WWW with URL: http://elib.zib.de/ICM98/Second_Announcement or by anonymous ftp from elib.zib.de in the subdirectory pub/IMU/HTML/ICM98/Second_Announcement. The files of interest are scndannc.ps Announcement Postscript DIN A4 us_scnda.ps Postscript US-paper scndannc.tex LaTeX (no maps) reg-form.ps Registration Form Postscript DIN A4 us_regf.ps Postscript US-paper wordregf.doc MS-Word 6.0 We look forward to welcoming you at ICM'98 in Berlin. Christoph Helmberg (for the ICM'98 Organizing Committee) ------------------------------ From: apartsyn@ISEM.SEI.IRK.RU Subject: 11-th Baikal School-Seminar Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 First Announcement 11-th Baikal School-Seminar OPTIMIZATION METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS July, 5-10, 1998 Irkutsk, Baikal RUSSIA 1998 Sponsored and organized by: Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch Siberian Energy Institute Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Section of Cybernetics and Informatics Russian Association on Mathematical Programming Russian Committee of Higher Education Irkutsk State University Irkutsk State Economical Academy Irkutsk State Agricultural Academy Irkutsk Regional Administration Irkutsk scientific center, Section of Cybernetics and Informatics of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and Russian Association on Mathematical Programming organize the 11-th Baikal School-Seminar "Optimization Methods and Their Applications" devoted to the memory of the third director of the Siberian Energy Institute, Professor A.P.Merenkov in July, 5-10, 1998. Topics The purpose of the School-Seminar is to present and discuss recent results obtained in: - Linear and Convex Programming, Local Methods in Nonlinear Programming; - Theory and Practice of Global Optimization; - Stochastic Programming, Discrete Programming; - Game and Optimal Control Theories, Numerical Methods of Optimal Control, Multicriteria Optimization ; - Applications of the Operations Research and Optimization Methods in economy, energy, agriculture etc.; - Theory and Methods of Numerical Mathematics. Sections Within the School-seminar the following sections will be organized: 1. Mathematical programming (V.P.Bulatov, A.A. Strecalovskii, A.I. Tyatushkin). 2. Optimal control (O.V.Vasiliev, S.N.Vasiliev, V.A.Srochko). 3. Mathematical economy (V.P.Bulatov, V.A.Dyhta, V.I.Zorkaltsev). 4. NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, METHODS FOR SOLVING OF THE ILL-POSED PROBLEM (A.S.Apartsyn, B.A.Bel'tukov, Yu.E.Boyarintsev). 5. Applications of optimization methods (A.Z.Gamm, V.I.Tarasov, V.A.Baturin). Important Dates March 1, 1998 - deadline for submission of Registration Forms. April 1, 1998 - deadline for abstract submission. [Note: This news item has been edited for length. You may obtain the full text (including inquiry form, international program committee, local committee, etc.) by visiting the "IPNet Digest Appendices" link off the main IPNet home page http://www.mth.msu.edu/ipnet/ or else by sending an e-mail message to ipnet-request@math.msu.edu with the words send 11th_Baikal_School-Seminar in the BODY (not subject) of the message. -Ed.] ------------------------------ From: "Roger Haagmans" Subject: School on Wavelets in the Geosciences Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 International Association of Geodesy SCHOOL ON WAVELETS IN THE GEOSCIENCES Announcement and registration October, 4 - 9, 1998 At the Delft Institute for Earth-Oriented Space Research Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands Objectives of the school The basic objective of the School is provide the necessary information to understand the potential and limitations of the application of wavelets in the geosciences. This includes: * the mathematical representation in one and more dimensions like on the sphere * the properties as compared to Fourier techniques * the signal representation and analysis ability * the use of operators in terms of wavelets * gaining experiences with wavelets using examples from geosciences in computer exercises Program The course will last for six days and contains three major subjects. Every subject will be covered in two days time. All topics will be supported by practical exercises on the computer with examples from geodynamics, topography representation, gravity field modelling etc. The lectures and subjects are: 1. Prof. Dr. Peter Maass, Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Potsdam, Germany; One dimensional wavelets. The link with Fourier theory is a starting point to introduce continuous wavelets, discrete wavelets on intervals, multiresolution, analysis and synthesis using wavelets, operators, compression and filtering with wavelets. 2. Dr. Wim Sweldens, Mathematical Sciences Research Centre, Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA; Tensor product wavelets, 2nd generation wavelets. Special emphasis will be put on the choice of wavelets in multidimensions. Multiresolution analysis for arbitrary surfaces, efficient data representation as well as efficient procedures for evaluation of integrals or solving integral equations will be elaborated in more detail. 3. Prof. Dr. Willi Freeden, Geomathematics Group. Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany; Wavelets on closed surfaces. The link with Fourier theory on the sphere (spherical harmonics) is a starting point to introduce continuous wavelets, discrete wavelets, multiresolution, analysis and synthesis using wavelets, operators, compression and regularisation with wavelets. This will be generalised to closed surfaces. Lecture notes will be provided at the start of the school. Who could attend The school aims to provide Ph.D. students, researchers and staff members with an overview on wavelet methods and its applications in geosciences at a post graduate level (master). The participants should have a University level education with an adequate mathematical foundation. Basic knowledge on potential theory, functional analysis, numerical analysis or systems and signals is recommended. The minimal number of attendants is 20 the maximum 40. The registration deadline is July 1st 1998; the fee Dfl. 450,- Organisation Scientific Committee * Prof. Dr. Willi Freeden, Geomathematics Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. * Prof. Dr. Roland Klees, Delft Institute for Earth-Oriented Space Research (DEOS), Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Local organising committee and school secretariat address: Dipl.-Math. Michael Bayer (Geomathematics Group), Dr. Ir.Martin van Gelderen, Ir. Roger Haagmans and ms. Wil Coops-Luijten (DEOS) Secretariat IAG School on Wavelets in the Geosciences c/o Wil Coops-Luijten DEOS, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology Thijsseweg 11, NL-2629 JA Delft, The Netherlands Telephone: +31 15 2783289 Fax: +31 15 2783711 E-mail: wavelet.school@geo.tudelft.nl More detailed information can be obtained from: WWW: http://www.geo.tudelft.nl/fmr/waveletschool.html At the end of the information just before a registration form you can save a gzipped postscript file of the circular and the poster, by pressing SHIFT and clicking "circular" or "poster". Can you please inform other interested colleagues or Ph.D. students either by putting up the poster or by forwarding this message? In case you need more information or you are unable to look at the specified URL, you can contact the secretariat of the school by e-mail (wavelet.school@geo.tudelft.nl). We can sent a printed circular and poster to you by mail. ------------------------------ From: Conference on Finite-Difference Methods Subject: Second International Conference Finite-Difference Methods Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Second International Conference Finite-difference Methods: Theory and Applications July 6-9, 1998, Minsk, Belarus Conference organizers * Institute of Mathematical Modelling, Russian Academy of Sciences. * Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. * Belarussian State University. * University of Rousse (Bulgaria). The scope of the Conference is concerned with problems of development and practical usage of difference methods for numerical solution of modern problems of science and engineering. Working language of the Conference is English. Basic topics * Validation of finite difference methods for solving problems of mathematical physics * Iterative methods and parallel algorithms for solving grid equations * Finite difference method for nonlinear problems * Projective-difference methods * Finite-difference and related methods * Inverse problems and problems of control * Finite difference methods in continuum mechanics * Application of difference methods to engineering problems International programme committee A.Samarskii (Russia - Chairman), P.Vabishchevich (Russia - Vice-chairman), V.Abrashin (Belarus), G.Akrivis (Greece), V.Bobkov(Belarus), P.Hemker (Netherlands), B.Jovanovich (Jugoslavia), A.Konovalov (Russia), R.Lazarov (USA), V.Makarov (Ukraine), G.Meladze (Georgia), M.Sapagovas (Lithuania), Shi Zhong-ci (China), V.Thomee (Sweden), L.Vulkov (Bulgaria). Organizing committee I.Gaishun (Chairman), V.Korzjuk (Vice-chairman), P.Matus (Vice-chairman), M.Chuiko, A.Egorov, S.Lemeshevsky, I.Mikhiliouk, V.Rychagov, A.Sen'ko, V.Scheglik, V.Tzurko. Correspondence address Institute of Mathematics NASB, 11, Surganov Str., 220072, Minsk, Belarus e-mail: cfdm98@im.bas-net.by, fax: (017) 239-31-92 tel.: (017) 268-49-63, 268-47-84 Also you can register via Internet at http://im.bas-net.by/cfdm98/register.html [Note: This news item has been edited for length. You may obtain the full text (including inquiry form, costs, etc.) by visiting the "IPNet Digest Appendices" link off the main IPNet home page http://www.mth.msu.edu/ipnet/ or else by sending an e-mail message to ipnet-request@math.msu.edu with the words send Finite_Difference_Methods_Conference in the BODY (not subject) of the message. -Ed.] ------------------------------ From: poulson@siam.org Subject: SIREV 40-1 Table of Contents Date: Mon, 26 Jan 98 SIAM Review MARCH 1998 Vol. 40, No. 1 Table of Contents Articles Inverse Eigenvalue Problems Moody T. Chu >From Semidiscrete to Fully Discrete: Stability of Runge-Kutta Schemes by the Energy Method Doron Levy and Eitan Tadmor Classroom Notes Solution to an Inverse Problem in Diffusion Yves Nievergelt Introducing Computational Science Methods Using Parallax D. E. Stevenson Games to Teach Mathematical Modelling James A. Powell, James S. Cangelosi, and Ann Marie Harris Similarity Transformations for Partial Differential Equations Mehmet Pakdemirli and Muhammet Yurusoy Fractal Basins of Attraction Associated with a Damped Newton's Method Bogdan I. Epureanu and Henry S. Greenside Using Complex Variables to Estimate Derivatives of Real Functions William Squire and George Trapp Estimating the Rate of Natural Bioattenuation of Ground Water Contaminants by a Mass Conservation Approach James W. Weaver and Freda Porter-Locklear Problems and Solutions Book Reviews Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting (Peter J. Brockwell and Richard A. Davis) Collin C. Carbno Probabilistic and Analytical Aspects of the Umbral Calculus (A. Di Bucchianico) Philip Feinsilver Linear Programming 1: Introduction (George B. Dantzig and Mukund N. Thapa) Saul I. Gass Global Methods in Optimal Control Theory (Vadim F. Krotov) Mostafa Ghandehari Rigorous Global Search: Continuous Problems (R. Baker Kearfott) Eldon Hansen Geometric Control Theory (Velimir Jurdevic) Robert Hermann Elements of Pattern Theory (U. Grenander) Daniel Keenan Introduction to Stochastic Processes (Gregory F. Lawler) Eric S. Key Numerical Approximation of Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws (Edwige Godlewski and Pierre-Arnaud Raviart) Randall J. LeVeque Oscillations in Planar Dynamic Systems (Ronald E. Mickens) Mark Levi Thinking About Ordinary Differential Equations (Robert E. O'Malley, Jr.) J. David Logan Global Aspects of Classical Integrable Systems (Richard H. Cushman and Larry M. Bates) Richard Montgomery The Exponential Distribution: Theory, Methods and Applications (N. Balakrishnan and A. P. Basu, Eds.) H. N. Nagaraja The Theory of Singular Perturbations (E. M. de Jager and Jiang Furu) Robert E. O'Malley, Jr. Domain Decomposition: Parallel Multilevel Methods for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations (Barry F. Smith, Petter E. Bjorstad, and William D. Gropp) Joseph E. Pasciak Numerical Algorithms with C and Numerical Algorithms with Fortran (Gisela Engeln-Mullges and Frank Uhlig) John D. Pryce Limit Analysis of Solids and Structures (Jacov A. Kamenjarzh) B. Daya Reddy Complete Second Order Linear Differential Equations in Hilbert Spaces (Alexander Ya Shklyar) Michael Renardy Ordinary Differential Equations in Theory and Practice (R. M. M. Mattheij and J. Molenaar) Lawrence F. Shampine Optimization in Solving Elliptic Problems (Eugene G. D'yakonov) Jinchao Xu Selected Collections Later Editions Chronicle Submitted by: Deborah Poulson, Production Editor ------------------------------ From: tschoban@siam.org Subject: Contents, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis Date: Tue, 20 Jan 98 SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis February 1998 Vol. 35, No. 1 Table of Contents Numerical Solution of the Schrodinger Equation in a Wavelet Basis for Hydrogen-like Atoms Patrick Fischer and Mireille Defranceschi Approximation of the Solution to a System Modeling Heatless Adsorption of Gases C. Bourdarias Timestep Acceleration of Waveform Relaxation B. Leimkuhler A Quasi-Monte Carlo Scheme Using Nets for a Linear Boltzmann Equation Christian Lecot and Ibrahim Coulibaly Inversion Formulas for the Discretized Hilbert Transform on the Unit Circle Claus B. Schneider On Product Integration with Gauss-Kronrod Nodes Sven Ehrich A Nonconforming Finite Element Method for the Stationary Navier-Stokes Equations Ohannes A. Karakashian and Wadi N. Jureidini Multigrid Methods for the Pure Traction Problem of Linear Elasticity: Mixed Formulation Chang-Ock Lee The Fully Discrete Legendre Spectral Approximation of Two-Dimensional Unsteady Incompressible Fluid Flow in Stream Function Form Guo Ben-Yu and He Li-Ping The Immersed Interface Method for Nonlinear Differential Equations with Discontinuous Coefficients and Singular Sources Andreas Wiegmann and Kenneth P. Bube On the Stability of the Abramov Transfer for Differential-Algebraic Equations of Index 1 Thomas Petry A Two-Level Preconditioner for Schrodinger-Type Singular Elliptic Operator Serguei Maliassov A Fast Iterative Algorithm for Elliptic Interface Problems Zhilin Li Application of an Ultra Weak Variational Formulation of Elliptic PDEs to the Two-Dimensional Helmholtz Problem Olivier Cessenat and Bruno Despres Inner and Outer Iterations for the Chebyshev Algorithm Eldar Giladi, Gene H. Golub, and Joseph B. Keller First-Order System Least Squares (FOSLS) for Planar Linear Elasticity: Pure Traction Problem Zhiqiang Cai, Thomas A. Manteuffel, Stephen F. McCormick, and Seymour V. Parter Finite Element Analysis of the Landau-de Gennes Minimization Problem for Liquid Crystals Timothy A. Davis and Eugene C. Gartland, Jr. Uniformly Superconvergent Approximations for Linear Two-Point Boundary Value Problems Hongsung Jin and Steven Puress Finite Element Analysis of Microstructure for the Cubic to Tetragonal Transformation Bo Li and Mitchell Luskin Least-Squares Finite Element Approximations to Solutions of Interface Problems Yanzhao Cao and Max D. Gunzburger The Petrov-Galerkin and Iterated Petrov-Galerkin Methods for Second-Kind Integral Equations Zhongying Chen and Yuesheng Xu Submitted by: Beth Schad, Production Editor ------------------------------ From: smiley@siam.org Subject: Contents, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics Date: Tue, 20 Jan 98 SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics February 1998 Vol. 58, No. 1 Table of Contents On a Variational Principle for the Drag in Linear Hydrodynamics B. I. M. ten Bosch and A. J. Weisenborn Shock-Wave Solutions in Closed Form and the Oppenheimer--Snyder Limit in General Reality Joel Smoller and Blake Temple Singularities in Hele--Shaw Flows Qing Nie and Fei Ran Tian Heat Conduction in Fine Scale Mixtures with Interfacial Contact Resistance Robert Lipton Numerical Approximation for Functionals of Reflecting Diffusion Processes C. Costantini, B. Pacchiarotti, and F. Sartoretto Bifurcation Analysis for Phase Transitions in Superconducting Rings with Nonuniform Thickness Jorge Berger and Jacob Rubinstein A Method of Images for the Evaluation of Electrostatic Fields in Systems of Closely Spaced Conducting Cylinders Hongwei Cheng and Leslie Greengard Population Dynamics of Synaptic Release Sites Richard Bertram and Arthur Sherman Global Stability in Chemostat-Type Competition Models with Nutrient Recycling Shigui Ruan and Xue-Zhong He Coexistence Region and Global Dynamics of a Harvested Predator-Prey System Guoren Dai and Moxun Tang On the Asymmetric May--Leonard Model of Three Competing Species Chia-Wei Chi, Sze-Bi Hsu, and Lih-Ing Wu Three-Dimensional Competitive Lotka--Volterra Systems with No Periodic Orbits P. van den Driessche and M. L. Zeeman Convergence Criteria for Attracting Cycles of Newton's Method Stanley Ocken Moment Lyapunov Exponent and Stability Index for Linear Conservative System with Small Random Perturbation R. Khasminskii and N. Moshchuk Heavy Traffic Analysis of a Markov-Modulated Queue with Finite Capacity and General Service Times Charles Knessl and Charles Tier Application of the Pade Method to Solving the Noisy Trigonometric Moment Problem: Some Initial Results Riccardo March and Piero Barone Submitted by: Ira D. Smiley, Production Editor ------------------------------ From: smiley@siam.org Subject: Contents, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization Date: Mon, 26 Jan 98 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization March 1998 Vol. 36, No 2 Table of Contents Local Exact Boundary Controllability of the Boussinesq Equation A. V. Fursikov and O. Yu. Imanuvilov Discretized Maximum Likelihood and Almost Optimal Adaptive Control of Ergodic Markov Models T. E. Duncan, B. Pasik-Duncan, and L. Stettner Dynamics of Time-Varying Discrete-Time Linear Systems: Spectral Theory and the Projected System Fabian Wirth An Optimal Control Theory for Discrete Event Systems Raja Sengupta and St=E9phane Lafortune Classes of Nonlinear Partially Observable Stochastic Optimal Control Problems with Explicit Optimal Control Laws Charalambos D. Charalambous and Robert J. Elliott A Free Boundary Problem in Rd with Both Smooth and Nonsmooth Fit J. R. Dorroh and Guillermo Ferreyra Positive Linear Observers for Linear Compartmental Systems J. M. van den Hof Existence of Markov Controls and Characterization of Optimal Markov Controls Thomas G. Kurtz and Richard H. Stockbridge A Construction of Rational Wavelets and Frames in Hardy--Sobolev Spaces with Applications to System Modeling Nicholas F. Dudley Ward and Jonathan R. Partington Sliding Modes in Solving Convex Programming Problems Michael P. Glazos, Stefen Hui, and Stanislaw H. Zak Lipschitzian Stability for State Constrained Nonlinear Optimal Control A. L. Dontchev and W. W. Hager Rates of Convergence for Approximation Schemes in Optimal Control Paul Dupuis and Matthew R. James A New Value Iteration Method for the Average Cost Dynamic Programming Problem Dimitri P. Bertsekas Multidimensional Systems with Finite Support Behaviors: Signal Structure, Generation, and Detection Ettore Fornasini and Maria Elena Valcher Stability and Euler Approximation of One-Sided Lipschitz Differential Inclusions Tzanko Donchev and Elza Farkhi Submitted by: Ira D. Smiley, Production Editor, ------------------------------ From: wunderlich@siam.org Subject: Contents, SIAM Journal on Optimization Date: Thu, 29 Jan 98 SIAM Journal on Optimization February 1998 Volume 8, Number 1 Table of Contents On Effectively Computing the Analytic Center of the Solution Set by Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods Maria D. Gonzalez-Lima, Richard A. Tapia, and Florian A. Potra Global Convergence of the Affine Scaling Algorithm for Convex Quadratic Programming Renato D. C. Monteiro and Takashi Tsuchiya Superlinear Convergence of a Symmetric Primal-Dual Path Following Algorithm for Semidefinite Programming Zhi-Quan Luo, Jos F. Sturm, and Shuzhong Zhang Reconstruction with Noisy Data: An Approach via Eigenvalue Optimization Dominikus Noll On Some Properties of Quadratic Programs with a Convex Quadratic Constraint Stefano Lucidi, Laura Palagi, and Massimo Roma Global Linear and Local Quadratic Convergence of a Long-Step Adaptive-Mode Interior Point Method for Some Monotone Variational Inequality Problems Jie Sun and Gongyun Zhao A Trust Region Method for Solving Generalized Complementarity Problems Houyuan Jiang, Masao Fukushima, Liqun Qi, and Defeng Sun An Active Set Newton Algorithm for Large-Scale Nonlinear Programs with Box Constraints Francisco Facchinei, Joaquim Judice, and Joao Soares On the Convergence of Constrained Parallel Variable Distribution Algorithms Michael V. Solodov A Generalized Proximal Point Algorithm for the Variational Inequality Problem in a Hilbert Space Regina S. Burachik and Alfredo N. Iusem Budget-Dependent Convergence Rate of Stochastic Approximation Pierre L'Ecuyer and George Yin The Sequential Knapsack Polytope Y. Pochet and R. Weismantel An Algorithm for the Inequality-Constrained Discrete Min-Max Problem Berc Rustem and Quoc Nguyen Erratum: An SQP Algorithm for Finely Discretized Continuous Minimax Problems and Other Minimax Problems with Many Objective Functions Jian L. Zhou and Andre Tits Submitted by: Deidre Wunderlich, Production Editor ------------------------------ From: tschoban@siam.org Subject: Contents, SIAM Journal on Computing Date: Mon, 05 Jan 98 SIAM Journal on Computing February 1998 Volume 27, Number 1 Table of Contents Hypercubic Sorting Networks Tom Leighton and C. Greg Plaxton The Shrinkage Exponent of de Morgan Formulas is 2 Johan Hastad Shared Memory Consistency Conditions for Nonsequential Execution: Definitions and Programming Strategies Hagit Attiya, Soma Chaudhuri, Roy Friedman, and Jennifer L. Welch Two-Dimensional Periodicity in Rectangular Arrays Amihood Amir and Gary Benson A Fast Discrete Approximation Algorithm for the Radon Transform Martin L. Brady Value Sets of Some Polynomials Over Finite Fields GF(22m) Thomas W. Cusick Optimal Upward Planarity Testing of Single-Source Digraphs Paola Bertolazzi, Giuseppe Di Battista, Carlo Mannino, and Roberto Tamassia Linear and O(n log n) Time Minimum-Cost Matching Algorithms for Quasi-Convex Tours Samuel R. Buss and Peter N. Yianilos Space-Efficient Scheduling of Multithreaded Computations Robert D. Blumofe and Charles E. Leiserson Simulating Threshold Circuits by Majority Circuits Mikael Goldmann and Marek Karpinski ully Polynomial Byzantine Agreement for n > 3t Processors in t + 1 Rounds Juan A. Garay and Yoram Moses An O(log k) Approximate Min-Cut Max-Flow Theorem and Approximation Algorithm Yonatan Aumann and Yuval Rabani A Sublinear Time Distributed Algorithm for Minimum-Weight Spanning Trees Juan A. Garay, Shay Kutten, and David Peleg Erratum: Conditions for Optimality of the Huffman Algorithm D. Stott Parker, Jr. Submitted by: Lisa Dougherty, Production Editor ------------------------------ From: wunderlich@siam.org Subject: Contents, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications Date: Wed, 14 Jan SIAM J. on Matrix Analysis and Applications January 1998 Vol. 19,No. 1 Table of Contents On the Least Squares Approximation of Symmetric-Definite Pencils Subject to Generalized Spectral Constraints Moody T. Chu and Quanlin Guo Regularization of Singular Systems by Derivative and Proportional Output Feedback D. L. Chu, H. C. Chan, and D. W. C. Ho Perturbation Theory for Algebraic Riccati Equations Ji-Guang Sun Inequalities for the Hadamard Product of Matrices B. Mond and J. E. Pecaric Primitivity of Positive Matrix Pairs: Algebraic Characterization, Graph Theoretic Description, and 2D Systems Interpretation Ettore Fornasini and Maria Elena Valcher Bruhat Decomposition and Numerical Stability O. H. Odeh, D. D. Olesky, and P. van den Driessche Generalizations of Ky Fan's Dominance Theorem Chi-Kwong Li and Roy Mathias A Fast Stable Solver for Nonsymmetric Toeplitz and Quasi-Toeplitz Systems of Linear Equations S. Chandrasekaran and Ali H. Sayed Generalized Reflexive Matrices: Special Properties and Applications Hsin-Chu Chen Efficient Solution of Constrained Least Squares Problems with Kronecker Product Structure Anders Barrlund Computing a Factor of a Polynomial by Means of Multishift LR Algorithms Luca Gemignani Eigenvector Slicing of the Nonnegative Matrices D. J. Hartfiel Euclidean Norm Minimization of the SOR Operators Apostolos Hadjidimos and Michael Neumann Using the Matrix Sign Function to Compute Invariant Subspaces Zhaojun Bai and James Demmel The M-Matrix Group Generalized Inverse Problem for Weighted Trees Stephen J. Kirkland and Michael Neumann Parameter Estimation in the Presence of Bounded Data Uncertainties S. Chandrasekaran, G. H. Golub, M. Gu, and A. H. Sayed A Generalized Hilbert Matrix Problem and Confluent Chebyshev-Vandermonde Systems Hao Lu Note On "Further Study and Generalization of Kahan's Matrix Extension Theorem" Dao-Sheng Zheng Submitted by: Deidre Wunderlich, Production Editor ------------------------------ From: poulson@siam.org Subject: SISC 19-2 Table of Contents Date: Wed, 14 Jan 98 SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing March 1998 Volume 19, Number 2 Table of Contents Solution of Two-Dimensional Riemann Problem of Gas Dynamics by Positive Schemes Peter D. Lax and Xu-Dong Liu ADI Methods for Cubic Spline Collocation Discretizations of Elliptic PDEs P. Tsompanopoulou and E. Vavalis Geometric Separators for Finite-Element Meshes Gary L. Miller, Shang-Hua Teng, William Thurston, and Stephen A. Vavasis A 3D Rectangular Mixed Finite Element Method to Solve the Stationary Semiconductor Equations Guido E. Sartoris Enhanced Cell-Centered Finite Differences for Elliptic Equations on General Geometry Todd Arbogast, Clint N. Dawson, Philip T. Keenan, Mary F. Wheeler, and Ivan Yotov Stochastic Integration Rules for Infinite Regions Alan Genz and John Monahan Exploiting Invariants in the Numerical Solution of Multipoint Boundary Value Problems for DAEs Volker H. Schulz, Hans Georg Bock, and Marc C. Steinbach Multilevel Evaluation of Integral Transforms with Asymptotically Smooth Kernels A. Brandt and C. H. 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Ottesen Simulation of spiral waves in a piece of myocardial tissue G. Ohlen, B. Wohlfahrt and M.Christensson Closed-loop circulation model based on the Frank mechanism J.L. Palladino, J.P. Mulier, and A. Noordergraaf Nonlinearity of baroreceptor nerves J.T. Ottesen A mathematical model of the carotid-baroreflex control in pulsatile conditions M. Ursino and S.Cavalcanti Dynamical modelling of sympathetic and parasympathetic interplay on the baroreceptor heart rate control S. Cavalcanti and M. Ursino A model for the cardiovascular system under an ergometric workload F. Kappel, S. Lafer, and R.O. Peer The virtue of creating mathematical models J.T. Ottesen and A. Noordergraaf Submitted by: Heinz W. Engl, Editor-in-Chief Prof.Dr.Heinz W. 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