Subject: NA Digest, V. 14, # 12 NA Digest Monday, April 28, 2014 Volume 14 : Issue 12 Today's Editor: Daniel M. Dunlavy Sandia National Labs [log in to unmask] Today's Topics: Software, Big Data Message Passing Interface (BDMPI) Torsten Bosse Named Wilkinson Fellow at Argonne New Book, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra New Book, Nonlinear Time Scale Systems New Book, Physics and Partial Differential Equations, Volume II PASC14 Conference, Switzerland, Jun 2014 Sparse Days at CERFACS, France, Jun 2014 Summer School, Parallel Prog & Hydrid Systems, Switzerland, Jun-Jul 2014 ICERM IdeaLab, USA, Aug 2014 MBI Undergraduate Capstone Conference, USA, Aug 2014 New Deadline, NUMAN 2014, Greece, Sep 2014 Maxwell Inst Grad School on Evolution Equations, UK, Oct 2014 IMA Game Theory and its Applications, UK, Dec 2014 Faculty Position, Applied and Comp Math, Bergen Postdoc Position, Computational Math, Univ of Coimbra Postdoc Position, Operational Hydrology, SUTD Postdoc Position, Scalable Algorithms, Sandia National Labs Contents, TWMS Journal of Pure and Applied Math, 5 (1) Subscribe, unsubscribe, change address, or for na-digest archives: http://www.netlib.org/na-digest-html/faq.html Submissions for NA Digest: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/na-digest/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: George Karypis [log in to unmask] Date: April 25, 2014 Subject: Software, Big Data Message Passing Interface (BDMPI) We will like to announce the availability of the Big Data Message Passing Interface (BDMPI). BDMPI is a message passing library and associated runtime system for developing high-performance out-of-core distributed computing applications. BDMPI is designed for problems whose aggregate memory requirements exceed the amount of memory that is available on the underlying computing cluster. BDMPI is based on the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and allows existing MPI-based applications to compile unchanged and efficiently run in an out-of-core fashion. In addition, BDMPI provides a small number of new APIs that are tuned for its memory and execution model, which lead to further performance improvements. Information about BDMPI and instructions on how to download it and use it is available at: http://www.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/bdmpi ------------------------------------------------------- From: Sven Leyffer [log in to unmask] Date: April 21, 2014 Subject: Torsten Bosse Named Wilkinson Fellow at Argonne Torsten Bosse from the Humboldt University of Berlin has been named the 2014 J.H. Wilkinson Fellow in Scientific Computing. He will join the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory in September. Torsten was chosen by the selection committee because of his strong background in both scientific computing and practical applications. He has worked on applications in process systems engineering and optimal control, applying a one-shot approach to design optimization. Torsten has already made contributions to a broad range of areas, including PDE- constrained optimization, nonlinear programming, graph theory, and nonsmooth automatic differentiation (AD). Together with Andreas Griewank (who developed AD tools at Argonne in the 90s) and others, Torsten built the LRAMBO solver for nonlinear optimization. LRAMBO is a total quasi-Newton active-set solver that cleverly combines cheaply available derivatives via AD with quasi-Newton approximations. The Wilkinson Fellowship was created by Argonne's Mathematics and Computer Science Division in memory of Dr. James Hardy Wilkinson, F.R.S., who for many years acted as a consultant and guiding spirit for such efforts as the EISPACK and LINPACK projects. The fellowship is intended to assist a young scientist engaged in state-of-the-art research in scientific computing. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Gilbert Strang [log in to unmask] Date: April 26, 2014 Subject: New Book, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra This is a new textbook for the basic differential equations course. You can see a section of every chapter on the book's website http://math.mit.edu/dela Many departments want this course to include more about linear algebra than the basic matrix operations. Often the standard texts for differential equations are a generation old. The subject has moved -- impulse responses in engineering, networks and graphs throughout biology and computer science, and much more. Let's move forward with our teaching too. And the book is for everyone: the subject is so important. I will be grateful if this reaches faculty who organize this course and are open to a new textbook. SIAM will help in the distribution of this text from Wellesley-Cambridge Press (one goal is to keep costs reasonable for students: about $65 on Amazon and below half of the prices from big publishers). In press now -- please see the website and thank you for any advice. [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] ISBN 978-09802327-9-0 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Bailey [log in to unmask] Date: April 25, 2014 Subject: New Book, Nonlinear Time Scale Systems Announcing the April 22, 2014, publication by SIAM of: Nonlinear Time Scale Systems in Standard and Nonstandard Forms: Analysis and Control, by Anshu Narang-Siddarth and John Valasek xviii + 219 pages / Hardcover / ISBN 978-1-611973-33-4 / List Price $94.00 / SIAM Member Price $65.80 / Order Code DC26 This book introduces key concepts for systematically controlling engineering systems that possess interacting phenomena occurring at widely different speeds. The aim is to present the reader with control techniques that extend the benefits of model reduction of singular perturbation theory to a larger class of nonlinear dynamical systems. New results and relevant background are presented through insightful examples that cover a wide range of applications from different branches of engineering. It is intended for researchers and practitioners who use time scale methods to mitigate the curse of dimensionality and higher order controllers. It will be specifically useful to aerospace, mechanical, and electrical engineers, as well as students and researchers in applied mathematics interested in systems and control. It will also be of interest to physicists, biologists, and chemists who use time scale techniques. To order, or for more information about this and all SIAM books, please visit http://www.siam.org/books. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Bailey [log in to unmask] Date: April 25, 2014 Subject: New Book, Physics and Partial Differential Equations, Volume II Announcing the April 17, 2014, publication by SIAM of: Physics and Partial Differential Equations, Volume II, by Tatsien Li and Tiehu Qi x + 271 pages / Softcover / 978-1-611973-31-0 / List Price $89.00 / SIAM Member Price $62.30 / Order Code OT137 Physics and Partial Differential Equations, Volume II proceeds directly from Volume I (SIAM, 2012) with five additional chapters that bridge physics and applied mathematics in a manner that is easily accessible to readers with an undergraduate-level background in these disciplines. Readers who are more familiar with mathematics than physics will discover the connection between various physical and mechanical disciplines and their related mathematical models, which are described by partial differential equations (PDEs). The authors establish the fundamental equations for fields such as electrodynamics; fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and reacting fluid dynamics. Readers who are more familiar with physics than mathematics will benefit from in-depth explanations of how PDEs work as effective mathematical tools to more clearly express and present the basic concepts of physics. To order, or for more information about this and all SIAM books, please visit http://www.siam.org/books. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Olaf Schenk [log in to unmask] Date: April 22, 2014 Subject: PASC14 Conference, Switzerland, Jun 2014 Call for Participation/Registration The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC14) Conference will take place June 2-3, 2014 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Registration and the preliminary program are available at: http://www.pasc14.org/. There will be seven plenary talks, one public lecture, 65 selected contributed talks, and over 80 poster presentations. Registration Deadline: Thursday, May 15, 2014 The conference brings together computational scientists and research groups from diverse scientific domains, including Climate Modelling, Solid Earth Dynamics, Life Sciences, Material Science, Physics, and Computer Science/Mathematics. It aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and to strengthen HPC research and knowledge exchange. PASC14 Plenary speakers: - Pier Luigi Vidale, University of Reading, - Omar Ghattas, University of Texas at Austin, USA - John Lowengrub, University of California at Irvine, USA - Eric Lindahl, SciLifeLab Stockholm, KTH, Sweden - Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom - Roman Hatzky, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Germany - Bill Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA PASC14 Public Lecture: "The Arrow of Computational Science", Petros Koumoutsakos (ETH Zurich) ------------------------------------------------------- From: Iain Duff [log in to unmask] Date: April 24, 2014 Subject: Sparse Days at CERFACS, France, Jun 2014 The annual "Sparse Days at CERFACS" will take place on the 5th and 6th of June, 2014. The deadline for registration and talk submission is 30 April 2014. We will entertain late registrations until 9 May but and it would greatly help us if you were able to register by 30 April. The Sparse Days meeting will be similar in format to previous years. No invited speakers and all talks in plenary session. Talks on any aspect covered by the title are fine, any on numerical linear algebra, sparse optimization or on data assimilation would fit well with some of the current research at CERFACS. As always we suggest a special theme which, for this year, is in the study of how to monitor accuracy and error when solving the very large systems that we hope will become tractable when we have Exascale computing. Registration (which is free) and requests for free student-style accommodation in the Meteo Residences should be sent to Brigitte Yzel ([log in to unmask]). A dinner is organized for Thursday evening that will be subsidised for students and details will be sent to all registrants. Titles and abstracts for presentations of 30 minutes (although you can offer a shorter talk if you wish) should be sent to Xavier Vasseur ([log in to unmask]). Information on this meeting can be found from the Algo web pages at http://www.cerfacs.fr/6-27149-Sparse-Days-2014.php. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Olaf Schenk [log in to unmask] Date: April 22, 2014 Subject: Summer School, Parallel Prog & Hydrid Systems, Switzerland, Jun-Jul 2014 CSCS (http://www.cscs.ch) and ICS (http://www.ics.inf.usi.ch/) organize a 10 day Summer School focused on parallel programming MPI, OpenMP, CUDA and OpenACC aimed at graduate students who are new to the world of high performance computing and hybrid systems and who wish to learn the basic skills required to write, develop and maintain parallel applications in scientific computing. The purpose of the summer school is to teach programming skills and therefore a large proportion of the course will be dedicated to practical exercises. The Summer School 2014 will take place at the Hotel Serpiano, in Ticino, Switzerland. Please visit the webpage for more information http://www.cscs.ch/events/event_detail/index.html?tx_seminars_pi1[showUid]=84 Potential participants are advised to apply by filling in the form available on the webpage by April 30th, 2014. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Christina Mata [log in to unmask] Date: April 24, 2014 Subject: ICERM IdeaLab, USA, Aug 2014 ICERM IdeaLab 2014: Program for Early Career Researchers (August 11-15, 2014) http://icerm.brown.edu/idealab_2014/ Idea-Lab is a one-week program aimed at early career researchers (within five years of their Ph.D.) that will focus on two different topics at the frontier of research. Participants will be exposed to problems whose solution may require broad perspectives and multiple areas of expertise. Senior researchers will introduce the topics in tutorials and lead discussions. The participants will break into teams to brainstorm ideas, comprehend the obstacles, and explore possible avenues towards solutions. The teams will be encouraged to develop a research program proposal. On the last day, they will present their ideas to one another and to a small panel of representatives from funding agencies for feedback and advice. ------------------------------------------------------- From: April Shelton [log in to unmask] Date: April 23, 2014 Subject: MBI Undergraduate Capstone Conference, USA, Aug 2014 MBI Undergraduate Capstone Conference August 11-15, 2014 The MBI Capstone conference offers undergraduate student researchers in the mathematical biosciences an opportunity to present their work on the national stage. This student centered conference features - Recruitment fair for graduate studies - Panels on jobs and graduate opportunities - Keynotes from prominent Math Biologist - Social event at the Columbus Zoo/Aquarium - Talks and posters by student researchers Deadline for applications: July 12, 2014 To apply visit http://www.mbi.osu.edu/event?id=874 Mathematical Biosciences Institute The Ohio State University Jennings Hall 3rd Floor, 1735 Neil Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 • 614-292-3648 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Yiannis Saridakis [log in to unmask] Date: April 22, 2014 Subject: New Deadline, NUMAN 2014, Greece, Sep 2014 The 6th International Conference on Numerical Analysis "NumAn2014 - Recent Approaches to Numerical Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications" will take place at the old venetian harbour of Chania on the island of Crete, Greece, on September 2-5, 2014. The themes of the conference are in the broad area of numerical analysis and applications, including: - numerical methods, algorithms and software - numerical and scientific computing - numerical methods and computational modelling in Science and Engineering - parallel and high-performance numerical computation All areas of numerical analysis are considered, including: - numerical linear algebra - numerical solution of ordinary, partial and stochastic differential equations - numerical solution of integral equations - nonlinear and optimization problems Several Workshops will be organized to highlight current mathematical, numerical, computational and technological trends in areas of high scientific interest. We invite interested researchers to submit one-page abstracts, for lecture or poster presentations, on topics pertaining to the themes of the conference and the workshops, by SUNDAY MAY 25, 2014 (NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE). For more information please visit the web site: http://numan2014.amcl.tuc.gr ------------------------------------------------------- From: Lehel Banjai [log in to unmask] Date: April 22, 2014 Subject: Maxwell Inst Grad School on Evolution Equations, UK, Oct 2014 Maxwell Institute Graduate School on Evolution Equations will be held in Edinburgh on October 8-10, 2014. Erwan Faou (INRIA & ENS Paris) and Christian Lubich (Tübingen) will give short courses on the analysis of stochastic evolution equations (Faou) and on the long-time behavior of oscillatory Hamiltonian ODEs and PDEs and their numerical discretizations (Lubich). The lectures will be complemented by talks of senior participants and advanced students. Some limited funding for British postgraduate students, and in particular for students from Scottish universities will be available. Further information is available at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~hg94/evo14 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Pamela Bye [log in to unmask] Date: April 25, 2014 Subject: IMA Game Theory and its Applications, UK, Dec 2014 8 – 10 December 2014, St Anne’s College, Oxford The IMA is pleased to announce the first conference on Game Theory and its Application, taking place at the University of Oxford on 8 – 10 December 2014. Conference topics include the following and are invited to be presented in oral and poster sessions: Search Games with Human and Animal Agents; Equilibrium Computation; Game Theory for Sustainability; Game Theory and Cyber-Security; Game Theory for Auctions and Markets; Gameification. Papers will be accepted for the conference based on a 500-word abstract for oral or poster presentation. Abstracts should be submitted by Friday 5 September 2014 by e-mail to [log in to unmask] Successful authors will be notified by Friday 26 September 2014. Please state whether your title is intended for oral or poster presentation. For further information on this conference, please visit the conference webpage: http://ima.org.uk/conferences/conferences_calendar/game_theory_and_ its_applications.html For general conference queries or to register your interest in this conference, please contact Lizzi Lake, Conference Officer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0) 1702 354 020 Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1EF, UK. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Hans Munthe-Kaas [log in to unmask] Date: April 23, 2014 Subject: Faculty Position, Applied and Comp Math, Bergen DEADLINE: MAY 15. DETAILED ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/99823/associate-professor- in-applied-and-computational-mathematics The Department of Mathematics (http://www.uib.no/math/en), University of Bergen, Norway, has a vacancy for an associate professor in applied and computational mathematics. For further information about the position please contact Professor Jarle Berntsen, e-mail [log in to unmask], or Professor Hans Munthe-Kaas, e-mail hans.munthe- [log in to unmask] Applicants must have achieved a Norwegian doctorate in applied and/or computational mathematics or equivalent abroad by the closing date for applications. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Isabel Figueiredo [log in to unmask] Date: April 24, 2014 Subject: Postdoc Position, Computational Math, Univ of Coimbra 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 July 01, 2014. 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, 2011). 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: - Curriculum vitae (publication list included). - Statement of research interests (one page maximum, describing concisely scientific interests and the relation with the proposed postdoctoral position). - Names and email-addresses of at least two scientists willing to provide references. Period for applications : from 07th to 20th May, 2014. 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 (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal). Contact for further information: Isabel M. Narra Figueiredo ( http://www.mat.uc.pt/~isabelf ). ------------------------------------------------------- From: Stefano Galelli [log in to unmask] Date: April 24, 2014 Subject: Postdoc Position, Operational Hydrology, SUTD The position is offered within the SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC), a scholarly hub for technologically-intensive design science and research based both in Singapore at SUTD, and in Cambridge, USA, at MIT (http://idc.sutd.edu.sg). The successful applicant will be offered a 2-year position in Singapore and will collaborate with Dr. Stefano Galelli (SUTD) and Prof. Karen Willcox (MIT) on the project entitled “Climate-Resilient Design: Using Global Teleconnection Patterns to Improve the Design of Water Resources Systems”. The project will rely on a multi-disciplinary approach, adopting methods from hydrological sciences, statistics, optimization and computational science to develop a design framework aimed at enhancing the robustness and resilience of large-scale water resources systems. The areas of research include: i) Detection of the impact of climate fluctuations on local hydro-meteorological processes, and assessment of the potential of climate indices for building medium-to-long range data-driven prediction models; ii) Development of an optimization-based decision model to allow the simulation of water systems (e.g. water reservoir networks) under different prediction scenarios; iii) Quantitative assessment of the predictions uncertainty of the designed solutions. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in engineering, science or applied mathematics, with a strong academic background in hydrological processes, statistics and/or probability. In-depth knowledge of systems analysis, stochastic modelling, optimization and control is an asset. Further requirements include excellent skills in programming (e.g. C/C++, MatLab, Python) and ability in handling large multivariable datasets. Finally, the successful candidate must be comfortable with both team and independent work, and possess a proven record of scientific excellence, personal initiative, and advanced proficiency in communicating scientific findings in peer-reviewed journals and at professional meetings. Excellent command of English is essential. The position is available from August 1, 2014. Attractive working conditions include a competitive compensation and funded short-term visits at MIT. Applications will be evaluated until a suitable candidate is found. Interested candidates should send a motivation letter, CV, and a list of publications to [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonathan Hu [log in to unmask] Date: April 21, 2014 Subject: Postdoc Position, Scalable Algorithms, Sandia National Labs Sandia National Laboratories' Scalable Algorithms department is seeking postdoctoral researchers to develop algorithms for high performance computing on next generation HPC platforms. Candidates should have a background in parallel algorithms for large scale scientific applications, particularly the solution of systems of PDEs. Experience in one or more of the following areas is desired: combinatorial scientific computing methods, resilient algorithms, linear solvers and multilevel methods, hybrid parallel programming (MPI, CUDA , threads), advanced HPC architectures, and modern softwareengineering practices. For more information and to apply, please see the job posting at http://tinyurl.com/SNL-1426-postdoc, or search for posting 645980 at http://www.sandia.gov/careers/index.html. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Gamar Mammadova [log in to unmask] Date: April 21, 2014 Subject: Contents, TWMS Journal of Pure and Applied Math, 5 (1) Turkic World Mathematical Society Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, ISSN 2076-2585 http://iam.bsu.edu.az/az/content/twms_journal_of_pure_and_applied_mathematics Volume 5, No. 1, 2014 1.On Generalized Metric Spaces: a Survey, Z. Kadelburg, S. Radenovic 2.Expansion Approach for Solving Nonlinear Volterra Integro-Differential Equationsm J. Rashidinia , A. Tahmasebi 3.The Symmetric P-stable Hybrid Obrechko Methods for the Numerical Solution of Second Order IVP's, A.Shokri 4.Existence and Uniqueness of Solution of Nonstationary Boltzmann's Moment System Equations in Third Approximation, A.Sakabekov, E. Auzhani 5.Fixed Point Theorems for F-Weakly Contractive Mappings in Partially Ordered Metric Spaces, M.E. Gordji, M. Ramezani, S. Pirbavafa 6.On the Existence and Uniqueness of Solution for a Class of Fractional Order Boundary Value Problem, A.Babakhani 7.Statistically Convergent and Statistically Cauchy Sequence in a Cone Metric Space, N.R. Das, R. Dey, B.C. Tripathy 8.On Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft Topological Spaces, S. Bayramov, C. Gunduz 9.Impact and Optimal Control of Movement on a Multipatch Hepatitis C Virus Model, K.O. Okosun 10.Numerical Conformal Mapping via a Boundary Integral Equation with the Adjoint Generalized Neumann Kernel, M.M.S. Nasser, A.H.M. Murid, A.W.K. Sangawi 11.On Generalized Class of p-Valent Functions with Negative Coefficients, R.M. EL-Ashwah, M.K. Aouf, H.M. Zayed 12.Algorithm to Solution of Optimization Problem with Periodic Condition and Boundary Control, N.S. Mukhtarova 13.BOOK REVIEW. Probability, Entire Functions and Estimations of Wiman-Valiron Type for Evolution Equations. Reviewed by V.A. Il'in ------------------------------------------------------- End of Digest **************************