COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS INFORMATION

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the reorganized pages for Computational Mathematics Information. The pages have been reorganized and put together to provide a resource for students and faculty searching for information on computatational and numerical mathematics, and in scientific computing.

The pages of CMI are devoted to electronic links and publishing current topics of interest to the computational mathematics community. These pages are not the WWW server for the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southern Mississippi. They are intended to provide a useful adjunct to these and other pages on campus.

Navigation of CMI pages is available using several paths. From the Cover Page the user can enter using Frames, or No Frames. This takes the user to the Table of Contents which contains a comprehensive listing of the contents of the site.

Underneath this, the selection menu on the Cover Page splits into columns. On the left on the Cover Page there are several choices of pages available on Selected Topics. These provide direct access to some of the topics and pages of greatest interest. On the right hand column, the journal cover icon provides access to this page discussing Current Topics, and the date provides a link to campus events.

The Contents button at the bottom of each page always returns the user to the Table of Contents for Computational Mathematics Information. At the lower left of each page, there is information providing the user with links back to USM's Home Page, the date of modification of the page, and a link to inquire@delphi. Please use this for feedback, comments and suggestions.

Search of CMI pages is available using a Search index based on WebGlimpse which allows searching the entire web pages on pax. These pages include pax/cmi, pax/luf and pax/sms and the faculty and student pages on pax.

To utilize the search, point your browser to the SEARCH link on the CMI front page.

CURRENT TOPICS

New Items including new links which are worth investigating. We direct your attention to these links and information:

  • The pages for the USM Honors Thesis and the USM Dissertation packages have been revised. Students in Mathematics or Scientific Computing who are using these packages to produce a thesis or dissertation should upgrade thier files.

    The packages provide improved assistance with using LaTeX and provide a convenient toolbar for running LaTeX and its associated programs and packages. There is a convenient online help package associated with the toolbar.

    The LaTeX Local Guide has been expanded to include assistance with producing an examination paper in mathematics, and includes some useful examples of how to produce several different documents. (3/14/99)

  • The front page design has been changed allowing for a tool bar containing items at the bottom of the page. These include a Dictionary (Webster's), Directory (USM telephone) Maps (from Mapquest), Oscar (USM's online library search) Search (from Altavista), Units (for converting units) and Zip (to search zip codes). These are all available in a conveniently sized window which can be left on the desktop. For even greater convenience, the Tools link provides a small button bar containing the links with the advantage that it occupies less space on the desktop. (11/17/98)

  • The Mathematics web pages have been consolidated and updated with new addresses which are easier to remember. These include:

    • School of Mathematical Sciences - http://www.sms.usm.edu
    • Department of Mathematics - http://www.math.usm.edu
    • Program in Scientific Computing - http://www.sc.usm.edu

    The Department of Mathematics www pages have been moved from goose.st.usm.edu (which continues to serve the labs in Southern Hall) to pax.st.usm.edu. Update your links. (8/15/98)

  • Added WebGlimpse search capability base on PAX. (5/19/98)

  • Added new material on producing a presentation using slides. The fastpath to this under http://pax.st.usm.edu/cmi/slides_html/slides.html. The information is listed under the LaTeX Local Guide. There is additional new information on this page on using LaTeX to produce an undergraduate Honor's Thesis. (5/03/98)

  • MCP's Personal Bookshelf, Macmillan Computers. Registered users may select up to five books to view online. Individual books remain active in your personal bookshelf for 90 days. The selections are primarily in computer science. Great resource. (3/18/98)

  • MAW Math Awareness Week site at Swarthmore. Mathematics and Imaging. (3/18/98)

  • Diffpack is an object-oriented software system for building simulators based on partial differential equations. Through its public access version, and later as a fully functional commercial product, Diffpack has created a lot of interest on the international industrial and academic arena for scientific computing.

    Diffpack is independent of application areas with examples of full-scale simulators in a wide range of areas including chemical reactors for petroleum applications, non-linear water waves, material sciences and multi-phase flow problems, to mention a few. In the academic sector the use of Diffpack is widespread counting developed applications in a large number of scientific areas. Diffpack is characterized by its high flexibility, short simulator development time coupled with the strictest demands for stability and efficiency.

    A public access version of Diffpack is available on Unix for academic usage. The commercial version is now also available on Windows 95/NT with a powerful GUI including state of the art visualization.

    If you'd like to know more about Diffpack we invite you to visit the home page of Numerical Objects http://www.nobjects.com. You will here get access to demos, software and documentation. We also invite you to take part in The Diffpack Tattler Award contest (http://www.nobjects.com/prodserv/diffpack/dptattler.html) where you have the chance of winning a free license for the commercial Diffpack version as well as being a VIP Guest at the SciTools'98 conference in Oslo, Norway in September 1998.

    Best regards,

    Ove Lied

    Ove S. Lied, Sales and Marketing Director
    Phone: +47 88 00 66 67, Fax: +47 22 06 73 50
    Email: olied@nobjects.com, WWW: http://www.nobjects.com
    Numerical Objects AS
    P.O. Box 124 Blindern
    N-0134 Oslo, Norway (3/18/98)


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