Volume 67 (1998), No. 1

P. Brunovsky, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
T. K. Dijkstra, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
W. Jager, University of Heidelberg, Germany
J. Kacur, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
J. Komornik, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
K. Mikula, Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia

Organizing Committee A. Handlovicova, G. Kalnova, M. Komornikova (conference chair), Z. Kriva, H. Eisner, K. Mikula, Z. Schneider (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava), L. Koval (University of Economy, Bratislava), M. Stevulova, J. Hoschek (University of Technology, Zvolen)

List of invited speakers

P. Bastian (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
E. Bansch (University of Freiburg, Germany)
P. Frolkovic (University of Erlangen, Germany)
D. Hilhorst (University of Paris Sud, France)
R. H. W. Hoppe (University of Augsburg, Germany)
R. Kornhuber (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
P. Knabner (University of Erlangen, Germany)
S. Kromker (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
G. H. Meyer (Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, USA)
K. Mikula (Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia)
M. Rumpf (University of Bonn, Germany)
M. Paolini (University of Udine, Italy)
A. Schmidt (University of Freiburg, Germany)
J. A. Sethian (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
M. Slodicka (University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany)

Volume Editors

J. Kacur
Department of Numerical Analysis and Optimization, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Mlynska Dolina, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia
e-mail: kacur@fmph.uniba.sk

K. Mikula
Department of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinskeho 11, 813 68 Bratislava, Slovakia
e-mail: mikula@ops.svf.stuba.sk

Preface

This issue of Acta Mathematica Universitatis Comenianae is devoted to ALGORITMY 97, Conference on Scientific Computing, held in the West Tatra Mountains (Zuberec) in September 2-5, 1997. The 14th ALGORITMY conference were organized by Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, in cooperation with Comenius University, Bratislava, University of Economy, Bratislava and University of Technology, Zvolen.
The scientific programme of the conference was devoted to the computational realisations of algorithms solving the real problems from various branches of sciences, technology, medicine, economy and finance. The main topics included methods of

modelling of flow in porous medium
simulations of free boundary phenomena
computational fluid dynamics
modelling of reaction - diffusion systems
financial and economical modelling
computational geometry
image processing
scientific visualization.

The proceedings published in this volume of AMUC cover the majority of plenary talks and, by the editors opinion, represent the state-of-art of scientific computing in all mentioned areas. The contributions of other participants have been included in special publication ALGORITMY 97 (Proceedings of contributed papers and posters) published by Slovak University of Technology before the conference.
We would like to thank to everyone who contributed to the success of ALGORITMY 97; first of all to the authors and all other participants for their excellent contributions, the referees for the review work, members of the scientific and organizing committees, editorial board and administration of AMUC journal, our sponzors - BAUMIT, SHS, OTF, Ministry of Education and Science of the Slovak Republic, and all who otherwise participated in the conference.

Karol Mikula
Bratislava, April 1998