Updated Announcement - February 7, 1999

                MINISYMPOSIUM ON VERY LARGE EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS

             To be held at the Fifth U.S. National Congress on
                           Computational Mechanics
         Wednesday-Friday, August 4-6, 1999, University of Colorado at
                               Boulder, CO, USA

      Symposium Organizer: Andrew Knyazev (aknyazev@math.cudenver.edu)

This MiniSymposium will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of 
innovative methods for eigenvalue problems in the simulation in engineering
and physics. Focus is on approximation methods
and iterative solvers, their mathematical foundation and computer implementation.
Application areas are not restricted.
This Symposium is open for contributed abstracts. Contributions that reflect 
standard techniques, such as described in textbooks, are discouraged.

Contributions are solicited in the following areas:

     Innovative variational and weak formulations of eigenvalue problems
     Mathematical foundations and analysis of approximation 
             methods for eigenproblems
     Numerical methods of finding sharp a posteriori bounds for eigenvalues
     Numerical solution of very large algebraic eigenvalue problems with
            emphasis on preconditioned iterative methods

The following invited speakers have agreed to participate:

     The keynote speaker: Roger Grimes, Boeing:
     Towards Computing Eigenvalues of a Problem of Order 10,000,000
     Andrew Knyazev, CU-Denver:
     Modern Iterative Solvers for Large Symmetric Eigenvalue Problems
     Rich Lehoucq, Sandia:
     Computational Linear stability Analysis for Fluid Flow modeled by MPSalsa
     John Osborn, UMD:
     Eigenvalue Problems
     Jane Cullum, LANL:
     COMPUTING POLES OF PHYSICAL SYSTEMS DESCRIBABLE BY LARGE SYSTEMS
     OF DELAY-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION
     Yousef Saad, UMNA
     Andreas Stathopoulos, College of William & Mary
     The role of harmonic Ritz vectors in restarting Arnoldi-like methods

The following talks were contributed:

     A. L. G. A. Coutinho, M. A. D. Martins, I. D. Parsons*, and A.Namazifard:
     A Study of Matrix-Vector Product Algorithms for the Iterative Solution of Finite Element
     Equations
     M. L. Bittencourt, Jonathan Hu, and Craig C. Douglas* :
     CACHE BASED MULTIGRID PROCEDURES FOR STRUCTURED AND
     UNSTRUCTURED MESHES
     T. Yamada* and G.Nagai, Japan:
     ON FAST ITERATIVE SOLVERS FOR IMAGE-BASED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
     Pat Ryan, Stanford University:
     Eigenvalue and Eigenfunction Error Estimates for Finite Element Formulations
     of Slosh-Structure Interaction
     S. Mogilevskaya*, P.A. Nawrocki and M.B. Dusseault, University of Waterloo:
     APPLICATION OF COMPLEX VARIABLES BEM TO MODELING BOREHOLE STRESSES
     IN ANISOTROPIC STRESS FIELDS IN NON-LINEAR ROCKS
     P. Geuzaine* and J.-A. Essers, University of Liege, Belgium:
     Newton-Krylov Acceleration Techniques for Compressible Flows on Unstructured Grids

Submission Instructions:

Abstracts deemed to fit the scope and objectives of the MiniSymposium
will be communicated to the
Congress organizers by January 15, 1999, and notification of acceptance
will be given by e-mail to the
corresponding author.

A final version for inclusion in the printed book of Abstracts should be
submitted directly to the
Congress e-mail address following the instructions posted on the Web site

http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99/

before May 15, 1999, see other important dates at

http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99/Schedule.d/ImportantDates.html

Participants must register following the instructions at
http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99/Registration.d/Registration.html

MiniSymposium Organizer Address:
Andrew Knyazev, aknyazev@math.cudenver.edu
Department of Mathematics , University of Colorado at Denver

Congress Program and Registration Information:
http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99