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Volume 13, Number 2 (approximately February 28, 2003)

Today's topics:

     Table of Contents, ETNA, vol. 13 and 10th Anniversary Conference
     Workshop on Multigrid and Hierarchic Solution Techniques in Leipzig, August 2003
     Numerical Solution of Markov Chains CFP

    Editor's Note:
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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:49:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Lothar Reichel 
Subject: Table of Contents, ETNA, vol. 13 and 10th Anniversary Conference

Table of Contents, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA),
vol. 13, 2002.  ETNA is available at http://etna.mcs.kent.edu and at several 
mirror sites, as well as on CDROM. 

Dirk Wollstein, Torsten Linss and Hans-Goerg Roos. A uniformly accurate 
finite volume discretization for a convection-diffusion problem. pp. 1-11.

The asymptotic distribution of general interpolation arrays for exponential 
weights. S. B. Damelin. pp. 12-21.

Image restoration through subimages and confidence images. James G. Nagy and 
Dianne P. O'Leary. pp. 22-37.

Pierre Spiteri, Jean-Claude Miellou and Didier El Baz. Perturbation of 
parallel asynchronous linear iterations by floating point errors. pp. 38-55.

Zdenek Strakos and Petr Tichy. On error estimation in the conjugate gradient 
method and why it works in finite precision computations. pp. 56-80.

Thomas Huckle and Jochen Staudacher. Multigrid preconditioning and Toeplitz 
matrices. pp. 81-105.

Volker Mehrmann and David Watkins. Polynomial eigenvalue problems with 
Hamiltonian structure. pp. 106-118.

Walter Gautschi. The interplay between classical analysis and (numerical) 
linear algebra --- a tribute to Gene H. Golub. pp. 119-147.

There will be a conference in Kent on May 29-31, 2003, on the occasion of
the 10th anniversary of ETNA. For further information, see the conference
web site http://lanczos.cwru.edu/~etna10

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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:41:29 +0100 (MET)
From: Markus Melenk 
Subject: Workshop on Multigrid and Hierarchic Solution Techniques in Leipzig, August 2003

                            11th GAMM-Workshop on
                 Multigrid and Hierarchic Solution Techniques
                              August 25-27, 2003

LOCATION 
  Max-Planck-Institute for mathematics in the sciences, 
  Leipzig

INVITED SPEAKERS
  R. Bank (UCSD)
  U. Langer (University of Linz)
  K. Oosterlee (Technical University of Delft) 

INFORMATION and REGISTRATION 
  http://www.mis.mpg.de/scicomp/GAMM-WS2003
  and by e-mail: melenk@mis.mpg.de 

DEADLINE for registration: 
  June 30, 2003

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:09:50 -500
From: Amy Nicole Langville 
Subject: Numerical Solution of Markov Chains CFP

                               Call for Papers
                                   NSMC '03
                         INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
                   THE NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF MARKOV CHAINS
                             in conjunction with 
                PNPM '03 (Petri Nets and Performance Models) 
                TOOLS '03 (Tools for Performance Evaluation) 
  PMCCS '03 (Performability Modeling of Computer and Communication Systems)
                                       
                              Location and Dates
                  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                            September 3 - 5, 2003.

NSMC '03 is the fourth in a series of international conferences devoted to all
aspects of the numerical solution of Markov chains.  The first two meetings
were held in 1990 and 1995 at NC State University.  The last was held in 1999
in Zaragoza, Spain and was joined by two other meetings having substantial
interests in Markov chains.  Since this format proved effective, we are
proposing to do this same for the upcoming September '03 meeting.  The
meetings will be held simultaneously and participants may move freely from one
to another.

NSMC '03 website: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/nsmc2003/
Multiconference website: http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/Multi/index.html

The goals of the "Numerical Solution of Markov Chain" meeting are:

(1) To foster collaboration among diverse researchers, to minimize unnecessary 
    duplication and to encourage interdisciplinary, international exchange.
(2) To present unique and novel applications of Markov chains that need
    tailored algorithms and solutions that we numerical analysts, computer
    scientists, mathematicians and statisticians can provide.  
(3) To present recent and advanced techniques for solving Markov chains.
(4) To provide the opportunity for researchers who work in this area to
    present their latest research results.  The collection of presentations is
    intended to be an authoritative overview of the field, including its
    history, developments, and current status.
(5) To predict future directions and the field's most pressing needs,
    thereby motivating stimulating work in such areas.
(6) To produce a comprehensive set of proceedings, which is expected 
    to become a significant reference work.
 
LIST OF TOPICS:   Includes, but is not limited to:

    Matrix generation techniques and storage
       Stochastic Automata Networks
       Application-oriented interfaces
       Sparse matrix technologies
       Very large state spaces
    Computation of stationary probability vectors
       Direct solution methods
       Iterative solution methods
       Matrix geometric solutions
       Domain decomposition methods
       Hierarchical and aggregation/disaggregation methods
       Preconditioning and Incomplete factorizations
    Computation of transient solutions
       Randomization/Uniformization
       O.D.E. & P.D.E. Solvers
    Computation of other measures: first passage times, etc.
    Approximations
       Aggregation/disaggregation
       Truncations
       Bounds
       Kronecker approximations
    Markov Reward Models
    Sensitivity Analysis
    Optimization
    Simulations
    Parallel and distributed implementation
    Markov Chain Applications to:
       Information Retrieval
       Computer Performance Modelling
       Telecommunication Modelling
       Biological systems
       Financial and Economic applications
       Others ... not necessarily from the CS area
    P.C. Demonstrations

PUBLICATION IN LAA

All papers accepted and presented at the meeting will appear in a special
issue of the journal, "Linear Algebra and its Applications" (LAA).  This
special issue will be published after the conference to provide authors with
the opportunity to incorporate comments, suggestions or improvements learned
during the meeting itself.  Preprints of all accepted papers will be available
to attendees.  If authors have a preference for a particular Special Editor to
handle their manuscript, this should be made clear in an email message
accompanying their submission.  The Special Editors for this issue of LAA are:

Dr. Winfried Grassmann, 
Department of Computer Science, 
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada. 
Email: grassman@cs.usask.ca 
 
Dr. Carl Meyer, 
Department of Mathematics, 
North Carolina State University, 
Raleigh, NC 27695-8205. 
Email: meyer@ncsu.edu 
 
Dr. William Stewart, 
Department of Computer Science, 
North Carolina State University, 
Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 
Email: billy@csc.ncsu.edu 
 
Dr. Daniel Szyld, 
Department of Mathematics, 
Temple University, 
Philadelphia, PA 19122-2585, 
Email: szyld@math.temple.edu

One of the conference sessions will be devoted to "Work in Progress".  Authors
will be allocated 15 minutes to describe ongoing research that is not yet
ready for publication in a journal.  Interested persons wishing to participate
in this session should send an extended abstract of not more than 4 pages to
either of the co-chairs.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
 
Postscript files should be submitted to either billy@csc.ncsu.edu 
or anlangvi@unity.ncsu.edu.  

- page restriction: no more than 20 single-spaced pages
- include title, abstract, figures, tables, references
- must not be previously published work

IMPORTANT DATES

- March 17, 2003: Deadline for paper submission. Authors should submit 
   a postscript file to either billy@csc.ncsu.edu or 
   anlangvi@unity.ncsu.edu by this date.  Please include the name 
   and email address of the correspondence author with the title 
   and authors of the submitted paper.
- May 26, 2003: Notification of acceptance, subject to possible revisions.
- July 7, 2003: Deadline for receipt of postscript version of paper 
   for inclusion in conference preprints. 
- September 3-5, 2003: NSMC '03 Conference 
- October 20, 2003: Deadline for receipt of final revised version of paper. 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Michele Benzi, USA                              Udo R. Krieger, Germany
Peter Buchholz, Germany                         Guy Latouche, Belgium
Maria Calzarossa, Italy                         John Lui, Hong Kong
Giovanni Chiola, Italy                          Raymond Marie, France
Grace E. Cho, USA                               Beatrice Meini, Italy
Gianfranco Ciardo, USA                          Carl D. Meyer, USA 
Tugrul Dayar, Turkey                            Isi Mitrani, UK
Edmundo de Souza e Silva, Brazil                Richard Muntz, USA     
Susanna Donatelli, Italy                        Marcel Neuts, USA 
William Ferng, USA                              Bernard Philippe, France  
Jean-Michel Fourneau, France                    Brigitte Plateau, France
Roland Freund, USA                              Ramon Puijanier, Spain
Robert Funderlic, USA                           Yousef Saad, USA 
Reinhard German, Germany                        William Sanders, USA 
Gene Golub, USA                                 Roger B. Sidje, Australia
Winfried Grassmann, Canada                      Markus Siegle, Germany   
Gunter Haring, Austria                          Evgenia Smirni, USA
Peter Harrison, UK                              Pete Stewart, USA
Boudewijn Haverkort, Germany                    Daniel Szyld, USA        
Graham Horton, Germany                          Yukio Takahashi, Japan 
Peter Kemper, Germany                           Miklos Telek, Hungary
Peter King, UK                                  Kishor Trivedi, USA 
William Knottenbelt, UK                         Murray Woodside, Canada 

Please direct questions to Billy Stewart or Amy Langville.

Billy Stewart
billy@csc.ncsu.edu
Phone: 919-515-7824
Fax: 919-515-7896

Amy Langville
anlangvi@unity.ncsu.edu
Phone: 919-513-1907
Fax: 919-515-3798       

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