NA Digest, V. 13, # 28 NA Digest Thursday, August 22, 2013 Volume 13 : Issue 28 Today's Editor: Daniel M. Dunlavy Sandia National Labs [log in to unmask] Today's Topics: New NA Digest processes John Bolstad Finite element software deal.II version 8.0 released Trilinos 11.4 is available for download Meeting to celebrate John Blake's career, UK, Sep 2013 Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Eng, Kong Kong, Dec 2013 Matrix Computations for Sparse Recovery, Berlin, Apr 2014 SIAM Optimization, USA, May 2014 Householder Symposium, Belgium, Jun 2014 SMART 2014, Italy, Sep 2014 Assistant Professor Position, Mathematics, UAB Fellowship Positions, Univ of Strathclyde Postdoc Position, Computational Seismology and HPC, Switzerland Postdoc Position, Exascale Computing, Switzerland Postdoc Position, Modeling Tidal Turbine Arrays, Otago, New Zealand Postdoc Position, Computational Mathematics, Univ of Coimbra Postdoc Position, Optimization, Federal Univ of Rio de Janeiro Postdoc Positions, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM PhD Position, Univ of Wuppertal, Germany PhD Position, SAM/ETH Zurich, Sparse Discretization/Kinetic Transport PhD Position, NA/Finance, Sussex Univ PhD Position, Model Reduction, ICES, UT PhD Positions, EU project, TU Eindhoven and Mentor Grenoble Contents, Communications in Computational Physics, 13(5) Contents, ACM Transactions on Math Software (TOMS), 39(4) Contents, Molecular Based Mathematical Biology, 1(1) Subscribe, unsubscribe, change address, or for na-digest archives: http://www.netlib.org/na-digest-html/faq.html ------------------------------------------------------- From: Danny Dunlavy [log in to unmask] Date: August 01 2013 Subject: New NA Digest processes Some updates on the status of NA Digest ... 1) The submission process for NA Digest will be changing due to several issues with the old submission process. Please submit your announcements using the web form at the following URL: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/na-digest/websubmit.html 2) Messages will now be sent from the following address: [log in to unmask] . Please add that address to the list of addresses from which your email system will accept messages in order to avoid problems with spam or junk mail filters blocking or quarantining the NA Digest messages. 3) If you do not see a message that you had submitted to the NA Digest in the last couple of weeks or using the old submission process, please re-submit your announcement using the process described above. Please let me know if there are any problems using the new submission process. We will work to work out any issues as soon as possible so we can get back on track with a consistent delivery of digest materials. And thanks for your support and patience during this transition period for the NA Digest. Best regards, Danny Dunlavy NA Digest Editor ------------------------------------------------------- From: Joseph Grcar [log in to unmask] Date: July 31 2013 Subject: John Bolstad John Bolstad died at the age of 66 this July after a period of declining health. John graduated from the University of St Thomas in St Paul, and then he attended Stanford University on an NSF fellowship. As I understand the unwritten history of this subject, John belonged to the group of Stanford students with whom Joe Oliger pioneered the development of adaptive grid methods that really work. Most of John's career was spent at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the salad days when it was called LLL and run by UC. John had an amazing memory for mathematics, music, and opera, maybe in reverse order. I will miss him. ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wolfgang Bangerth [log in to unmask] Date: August 22 2013 Subject: Finite element software deal.II version 8.0 released Version 8.0 of deal.II, the object-oriented finite element library awarded the J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, has been released. It is available for free under an Open Source license from the deal.II homepage at http://www.dealii.org/ This is a major new release, featuring the following changes: - The configuration and build system has been switched to cmake, providing better support for a wide variety of platforms including Microsoft Windows, better integration with IDEs such as Eclipse, and many other advantages. - deal.II now supports 64bit indices for problems with more than 2 billion unknowns and has been tested on problems of up to 27 billion unknowns. - deal.II is now licensed under the LGPL. Further changes include: - Improvements to parallel linear algebra - Improvements to multithreading - Hundreds of new features and bugfixes The main features of deal.II are: - Extensive documentation and 46 working example programs - Support for dimension-independent programming - Locally refined adaptive meshes - Multigrid support - A zoo of different finite elements - Fast linear algebra - Built-in support for shared memory and distributed parallel computing, scaling from laptops to clusters with 10,000s of processor cores - Interfaces to Trilinos, PETSc, METIS, UMFPACK and other external software - Output for a wide variety of visualization platforms. Wolfgang Bangerth, Timo Heister, Guido Kanschat, and many other contributors. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Heroux [log in to unmask] Date: August 22 2013 Subject: Trilinos 11.4 is available for download Trilinos 11.4 is available for download. Below is a summary of the release. Overview: The Trilinos Project is an effort to develop algorithms andenabling technologies within an open source object-oriented softwareframework for the solution of large-scale, complex multi-physicsengineering and scientific problems. The Trilinos 11.4 general release contains 54 packages: Amesos, Amesos2, Anasazi, AztecOO, Belos, CTrilinos, Didasko, Epetra, EpetraExt, FEI, ForTrilinos, Galeri, GlobiPack, Ifpack, Ifpack2, Intrepid, Isorropia, Kokkos, Komplex, LOCA, Mesquite, ML, Moertel, MOOCHO, NOX, Optika, OptiPack, Pamgen, Phalanx, Piro, Pliris, PyTrilinos, RTOp, Rythmos, Sacado, SEACAS, Shards, ShyLU, STK, Stokhos, Stratimikos, Sundance, Teko, Teuchos, ThreadPool, Thyra, Tpetra, TriKota, TrilinosCouplings, Trios, Triutils, Xpetra, Zoltan, and Zoltan2. Trilinos 11.4 download: http://trilinos.sandia.gov/download/trilinos-11.4.html Release notes: http://trilinos.sandia.gov/release_notes-11.4.html Trilinos website: http://trilinos.sandia.gov On behalf of the Trilinos development team, Mike Heroux, Jim Willenbring, Brent Perschbacher ------------------------------------------------------- From: Dave Smith [log in to unmask] Date: August 22 2013 Subject: Meeting to celebrate John Blake's career, UK, Sep 2013 Bubbles and biological fluid dynamics: a meeting to celebrate John Blake's career We're holding a one-day meeting in at the University of Birmingham UK on Thursday 19th September to celebrate John Blake's career and contributions to applied mathematics. The main themes of the meeting will be Bubble Dynamics and Biological Fluid Mechanics, with some more general interest talks on industrial problems and the mathematics of golf. Some major international figures will be speaking, and LMS/IMA have agreed to support travel for PhD students. We're expecting it to be a friendly and informal meeting, and also a great opportunity for students and early career researchers in the UK to hear from and interact with leading figures. No registration fee will be charged for any attendees. All early career attendees are encouraged to bring a poster on their work. The meeting web page is at the link: http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/D.Smith/bubbles_and_bio.htm To register, please email [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Etienne Boileau [log in to unmask] Date: August 05 2013 Subject: Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Eng, Kong Kong, Dec 2013 It is our pleasure to invite you to submit an abstract for the 3rd International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering (CMBE13), to be held between 16th and 18th December at City University of Hong Kong. The final deadline is 15 August 2013. Details at http://www.compbiomed.net/2013/abstract-submission-(general).htm). For invited speakers, mini-symposia and other information, please consult the conference website at http://www.compbiomed.net ------------------------------------------------------- From: Gitta Kutyniok [log in to unmask] Date: August 07 2013 Subject: Matrix Computations for Sparse Recovery, Berlin, Apr 2014 We would like to announce the Joint GAMM ANLA-MSIP Workshop "Matrix Computations for Sparse Recovery", Berlin, April 9-11, 2014 The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra (ANLA), Matrix Theory, and Mathematical Signal- and Image Processing (MSIP), working at or interested in, the intersection of these fields for compressive sensing and sparse recovery. The aim is to discuss recent developments, promote cross-discipline interaction, and foster new developments and collaborations. Plenary speakers: David Gross (U Freiburg); Reinhold Schneider (TU Berlin); Thomas Strohmer (UC Davis, USA); Joel Tropp (CalTech, USA) Contributions in the form of talks or posters are very welcome with the deadline of December 31, 2013. For further details, in particular on the registration process and abstract submission, we would like to refer to the webpage:http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/MaCS2014 Gitta Kutyniok (TU Berlin) Peter Benner (Max Planck Institute Magdeburg) ------------------------------------------------------- From: Miguel Anjos [log in to unmask] Date: August 22 2013 Subject: SIAM Optimization, USA, May 2014 SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP14) May 19-22, 2014 San Diego, CA USA http://www.siam.org/meetings/op14/ The SIAM Conference on Optimization will feature the latest research in theory, algorithms, software and applications in optimization problems. A particular emphasis will be put on applications of optimization in health care, biology, finance, aeronautics, control, operations research, and other areas of science and engineering. The conference brings together mathematicians, operations researchers, computer scientists, engineers, software developers and practitioners, thus providing an ideal environment to share new ideas and important problems among specialists and users of optimization in academia, government, and industry. Plenary Speakers: Retsef Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Joaquim R. R. A. Martins, University of Michigan, USA Yurii Nesterov, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium Cynthia A. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Andy Philpott, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Franz Rendl, Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria Francisco Santos, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington, USA Minitutorials: Mixed-integer Nonlinear Optimization: Sven Leyffer, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jeff Linderoth, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA Jim Luedtke, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA Polynomial Optimization: Didier Henrion, University of Toulouse, France Monique Laurent, Centrum Wiskunde ------------------------------------------------------- From: Ilse Ipsen [log in to unmask] Date: August 22 2013 Subject: Householder Symposium, Belgium, Jun 2014 The Householder Symposium XIX on Numerical Linear Algebra will be held in Spa, Belgium, 8-13 June 2014. Web page: http://sites.uclouvain.be/HHXIX/ Application deadline: 31 October 2013 Notification of acceptance: 31 January 2014 Attendance at the meeting is by invitation only. Applications are welcome from researchers in numerical linear algebra, matrix theory, and related areas such as optimization, differential equations, signal processing, and control. Each attendee will be given the opportunity to present a talk or a poster. Some talks will be plenary lectures, while others will be shorter presentations arranged in parallel sessions. The Symposium is very informal, with the intermingling of young and established researchers a priority. Participants are expected to attend the entire meeting. The fifteenth Householder Award for the best thesis in numerical linear algebra since 1 January 2011 will be presented. It is expected that partial support will be available for some students, early career participants, and participants from countries with limited resources. The Householder Symposium takes place in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Mariantonia Cotronei [log in to unmask] Date: August 06 2013 Subject: SMART 2014, Italy, Sep 2014 SMART 2014 - 1st International Conference on: Subdivision; geometric and algebraic Methods; Isogeometric Analysis and Refinability in Tuscany, 28th September - 1st October, 2014, Pontignano, Siena, Italy This workshop is the continuation and enrichment of the previous workshops "Subdivision and Refinability" held in Pontignano in 2008, 2009 and 2011. The main goal of SMART2014 is to promote the research fields involved in Subdivision; geometric and algebraic Methods; isogeometric Analysis and Refinability. INVITED SPEAKERS: R. T. Farouki (Univ.of California, Davis, USA), C. Y. Han (Kyung Hee Univ., Yongin, Republic of Korea), T. J. R. Hughes (Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA), G. Kutyniok (TU Berlin, Germany), V. Protasov (Lom. Moscow St. Univ., Russia), U. Reif (TU Darmstadt, Germany), I. W. Selesnick (Polytechnic Inst. of New York Univ., USA), H. Speleers (KU Leuven, Belgium). Topics of interest include: Algebraic and Differential Geometry, Computer Aided Design, Curve and Surface Design, Finite Elements, NURBS and Isogeometric Analysis, Refinability, Approximation Theory, Subdivision, Wavelets and Multiresolution Methods as well as related applications. Registration: July 20, 2014 Submission of title and abstract for oral presentation: June 1st, 2014 Notification of abstract acceptance: July 15, 2014 MORE INFORMATION Information about the conference are available on the workshop website http://smart2014.diism.unisi.it . For additional information, contact the organizers at [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Cheryl Logan [log in to unmask] Date: August 12 2013 Subject: Assistant Professor Position, Mathematics, UAB The Department of Mathematics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is soliciting applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position beginning August 15, 2014. Applicants whose research is compatible with the department's strengths in differential equations, differential geometry, dynamical systems, mathematical physics, and probability, including computational aspects of these areas, are encouraged to apply. Those with expertise in applications, e.g., in mathematical biology, mathematical finance, or mathematical modeling are of particular interest in this search. Applicants may be interested to collaborate with one of the University Wide Interdisciplinary Research Centers (UWIRC) on UAB campus, see http://www.uab.edu/institutionaleffectiveness/uwircs. For additional information about the department please visit http://www.uab.edu/mathematics/. Applicants should have demonstrated the potential to excel in one of the research areas mentioned and in teaching at all levels of instruction. They should also be committed to professional service including departmental service. Post-doc experience is preferred. Applications should include a curriculum vita with a publication list, a statement of future research plans, a statement on teaching experience and philosophy, and minimally three letters of reference with at least one letter addressing teaching experience and ability. We prefer applications and all other materials be submitted electronically at http://www.mathjobs.org although applicants may submit an application including an AMS cover sheet to: Math Faculty Search Department of Mathematics The University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 UAB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and family-friendly environment in which all faculty and staff can excel and achieve work/life balance irrespective of ethnicity, gender, faith, gender identity and expression as well as sexual orientation. UAB also encourages applications from individuals with disabilities and veterans. A pre-employment background investigation is performed on candidates selected for employment. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Des Higham [log in to unmask] Date: August 01 2013 Subject: Fellowship Positions, Univ of Strathclyde The University of Strathclyde is advertising "Chancellor's Fellowships" in areas that include Complex Networks and numerically-driven Health and Food Security. Successful applicants will work for a period of 5 years with a minimal teaching load. After that period they will be transferred to faculty appointments at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader level, according to achievement. Deadline for applications is 8 Sept, 2013. Further information can be found at: http://www.strathvacancies.co.uk/strategic-focus.html. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Olaf Schenk [log in to unmask] Date: August 02 2013 Subject: Postdoc Position, Computational Seismology and HPC, Switzerland A PostDoc position is available in the group "Advanced Computing Laboratory" at the Institute of Computational Science (ICS) in Lugano, Switzerland. The position is part of the project "GeoScale: A framework for multiscale seismic modelling and inversion" funded under the Swiss Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC). The PostDoc will work on a data management framework for the scalable parallel processing and measurement of large seismic waveform data sets directly on HPC systems. The project is conducted together with the research group from Prof. Andreas Fichtner (Geophysics) at ETH Zurich. Application: Your application should contain a motivational letter (2 pages maximum), a CV, copies of relevant degrees and two contacts for references. Please submit applications electronically in PDF format to [log in to unmask] Futher details: http://icsweb.inf.unisi.ch/cms/index.php/jobs.html ------------------------------------------------------- From: Olaf Schenk [log in to unmask] Date: August 02 2013 Subject: Postdoc Position, Exascale Computing, Switzerland A PostDoc position is available in the group Advanced Computing Laboratory at the Institute of Computational Science (ICS) in Lugano, Switzerland. The position is part of the project "EXA2CT - EXascale Algorithms and Advanced Computational Techniques" funded under the EU FP7-ICT programme. The successful applicant will work on the development of a code generation and autotuning framework for parallel stencil computations on modern microarchitectures. The project is conducted together with academic and industrial project partners from Europe. The EXA2CT project brings together experts at the cutting edge of the development of solvers, related algorithmic techniques, and HPC software architects for programming models and communication. It will take a revolutionary approach to exascale solvers and programming models, rather than the incremental approach of other projects. We will produce modular open source proto-applications that demonstrate the algorithms and programming techniques developed in the project, to help boot-strap the creation of genuine exascale codes. The goal of the subproject is to increase the arithmetic intensity of iterative stencil-type computations by reusing the data for the computation of subsequent time steps as soon as possible, thus maximizing the amount of reusable data and minimizing noncompulsory data transfers to the core-local memories. The successful candidate will extend the PATUS stencil framework and will collaborate with algorithmic and programming models partners within the EXA2CT project. Application: Your application should contain a motivational letter (2 pages maximum), a CV, copies of relevant degrees and two contacts for references. Please submit applications electronically in PDF format to [log in to unmask] Further Details: http://icsweb.inf.unisi.ch/cms/index.php/jobs.html ------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Vennell [log in to unmask] Date: August 19 2013 Subject: Postdoc Position, Modeling Tidal Turbine Arrays, Otago, New Zealand We have funding for a 3 year Postdoc to numerically model tidal turbine arrays within a New Zealand Marsden Grant funded research project which aims to improve understanding of how power production scales with the number of tidal turbines in a farm. The Postdoc will focus on understanding how much power can be produced by turbines in large arrays. In particular understanding how to maximise power production from multi-row arrays of turbines and understanding the conditions under which turbines in multi-row farms can exceed the Betz limit on turbine production. The successful candidate should have a PhD, or be close to completing a PhD, in Maths, Fluid Mechanics, Physics, Physical Oceanography, Engineering or a related field, plus experience in numerical modelling of fluids. Experience in coastal hydrodynamic modelling would be an advantage. The appointment is for a period of up to three years. The salary is currently NZ $70,981. This Postdoc Fellowship is part of a collaborative project with Stanford University which aims to determine if it is possible to realise the Giga-Watt potential of large tidal channels such as Cook Strait (New Zealand) and the Pentland Firth (UK). The project will use analytical and numerical modelling techniques in idealised channels to develop and understand a fundamental scaling law underpinning the relationship between power production and the size of large arrays of tidal turbines. The successful candidate will be expected to travel to international conferences and to visit Stanford University to work on developing the numerical model. Enquiries may be directed to Dr Ross Vennell, [log in to unmask], http://otago.academia.edu/RossVennell ------------------------------------------------------- From: Isabel Figueiredo [log in to unmask] Date: August 11 2013 Subject: Postdoc Position, Computational Mathematics, Univ of Coimbra POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION The CMUC|Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (under the project below) invite applications for an one-year Postdoctoral Position in Computational Mathematics, beginning October 2013. The focus of the research is on imaging sciences and scientific computing. It involves variational image processing, image analysis, partial differential equations, numerical analysis, optimization, visualization, and inverse problems in imaging, with applications in medicine and earth observation imagery.Applicants should have a PhD in Mathematics or Computational Sciences and Engineering (preferably obtained after December 31, 2010). The position obeys to the Portuguese scholarship system and the corresponding salary is 1495 per month (tax free). No teaching duties are associated with the position. Applicants should send by email to [log in to unmask] the following information: - Curriculum vitae (publication list included). - Statement of research interests (one page maximum, describing concisely scientific interests and the relation with the proposed post doctoral position). - Names and email-addresses of at least two scientists willing to provide references. Period for applications : from August 20 to September 2, 2013. This position is funded by the research project "Advances in Image Processing and Inverse Problems: Applications in Medical and Earth Observation Imagery, and Biomathematics, PTDC/MAT-NAN/0593/2012" - Research project of FCT (Fundao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal). Contact for further information:Isabel M. Narra Figueiredo (http://www.mat.uc.pt/~isabelf). ------------------------------------------------------- From: Jean R. Roche [log in to unmask] Date: August 22 2013 Subject: Postdoc Position, Optimization, Federal Univ of Rio de Janeiro Post-Doc Research Grant Interior point algorithm for nonlinear optimization Call open for applications for a Post Doc research scholarship within the framework of the project entitled "Numerical methods for nonlinear optimization involving partial differential equations and free boundary" supported by the Brazilian Research Program "Ciencia Sem Fronteiras" (Science Without Borders) of CNPq, the Brazilian Research Council, www.cnpq.br.Duration and Environment: The appointment will be for 12 months, starting before June 2014. The work will be carried out at the facilities of the "Optimize" laboratory of COPPE at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. The project leaders are the Professor Jose Herskovits, COPPE Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Professor Jean Rodolphe Roche from the Lorraine University, France. Academic Requirements: Prospective applicants should posses a PhD degree in Optimization, Numerical Analysis, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computational Mechanics or related areas, obtained up to 7 years before the implementation of the scholarships, with a solid background in optimization, numerical analysis. Knowledge in solid mechanics will be appreciated. Activity Outline: The postdoctoral fellow will work on new algorithms for nonlinear optimization. The academic work involves theoretical and computational aspects of the proposed numerical optimization method. Applications will concern, shape optimization,structural topology optimization and free material problems. Practical aspects will concern the resolution of large-scale problem derived from partial differential numerical solution. The work of the postdoc will be developed in close collaboration of the project, Professor Jose Herskovits, the visiting researcher, Professor Jean R. Roche and the PhD. Students of the team. Monthly scholarship from CNPq: BR$ 4100.00 (Brazilian Reais) Additional monthly scholarship from COPPE/UFRJ: BR$ 1200.00 Monthly grant for research from CNPq: BR$ 400.00 Travel expenses will be covered by the CNPq. Documents Required: Applications should clearly include; i) Application letter, ii) Curriculum Vitae, iii) Copy of identity card or passport, iv) Academic degreecertificate(s) including PhD certificate, v) list of publications, vi) Contact information of three professional references (full postal and electronic addresses). Timeframe of the call: The call is open until the place is filled, but the first deadline for applications is 31th August 2013. Applications should preferably be sent by email to:Jose HerskovitsMechanical Engineering Program-COPPEFederal University of Rio de JaneiroPO Box 68503 CEP 21945-970,CT, Cidade Universitaria, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, [log in to unmask] or Jean R. Roche, Institut Elie Cartan de LorraineUniversite de LorraineBP. 7023954506, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Bill Spotz [log in to unmask] Date: August 22 2013 Subject: Postdoc Positions, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM The Numerical Analysis and Applications Department at Sandia National Labs is seeking a qualified post-doctoral researcher to support staff in research on mathematical and computational methods for global atmospheric modeling. Research will focus on (1) development of leading-edge global atmospheric models using Sandia computational technologies, and (2) extension and improvement of those computational technologies to meet atmospheric modeling goals. Research will also include numerical software development and numerical experimentation. The selected candidate will be expected to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and to thrive in an expanding, fast-paced technical environment. This position requires a large amount of interaction with other staff members in the center and communication skills are important. To apply, visit http://www.sandia.gov/careers/index.html and search on opening 644069 and 644070. Regards, Mike Parks ([log in to unmask]) Bill Spotz ([log in to unmask]) Andy Salinger ([log in to unmask]) ------------------------------------------------------- From: Andreas Bartel [log in to unmask] Date: August 01 2013 Subject: PhD Position, Univ of Wuppertal, Germany We are looking for a PhD-student to join our research team 'AppliedMathematics and Numerical Analysis' (Dept. of Mathematics and ComputerSciences) at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, as soon as possible. Her/His field of research will be cosimulation with uncertainties:more specifically algorithmic design (modeling), numerical analysis and simulation including random parameters. The position is within the German research network 'SIMUROM', which includes besides the University of Wuppertal, the Technical University of Darmstadt, University of Hamburg and the two industrial partners:Bosch AG and CST AG. Key requirements: - Master's in Mathematics (or equivalent)- knowledge of numerical analysis -- in particular knowledge for numerical methods for ordinary differential equations- helpful is knowledge of differential algebraic equations, methods for cosimulation, stochastics, MATLAB Position: PhD-student Further details are found at http://www-num.math.uni-wuppertal.de/en/amna/open-theses-and-positions/phd-cosim-project.html ------------------------------------------------------- From: Dominique Ballarin [log in to unmask] Date: August 22 2013 Subject: PhD Position, SAM/ETH Zurich, Sparse Discretization/Kinetic Transport A full PhD position is available at the Seminar for Applied Mathematics of ETH Zuerich, one of the leading institutes of technology worldwide. The position is within a project aiming to develop novel numerical method for the approximate solution of kinetic equations posed on moderately high-dimensional phase spaces (with position and velocity as independent variables). Such equations occur in a wide range of mathematical models and the most prominent representative is the Boltzmann Equation governing the dynamics of rarefied gases.The project investigates novel sparse tensor approximations for kinetic equations, based on successful prior research for the radiative transfer equation. The PhD project should tackle sparse tensor discretization schemes for the phase space in dimensions 2 2 and 3 3, based on multilevel finite element and wavelet-type multi-resolution schemes in space and Fourier spectral or polar spectral approximation in velocity. Efficient implementation of the new algorithms on high performance computing hardware will be an integral part of the project. Applications are processed on a 'first come first served' basis until December 31, 2013 (For continued availability of the position please consult http://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/news/jobs). Starting date must notbe later than April 1, 2014. For more details about the project, the position and the applicationp rocedure please consult http://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/news/jobs/phd_sparse_discretization_aug13 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Max Jensen [log in to unmask] Date: August 14 2013 Subject: PhD Position, NA/Finance, Sussex Univ A PhD studentship is available for a numerical project in mathematical finance at the University of Sussex, England. It includes a tax free maintenance bursary of £13726 per year, plus a waiver of UK/EU fees for 3.5 years. The aim of the proposed project is to bridge the physical and economic/financial aspects of renewable energy (RE) production and to shed light on the interaction between its energy production process on the one hand and energy market price dynamics on the other. It would therefore take as its starting point the fundamental uncertainty both of RE production (subject as it is to variations in, for example, wind or sun) and of electricity prices. The complexity associated with the interaction of these two risks will be analysed in the project in a mathematically rigorous framework. The results will be complemented by computational simulations. Candidates should have a strong background in at least one of the areas of Finance, Stochastic Processes, Optimal Control and Numerical Analysis. It is foreseen that this project will be carried out with the active collaboration of a major international investment bank. If you have questions concerning the vacancy, please contact Dr Max Jensen ([log in to unmask]). Additional information is available at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/funding/opportunities/view/273 Possible start dates are 19th September 2013, January 2014, May 2014, September 2014. Application is through the Sussex on-line systemhttp://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/pg/applying/2013entry/onlineapplication ------------------------------------------------------ From: Tan Bui-Thanh [log in to unmask] Date: August 22 2013 Subject: PhD Position, Model Reduction, ICES, UT A PhD position is available to work on new model reduction methods (aka reduced-order modelling or reduced basis approach) with application hyperbolic PDEs for inverse problem. The position is under supervision of Tan Bui-Thanh of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and also of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin. Please refer to http://users.ices.utexas.edu/~tanbui/ to learn more about Tan Bui-Thanh's research interest. The candidate is expected to have background in (preferably computational) engineering and (computational) applied mathematics. Previous experience with finite element methods for PDEs is a plus. The position can start as early as Spring 2014 (preferable) or Fall 2014. If you are interested, please contact Tan Bui-Thanh at [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Date: August 22 2013 Subject: PhD Positions, EU project, TU Eindhoven and Mentor Grenoble In recent years the demand of the electronics industry on mathematical methods used in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software has witnessed a tremendous growth. Highly educated European scientists are needed in the field of mathematics for the EDA industry and computational science, so as to exchange and discuss current insights and ideas, and to lay groundwork for future collaborations. Mentor Graphics is a technology leader in EDA enabling companies to develop better electronic products faster. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Zhonghua Qiao [log in to unmask] Date: August 02 2013 Subject: Contents, Communications in Computational Physics, 13(5) Communications in Computational Physics (CiCP) Volume 13, Number 5, 2013 http://www.global-sci.com/issue/contents/13/issue5.html Articles in the Issue: Regular Articles: Feng Chen and Jie ShenEfficient energy stable schemes with spectral discretization in space for anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard systems.Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 1189-1208.http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v13_1189.pdf Jian Zhang and Qiang DuRetrieving topological information of implicitly represented diffuse interfaces with adaptive finite element discretization.Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 1209-1226.http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v13_1209.pdf Xue Jiang, Peijun Li and Weiying ZhengNumerical solution of acoustic scattering by an adaptive DtN finite element method. Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 1227-1244.http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v13_1227.pdf Thomas Vogel, Tali Mutat, Joan Adler and Michael Bachmann Morphological similarities between single-walled nanotubes and tubelike structures of polymers with strong adsorption affinity to nanowires.Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 1245-1264.http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v13_1245.pdf Yi Li and Z. J. WangAn optimized correction procedure via reconstruction formulation for broadband wave computation.Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 1265-1291.http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v13_1265.pdf Xiaoxia Dai, Peipei Tang, Xiaoliang Cheng and Minghui Wu A variational binary level set method for structural topology optimization. Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 1292-1308.http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v13_1292.pdf Laura Lazar, Richard Pasquetti and Francesca Rapetti Fekete-Gauss spectral elements for incompressible Navier-Stokes flows: the two-dimensional case. Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 1309-1329.http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v13_1309.pdf G H. Tang, G. X. Zhai, W. Q. Tao, X. J. Gu and D. R. Emerson Extended thermodynamic approach for non-equilibrium gas flow.Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 1330-1356.http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v13_1330.pdf Yong ZhangOptimal error estimates of compact finite difference discretizations for the Schro"dinger-Poisson system. Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 1357-1388.http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v13_1357.pdf Fang Li, Xiangying Hao, Xiaogang LiEfficient grid treatment of the time dependent Schro"dinger equation for laser-driven molecular dynamics.Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 1389-1407.http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v13_1389.pdf Samet Y. Kadioglu and Dana A. KnollA Jacobian-free Newton Krylov implicit-explicit time integration method for incompressible flow problems.Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 1408-1431.http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v13_1408.pdf Wen-Chi Chen, Chih-Yu Kuo, Keh-Ming Shyue and Yih-Chin Tai Gas kinetic scheme for anisotropic Savage-Hutter model.Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 1432-1454.http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v13_1432.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Heroux [log in to unmask] Date: August 22 2013 Subject: Contents, ACM Transactions on Math Software (TOMS), 39(4) ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) Volume 39 Issue 4, July 2013 Scaling LAPACK panel operations using parallel cache assignment, Anthony M. Castaldo, R. Clint Whaley, Siju Samuel Evaluating an element of the Clarke generalized Jacobian of a compositepiecewise differentiable function, Kamil A. Khan, Paul I. Barton Reducing the influence of tiny normwise relative errors on performance profiles, Nicholas J. Dingle, Nicholas J. Higham On ziv's rounding test, Florent De Dinechin, Christoph Lauter, Jean-Michel Muller, Serge Torres Optimized code generation for finite element local assembly using symbolic manipulation, Francis P. Russell, Paul H. J. Kelly Algorithm 929: A suite on wavelet differentiation algorithms, Mani Mehra, Kavita Goyal Algorithm 930: FACTORIZE: An object-oriented linear system solver for MATLAB, Timothy A. Davis ------------------------------------------------------- From: Shan Zhao [log in to unmask] Date: August 09 2013 Subject: Contents, Molecular Based Mathematical Biology, 1(1) Table of Contents Molecular Based Mathematical Biology (MBMB) Volume 1, Number 1. Editors of the Inaugural Issue: Shan Zhao, Julie Mitchell, Yongcheng Zhou, and Weihua Geng. Langhua Hu, Duan Chen, and Guowei Wei, High-order fractional partial differential equation transform for molecular surface construction, 1-25. M.R. Swager and Y.C. Zhou, Genetic Exponentially Fitted Method for Solving Multi-dimensional Drift-diffusion Equations, 26-41. Chuan Li, Lin Li, Marharyta Petukh, and Emil Alexov, Progress in developing Poisson-Boltzmann equation solvers, 42-62. Robert C. Harris, Travis Mackoy, and Marcia O. Fenley, A Stochastic Solver of the Generalized Born Model, 63-74. Atilla Sit, Julie C Mitchell, George N Phillips, and Stephen J Wright, An Extension of 3D Zernike Moments for Shape Description and Retrieval of Maps Defined in Rectangular Solids, 75-89. Yan Xie, Jie Cheng, Benzhuo Lu, and Linbo Zhang, Parallel Adaptive Finite Element Algorithms for Solving the Coupled Electro-diffusion Equations, 90-108. Weihua Geng and Shan Zhao, Fully implicit ADI schemes for solving the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation, 109-123. Amelia B. Kreienkamp, Lucy Y. Liu, Mona S. Minkara, Matthew G. Knepley, Jaydeep P. Bardhan, and Mala L. Radhakrishnan, Analysis of fast boundary-integral approximations for modeling electrostatic contributions of molecular binding, 124-150. Nikolay A. Simakov and Maria G. Kurnikova, Graphical Processing Unit accelerated Poisson equation solver and its application for calculation of single ion potential in ion-channels, 151-163. Tao Liao, Yongjie Zhang, Peter M. Kekenes-Huskey, Yuhui Cheng, Anushka Michailova, Andrew D. McCulloch, Michael Holst, and J. Andrew McCammon, Multi-core CPU or GPU-accelerated Multiscale Modeling for Biomolecular Complexes, 164-179. Instructions for Authors and Online Open Access: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mlbmb ------------------------------------------------------- End of Digest ************************** -- Best regards, Danny Dunlavy NA Digest Editor