CCM Annual Report 96-97

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Center for Computational Mathematics, Leo Franca, Director

The Center completed its fifth year of existence thanks to the efforts of many of its members. John Weber completed his first year as our system administrator with distinction. He has gone the extra step to help each one of us, shop for best price/product to enhance our system, kept the system running, etc. Jan Mandel has guided us on the purchase of newer products and on ways to improve the performance of our network. Andrew Knyazev and Radek Tezaur concluded their services as webmaster and webtechnician, respectively, for which we are very grateful, and Tim Fritschel is now responsible for all matters related to the web (please ask him for assistance in setting something up in the web!)

I continued to organized the CCM colloquium series and Tom Russell handled the Denver portion of the CU-Denver/CU-Boulder Joint Seminars in Computational Math. The list of the talks can be found at the respective web pages, or in Section 9 of the Annual Report. We were fortunate to have had several visitors from overseas and out of state last academic year, namely: Jean Roberts, Jerome Jaffre and Marina Vidrascu from INRIA-France; Edgar N. Mamiya from UnB-Brazil; Abram Zhuzhunashvili from the Georgian Academy of Sciences-Georgia; Alessandro Russo from the IAN/CNR-Italy; Manil Suri and John Osborn from the University of Maryland; Susanne Brenner from the University of South Carolina; Bernardo Cokburn from the University of Minnesota; Jeffrey S. Scroggs from the North Carolina State University; and Harold Schreyer from the University of New Mexico.

The Center for Computational Mathematics Series of Reports has now over 100 reports, and the collection can be found in hard-copy format in suite 647 of the CU-Denver Building. Some of the reports are available on line and further instructions on how to get copies can be found in its web page.

A highlight of the year was the "Move." The Department of Mathematics as well as the Center for Computational Mathematics are now located in the 6th floor of the CU-Denver building. The CCM lab is now placed in room 647 where approximately 10 terminals (where 7 are color 21 inch screen NCDs) are placed along with 3 printers (one of them color). Our three servers are now housed in a computer room with dedicated AC. CCM has also a visitor room where several of our speakers worked during their visits to Denver.

The year ended with a piece of good news. The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Science approved initial spending for building the CLAS network. The CLAS Network pilot project will be housed in the CCM lab, where 5 PCs with multimedia capability will be connected to a server with dual Pentium Pro processors. This network will be a prototype for serving several Departments in the College.

For news and updates on the system throughout the year, please check our CCM homepage at http://www-math.cudenver.edu/ccm/ and the CCM Lab homepage at http://www-math.cudenver.edu/ccm/ccm-lab.html.