Auf Initiative von Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Loos hat die Fakultät für Informatik der Universität Tübingen Prof. Dr. George Collings die Ehrendoktorwürde verliehen. Damit wurden die vielfältigen Verdienste von George Collings auf dem Gebiet der Computeralgebragewürdigt. Der Festakt fand am 12. Juni 1996 in Tübingen statt. Nach der Begrüßung durch Dekan Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Straßer hielt Prof. Dr. Bruno Buchberger vom RISC Linz zum Thema Die Zukunft der Computeralgebra. In der Laudatio ging Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Loos auf das wissenschaftliche Werk, insbesondere seine Arbeiten zur Quantorenelimination, Subresultanten und die SAC-Library ein. Nach der Überreichung der Urkunde durch den Rektor Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Ludwig beschloß ein Konzert den Festakt. Johannes Grabmeier (Heidelberg)
If you receive the SICSAM Bulletin then you may already know that starting next issue there will be a section containing articles. We believe that the reviewing standards of this section are high - the current review process involves members of the ISSAC '96 Program Committee - and it is our intent to keep them high even though the section will evolve.
The Bulletin will continue to publish completely unreviewed articles as well, in the Timely Communications section.
Two special issues to be published in early 1997:
Im Rahmen des Support Service für AXIOM wird von NAG Ltd. jetzt regelmäßig ein neuer technischer Rundbrief herausgegeben.
This is to announce the creation of two new email groups (''mailing lists'') following the recent OpenMath workshop in Zurich. openmath-sgml: for typesetting/SGML/HTML matters openmath-sym: for matters relating to OpenMath symbols and ''content dictionaries''.
To subscribe to either of these email groups please send email to majordomo@can.nl with an empty subject, and the body containing either subscribe openmath-sgml or subscribe openmath-sym
The new URL is http://www.can.nl/ abbott/OpenMath/index.html
Let me please draw you attention to a new book series which the RISC Institute starts to publish in cooperation with Springer Vienna - New York. The series is called ''Texts and Monographs in Symbolic Computation''. Below are the first four books that already appeared in this series
and 3 more books which will appear in the next months.
We might have money available for funding an additional postdoctoral research position in inverse problems at the Johannes Kepler Universität in Linz, Austria, for about six months starting this October or November. We are interested in researchers whose interests and experience match ours closely enough for successful joint research to be possible within this relatively short period. We are currently mostly interested in regularization methods for nonlinear ill-posed inverse problems (also large scale, in combination with efficient solvers for the direct problems; see our WWW-page, address below, for details). Those who are interested and match these criteria should contact me with details about their interest and experience urgently by E-Mail.
Prof.Dr.Heinz W. Engl, Industriemathematik, Institut für Mathematik, Johannes-Kepler-Universitaät, Altenbergerstrasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Österreich / Austria, E-Mail: engl@indmath.uni-linz.ac.at, or na.engl@na-net.ornl.gov secretary: nikolaus@indmath.uni-linz.ac.at Phone: +43-(0)732-2468; ext.9219 or 693, secretary: 9220; home: +43-(0)732-245518, Fax: +43-(0)732-2468855, Telex: 2-2323 uni li a, World Wide Web: http://www.indmath.uni-linz.ac.at/ .
Research positions are available immediately at the Institute of Welding Technology (ISAF) of the Technical University in Clausthal.
Successful candidates have experience in one or more of the areas welding technology, materials science, automation of processes, mathematics and information sciences.
Work will be done in research projects of fusion welding and cladding with automated welding techniques including the numerical simulation and control of processes.
The salary is regulated by the German BAT contract. The appointment will be nonpermanent.
Women and handicapped persons are especially encouraged to apply.
Application, including curriculum vitae, relevant certificates and an outline of scientific background should be sent to:
Dr.-Ing. B. Bouaifi, ISAF, TU Clausthal, Im Schleeke 112, D-38640 Goslar, Tel: (05321) 3470-0, Fax: (05321) 3470-40, E-mail: stbb@isaf-gs.tu-clausthal.de, WWW homepage: http://www.isaf.tu-clausthal.de .