Send mail to: mgnet@cs.yale.edu for the digests mgnet-requests@cs.yale.edu for comments or help Anonymous ftp repository: casper.cs.yale.edu (128.36.12.1) Today's editor: Craig Douglas (douglas-craig@cs.yale.edu) Volume 3, Number 11 (November 30, 1993) Today's topics: ANNOUNCING ONE-DAY SHORT COURSE OFFERED BY CRPC AT CALTECH Hackbusch's Iterative Methods Book New Multigrid Book (Bramble) New Multigrid Book (Ruede) 2 MGNet Paper Submissions Sixth Copper Mountain Multigrid Proceedings Breckinridge '94, Copper Mountain '95, Tahiti? The bibliography database on MGNet ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 93 10:29:42 PST From: hbk@ama.caltech.edu (Herb Keller) Subject: ANNOUNCING ONE-DAY SHORT COURSE OFFERED BY CRPC AT CALTECH The NSF Science and Technology Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC) presents a one-day short course on "Parallel Computation: Practice, Perspectives and Potential", followed by demos and tour of parallel processing facilities, January 24, 1994, in Ramo Auditorium at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Speakers: K.M. Chandy, J. Dennis, J. Dongarra, G.C. Fox, K. Kennedy, D. Meiron, P. Messina. For more information contact JoAnn Boyd, email: joann@sunshine.caltech.edu, telephone: 818-395-4562, Fax: 818-683-3549. ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 93 18:13:22 EST From: thanks@mg.net (To The Many Nice People) Subject: Hackbusch's Iterative Methods Book Many people responded to Tony Chan's request in the last issue for information on how to order Wolfgang Hackbusch's recently published in English book on iterative methods. Thank you all very much. Here is the entry in the MGNet bibliography: @book{WHackbusch_1993a, author = "W. Hackbusch", title = "Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Systems of Equations", publisher = "Springer--Verlag", address = "Berlin", year = "1993" } It has 380 pages, 11 illustrations, and 40 tables. ISBN 0-387-54795-9 (hardcover). In North America, it can be ordered from Springer using the following: telephone: 800-springer or in New Jersey 201-348-4033 fax: 201-348-4505 Springer advertised this book on page 5 of the August, 1993 SIAM News. ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 11:02:42 EST From: jbramble@jhb.math.cornell.edu (James Bramble) Subject: New Multigrid Book My notes are now out in book form in series "Pitman research notes in mathematics". It is Number 294 and is called "Multigrid Methods". The ISBN number is 0 582 23435 2. Naturally, there were some screw-ups. Here is an errata sheet for those interested. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \input amstex \documentstyle{amsppt} \magnification=\magstep1 \centerline{{\bf Errata for Multigrid Methods}} \medskip \centerline{{\bf by James H. Bramble}} \medskip\advance\parskip by 3pt 1. The reference numbers in the text from 55 to 130 should be increased by one. 2. The reference numbers in the text after 130 should be increased by two. 3. The first display on page 111 should read $$ A_k(u,v) = \sum_{\tau\in\Cal T_{h_k}}\sum_{i,j} \int_\tau \frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial x_i\partial x_j} \ \frac{\partial^2 v}{\partial x_i\partial x_j} \,dx. $$ \end %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The following is some propaganda for multigrid in general and my notes in particular which is printed on the back cover. "Every researcher working in the area of the numerical solution of partial differential equations, as well as practitioners in the field of scientific computations, should have at least some familiarity with this powerful technique. Multigrid methods are among the most efficient iterative methods for the solution of linear systems which arise in many large scale scientific calculations. Consequently, the invention of the multigrid method in the 1960's and its subsequent development up until the present is an extremely important area of research with great practical implications. This book presents old and new results concerning the rates of convergence of multigrid iterations. The first part of these notes contains an abstract multigrid theory and its connection with general linear and nonlinear iterative methods. Several sections are devoted to important, typical applications. An emphasis is placed on how the latest results can influence the design of effective, robust techniques." ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 19:22:09 +0100 From: Ulrich Ruede Subject: Book announcement I am pleased to announce the publication of my book: MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR MULTILEVEL ADAPTIVE METHODS by Ulrich Ruede Frontiers in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 13, SIAM, Philadelphia, 1993, ISBN 0-89871-320-X 140 pages, includes 116 bibliographical references and an index List price: $23 (SIAM members: $18.40) In this monograph I attempt to present a unified approach to the development of multilevel adaptive methods for the solution of partial differential equations, including * a rigorous mathematical foundation based on results in the theory of function spaces and in approximation theory * algorithmic aspects including the multilevel adaptive relaxation method * software develoment issues and data structures using the principles of object oriented programming The book can be ordered directly from SIAM (e-mail: service@siam.org) Ulrich Ruede Institut fuer Informatik Technische Universitaet D-80290 Muenchen, Germany e-mail: ruede@informatik.tu-muenchen.de and Fachbereich Mathematik Technische Universitaet Chemnitz-Zwickau PSF 964 D-09009 Chemnitz, Germany e-mail: ruede@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 93 10:10:16 +0100 From: Thor Gjesdal Subject: 2 MGNet Paper Submissions Programming Multigrid in Fortran90 Thor Gjesdal ABSTRACT We describe a simple one-dimensional multigrid Poisson solver in order to illustrate some of the new features of Fortran90, and how they can be used in multigrid methods. * * * * Analysis of a New Red-Black Ordering for Gauss-Seidel Smoothing in Cell-Centred Multigrid Thor Gjesdal ABSTRACT Based on numerical experiments with a cell-centred multigrid Poisson solver in one and two dimensions, we propose to use Alternating Coarse-Line Zebra ordering as a robust parallel smoother for the 2D case. The algorithm is presented based on a heuristic discussion, and the convergence rates obtained with different smoothers are compared. Local mode analysis is used to estimate the smoothing factor and two-level convergence for the method. Math. Reviews 1991 Subject Classification: 65N22, 65N55, 65Y05 Editor's Note: in mgnet/papers/Gjesdal/mg_f90.abstract, ------------- mgnet/papers/Gjesdal/mg_f90.dvi, mgnet/papers/Gjesdal/new_rb.abstract, and mgnet/papers/Gjesdal/new_rb.dvi. ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 13:12:23 -0500 From: Duane Melson Subject: Sixth Copper Mountain Multigrid Proceedings The proceedings of the Sixth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods is currently being printed by NASA. Copies will be mailed to the participants at the address they provided at the conference. They should arrive by Christmas.If anyone does not get their copy by the first of the year, please let me know by e-mail. I will have some extra copies that I can send out (only 50). Duane Melson NASA, Langley Research Center (804) 864-2227 melson@tab00.larc.nasa.gov Editor's Note: Rumor has it that this is 800+ pages in 2 volumes. ------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 09:12:12 -0500 From: douglas-craig@cs.yale.edu (Craig Douglas) Subject: Breckinridge '94, Copper Mountain '95, Tahiti? There has been some confusion on where the 7th Copper Mountain Multigrid conference will be held. It will be at the usual place in Copper Mountain in April, 1995 (hopefully early with lots of snow). The deadline for submitting an abstract (1-5 pages) to the Breckinridge Iterative Methods conference is December 15th. Send it to ccim@newton.colorado.edu. ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 09:14:32 -0500 From: douglas-craig@cs.yale.edu (Craig Douglas) Subject: The bibliography database on MGNet The bibliography has had numerous corrections made to it so far this month. One of the most common errors in it was in entries for proceedings of conferences which were published in a different year than the conference. Hopefully, these have all been fixed. In addition, it has grown by several more entries. All of the entries from the first 5 domain decomposition symposia are in there along with the relevant citations from the papers. The main multigrid conference proceedings are in the process of having the same done for them. A few of you are still bashful about putting all of your multigrid and/or domain decomposition papers into the list. Just because S. F. McCormick starts on page 47 does not mean that we cannot make that much further along in the printed document by next month. Particlularly if certain people with initials AB, TFC, JED, REE, PWH, WH, BK, SFM, SVP, JEP, and OBW would contribute their missing ones (if any)... Many thanks to those of you who have taken the time to send in entries or corrections. ------------------------------ End of MGNet Digest **************************