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| 2024 November 06 ILAS-NET Message no. 2554 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Shaun Fallat SUBJECT: First Announcement of the 2025 Workshop on Matrices and Operators First Conference Announcement 2025 Workshop on Matrices and Operators University of Regina, Regina August 19-21, 2025 The purpose of this international workshop is to promote research and collaboration among researchers with an interest in matrix theory, operator theory, operator algebra, quantum information theory, and related topics. Participants are encouraged to present their latest findings and discoveries, and share their experiences and research problems, while fostering an atmosphere of collaboration and mutual learning. Through dialogue and knowledge exchange, the workshop aims to enhance the collective growth and development of the research community involved in matrix theory, operator theory, operator algebra, quantum information theory, and related fields. The official MAO 2025 conference website is https://sites.google.com/view/matrices-and-operators-2025/home History of this workshop can be found at https://cklixx.people.wm.edu/mao-history.html. A designated email contact has been set up and is mao2025@uregina.ca. Please use this email for all correspondence associated with MAO 2025. Note that online registration will commence on February 1, 2025. MAO 2025 organizers gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Faculty of Science at the University of Regina MAO 2025 Organizing Team: Shaun Fallat, Douglas Farenick, Sushil Singla (Regina) and Chi-Kwong Li (William and Mary) Mark your calendars: MAO 2026 will be hosted by Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence Delhi NCR, India https://snu.edu.in/home/; if you are interested in attending the conference in 2026, please fill up the following Google form that will help us prepare for international participants and any required government permissions https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDbQCMNKZihVEQLqhMGNP3abExQq-pdZmjxcGrhhPpxs97MQ/viewform?usp=sharing Dr. Shaun Fallat Professor Department of Math & Stats University of Regina |
| 2024 November 04 ILAS-NET Message no. 2553 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: Peter Šemrl AMS Fellow class of 2025 Dear ILAS members and friends, Please join me in congratulating Peter Šemrl, from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (our former President), for his selection of one the AMS Fellows of the class of 2025. We will all share in the celebration at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Seattle in January. Daniel Szyld ILAS President |
| 2024 October 23 ILAS-NET Message no. 2552 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Tin-Yau Tam SUBJECT: Ron Smith (January 22, 1947 - October 16, 2024) It is with deep sadness that I share the news of Professor Ron Smith's passing on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at the age of 77. Ron earned his doctorate from Auburn University in 1976, under the supervision of the late Professor Emilie V. Haynsworth (1916–1985). He served as a professor of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for 35 years, retiring as Emeritus Professor. In recognition of his significant contributions to linear algebra and graph theory, the conference "Recent Advances in Linear Algebra and Graph Theory" held at UTC on March 5-6, 2016, was organized in honor of his retirement. Ron was not only a devoted mathematician, but also a kind and thoughtful person. He will be deeply missed by his family, students, friends, and colleagues. You can read his obituary here: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/hixson-tn/ronald-smith-12031216 |
| 2024 October 18 ILAS-NET Message no. 2551 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Alex Townsend SUBJECT: Deadline approaching: Householder Symposium XXII, Jun 2025 The Householder Symposium XXII on Numerical Linear Algebra will be held at Statler Hotel on Cornell University's campus in Ithaca from 8-13 June 2025. The Symposium will have presentations from both junior and established researchers. Applications to give a talk or poster are open at: https://householder-symposium.org/apply/ The deadline is fast approaching! Please apply by October 31, 2024. Attendance is by invitation only. Some talks will be plenary lectures, while others will be shorter presentations arranged in parallel sessions. Participants are expected to attend the entire meeting. For more details, see: https://householder-symposium.org/ Regards Local organizing committee: David Bindel Anil Damle (chair) Alex Townsend |
| 2024 October 08 ILAS-NET Message no. 2550 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Volker Mehrmann SUBJECT: LAA Special Issue in Honor of Daniel B. Szyld Linear Algebra and Its Applications (LAA) is pleased to announce a special issue in honor of Professor Daniel B. Szyld (Temple University, Philadelphia, USA) on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2025 and in recognition of his many important contributions to Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra. LAA solicits papers for the special issue within the entire scope of LAA with a special emphasis on research topics related to the work of Daniel Szyld. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2025. All submissions will be subjected to normal refereeing procedures and the usual standards of LAA will be applied. Manuscripts should be submitted via the Editorial Manager System for LAA (https://www.editorialmanager.com/laa/default.aspx), choosing the special issue called ‘In Honor of Daniel Szyld’ and the responsible Editor-in-Chief Volker Mehrmann. Authors will have the opportunity to suggest one of the following special editors to handle their submission: Edmond Chow, Froilan Dopico, Marcel Schweitzer, Valeria Simoncini, Kirk Soodhalter. |
| 2024 October 09 ILAS-NET Message no. 2549 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Minerva Catral SUBJECT: ILAS Election Announcement Voting in the next ILAS election (for terms starting March 1, 2025) will take place November 15, 2024 through December 15, 2024. Members will be e-mailed their voting instructions on November 15. In order to vote you need to be a current member of ILAS when the election begins. All current ILAS members were sent an email dated October 1 confirming that they will receive a ballot on November 15. ILAS no longer publishes the complete member list on the website. If you are not yet a member, you may sign up at https://ilasic.org/join-ilas/ no later than November 8, 2024 so your membership can be processed before the election begins. If you did not receive an email on October 1 confirming that you will receive a ballot on November 15, and believe you are a member, please email the Secretary/Treasurer Minnie Catral and/or the Assistant Secretary/Treasurer Mike Tait at (ILASsecretarytreasurer@gmail.com). Please state when you joined or last renewed and your type of membership (student, early career, standard, life, or fee waiver). If you have an e-mail confirmation of payment it would help to forward that, but it is not necessary. Receiving ILAS-net messages, including this one, does not imply you are an ILAS member. |
| 2024 October 04 ILAS-NET Message no. 2548 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Alex Townsend SUBJECT: Call for Papers, IMA Leslie Fox Prize 2025 The prestigious IMA Leslie Fox Prize is now welcoming submissions. The biennial prize was established in 1985 in honor of the distinguished mathematician and researcher Leslie Fox. The next Prize Day (the twenty-second) will take place on the 23rd of June 2025 in Strathclyde, preceding the 30th Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference in Strathclyde. Entries for the twenty-second IMA Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis should be submitted by the 31st of January 2025 using the form on the website (link below). Any person who is less than 31 years old on 1st of January 2025 and has not already won a first prize is eligible---candidates need not come from academia. Career breaks due to maternity/paternity leave, caring responsibilities, disability or illness will be taken into account. Each entry should be based on a manuscript, describing some of the candidate's research, that is suitable for a 40-minute lecture to a numerical analysis audience. For detailed eligibility criteria and submission guidelines please check the website: https://ima.org.uk/25084/ima-fox-prize-2025-call-for-papers/ |
| 2024 September 24 ILAS-NET Message no. 2547 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Jephian C.-H. Lin SUBJECT: ILAS2025 call for mini-symposium proposals The 26th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society will be held in Kaohsiung from June 23 to 27, 2025. The conference will feature ten plenary talks covering a range of topics, including numerical linear algebra, combinatorial matrix theory, operator theory, quantum information, and more. We also invite submissions for mini-symposia from all areas related to linear algebra. Each mini-symposium can include 4 to 12 speakers, where each talk has 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions. The deadline for submitting proposals is December 31. For more information about the conference, including travel tips, the list of plenary speakers, and the template for mini-symposium proposals, please visit the conference website at https://ilas2025.tw/. Jephian C.-H. Lin On behalf of the local organizing committee of ILAS2025 |
| 2024 August 20 ILAS-NET Message no. 2546 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Tin Yau Tam SUBJECT: 2024 Fall Biweekly Matrix Seminar on Zoom at UNR The 2024 Fall Biweekly Matrix Seminar at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA will be held on Zoom at 4:15-5:15pm on Fridays (US Pacific Time). All are welcome to join. The first talk is scheduled on September 6, 2024 and will be delivered by Minerva Catral. For the details of the talk schedule, please see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MswSd16JqsZE294kYCXujLio4cnAiuYv6QKRc6BxvI0/edit# Link to meetings: https://unr.zoom.us/j/83399510219 Please contact Pan Shun Lau at plau@unr.edu if you have any questions. Best regards, Pan Shun Lau and Tin-Yau Tam |
| 2024 August 15 ILAS-NET Message no. 2545 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Jephian C.-H. Lin SUBJECT: Conference announcements and reports in IMAGE Dear ILAS members, IMAGE - the ILAS' bulletin will release its next issue in December. If you are organizing or have organized an event, you are encouraged to submit the announcement or the report for it, and we would be happy to include them in the "Upcoming Conferences and Workshops" or the "Conference Reports" sections of IMAGE. If you are interested in doing so, please send your announcement / report to jephianlin [at] gmail [dot] com by October 15. And please feel free to let me know if you have any questions through the same email address. Many thanks, Jephian C.-H. Lin Conference Editor of ILAS IMAGE |
| 2024 August 15 ILAS-NET Message no. 2544 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Hermie Monterde SUBJECT: Invitation to attend 05C50 online 2024 series Dear ILAS members, The 05C50 Online is an online international seminar which features recent research trends in Graphs and Matrices, organized by Dr. Steve Kirkland and Hermie Monterde from the University of Manitoba. Our speakers for Fall 2024 include Geir Dahl, Shaun Fallat, Harmony Zhan and Xiaohong Zhang. As usual, the seminar runs once every two weeks on a Friday, 10am to 11am Central Time starting September 13, 2024. If you wish to subscribe and receive Zoom links for this seminar, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/vzySqYMLT2FgqkKUA. No need to fill out the form if you are already subscribed. For more information, please visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/05c50online/home. Sincerely, Steve Kirkland and Hermie Monterde |
| 2024 August 15 ILAS-NET Message no. 2543 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: Slate for ILAS elections: open for additional candidates Dear ILAS members: In preparation for the next election, the Nominating Committee has prepared a slate of candidates as follows. For the Board of Directors (two to be elected): * Enide Andrade * Marina Arav * Jephian Lin * Federico Poloni * Arvind Saibaba For Vice-President (one to be elected): * Froilán Dopico (at the end of this message I list the current composition of the ILAS leadership, including the whole Board of Directors). The purpose of this message is to inform you of the possibility to add to this slate of candidates (according to our By-Laws, Article 10, paragraph 2) by writing to me the name of any additional candidate. The candidate has to agree to the nomination, and be supported by at least three members of the Society. Please send any such additional nominations to me, no later than Monday 2 September 2024. I take this opportunity to thank the 2024 Nominating Committee for their outstanding work. It consists of: Melina Freitag, Karl Meerbergen, Sebastian Cioaba, Alicia Roca, and Hugo Woerderman (chair). I also thank the nominees who have agreed to run. Daniel B Szyld ILAS President ------------------------------- Executive Board: President: Daniel B Szyld (term ends 28 February 2026) Vice President: Froilán Dopico (term ends 28 February 2025) 2nd Vice President for Conferences: Raf Vandebril (term ends 28 February 2026) Secretary/Treasurer: Minnie Catral (term ends 28 February 2027) In addition we have (ex-officio): Assistant Secretary/Treasurer: Mike Tait (term ends 28 February 2026) Additional Members of the Board of Directors: * Paola Boito (term ends 28 Febbruary 2025) * Lek-Hen Lim (term ends 28 Febbruary 2025) * Chi-Kwong Li (term ends 28 February 2026) * Fernando De Terán (term ends 28 February 2026) * Stefan Guettel (term ends 28 February 2027) * Naomi Shaked-Mondered (term ends 28 February 2027) |
| 2024 August 12 ILAS-NET Message no. 2542 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: ILAS Hans Schneider Prize 2025 Announcement Dear ILAS members and friends, it is a great pleasure to announce the recipients of this year's Hans Schneider Prize (in alphabetical order): * Dario Bini (Università di Pisa) * Chi-Kwong Li (College of William and Mary) They are honored for their lifetime contributions to research in Linear Algebra. Dario Bini for his substantial contributions to several areas of computational linear algebra, including matrix multiplication, polynomials and structured matrices, Markov chains, and algebraic Riccati equations. Chi-Kwong Li for his substantial contributions to several areas of linear algebra, including matrix analysis, operator theory, quantum information theory, and combinatorial matrix theory. Dario Bini will present his Hans Schneider Prize Lecture at the 26th ILAS Conference, June 23-27, 2025, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, while Chi-Kwong Li will present his at the 27th ILAS Conference, May 18-22, 2026, Blacksburg, Virginia. Congratulations to both! We look forward to their lectures! We thank all the members who nominated or wrote letters of support for candidates for this prize, as well as the Prize committee for their hard work. ILAS is very privileged to have such active members. The 2025 ILAS Hans Schneider Prize Committee consisted of: Leslie Hogben (chair), Volker Mehrmann, Steve Kirkland, Misha Kilmer, and myself. Daniel B. Szyld (he/him/his) ILAS President |
| 2024 July 09 ILAS-NET Message no. 2541 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: ILAS Conferences, mark your calendars Dear ILAS members and friends: In about eleven months (23-27 June 2025) we will have the 25th ILAS Conference in Kaohsiung, in the South of the island of Taiwan (see https://ilas2025.tw/). Almost all the plenary speakers are already listed. You can start thinking about proposing a minisymposia if you so wish. An announcement to this effect will be sent in a few months. It is with great pleasure that I am announcing that the ILAS Board of Directors accepted the proposal to hold our 26th Conference at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virgina, USA, during the week of 18-22 May 2026, about 22 months from now. We look forward to seeing you at these conferences, Daniel B. Szyld ILAS President |
| 2024 July 07 ILAS-NET Message no. 2540 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Hermie Monterde SUBJECT: Second announcement: Women in Combinatorics Virtual Conference 2024 Dear ILAS Members, In celebration of its 5th anniversary, we cordially invite you to the inaugural iteration of the Women in Combinatorics Virtual Conference 2024! The Women in Combinatorics (WinCom) is the premier organization for equity in combinatorics. This year, we are organizing the first Women in Combinatorics Virtual Conference set this coming July 15-16, at 9am-4pm Eastern Time via Zoom. The main goal of this virtual conference is to build a supportive community as well as celebrate the research advances of historically underrepresented groups in combinatorics and related fields. The plenary speakers for this event are * Pamela Harris (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) * Sommer Gentry (New York University) * Sophie Spirkl (University of Waterloo) * Gabriela Araujo-Pardo (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) We have confirmed the following invited sessions: * Colourings on Graphs (Amanda Montejano) * Combinatorial Designs (Andrea Burgess and Alice Lacaze-Masmonteil) * Combinatorial Geometry (Sylvia Fernández Merchant) * Combinatorial Matrix Theory (Jane Breen and Hermie Monterde) * Combinatorics on Polytopes (Amy Wiebe and Isabelle Shankar) * Network Theory (Erin Meger) * Quantum Information on Graphs (Harmony Zhan and Xiaohong Zhang) * Spectral Graph Theory (Sasmita Barik and Hermie Monterde) To register for this conference, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/QouqsKgN7DkqeFo47 on or before July 12, 2024, at 11:59PM. Registration is free and open to everyone. Zoom links will only be sent to registered participants. For more information about this conference, please visit our conference website: https://www.womenincombinatorics.com/virtual-conference-2024 See you there! Best, Linda Lesniak, Erin Meger (she/her), Hermie Monterde (she/her) and Kieka Mynhardt |
| 2024 June 27 ILAS-NET Message no. 2539 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Leslie Hogben SUBJECT: July 15 deadline for nominations for the 2025 Hans Schneider Prize This is a reminder that nominations for the 2025 Hans Schneider Prize will close on July 15, 2024. Nominations of distinguished individuals judged worthy of consideration for the Prize are now being invited from members of ILAS and the linear algebra community in general. In nominating an individual, the nominator should include: (1) a brief biographical sketch, and (2) a statement explaining why the nominee is considered worthy of the prize, including references to publications or other contributions of the nominee which are considered most significant in making this assessment. The prize guidelines can be found at https://ilasic.org/hs-guidelines/ and the list of all Hans Schneider Prize winners at https://ilasic.org/hs-prize-winners/ Nominations should be sent by email to the chair, Leslie Hogben (hogben@aimath.org). The committee may ask the nominator to supply additional information. |
| 2024 May 31 ILAS-NET Message no. 2538 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Louis Deaett SUBJECT: Spring issue of ILAS IMAGE - issue 72 The latest issue of IMAGE, the official bulletin of ILAS, is available now! Our Feature Article this month explores the historical difficulties in defining the derivative of a matrix. Also, the Book Reviews section is back, with two reviews of recent monographs in matrix analysis. Though there is no ILAS conference this summer, our issue lists a robust selection of upcoming meetings, and I especially encourage readers to check out the details of four broader mathematical meetings with special sessions specifically of interest to the linear algebra community. Meanwhile, our fond memories of last summer's ILAS conference in Madrid remain, but linear algebra in Spain remains just as hot, as fully half of the 2024 meetings announced in our issue take place there! Find that, and more to explore, in IMAGE 72 right here: https://ilasic.org/wp-content/uploads/IMAGE/image72.pdf As always, we hope you enjoy IMAGE. We also welcome Rachel Quinlan as Managing Editor, and offer the warmest send-off to Problem Corner editor Rajesh Pereira, who has overseen the problems and solutions in final pages of each issue for almost 8 years. Louis Deaett IMAGE Editor-in-Chief |
| 2024 May 23 ILAS-NET Message no. 2537 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: ILAS President and Vice President Annual Report: May 1, 2024 Respectfully submitted by Daniel B. Szyld, ILAS President, szyld@temple.edu , and Froilán M. Dopico, ILAS Vice-President, dopico@math.uc3m.es. The past year has been another momentous year for ILAS. Among the highlights are the 25th ILAS Conference held in Madrid, Spain (June 12-16, 2023) with 480 participants, the third time that ILAS participated as a partner in the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) 2024, and new funds for students approved by the ILAS Board of Directors. 1. Board-approved actions since the last report include: - The Board moved on June 13, 2023 to remove the list of ILAS members from the ILAS website. This decision was made in part to comply with the European Union regulation about protection of personal data. - The Board approved on June 16, 2023 the renewal of the agreement between the AMS and ILAS concerning the conduct of the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM). With this agreement, ILAS will be a partner in the annual JMM. The agreement covered JMM2024 and JMM2025. Immediately after JMM2024, this agreement was automatically extended to cover JMM2026. This rolling forward to cover two years at a time will continue into the future. The agreement may be terminated by ILAS or the AMS upon two-year advance notice in writing. - The Board moved on June 16, 2023 to change the name of the “Taussky-Todd Prize” to the current “ILAS Olga Taussky and John Todd Prize”. - The Board moved on September 22, 2023 to renew the agreement between Springer, IWOTA, and ILAS. With this agreement IWOTA committed to publish at least three proceedings with Springer for the IWOTA Conferences held in the years 2025-2030. In return Springer will give a donation of US\$2000 to the Israel Gohberg ILAS-IWOTA Fund in each of the years 2026, 2028 and 2030 for organizing three Israel Gohberg ILAS Lectures at the conferences IWOTA 2026, ILAS 2028 and IWOTA 2030. - The Board moved on October 16, 2023 to create a “Prize Canvassing Committee”. The purpose of this committee will be to identify ILAS members who might qualify for non-ILAS awards, e.g., AMS Fellow, SIAM Fellow, and possibly others. Then the committee will identify a person or persons who will prepare the nominations. - The Board moved on October 16, 2023 to increase the funding for the program “ILAS Support for non-ILAS Conferences” (https://ilasic.org/non-ilas-guidelines/). Now ILAS Lectureships at non-ILAS conferences may be supported by up to US\$1250 for expenses and general support of non-ILAS conferences may be up to US\$1000. Previously these quantities were US\$1000 and US\$750, respectively. - The Board approved on October 16, 2023, two new initiatives with the goal of helping Ph.D. students with fewer funding opportunities to attend ILAS Conferences. There will be ten grants of US\$700 each for the travel expenses of Ph.D. students attending an ILAS Conference. ILAS will set aside funds to cover the registration of any deserving Ph.D. student who requests a registration fee waiver. This will be in place for the next two ILAS Conferences, and afterwards the Board will reassess the program. - The Board moved on April 18, 2024 to continue without changes the “ILAS Grant Program in support of Mathematicians working in Linear Algebra affected by conflicts.” (https://ilasic.org/grants-conflict/). 2. Other news. - The 25th ILAS Conference was held June 12-16, 2023, at the “Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Montes, Forestales y del Medio Natural” of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain). The conference attracted 480 participants, mostly coming from Europe, but also from America and Asia. The program included 10 plenary lectures, 5 invited minisymposia, 26 contributed minisymposia, and 123 contributed talks, resulting in a total of 419 talks. Some highlights of the conference were the Hans Schneider Prize Lecture delivered by Nicholas J. Higham; the ILAS Olga Taussky and John Todd Prize Lecture delivered by Stefan Güttel; the first ILAS Richard A. Brualdi Early Career Prize Lecture delivered by Michael Tait; a minisymposium on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Steve Kirkland (organized by Hermie Monterde, Sarah Plosker, Jane Breen, and Sooyeong Kim) and another minisymposium on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Michael Overton (organized by Sara Grundel, Tim Mitchell, and Julio Moro). - The Joint Mathematics Meetings 2024 (JMM 2024, an ILAS partner conference) was held in San Francisco, January 3-6, 2024. The ILAS Invited Address was given by the ILAS member Stephan Ramon Garcia (Pomona College, USA) with the title "Fast food for thought: what can chicken nuggets tell us about linear algebra?". There were six ILAS Special Sessions: (1) Graphs and Matrices (organized by Jane Breen and Stephen Kirkland); (2) Generalized Numerical Ranges and Related Topics (organized by Tin-Yau Tam and Pan-Shun Lau); (3) Linear Algebra, Matrix Theory, and its Applications (organized by Stephan Ramon Garcia and Konrad Aguilar); (4) Sign-pattern Matrices and their Applications (organized by Bryan L. Shader and Minerva Catral); (5) Spectral and Combinatorial Problems for Nonnegative Matrices and their Generalizations (organized by Pietro Paparella and Michael J. Tsatsomeros); and (6) Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra (organized by David M. Strong, Sepideh Stewart, Gilbert Strang and Megan Wawro). - The Executive Board accepted the recommendation of the JMM Committee that Anne Greenbaum from the University of Washington (USA) will give the ILAS Invited Address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2025, to be held in Seattle, January 8-11, 2025. In addition to this ILAS Lecture, there will be five ILAS Special Sessions scheduled at JMM 2025. The JMM committee consisted of Orly Alter, Ángeles Carmona Mejía, Mark Embree, Apoorva Khare (chair), and Daniel Szyld (ILAS President, ex officio). - The ILAS Board approved on October 16, 2023 the request of the organizers of the 35th International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications (IWOTA), to be held at the University of Kent, UK, August 12-16, 2024, for an ILAS Lectureship for the ILAS member Melina Freitag. - The LAA Lecture Committee selected Daniel Kressner as LAA lecturer for the ILAS 2025 Conference to be held at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, June 23-27, 2025. 3. ILAS elections ran November 1 – 30, 2023, and proceeded via electronic voting. The following were elected to offices with three-year terms that began on March 1, 2024: Secretary/Treasurer: Minerva Catral Board of Directors: Stefan Güttel and Naomi Shaked-Monderer The following continue in the ILAS offices which they currently hold: President: Daniel Szyld (term ends February 28, 2026) Vice President: Froilán M. Dopico (term ends February 28, 2025) Second Vice President (for ILAS conferences): Raf Vandebril (term ends February 28, 2026) Assistant Secretary/Treasurer: Michael Tait (term ends February 28, 2026) Board of Directors: Paola Boito (term ends February 28, 2025), Fernando De Terán (term ends February 28, 2026), Chi-Kwong Li (term ends February 28, 2026) and Lek-Heng Lim (term ends February 28, 2025). Melina Freitag and Apoorva Khare completed their terms on the ILAS Board of Directors on February 29, 2024. We thank them for their valuable contributions as Board members; their service to ILAS is most appreciated. We also thank the members of the Nominating Committee – Leslie Hogben, Beatrice Meini (Chair), Helena Šmigoc, Tin-Yau Tam, and Hugo Woerdeman – for their efforts on behalf of ILAS, and all of the nominees for their participation in the elections. 4. New appointments ILAS-NET Manager Leonardo Robol Prize Canvassing Commitee Richard BrualdiChen Greif (chair) Ilse Ipsen Pauline van den Driessche Daniel Szyld (ILAS President, ex officio) JMM Committee for proposing ILAS-JMM Lecturers for 2025, 2026, and 2027 Orly Alter Ángeles Carmona Mejía Mark Embree Apoorva Khare (chair) Daniel Szyld (ILAS President, ex officio) Hans Schneider Prize Committee for 2025 Leslie Hogben (chair) Steve Kirkland Misha Kilmer Volker Mehrmann Beatrice Meini Daniel Szyld (ILAS President, ex officio) LAA Lecture Committee for the ILAS 2025 Conference Dario Bini Richard Brualdi (chair) Dragana Cvetkovic Daniel Szyld (ILAS President, ex officio) Israel Gohberg ILAS-IWOTA Lecture Selection Committee for the conferences IWOTA 2026, ILAS 2028 and IWOTA 2030 Jussi Behrndt Kelly Bickel Michael Dritschel Ilya Spitkovsky (chair) 5. ILAS endorsed the following conferences of interest to ILAS members that have taken place since the last President/Vice President annual report: - Thematic Conference of the Spanish ALAMA Network on Laplacians and M-matrices in graphs, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, May 11-12, 2023. https://mapthe.upc.edu/en/congresses/jornadas - Western Canadian Linear Algebra Meeting (WCLAM 2023), University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 27-28, 2023. https://uregina.ca/~sfallat/wclam - 34th International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications (IWOTA 2023), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, July 31 - August 4, 2023. Stephan Ramon Garcia was the Hans Schneider ILAS Lecturer. https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/iwota2023 - International Conference on Linear Algebra and its Applications (ICLAA 2023), Centre for Advanced Research in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (CARAMS), MAHE, Manipal, India, December 18-21, 2023. https://carams.in/events/iclaa2023/ 6. ILAS endorsed the following conferences of interest to ILAS members that will take place in the next months: - SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (LA24), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, May 13-17, 2024. Daniel Kressner and Laura Grigori are the chairs of the organizing committee. The ILAS members Andrii Dmytryshyn and Beatrice Meini will be the ILAS plenary speakers at the conference. https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/la24 - ALAMA 2024, the 8th meeting of the Spanish Thematic Network of Linear Algebra, Matrix Analysis, and Applications (ALAMA), Universidad de Oviedo, Gijón campus, Spain, June 12-14, 2024. https://www.unioviedo.es/alama2024/ - 35th International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications (IWOTA 2024), University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, August 12-16, 2024. The ILAS member Mark Embree will be the Israel Gohberg ILAS-IWOTA Lecturer, and the ILAS member Melina Freitag will be an ILAS supported lecturer. https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/iwota2024/ 7. The following ILAS conference is scheduled: - The 26th ILAS Conference will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, June 23-27, 2025, with Jephian C.-H. Lin (National Sun Yat-sen University) as Chair of the Organizing Committee. The plenary speakers will be Haim Avron (Tel Aviv University, Israel, SIAG/LA Lecturer), Fan Chung Graham (University of California, San Diego, USA), Fumio Hiai (Tohoku University, Japan), Daniel Kressner (EPFL, LAA Lecturer, Switzerland), Ren-Cang Li (University of Texas at Arlington, USA), Karen Meagher (University of Regina, Canada), Polona Oblak (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Fernando De Terán (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), Karol Życzkowski (Jagiellonian University, Poland), and the Hans Schneider Prize winner (to be announced). 8. The following ILAS partner conference is scheduled: - The Joint Mathematics Meetings 2025 will be held in Seattle, January 8-11, 2025. The ILAS member Anne Greenbaum from the University of Washington (USA) will give the ILAS Invited Address and six ILAS Special Sessions are scheduled. 9. The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA) is now in its 40th volume. ELA’s URL is https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/ela. The Editorial Board was renewed in depth on January 1, 2024 (https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/ela/about/editorialTeam). Volume 39 was published in 2023 and contains 43 papers. ELA received 256 new submissions in 2023. The current acceptance rate is less than 23%. In 2023, 79404 downloads and 73582 abstract views of ELA papers occurred. Froilán M. Dopico (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) is the Editor-in-Chief. ILAS members are strongly encouraged to submit their work to ELA, the flagship research journal of our society. 10. IMAGE is the semi-annual bulletin for ILAS, available online at https://ilasic.org/image/. The Editor-in-Chief is Louis Deaett (Quinnipiac University, USA). In 2023, the website of IMAGE received 667 visits. 11. ILAS-NET is a moderated electronic newsletter for mathematicians worldwide, with a focus on linear algebra. It is currently managed by Leonardo Robol (Università di Pisa, Italy), as of January 1st, 2024. It was previously managed by Pietro Paparella (University of Washington, Bothell, USA). An archive of ILAS-NET messages is available at https://ilasic.org/ilas-net/ . To send a message to ILAS-NET, please send the message (preferably in text format) in an email to leonardo.robol@unipi.it indicating that you would like it to be posted on ILAS-NET. If the message is approved, it will be posted soon afterwards. To subscribe to ILAS-NET, please go to https://www.ilasic.org/ilas-net/. 12. ILAS’s website is located at https://ilasic.org/ and highlights the main activities of ILAS: the Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA), the conferences, IMAGE, ILAS-NET and other activities. In addition, the website provides general information about ILAS (e.g., ILAS officers, bylaws, special lecturers, ILAS prizes, grant programs) as well as links to pages of interest to the ILAS community. Currently it is managed by Dominique Guillot (University of Delaware, USA). In 2023, the website of ILAS received 11529 pageviews from users from 112 countries. The front page received 4579 of these pageviews, the conference page 2043, and the IMAGE page 667. Finally, we want to express our great gratitude to all the officers of ILAS who all show wonderful dedication to the society, as well as to all the individual members of ILAS and our corporate sponsors. Without any of them ILAS would not be what it is today. Respectfully submitted, Daniel B. Szyld, ILAS President (szyld@temple.edu); and Froilán M. Dopico, ILAS Vice-President (dopico@math.uc3m.es) |
| 2024 May 17 ILAS-NET Message no. 2536 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: ILAS Lectures at Non-ILAS Conferences and General Support of Non-ILAS Conferences and Seminars As part of ILAS's commitment to supporting activities in Linear Algebra, the Society maintains a program of providing some support to non-ILAS conferences. This financial support may take one of two forms (a conference may apply for only one of these two forms). ILAS Lectureships at non-ILAS conferences. It is expected that ILAS lecturers will be of the stature of plenary speakers at ILAS conferences and may be supported by up to US$1250 for expenses, or in the case of a Hans Schneider Lecturer, US$1500. Reimbursement guidelines may be obtained from the Secretary/Treasurer. General support of conferences of up to $1000. Such support could be used for support of student expenses, expenses for participants from developing countries, or plenary speakers. Refreshment costs are not eligible. You are welcome to consult the President of ILAS about what you may propose. This is a reminder that there is a deadline of 30 September 2024 for receipt of proposals for sponsorship of ILAS Lectures at non-ILAS meetings and for general support of conferences taking place in 2025. Please note that we will not be able to consider applications submitted after the deadline as it is important to rank all applications in one go. Each proposal is automatically assumed to be also a request for the ILAS endorsement of the conference. A statement whether the conference will adhere to the ILAS Welcoming and Inclusiveness Statement should be included in the proposal (and appropriate statement in the conference website). Further details on the guidelines for proposals can be found at the following link: https://ilasic.org/non-ilas-guidelines/ In addition, ILAS may endorse a Non-ILAS conference, without financial support. Such endorsed meetings can list ILAS' endorsement on their website, and in turn, the conferences are listed on the website of ILAS-Endorsed Meetings: https://ilasic.org/conferences/#ilas-endorsed-meetings Daniel B. Szyld (he/him/his) ILAS President |
| 2024 May 17 ILAS-NET Message no. 2535 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Hermie Monterde SUBJECT: Women in Combinatorics Virtual Conference 2024 Dear ILAS members, In celebration of its 5th anniversary, we cordially invite you to the inaugural iteration of the Women in Combinatorics Virtual Conference 2024! The Women in Combinatorics (WinCom) is the premier organization for equity in combinatorics. This year, we are organizing the first Women in Combinatorics Virtual Conference set this coming July 15-16, at 9am-4pm Eastern Time via Zoom. The main goal of this virtual conference is to build a supportive community as well as celebrate the research advances of historically underrepresented groups in combinatorics and related fields. The plenary speakers for this event are * Pamela Harris (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) * Sommer Gentry (New York University) * Sophie Spirkl (University of Waterloo) * Gabriela Araujo-Pardo (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) We have confirmed the following invited sessions: * Colourings on Graphs (Amanda Montejano) * Combinatorial Designs (Andrea Burgess and Alice Lacaze-Masmonteil) * Combinatorial Geometry (Sylvia Fernández Merchant) * Combinatorial Matrix Theory (Jane Breen and Hermie Monterde) * Combinatorics on Polytopes (Amy Wiebe and Isabelle Shankar) * Network Theory (Erin Meger) * Quantum Information on Graphs (Harmony Zhan and Xiaohong Zhang) * Spectral Graph Theory (Sasmita Barik and Hermie Monterde) To register for this conference, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/QouqsKgN7DkqeFo47 on or before July 12, 2024, at 11:59PM. Registration is free and open to everyone. Zoom links will only be sent to registered participants. For more information about this conference, please visit our conference website: https://www.womenincombinatorics.com/virtual-conference-2024 See you there! Best, Linda Lesniak, Erin Meger (she/her), Hermie Monterde (she/her) and Kieka Mynhardt |
| 2024 May 10 ILAS-NET Message no. 2534 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Biswa Datta SUBJECT: David H. Carlson (1936-2024) It is with great sadness and heavy-heart, I announce the death of our beloved friend and colleague, David H. Carlson. Dave passed away peacefully on the evening of April 28, 2024 at his residence in the city of Encinitas in southern California which had been his home for the last several years. He is survived by his wife, Joyce Carlson, and several children and grandchildren. Dave Carlson does not need any introduction to this community. He was one of the earlier graduate students of the late Hans Schneider. He himself made some notable contributions to the theory and educational aspects of Linear Algebra and collaborated with several well-known researchers in this field. He was one of the long-time Editors of Linear Algebra and its Applications. He also served as the Vice-Chair of SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra for several years. He will be missed by us forever. I am personally indebted to him for his role as a research mentor during the early days of my research career. His body was donated to UCSD Medical School and there will be no formal funeral ceremony. However, a get together has been arranged by his family and friends to support each other and share stories on the life and legacy of Dave Carlson as follows: Time: May 25, 2024 at 11 am Place: LA Costa Glen/Fairway Clubhouse (1940 Levante Street, Carlsbad). For further information, please contact his wife, Joyce Carlson by e-mail: joycecarlson1@gmail.com |
| 2024 May 3 ILAS-NET Message no. 2533 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Tin-Yau Tam SUBJECT: Second Announcement for MAO 2024 On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is my pleasure to announce that the 2024 Workshop on Matrices and Operators (MAO 2024) will be held at the University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA, June 14-17, 2024. There is no registration fee. You are more than welcome to attend and give a talk. Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who would be interested. The purpose of the workshop is to promote research and collaboration among researchers with an interest in matrix theory, operator theory, operator algebras, and related topics. Participants are encouraged to present their latest findings and discoveries, and share their experiences and research problems, fostering an atmosphere of collaboration and mutual learning. Through dialogue and knowledge exchange, the workshop aims to enhance the collective growth and development of the research community involved in matrix theory, operator theory, operator algebras, and related fields. Abstract submission: Please send the abstract and title of your talk to Pan-Shun Lau (plau@unr.edu) by May 15, 2024 via email. Each talk will be 25 min + 5 min Q&A. Conference Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/tinyautam/homepage/mao-2024 |
| 2024 April 26 ILAS-NET Message no. 2532 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: Electronic Journal on Linear Algebra ELA, the Electronic Journal on Linear Algebra, is the flagship research journal of the Society; see https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/ela for the current issue. Several new editors have been added to the Editorial Board in the last year following the approval of the ILAS Journals Committee; see https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/ela/about/editorialTeam for a complete list of editors. We strongly encourage you to submit your research papers to ELA, your journal. ELA is a high-quality journal, and it is indexed by MathScinet, ZentralBlatt, and Scopus; adding visibility to your articles. ELA fits the category of "Diamond Open Access" since it is free of charge both for authors and readers. Your ILAS dues makes this possible, together with donations and the University of Wyoming sponsorship. I look forward to seeing your articles in ELA! Daniel B. Szyld (he/him/his) ILAS President |
| 2024 April 22 ILAS-NET Message no. 2531 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Aida Abiad SUBJECT: PhD position in Algebraic Combinatorics and Finite Geometry at UGent and TU Eindhoven In the Department of Mathematics: Algebra and Geometry at Ghent University (Belgium), there is a vacancy for a 4 year PhD-position within the project entitled "A spectral and geometric approach to edge-regular graphs with regular cliques". This PhD position is jointly supervised by Bart De Bruyn (https://cage.ugent.be/~bdb/) and Aida Abiad (https://aidaabiad.win.tue.nl/). The vacancy will remain open until the position is filled. The ideal starting date would be September or October 2024. PROJECT DESCRIPTION This project seeks to investigate structural, spectral and geometric properties of a certain graph classes, like Neumaier graphs, Deza graphs or more generally, edge-regular graphs. In this project we will tackle this goal by using spectral methods and combining them with tools from other fields like combinatorial optimization and finite geometry. The successful candidate for this PhD position will work under the supervision of Bart de Bruyn and Aida Abiad in the a dynamic group in geometry and discrete mathematics (https://geometry.ugent.be/) of the Department of Mathematics: Algebra and Geometry at Ghent University. Your responsibilities include to perform scientific research on the topic of the above-mentioned project and to publish your results at international conferences and in international journals. For a small percentage of your time, you will be asked to assist with educational tasks at Ghent University (course support). JOB REQUIREMENTS - You have a bachelor and master degree in Mathematics. - You have a strong background in Graph Theory, Finite Geometry, Combinatorics. - You are enthusiastic about programming, preferably in Sage/Python. - You have good communication skills. - You are creative, ambitious, as well as self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented. - You have a good command of the English language. FURTHER INFORMATION For more information about the project or about the working conditions, please contact Bart de Bruyn (bart.debruyn@ugent.be) or Aida Abiad (a.abiad.monge@tue.nl). HOW TO APPLY Applications should be done via the link: https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-on-algebraic-combinatorics-and-finite-geometry-1067394.html |
| 2024 April 18 ILAS-NET Message no. 2530 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Aida Abiad SUBJECT: 2-year Postdoc Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Graph Theory at TU Eindhoven SHORT DESCRIPTION Research on quantum technologies is set to revolutionize several aspects of our life, including how we process information. In the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands, there is a vacancy for a 2 year postdoctoral position on the topics of quantum error correction, quantum graph theory, and quantum information theory. The vacancy will remain open until the position is filled. JOB DESCRIPTION This postdoc position is jointly supervised by Alberto Ravagnani (https://a.ravagnani.win.tue.nl) and Aida Abiad (https://aidaabiad.win.tue.nl) and it is funded by the Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute for quantum technologies. The position is hosted by the Mathematical Communication Theory group (https://mct.win.tue.nl). You will have the opportunity to contribute to and shape research directions at the crossroad of quantum information theory, quantum graph theory, and quantum error correction. You will bridge the Algebraic Combinatorics and the Mathematical Communication Theory groups, establishing and leading new interdisciplinary collaborations. You will bridge the Mathematical Communication Theory group and the Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute. JOB REQUIREMENTS • You have a PhD in Mathematics or related disciplines. • Familiarity with coding theory and graph theory. Ideally, familiarity with quantum information theory and/or quantum graph theory. • Ability to conduct high quality academic research, reflected in demonstratable outputs. • A team player who enjoys coaching Master's students and working in a dynamic, interdisciplinary team. • Ability to take the lead and take initiative in research collaborations. • A proven ability to manage complex projects to completion on schedule. • Excellent (written and verbal) proficiency in English, good communication skills. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT A meaningful job in a dynamic and ambitious university, in an interdisciplinary setting and within an international network. You will work on a green campus within walking distance from the central train station. In addition, we offer you: • Full-time employment for 2 years. • Salary in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. • A year-end bonus of 8.3% and annual vacation pay of 8%. • High-quality training programs on general skills, didactics and topics related to research and valorization. • An excellent technical infrastructure, on-campus children's day care and sports facilities. • Partially paid parental leave and an allowance for commuting, working from home and internet costs. • A TU/e Postdoc Association that helps you to build a stronger and broader academic and personal network, and offers tailored support, training and workshops. • A Staff Immigration Team is available for international candidates, as are a tax compensation scheme (the 30% facility) and a compensation for moving expenses. ABOUT US Eindhoven University of Technology is an internationally top-ranking university in the Netherlands that combines scientific curiosity with a hands-on attitude. Our spirit of collaboration translates into an open culture and a top-five position in collaborating with advanced industries. Fundamental knowledge enables us to design solutions for the highly complex problems of today and tomorrow. INFORMATION Do you recognize yourself in this profile and would you like to know more? Please contact the hiring manager Alberto Ravagnani (a.ravagnani@tue.nl) and/or Aida Abiad (a.abiad.monge@tue.nl). APPLICATION We invite you to submit a complete application via the link: https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/postdoc-quantum-error-correction-and-quantum-graph-theory-1068770.html The application should include a: • Cover letter in which you describe your motivation and qualifications for the position. • Curriculum vitae, including a list of your publications and the contact information of at least three references. • List of five self-selected ‘best publications’. We look forward to receiving your application and will screen it as soon as possible. The vacancy will remain open until the position is filled. |
| 2024 April 16 ILAS-NET Message no. 2529 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Shaun Fallat SUBJECT: 3rd Announcement for the meeting to Honour Peter Lancaster Special Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting to Honour Peter Lancaster at 95 May 25 & 26, 2024 University of Calgary On behalf of the organizers of the Western Canadian Linear Algebra Meeting (WCLAM) series and Dr. Matthew Greenberg (Head of Mathematics and Statistics at U. Calgary) it is my pleasure to let you know that we now have a conference website which contains useful information for participants, see https://uregina.ca/~sfallat/wclam24. On this conference website, we have added information about accommodations both on campus and at nearby hotels. More information will be added to this website as it becomes available, so please check back from time to time for any such updates. ** Update on Conference format ** We have also made the decision to offer this meeting in a hybrid format to ensure that as many people as possible are able to join us at this meeting and to celebrate this very special occasion. More information along these lines will be posted on the conference website. Please note that the upcoming deadlines: Abstract Submission: April 25, 2024 Registration: May 10, 2024 All questions about this special meeting can be directed to Shaun Fallat (shaun.fallat@uregina.ca) Thanks and we look forward to seeing folks in Calgary this spring. Dr. Shaun Fallat Professor Math & Stats University of Regina |
| 2024 April 2 ILAS-NET Message no. 2528 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Leslie Hogben SUBJECT: Nominations sought for the 2025 Hans Schneider Prize The 2025 Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra Committee has been appointed by the ILAS President upon the advice of the ILAS Executive Board. It consists of: Leslie Hogben (chair), Misha Kilmer, Steve Kirkland, Volker Mehrmann, Beatrice Meini and Daniel Szyld (ILAS president - ex-officio member). It is the responsibility of the committee to solicit nominations and to make a recommendation to the ILAS Executive Board for this Prize to be awarded at the ILAS 2025 meeting in Kaohsiung. Nominations of distinguished individuals judged worthy of consideration for the Prize are now being invited from members of ILAS and the linear algebra community in general. In nominating an individual, the nominator should include: (1) a brief biographical sketch, and (2) a statement explaining why the nominee is considered worthy of the prize, including references to publications or other contributions of the nominee which are considered most significant in making this assessment. The prize guidelines can be found at https://ilasic.org/hs-guidelines/ and the list of all Hans Schneider Prize winners at https://ilasic.org/hs-prize-winners/ Nominations are open until July 15, 2024 and should be sent by email to the chair, Leslie Hogben (hogben@aimath.org). The committee may ask the nominator to supply additional information. |
| 2024 April 2 ILAS-NET Message no. 2527 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: David Bindel SIAM Fellow Congratulations to ILAS member David Bindel from Cornell University for being named a SIAM Fellow, Class of 2024. We are very proud of our members' accomplishments. Daniel Szyld ILAS President |
| 2024 March 18 ILAS-NET Message no. 2526 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: ILAS Lectures at Non-ILAS Conferences and General Support of Non-ILAS Conferences and Seminars As part of ILAS's commitment to supporting activities in Linear Algebra, the Society maintains a program of providing some support to non-ILAS conferences. This financial support may take one of two forms (a conference may apply for only one of these two forms). ILAS Lectureships at non-ILAS conferences. It is expected that ILAS lecturers will be of the stature of plenary speakers at ILAS conferences and may be supported by up to US\$1250 for expenses, or in the case of a Hans Schneider Lecturer, US\$1500. Reimbursement guidelines may be obtained from the Secretary/Treasurer. General support of conferences of up to \$1000. Such support could be used for support of student expenses, expenses for participants from developing countries, or plenary speakers. Refreshment costs are not eligible. You are welcome to consult the President of ILAS about what you may propose. This is a reminder that there is a deadline of 30 September 2024 for receipt of proposals for sponsorship of ILAS Lectures at non-ILAS meetings and for general support of conferences taking place in 2025. Please note that we will not be able to consider applications submitted after the deadline as it is important to rank all applications in one go. Each proposal is automatically assumed to be also a request for the ILAS endorsement of the conference. A statement whether the conference will adhere to the ILAS Welcoming and Inclusiveness Statement should be included in the proposal. Further details on the guidelines for proposals can be found at the following link: https://ilasic.org/non-ilas-guidelines/ In addition, ILAS may endorse a Non-ILAS conference, without financial support. Such endorsed meetings can list ILAS' endorsement on their website, and in turn, the conferences are listed on the website of ILAS-Endorsed Meetings: https://ilasic.org/conferences/#ilas-endorsed-meetings Daniel Szyld ILAS President |
| 2024 March 18 ILAS-NET Message no. 2525 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: Renewal of ILAS officers Dear ILAS members: Every year, on March 1st, we have some change of officers in ILAS. This year, we have two new Board members, Stefan Güttel and Naomi Shaked-Mondered. Also, our Secretary-Treasurer Minnie Catral was re-elected for a second term. All three will serve for three years. I want to take this opportunity to thank the two Board members who have rotated off after three years of service: Melina Freitag and Apoorva Khare. As you all know, ILAS runs thanks to the work of officers and committee members, all volunteers. Your service collectively maintains the good health of the society. Daniel Szyld ILAS President |
| 2024 March 18 ILAS-NET Message no. 2524 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM:Thomas Mach SUBJECT: [DW75] Reminder: A Workshop on the Occasion of the 75th Birthday of David S. Watkins May 09-10, 2024, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium The abstract submission and early registration deadline is in two weeks! We are happy to announce the workshop [DW75] on the Occasion of the 75th Birthday of David S. Watkins. The workshop is a tribute to David's career spanning five decades. Topics of the workshop will be linked to David's research interests. The workshop will take place at the KU Leuven in the picturesque Arenberg Castle, on May 9th and 10th, 2024. This is Thursday and Friday the week before the SIAM LA24 in Paris. Abstract submission and early registration until March 31, 2024. Additional information and registration: https://sites.google.com/view/dw75atkuleuven/home Best regards, Raf Vandebril and Thomas Mach |
| 2024 March 4 ILAS-NET Message no. 2523 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Shaun Fallat SUBJECT: 2nd Announcement for the meeting to Honour Peter Lancaster Special Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting to Honour Peter Lancaster at 95 May 25 & 26, 2024 University of Calgary On behalf of the organizers of the Western Canadian Linear Algebra Meeting (WCLAM) series and Dr. Matthew Greenberg (Head of Mathematics and Statistics at U. Calgary) it is my pleasure to let you know that we now have a conference website which contains useful information for participants, see https://uregina.ca/~sfallat/wclam24. More information will be added to this website as it becomes available, so please check back from time to time for any such updates. We are also currently exploring the possibility of hosting this meeting in a hybrid format to ensure that as many people as possible are able to join us at this meeting and to celebrate this very special occasion. More information along these lines will be posted on the conference website. All questions about this special meeting can be directed to Shaun Fallat (shaun.fallat@uregina.ca) Thanks and we look forward to seeing folks in Calgary this spring. Dr. Shaun Fallat Professor of Mathematics shaun.fallat@uregina.ca |
| 2024 February 22 ILAS-NET Message no. 2522 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: ILAS Lecture at the JMM video available Dear ILAS members and friends, The video of the ILAS Lecture at the JMM 2024 by Stephan Ramon Garcia titled "Fast food for thought: what can chicken nuggets tell us about Linear Algebra" is now available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEwBiS6v768. If you missed the ILAS Lecture from JMM 2023 by Apoorva Khare titled "Analysis Applications of Schur Polynomials" it is still available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHYnlpcuOLo Enjoy!! Daniel Szyld ILAS President |
| 2024 February 20 ILAS-NET Message no. 2521 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Shaun Fallat SUBJECT: First Announcement: Special Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting to Honour Peter Lancaster at 95 Special Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting to Honour Peter Lancaster at 95 May 25 & 26, 2024 University of Calgary On behalf of the organizers of the Western Canadian Linear Algebra Meeting (WCLAM) series and Dr. Matthew Greenberg (Head of Mathematics and Statistics at U. Calgary) it is my pleasure to announce a meeting on the results, applications, and problems in linear algebra inspired by the work of Dr. Peter Lancaster and to celebrate Peter's 95 th birthday. More details regarding the venue, housing, and program information will be forthcoming. We are intending to have 2-3 invited lectures and 15 contributed lectures. If anyone interested in presenting a lecture at this special edition of a WCLAM meeting, please email Shaun Fallat (shaun.fallat@uregina.ca). All questions about this special meeting can be directed to Shaun Fallat. Thanks and we look forward to seeing folks in Calgary this spring. Dr. Shaun Fallat Professor Math & Stats University of Regina |
| 2024 February 20 ILAS-NET Message no. 2520 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Sushil Singla SUBJECT: AESIM school on Linear Preserver Problems Dear All, We are glad to convey to you all that an AESIM International school on Linear Preserver Problems, funded by CIMPA, will be held at IISER Bhopal, India during 8-13 July 2024. The school will consist of three mini courses with lectures and tutorials. The school focuses on M.Sc. Mathematics students and young PhD students, but senior PhD students and early career mathematicians are also welcome to apply. Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who would be interested. This AESIM school aims to introduce the state-of-art studies and developments in 'Linear Preserver Problems' under the guidance of the leading experts in this area. The speakers of the school consists of Prof. Peter Šemrl University of Ljubljana and Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Slovenia; Prof. Chi-Kwong Li, Ferguson Professor of Mathematics The College of William and Mary and Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo; Assoc. Prof. Tatjana Petek University of Maribor and Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Slovenia. For detailed information and application visit the site: School on Linear Preserver Problems (https://sites.google.com/iiserb.ac.in/schoolonlinearpreserverproblem/home). In case of any query, please feel free to contact at ss774@snu.edu.in |
| 2024 February 20 ILAS-NET Message no. 2519 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Ada Chan SUBJECT: GODSIL75 (A workshop to celebrate the work of Chris Godsil) We are pleased to announce a virtual workshop in honour of Chris Godsil's 75th birthday. Chris Godsil's imprint on mathematics goes beyond algebraic combinatorics to merge theory and application, emerging research areas and well-developed mathematical tools. Chris Godsil is a research leader in discrete mathematics and he continues to be influential in a wide range of mathematical subdisciplines and communities around the world. He has long been a prominent member of the Canadian combinatorial community, working first at Simon Fraser University and then playing a leadership role in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo; as a result, Chris Godsil has influenced multiple generations of mathematicians in Canada and abroad. The goal of this workshop is not just to honour Chris Godsil's contributions and his impact on mathematics, but also to also bring together researchers in discrete math whose work has been influenced by Chris Godsil. We invite researchers in combinatorics, matrix theory, and quantum information theory from all over the world to join us, and will have sessions to accomodate a range of time zones. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: Gabriel Coutinho (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) Chris Godsil (University of Waterloo) Wilfried Imrich (Montanuniversität Leoben) Aleksandar Jurišić (University of Ljubljana) William J. Martin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Brendan McKay (Australian National University) Karen Meagher (University of Regina) Bojan Mohar (Simon Fraser University) Akihiro Munemasa (Tohoku University) Gordon Royle (University of Western Australia) Hanmeng Zhan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Xiaohong Zhang (Université de Montréal) ORGANIZERS: Soffía Árnadóttir (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet) Ada Chan (York University) Qiuting Chen (Universität Paderborn) Sabrina Lato (Umeå Universitet) Mariia Sobchuk (University of Waterloo) Christino Tamon (Clarkson University) ARRANGEMENTS: The workshop will be held virtually via Zoom, and a link will be sent to registered participants the week of March 10. Registration and more information can be found on the web page. A group of participants geographically close to Waterloo will be attending the workshop together in a seminar room on the University of Waterloo campus. If you are interested in more information, contact Ada Chan (ssachan@yorku.ca). WEB PAGE: The conference web page is: https://lin-web.clarkson.edu/~ctamon/godsil75/ For more information, contact Ada Chan (ssachan@yorku.ca). |
| 2024 February 19 ILAS-NET Message no. 2518 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Jephian C.-H. Lin SUBJECT: Conference announcements and reports in IMAGE Dear ILAS members, IMAGE - the ILAS' bulletin will release its next issue in June. If you are organizing or have organized an event, you are encouraged to submit the announcement or the report for it, and we would be happy to include them in the "Upcoming Conferences and Workshops" or the "Conference Reports" sections of IMAGE. If you are interested in doing so, please send your announcement / report to jephianlin [at] gmail [dot] com by April 15. And please feel free to let me know if you have any questions through the same email address. Many thanks, Jephian C.-H. Lin Conference Editor of ILAS IMAGE |
| 2024 February 06 ILAS-NET Message no. 2517 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Raf Vandebril and Thomas Mach SUBJECT: A Workshop on the Occasion of the 75th Birthday of David S. Watkins We are happy to announce the workshop [DW75] on the Occasion of the 75th Birthday of David S. Watkins. The workshop is a tribute to David's career spanning five decades. Topics of the workshop will be linked to David's research interests. The workshop will take place at the KU Leuven in the picturesque Arenberg Castle, on May 9th and 10th, 2024. This is Thursday and Friday the week before the SIAM LA24 in Paris. Abstract submission and early registration until March 31, 2024. Additional information and registration: https://sites.google.com/view/dw75atkuleuven/home Best regards, Raf Vandebril and Thomas Mach |
| 2024 February 06 ILAS-NET Message no. 2516 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Tin Yau Tam SUBJECT: 2024 Workshop on Matrices and Operators (MAO 2024) The 2024 Workshop on Matrices and Operators (MAO 2024) will be held at the University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA, June 14-17, 2024. You are welcome to attend and give a talk. Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who would be interested. The purpose of the workshop is to promote research and collaboration among researchers with an interest in matrix theory, operator theory, operator algebras, and related topics. Participants are encouraged to present their latest findings and discoveries, and share their experiences and research problems, fostering an atmosphere of collaboration and mutual learning. Through dialogue and knowledge exchange, the workshop aims to enhance the collective growth and development of the research community involved in matrix theory, operator theory, operator algebras, and related fields. For the history of the MAO series, please see https://cklixx.people.wm.edu/mao-history.html The Organizing Committee consists of Valentin Deaconu, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Alex Kumjian, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Pan Shun Lau, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Chi-Kwong Li, College of William and Mary, USA Tin-Yau Tam (Chair), University of Nevada, Reno, USA Due to financial constraint, we will not be able to pay or cater for your expenses at this event. Please let Pan-Shun Lau (plau@unr.edu) know if you are able to present your talk by May 15, 2024 via email. Each talk will be 25 min + 5 min Q&A. We hope to see you in Reno. Conference Webpage: Information of MAO 2024 is posted at https://sites.google.com/view/tinyautam/homepage/mao-2024 and the webpage will be updated. On behalf of the Organizing Committee Tin-Yau Tam, University of Nevada, Reno |
| 2024 January 22 ILAS-NET Message no. 2515 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Francoise Tisseur and Des Higham SUBJECT: Nick Higham (1961--2024) With great sadness we report that Nick Higham, Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester, passed away on January 20, 2024, at the age of 62 after an 18 month struggle with a form of blood cancer. An obituary describing Nick's research and leadership contributions will appear in SIAM News in due course. Francoise Tisseur and Des Higham |
| 2024 January 19 ILAS-NET Message no. 2514 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: JMM 2024, JMM 2025 ILAS Lecture and Special Sessions Dear ILAS members, We had a very nice and well-attended set of special sessions and the ILAS Lecture at the JMM (Joint Mathematical Meetings) earlier this month in San Francisco. ILAS is a partner at the JMM. You can see a few pictures of the ILAS Lecture by Stephan Ramon Garcia at our ILAS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/International.Linear.Algebra.Society A full report on ILAS at the JMM will appear in the next IMAGE issue. We look forward to the next JMM, to take place in Seattle, on 8-11 January 2025. The ILAS Lecture will be given by Anne Greenbaum. I take this opportunity to thank the ILAS JMM Lecture committee for their work: Orly Alter, Angeles Carmona, Mark Embree, Apoorva Khare (Chair). Please consider organizing a special session in Seattle. Please write to me if you are interested in doing so. The deadline for the organizers is in less than three months, so it is time to start thinking about this. Please do not delay. Daniel B. Szyld ILAS President |
| 2024 January 16 ILAS-NET Message no. 2513 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Pan Shun Lau and Tin-Yau Tam SUBJECT: 2024 Spring Biweekly Matrix Seminar on Zoom at UNR The 2024 Spring Biweekly Matrix Seminar at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA will be held on Zoom at 4:15-5:15pm on Fridays (US Pacific Time). All are welcome to join. The first talk will be February 2, 2024. For the talk schedule see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MswSd16JqsZE294kYCXujLio4cnAiuYv6QKRc6BxvI0/edit# The Zoom link is https://unr.zoom.us/j/86055963826 Please contact Pan Shun Lau at plau@unr.edu if you have any questions. Best regards, Pan Shun Lau and Tin-Yau Tam |
| 2024 January 3 ILAS-NET Message no. 2512 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Hermie Monterde SUBJECT: Queer in Computational and Applied Mathematics 2024 Dear ILAS Members, Happy new year! On behalf of my co-organizers, I cordially invite queer folks and allies in the applied linear algebra community to the first ever Queer in Computational and Applied Mathematics Workshop which will be held at ICERM (The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics), hosted by Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, in June 24-28, 2024. This will be the first workshop to celebrate research advances and foster stronger research networks of LGBTQIA+ mathematicians specializing in computational and applied mathematics. Participation is open to anyone. The scientific program will have invited speakers and contributed sessions that span the field of computational mathematics, with a planned focus on research in computational methods which may include the following fields: - Mathematical Biology, Ecology, Epidemiology, and/or Oncology; - Fluids, Materials, and/or Mathematical Physics; - Data Science; - Numerical Analysis and Computational Science; - Applied Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, Geometry, and/or Topology. Sincerely, Hermie Monterde, she/her |
| 2024 January 3 ILAS-NET Message no. 2511 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Hermie Monterde SUBJECT: Invitation to attend 05C50 online Dear ILAS members, Happy new year! The 05C50 Online is an online international seminar which features recent research trends in Graphs and Matrices, organized by Dr. Steve Kirkland and Hermie Monterde from the University of Manitoba. The first two talks in 2024 will be delivered by Leslie Hogben on January 12 and Enide Andrade on January 26. As usual, the seminar runs once every two weeks on a Friday, 10am to 11am Central Time. If you wish to subscribe and receive zoom links for this seminar, please fill out this form. No need to fill out the form if you are already subscribed. For more information, please visit our website. Sincerely, Steve Kirkland and Hermie Monterde |