Subject: NA Digest, V. 18, # 5 NA Digest Sunday, February 04, 2018 Volume 18 : Issue 5 Today's Editor: Daniel M. Dunlavy Sandia National Labs [log in to unmask] Today's Topics: C++ API for Batch BLAS New Book, Analysis and Applications of Lattice Boltzmann Simulations New Book, Deterministic Global Optimization Deadline Extension, Automatic Performance Tuning, Canada, May 2018 Summer Research Opportunity for Undergraduates, USA, May-Aug 2018 IMA Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization, UK, Jun 2018 Approximation Methods and Fast Algorithms, Germany, Sep 2018 W2 Professorship Position, Data Assimilation, Univ of Potsdam Lectureship Position, Mathematics of Data Analysis, Cardiff Univ, UK Multiple Positions, Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus Postdoc Position, Mathematical Optimization, Univ of Vienna Postdoc Position, Optimization, Univ of Osijek, Croatia Givens Associate Positions, Argonne National Laboratory Industrial CASE Award PhD Position, Univ of Leeds 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: Ahmad Abdelfattah [log in to unmask] Date: January 29, 2018 Subject: C++ API for Batch BLAS As part of the ECP SLATE project, we are designing a standard C++ API for Batch BLAS. We have published the initial draft of the proposed API as SLATE Working Note #4: http://www.icl.utk.edu/publications/swan-004 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 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: Pedro Valero-Lara [log in to unmask] Date: January 29, 2018 Subject: New Book, Analysis and Applications of Lattice Boltzmann Simulations Analysis and Applications of Lattice Boltzmann Simulations Part of the Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering Book Series https://www.igi-global.com/book/_/185478 Pedro Valero-Lara (Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain) Programming has become a significant part of connecting theoretical development and scientific application computation. Fluid dynamics provide an important asset in experimentation and theoretical analysis. Analysis and Applications of Lattice Boltzmann Simulations provides emerging research on the efficient and standard implementations of simulation methods on current and upcoming parallel architectures. While highlighting topics such as hardware accelerators, numerical analysis, and sparse geometries, this publication explores the techniques of specific simulators as well as the multiple extensions and various uses. This book is a vital resource for engineers, professionals, researchers, academics, and students seeking current research on computational fluid dynamics, high-performance computing, and numerical and flow simulations. The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to: Distributed Memory Computers; Hardware Accelerators; Mesh Refinement; Numerical Analysis; Parallel Programming; Programming Optimization; Sparse Geometries; Turbulence Model; Wake Interaction. https://www.igi-global.com/book/_/185478 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Dmitri Kvasov [log in to unmask] Date: February 04, 2018 Subject: New Book, Deterministic Global Optimization "Deterministic Global Optimization: An Introduction to the Diagonal Approach" by Yaroslav D. Sergeyev and Dmitri E. Kvasov (series "Springer Briefs in Optimization", ISBN: 978-1-4939-7197-8, x + 136 pages, 2017: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781493971978) This book begins with a concentrated introduction into deterministic global optimization and moves forward to present new original results from the authors who are well known experts in the field. Multiextremal continuous problems that have an unknown structure with Lipschitz objective functions and functions having the first Lipschitz derivatives defined over hyperintervals are studied. A class of algorithms using several Lipschitz constants is introduced which has its origins in the DIRECT (DIviding RECTangles) method. This new class is based on an efficient strategy that is applied for the search domain partitioning. In addition a survey on derivative free methods and methods using the first derivatives is given for both one-dimensional and multi-dimensional cases. Non-smooth and smooth minorants and acceleration techniques that can speed up several classes of global optimization methods with examples of applications and problems arising in numerical testing of global optimization algorithms are discussed. Theoretical considerations are illustrated through engineering applications. Extensive numerical testing of algorithms described in this book stretches the likelihood of establishing a link between mathematicians and practitioners. The authors conclude by describing applications and a generator of random classes of test functions with known local and global minima that is used in more than 40 countries of the world. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Jakub Kurzak [log in to unmask] Date: January 29, 2018 Subject: Deadline Extension, Automatic Performance Tuning, Canada, May 2018 The 13th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning http://www.iwapt.org/2018/ May 25, 2018 at JW Marriott Parq Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada DEADLINE EXTENDED NEW DEADLINE: Paper Submission: Feb. 9, 2018 Submission closes: Friday, Feb 9, 2018 (AOE) Author notification: Monday, Mar 5, 2018 Camera-ready: Friday, Mar 16, 2018 Workshop: Friday, May 25, 2018 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2018 (If you do not have an EasyChair account, please create it first.) iWAPT (International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning) is a series of workshops that focus on research and techniques that address performance sustainability issues. It provides an opportunity for researchers and users of automatic performance tuning (AT) technologies to exchange ideas and experiences while applying such technologies to improve the performance of algorithms, libraries, and applications; in particular, on cutting edge computing platforms. The full- day workshops consist of invited keynote speaker presentations and 30- minute presentations of well-founded papers. Occasionally, exploratory papers are also accepted. Topics of interest include performance modeling, adaptive algorithms, autotuned numerical algorithms, libraries and scientific applications, empirical compilation, automated code generation, frameworks and theories of AT and software optimization, autonomic computing, and context-aware computing. Contact: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Stan Tomov [log in to unmask] Date: January 31, 2018 Subject: Summer Research Opportunity for Undergraduates, USA, May-Aug 2018 The Research Experiences in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (RECSEM) REU site program at the University of Tennessee (UTK) is looking for undergraduate students to explore emergent interdisciplinary computational science models and techniques via a number of cohesive compute and data intensive applications. The RECSEM program complements the growing importance of computational sciences in many advanced degree programs and provides scientific understanding and discovery to undergraduates with an intellectual focus on research projects using high performance computing (HPC). RECSEM is a ten week long summer program that runs tentatively from May 28 till August 4. Students receive a stipend, housing/subsistence allowance, and if necessary, a travel stipend. The program is limited to U.S. Citizens or permanent residents. Application deadline is Feb 23, 2018. For further information and to submit an online application, please visit https://www.jics.utk.edu/recsem-reu. Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us via email: [log in to unmask] . ------------------------------------------------------- From: Pamela Bye [log in to unmask] Date: January 31, 2018 Subject: IMA Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization, UK, Jun 2018 6th IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization University of Birmingham, UK 27 - 29 June 2018 The IMA and the University of Birmingham are pleased to announce the Sixth IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization. The meeting is organised in cooperation with SIAM, whose members will receive the IMA members' registration rate. The success of modern codes for large-scale optimization is heavily dependent on the use of effective tools of numerical linear algebra. On the other hand, many problems in numerical linear algebra lead to linear, nonlinear or semidefinite optimization problems. The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers from both communities and to find and communicate points and topics of common interest. Conference topics include any subject that could be of interest to both communities, such as: Direct and iterative methods for large sparse linear systems; Eigenvalue computation and optimization; Large-scale nonlinear and semidefinite programming; Effect of round-off errors, stopping criteria, embedded iterative procedures; Optimization issues for matrix polynomials; Fast matrix computations; Compressed/sparse sensing; PDE-constrained optimization; Distributed computing and optimization; Applications and real time optimization. Contributed talks are invited on all aspects of numerical linear algebra and optimization. Contributed talks will be accepted on the basis of a one page extended abstract which should be submitted by 28 February 2018 online at https://my.ima.org.uk. Authors will be advised of acceptance by 31 March 2018. A book of abstracts will be made available to delegates at the conference. Registration is open via https://my.ima.org.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Potts [log in to unmask] Date: January 31, 2018 Subject: Approximation Methods and Fast Algorithms, Germany, Sep 2018 Workshop on Approximation Methods and Fast Algorithms September 10-14, 2018 The workshop is focused on approximation methods and fast algorithms. It continues a longstanding tradition of workshops on approximation theory and related fields held in Northern Germany since the 1990's. The upcoming workshop is dedicated to the 75th birthday of our colleague Manfred Tasche. The workshop will take place in the hotel "Schloss Hasenwinkel" which is located northeast of the lake Schweriner See in Germany. Invited Plenary Speakers: Ole Christensen (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby) Stephan Dahlke (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany) Frank Filbir (Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Germany) Armin Iske (University Hamburg, Germany) Yurii Kolomoitsev (University zu Lubeck, Germany) Lothar Reichel (Kent State University, US) Karla Rost (Technical University Chemnitz, Germany) Registration deadline: May 10, 2018 Further information and the registration form is available on the website: http://www.math.uni-luebeck.de/hasenwinkel2018/ ------------------------------------------------------- From: Sebastian Reich [log in to unmask] Date: February 01, 2018 Subject: W2 Professorship Position, Data Assimilation, Univ of Potsdam The University of Potsdam, Faculty of Science, Institute of Mathematics, invites applications for a tenured W2 Professorship in Data Assimilation with an anticipated starting date of Fall 2018. Candidates are expected to have strong research profile in the field of high-dimensional and time-dependent inverse problems and to actively contribute to the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1294 "Data Assimilation - The seamless integration of data and models" (www.sfb1294.de). Possible research foci include optimization algorithms for high-dimensional parameter and state estimation problems, Bayesian model evaluation and comparison, uncertainty quantification in the context of data assimilation, sequential and high-dimensional learning, as well as semi- and nonparametric inference for stochastic processes. Successful candidates will have demonstrated the ability to combine theoretical and algorithmic advances with applications to problems of practical relevance. The deadline for applications is February 27th, 2018. See https://www.uni- potsdam.de/fileadmin01/projects/verwaltung/docs/Dezernat3/Ausschreibungen/1_Professur en/W2_Datenassimilation_eng.pdf for more details on the post and the application procedure. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Tim Phillips [log in to unmask] Date: February 04, 2018 Subject: Lectureship Position, Mathematics of Data Analysis, Cardiff Univ, UK The School of Mathematics at Cardiff University is advertising for a full- time open-ended Lectureship in the Mathematics of Data Analysis (Ref: 6865BR). The successful candidate will be expected to extend our research interests in a direction which promotes further interdisciplinary collaboration with the Data Innovation Institute and the School of Computer Science and Informatics. Areas of particular interest include data assimilation in computational modelling; low rank approximations; topological data analysis. Applicants for the post should have a record of or potential to produce research that reaches the highest standards of excellence in terms of originality, significance and rigour in any field of Mathematics related to Data Analysis. S/he should have the ability to deliver high-quality teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We strongly welcome female applicants and those from an ethnic minority group, as they are under-represented in our School. The School of Mathematics has an Athena SWAN Bronze Award that recognises good employment practice and a commitment to develop the careers of women working in science. The University is committed to ensuring that we sustain a positive working environment for all staff to flourish and achieve. The application deadline is 22nd February 2018. For details see the University vacancies webpage https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/HomeWithPreLoad? partnerid=30011&siteid=5460&PageType=searchResults&SearchType=linkquery\ #jobDetails=1140653_5460 ------------------------------------------------------- From: Isabel Narra Figueiredo [log in to unmask] Date: February 02, 2018 Subject: Multiple Positions, Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus FCT (the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology) has launched an Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus. The applicant can apply in one of the four following categories: Junior Researcher, or Assistant researcher, or Principal Researcher or Coordinator Researcher. Guide for writing and submitting the application to FCT - https://www.fct.pt/apoios/contratacaodoutorados/empregocientifico/docs/guiao_candidatur a.pdf Announcement - https://www.fct.pt/apoios/contratacaodoutorados/empregocientifico/ci_dez2017.phtml.en Deadline: February 16, 2018, 5pm Lisbon time. The applicant must select a Portuguese host Institution, and must have its agreement. This host Institution should confirm its association with the application and its support to the applicant's research plan. For an applicant interested in Applied Mathematics (namely the areas of Image Processing of Medical Images, or Bio-mathematics) and wishing to develop the research at CMUC (Centre of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra), please send before February 16, CV and research plan to Isabel M. Narra de Figueiredo (email: [log in to unmask], http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0215-8851 http://www.mat.uc.pt/~isabelf) ------------------------------------------------------- From: Radu Ioan Bot [log in to unmask] Date: February 02, 2018 Subject: Postdoc Position, Mathematical Optimization, Univ of Vienna The Research Group on Applied Mathematics with emphasis on Optimization at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna, headed by Radu Ioan Bot, has its core research areas in Nonsmooth and Convex Optimization. Currently it offers 1 PostDoc Position (18 months) at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna within the FWF-funded research project Employing Recent Outcomes in Proximal Theory Outside the Comfort Zone. The main scientific target of the project is to employ recent advances concerning some classical techniques used so far mainly for iteratively minimizing convex functions in Hilbert spaces to research fields lying outside their comfort zone. These methods evolve around the notion of proximality, which relies on evaluating a certain regularization of the addressed mathematical object. Due to its reliability, simplicity and accuracy, the proximal theory was successfully employed for solving nonsmooth convex optimization problems and monotone inclusions with complex structures as well, proving a strong positive impact on the treatment of real-life applications with high-dimensional data. The research themes to be addressed in this project range from the employment of the paradigm of proximality in broader frameworks like considering generalized distances and addressing the solving of nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problems to the approach of monotone inclusions problems and optimization problems via first- and second-order dynamical systems. The expected results should have impact beyond the corresponding research areas both in mathematical fields like ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, optimal control, functional analysis, game theory, equilibrium problems and optimal transport theory, and in the solving of real-life problems arising in optimal location selection, image processing, machine learning, quantification of risk, network communication and video processing. The position is available from April 1st, 2018. The salary is as suggested by the FWF according to a PostDoc position. The working load for the project is 40 hours per week. The deadline for application is March 15th, 2018. The candidates should have a PhD degree in Mathematics, a solid theoretical background in analysis and mathematical optimization, and programming skills. Fluency in the English language has to be proven. Applications (including a letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, the PhD thesis, peer reviewed publications, copies of academic certificates and two letters of recommendation) should be sent to: [log in to unmask] More information can be found on http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~rabot . ------------------------------------------------------- From: Ninoslav Truhr [log in to unmask] Date: January 30, 2018 Subject: Postdoc Position, Optimization, Univ of Osijek, Croatia The Univeristy of Osijek, Department of Mathematics (https://www.mathos.unios.hr/index.php/en/) has an opening position for a postdoctoral researcher in Numerical Linear Algebra for 12 months. The postdoc holder will join the Department of Mathematics, starting from 1. March, 2018 within the project "Optimization of parameter dependent mechanical systems" which has been fully financed by Croatian Science Foundation (http://www.mathos.unios.hr/index.php/399). The candidates need to have PhD in mathematics, computer science, or some related area. Essential qualifications are a strong background in numerical linear algebra, control theory and especially Quadratic eigenvalue problems and basics in optimization methods. Part of the project involves programming in Matlab, (or some similar programs Maple or Mathematica) so experience in this direction is highly desirable. Informal enquiries are encouraged; please contact Professor Ninoslav Truhar initially by e-mail: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- From: Stefan Wild [log in to unmask] Date: January 29, 2018 Subject: Givens Associate Positions, Argonne National Laboratory The Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division at Argonne National Laboratory is developing innovative techniques in numerical computing and computational mathematics. The Givens Associate program is intended to encourage graduate students who are beginning careers in numerical analysis or computational mathematics. Candidates must be in an accredited Ph.D. program in applied mathematics, computer science, computational science, statistics, or a related field at a U.S. university (U.S. citizenship is not required). Givens Associates will work actively with MCS scientists designing, analyzing, and implementing numerical and statistical algorithms. For further information about particular applied mathematics, numerical software, and statistics research areas in MCS, see http://www.mcs.anl.gov/group/applied-mathematics. The deadline for all application materials is March 1, 2018. Please see complete details at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/career-opportunities/givens-associates . ------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Lesnic [log in to unmask] Date: January 30, 2018 Subject: Industrial CASE Award PhD Position, Univ of Leeds The Department of Applied Mathematics in collaboration with the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine (LICAMM) at Leeds University has a fully-funded PhD position for an Industrial CASE project on "Motion compensation for multi-modal and multi-parametric preclinical imaging". The project proposes to study motion correction and cross-platform registration for such multi-modal (positron emission tomography (PET), X- ray computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The combined application of inverse problems and imaging to be developed by this studentship will provide experience for the graduate student in a growing and strategically important Mathematics for Medicine discipline for high-value healthcare manufacturing. The project requires a dedicated, motivated, talented first-class student with a solid background in applied mathematics or physics (or equivalent), and ideally in medical imaging. Computational programming skills are highly desired. The scholarship is available for UK applicants and also for EU applicants who have been ordinarily resident in the UK for three years prior to the start of the studentship. Funding for 4 years covers academic fees at the standard University of Leeds rate, training costs and a stipend of 14,777 GBP in Session 2018/19 (amount increases per annum in line with the Research Council UK rate) and a stipend top-up from the company of 3,000 GBP per annum (stipends are non-taxable). How to apply: Please send a CV and a short 'statement of motivation' to Professor Daniel Lesnic ([log in to unmask]). Further information will then be provided. Deadline for applications is 15 March 2018. The scholarship is due to start on 1 October 2018. ------------------------------------------------------- End of Digest **************************