Subject: NA Digest, V. 15, # 16 NA Digest Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Volume 15 : Issue 16 Today's Editor: Daniel M. Dunlavy Sandia National Labs [log in to unmask] Today's Topics: MJD Powell Wanted: Computational Case Studies New blog on Math for Industry BBComp: Black-Box Optimization Competition, IEEE-CEC'2015 Optimization and Big Data, UK, May 2015 Cell Mechanics, Morphogenetics and Pattern Formation, UK, Sep 2015 DMV Annual Meeting, Germany, Sep 2015 Graduate School on Evolution Equations, UK, Sep 2015 SIAM Applied Linear Algebra, USA, Oct 2015 Cell Motility, Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation, UK, Dec 2015 Research Chair Position, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Ghana Postdoc Position, Numerical Analysis, Ghent Univ, Belgium Postdoc Position, Semiconductor Process Simulation, TU Wien, Austria Postdoc Positions, Univ of Coimbra PhD/Postdoc Positions, Optimization for Medicine, Magdeburg PhD Position, Computational Science, TU Wien, Austria PhD Position, DTU Compute, Technical Univ of Denmark PhD Position, Silicon Carbide Modelling, TU Wien, Austria PhD/MS Positions, Direct Sparse Solvers, Texas A&M Special Issue, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience Contents, Journal of Scientific Computing, 63 (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: Arieh Iserles [log in to unmask] Date: April 19, 2015 Subject: MJD Powell I am very sad to let the NA-net community know that M.J.D. Powell passed away this morning, 19th April 2015. Many of the NA community would have known Mike Powell as one of the giants of the Golden Age of numerical analysis and the pioneer of optimization. Indeed, he has been honoured for his achievements, not least by being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of (American) National Academy of Sciences and of Australian Academy of Sciences, but also by the inaugural Dantzig Prize of Mathematical Programming Society, Naylor and Senior Whitehead Prizes of London Mathematical Society, Gold Medal of Institute for Mathematics and its Applications... The list goes on and on. For his many friends, though, he was not just a brilliant mathematician but also a lovely person of total integrity and honesty, a role model in mathematics, a dear friend and a teacher to many. He will be sorely missed. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Dianne O'Leary [log in to unmask] Date: April 14, 2015 Subject: Wanted: Computational Case Studies Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE), a bi-monthly publication of the IEEE Computer Society and the American Institute of Physics, runs a column called "Your Homework Assignment," which we edit. The idea is to present case studies that illustrate important issues in computation and that provide exercises so that students have motivation and guidance for solidifying their computational skills. Some of the case studies were collected in the textbook Scientific Computing with Case Studies, SIAM, 2009: https://www.cs.umd.edu/users/oleary/SCCS/ Others are NASA Computational Case Studies: http://encompass.gsfc.nasa.gov/cases.html We invite you to use these case studies in your teaching. And we especially invite you to contribute new case studies for publication in CiSE: http://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/cise Please contact us if you are interested. Dianne O'Leary [log in to unmask] Nargess Memarsadeghi [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Dietmar Hoemberg [log in to unmask] Date: April 16, 2015 Subject: New blog on Math for Industry The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) is pleased to announce the ECMI blog is now online at http://ecmiindmath.org. It contains up-to-date information about events and opportunities in industrial and applied mathematics and will also feature the different ECMI centres. If you would like to spread information about workshops, conferences, study groups, jobs, project calls, anything of interest to the industrial and applied math community, please send the text you would like to have posted to [log in to unmask] . Note that you can subscribe to news by email, so that you need not worry about missing anything. To do so you just have to enter your email address in the field at the bottom of the page and click FOLLOW. Please pass this information around your institution and encourage everyone to subscribe and submit their news. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Ilya Loshchilov [log in to unmask] Date: April 20, 2015 Subject: BBComp: Black-Box Optimization Competition, IEEE-CEC'2015 We propose the first black box optimization competition in the continuous domain where test problems are truly black boxes to participants. The only information known to the optimizer/participant is the dimension of the problem, bounds on all variables, and a budget of black box queries. The competition aims at attacking a growing impact of over-fitting of optimization algorithms to a narrow set of existing benchmark problems. All the material including the source code in C/C++, MATLAB, Python and Java is available at http://bbcomp.ini.rub.de Deadline: April 30, 2015 The results of the competition will be announced during the CEC'2015 on May 25-28, 2015, Sendai, Japan. Participants do not need to attend the conference or submit papers, they can choose to be anonymous to the other participants. A modest cash prize of 500 EUR in total is allocated to the best 3 algorithms. Organizers: Ilya Loshchilov, EPFL, Switzerland Tobias Glasmachers, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany ------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Richtarik [log in to unmask] Date: April 14, 2015 Subject: Optimization and Big Data, UK, May 2015 Optimization and Big Data (Workshop, Trek & Colloquium) Edinburgh, Scotland, May 6-8, 2015 http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~prichtar/Optimization_and_Big_Data_2015 A call for contributed presentations is open. There is a Best Contribution Prize (certificate + 500 EUR), sponsored by Amazon Berlin. Prize Committee: Arkadi Nemirovski and Rodolphe Jenatton (Amazon). It is possible to attend without contributing - just register. - April 18, 2015: Submission deadline for abstracts; Early Bird registration deadline (the Early Bird fee is £30 and is £45 afterwards) - April 20, 2015: Notification of acceptance (acceptance of abstracts will be done on a rolling basis - if you want to get confirmation of acceptance sooner to help you plan for the event, submit sooner) - April 25, 2015: Submission deadline for deluxe posters (pdf format) Keynote speaker: Arkadi Nemirovski (Georgia Tech) Confirmed invited speakers: Coralia Cartis (Oxford), Patrick Louis Combettes (Paris 6), Jonathan Eckstein (Rutgers), Garud Iyengar (Columbia), Rodolphe Jenatton (Amazon Berlin), Jakub Konecny (Edinburgh), Francois Glineur (Louvain), Donald Goldfarb (Columbia), Robert Gower (Edinburgh), Arkadi Nemirovski (Georgia Tech), Zheng Qu (Edinburgh), Peter Richtarik (Edinburgh), Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh), Mark Schmidt (UBC) Zheng Qu and Peter Richtark (organizers) ------------------------------------------------------- From: Emily Anderson [log in to unmask] Date: April 15, 2015 Subject: Cell Mechanics, Morphogenetics and Pattern Formation, UK, Sep 2015 Cell Mechanics, Morphogenetics and Pattern Formation: perspectives from the experimental and theoretical points of view (CGPW02) Dates: 14th September 2015 to 18th September 2015 Location: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK. The mechanical characterisation of individual cells is complex and dynamic. Nonetheless, great progress has been made in understanding how the dynamics of subcellular structures leads to cell shape and motility. Static tissues have also been well characterised. It is at the level of morphogenesis where the bridging of scales between individual cell dynamics and tissue dynamics is least understood. This workshop aims to (1) present a framework for understanding what is already known about cell-level and tissue-level mechanics, (2) identify gaps in our understanding of how cells interact mechanically in tissues in order to actuate morphogenesis, (3) propose new collaborations to increase our understanding of the cell-tissue emergent dynamics. We will bring together experts in development, microscopy, image analysis, biomechanics, and modeling. Deadline for applications: 12 July 2015 Further details and application: http://www.newton.ac.uk/event/cgpw02 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Lubomir Banas [log in to unmask] Date: April 20, 2015 Subject: DMV Annual Meeting, Germany, Sep 2015 The annual meeting of the German Mathematical Society DMV 2015 will be held on 21-25 September 2015 in Hamburg. The meeting consists of ten sections covering different areas of mathematics. We invite colleagues to submit a contributed talk to the Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing section of the meeting. Further information about the meeting can be found at http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/DMV2015/CfP.html ------------------------------------------------------- From: Heiko Gimperlein [log in to unmask] Date: April 15, 2015 Subject: Graduate School on Evolution Equations, UK, Sep 2015 We would like to bring to your attention the "2nd Maxwell Institute Graduate School on Evolution Equations", to be held at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh on 16-18 September 2015. Arnulf Jentzen (ETH Zurich) and Alessandra Lunardi (Parma) will give short courses (4-6 hours) on the numerical analysis of stochastic evolution equations (Jentzen) and on semigroup theory and invariant measures for parabolic problems (Lunardi). Abstract of the mini-courses can be found below. Their lectures will be complemented with talks by senior participants and advanced students. We expect to have some limited funding for postgraduate students, in particular for students from Scottish universities. Further information is available at www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~hg94/evo15 . ------------------------------------------------------- From: Jim Nagy [log in to unmask] Date: April 15, 2015 Subject: SIAM Applied Linear Algebra, USA, Oct 2015 The deadline to submit abstracts for contributed talks and posters for the SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra is April 27. We especially encourage poster presentations. The poster session will be preceded by a “poster blitz”, where each poster presenter can use a single slide to briefly explain why conference attendees should attend their poster. To maximize visibility for all participants, the poster blitz will take place in the main lecture hall, and will have no competing sessions. For details, please see: http://www.siam.org/meetings/la15/ SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA October 26-30, 2015 April 27, 2015: Abstracts for contributed and minisymposium speakers April 27, 2015: Contributed poster presentation abstracts April 17, 2015: SIAM Student Travel Award and Post-doc/Early Career Travel Award Applications Twitter hashtag: #SIAMLA15 Contact SIAM Conference Department at [log in to unmask] with any questions about the conference. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Emily Anderson [log in to unmask] Date: April 15, 2015 Subject: Cell Motility, Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation, UK, Dec 2015 New Mathematical and Computational Problems involved in Cell Motility, Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation (CGPW04) Dates: 7th December 2015 to 11th December 2015 Location: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK. Cell motility, morphogenesis, and pattern formation are essential features of cell dynamics. The involved biochemical processes and biomechanical properties range from the intracellular level over cell surface dynamics, cell-cell and cell-tissue interactions up to the scale of cell population behaviour influencing organ formation and functioning. The aim of this workshop is to bring together scientists working on these timely and challenging topics of mathematical biology, analysis and numerics. It will provide both an international framework and motivation to further develop the modelling of the mentioned biological phenomena and to strengthen the synergies between the involved branches of applied mathematics, but also between mathematics and life sciences. Application deadline: 27 September 2015 Further details and application: http://www.newton.ac.uk/event/cgpw04 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Angela Kunoth [log in to unmask] Date: April 18, 2015 Subject: Research Chair Position, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Ghana The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is calling for applications for a German Research Chair for Mathematics and its Applications at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Ghana (AIMS Ghana). In the coming years, this endowed chair will promote higher education and research in mathematics in Africa. This call is aimed at postdoctoral academics from any country who demonstrably conduct application-related research in the field of mathematics, have several years' experience in training students and, ideally, doctoral candidates. Experience in working in and cooperating with Africa and a willingness to collaborate with other academic disciplines are also desired. The closing date for applications is 15 July 2015. The application must be supported by at least one collaborative partner in Germany. This research chair is funded with a total of 560,000 Euros for a four-year period. A concurrent appointment at a collaborating university in Ghana is planned. AIMS Ghana is part of the AIMS Next Einstein Initiative which seeks to establish a coordinated network of 15 supra-regional centres of excellence in mathematics across Africa by the year 2020. The endowed research chair, which is being advertised internationally, is designed to help promote networking between AIMS Ghana and German universities and to drive networking amongst the various AIMS centres in Africa. As part of the German Research Chair programme that is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Humboldt Foundation will fill three further research chairs at AIMS centres in South Africa, Cameroon and Tanzania in the coming years. http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/research-chair-aims-ghana.html ------------------------------------------------------- From: Jutho Haegeman [log in to unmask] Date: April 21, 2015 Subject: Postdoc Position, Numerical Analysis, Ghent Univ, Belgium We invite applications for one or more Postdoctoral positions in numerical optimization at Ghent University, Belgium. You will work in the research group of Frank Verstraete on novel algorithms for tensor networks and tensor trains with applications in physics. We are looking for candidates with a PhD in applied mathematics, computational physics or engineering, or a related discipline with a strong background in numerical optimization, numerical linear algebra or numerical integration schemes for nonlinear differential equations. Prior experience with scientific computing and the development of numerical software is essential, but no prior knowledge of (quantum) physics is required. In collaboration with the members of the group, you will undertake research on the development and implementation of novel algorithms for the optimization problems and/or differential equations that arise in the context of tensor network states. Fixed-term contracts ranging from 1 to 4 years can be provided depending on your experience. Please contact [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] for further information and for sending your application. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Josef Weinbub [log in to unmask] Date: April 22, 2015 Subject: Postdoc Position, Semiconductor Process Simulation, TU Wien, Austria A postdoc position (2 years, 40 hours/week) at the Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien is available. The area of research is mathematical modelling of cutting-edge problems in semiconductor process simulation, e.g., plasma etching, Silicon (Carbide) oxidation. Candidates should have prior experience with mathematical modelling relevant to semiconductor process simulation. A solid foundation in Silicon-related process modelling is expected. Starting Date: Approximately July 2015 More information and application details: http://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/index.php?id=postdoc_cdl_2015 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Isabel Figueiredo [log in to unmask] Date: April 14, 2015 Subject: Postdoc Positions, Univ of Coimbra The University of Coimbra offers three postdoctoral research grants to work on the Project “UID/MAT/00324/2013 - Centro de Matemática da Universidade de Coimbra (CMUC) ”. The work will be related to CMUC’s research (example of areas of interest: imaging sciences, bio-mathematics and scientific computing). Period for applications : from April 20 until May 1, 2015. For detailed information: http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx? task=showAnuncioOportunities&jobId=59719&idc=1 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Sebastian Sager [log in to unmask] Date: April 17, 2015 Subject: PhD/Postdoc Positions, Optimization for Medicine, Magdeburg Within the ERC Consolidator Grant 2014 project "Mathematical Optimization for Clinical Decision Support and Training" there are four open positions, starting on July 1, 2015. The research focuses on innovative approaches to support clinical decisions, e.g., for the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmia and for the understanding of pneumonia dynamics in acute myeloid leukemia, and on the use of the mathematical models for training aspects. The research is based on algorithmic research in the field mixed-integer optimal control. Further information on the project, application procedure, and on the hosting work group of Sebastian Sager at the Otto-von-Guericke- University Magdeburg, Germany can be found on http://mathopt.de/ERC/. Deadline for applications is May 29, 2015. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Josef Weinbub [log in to unmask] Date: April 22, 2015 Subject: PhD Position, Computational Science, TU Wien, Austria A PhD position (3 years, 40 hours/week) at the Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien is available. The area of research is high performance numerical methods and software approaches for accelerating state-of-the-art three-dimensional plasma etching and Silicon oxidation simulations. Candidates should have a strong background in developing parallel C++ code (e.g. OpenMP); previous exposure to plasma etching and Silicon oxidation is not required. Starting Date: Approximately July 2015 More information and application details: http://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/index.php?id=phd1_cdl_2015 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Allan Peter Engsig-Karup apek@dtudk Date: April 16, 2015 Subject: PhD Position, DTU Compute, Technical Univ of Denmark Applications are invited for a three-year PhD scholarship in the topic "Stochastic Simulations for Uncertainty Quantification of Wave loads" at The Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (DTU Compute) at Technical University of Denmark. The PhD scholarship is funded by Innovation Fund Denmark and is a part of a larger research project entitled 'DeRisk - De-risking of ULS wave loads'. The DeRisk project defines collaboration between eight academic and industrial partners and focuses on the development of an improved load assessment procedure for extreme wave loads on offshore wind turbine sub-structures. The aim of the present PhD project is to deliver new advanced technologies for stochastic simulations in order to reduce the design risks. The research conducted will be a joint collaboration between Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (DTU Compute) and the DTU Wind Energy. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Allan P. Engsig-Karup (DTU Compute) @ the Scientific Computing Section and Assoc. Prof. Henrik Bredmose (DTU Wind Energy), with a research focus on novel uncertainty quantification techniques and their application in areas of wave modelling and wave- structure interactions. Duties will include design and analysis of uncertainty quantification techniques via stochastic computations; their implementation in a high-performance computing environment; their connection to established methods in reliability-based design and validation against data. Learn more or apply by following this link: http://www.dtu.dk/english/career/job?id=64336f40-5abf-45b3-8919- cf91f844bfe4 . Note that the deadline for applications is already May 1st, 2015. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Josef Weinbub [log in to unmask] Date: April 22, 2015 Subject: PhD Position, Silicon Carbide Modelling, TU Wien, Austria A PhD position (3 years, 40 hours/week) at the Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien is available. The area of research is mathematical modelling of Silicon Carbide oxidation processes. Candidates should be knowledgeable in solid-state physics and in mathematical modelling relevant to micro- and nanoelectronic simulations, such as Silicon oxidation. Starting Date: Approximately July 2015 More information and application details: http://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/index.php?id=phd2_cdl_2015 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Tim Davis [log in to unmask] Date: April 13, 2015 Subject: PhD/MS Positions, Direct Sparse Solvers, Texas A&M I'm looking for students to work on direct sparse solvers, particularly for GPU-accelerated algorithms. (I have funding). I have a preference for PhD students but funding for MS is also possible. Code quality is essential; if you contact me about the position, please send samples of software (preferably in C/C++). ------------------------------------------------------- From: Pedro Valero-Lara [log in to unmask] Date: April 16, 2015 Subject: Special Issue, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience High Performance Computing Solutions for Complex Problems (http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/pages/view/Call-issue-1-2016) Authors are invited to submit manuscripts which present original and unpublished research in all areas related with complex problems solving via parallel and distributed processing, i.e., works focused on emerging solutions to face with big computing challenges on HPC systems are specially welcome. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: Benchmarking, performance and scalability of algorithms, data structures, tools, etc; Code adapting to take advantages of latest computational features; New strategies to improve performance; Adaptive self-tuning computing systems; New transparent, portable, and hardware diagnostic programming paradigms; Advances in current or upcoming HPC tools; Communication, synchronization, load balancing. Submission: September 19, 2015 Author notification: January 31, 2016 Revised papers: February 15, 2016 Author notification: March 1, 2016 Camera Ready papers due: March 15, 2016 Publication: March 31, 2016 Submission guidelines: http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/about/submissions#authorGuidelines ------------------------------------------------------- From: Chi-Wang Shu [log in to unmask] Date: April 21, 2015 Subject: Contents, Journal of Scientific Computing, 63 (2) Journal of Scientific Computing http://www.springeronline.com/journal/10915 Volume 63, Number 2, May 2015 Data-Driven Multi-scale Non-local Wavelet Frame Construction and Image Recovery, Yuhui Quan, Hui Ji and Zuowei Shen, pp.307-329. A Sharp Computational Method for the Simulation of the Solidification of Binary Alloys, Maxime Theillard, Frederic Gibou and Tresa Pollock, pp.330-354. Semi-analytical Time Differencing Methods for Stiff Problems, Chang-Yeol Jung and Thien Binh Nguyen, pp.355-373. Efficient Solution Techniques for a Finite Element Thin Plate Spline Formulation, Linda Stals, pp.374-409. The Enriched Crouzeix–Raviart Elements are Equivalent to the Raviart–Thomas Elements, Jun Hu and Rui Ma, pp.410-425. Two-Level Newton Iterative Method for the 2D/3D Stationary Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics, Xiaojing Dong and Yinnian He, pp.426-451. Local Analysis of Local Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Time-Dependent Singularly Perturbed Problem, Yao Cheng, Feng Zhang and Qiang Zhang, pp.452-477. Finite Element Methods for the Temperature in Composite Media with Contact Resistance, Faker Ben Belgacem, Christine Bernardi, Faten Jelassi and Maimouna Mint Brahim, pp.478-501. An ALE Formulation for Explicit Runge–Kutta Residual Distribution, L. Arpaia, M. Ricchiuto and R. Abgrall, pp.502-547. Finite Difference Hermite WENO Schemes for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, Hongxia Liu and Jianxian Qiu, pp.548-572. A Splitting Method for Diffeomorphism Optimization Problem Using Beltrami Coefficients, Lok Ming Lui and Tsz Ching Ng, pp.573-611. Entropy Consistent Methods for the Navier–Stokes Equations, Akmal Nizam Mohammed and Farzad Ismail, pp.612-631. ------------------------------------------------------- End of Digest **************************