Subject: NA Digest, V. 17, # 10 NA Digest Monday, May 01, 2017 Volume 17 : Issue 10 Today's Editor: Daniel M. Dunlavy Sandia National Labs [log in to unmask] Today's Topics: Professor Rene Alt Mathematical library of the Cyber 174 European Finite Element Fair, Italy, May 2017 Leslie Fox Prize Symposium, Scotland, Jun 2017 Inverse Problems from Theory to Application, UK, Sep 2017 SIAM Central States Section 2017 Meeting, USA, Sep-Oct 2017 SciCADE 2017, UK, Sep 2017 Optimization Methods and Software, Cuba, Dec 2017 Faculty Positions, Skolkovo Inst of Science and Technology Professor Position, Analysis, TU Dortmund Univ, Germany Postdoc Position, UQ, Bayesian Identification, and Scientific Computing University Assistant Positions Subscribe, unsubscribe, change address, or for na-digest archives: http://www.netlib.org/na-digest-html/faq.html Submissions for NA Digest: http://icl.utk.edu/na-digest/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Fabienne Jezequel [log in to unmask] Date: May 01, 2017 Subject: Professor Rene Alt Dear members of NA Digest, We are deeply saddened to inform you that Rene Alt passed away on April 28th. He was Emeritus Professor in the Computer Science laboratory of Pierre & Marie Curie University (UPMC) in Paris. He was former Vice-President of UPMC. His research activities were centered around probabilistic approaches for the numerical validation of software. He was interested in various sujects such as numerical analysis, statistics, probability, high performance computing, and medical imaging. Open to the others, Rene had developed international collaborations, in particular with the team leaded by Svetoslav Markov in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He had organized conferences such as SCAN, the international symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic and Validated Numerics, in 2002 in Paris. Rene's death is a great loss to all of us who had the chance to work with him. His vast culture was leading to very fruitful discussions. We will miss his generosity and his kindness. Our thoughts go to his family, especially his spouse and his son. Cordially, Fabienne Jezequel & Jean-Luc Lamotte Former PhD students of Rene ------------------------------------------------------- From: Dirk [log in to unmask] Date: April 27, 2017 Subject: Mathematical library of the Cyber 174 Does anybody know what method was used by the CDC Cyber 174 computer in the mid-1970s to compute the elementary functions? I have some reason to believe that the double precision version of specifically the logarithm might not have delivered anywhere near the expected 96-bit accuracy. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Andreas Veeser [log in to unmask] Date: April 27, 2017 Subject: European Finite Element Fair, Italy, May 2017 The 15th European Finite Element Fair will take place in Milan, Italy, on May 26-27, 2017. If you are going to attend, you help us with the organization by registering before May 8. For information, see http://www.mat.unimi.it/users/efef2017/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Andy Wathen [log in to unmask] Date: April 28, 2017 Subject: Leslie Fox Prize Symposium, Scotland, Jun 2017 I would like to draw colleagues attention to the Leslie Fox Prize Symposium in Glasgow, Scotland on Monday 26th June which is free to attend; traditionally this is a set of excellent talks by some exciting young people in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing. This event may be of interest in particular to those attending the Strathclyde Numerical Analysis conference which immediately follows it in exactly the same place. See http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/wathen/fox/prize.php ------------------------------------------------------- From: Pamela Bye [log in to unmask] Date: April 28, 2017 Subject: Inverse Problems from Theory to Application, UK, Sep 2017 IMA CONFERENCE ON INVERSE PROBLEMS FROM THEORY TO APPLICATION In collaboration with Turing Gateway to Mathematics Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 September 2017 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK Conference topics: Imaging; Regularisation theory; Statistical inverse problems; Sampling; Data assimilation; Inverse problem applications. Papers will be accepted for the conference based on a 300 word abstract for oral or poster presentation. Abstracts should be submitted via https://my.ima.org.uk/ For further information on this conference, please visit the conference webpage: http://ima.org.uk/conferences/conferences_calendar/inverse-problems.html ------------------------------------------------------- From: James Liu [log in to unmask] Date: May 01, 2017 Subject: SIAM Central States Section 2017 Meeting, USA, Sep-Oct 2017 The 3rd annual meeting of SIAM Central States Section will be held at Colorado State University Lory Student Center, September 29 -- October 1, 2017. The conference website is http://siamcentral2017.colostate.edu/ For more info, please contact James Liu at [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Melina Freitag [log in to unmask] Date: April 26, 2017 Subject: SciCADE 2017, UK, Sep 2017 The registration for SciCADE 2017, the International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations, to be held at the University of Bath, UK, September 11-15, 2017, is open. Confirmed plenary speakers are: Martin Burger (University of Muenster, Germany) Martin Gander (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Anne Gelb (Arizona State University, USA) Patrick Joly (ENSTA ParisTech, France) Rachel Kuske (Georgia Tech, USA) Hans Munthe-Kaas (University of Bergen, Norway) Anne-Karin Tornberg (KTH Stockholm, Sweden) Deadline for abstract submission and early bird registration is 31st May: https://sites.google.com/site/scicade2017/registration We also invite submissions for the New Talent Award by 31st May: https://sites.google.com/site/scicade2017/new-talent-award More information is available from the website: https://sites.google.com/site/scicade2017/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Oleg Burdakov [log in to unmask] Date: April 30, 2017 Subject: Optimization Methods and Software, Cuba, Dec 2017 The 4th Conference on Optimization Methods and Software December 16-20, 2017, Havana, Cuba http://wias-berlin.de/workshops/oms2017/speaker.html The conference aims to review and discuss recent advances and promising research trends in optimization theory, methods, applications and software development. Topics include, but are certainly not limited to the following subjects: Linear and Nonlinear Optimization; Integer and Combinatorial Optimization; Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization; Global Optimization; Semi- definite Optimization; Semi-infinite Optimization; Multi-objective Optimization; Stochastic Optimization; Complementarity and Variational Inequality Problems; Derivative-free Optimization; Network Optimization; Scheduling Problems; Optimal Control; Inverse Problems; Automatic Differentiation; Optimization Software. Proposals of organizing sessions are welcome and can be sent to Tamas Terlaky by email tat208[at]lehigh.edu DATES AND DEADLINES Abstract submissions: September 15, 2017 Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Liliya Abaimova [log in to unmask] Date: April 28, 2017 Subject: Faculty Positions, Skolkovo Inst of Science and Technology Assistant Professors positions in Computational and Data-intensive Science and Engineering http://crei.skoltech.ru/cdise/vacancies/ The Center for Computational and Data-intensive Science and Engineering (CDISE) of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Moscow, Russia) invites applications for junior faculty positions with a tentative starting date of August 2017 (later starting dates may be also considered). The successful candidates will provide evidence of high-quality scholarly output at the international level that demonstrates potential for independent research leading to peer reviewed publications in top-level international conferences and journals, excellence in teaching and innovation. - ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND ITS APPLICATIONS - ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN MACHINE LEARNING AND ITS APPLICATIONS - ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS - ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN BIG DATA AND INDUSTRIAL ANALYTICS - ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN APPLIED STATISTICS - ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING For more information on Skoltech, please visit skoltech.ru or faculty.skoltech.ru. For more information on CDISE, please go to the CDISE website: http://crei.skoltech.ru/cdise. To apply, please go to our application website: http://join.skoltech.ru/how-to-apply/ and follow the instructions. Informal enquiries to the center leader Prof. Maxim Fedorov ([log in to unmask]) or to the faculty with the closest research area are encouraged. The application submission deadline is May 30, 2017. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Magdalena Thone [log in to unmask] Date: April 27, 2017 Subject: Professor Position, Analysis, TU Dortmund Univ, Germany The Faculty of Mathematics at TU Dortmund University is seeking to fill the position of a Professorship (W 2) in "Analysis" starting on April 1st 2018. The professorship will represent the discipline "Analysis" in both research and teaching. TU Dortmund University is seeking an eminent specialist in the field of real analysis with a national and international reputation backed by publications in high-ranking journals. The candidate's focus of research should be Applied Analysis, e.g. modelling and analysis of applications in the natural sciences. Connections to stochastics and/or numerical analysis are welcomed. Applicants should complement the research activities of the Department of Mathematics and contribute to interdisciplinary collaborative research projects within TU Dortmund University. Experience in the acquisition of third-party funding is an asset. An adequate contribution to the faculty's curriculum is expected. For detailed information, please visit: http://www.mathematik.tu-dortmund.de/de/index/aktuelles/meldungen/Ausschreibung-W2-Analysis-2017-04-26.html or https://service.tu-dortmund.de/professuren ------------------------------------------------------- From: Herman G. Matthies [log in to unmask] Date: April 28, 2017 Subject: Postdoc Position, UQ, Bayesian Identification, and Scientific Computing The Institute of Scientific Computing at the Technische Univer-sitat Braunschweig (in Brunswick in Northern Germany) offers a research position in the area of Scientific Computing with a focus on Uncertainty Quatification and Stochastic Bayesian Inversions in Solid Mechanics Applications. The ideal candidate has a doctoral degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, the Physical Sciences, or a related subject, has acquired a strong experience in programming, and is characterised by a high motivation and the ability to work in a team but also independently, and has ideally deeper expertise in one or more of the following areas: - Uncertainty Quantification/Bayesian Methods - Solid Mechanics/Plasticity/Damage - Discretisation of PDEs (FEM) - Machine Learning Applications are solicited no later than 31 May 2017 to Technische Universitaet Braunschweig Institut fur Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Muhlenpfordtstrasse 23 D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany Fax +49-531-391-3003 e-mail: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Thomas Russold [log in to unmask] Date: April 28, 2017 Subject: University Assistant Positions The institute of mathematics and scientific computing is looking for two University Assistant without doctorate (20 hours a week; fixed-term employment for the period of 3 years; position to be filled as of now ) Your duties: - Writing a dissertation in the field of educational competence in mathematics - Collaboration in teaching, research and administration - Conducting of lectures in the field of visualizing and new media - Support for raising third-party funding Your profile: - Master's degree in mathematics - Very good command of English (from level C1) - Good computer skills - Practical teaching experience - Knowledge in the field of visualization of mathematics (desirable) - Ability to work in teams - Social competence - Organisational skills - Independent way of working - Academic curiosity ------------------------------------------------------- End of Digest **************************