Visualization Toolkit (VTK) open-source, image processing and visualization

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. Kitware, whose team created and continues to extend the toolkit, offers professional support and consulting services for VTK. VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including: scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as: implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. VTK has an extensive information visualization framework, has a suite of 3D interaction widgets, supports parallel processing, and integrates with various databases on GUI toolkits such as Qt and Tk. VTK is cross-platform and runs on Linux, Windows, Mac and Unix platforms.

http://www.vtk.org/

Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK): open-source, image analysis

Welcome to the National Library of Medicine Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK).  ITK is an open-source, cross-platform system that provides developers with an extensive suite of software tools for image analysis.  Developed through extreme programming methodologies, ITK employs leading-edge algorithms for registering and segmenting multidimensional data. The goals for ITK include:

• Supporting the Visible Human Project.
• Establishing a foundation for future research.
• Creating a repository of fundamental algorithms.
• Developing a platform for advanced product development.
• Support commercial application of the technology.
• Create conventions for future work.
• Grow a self-sustaining community of software users and developers. 
   
  http://www.itk.org/ 
   

2014 Conference on Computational Mechanics (CCM), May 16 to 18, 2014 , Suzhou, China

2014 Conference on Computational Mechanics (CCM) will be held on May 16 to 18, 2014 in Suzhou, China.

Symposiums

2014 Symposium on Fluid Mechanics (SFM)

Starting from the liquid equilibrium theory established by Archimedes, to the Euler equation and Bernoulli's equation, fluid mechanics has experienced quite a long developing process. Nowadays, with the development of computer and advanced mathematics, computational fluid dynamics is widely applied in many important areas, and is a hot spot of research. This symposium will bring together scholars from around the world to discuss their new advances in the computational fluid dynamics.

2014 Symposium on Rock Mechanics and Engineering (SRME)

Rock mechanics is a practical and comprehensive discipline, having important and widespread applications in geology and civil engineering. The symposium will focus on the key technologies and new achievements on rock mechanics and engineering construction.

2014 Symposium on Solid Mechanics (SSM)

Solid mechanics has very extensive applications in modern engineering. From aircraft, ships, tanks, to houses, bridges, dams, atomic reactors, and even to household furniture, the structure design and calculation are based on the principle and calculation method of solid mechanics. The symposium will focus on the new progress in the field of solid mechanics and its development in the future.

http://www.engii.org/workshop/CCM2014May/

All the accepted papers will be published by "Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics" (ISSN: 2327-4352), a peer-reviewed open access journal that can ensure the widest dissemination of your published work. For more information, please visit: http://www.scirp.org/journal/jamp/

Finite Element Methods for Flow Problems: Books & code

 Jean Donea, Antonio Huerta, Finite Element Methods for Flow Problems, Wiley, 362 Pages, 2003

Review: The book mostly metioned the numerical methods and methods for solving differential equations. It compared many different methods for a flow problems.

The free Matlab code scripts are available for some examples in this book, http://www.lacan.upc.edu/huerta-web/exercises/Introduction/Introduction.htm

Endnote: bibliography, preferences

• Free Online endnote, can import the reference directly to microsoft word, and firefox, internet expolorer toolbar to save reference to the online bib. directly from the journal page,  Use the EndNote plug-in to insert references, and format citations and bibliographies automatically while you write your papers in Word. This plug-in also allows you to save online references to your library in Internet Explorer for Windows, Firefox. http://www.myendnoteweb.com
• Instruction: Installing the EndNote "Cite While You Write" (CWYW) Tools into Microsoft Word for EndNote versions 4,5,6,7,8,9 and X.,  http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/kb/article/CC5E

TIPS:

•  EndNote Web tab > Intert citations > type text for searching the matching reference

* How to remove parentheses for reference with endnode 

• You can insert reference as usual
• Select the citation to remove
• Ctrl + Shift + F9 : to remove the link with reference, it becomes text

* Edit citations

• EndNote Web tab > Edit citations > deselect author, or year

Trefethen's list of 13 classic papers in applied mathematics

• J.W. Cooley and J.W. Tukey, "An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series," Math. Comp., 19 (1965), pp. 297–301.

• R. Courant, K. Friedrichs, and H. Lewy, "On the partial difference equations of mathematical physics," IBM J. Res. Develop., 11 (1967), pp. 215–234.

• A.S. Householder, "Unitary triangularization of a nonsymmetric matrix," J. Assoc. Comput. Mach., 5 (1958), pp. 339–342.

• C.F. Curtiss and J.O. Hirschfelder, "Integration of stiff equations," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 38 (1952), pp. 235–243.

• C. de Boor, "On calculating with B-splines," J. Approximation Theory, 6 (1972), pp. 50–62.

• R. Courant, "Variational methods for the solution of problems of equilibrium and vibrations," Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 49 (1943), pp. 1–23.

• G. Golub and W. Kahan, "Calculating the singular values and pseudo-inverse of a matrix," J. Soc. Indust. Appl. Math. Ser. B Numer. Anal., 2 (1965), pp. 205–224.

• A. Brandt, "Multi-level adaptive solutions to boundary-value problems," Math. Comp., 31 (1977), no. 138, pp. 333–390.

• M.R. Hestenes and E. Stiefel, "Methods of conjugate gradients for solving linear systems," J. Research Nat. Bur. Standards, 49 (1952), pp. 409–436.

• R. Fletcher and M.J.D. Powell, "A rapidly convergent descent method for minimization," Comput. J., 6 (1963/1964), pp. 163–168.

• G. Wanner, E. Hairer, and S.P. Nørsett, "Order stars and stability theorems," BIT, 18 (1978), no. 4, pp. 475–489.

• N. Karmarkar, "A new polynomial-time algorithm for linear programming," Combinatorica, 4 (1984), no. 4, pp. 373–395.

• L. Greengard and V. Rokhlin, "A fast algorithm for particle simulations," J. Comput. Phys., 73 (1987), no. 2, pp. 325–348. 

https://www.stanford.edu/class/cme324/classics/

The 6th International Symposium on Microchemistry and Microsystems

The ISMM is a series of conferences that started in Kanazawa, Japan in 2009. It is now an annual international symposium which is held in Asia and Oceania regions:  in Hong Kong in 2010, Seoul Korea in 2011, Taiwan in 2012, and Xiamen China in 2013. ISMM 2014 will be held in Singapore, from July 30th to August 1st. The symposium will focus on biomedicine, sensors and engineering. It covers a wide range of topics as stated below. We are anticipating more than 300 international renowned scholars and scientists to participate in this symposium which will be held in the vibrant city of Singapore.

Deadline for Abstract Submission March 28, 2014
Deadline for Author Acceptance Notification March 31, 2014
Deadline for Presenting Authors Registration April 15, 2014
Deadline for Full Length Paper Submission April 30, 2014
Deadline for Early-Bird Registration April 30, 2014
Meeting Dates 30 July - 1 August, 2014

http://www.ismm2014.net/