Subject: NA Digest, V. 14, # 35 NA Digest Wednesday, October 08, 2014 Volume 14 : Issue 35 Today's Editor: Daniel M. Dunlavy Sandia National Labs [log in to unmask] Today's Topics: New Book, A.-L. Cholesky Structured Matrices and Tensors, Taiwan, Dec 2014 AITEOR 2015, Indonesia, Mar 2015 Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference, Scotland, Jun 2015 Preconditioning 2015, The Netherlands, Jun 2015 Faculty Positions, New Department Being Created at MSU Open Position, Mathematical Optimization, NAG, Oxford Faculty Positions, Scientific Computing, Univ of Bath, UK Tenured Position, Scientific Computation, Texas A&M Univ Tenure Track Position, Univ of Miami, School of Business Senior Lecturer Position, Prediction Modeling in Dairy Cows Turing Fellowship Positions, Mathematics, Univ of Manchester, UK PhD Position, Nuclear Process Modelling and Optimisation Contents, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 34 (4) Contents, Journal of Scientific Computing, 61 (2) 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: Claude Brezinski [log in to unmask] Date: October 03, 2014 Subject: New Book, A.-L. Cholesky Claude Brezinski, Dominique Tournes Andre-Louis Cholesky Mathematician, Topographer and Army Officer Birkhaeuser, Basel, 2014, 311 p., 134 illustrations ISBN 978-3-319-08135-9 http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/history+of+science/book/978-3-319-08134-2 Outside the professional circles of topography and applied mathematics, the life and work of Andre-Louis Cholesky (1875–1918) are still relatively unknown to the scientific community. This new book, the only existing one on the life and the works of Cholesky and contemporaries, appreciably widens the exposure of his remarkable personal achievements in topography and mathematics to a much larger international audience. Cholesky is also interesting to historians because he is a perfect representative of the scientist engineers that, since the early 19th century, had issued from the French scientific high schools. Because they had received a high level of mathematical education, they were able to innovate in their practice of engineering. In the case of Cholesky, this resulted in original contributions in artillery, topography, numerical analysis and graphical calculation. In addition, the book places his education and works within the history of several European countries through the 17th to 19th centuries. Table on contents: Preface.- Biography of Cholesky.- Cholesky's family.- On topography.- The method of Cholesky for linear systems.- Other works of Cholesky.- Leon Eyrolles and his superior school.- An unpublished book by Cholesky.- Ernest Benoit.- Documents.- Acknowledgments. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Weichung Wang [log in to unmask] Date: October 07, 2014 Subject: Structured Matrices and Tensors, Taiwan, Dec 2014 Structured Matrices and Tensors: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications December 8-11, 2014 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Structured matrices and tensors occur in many disciplines in applied mathematics and engineering. Fast algorithms for structured matrices and tensors are of particular importance in data analysis, and signal and image processing. This conference has two major objectives. One, we want to improve the dialogue and collaboration between matrix and tensor theoreticians and the computational scientists. Two, we want to reduce the gap between the researchers working on the fundamentals and those working on real-life applications, so that emerging applications will stimulate new theoretical research and the better theoretical tools will in turn be exported back to the various application fields. See the following website for more information: https://sites.google.com/site/smtaaa14/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: P. Vasant [log in to unmask] Date: October 05, 2014 Subject: AITEOR 2015, Indonesia, Mar 2015 AITEOR 2015, Special Session on Artificial Intelligent Techniques and its application in Engineering and Operational Research at the 7th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2015) Bali, Indonesia, March 25-25, 2015 Conference website: http://www.aciids.org Artificial intelligence techniques have attracted many research scientists, decision makers and practicing researchers in recent years as powerful computational intelligent techniques, for solving unlimited number of complex real-world problems particularly related to research areas of engineering and operational research. Under the unpredictable and turbulence environment, classical and traditional approaches are partially able to obtain a complete solution with certain degree of satisfaction for the application problems. Therefore, new artificial intelligence methods are required to handle these issues significantly and holistically. The artificial intelligence methods are generic, flexible, robust, and versatile framework for solving complex problems for the global problems in engineering and operational research and its applications. Submission of papers: 15 October 2014 Notification of acceptance: 01 December 2014 Camera-ready papers: 15 December 2014 Registration & payment: 31 December 2014 Conference date: 23-25 March 2015 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Alison Ramage [log in to unmask] Date: October 05, 2014 Subject: Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference, Scotland, Jun 2015 We are pleased to announce that the 26th Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis will take place June 23-26, 2015 at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. The conference is open to all researchers in the field, and we hope that less-experienced researchers and PhD students will find the environment particularly welcoming. We are currently soliciting proposals for mini-symposia in any branch of Numerical Analysis or a cognate area. If you are interested in organising a minisymposium, please contact the conference committee at [log in to unmask] Our online registration process will open shortly, after which we will also welcome proposals for individual contributed talks. The following distinguished researchers have accepted invitations for delivering plenary lectures: Susanne Brenner (Louisiana State University), Albert Cohen (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Charlie Elliot (University of Warwick), Martin Gander (Université de Genève), Mike Giles (University of Oxford), Jan Hesthaven (EPFL), Tamara Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories), Christian Lubich (Universität Tübingen), Cleve Moler (Mathworks), Michael Saunders (Stanford University), Rob Scheichl (University of Bath), Karen Willcox (MIT). Further information may be found at http://www.naconf.org.uk Please note that the meeting will be preceded by the 17th IMA Leslie Fox Prize presentations, which will take place at the University of Strathclyde on Monday June 22nd, 2015. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Wil Schilders [log in to unmask] Date: October 07, 2014 Subject: Preconditioning 2015, The Netherlands, Jun 2015 This conference is a sequel to eight successful "preconditioning" biennial meetings which address complex issues related to the solution of general sparse matrix problems in large-scale applications and in industrial settings. The goal of the conference is to exchange ideas on recent developments in preconditioning techniques for sparse linear systems of equations, and to a lesser extent for eigenvalue problems. Confirmed invited speakers are: Scott MacLachlan, Edmund Chow, Jennifer Pestana, Stefano Serra-Capizzano, Frederic Nataf, Ulrich Ruede, Vicki Howle, Stefan Vandewalle. For further information, we refer to the conference website: http://www.win.tue.nl/precon2015 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Jianliang Qian [log in to unmask] Date: October 05, 2014 Subject: Faculty Positions, New Department Being Created at MSU The Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE), a new department being created at Michigan State University, invites applications from outstanding candidates for two tenure-stream open-rank faculty positions in the broad area of mathematical foundations of data science. While all areas of data science will be considered, a special consideration will be given to candidates with a background in applied harmonic analysis, topology of big data and optimization. These two positions are part of a committed multi-year effort to build the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering. The positions will be joint appointments with the Department of Mathematics with tenure home in CMSE. The anticipated start date is August 16, 2015. Preference will be given to candidates with at least two years postdoc experience beyond Ph.D. Online application is required. To complete the online application, please go to https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/. The application dossier should include a cover letter, a CV, statements on research and teaching, and at least four letters of recommendation; one of the recommendation letters must specifically address the applicant's ability to teach. Applications received by Dec. 1, 2014 will receive full consideration, but the search will continue until the positions are filled. MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer and is committed to achieving excellence through diversity. The University actively encourages applications from women, persons of color, veterans, and persons with disabilities. The University endeavors to facilitate employment assistance to spouses or partners of candidates for faculty positions. ------------------------------------------------------- From: david cassell [log in to unmask] Date: October 03, 2014 Subject: Open Position, Mathematical Optimization, NAG, Oxford The development team at The Numerical Algorithms Group(NAG) is seeking an appropriate specialist in mathematical optimization (e.g. LP, QP, NLP and Mixed Integer problems)... - Experience of developing solvers for relevant problem types - Strong programming skills in Fortran or C/C++ - Experience in applying optimization techniques to real-world problems - A desire to apply skills in code development to a commercial environment - An aptitude for helping practitioners to solve difficult problems efficiently - Advanced degree in numerical analysis or similar More information: http://www.nag.com/about/careers/optimization-specialist Closing date 1 November 2014 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Robert Scheichl [log in to unmask] Date: October 07, 2014 Subject: Faculty Positions, Scientific Computing, Univ of Bath, UK University of Bath, Department of Mathematical Sciences *Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Scientific Computing* Salary: £38,511 to £54,841; Closing Date: 12 November 2014 We seek applicants with a strong grounding in both mathematics and high performance computing, and a keen interest in parallelisation and novel architectures, who would be able to complement and interact with one or more of the existing areas of expertise at Bath, including Differential Equations, Continuum Mechanics, Dynamical Systems & Complexity, Industrial Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Control Theory, Numerical Analysis, Networks & Collective Behaviour, Probability, Statistics. A successful applicant at SL/Reader Level will have a strong track record of independent research of international standing. At Lecturer Level a successful applicant will have shown (at least) exceptional potential for achieving such research excellence. They will be expected to sustain a leading research programme, to be active in developing and submitting competitive applications for external funding, and to pursue collaborations with non-academic partners and researchers in other disciplines. Candidates should also have a strong interest in pursuing excellence in teaching and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students. We are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive working environment and particularly welcome applications from women. To submit an application and for further details please refer to http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=SS2726 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Andrea Bonito [log in to unmask] Date: October 02, 2014 Subject: Tenured Position, Scientific Computation, Texas A&M Univ The Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M university invites applications for a position in Scientific Computation/Computational Mathematics at the rank of Full or Associate Professor beginning in Fall 2015. Preference will be given to candidates with a research activity in health science or natural and built environments. The applicant should have an outstanding research record, including success in attracting external funding, and demonstrated ability and interest to teach successfully. Informal inquiries are welcome. A complete dossier should be received by December 1, 2014. Applicants should send the completed "AMS Application Cover Sheet", a vita, statements on research and on teaching, and arrange to have letters of recommendation sent to Mathjobs: http://www.mathjobs.org. Further information can be obtained from: http://www.math.tamu.edu/hiring. Texas A&M University is an equal opportunity employer. The University is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans. The University is responsive to the needs of dual career couples. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Tallys Yunes [log in to unmask] Date: October 07, 2014 Subject: Tenure Track Position, Univ of Miami, School of Business Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Management Science (Big Data Analytics) The Management Science Department at the University of Miami's School of Business Administration invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior or advanced Assistant Professor level to begin in the Fall of 2015. Exceptional candidates at higher ranks will be considered subject to additional approval from the administration. Salaries are extremely competitive and commensurate with background and experience. This is a nine-month appointment but generous summer research support is anticipated from the School of Business. Applicants with research interests in all areas of Analytics will be considered, although primary consideration will be given to those with expertise in Big Data Analytics and the computational challenges of dealing with large data sets. Expertise in, or experience with, one or more of the following is particularly welcome: MapReduce/Hadoop, Mahout, Cassandra, cloud computing, mobile/wearable technologies, social media analytics, recommendation systems, data mining and machine learning, and text mining. The Management Science Department is a diverse group of faculty with expertise in several areas within Operations Research and Analytics, including statistics and machine learning, optimization, simulation, and quality management. Duties will include research and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Applicants should possess, or be close to completing, a PhD in computer science, operations research, statistics, or a related discipline by the start date of employment. Applications should be submitted by e-mail to [log in to unmask], and should include the following: a curriculum vitae, up to three representative publications, brief research and teaching statements, an official graduate transcript (for the junior Assistant Professor level), information about teaching experience and performance evaluations, and three letters of recommendation. All applications completed by December 1, 2014 will receive full consideration, but candidates are urged to submit all required material as soon as possible. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Ulf Emanuelson [log in to unmask] Date: October 05, 2014 Subject: Senior Lecturer Position, Prediction Modeling in Dairy Cows The trend in dairy production is towards fewer but larger herds that rely on decision- support systems based on automated recordings. There are already many devices available for automatic recording, while others are under development. The rapid development in molecular biology allows for routine genotyping of cows for a large number of DNA markers. This wealth of information can be used to improve decision making with respect to feeding, health management, and breeding, but advanced analytical methods are required to fully capitalize on their value. The faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) is making a special effort within this area in the “Beijer Laboratory for Animal Science,” supported by the Kjell and Märta Beijer Foundation. We are therefore recruiting a researcher that will deliver novel tools and methods to breed and manage dairy cows – please see http://www.slu.se/sv/om-slu/fristaende-sidor/aktuellt/lediga- tjanster/las-mer/?eng=1&Pid=1593 for further information. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Nick Higham [log in to unmask] Date: October 08, 2014 Subject: Turing Fellowship Positions, Mathematics, Univ of Manchester, UK University of Manchester, School of Mathematics Turing Fellowships in Mathematics Salary: Starting from GBP 34,233 - 58,172 per annum Closing Date: January 12, 2015 Named after Alan Turing, one of the most gifted and innovative researchers of the twentieth century (and a former member of staff of the University of Manchester), these highly prestigious fellowships are open to truly outstanding mathematicians from across the world. The fellowships are funded by a generous external donation, and are of four years duration. Applicants will be engaging in research at the highest international standards and show the promise of becoming world leaders in their fields. Applicants will usually be outstanding early-career postdoctoral researchers, but recent doctorands of exceptional ability and potential will also be considered. Salary is negotiable and may include a significant enhancement to reflect the calibre of the fellows. To submit an application and for further details please visit https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=8660 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Eric S Fraga [log in to unmask] Date: October 07, 2014 Subject: PhD Position, Nuclear Process Modelling and Optimisation Applications are invited for a PhD funding opportunity in UCL Chemical Engineering for a January 2015 start. The studentship will be part of a multi-disciplinary project with partners at a number of UK universities. In this project, we will be modelling intensified separations as part of the reprocessing cycle in nuclear power generation. The aim is to develop a full system model to identify optimal process configurations. We are looking for students with a mathematical and/or computational background. The funding is restricted to UK/EU students alone. Further details and links for applying are available at http://tinyurl.com/opm52ft ------------------------------------------------------- From: Neha Mistry [log in to unmask] Date: October 07, 2014 Subject: Contents, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 34 (4) IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis Links to all articles in this issue are available online at: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/6112/1 Stable phase field approximations of anisotropic solidification, John W. Barrett, Harald Garcke, and Robert Nürnberg Moment equations for the mixed formulation of the Hodge Laplacian with stochastic loading term, Francesca Bonizzoni, Annalisa Buffa, and Fabio Nobile A decoupled and unconditionally convergent linear FEM integrator for the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation with magnetostriction, Ľubomír Baňas, Marcus Page, Dirk Praetorius, and Jonathan Rochat Multigrid for an HDG method, B. Cockburn, O. Dubois, J. Gopalakrishnan, and S. Tan Well-posedness of hp-version discontinuous Galerkin methods for fractional diffusion wave equations, Kassem Mustapha and Dominik Schötzau A local discontinuous Galerkin approximation for systems with p-structure, Lars Diening, Dietmar Kröner, Michael Růžička, and Ioannis Toulopoulos Conforming and divergence-free Stokes elements in three dimensions, Johnny Guzmán and Michael Neilan Corrected trapezoidal rules for a class of singular functions, Oana Marin, Olof Runborg, and Anna-Karin Tornberg There is no pointwise consistent quasicontinuum energy, Matthew Dobson One-shot solution of a time-dependent time-periodic PDE- constrained optimization problem, Martin Stoll Adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for nonstationary convection–diffusion problems, Andrea Cangiani, Emmanuil H. Georgoulis, and Stephen Metcalfe L∞(L∞)-boundedness and convergence of DG(p) solutions for nonlinear conservation laws with boundary conditions, Christian Henke and Lutz Angermann A posteriori error estimates for mixed finite element and finite volume methods for problems coupled through a boundary with nonmatching grids, T. Arbogast, D. Estep, B. Sheehan, and S. Tavener Gaussian quadrature rules with an exponential weight on the real semiaxis, Giuseppe Mastroianni, Incoronata Notarangelo, and Gradimir V. Milovanović A new approach to the analysis of axisymmetric problems, Minah Oh Redundancy of smoothness conditions and supersmoothness of bivariate splines, T. Sorokina ------------------------------------------------------- From: Chi-Wang Shu [log in to unmask] Date: October 07, 2014 Subject: Contents, Journal of Scientific Computing, 61 (2) Journal of Scientific Computing http://www.springeronline.com/journal/10915 Volume 61, Number 2, November 2014 A Scalable Approach for Variational Data Assimilation, Luisa D'Amore, Rossella Arcucci and Luisa Carracciuolo, pp.239-257. Parallel Domain Decomposition Methods with Mixed Order Discretization for Fully Implicit Solution of Tracer Transport Problems on the Cubed-Sphere, Haijian Yang, Chao Yang and Xiao-Chuan Cai, pp.258-280. A PNPM-CPR Framework for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, Lei Shi, Z.J. Wang, L.P. Zhang, Wei Liu and Song Fu, pp.281-307. An Efficient Lattice Boltzmann Model for Steady Convection-Diffusion Equation, Qianhuan Li, Zhenhua Chai and Baochang Shi, pp.308-326. Numerical Anisotropy Study of a Class of Compact Schemes, Adrian Sescu and Ray Hixon, pp.327-342. Improved Accuracy of High-Order WENO Finite Volume Methods on Cartesian Grids, Pawel Buchmuller and Christiane Helzel, pp.343-368. Atmospheric Sound Propagation Over Large-Scale Irregular Terrain, Martin Almquist, Ilkka Karasalo and Ken Mattsson, pp.369-397. An Analysis of Solution Point Coordinates for Flux Reconstruction Schemes on Triangular Elements, F.D. Witherden and P.E. Vincent, pp.398-423. Variational Space-Time Methods for the Wave Equation, Uwe Kocher and Markus Bause, pp.424-453. High-Order Flux Correction for Viscous Flows on Arbitrary Unstructured Grids, B. Pincock and A. Katz, pp.454-476. ------------------------------------------------------- End of Digest **************************