IPNet Digest Volume 12, Number 09 October 1, 2005 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm Michigan State University Today's Topics: Inverse Problems Workshop at University of Leeds SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering SIAM 2006 Annual Meeting PhD/Postdoctoral position in Computational Inverse Problems Postdoctoral position in Inverse Problems Faculty Position in Applied Mathematics e-Bulletin of Statistics and Economics Special Issue: Journal of Integral Equations and Applications Table of Contents: Inverse Problems Table of Contents: Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering Table of Contents: Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control Table of Contents: Linear Algebra and Its Applications Submissions for IPNet Digest: Mail to ipnet-digest@math.msu.edu Information about IPNet: http://www.mth.msu.edu/ipnet ----------------------------- From: Daniel Lesnic Subject: Inverse Problems Workshop Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 A "British Inverse Problems Workshop" in the honour of Dr. Lionel Elliott 65th birthday will be held in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds on Monday afternoon on 31 October 2005. 12.30 - 1.20 Lunch (Senior Common Room at Leeds University) 1.30 - 2.00 Tomas Johansson (Linkoping University, Sweden visiting Leeds University, UK) "Reconstruction of a sound-soft obstacle" 2.05 - 2.55 Sin Kim (Cheju National University, Korea visiting University of Manchester, UK) "Electrical resitance imaging of binary mixtures" 3.05 - 3.55 Cees van Berkel (Philips Research Laboratories, UK) "Factorization method for reconstruction of grounded objects" 4.00 - 4.30 Tea/Biscuits (School of Mathematics, Level 9) Dr. Daniel Lesnic Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. e-mail: amt5ld@amsta.leeds.ac.uk tel: +44-(0)113-3435181 fax: +44-(0)113-3435090 ----------------------------- From: "Kirsten Wilden" Subject: SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 Conference Name: SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Location: Boston, Massachusetts Dates: July 10-12, 2006 Invited Speakers: Andrea Bertozzi, University of California, Los Angeles (Joint Speaker with the 2006 SIAM Annual Meeting) Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin, Madison Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Fields Institute, Canada, and University of Houston (Joint Speaker with the 2006 SIAM Annual Meeting) Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University George Papanicolaou, Stanford University Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland, College Park Short Courses: Two short courses will be held immediately preceding the conference on Sunday, July 9, 2006 at the same location. SC1 Constantine M. Dafermos, Brown University Conservation Laws and Continuum Physics SC2 Lawrence C. Evans, University of California, Berkeley Recent Developments in Weak Convergence Methods for PDE The Call for Presentations for this conference is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/pd06/index.php **Deadlines** Minisymposium proposals: January 10, 2006 Abstracts for all contributed and minisymposium presentations: January 24, 2006 For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ----------------------------- From: "Connie Young" Subject: SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing San Francisco, California, USA, February 22-24, 2006 The extended deadline for the SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing is September 30, 2005! Go to http://meetings.siam.org/start.cfm?CONFCODE=PP06 to submit. Additional information about the meeting is available at http://www.siam.org/meetings/pp06/ Conference Themes Main Theme: Large-Scale Parallel Computing with emphasis on Algorithms, Tools and Techniques for performing scientific computations on 100 to 100,000 processors Subthemes: - scalable algorithms including latency-tolerant schemes - programming models and languages for mathematical applications - data-intensive science and engineering applications - high-compute density systems (e.g., clusters, cell processor,...) - performance modeling Organizing Committee Co-chairs Charbel Farhat, Stanford University William Gropp, Argonne National Laboratory Invited Plenary Speakers (partial list) Giulia A. Galli, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Laxmikant Kale, University of Illinois Axel Klawonn, Universitt Duisburg-Essen, Germany Dominique Lavenier, IRISA, Rennes, France Steve Plimpton, Sandia National Laboratories Barry Smith, Argonne National Laboratory Mateo Valero, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Katherine Yelick, University of California at Berkeley For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org ----------------------------- From: "Darrell Ross" Subject: SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering Location: Boston, Massachusetts Dates: July 10-12, 2006 Meeting Themes: Applications of Stochastic Control in Finance Computational Methods in Finance Derivative Pricing Energy Markets Multiscale Phenomena in Finance The Call for Presentations is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/fm06/index.php Deadlines: * January 10, 2006: Minisymposium proposals * January 24, 2006: Abstracts for all contributed and minisymposium presentations For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ----------------------------- From: "Connie Young" Subject: 2006 SIAM Annual Meeting Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 2006 SIAM Annual Meeting Location: Boston, Massachusetts Dates: July 10-14, 2006 Meeting Themes: * Dynamical systems * Industrial problems * Mathematical biology * Numerical analysis * Orthogonal polynomials * Partial differential equations The Call for Presentations is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/an06/index.php Deadlines * January 10, 2006: Minisymposium proposals * January 24, 2006: Abstracts for all contributed and minisymposium presentations: For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ----------------------------- From: Andreas Neubauer Subject: PhD/Postdoc position at Johannes Kepler University, Austria Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 PhD/Postdoc position The SFB (SpezialForschungsBereich) F013 "Numerical and Symbolic Scientific Computing" at the Johannes Kepler University Linz offers a position up to three years in its subproject F1308 "Computational Inverse Problems and Applications". Applicants should have a broad knowledge of inverse problems. Experience in parameter identification problems is most welcome. This position is preferably open for phd-students, however, also post-docs may apply. Applications should be sent either per email to neubauer@indmath.uni-linz.ac.at or by mail to Prof.Dr. Andreas Neubauer Industrial Mathematics Institute Johannes Kepler University Altenberger Str. 69 A-4040 Linz, Austria ----------------------------- From: "Jaan Janno" Subject: postdoctoral position in Tallinn Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 Dear colleague, A postdoctoral research position in inverse problems is opened at Tallinn University of Technology. The funding is available from now to June of 2008. Applications for shorter periods may also be considered. However, the position should be filled not later than in the middle of 2006. The net salary is approximately 1200 Euros per month. This is complemented by some money for scientific trips. It is required that the applicant has defended its PhD degree not more than 5 years ago. No teaching is necessary. This is a pure research position. The research must be related to inverse or ill-posed problems. At least 3 scientific papers must be written during the stay. (May be co-authored.) People applying for this position should submit 1) a short CV containing Name Date of birth Citizenship PhD degree (when and where defended, title of thesis) Supposed beginning and end of the stay 2) list of publications Please submit the CV and list of publications to my e-mail address janno@ioc.ee . If you have questions, I am ready to answer them. Yours Sincerely, Jaan Janno ----------------------------- From: Jodi Mead Subject: Faculty Position at Boise State University Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 FACULTY POSITION IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY The Department of Mathematics at Boise State University invites applications for a beginning Assistant Professor position beginning Fall 2006. A Ph.D. in mathematics or statistics is required and a demonstrated, or potential for, excellence in teaching and research are primary requirements for the position. Preference will be given to an applied mathematician or statistician who can assume a leadership role in the development of research programs which interact with Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or Geophysics. The Department of Mathematics offers bachelors and masters degrees in mathematics and mathematics education and has 23 tenure or tenure-track faculty whose research and teaching interests include low dimensional topology, mathematics education, numerical analysis, set theory and statistics. Boise State University is a growing institution with more than 18,000 students serving Idaho's metropolitan center. As the State's capital and business, financial and cultural center, Boise is recognized as one of America's best places to live. A favorable cost of living, coupled with moderate climate and a wide variety of cultural and recreational opportunities, contribute to an outstanding quality of life for our faculty. A vibrant intellectual community draws from scientists at the University, regional high-tech industries, and numerous state and federal agencies. Review of applications will begin on January 9, 2006 and continue until finalists have been identified. Applications should include an AMS cover sheet, vitae, a statement of research interests, a statement of teaching philosophy, transcripts, and three professional references (one of which should address the applicant's teaching) all of which should be sent to: Applied Mathematics Search AA-0029-56 Boise State University 1910 University Dr. Boise, ID 83725-1555 For more information consult our website: http://math.boisestate.edu or contact us at facultysearch@math.boisestate.edu. Boise State University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities, individuals with disabilities and covered veterans are encouraged to apply. Disabled veterans, war veterans and honorably discharged veterans who are residents of the state of Idaho will receive credit in accordance with Idaho State Law upon submission of documentation of meeting the criteria set forth by law. EEO/AA Employer. ----------------------------- From: "Dr. Srivastava" Subject: e-Bulletin of Statistics and Economics Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 You are invited to join the "e-Bulletin of Statistics & Economics" (eBSE) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eBSE/ Description Bulletin of Statistics and Economics (eBSE) Bulletin of Statistics and Economics (eBSE), is a quarterly e-bulletin of applied mathematics, statistics and economics. eBSE may be subscribed and contributed, by students/academicians/researchers, without any fee. Each issue of BSE may contain the following articles and news items. Articles and Reviews: * Articles * Book Reviews News: * Appointments * People * Others * Recent Theses Jobs/Vacancy: * Positions/Situations * Doctoral/Post-Doctoral Fellowship Conferences, Seminar, Workshops, Meetings, and Events: * Conference/Workshop Announcements. * Conference Listing. Publishers' Announcements: * Journal News * New Journal * Special Issue * Proceedings of Conferences/Seminars/Symposia * Table of Contents ----------------------------- From: "Rainer.Kress" Subject: Special Issue, The Journal of Integral Equations and Applications. Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 This is to draw your attention to a special issue of the Journal of Integral Equations and Applications on "Integral Equations and Inverse Boundary Value Problems", see http://rmmc.eas.asu.edu/abstracts/jie/future/special.htm Contributions to the special issue should be sent, before April 1, 2006, to the Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Kress Institutefuer Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestrasse 16-18 D-37083 Goettingen Germany ----------------------------- From: Liz Martin Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems, Vol. 21, Issue 5, October 2005 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 Inverse Problems October 2005 Volume 21, Issue 5 Table of Contents PAPERS Inverse source problem in an anisotropic medium by boundary measurements A El Badia Optical tomography as a PDE-constrained optimization problem G S Abdoulaev, K Ren and A H Hielscher Identification of immersed obstacles via boundary measurements C Alvarez, C Conca, L Friz, O Kavian and J H Ortega Multisoliton solutions of the Degasperis--Procesi equation and their peakon limit Y Matsuno Tikhonov replacement functionals for iteratively solving nonlinear operator equations R Ramlau and G Teschke Time-reversal-based detection in random media G Bal and O Pinaud Inverse medium scattering for the Helmholtz equation at fixed frequency G Bao and P Li A stability estimate for a Cauchy problem for an elliptic partial differential equation L Eld\'en and F Berntsson A note on the CQ algorithm for the split feasibility problem B Qu and N Xiu A regularization method for the function reconstruction from approximate average fluxes J Huang and Y Chen Multidimensional Borg--Levinson theorem Y Kurylev, M Lassas and R Weder Statistical elimination of boundary artefacts in image deblurring D Calvetti and E Somersalo Migration/inversion: think image point coordinates, process in acquisition surface coordinates N Bleistein, Y Zhang, S Xu, G Zhang and S H Gray Riccati equations for scattering matrices on level surfaces Y Chen A linear integral equation approach to the Robin inverse problem F Lin and W Fang On local regularization methods for linear Volterra equations and nonlinear equations of Hammerstein type P K Lamm and Z Dai Several solution methods for the split feasibility problem J Zhao and Q Yang CORRIGENDUM FBP algorithms for attenuated fan-beam projections J You, G L Zeng and Z Liang All articles are free for 30 days after publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://stacks.iop.org/0266-5611/21/i=3D5 Submitted by: Elizabeth Martin, Senior Production Editor, Inverse Problems Institute of Physics Publishing Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol BS1 6BE UK Tel: +44 (0)117 929 7481 E-mail: liz.martin@iop.org Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4318 WWW: http://www.iop.org ----------------------------- From: "jamesverebeck" Subject: October, Inverse Prob in Sc and Eng Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering Oct. 2005 Vol. 13, No. 5 Table of Contents Estimation of local heat transfer coefficient on a cylinder: comparison between an analytical and an optimization method E. Coment, T. Loulou, and D. Maillet Extension of the parameterization choices in adaptive multiscale estimation H. Kruger and T. Mannseth Determination of dynamic load distributions applied to Kirchhoff plates based on FEM and numerical Laplace transformation method C. M. Ma Nonlinear inverse unbalance reconstruction in rotor dynamics V. Dicken, P. Maas, I. Menz, J. Niebsch and R. Ramlau The energy-free equations of the 3D inverse problem of dynamics M.-C. Anisiu ----------------------------- From: Romas Baronas Subject: Contents, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control 2005 Volume 10, Number 3 Table of Contents Global Observer for Homogeneous Vector Fields M.A. Hammami Apparent Parameters of Enzymatic Plate-Gap Electrode I. Kaunietis, R. Simkus, V. Laurinavicius, F. Ivanauskas Kinetics of Biocatalytical Synergistic Reactions J. Kulys Value Distribution of General Dirichlet Series. VI A. Laurincikas Bose-Einstein Condensation in Financial Systems K. Staliunas Review on some Stefan Problems for Particle Dissolution in Solid Metallic Alloys F.J. Vermolen, C. Vuik, E. Javierre, S. van der Zwaag Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, an official journal of the Lithuanian Association of Nonlinear Analysts (LANA), welcomes contributions from the international community. A free on-line edition is available at: http://www.lana.lt/journal/issues.php For a paper submission, please refer to http://www.lana.lt/journal Dr. Romas Baronas, Journal Secretary, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control ----------------------------- From: Hans Schneider Subject: LAA contents Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 Linear Algebra and its Applications 1 October 2005 Vol. 408 Table of Contents Faces of the cone of Euclidean distance matrices: Characterizations, structure and induced geometry Pablo Tarazaga A note on sign-nonsingular matrices Miroslav Fiedler Three mutually adjacent Leonard pairs Brian Hartwig Minimal representations of unitary operators and orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle M.J. Cantero, L. Moral and L. Vel=E1zquez A class of constrained inverse eigenproblem and associated approximation problem for skew symmetric and centrosymmetric matrices Xiao-ping Pan, Xi-yan Hu and Lei Zhang The spectral radius of unicyclic and bicyclic graphs with n vertices and k pendant vertices Shu-Guang Guo A characterization of complex plane Poncelet curves Boris Mirman and Pradeep Shukla Unitriangular actions on quadratic forms and character degrees Andrea Previtali Linear dependence of quotients of analytic functions of several variables with the least subcollection of generalized Wronskians Ronald A. Walker On the QR iterations of real matrices Huajun Huang and Tin-Yau Tam The numerical range of a composition operator with conformal automorphism symbol A. Abdollahi Characteristic polynomials of digraphs having a semi-free action Aiping Deng and Yaokun Wu The copositive completion problem Leslie Hogben, Charles R. Johnson and Robert Reams On the nullity of unicyclic graphs Tan Xuezhong and Bolian Liu The inverse mean problem of geometric mean and contraharmonic means Yongdo Lim On maps preserving zeros of the polynomial xy =FF=FF yx * Mikhail A. Chebotar, Yuen Fong and Pjek-Hwee Lee The compact quantum group U q (2) I Xiaoxia Zhang and Ervin Yunwei Zhao Additive mappings between Hermitian matrix spaces preserving rank not exceeding one M.H. Lim The inverse eigenvalue problem for symmetric anti-bidiagonal matrices Olga Holtz Construction of real symmetric and per-antisymmetric matrices with prescribed spectrum data Qingxiang Yin On the values of permanents of (0, 1) circulant matrices with three ones per row Giovanni Sburlati On the weight distribution of convolutional codes Heide Gluesing-Luerssen http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5653-2005-995919999-605497 ************************* Linear Algebra and its Applications 1 November 2005 Volume 409 Table of Contents Special Issue in honor of Pauline van den Driessche Edited by Steve Kirkland, Judith J. McDonald, Dale D. Olesky and Michael J. Tsatsomeros Preface S. Kirkland, J.J. McDonald, D.D. Olesky and M.J. Tsatsomeros On the difference between the maximum multiplicity and path cover number for tree-like graphs Francesco Barioli, Shaun Fallat and Leslie Hogben Proximity in group inverses of M-matrices and inverses of diagonally dominant M-matrices Minerva Catral, Michael Neumann and Jianhong Xu Isospectral vibrating systems. Part 1. The spectral method Peter Lancaster Bipartite and tripartite systems and matrices from genetic control research Clark Jeffries Eigenvectors and eigenvalues of non-regular graphs Xiao-Dong Zhang Rectangular submatrices of inverse-matrices and the decomposition of a positive matrix as a sum C.R. Johnson and D.D. Olesky A strategy for constructing Lyapunov functions for non-autonomous linear differential equations C. Connell McCluskey Rational realizations of the minimum rank of a sign pattern matrix Marina Arav, Frank J. Hall, Selcuk Koyuncu, Zhongshan Li and Bhaskara Rao Matrix analysis of a Markov chain small-world model Minerva Catral, Michael Neumann and Jianhong Xu A note on generalized Hessenberg matrices L. Elsner A sharp upper bound on the largest Laplacian eigenvalue of weighted graphs Kinkar Ch. Das and R.B. Bapat Spectral properties of a near-periodic row-stochastic Leslie matrix Mei-Qin Chen and Xiezhang Li http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5653-2005-995909999-606501 Submitted by: Hans Schneider Mathematics Department, Van Vleck Hall, University of Wisconsin, 480 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1313 USA Office Phone: 608-262-1402 Math Dept Phone: 608-263-3054 Email: hans@math.wisc.edu Math Dept Fax: 608-263-8891 http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hans ------- end -------