Subject: NA Digest, V. 15, # 12 NA Digest Monday, March 23, 2015 Volume 15 : Issue 12 Today's Editor: Daniel M. Dunlavy Sandia National Labs [log in to unmask] Today's Topics: New Book, Active Subspaces New Book, Evaluating Gas Network Capacities Cascade RAIN Meeting, USA, April 2015 Imaging Workshop, UK, Jul 2015 Matrix Methods in Mathematics and Applications, Russia, Aug 2015 Junior Professorship Position, Computational Math, HU Berlin Postdoc/Junior Visiting Fellow Position, NUMERIWAVES Project Postdoc Position, Memorial Univ of Newfoundland PhD Positions, Univ of Chester 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: Bruce Bailey [log in to unmask] Date: March 20, 2015 Subject: New Book, Active Subspaces Active Subspaces: Emerging Ideas for Dimension Reduction in Parameter Studies, by Paul G. Constantine x + 100 pages / Softcover / ISBN 978-1-611973-85-3 / List Price $39.00 / SIAM Member Price $27.30 / Order Code SL02 Scientists and engineers use computer simulations to study relationships between a model's input parameters and its outputs. However, thorough parameter studies are challenging, if not impossible, when the simulation is expensive and the model has several inputs. To enable studies in these instances, the engineer may attempt to reduce the dimension of the model's input parameter space. Active subspaces are an emerging set of dimension reduction tools that identify important directions in the parameter space. This book describes techniques for discovering a model's active subspace and proposes methods for exploiting the reduced dimension to enable otherwise infeasible parameter studies. Readers will find new ideas for dimension reduction, easy-to-implement algorithms, and several examples of active subspaces in action. To order or for more about this book, including links to its table of contents, preface, and index, please visit http://bookstore.siam.org/SL02/. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Bailey [log in to unmask] Date: March 20, 2015 Subject: New Book, Evaluating Gas Network Capacities Evaluating Gas Network Capacities, edited by Thorsten Koch, Benjamin Hiller, Marc E. Pfetsch, and Lars Schewe xvi + 364 pages / Softcover / ISBN 978-1-611973-68-6 / List Price $99.00 / SIAM Member Price $69.30 / Order Code MO21 This book addresses a seemingly simple question: Can a certain amount of gas be transported within a pipeline network? The question is difficult, however, when asked in relation to a meshed nationwide gas transportation network and when taking into account technical details and discrete decisions, as well as regulations, contracts, and varying demands involved. Evaluating Gas Network Capacities provides an introduction to the field of gas transportation planning and discusses in detail the advantages and disadvantages of several mathematical models that address gas transport within the context of the technical and regulatory framework. It shows how to solve the models using sophisticated mathematical optimization algorithms and includes examples of large-scale applications of mathematical optimization to this real-world industrial problem. To order or for more about this book, including links to its table of contents, preface, and index, please visit http://bookstore.siam.org/MO21/ . ------------------------------------------------------- From: Jay Gopalakrishnan [log in to unmask] Date: March 18, 2015 Subject: Cascade RAIN Meeting, USA, April 2015 The Cascade RAIN (Regional Applied Interdisciplinary and Numerical math) Meeting will be held in Portland, Oregon, on April 4, 2015: https://sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/rain/ This annual one-day conference follows the same format as the Finite Element Circuses and Rodeos. It facilitates rapid communication of research activities in applied and computational mathematics in the northwest region. Please register online if you are interested in speaking or participating. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Ke Chen [log in to unmask] Date: March 22, 2015 Subject: Imaging Workshop, UK, Jul 2015 The registration is now open for the July workshop. The 3rd International Workshop on Image Processing Techniques and Applications, incorporating Mathematical Imaging with Biomedical Applications, will be held at Liverpool during July 6-8, 2015 http://www.liv.ac.uk/cmit/workshop_15/ Though there is no registration fee for this EPSRC funded event, places are limited due to room capacity and seating. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Ivan Oseledets [log in to unmask] Date: March 22, 2015 Subject: Matrix Methods in Mathematics and Applications, Russia, Aug 2015 4rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATRIX METHODS IN MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONS August 24 - 28, 2015, Moscow, Russia For participation and talk submission, use the conference website: http://matrix.inm.ras.ru/mmma-2015/ Organizing committee: Dario Bini (University of Pisa), Alexander Guterman (MSU), Ivan Oseledets (Skoltech), Denis Zorin (Courant Institute of Mathematics), Eugene Tyrtyshnikov (INM-MSU, chair) Main topics include different areas in linear algebra and its applications with an accent on new trends in linear algebra and computational technologies. We plan to have plenary talks and three (maybe parallel) sessions: (1) MATRICES AND ALGEBRA; (2) MATRICES AND ALGORITHMS; (3) MATRICES AND APPLICATIONS ------------------------------------------------------- From: Carsten Carstensen [log in to unmask] Date: March 18, 2015 Subject: Junior Professorship Position, Computational Math, HU Berlin W1-Junior-Professorship in “Computational Mathematics” to be filled a.s.a.p at Department of Mathematics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Applicants should have a strong profile in the areas of computational partial differential equations and scientific supercomputing to complement the expertise of applied mathematics at Humboldt-Universität. The successful candidate is expected to play an active role in the computational sciences in Adlershof and to create a productive junior research group with links to Berlin's applied mathematics. The applicants must meet the legal requirements for professorial appointments in accordance with § 102a of the “Berliner Hochschulgesetz”. HU is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and specifically encourages qualified female scientists/researchers to apply. Researchers from abroad are welcome to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will equally be given preferential consideration. People with a migration background are specifically encouraged to apply. Please send your application including the usual documents until April 9, 2015 and quoting the reference number JP/001/15 to: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Prof. Dr. Elmar Kulke, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany and in electronic form via https://www2.physik.hu-berlin.de/ssl/compmath Since we will not return your documents, please submit copies in the application only. ------------------------------------------------------- From: MIGUEL A. BENITEZ [log in to unmask] Date: March 19, 2015 Subject: Postdoc/Junior Visiting Fellow Position, NUMERIWAVES Project BCAM, the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, has opened an International Call offering a position for 6 months Posdoc / Junior Visiting Fellow within “NUMERIWAVES – New Analytical and Numerical Methods in Wave Propagation” Research Project, coordinated by E. Zuazua and funded by the ERCEA (European Research Council Executive Agency). Applications must be submitted on-line at: http://www.bcamath.org/en/research/job/6-months-postdoc-junior-visiting-fellow- numeriwaves-project Call fiche and role profile: Download pdf file (180 KB) http://www.bcamath.org/documentos_public/archivos/ofertas/PostDoc_Profile_PDE__- _1.pdf Deadline for submission: April 13th 2015, 14:00 CET We kindly ask you to distribute this call among colleagues and potential candidates. Please, do not hesitate to contact for any additional information: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Scott MacLachlan [log in to unmask] Date: March 20, 2015 Subject: Postdoc Position, Memorial Univ of Newfoundland Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research position within the Memorial University of Newfoundland Centre for Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Dr. Scott MacLachlan, with a research focus on novel preconditioning strategies for multiphysics problems. Duties will include design and analysis of multigrid and/or domain-decomposition algorithms, as well as their implementation in a high-performance computing environment. A desired, but flexible, start date of September 1, 2015 is expected. For full details, see http://www.math.mun.ca/~smaclachlan/postdoc2015.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- From: Dr Jason Roberts [log in to unmask] Date: March 19, 2015 Subject: PhD Positions, Univ of Chester The Department of Mathematics invites applications for two PhD scholarships to commence in the 2015-2016 academic year. The Department will fund 100% of UK/EU tuition fees for up to 3 years (full time) or 6 years (part time) study at The University of Chester. There is no stipend or contribution from the University to students’ living costs associated with these scholarships. The research conducted will be in an area related to the research expertise of the Department and details of research interests are available from departmental webpages. These interests include the analysis and numerical analysis of functional, integral and partial differential equations, including problems with fractional and stochastic operators. Equations of these types arise in a variety of applications, including Mathematical Biology and Ecology. Other interests of the Department include Group Algebras, which has applications in Coding Theory, for example. Applicants should have a minimum of a 2.1 undergraduate degree in Mathematics or closely related discipline and preferably a Master’s degree in Mathematics or closely related discipline (or be nearing the completion of such a degree). The department is looking for enthusiastic applicants who are keen to contribute to the ongoing research work of the Department. Prospective applicants are encouraged to initially contact potential supervisors at Chester with whom they wish to work. Candidates should apply online via the University of Chester website: http://www.chester.ac.uk/research/degrees/application. Their application should indicate who they wish to work with within the Department. Informal enquiries about the Department of Mathematics should be directed to Dr Jason Roberts, Head of Mathematics, University of Chester, Thornton Science Park, Poole Lane, Ince, Chester CH2 4NU, Tel: 01244 511100. For general enquiries contact The Graduate School, University of Chester at [log in to unmask] The deadline for applications is Friday 1st May. ------------------------------------------------------- End of Digest **************************