Subject: NA Digest, V. 17, # 21 NA Digest Sunday, August 20, 2017 Volume 17 : Issue 21 Today's Editor: Daniel M. Dunlavy Sandia National Labs [log in to unmask] Today's Topics: Structured Matrix Market C++ API for BLAS and LAPACK INTLAB Version 10.1 New Book, Credit Scoring and Its Applications, Second Edition FreeFEM++ Workshop, USA, Aug-Sep 2017 Faculty Position, Computational Mathematics, San Diego Postdoc/Researcher Position, Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ PhD Positions, Inverse Problems in Ultrasound Computed Tomography, UCL CFP, MBMB Special Issue, Bio-molecular Data 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: Jianlin Xia [log in to unmask] Date: August 17, 2017 Subject: Structured Matrix Market We are launch a repository for structured matrices -- Structured Matrix Market (SMart): http://smart.math.purdue.edu/ The collection is for various types of structured matrices in the forms of Matlab and other source codes, as well as data files. The codes can be used to generate test data for matrix computations, especially fast structured methods such as rank-structured direct solvers. Submissions of codes and data related to structured matrices are welcome. The submission method can be found on the website. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Jakub Kurzak [log in to unmask] Date: August 17, 2017 Subject: C++ API for BLAS and LAPACK As part of the ECP SLATE project, we are designing a C++ API for BLAS and LAPACK. We have published the initial draft of the proposed API as SLATE Working Note #2: http://www.icl.utk.edu/publications/swan-002 http://www.icl.utk.edu/publications/series/swans Given the importance of such a standard, we would like to engage the broader community in its development. To facilitate this collaboration, we have set up a SLATE user mailing list. You can join this mailing list by going to the following URL: https://groups.google.com/a/icl.utk.edu/forum/#!forum/slate-user Once there, click the "Apply to join group" button. Please send any comments to [log in to unmask] We look forward to a fruitful discussion and collaboration. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Rump [log in to unmask] Date: August 15, 2017 Subject: INTLAB Version 10.1 Version 10.1 of INTLAB, the Matlab/Octave toolbox for Reliable Computing, is now available. Results computed by INTLAB are verified to be correct in a rigorous mathematical sense. That includes all possible computational inaccuracies, from the input data over floating-point approximations to the output. In particalur, input data may be afflicted with tolerances. In that case error bounds for the solution of all problems for data within the tolerances are computed. Problem solving routines include linear and nonlinear systems, local and global optimization, eigenproblems and many more. Arithmetic tools cover gradients, Hessians, Taylor expansion, slopes and more. For more information please visit http://www.ti3.tuhh.de INTLAB is entirely written in Matlab/Octave. It runs on the forthcoming Matlab 2017b and it is downward compatible. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Bailey [log in to unmask] Date: August 17, 2017 Subject: New Book, Credit Scoring and Its Applications, Second Edition Credit Scoring and Its Applications, Second Edition by Lyn Thomas, Jonathan Crook, and David Edelman Mathematics in Industry 2 / xiv + 373 pages / Softcover 978-1-611974-55-3 / List Price $102.00 / SIAM Member Price $71.40 / Order Code MN02 Credit Scoring and Its Applications is recognized as the bible of credit scoring. It contains a comprehensive review of the objectives, methods, and practical implementation of credit and behavioral scoring. The authors review principles of the statistical and operations research methods used in building scorecards, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. The book contains a description of practical problems encountered in building, using, and monitoring scorecards and examines some of the country-specific issues in bankruptcy, equal opportunities, and privacy legislation. It contains a discussion of economic theories of consumers' use of credit, and readers will gain an understanding of what lending institutions seek to achieve by using credit scoring and the changes in their objectives. New to the second edition are lessons that can be learned for operations research model building from the global financial crisis, current applications of scoring, discussions on the Basel Accords and their requirements for scoring, new methods for scorecard building and new expanded sections on ways of measuring scorecard performance, and survival analysis for credit scoring. To order or for more about this book, including links to its table of contents, preface, and index, please visit http://bookstore.siam.org/MN02/ . ------------------------------------------------------- From: Bill Layton [log in to unmask] Date: August 16, 2017 Subject: FreeFEM++ Workshop, USA, Aug-Sep 2017 The Department of Mathematics of the University of Pittsburgh will be hosting a workshop in Thackery hall Room 427 on FreeFEM++ given by Professor Frederic Hecht: An Introduction to Scientific Computing using Free Software FreeFem++ for schedule, see: http://www.mathematics.pitt.edu/node/2052 August 28, 2017 (All day) - September 1, 2017 (All day) Frederic Hecht, Pierre et Marie Curie University, Laboratory Jacques-Louis Lions Everyone is welcome. However, the current room is not large. It would be helpful to email us ([log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]) if you plan to attend so we can estimate audience size and adjust if necessary. To prepare for the workshop, the previous week Drs Mike Sussman and Alicia Klinvex will give some preliminary lectures on basic ideas in high level packages. The schedule of their lectures is - Tuesday, August 22, 10:00AM-12:00PM: Mike Sussman: expository lecture on FreeFem++ - Wednesday, August 23, 1:00PM-3:00PM: Mike Sussman: expository lecture on FreeFem++ - Friday, August 25, 1:00PM-3:00PM: Alicia Klinvex: expository lecture on Trilinos ------------------------------------------------------- From: Jose E Castillo [log in to unmask] Date: August 20, 2017 Subject: Faculty Position, Computational Mathematics, San Diego An Assistant Professor: Computational Mathematics position in Mathematics and Statistics has been posted on Interfolio. Below is the unique URL for the posting: https://apply.interfolio.com/44100 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Elisabeth Larsson [log in to unmask] Date: August 20, 2017 Subject: Postdoc/Researcher Position, Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ There is an opening for a postdoc/researcher position in Scientific Computing at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden. The duration of the position is up to two years. The research area is task based parallel computing, and part of the project will be carried out in collaboration with an industrial partner specializing in software for electromagnetic simulations. The objective in this part of the project is to develop an efficient task parallel implementation of a multilevel fast multipole solution approach for electromagnetic scattering problems. The position is funded by eSSENCE, a strategic collaborative research programme in e-science between three Swedish universities with a strong tradition of excellent e-science research: Uppsala University, Lund University and Umea University. Further information and a link to the application system is found at http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=134648 The tentative application deadline is September 30. Interested candidates are invited to contact Elisabeth Larsson at [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Cox [log in to unmask] Date: August 16, 2017 Subject: PhD Positions, Inverse Problems in Ultrasound Computed Tomography, UCL Applications are invited from highly motivated candidates for two PhD studentships in the area of "Inverse Problems in Ultrasound Computed Tomography of the Breast" The studentships will be based in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering at University College London, and will be undertaken in collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory. See https://goo.gl/MPr7WJ for further details. Funding will be for 3 years, with a tax free stipend of 16,553 GBP per year plus UK/EU-level university fees. Outstanding students from outside the EU may apply if they have funding to support international fees. The closing date is 15th September 2017 and the anticipated start date is October 2017. Applicants must be UK students or EU students who will have spent the previous 3 years in the UK. If you have any scientific queries please contact Professor Simon Arridge (Computer Science) [log in to unmask] or Dr Ben Cox (Medical Physics) [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Shan Zhao [log in to unmask] Date: August 18, 2017 Subject: CFP, MBMB Special Issue, Bio-molecular Data The journal Molecular Based Mathematical Biology (MBMB) will publish a special issue entitled "Bio-molecular data modeling and mining". The submission deadline has been extended to Oct. 1, 2017. More details about this special issue can be found at https://www.degruyter.com/page/1486. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) data analysis; Image processing, graphical modeling and visualization; Geometric and topological modeling of macromolecules; Structural determination and molecular shape analysis of molecules; Structure Alignment of macromolecules; Machine learning and data mining in molecular big data; Algorithms, analysis and validation for bio-molecular data; Molecule-related software or database development; Gene regulatory network and genome wide association study; Metagenomics data analysis and modeling of Epigenetics data; Single cell sequencing data analysis. Important Dates: Manuscript Due, Oct. 1, 2017; First round of reviews: Nov. 15, 2017; Anticipated publication date: Feb. 15, 2018. Guest editors: Dr. Dong Si (lead), University of Washington, Bothell; Dr. Ping Ma, University of Georgia; Dr. Kamal Al Nasr, Tennessee State University; Dr. Yonggang Lu, Lanzhou University, China. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Dong Si at [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- End of Digest **************************