Volume 12 Number 4 Summer 1996 Third US-Japan Symposium on Finite Element Methods in Large-Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics The Third US-Japan Symposium on Finite Element Methods in Large-Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics was held at the Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) from Sunday March 31 through Wednesday April 3, 1996. The Symposium was sponsored by the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, AHPCRC and the Supercomputer Institute at the University of Minnesota. The organizing team consisted of Tayfun Tezduyar, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics and AHPCRC, Mutsuto Kawahara, Chuo University, and Thomas Hughes, Stanford University. The same team also organized the two earlier symposia in this series, which were held in October 1992 at the University of Minnesota and in March 1994 at Chuo University in Tokyo. The symposium began on Sunday evening with registration and a welcoming reception held at the Marquette Hotel in downtown Minneapolis. Approximately ninety researchers from the United States, Japan, and Europe attended the symposium. The symposium kicked off the following morning with welcoming and introductory remarks by Ettore Infante, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Tezduyar, and Donald Truhlar, Department of Chemistry and Supercomputer Institute. The first session was chaired by Hughes, and presenters included Kawahara, Akira Maruoka of Chuo University, and Philip Gresho of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The presentations were on the following subjects: "Future Trends in Finite Element Analysis" (Kawahara); "An Optimal Control Problem in the Navier Stokes Equation" (Kawahara and Maruoka); and "Projection Two Goes Turbulent-and Fully Implicit" (Gresho). Gresho was chairperson of the second morning session. The first talk was given by Tezduyar and Vinay Kalro, on "3-D Flow Simulations on Parallel Platforms," followed by a talk given by Kazuo Kashiyama (Chuo University) on a "Massively Parallel Finite Element Method for Storm Surge." The last presentation of the morning was on a "Parallel Overlapping Scheme for Viscous Incompressible Flows," given by Masayuki Kaiho of Hitachi. In This Issue: US-Japan Symposium Behavioral Sciences Symposium Upcoming International Conference on Parallel Computing Undergraduate Interns Seminar Synopses Research Reports The first afternoon session was chaired by Kashiyama and began with a talk given by Andrew Johnson of the AHPCRC on "Parallel Computation of Incompressible Flows with Complex Geometries." Following Johnson was John Shadid of Sandia National Laboratories. Shadid presented his work on "Fully-Coupled Iterative Solution of Chemically Reacting Flows on Massively Parallel Supercomputers." The fourth and final session of the day was a panel discussion on the "Role of Flow Simulation," chaired by Robert Whalin of the Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (CEWES). The other panelists included H. Ted Davis, Dean of the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota, Kawahara, and William Mermagen of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). "US-Japan Symposium article" continued