The NCSA CSM Digest   Wednesday, March 1, 2000   Volume 1, Number 1

TODAY'S EDITOR
   David O'Neal
   oneal@ncsa.uiuc.edu

NEWS ITEMS

Dr. Ronald Hinrichsen to join the NCSA CSM PET Team as the new site
lead for the Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, Ohio.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/People/Ron.html

The deadline for submission of abstracts for the 2000 DoD Users
Group Conference is fast approaching.
   http://www.hpcmo.hpc.mil/Htdocs/UGC/UGC00/ugc2000_call_paper.html

EVENTS

The 25th Annual Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium,
Dayton, Ohio, March 30, 2000.
   http://www.ase.uc.edu/~aiaa/

Meeting on Large-Scale Computations in the Simulation of Materials,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, March 30-April 1, 2000.
   http://www.math.cmu.edu/cna/conferences.html#Large-Scale

The 41st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and
Materials Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 3-6, 2000.
   http://www.aiaa.org/calendar/ssdmc00cfp.html

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

Global Resource Directorate Tutorial. Will acquaint users with much
of what they need to know to compute at the Army Research Laboratory
MSRC. Room 119, HEAT Center, Aberdeen Maryland, March 9, 2000.
   http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/training/TUT02.html

Applications Programming on ASC MSRC HPC Systems. Covers the basics
of creating and running parallel programs at the ASC MSRC. Room 105,
Bldg 676, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 4-5, 2000.
   http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/pl304_04apr00.htm

First NASA Workshop on Innovative Finite Element Solutions to
Challenging Problems, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Maryland, May 18, 2000.
   http://analyst.gsfc.nasa.gov/FEMCI/workshop/

Help us understand your training requirements. Visit the new CSM
Survey website developed by NCSA and the ARL PET training team.
   http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/training/csmsurvey.html

RECENT GROUP PUBLICATIONS

"Viscoelastic bending and torsion under piezoelectric control,
analytical and massively parallel computational simulations and
performance evaluations" by C. Beldica, H. Hilton, and S. Koric,
in press, Proceedings of the 25th Annual Dayton-Cincinnati
Aerospace Sciences Symposium, Dayton, Ohio, March 30, 2000.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/dsc/Dayton.pdf

"Delay of creep buckling and of probabilistic failures of linear
viscoelastic plates" by C. Beldica and H. Hilton, in press,
Proceeding of the AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics and
Materials Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 3-6, 2000.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/dsc/SDM.pdf

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

NCSA is actively seeking qualified candidates for the position of
Computational Structural Mechanics Site Lead at the Army Research
Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SRC/6346-0001.html

CONTACT INFORMATION

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