Preface to the proceedings

Abstract

This Special Part of the ANZIAM Journal (Electronic Supplement) contains the refereed papers from the eleventh Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference (CTAC2003) held at ICIAM, Sydney 2003. The editors acknowledges the advice and assistance provided by Jerard Barry with the refereeing process. The CTAC series of conferences is held under the auspices of the Computational Mathematics Group of the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) division of the Australian Mathematics Society. They provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and mathematicians interested in the development of computational techniques and their application to problems of practical importance. Previous conferences in the CTAC series were held at University of Sydney (1983), University of Melbourne (1985), University of Sydney (1987), Griffith University, Brisbane (1989), University of Adelaide (1991), Australian National University, Canberra (1993), Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne (1995), University of Adelaide (1997), Australian National University, Canberra (1999), The University of Queensland, Brisbane (2001) CTAC2003 Organising Committee Jerard Barry (Chair) Steve Armfield (Co-Chair, Web Editor) Jagoda Crawford (Proceedings Editor) Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge financial sponsorship from the following organisations. Gold sponsors AXISS AUSTRALIA The University of New South Wales CSIRO The University of Technology, Sydney Commonwealth Department of Education Science and Training Silver sponsors The University of Sydney The University of Melbourne Bronze sponsors AMAS APAC Australian Bureau of Statistics AC3 Defence Science and Technology The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering AMSI Australian Mathematical Science Institute NSW First for innovation Elsevier Congress Lanyards ILOG SIAM