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NA Digest   Wednesday, July 22, 1987   Volume 87 : Issue 62

This weeks Editor: Cleve Moler

Today's Topics:

                Arizona State Nonlinear PDE Conference
                     Old Journals for Third World
                        Symbolic Manipulators

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From: AIHDM%ASUACAD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Date: 21 July 87 10:35-MST
To: NA.DIS@score.stanford.edu
Subject: Arizona State Nonlinear PDE Conference

To:    na.dis@score.stanford.edu
From:  H.D. Mittelmann, aihdm@asuacad.bitnet, na.mittelmann

A two-day conference on

NONLINEAR PARAMETER-DEPENDENT PDE'S AND THEIR EFFECTIVE SOLUTION

will be held on the campus of Arizona State University, Nov. 5/6, 1987.
This conference is sponsored by the Graduate College of ASU and thus
adheres to a specific format.

There is no possibility of contributing papers, but everyone interested
in the subject is invited to attend. Although no funds for this purpose
are available, we will help with the reservation of a motel room in
walking (2 min.) distance to the meeting place ($46 single, $49 double).

The list of speakers is:

     E. Allgower     Colorado State
     U. Ascher       U British Columbia
     R. Bank         UC San Diego
     T.F. Chan       UCLA
     R. Ewing        U Wyoming
     S. McCormick    CU Denver
     H. Mittelmann   ASU
     R. Renaut       ASU
     C. Ringhofer    ASU
     H. Walker       Utah State

The conference will start at 1 p.m on 11/5 and end at 3:30 p.m. on 11/6.
Please, respond by e-mail (addresses in head) or by mail not later
than September 15, 1987 to

     H.D. Mittelmann
     Dept. Math.                   602-965-6595 (off.)
     Arizona State University      602-965-3951 (dept.)
     Tempe, AZ 85287

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To: na%score.stanford.edu@RELAY.CS.NET
From: GOLUB%research.att.com@RELAY.CS.NET
Date: Tue 21 Jul EDT 1987 13:31
Original-To: na@score.stanford.edu
Subject:  Old Journals for Third World

ICTP/TWAS Donation Programme

The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the
Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) have ever since their establishment
been engaged in promoting and sustaining research activities in
different setting up a number of specific programmes designed to
achieve this purpose.

As far as the problem of scientific infrastructures is concerned,
the needs in developing countries are very great.
The scientists living and working in developing countries are
faced with the difficulty of obtaining scientific literature and
adequate laboratory facilities.
For this reason, the ICTP has initiated a scheme for providing
Mathematics and Physics libraries in developing countries with books,
journals and equipment through the channels of its `Book & Equipment
Donation Programme'.
The Centre has made several appeals to libraries, publishing companies,
laboratories and individuals requesting them to donate any books,
journals, proceedings and equipment they no longer need, with the ICTP
acting as a broker.
The response to these appeals has been very encouraging.

As a result, the ICTP has, over the past three years, distributed
a yearly average of approximately 14,000 journals, 4,000 proceedings
and 2,000 Mathematics and Physics books to over 200 Mathematics and
Physics Institutes in 80 developing countries, and it is hoped that
from 1986 onward the ICTP will be able to increase distribution to
over 50,000 books, journals and proceedings annually.
During this same time, the ICTP has also forwarded to laboratories in
developing countries a large number of different items of equipment
which have been generously donated by various European laboratories.

The Third World Academy of Sciences has recently joined this Donation
Programme with the purpose of expanding it to the fields of Biology
and Chemistry libraries and laboratories in developing countries
with scientific literature and equipment.
Together with ICTP, TWAS has agreed to cover transportation costs
of material which has to be sent to institutions in Third World Countries.

Although ICTP and TWAS are making every effort to alleviate the drastic 
situation in Universities in the Third World, still more can be done.

These countries require assistance, and there is no need to stress
how useful our Donation Programme is and how precious your help can be.

Those interested in helping by providing us with material in the fields
of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics should kindly contact:

H. R. Dalafi
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
P. O. Box 586
34126 Trieste
ITALY

Phone: (040) 2240-1
Telex: 460392 ICTP 1
Cable: CENTRATOM


Thank you.

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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 87 16:37:21 CDT
From: Baker Kearfott 
Subject: Symbolic Manipulators
To: na@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU

NaNet people:

I am still interested in symbolic manipulators, and haven't resolved my
questions completely.

Is anyone presently running MACSYMA (or similar software) in an
IBM 370 mainframe environment?  (We have such an environment and we
hope to run a manipulator under VM/CMS.)  I would appreciate any information
you care to volunteer.

Also, does anyone care to volunteer opinions concerning microcomputer-based
symbolic manipulation software (such as mu-math)?

Thank you in advance.

Baker Kearfott
rbk@usl.edu

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