IPNet Digest Volume 8, Number 08 October 31, 2001 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm Michigan State University Today's Topics: NSF-CBMS Conference: Inverse Problems SIAM Conferences: Imaging Science, Life Sciences Annual Meeting: SIAM 50th Anniversary Meeting International Conference: Nonsmooth/Nonconvex Mechanics Conference: Acoustics, Mechanics, Mathematical Analysis Topics Tenure-track Position: Applied Mathematics at UMBC Professional Organization: SIAM Outreach Membership Table of Contents: Inverse Problems in Engineering 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 Mail to ipnet-request@math.msu.edu ----------------------------- From: "R. Knobel" Subject: NSF-CBMS Conference on Inverse Problems Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT NSF-CBMS Regional Conference on Using Spectral Data to Solve Inverse Problems December 14-18, 2001 The University of Texas - Pan American Edinburg, Texas USA http://www.math.panam.edu/cbms PRINCIPAL LECTURE SERIES Professor Joyce McLaughlin, Ford Foundation Professor of Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will provide 10 one-hour lectures on "Using Spectral Data to Solve Inverse Problems." These lectures will be a self-contained and comprehensive exposition on the use of natural frequencies and selected mode shape measurements to determine material properties of objects. These lectures will not only present the newest methods for solving these problems, but also give both mathematical and experimental insight into how the data depends on the material properties to be recovered. Emphasis will be on two-dimensional problems, with a brief introduction and insight given for one-dimensional problems. ADDITIONAL LECTURES A limited program of invited speakers will provide supplemental lectures addressing related inverse problems in mathematics, science, and engineering. LOCATION The University of Texas-Pan American is located in Edinburg, Texas, in the subtropical Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. UTPA is just 20 minutes from Mexico, and approximately 75 miles from the Gulf of Mexico and the resort area of South Padre Island. The area is heavily influenced, both culturally and economically, by its proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border. REGISTRATION Participants may register by web at http://www.math.panam.edu/cbms, or by mail, e-mail, or fax using the contact information given below. There is no registration fee. TRAVEL SUPPORT The National Science Foundation is providing some support for domestic travel and local expenses. Requests may be sent to the contact information given below and should include rank/position, institution, a brief description of research interests, and the anticipated amount of support needed. Inclusion of a short statement from the advisors of those graduate students seeking funding is recommended. Requests for support are now being accepted and will continue to be considered as space and funds permit. TRANSPORTATION Edinburg is located approximately 230 miles southeast of San Antonio, Texas on US Route 281 and 150 miles southwest of Corpus Christi. The McAllen International Airport is approximately 15 miles south of Edinburg and is serviced by regularly scheduled flights from Houston (Continental) and Dallas (American). Car rentals, taxis, and shuttles to selected hotels are available from the airport. The Rio Grande Valley International Airport is located in Harlingen 40 miles east of Edinburg and is serviced by Continental, American, Southwest, and Sun Country Airlines. LOCAL ACCOMODATIONS Information on nearby lodging and restaurants is made available on the conference web site http://www.math.panam.edu/cbms. CONTACT INFORMATION For more information about the conference, registration, or to request travel support, contact Roger Knobel Department of Mathematics The University of Texas - Pan American Edinburg, TX 78539-2999 Phone: (956) 381-3452 Fax: (956) 384-5091 E-mail: knobel@panam.edu ----------------------------- From: ross@siam.org Subject: SIAM Conferences: Imaging Science, Life Sciences Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 SIAM's Conference on the Imaging Science and the Conference on the Life Sciences are currently taking Preregistrations! Preregister and Save! To qualify for the preregistration fee, return the Preregistration Form ( https://www.siam.org/meetings/is02ls02/regform.htm ) with payment to reach the SIAM office by Monday, February 4, 2002. Any registration received at the SIAM office after Monday, February 4, 2002 will be subject to the full registration fee. We urge you to preregister and save the $60.00 difference. For further registration, information, and program details on these two conferences please visit their respective web pages at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/is02/ and http://www.siam.org/meetings/ls02/ Darrell Ross SIAM, Conference Program Manager ----------------------------- From: cyoung@siam.org Subject: 2002 SIAM 50th Anniversary and Annual Meeting Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 Conference Name: 2002 SIAM 50th Anniversary and Annual Meeting Location: Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Dates: July 8-12, 2002 Call for Papers To submit go to: http://www.siam.org/meetings/SIAM50 Submission Deadlines: MiniSymposium Proposals - 01/16/02 Abstracts in Lecture or Poster format - 02/13/02 For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at siam@meetings.org ----------------------------- From: "Georgios E. Stavroulakis" Subject: International Conference on Nonsmooth/Nonconvex Mechanics Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 International Conference on Nonsmooth/Nonconvex Mechanics With applications in Engineering In Memoriam of Professor P.D. Panagiotopoulos Thessaloniki, 5 - 6 July, 2002 http://www.civil.auth.gr/ic2002 Conference Secretatiat: c/o Professor C.C. Baniotopoulos Institute of Steel Structures Department of Civil Engineering Aristotle University GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece Phone: ++30 310 995753 Fax: ++30 310 995642 E-mail: ic2002pdp@civil.auth.gr Submitted by: Georgios E. Stavroulakis, Dr.-Ing. habil. Assoc. Prof., University of Ioannina, Greece,=20 Privatdozent, T.U. Braunschweig, Germany gestavr@cc.uoi.gr g.stavroulakis@tu-bs.de http://www.math.uoi.gr/~gestavr http://www.tu-bs.de/~i5042301 Tel: 0030-651-98268, FAX: 0030-651-98201 ----------------------------- From: Armand Wirgin Subject: Conference: Acoustics, Mechanics, Topics of Mathematical Analysis Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 Dear Colleagues, This is to notify you that the website of the conference entitled Acoustics, Mechanics, and the Related Topics of Mathematical Analysis (AMRTMA) is now open at the address: http://omicron.cnrs-mrs.fr/AMRTMA/ All persons interested in participating in this conference are urged to fill out the registration form on the last page of the website. The earlier you do this the greater are your chances of being lodged at the Villa Clythia (where the conference is held). Otherwise, you will have to seek lodgings in a hotel (at a higher price). If you have not already sent me an abstract may I urge you to do so before 15 Nov. 2001. Sincerely, A. Wirgin LMA/CNRS 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier 13402 Marseille cedex 20 tel.: 33 4 91 16 40 50 fax: 33 4 91 22 08 75 e-mail: wirgin@lma.cnrs-mrs.fr ----------------------------- From: "Thomas I. Seidman" Subject: Tenure-track faculty position in Applied Math. at UMBC Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 Tenure-track faculty position in Applied Mathematics at UMBC The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) has authorization to recruit a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Applied Math. Please see our web pages for further information about the department and its present faculty; in particular, see http://www.math.umbc.edu/Positions/positions-2001-2.shtml for the official position announcement. Submitted by: Prof. Thomas I. Seidman seidman@math.umbc.edu UMBC, Dept. Math/Stat http://www.math.umbc.edu/~seidman Baltimore, MD 21250 (1-410)-455-2438 [FAX: -1066] ----------------------------- From: montgomery@siam.org Subject: SIAM Outreach Membership Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 SIAM discounts membership dues for individuals in developing countries... In 1999, the SIAM Board of Trustees approved an affordable membership option for individuals who live and work in developing countries (as identified by the World Bank). This category of membership, SIAM "outreach membership," was created to help make SIAM products and services accessible to a wider and more global group of applied and computational mathematicians. This is a great alternative for individuals in developing countries who cannot afford the full SIAM dues. For just $25 per year, eligible individuals receive a slightly reduced set of benefits. Outreach Members receive all print issues of SIAM News and electronic-only access to SIAM Review. They can join any of the SIAM Activity Groups at $10 per group, are entitled to the member discount of 30% off list prices on all SIAM books, and receive member discounted registration at SIAM sponsored meetings. No additional journal subscriptions at membership rates are available as part of the Outreach Membership. The Outreach Membership application (secure) form can be found at https://www.siam.org/membership/outreachmem.htm. The list of developing countries (as identified by the World Bank) can be found at http://www.siam.org/membership/outreachlist.htm. SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 3600 University City Science Center Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA 215-382-9800 fax 215-386-7999 service@siam.org www.siam.org ----------------------------- From: james beck Subject: Contents: Inverse Problems in Engineering Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 Inverse Problems in Engineering 2001 Volume 9, Number 3 Table of Contents Kalman Filter Based 3D-stochastic Inverse Boundary Element Method for Flaw Identification and Structural Reliability Prediction Y. Liu, L. Liang and G. Jia Modification of Truss Structures Using Linear Modification Method T. Li and J. He On the Numerical Solution of a Free Boundary Identification Problem A. Ellabib and A. Nachaoui A -model Solution for the Inverse Position Problem of Calibrated Robots Using Virtual Elementary Motions I. A. Sultan and J. G. Wager Optimal Experimental Designs for Linear Inverse Problems J. Liu ----------------------------- From: Hans Schneider Subject: Linear Algebra and Its Applications Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 Linear Algebra and Its Applications Nov 15, 2001 Vol. 338, Issue 1-3 Table of Contents Algebraic aspects of the discrete KP hierarchy R. Felipe, F. Ongay Extension of MacMahon's Master Theorem to pre-semi-rings M. Minoux Rectangular Vandermonde matrices on Chebyshev nodes A. Eisinberg, G. Franze, N. Salerno Is a Chebyshev method optimal for an elliptic region also optimal for a nearly elliptic region? X. Li An improvement on the perturbation of the group inverse and oblique projection X. Li, Y. Wei Three coefficients of a polynomial can determine its instability A. Borobia, S. Dormido Some 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras I B. Ren, D. Ji Meng On characterizing Z-matrices R.L. Smith On the shape of numerical range of matrix polynomials H. Nakazato, P. Psarrakos A generalization of Serre's conjecture and some related issues Z. Lin, N.K. Bose Denseness for norm attaining operator-valued functions P. Enflo, J. Kover, L. Smithies Modular automorphisms preserving idempotence and Jordan isomorphisms of triangular matrices over commutative rings X. MinTang, C. GuangCao, X. Zhang Symmetric sign pattern matrices that require unique inertia F.J. Hall, Z. Li, D. Wang Using noncommutative Grobner bases in solving partially prescribed matrix inverse completion problems F. Dell Kronewitter A robust ILU with pivoting based on monitoring the growth of the inverse factors M. Bollhofer A two-step even-odd split Levinson algorithm for Toeplitz systems A. Melman The numerical range of elementary operators II A. Seddik The inverse of a non-singular free matrix T. Britz Backward minimal points for bounded linear operators on finite-dimensional vector spaces E.B. Wiesner Generalized inverses of a sum of morphisms H. You, J. Chen More on positive subdefinite matrices and the linear complementarity problem S.R. Mohan, S.K. Neogy, A.K. Das A generalization of Sylvester's law of inertia C.R. Johnson, S. Furtado ContentsDirect, which is automatically generated, lists the first author of each paper and the corresponding author (if different). You can access for FREE full text articles of Linear Algebra and Its Applications as well as 16 related journal titles from: http://www.mathformath.com. Simply send a blank email to mailto:join-mathformath-offer1@lyris.elsevier.nl . In return, you will receive the instructions for FREE access until 31st October 2001. Submitted by: Hans Schneider hans@math.wisc.edu. Department of Mathematics 608-262-1402 (Work) Van Vleck Hall 608-271-7252 (Home) 480 Lincoln Drive 608-263-8891 (Work FAX) University of Wisconsin-Madison 608-271-8477 (Home FAX) Madison WI 53706 USA http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hans (URL) ------- end -------