SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

    2nd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS

   University of California, Los Angeles, January 14 - 16, 1988.

THEME

Domain Decomposition is a class of methods for solving mathematical physics
problems by decomposing the physical domain into smaller subdomains
and obtaining the solution by solving smaller problems on these subdomains.
The motivation may be : the ability to use
different mathematical models and approximation methods
in different subdomains,
use of fast direct methods in subdomains,
memory limitations of the computer
and suitability for implementation on parallel computers.
Applications can be found in many areas of scientific computing
and related industrial applications,
such as computational fluid dynamics and structural mechanics.

This symposium 
is a sequel to the First International Symposium on Domain Decomposition
Methods held in Paris in January, 1987.
The aim is to bring together the leading researchers in this rapidly expanding
and highly interdisciplinary
field to survey and review the progress that have been made since the last
symposium.
There will be approximately 25 invited papers and a limited
contributed papers/poster session.
In selecting invited and contributed papers,
the organizing committee will try to keep a balance between the
mathematical development, associated
algorithms and their implementation on parallel computers, and
industrial applications.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

James Bramble (Cornell), 
Tony F. Chan (UCLA), 
Roland Glowinski (Houston/INRIA),
Jacques Periaux (GAMNI/SMAI/AMDBA),
Olof Widlund (NYU).

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Authors who wish to submit a paper should send 3 copies of 
an extended abstract (no longer than
2 pages and include preprints/reports if available) 
to :

Prof. Tony F. Chan, Department of Mathematics, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave.,
Los Angeles, CA 90024. (Electronic mail: chan@math.ucla.edu).

The deadline for submission is November 1, 1987. 
Acceptance will be notified before December 1, 1987.
It is expected that selected papers will be published in a proceedings
about June 1988.
Authors should plan to have a full length paper ready by mid-March 1988.

REGISTRATION

Registration forms, travel and hotel information can be obtained by writing to:

Elain Barth, Dept. of Mathematics, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Av., 
Los Angeles, CA 90024.

Registration fee is US$100, which includes refreshment, abstracts and one 
banquet ticket. Student registration fee is US$50. Extra banquet ticket
is US$25.

RELATED CONFERENCES

The annual AIAA meeting will be held in Reno, Nevada from January 11-14, 1988.
The Third conference on Hypercube Concurrent Computers and Applications
will be held the following week (January 19-20, 1988) in nearby Pasadena.

SPONSOR

Office of Naval Research under an University Research Initiative Grant.