ChronicleSource: SIAM Review, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Sep., 1986), pp. 452-457Published by: Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2031398 .

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New Members

*Rachid Ababou Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts

Winfred P. Adams Farmington, New Mexico

Reza R. A. Ahangar New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, New Mexico

Daljit S. Ahluwalia New York University New York, New York

Michael 0. Albertson Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts

S. Thomas Alexander North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina

Haron S. Andima Bronx Community College Bronx, New York

Tsuyoshi Ando Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan

Jim T. Armstrong Convex Computer Corporation Richardson, Texas

Michel Artola Gradignan, France

Samuel B. Baker Martin Marietta Orlando, Florida

Walter D. Barfield Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico

Judson R. Baron Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts

*Herbert M. Baruch Tarzana, California

Philip M. Benjamin Bell Communications Research Piscataway, New Jersey

Michel Bercovier IBM Corporation Paris, France

Charles E. Blair University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois

*David L. Bosley University of Washington Seattle, Washington

Stephen W. Boyack Columbia, Maryland

*Joseph A. Bradley III University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma

Peter J. Bralver Sherman Oaks, California

William J. Britton Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mark A. Brown Syracuse University Syracuse, New York

*Jonathan F. Buss Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts

Paolo M. Camerini Segrate, Italy

Neil Cameron Monash University Victoria, Australia

Ming-Kam Chan Hong Kong Baptist College Kowloon, Hong Kong

*Matthew S. Chen University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois

Manolis A. Christodoulou University of Patras Patras, Greece

Alan K. Cline University of Texas Austin, Texas

Jeffery K. Cochran Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona

Amy Novick-Cohen Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan

Kirby L. Collins Convex Computer Corporation Richardson, Texas

*James J. Crawford Jr. Fairleigh Dickenson University Reaneck, New Jersey

*James A. Crotinger Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts

Anthony J. DeGregoria Exxon Research & Engineering Company Annandale, New Jersey

Charlotte M. DeRouchie Avril Inc. Southfield, Michigan *Student Member

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James Do GE-Calma Company Milpitas, California

*Hy Manh Doan University of Akron Akron, Ohio

Thomas A. Dowling Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio

Richard A. Duke Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia

Miles D. Edwards Cameron University Lawton, Oklahoma

*Nizar M. El-Khoury Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina

Lars Eld6n Linkoping University Linkoping, Sweden

*Charles H. V. Evans Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mary E. Flahive University of Lowell Lowell, Massachusetts

Richard J. Friedlander University of Missouri St. Louis, Missouri

*Datta V. Gaitonde Rutgers University Piscataway, New Jersey

Kevin B. Gallaway Wall Data Inc. Redmond, Washington

Robert J. Garrow Franklin University Columbus, Ohio

*Sheri K. Gebarowski University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Tennessee

*Georgios B. Giannakis University of Southern California Los Angeles, California

*Stefan Gnutzmann University of Bundeswehr Hamburg, West Germany

Carroll K. Gordon Andover Associates Inc. New Orleans, Louisiana

*James E. Grabenstetter University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Juan M. Gracia Vitoria, Spain

Thomas R. Gulledge, Jr. Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana

James D. Guptill NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio

Terri C. Hall Minneapolis, Minnesota

Fumio Hamano Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, Florida

Denis Hanson University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

*Fuchin He Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

*Paul J. Hedrick Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Kenneth A. Heimes Iowa State University Ames, Iowa

*Ronald E. Helmick West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia

Lars Holden Norwegian Computing Center Oslo, Norway

*Dong Hsu Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts

Brian L. Hughes Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland

Russell A. Hulse Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey

*A. Evan Iverson Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico

David W. Jacobson IBM Corporation Rochester, Minnesota

*Juif Frank Jen State University of New York Stony Brook, New York

Erxiong Jiang Fudan University Shanghai, China

Joaquim J. A. Judice University of Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal

Bahman Kalantari Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey

Edward J. Kansa Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, California

Jacob Katriel Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel *Student Member

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Rex K. Kincaid College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia

*Jayant Kirtane Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania

Alexander F. Kleiner, Jr. Drake University Des Moines, Iowa

Hai-Ping Ko General Electric Company Schenectady, New York

James F. Koehler ETA Systems Inc. St. Paul, Minnesota

*Chung-Chieh Jay Kuo Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts

*Maija K. Kuusela Duke University Durham, North Carolina

Christopher G. Lamoureux Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Scott H. Lamson General Electric Company Schenectady, New York

*John V. Langer University of Washington Seattle, Washington

Kincho H. Law Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York

*Kemal Leblebicioglu Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey

Paul R. Levitt Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts

*Jai Li University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee

*Man Chiu Li San Francisco State University San Francisco, California

*Feng-Lee Lin University of Maryland College Park, Maryland

*Anne M. Lindsay West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia

*Jim Llewellyn Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey

Juan V. Llovet Universidad Alcala Henares Madrid, Spain

Thomas K. Louton Schering AG Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany

David J. Lutzer Miami University Oxford, Ohio

Edward D. Lynch Rockwell International Canoga Park, California

*Anthony J. Maeder Monash University Melbourne, Australia

*Christina M. Maguire West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia

M. Zafar Imam Malik University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida

James M. Mannon Moss Beach, California

Francois Marcotorchino IBM Corporation Paris, France

*Thomas G. Marinko Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania

*Holly J. Marston Iowa State University Ames, Iowa

*Giuseppe Mazzarella University of Naples Naples, Italy

*Kelly M. McArthur Montana State University Bozeman, Montana

Kevin S. McCurley University of Southern California Los Angeles, California

Ulrike Meier University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois

Diane M. Meissner Rockwell International Seal Beach, California

*Milena Mihail Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts

*Margaret Mikulska University of California La Jolla, California

Nicholas S. Miller Franklin, Massachusetts

Russ Miller State University of New York Buffalo, New York

Timothy J. Miller Cornell University Ithaca, New York

*Jiada Mo University of Tennessee Space Institute Tullahoma, Tennessee *Student Member

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John W. Mooningham University of South Carolina Conway, South Carolina

Joseph G. Moser West Chester University West Chester, Pennsylvania

Paul S. Muhly University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa

*John H. Muller Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia

*Patricia A. Oakley Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois

*Gholam Reza Sadegh-Beyki University of Paris Paris, France

Krishnan Padmanabhan AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey

Robert M. Panoff Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas

*Flavio Pellegrini University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana

*Mark C. Pernarowski University of Washington Seattle, Washington

*Rene Poliquin University of Washington Seattle, Washington

*Nikolaos S. Pouliezos University of Manchester Manchester, England

Joshua H. Proschan General Services Administration New York, New York

*Elbridge G. Puckett University of California Berkeley, California

Richard C. Raup Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dieter A. Reetz Columbia, South Carolina

Robert J. Renka North Texas State University Denton, Texas

Michael B. Richey George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia

*Alexander J. Robertson III University of Colorado Denver, Colorado

Mark H. Rohrbein Des Plaines, Illinois

Thomas E. Sandell Seattle Silicon, Inc. Bellevue, Washington

Lee K. Sanders Miami University Hamilton, Ohio

Margaret K. Schaefer College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia

Philip J. Schapiro University of South Carolina Aiken, South Carolina

Michael H. Schneider Princeton Unversity Princeton, New Jersey

*James F. Scholz University of Rochester Rochester, New York

E. Dabney Shackelford Randolph Radiologists Inc. Asheboro, North Carolina

*Masoud Shafiee Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Harold S. Shapiro Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden

*Richard A. Shapiro Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts

Peter Sherman Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana

*Zhi Shi University of Tennessee Space Institute Tullahoma, Tennessee

Xiao Shutie Tsinghua University Beijing, China

Jeffrey B. Sidney University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Harry F. Smith, Jr. IBM Scientific Center Palo Alto, California

Prem Sobel Vitesse Electronics Corp. Camarillo, California

*Diane L. Souvaine Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey

Anna H. Stead Auburn, Massachusetts

David A. Stead New York University Medical Center New York, New York

George Steiner McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada udent Member

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Lorna K. Stewart University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

*Jeffrey L. Stuart University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin

Kenneth J. Supowit Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey

Joseph H. Swartz Martin-Marietta Denver Aerospace Denver, Colorado

*John A. Tague Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania

Peter Tannenbaum California State University Fresno, California

*Michael A. Tanoff Yale University New Haven, Connecticut

Lucio Tavernini University of Texas San Antonio, Texas

Leslie A. Taylor Waters Chromatography Milford, Massachusetts

*Roderick E. Taylor Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia

*Brian J. Thelen Environmental Research Institute of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan

James M. Thompson Reston, Virginia

Gerald J. Throop Floating Point Systems Beaverton, Oregon

Guiseppe Torresin Padova, Italy

*Gracia J. Toubia Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas

Sven Treitel Amoco Production Company Tulsa, Oklahoma

*Athanasios Tsantilas Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts

Kohya Tsukada Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan

*Thomas Turnbull University of Colorado Denver, Colorado

Martha A. Turner Martin-Marietta Environmental Systems Columbia, Maryland

Peter R. Turner University of Lancaster Lancaster, United Kingdom

Philip G. Underwood Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laborties Palo Alto, California

*Donald W. Vasco University of California Berkeley, California

*Stephen A. Vavasis Stanford University Stanford, California

F. Eugenio Villaseca Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio

*Fabian A. Waleffe Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts

Walter D. Wallis Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois

John W. Walter US Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland

Bernard P. Weiss University of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska

*Martin T. Wells University of California Santa Barbara, California

*Gary S. Williams South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota

Jason J. Yoon Privac Inc. Falls Church, Virginia

Kai-Bor Yu Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg, Virginia

*Siu-Pang Yung University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin

*Michael A. Zazanis Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts

*Rena M. Zurn Yale University New Haven, Connecticut

*tdent Member

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Elected and Appointed Officials Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

BOARD OF TRUSTEES J. A. Burns G. H. Golub M. D. Kruskal W. C. Rheinboldt B. Buzbee S. Gubins J. McKenna M. P. Tulin J. K. Cullum E. F. Infante W. F. Miller H. F. Weinberger J. G. Glimm

OFFICERS President ............... G. H. Golub Vice President, Programs .......... J. W. Daniel President-Elect ............... C. W. Gear Vice President, Publications . . R. E. O'Malley, Jr. Vice-President-at-Large ............ F. S. Roberts Treasurer .......................... S. Gubins

Secretary ............... P W. Davis

COUNCIL K. E. Atkinson J. E. Dennis, Jr. R. E. O'Malley, Jr. F. S. Roberts L. P. Cook J. J. Dongarra J. Oliger P. N. Swarztrauber J. W. Daniel C. W. Gear G. C. Papanicolaou R. C. Ward P. W. Davis G. H. Golub R. J. Plemmons M. F. Wheeler S. H. Davis S. Gubins W. C. Rheinboldt L. 0. Wilson

MANAGING EDITORS Frontiers in Applied Mathematics .......... ........................... R. E. Ewing SIAM Journal on Algebraic and Discrete Methods .................................... C. R. Johnson SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics . ...................................... N. R. Lebovitz SIAM Journal on Computing .......... ............................ S. R. Kosaraju SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization . ..................................... H. T. Banks SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis ...................................... D. G. Saari SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis ...................................... E. Isaacson SIAM Journal on Scientific & Statistical Computing ..................................... C. W. Gear SIAM Review ..................................... J. A. Burns SIAM Studies in Applied Mathematics ...................................... J. A. Nohel Theory of Probability and Its Applications ...................................... N. A. Brunswick

SIAM COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS Committees and Appointments: P. W. Davis Nominations: G. H. Golub Education: R. Haberman Programs: J. W. Daniel Human Rights of Mathematical Scientists: N. Kopell Publications: R. E. O'Malley, Jr. Major Awards: F. S. Roberts Science Policy: J. E. Lagnese Managing Editors: R. E. O'Malley, Jr. The John von Neumann Lecture: G. H. Golub

SIAM ACTIVITY GROUP CHAIRPERSONS Discrete Mathematics: M. Klawe Linear Algebra: R. C. Ward Optimization: P. T. Boggs Supercomputing: J. J. Dongarra

SIAM Institute for Mathematics and Society

BOARD OF DIRECTORS J. E. Cohen (Chairperson) W. H. Kruskal F. S. Roberts J. G. Glimm B. McMillan I. R. Savage W. T. Golden V. A. Newill D. L. Thomsen, Jr. G. H. Golub E. R. Piore H. Zuckerman E. F. Infante M. S. Rees

OFFICERS President: D. L. Thomsen, Jr. Vice President: B. McMillan Secretary: F. S. Roberts

Treasurer: W. T. Golden

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