The NCSA CSM Digest     Monday, May 1, 2000     Volume 1, Number 3

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

IN THIS ISSUE
   News Briefs ................. AFIT/ARL, ASC/PET, CMU, NSF/PACI
   Events ...................... NASTC, WU FEM, DoD HPC, MAPINT 2000
   Training .................... Globus, MSC/PATRAN, NASA FEM,
                                 Iterative Solvers, RTExpress
   Recent Group Publications ... IUTAM, ICTAM
   Employment Opportunities .... NCSA

NEWS BRIEFS

An overview of NCSA CSM Group projects was presented by Dr. Ron
Hinrichsen to officials from the HPCMO during their recent visit
to the ASC MSRC at Wright-Patterson AFB, April 5, 2000.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/dsc/ASC-Apr00/

Dr. Sam Naboulsi of the Air Force Institute of Technology presented
results of his on-going investigations to the Army Research Lab,
Aberdeen, Maryland, April 25, 2000.
   http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/training/SEM53.html

Carnegie Mellon University creates a research institute dedicated
to the prevention of computer attacks such as those that recently
besieged major web sites, April 19, 2000.
   http://www.postgazette.com/businessnews/20000420cert1.asp

NSF Awards Funding for Computational Science Training for Teachers
to take place at the Supercomputing 2000 and 2001 Conferences.
   http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/CoverStories/CompTeach/index.html

For a more complete listing, visit the NCSA CSM Presentations page.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/presentations/

EVENTS

National Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference, Dayton Convention
Center, Dayton, Ohio, May 9-11, 2000.
   http://www.nastc-conf.com/

p and hp Finite Element Methods: Mathematics and Engineering Practice,
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, May 31-June 2, 2000.
   http://www.bgu.ac.il/me/yosibash/p-FEM2000.html

The DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group
Conference 2000, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 5-8, 2000.
   http://www.asc.hpc.mil/ugc/index.htm

MAPINT 2000: The 4th Symposium on Multidisciplinary Applications
and Interoperable Computing, Dayton, Ohio, August 15-17, 2000.
   http://www.asc.hpc.mil/PET/MAPINT/MAPINT2000/

For a more complete listing of upcoming conferences, symposia and
workshops, visit the NCSA CSM Events Calender.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/dsc/conferences.html

TRAINING

LIVE! on the Access Grid. The Globus Toolkit: Middleware for the
Grid, Washington, D.C., Boston University, University of Kentucky,
NCSA, and Argonne National Laboratory, May 3-4, 2000.
   http://www.globus.org/news/ag-workshop.html

Computer-Based Modeling for Design Analysis With PATRAN, MacNeal-
Schwendler Corporation, HEAT Center, Aberdeen, Maryland, May 9-11,
2000.
   http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/training/CSM06.html

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/

Fundamentals of Iterative Solvers for Linear Systems, ASC MSRC
Training Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, May 22-23, 2000.
   http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/pgm19_14may00.htm

RTExpress for MATLAB Users, Adelphi Laboratory Center, Zahl Physical
Science Building, Room 4D32, Adelphi, Maryland, May 23-24, 2000.
   http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/training/SIP09.html

For a more complete listing of CSM and HPC training events, visit
the NCSA Training Schedules and Distance Learning page.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/courses/

RECENT GROUP PUBLICATIONS

C. E. Beldica and H. H. Hilton, "The influence of viscoelastic
wave generation on experimental material property characterizations"
accepted for presentation at the IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical
Waves for Composite Structures Characterization, Chania, Crete,
June 14-17, 2000. 
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/dsc/IUTAM-00-abs.pdf

C. E. Beldica and H. H. Hilton, "Piezoelectric control of de-
formations and failure probabilities in viscoelastic Timoshenko
beams" accepted for presentation at the International Congress
on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Chicago, Illinois, August
27-September 2, 2000.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/dsc/ICTAM-00-abs.pdf

For a more complete listing, visit the NCSA CSM Publications page.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/publications/

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

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

A complete listing of current employment opportunities NCSA is also
available. Visit the NCSA Human Resources pages.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SRC/HRmain.html

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