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``Scientific Computation on Workstations: Current and Future Environments'' 


Preliminary Announcement:

    A symposium on ``Scientific Computation on Workstations: Current and Future
Environments'' will be held in Toronto on September 17, 1992, to be followed by
open sessions of the IFIP Working Group 2.5 (Numerical Software) on September 18
and the morning of September 19.

    Recent hardware and software developments have led to powerful low-cost
workstations which are fast enough and have sufficient memory and disk space to
permit the effective solution of many significant problems that arise in 
scientific and engineering applications.  Problem solving environments that 
exploit the advantages such workstations offer are being developed to allow 
practitioners to solve their problems without requiring them to be systems or 
programming experts.  In the symposium an overview will be presented of some of
these environments and of how they are likely to evolve in the next few years.
Feature presentations by Cleve Moler (MATLAB - Mathworks), Keith Geddes (MAPLE 
 - Waterloo), Wayne Enright (ODEs - Toronto), Eugene Fiume (Graphics - Toronto)
as well as representatives from NAG and IMSL have been planned.

    The open sessions of the Working Group will feature presentations, mostly by
members of the Group, of current work on Numerical Software -- including such 
topics as programming language facilities, benchmarks and performance, 
mathematical methods, and education issues.  There is a possibility that some 
time will be available for short presentations by others on September 18th. 
Anyone interested in contributing such a presentation should contact one of the
organizers by the end of May.

    The meetings on September 17 and 18 will be held at the Delta Chelsea Inn.
Room rates will be $76 single and $91 double.  Hotel reservations should be made
directly with the hotel: 

    Delta Chelsea Inn, 33 Gerrard Street West, Toronto, M5G 1Z4, Canada
    Phone: (416) 595-1975, Fax: (416) 585-4362
    Group Code (or 'Q-name'): GFRORE.

Reservations should be made as soon as possible as only a limited number of 
rooms are available at this special rate.

    The registration fee for the symposium is $25 and advance registration is 
needed to ensure that space is available.  To register, or to be placed on our 
mailing list to receive more information in the future, please contact one of 
the organizers, W.H. Enright or T.E. Hull, at:

        Department of Computer Science
        University of Toronto
        Toronto M5S 1A4 
        Canada 
    
        email: enright@na.utoronto.ca
               tehull@na.utoronto.ca


    The symposium will be supported jointly by WG 2.5, the Information
Technology Research Centre of Ontario, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada.