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Calgary, Canada based Acceleware develops and markets acceleration products that bring performance and speed to today's most strenuous and challenging computational and/or data-intensive demands.With Acceleware's products, reduction in run times for data processing and simulation applications by more than 35 times has been observed.The company's Accelerator™ Board and ClusterInABox™ Workstation

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-92080295552902047492008-06-12T18:46:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:05:59.952-08:00

Over the last five years, universities across Canada have been organizing themselves into regional groups to acquire and operate large-scale high performance computing (HPC) facilities for research. ACEnet ("Atlantic Computational Excellence Network") is Atlantic Canada's entry into this national fabric of HPC facilities. It is a partnership of seven institutions, including Memorial University of

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-5490828469434728402008-04-25T20:12:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:00.203-08:00

The figure shows how geometrical music theory represents four-note chord-types -- the collections of notes form a tetrahedron, with the colors indicating the spacing between the individual notes in a sequence. In the blue spheres, the notes are clustered, in the warmer colors, they are farther apart. The red ball at the top of the pyramid is the diminished seventh chord, a popular 19th-century

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Simulated paths of three black holes merging. (Image courtesy: Rochester Institute of Technology)The same team of astrophysicists that cracked the computer code simulating two black holes crashing and merging together has now, for the first time, caused a three-black-hole collision.Manuela Campanelli, Carlos Lousto and Yosef Zlochower—scientists in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for

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Beaverton, Oregon based Tektronix is a leading supplier of test, measurement, and monitoring products, solutions and services for the communications, computer, and semiconductor industries -- as well as military/aerospace, consumer electronics, education and a broad range of other industries worldwide. The company has operations in 19 countries worldwide.Tektronix developed SerialXpress, an

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-77877839533245994432008-04-02T20:05:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:00.940-08:00

Leuven, Belgium based LMS is an engineering innovation partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. LMS enables its customers to get better products to market faster, and turn superior process efficiency to their strategic competitive advantage. LMS delivers a unique combination of virtual simulation software, testing systems, and engineering

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-17466756487700526302008-03-27T06:12:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:01.133-08:00

John Griggs Thompson and Jacques Tits (Photo credit: Renate Schmid of Oberwolfach Photo Collection & Jean-François Dars of CNRS Images)The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2008 to John Griggs Thompson, University of Florida and Jacques Tits, Collège de France. The Abel prize is known popularly as the "Nobel Prize for mathematics". Thompson, 75, and

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-32560419616883447472008-03-12T20:59:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:01.261-08:00

Surface Rendering in Avizo. Avizo displays and explores detailed 3D surface models. A multitude of drawing styles and color schemes help to yield even more meaningful and informative visualizations [image courtesy: Mercury Computer Systems]Mercury Computer Systems has launched Avizo, which is a software product line that provides 3D data visualisation and analysis capabilities within an intuitive

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-78848795781852434532008-02-26T11:39:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:01.520-08:00

Tech-X Corporation has released Vorpal v3.0, which is a software framework that enables plasma simulations composed of particles and fluids for 1D, 2D, and 3D geometries.Boulder, CO based Tech-X Corporation was founded in 1994 by John R. Cary, CEO and Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado and Svetlana Shasharina, Ph.D. and Vice-President of Distributed Technologies. The company

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Agilent’s Antenna Modeling Design System (AMDS) allows for efficient modeling, optimization and verification of complex antennas and helps reduce design cycle risks. This far field plot of a 25x25 patch array antenna was generated using AMDS 2007.05 [Image courtesy: Agilent Technologies © 2008]Modeling, simulating and optimizing complex antenna systems is an intricate process that includes

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-76676893173372729072008-02-06T18:46:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:02.084-08:00

Calgary, Canada based Acceleware develops and markets acceleration products that bring performance and speed to today's most strenuous and challenging computational and/or data-intensive demands.With Acceleware's products, reduction in run times for data processing and simulation applications by more than 35 times has been observed. The company's Accelerator™ Board and ClusterInABox™ Workstation

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-41313123082879606812008-01-24T18:30:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:02.555-08:00

Maxim KontsevichThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics and Astronomy 2008 with one half* (mathematics) jointly to Maxim Kontsevich, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), Bures-sur-Yvette, France, and Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, “for their important contributions to mathematics inspired by modern

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-10267835857640782922008-01-16T20:17:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:02.724-08:00

Visual Numerics, Inc., the Houston, Texas based producer of numerical analysis and visualization software, announced the availability of the IMSL® C# Numerical Library version 5.0 and JMSL™ Numerical Library for Java™ Applications version 5.0.The IMSL C# Numerical Library, which is written in 100% Visual C# .NET, is designed to make programming easier and faster, provides fully managed code, and

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-66689028753980329282007-12-27T16:28:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:02.912-08:00

MathTrax allows visually impaired students to “hear” complex math graphs like this in real time [Image courtesy: NASA]A team at NASA has created a user-friendly software that allows students to graph equations, do physics simulations and interact with the data and understand it all through text, tones and spoken language. The package, named MathTrax, transforms graphs and equations in real-time

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-20426799737954012642007-12-03T17:12:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:03.203-08:00

Thermal-structural-electromagnetics multiphysics coupling in a microwave circulator. Studies run by Professor Darrell Pepper and his group at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas [photo courtesy: Comsol AB] Comsol is a leading provider of software solutions for multiphysics modeling mainly for high tech engineering applications. The company was founded in 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden and now has

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-48701362753736869772007-11-24T09:24:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:03.728-08:00

DF_CONTOUR®© representation of pressure contours and volocity vectors for a bubble collapsing below a plate [Image Courtesy: Dynaflow, Inc.]Jessup, Maryland based Dynaflow, Inc.® was founded in 1988 by Dr. Georges L. Chahine and has established a reputation for quality R&D and testing work. The company pursues an inter-disciplinary approach to problems using a combination of scientific tools to

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-83554701008948308652007-11-07T23:57:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:03.802-08:00

Maplesoft™, the leading provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics today announced a multi-year contract with Toyota Motor Corporation, the world’s largest automobile company.Physical modeling requires a symbolic approach to computations in order to accurately and efficiently represent real-world physical systems. Toyota approached Maplesoft a year ago

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-52460361434378385572007-10-23T19:21:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:04.213-08:00

Opera is an electromagnetic simulation tool from 'Vector Fields', a company specialized in producing advanced software for modeling and analyzing electromagnetic equipment and effects. Opera provides the complete toolchain for electromagnetic design, simulation and analysis of results, for use on 32- or 64-bit Windows and Linux platforms. It consists of a powerful pre-processing environment for

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-46515321580969850532007-10-05T21:31:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:04.399-08:00

Nonlinear Dynamics Ltd is a UK company based in Newcastle upon Tyne. The company develops innovative products for solving problems in proteomics, genomics, biomarker discovery and clinical diagnostics. The Company's product portfolio comprises high-quality analysis and data mining tools for 1D and 2D electrophoresis gels and microarrays, the core technologies of genomics and proteomics.The

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-35055905363379649522007-09-25T21:57:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:04.577-08:00

San Antonio, Texas based Softmath today announced availability of the latest version of its Algebrator™ software. Algebrator 4.0 is a tutoring software program which solves a wide range of algebraic problems entered by users of the program, and includes interactive explanations to enrich students' learning of Algebra. The package is designed for math students from pre-algebra through

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-18348715309499249582007-09-24T21:48:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:04.741-08:00

The Numerical Mathematics Consortium is a nonprofit organization comprising vendors and individuals in industry and academia committed to establishing an open mathematical semantics standard for numerical algorithm development and reuse. Established in 2005 by founding members that include INRIA (Scilab Developer), Maplesoft (Maple developer), National Instruments (LabVIEW developer) and PTC (

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-4769739508074548572007-09-19T19:38:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:04.982-08:00

JMP7 from the SAS institute is statistical discovery software that is capable of processing up to 2 billion variables and an unlimited number of records to handle real world problems.JMP runs on Windows (including Vista), Macintosh and Linux. Its immediacy and responsiveness come from the fact that it holds all data in memory rather than having to wait while data is moved from and to disk. With

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-77030866827990613812007-09-09T10:58:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:05.346-08:00

Maplesoft recently announced the release of DynaFlexPro 3.0, a Maple package used to model and simulate the kinematics and dynamics of mechanical multibody systems. Significantly enhanced usability features make this release relevant to a wider range of engineers.DynaFlexPro was designed to overcome issues with cumbersome, slow, and error-prone numeric-based mechanical analysis tools. DynaFlexPro

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-76232784772574279482007-09-02T08:05:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:05.537-08:00

A scene from the play 'A Disappearing Number' [photo credit: Robbie Jack. Courtesy: 'Complicite']In 1913, a 25-year-old mathematician from Tamil Nadu, a southern state in India, sailed to England and the rest was a part of the history that needs no introduction for anyone who loves mathematics. Nearly a century on, the story of the collaboration between Srinivasa Ramanujan and GH Hardy is

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-45202728815248500602007-08-19T07:33:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:05.754-08:00

Early this month, National Instruments launched its 13th annual NIWeek by introducing LabVIEW 8.5. This latest version of the company’s graphical programming environment includes advances in multicore and real-time programming. With multicore processors increasingly becoming the standard, there is a growing need for parallel programming languages that can take advantage of faster multiprocessor

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-34562880809712509712007-08-07T21:02:00.000-07:002007-08-07T21:29:17.041-07:00

'Autodesk Animation Academy' is the premier visual communication program for secondary schools wishing to bring mathematical, technical, scientific and artistic subject matter to life. 'Autodesk Animation Academy' curriculum is already being taught in secondary schools throughout North America, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. The team-based curriculum teaches students sophisticated 3D

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-21171127608471206242007-07-29T08:25:00.000-07:002007-07-29T08:53:54.550-07:00

In the 48th International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) being held in Hanoi, Vietnam, the Russian delegation came in first with six gold medals and the Chinese won second with five golds and one silver. Vietnam and South Korea came tied for third place with South Korea with three gold and three silver medals.Most teachers and students commented that the six questions given over the two days of the

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-2290679907745060612007-07-22T08:20:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:05.874-08:00

Nvidia CUDA 1.0 is a C-compiler and Software Development Kit (SDK) for developing computing applications on Nvidia Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). GPU Computing with the CUDA SDK is a new approach to computing where hundreds of on-chip processors simultaneously communicate and cooperate to solve complex computing problems. The GPU is ideally suited for computationally intensive applications

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-64308189687977107332007-07-11T23:13:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:05.888-08:00

Kanagawa, Japan based Digital Process Ltd has developed VridgeR, which the company describes as 'bridge between Virtual and Real stages'. VridgeR is a software package that uses a special rendering technique that does not use polygons, and can display highly complex models using standard hardware.Conventional CAD or 3D software processes the image data into polygons to be displayed. When

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-75926202551599158392007-06-30T01:19:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:06.178-08:00

BlueGene/L system, No.1 Supercomputer [Photo courtesy: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)]The 29th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released at the International Supercomputing Conference held in Dresden, Germany. For the fourth straight time, the top spot was occupied by the BlueGene/L system, developed jointly by IBM and Department of Energy (DOE)'

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-25275678026584270032007-06-24T09:58:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:06.420-08:00

Natalia Komarova (photo courtesy: UC Irvine)Natalia Komarova is an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. One of her research interests lies in developing mathematical models to study initiation and development of cancer, viewed as somatic evolution in populations of cells. She has investigated the following crucial issues related to the understanding of cancer: the role of

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-49038028383879811302007-06-18T18:07:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:06.672-08:00

Scientists at CUBRIC analyzing MRI scan data (photo courtesy: CUBRIC, Cardiff Univ., UK)The Cardiff University Brain and Repair Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) is one of the first facilities in the UK to combine Structural and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI/fMRI) and Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and is devoted to pioneering advanced brain scanning techniques (fMRI/MEG) capable of mapping the

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-51661944531762775092007-06-03T20:11:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:07.120-08:00

Sackville Street Building of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (photo courtesy: University of Manchester)The Centre for Interdisciplinary Computational and Dynamical Analysis (CICADA) of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Manchester is developing a £3m research centre to provide cutting-edge research on complex, real-life systems such as car

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-49080352189255490072007-05-23T21:34:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:07.287-08:00

Stephen Wolfram [photo credit: Tom Feldcamp]Wolfram Research, the creator of Mathematica, is to award a $25,000 prize to the first person or group to prove (or disprove) that a particular very simple Turing machine, a very simple theoretical computer stipulated by Stephen Wolfram, can act as a universal computer – in other words, emulate any other possible computer.This is a 70-year-old puzzle

Quarknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-31163983323598415652007-05-14T21:48:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:07.463-08:00

St. Petersburg (Russia) based AxisPackage Software has launched AxGC 2D Graphical ActiveX Control v3.7, a software component for developing scientific and mathematical software that enables users to create high-performance 2D visualizations of various data.This software component has been specifically designed to allow engineers and scientists to plug it in directly into their native application

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-19017513205867273902007-05-07T22:10:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:07.588-08:00

There has long been a pressing need to exploit efficiently research results in patient care. One of the key problems has been in linking clinically relevant information to the knowledge obtained across multiple disciplines, experimental platforms, and biological systems.VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland developed a new software tool MegNet® for integration and visualization of complex life

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-90539704721865651712007-04-28T10:53:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:07.712-08:00

Visual Numerics, Inc. has provided technical software solutions for numerical analysis and visualization for over 36 years. The company's software products help users understand complex data from a variety of sources and build business-critical applications. The company offers two product lines: the IMSL® Numerical Libraries for powerful mathematical and statistical analysis and the PV-WAVE®

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-35972817802370448302007-04-22T20:44:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:07.965-08:00

Last month Maplesoft introduced another useful product that'll go a long way in integrating tools in hands of those who use both Maple and Simulink in their daily work. The new product imports Simulink® diagrams into Maple and converts them to mathematical expressions for analysis and problem-solving and thus is appropriately named 'BlockImporter™ for Simulink®' .On many occasions, engineers need

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-40419715492576087012007-04-13T11:20:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:08.363-08:00

Scientists at the Materials and Engineering Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University used latest developments in a complex mathematical model designed to simulate how materials behave to create the most realistic flowing water ever seen in a computer game that features a swimming gaggle of ducks! Named 'Super Rub-A-Dub', this soon-to-be-popular game has been developed by Sheffield games

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-36249233280761954452007-04-02T19:23:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:08.482-08:00

Hitachi Software announced today that StarBoard® interactive users will have exclusive access to the new Mult-e-Maths Toolbox LE version, an interactive math tool package created by Cambridge-Hitachi exclusively for Hitachi Software and is compatible with any current StarBoard interactive product.The Hitachi Software website currently features over 500 activities and lesson plans. It continues to

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-65246169956210691502007-03-25T08:15:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:08.651-08:00

The Norwegian Academy of Sciences has awarded the Abel Prize for Mathematics to the Indian-American professor Sathamangalam R. Srinivasa Varadhan (67) of New York University. Varadhan receives the prize “for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviation”.The Abel prize, worth six million kronor (864,450 dollars), was created

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-74033457505788201362007-03-19T22:16:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:08.954-08:00

14 Team members of the Atlas Project (photo courtesy: American Institute of Mathematics)The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) announced today that after four years of intensive collaboration, 18 top mathematicians and computer scientists from the U.S. and Europe have successfully mapped E8, one of the largest and most complicated structures in mathematics. This achievement is significant

Quarknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-86502036079744243532007-03-12T22:41:00.000-07:002008-12-09T18:06:09.197-08:00

Visual Numerics, Inc., celebrating 36 years of producing advanced numerical analysis and visualization software, announced the availability of PDE2D, a partial differential equation (PDE) solver authored by University of Texas-El Paso Mathematics Professor Dr. Granville Sewell.Dr. Sewell's software package PDE2D solves general nonlinear, time-dependent, steady-state and eigenvalue systems of

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-82798725721321121702007-03-04T14:17:00.000-08:002007-03-04T14:27:01.846-08:00

The National Cancer Institute’s Pediatric Oncology Branch is using parallel computing software to accelerate medical discoveries.The researchers use a Matlab-based application called CORR4DM to correlate one genomic array against a database of 100,000 parts of a gene, in search of specific DNA components or attributes. The results help them to understand the relationship between the genes, and

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-19338494347784337612007-02-21T19:40:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:09.343-08:00

[Image courtsey: Brian M. Wong, MIT]Until now, chemistry researchers lacked an accurate model to calculate some important chemical properties such as the equilibrium and reaction rates, at varying temperatures. But recently researchers at MIT’s Department of Chemistry applied a new innovative method for performing complex computation for the thermochemical properties of hydrocarbons from petrol

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-76626167481935080732007-02-08T22:50:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:09.966-08:00

AceGen and AceFEM are third-party Mathematica packages developed by Jože Korelc, a professor at the University of Ljubljana’s (Slovenia) faculty of civil and geodetic engineering. Both are steadily gaining more popularity among users of 'Mathematica' (mathematical software from Wolfram, Inc.).Acegen is basically a code-generator and is used for automatically deriving numerical procedures

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-43322181124022511102007-01-26T22:03:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:10.218-08:00

Fractint is a popular freeware fractal generator. It is probably the most versatile, extensive and well-established fractal program readily available to enthusiasts who wish to roam inside the beautiful world of fractals, although many users consider it to be an art toy rather than a serious mathematical tool.Fractint plots and manipulates images of "objects" -- actually, sets of mathematical

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-71994712886568852112007-01-15T18:26:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:10.353-08:00

Autodesk has launched version 8.5 of its Maya 3D modelling, animation and rendering software. The new version can run natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs as a Universal Binary [Maya can run on 32-bit Windows®, Linux®, and Mac OS® X and 64-bit Windows and Linux]. The updated version introduces the Maya Nucleus unified simulation framework which is a linked particle system that

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-83712058758197287922007-01-07T17:06:00.000-08:002007-01-07T17:17:36.497-08:00

Until now, running full simulations of vehicle computer models in serial mode has taken too long to be fully utilised in the acquisition process, even when running on state-of-the-art serial hardware. The US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) hopes to cut the time to perform computationally intensive simulations by orders of magnitude with Interactive

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-45110694446288950172006-12-29T08:48:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:10.604-08:00

The website Stats.org is a service of George Mason University that analyzes current events and its associated data with a mathematical angle. They also offer their services to journalists helping them in their preparation of stories. Since its founding in 1994, this non-profit non-partisan Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) has become a much-valued resource on the use and abuse of science and

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-35878602030633042742006-12-11T18:08:00.000-08:002008-12-09T18:06:10.797-08:00

Alfred Carasso (photo courtsey: NIST)A common but serious issue in almost all kinds imaging, ranging from amateur snapshots to precise scientific instrumentation, is the problem of removing blur. Many factors contribute to the blur, such as the motion of the object, the motion of the imager, irregularities in the optics and atmospheric effects. Theoretically speaking, if the exact set of

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-84545961091522762962006-12-04T10:37:00.000-08:002006-12-04T10:43:03.713-08:00

National Instruments has introduced LabVIEW drivers for wireless sensor networks, allowing Engineers and physicists an open and flexible alternative to software solutions for new wireless-enabled applications.The free driver software works with sensors from three wireless-sensing leaders (Accsense, Accutech and Crossbow Technology) and includes communication functions and example programs

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-27123510939011314082006-11-30T20:41:00.000-08:002006-11-30T20:45:00.715-08:00

The EqWorld website http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru is a much neededinternet-world of Mathematical equations maintained by an international collaboration. It's a one-stop source of extensive information on algebraic, ordinary differential, partial differential, integral, functional, and other mathematical equations.All link pages are useful and opens up various aspects of the wonderful world of these

Quarknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746747.post-91334135176623957662006-11-20T20:39:00.000-08:002006-11-20T20:53:29.459-08:00

The Matrix Template Library (MTL) is a collection of generic components for high performance scientific computing, which provides comprehensive linear algebra functionality for a wide variety of matrix formats. MTL is not a "class library." The fundamental paradigm behind a class library is object-orientation. The fundamental paradigm behind MTL is genericity.MTL uses a five-fold approach,

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Indian Mathematician R Sujatha of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai has been awarded the Srinivasa Ramanujan Prize for Mathematics for 2006. Presented for the second time, the prize carries a $10,000 cash award honouring the outstanding research of mathematical scientists in developing countries.By giving her the honor, the Ramanujan jury recognises Sujatha's work on the

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Scientists and engineers interested in creating and measuring sound or acoustic waves will find new simulation capabilities in 'Acoustics Module' introduced by Swedish company Comsol (read about its partial differential equation solver, Femlab in our past posting). It is ideal for examining linear mechanical wave phenomena in structures and fluids. It is designed specifically for those who work

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The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Arizona in Tucson a $3.5 million grant over the next five years to improve advanced mathematics education under an ambitious project called VIGRE. The grant will be shared by the Department of Mathematics and the Program in Applied Mathematics. The acronym VIGRE stands for 'Vertical InteGration of Research and Education' and in this

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“Receiving the information we need is not the problem­s--sorting it and deciding what is useful without being totally overwhelmed is the primary challenge,” says Robert Ghrist, an associate professor of mathematics and a researcher at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at Illinois. He continues, “Imagine, for example, that you have thousands upon thousands of mobile video cameras and one of them

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"The act of mapping is as profound as the invention of a number system ... The combination of the reduction of reality and the construction of an analogical space is an attainment in abstract thinking of a very high order indeed ..."- Arthur Robinson, "Early Thematic Mapping in the History of Cartography" In 1569, the Flemish Cartographer Gerardus Mercator first tried to create a map of the world

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The Numerical Mathematics Consortium today announced the latest revision to a technical specification introduced earlier this year that defines an open mathematics semantics standard for numerical algorithm development. This update includes newly ratified functions from classes that include polynomials and vector analysis. In addition to the new function definitions, the consortium resolved

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Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) is a distributed computing project. It is like the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project that uses Internet-connected computers in search of extra-terrestrials, but GIMPS does the same for the discovery of new prime numbers that are divisible only by the number 1 and itself.Less than a year after the 43rd Mersenne prime was reported (

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Maplesoft has introduced new Toolkits for Engineering design calculations, modeling and simulation. These are suites of analytical design tools based on powerful tools of Maple and offer a combination of powerful mathematical solvers with domain- and application- specific functions. The components in each of these Toolkits have been carefully selected and validated by domain experts to ensure

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Currently, if you type "online math tests" in Google, the result that appears at No.1 rank among 53 million other similar ones is a site developed by Prof. Elias Saab of the University of Missouri-Columbia. The website helps students prepare for math tests and competitions and is gaining popularity among students nationwide.The Web site -- MathOnline ( http://mathonline.missouri.edu/) -- provides

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R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics and is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License in source code form. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS.The R distribution contains functionality for a large number of statistical procedures. Among these are: linear and

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(from top to bottom) Terence Tao of Univ California, Los Angeles, Grigory Perelman of Russia, Wendelin Werner of Univ of Paris-Sud, Orsay, Andrei Okounkov of Princeton Univ were awarded the Fields Medal during the International Congress of Mathematicians 2006 in Madrid (photo courtsey: International Congress for Mathematicians)The Fields Medal is often described as mathematics’ equivalent to the

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Wilhelm Blaschke (1885-1962)In 1955 German mathematician Wilhelm Blaschke, a pioneer in the branch of mathematics known as web geometry, had said that it was nearly impossible to find the conditions under which a web might be transformed into a different kind of web with different numbers of non-intersecting, straight lines. To describe such a transition mathematically would require leaps of

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Microsoft has released its server application for supercomputing clusters, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 based on the new 64-bit operating system. Trial versions of Compute Cluster Server can be downloaded from Microsoft site. The company expects to start distributing volume licenses in August.The system will allow users to exploit high performance computing power from their desktops using

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The 47th International Mathematics Olympiad was held between July 10 and July 16, 2006, in the Slovenian city of Ljubljana.Zhiyu Liu of China, Iurie Boreico of Moldova and Alexander Magazinov of Russia got perfect score of 42 (for solving 6 problems) to become Top Gold medal winners. Caili Shen of China was at 2nd rank scoring 37 followed by Przemysław Mazur of Poland who scored 36.Here are 2

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Maplesoft has come up with a great product that users of both Maple and MATLAB were trying to have for a long time to receive the benefit of both by combining all advantages of symbolic and numeric computation offered by these two softwares.Maplesoft has announced Maple™ Toolbox for MATLAB® to extend their helping hands to the mathematics community. It consists of two components, Maple-10 and the

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Star-P developed by Interactive Supercomputing is an excellent interactive parallel computing platform . It allows scientists, engineers and other researchers to code algorithms and models on their desktops using familiar mathematical software packages such as The MathWorks’ Matlab, and run them instantly and interactively on parallel servers. This eliminates the need to re-program the

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'YACAS' stands for 'Yet Another Computer Algebra System'. It is an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions. YACAS uses its own programming language designed for symbolic as well as arbitrary precision numerical computations. The system has a library of scripts that implement many of the symbolic algebra operations; new

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Last week Visual Numerics, Inc., the Houston, Texas based producer of numerical analysis and visualization software, announced the availability of the IMSL C# Numerical Library version 4.0 and JMSL Numerical Library for Java™ Applications version 4.0.The IMSL C# Numerical Library is written in 100% Visual C# .NET and is designed to make programming easier and faster. The Library also contains

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A new Geometry software has been released in May: "Geometry Expressions" which claims to be the world's first Interactive Symbolic Geometry System.Using it one can define geometric figures by either Symbolic Constraints or numeric locations. Drawing can be generated via parametric, symbolic animation and measurements on drawing can be either presented numerically or expressed symbolically as

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Texas Instruments recently announced the introduction of a math-learning software specifically designed for teachers and students in secondary school mathematics. Its name is TI-nspire™ CAS+ and is available both as a standalone device and as a software package. In addition to improved computer algebraic system (CAS) functionality, the TI-nspire™ CAS+, solution provides the ability for users to

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MathCounts is a national mathematics enrichment, coaching and competition program open to all middle-school students. For the last 23 years it's influencing lives of school students all over the nation. Each year, MathCounts develops an entirely new MathCounts School Handbook, meeting National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards for grades 6-8, and provides a complimentary copy to middle

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SALSA stands for Solvers for Algebraic Systems and Applications. It's devoted to designing and implementing algorithms for solving polynomial systems with coefficients in the field of the rationals or in a finite field, and whose dimension is either zero (finite number of solutions in an algebraic closure or in the complex field) or positive (infinite number of solutions).Maplesoft and the French

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In this world there are a number of clones of Matlab. Even though Matlab really grew up to take over majority of high-tech industries, these clones also could manage to survive. There could be two major reasons behind this: (i) Matlab is relatively high priced (ii) Some people in academic world felt the urge to reinvent the wheel or may be they just could not avoid the intellectual urge for

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SAGE stands for 'Software for Algebra and Geometry Exploration' and it's a new concept that was bound to happen in the web sooner or later. Rather than being a new general purpose math tool, it brings together many existing open source math tools under one interface and makes them web accessible.SAGE is free and open software that supports research and teaching in a wide range of topics including

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Indian Director Dev Benegal and English writer-actor-director Stephen Fry are joining hands together to make a film on Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan -- His incredible journey to England and friendship with the famous Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy. The film will be mainly based on Robert Kanigel's amazing biography "The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan".Benegal

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We regret that due to unavoidable reasons, we need to take a break. We'll not have our regular postings in next two weeks. Regular postings will resume on April 10th. In the mean-time, you may go through our past postings on various topics of interest. We suggest that you use the search box on top to search for past postings on topics of your interest (e.g. 'Mathematica', 'Matlab', 'Fluid

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Lennart CarlesonThe world's most prestigious Mathematics prize has been awarded to a Swedish researcher for his work on wave patterns. Professor Lennart Carleson of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden was awarded the Abel Prize 'for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems,' as stated by the International Abel Committee.

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Graphics chip developer Nvidia and physics specialist Havok have announced they will be showing off some new software technology at the Game Developers Conference next week in San Jose, California. Running physics calculations through a graphics GPU is not a new idea, it’s been mooted for Xbox 360 – it’s perfectly possible for part of the console’s ATI GPU being fenced-off and used for physics

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"Project Mathematics" provides fantastic videotape and workbook modules and explores and explains basic topics in high school mathematics using live action, music, special effects, and imaginative computer animation.Tom M. Apostol, Emiratus Professor of Mathematics at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is the main architect behind this very successful effort. The tapes (also available

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'Carnegie Learning' is a leading provider of core, full-year mathematics programs as well as supplemental intervention applications for middle school and high school students. Today Carnegie Learning, Inc. announced the Carnegie Learning Bridge to Algebra Challenge, a 5-week evaluation of the company's Cognitive Tutor(R) algebra readiness curriculum for middle school and high school students

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The University of Colorado has a set of web-based Mathematics simulations. These are simple but very effective and useful.The Department of Applied Mathematics of the University has also developed Java-based Mathematical Visualization Toolkit (MVT) .It is a good endeavor involving university students and these freely downloadable tools are great to have and use.

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The latest version of STAR-Works, a CAD-embedded CFD tool for SolidWorks, has been created specifically to enable design and project engineers to undertake basic flow simulation, even if they are lacking experience in traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis.STAR-Works is embedded within the user's SolidWorks environment. CFD functionality is presented as additional easy-to-use

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Maplesoft has introduced DynaFlexPro, a Maple-based design tool that uses symbolic computation methods to derive the system equations of complex mechanical multibody systems. Unlike other multibody design tools that use purely numeric solvers, DynaFlexPro generates solutions that are exact, compact and efficient for real-time implementation, at a fraction of the cost.Designed by MotionPro Inc.,

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Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) is a distributed computing project. It is like the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project that uses Internet-connected computers in search of extra-terrestrials, but GIMPS does the same for the discovery of new prime numbers that are divisible only by the number 1 and itself.Last month a computing team led by Curtis Cooper and Steven

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The NAG C Library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of mathematical and statistical algorithms for C and C++ programmers. It contains over 1000 functions covering a wide range of topics. The NAG C Library functions are available on a wide range of systems commonly used for technical computing.Recently NAG announced the launch of Mark 8 of the NAG C Library. Extensive new

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A world record has been set by performing the first multi-million atom biology simulation by Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). They used the 'Q Machine' supercomputer to create a molecular simulation of the ribosome, the cell's protein-making structure. This involved simulating 2.64 million atoms in motion, more than six times the amount achieved by previous biological

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The Personal Grid Edition of Mathematica combines 4 Mathematica kernels, a front end, and Toolkit for Parallel Computing. The master kernel handles all input, output, and scheduling, and is controlled from the front end. The computation kernels receive commands from the master kernel.The Parallel Computing Toolkit comprises of numerous high-level parallel commands (e.g., ParallelEvaluate,

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Edward Witten has won the "Pythagoras" international prize for mathematics, organised by Crotone's local council [Crotone in southern Italy is the place where Pythagorus settled down in the latter part of his life and founded a movement with religious, political and philosophical goals].Witten was awarded the prize today at the end of a ceremony at Crotone. Edward Witten is a professor at

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The industry for mathematical software has been lacking a unified and standardised policy for a long time. Now, people involved in making and using these softwares are coming together to formulate a consistent policy for numerical programming.The Numerical Mathematics Consortium (Waterloo, Canada; Cambridge, MA; and Austin, TX) recently announced that mathematics software suppliers and

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The most powerful computer on the planet has broken its own record — now able to do more than twice the number of calculations per second. IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer can now do 280.6 teraflops — 280.6 trillion calculations a second. This makes it twice as fast as when it was ranked the most powerful computer on earth in June — every six months the fastest supercomputers are ranked by

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Simulink from Mathworks is a platform for multidomain simulation and mode-baseddesign of dynamic systems. After building your model in Simulink one can simulate itsdynamic behavior and view the results live. Simulink provides several features and toolsto ensure the speed and accuracy of simulation. These are fixed- and variable-stepsolvers and a graphical debugger.Solvers are numerical

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NAG has developed the Academic Community Program toallow universities and other degree granting institutionsfreedom from the usual restrictions found within standardsoftware licence agreements. This ensures that both staffand students can work with ease either independently oras part of a wider collaborative project. There are even ways to allow thosenot working within the site to use the

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David Auburn's play Proof, as everyoneassociated with mathematics must knowby now, has been an enormous successon Broadway. Proof won the Tony andPulitzer in 2001 and went on to becomethe new millennium's blockbuster. Nowit's a film directed by John Madden, thecelebrated director of another greatmovie: 'Shakespeare in Love'. It releasedyesterday and won hearts of serious movie-goers. The

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Maplesoft, the leading provider of high-performance software tools forengineering, science and mathematics, announced today the availability ofAdvanced Engineering Mathematics with Maple, the definitive referencesoftware and textbook for engineering mathematics. Advanced Engineering Mathematics is a classic series featuring several books from multiplepublishers all under the same title. This

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Dan Flockhart is a Math teacher at College ofthe Redwoods, in Eureka, California.The author developed this book on 'FantasyFootball and Mathematics" as part of a thesisproject for a Masters degree at HumboldtState University by combining 20 years'participation in Fantasy Football with 11years experience teaching mathematics tostudents in grades 5–8. The book can befound at

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Fibonacci patterns are numerical sequences that fascinated the Italianmathematician Leonardo Fibonacci in the early 1200s. Each entry of thesequence is obtained by adding the two previous numbers together: 0, 1,1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144....The patterns have been noted to frequently appear in biological settings,like the spiral arrangement of the florests, seeds, sepals and scales

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