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From: Numerical Methods and Applications 98
Subject: NMA'98 - First Announcement X-PMFLAGS: 34078848
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for PAPERS
4th International Conference on
Numerical Methods and Applications: NMA'98
August 19 - 23, 1998, Sofia, BULGARIA.
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--- The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with
Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University
of Sofia, and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(SIAM)
is organizing the 4th International Conference on Numerical
Methods and Applications.
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--- Honorary Chairman: Blagovest Sendov (Bulgaria)
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--- International Program Committee: Chairman: Michail Kaschiev
(Bulgaria) H.Niederreiter (Austria), I.Dimov, S.Radev (Bulgaria),
Z.Zlatev (Denmark), P.G.Ciarlet, B.Philippe (France), M.Griebel,
W.Hackbusch, U.Jaekel, S.Rjasanow, M.Schaefer (Germany),
O.Axelsson, P.Hemker, H.A.van der Vorst (The Netherlands),
Z.Kamont, J.Popenda (Poland), B.N.Chetverushkin, R.P.Fedorenko,
S.K.Godunov, S.P.Kurdyumov, Yu.P.Popov, I.V.Puzynin,
A.A.Samarskii, P.N.Vabishchevich (Russia), V.Thomee (Sweden),
L.Xanthis (UK), J.H.Bramble, R.E.Ewing, L.Perkins, M.F.Wheeler
(USA), R.Lazarov (USA/Bulgaria), Yu.A.Kuznetsov (USA/Russia)
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--- Conference Topics:
(1) Finite difference methods;
(2) Finite element methods;
(3) Finite volume methods;
(4) Boundary element methods;
(5) Monte Carlo methods;
(6) Numerical linear algebra;
(7) Parallel computing;
(8) Numerical methods for non-linear problems;
(9) Numerical methods for multiscale problems;
(10) Multigrid and domain decomposition;
(11) Computational fluid dynamics;
(12) Mathematical modeling in structural mechanics;
(13) Environmental modelling;
(14) Engineering applications;
(15) Minisymposia.
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--- List of key and invited lecturers, who already accepted
invitation of the Org.Committee: O.Axelsson (The Netherlands),
J.H.Bramble (USA), B.N.Chetverushkin (Russia), R.E.Ewing (USA),
R.P.Fedorenko (Russia), S.K.Godunov (Russia), M.Griebel (Germany),
P.Hemker (The Netherlands), U.Jaekel (Germany), Z.Kamont (Poland),
S.P.Kurdyumov (Russia), Yu.A.Kuznetsov (USA/Russia), R.Lazarov
(USA/Bulgaria), H.Niederreiter (Austria), L.Perkins (USA),
B.Philippe (France), Yu.P.Popov (Russia), I.V.Puzynin (Russia),
S.Rjasanow (Germany), A.A.Samarskii (Russia), M.Schaefer
(Germany), V.Thomee (Sweden), P.N.Vabishchevich (Russia), H.A.van
der Vorst (The Netherlands), M.F.Wheeler (USA), L.Xanthis (UK),
Z.Zlatev (Denmark)
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--- Organizing Committee: Chairmen: Oleg Iliev and Panayot
Vassilevski (Bulgaria) P.Binev, A.Karaivanova, M.Koleva,
N.Kol'kovska, I.Lirkov, S.Margenov, S.Petrova, D.Vassileva,
P.Yalamov (Bulgaria), M.Nikolova (The Netherlands), I.Bazhlekov,
M.Neytcheva (The Netherlands/Bulgaria), A.Q.M.Khaliq, M.Paprzycki
(USA), P.Entchev, L.Zikatanov (USA/Bulgaria)
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=== Conference Presentations: The conference will include key and
invited lectures, as well as contributed talks. Duration of the
presentations will be tentatively 45, 35, and 25 min. A conference
rule is that each participant will personally present no more then
one talk. Presentation of posters will be considered, as well. The
conference language will be English.
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--- CALL FOR ORGANIZING MINISYMPOSIA: To contribute a
Minisymposium please provide the conference organizers with:
a) minisymposium title, name and address of the organizer b)
minisymposium abstract c) titles and authors of a minimum of
4 presentations d) abstracts of presentations (optional).
Minisymposia proposals due: November 30, 1997
Minisymposia acceptance decision: December 31, 1997
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--- CALL FOR PAPERS: People wishing to present a paper in a field
related to the conference topics are invited to submit two hard
copies of the paper, and its electronic version in LaTeX format by
e-mail. The deadline is February 15, 1998. Papers should not
exceed 12 pages for key and invited lectures, and 8 pages for
contributed talks. Notification of acceptance and mandatory format
of the final manuscript will be sent around May 1, 1998.
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--- Conference Proceedings: Proceedings (in a book form), of only
refereed and presented at the conference papers, will be
published.
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--- Abstracts: Abstracts (of a maximum 1 page) are required from
all participants wishing to present a talk at the conference.
Abstracts have to be send as ASCII files via e-mail. The deadline
is February 15, 1998.
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--- Accommodation and Registration Fees: The living expenses
(single room accommodation and full board) is currently estimated
at the range of $250 for 5 days. Lower price accommodation is also
planned to be available.
The conference fee will cover publishing of the conference
proceedings, conference booklet, excursion, conference dinner,
reception, transportation from and to airport. Participants in the
conference will be offered to buy the volume of the conference
proceedings at a special price (to be specified later, subject to
discussion with the Publisher).
Conference fee is
before June 15, 1998 after June 15, 1998
Non-students 180 US dollars 230 US dollars
Students 100 US dollars 120 US dollars
Accompanying person 80 US dollars 80 US dollars
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--- Deadlines:
Submission of minisymposia proposals: November 30, 1997
Minisymposia acceptance decision: December 31, 1997
Submission of abstracts, papers and early registration forms:
February 15, 1998 Notification of
acceptance of full papers/presentations:
May 01, 1998 Registration and submission of accommodation
forms: June 15, 1998
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--- Registration Form: An early on-line registration is available
on either of our WWW-pages:
banmatpc.math.acad.bg/~nma98/reg_form.html
orca.st.usm.edu/marcin/mp/cfp/reg_form.html
Another possibility to registrate is to fill-in and to send us via
e-mail (or ordinary mail) the listed below registration form.
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--- For further information respond to the e-mail address:
nma98@math.acad.bg, or check either of our WWW-pages:
banmatpc.math.acad.bg/~nma98/
orca.st.usm.edu/marcin/mp/cfp/sofia.html
The mailing address of the Organizing Committee can also be used:
NMA'98, c/o Dr. Oleg Iliev
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl.8, 1113 Sofia, BULGARIA
Fax-No. (++359 2) 971 36 49
E-mail communication is preferred.
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--- The next announcement will be distributed in December 1997.
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Early Registration Form
For nonstandard characters, please, use LaTeX notations.
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Title .........
Name .........
First Name .........
Institution .........
Street/P.O.Box .........
Zip Code .........
City, State .........
Country .........
Fax .........
Telephone .........
E-mail .........
I wish to present:
a talk yes/no
a poster yes/no
I am interested in having my paper
published in the conference proceedings yes/no
I declare that the paper is original and has not
been submitted for publication elsewhere yes/no
Title of the contributed talk .........
My talk is related to the topic (please, specify a
number (1-15) from listed above conference topics)
first choice ...
second choice ...
I am a student yes/no
I shall be accompanied by ... (non-scientific) persons
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