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| 2025 June 16 ILAS-NET Message no. 2595 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Lieven De Lathauwer SUBJECT: 11th Workshop on Matrix Equations and Tensor Techniques (METT XI), KU Leuven, Jan. 2026 We are pleased to announce the 11th Workshop on Matrix Equations and Tensor Techniques (METT XI), which will take place from January 7–9, 2026, at KU Leuven, Belgium. As in previous editions, the workshop will focus on recent advances in the theory, computation, and applications of linear and nonlinear matrix and tensor equations. Participants are invited to present their work either as a talk or a poster. There is no conference fee, but registration is mandatory. Invited speakers are Markus Bachmayr (RWTH Aachen), Gianluca Ceruti (Univ. Innsbruck), Mariya Ishteva (KU Leuven) and Jens Saak (MPI for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg). Further information is available at: https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~mettxi/index.html |
| 2025 June 04 ILAS-NET Message no. 2594 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Shaun Fallat SUBJECT: Final Announcement – Workshop on Matrices and Operators 2025 Workshop on Matrices and Operators (hybrid event) University of Regina, Regina August 19-21, 2025 This three-day conference will be held in a hybrid mode (in person and over the zoom). If you are interested in attending via Zoom, please indicate this when you register for this conference, otherwise please indicate your intention to attend in person. We look forward to being able to host participants from around the world both in Regina and online! Registration closes on June 15, 2025. The updated official MAO 2025 conference website is https://sites.google.com/view/matrices-and-operators-2025/home. Information concerning registration, housing, the conference schedule (when available), and the conference location can be found on this website. A designated email contact has been set up and is mao2025@uregina.ca: please use this email for all correspondence associated with MAO 2025. MAO 2025 organizers gratefully acknowledge 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) |
| 2025 June 02 ILAS-NET Message no. 2593 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Louis Deaett SUBJECT: New issue of the ILAS bulletin - IMAGE 74 The ILAS bulletin, IMAGE, has now been released in its 74th issue. Start the summer (or maybe the winter) off by perusing its pages. The education section has a summary of the PRIMUS special issue on linear algebra education that was made possible in coordination with the ILAS Education Committee. The new issue features a review of the most recent edition of Fuzhen Zhang's linear algebra problem book. We also have news items and conference reports, and the Problem Corner includes two new problems on determinants. You could be the one to crack one of those, or maybe just find something else of interest, like an upcoming conference or an online seminar. See what the new issue has to offer here: https://ilasic.org/wp-content/uploads/IMAGE/image74.pdf Louis Deaett IMAGE Editor-in-Chief |
| 2025 June 01 ILAS-NET Message no. 2592 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Froilán Dopico SUBJECT: 2025 ILAS Business Meeting at Kaohsiung conference Date-Time: Wednesday, June 25, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: SYS Hall (National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Agenda: A. Reading of Notice of Meeting. B. Review of the Minutes of Previous Meeting. C. Report of Secretary/Treasurer. D. Reports of Committees. i) Education Committee (chair: Sepideh Stewart). ii) Outreach and Membership Committee (chair: Shahla Nasserasr). iii) Journals Committee (chair: Heike Fassbender). iv) Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (Editor: Froilán Dopico). v) IMAGE (Editor: Louis Deaett). E. Next ILAS 2026 Conference “Linear Algebra on the Blue Ridge: Panoramas of Theory and Application”, Blacksburg, Virginia, May 18-22, 2026, on the campus of Virginia Tech (Christopher Beattie-Steffen Werner) F. Report of President and Vice President. G. Any other business H. Adjournment. Below are the minutes of the last Business Meeting held in 2023 in Madrid. 2023 ILAS BUSINESS MEETING Wednesday June 14, 2023 Salón de actos of “Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Forestal” Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain Agenda: A. Reading of Notice of Meeting. B. Review of the Minutes of Previous Meeting. C. Report of President and Vice President. D. Report of Secretary/Treasurer. E. Reports of Committees. i) Education Committee (chair: Sepideh Stewart). ii) Outreach and Membership Committee (chair: Shahla Nasserasr). iii) Journals Committee (chair: Heike Fassbender). iv) Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (Editor: Froilán Dopico). v) IMAGE (Editor: Louis Deaett). F. Transaction of other Business. i) Future ILAS Conferences (Jephian C.-H. Lin). ii) Any other business. G. Adjournment. President Szyld called the meeting to order at 17:04 CEST. Vice-President Dopico observed that about 44 ILAS members were in attendance and that the quorum was met, as stated by ILAS Bylaws. A. Reading of Notice of Meeting President Szyld read the notice of the meeting. B. Review of the minutes of previous meeting President Szyld noted that in re-reading the minutes of last year’s business meeting held in Galway, he came across the item about the ILAS Wikipedia page. President Szyld expanded on that comment with some historical perspective and reported that as noted in previous meetings and documents, the ILAS Board of Directors approved the initiative of making sure ILAS has an appropriate Wikipedia page, after an initiative of then-President Peter Šemrl. Wayne Barrett was the chief author of the first version and Kevin Vander Meulen set it up on Wikipedia. Then-Vice-President Hugo Woerdeman updated the page periodically. After that, the Outreach and Membership Committee together with Vice-President Froilán Dopico continue to maintain it. President Szyld thanked all the ILAS members mentioned in the previous paragraph for their efforts to add visibility to the Society and said that it was also a good moment to acknowledge other people who had contributed to make the Society work. Sarah Carnochan Naqvi was in charge of the ILAS-NET and the ILAS Website for over a decade. President Szyld called for a round of applause to honor her. Similarly, Panos Psarrakos was for almost fifteen years in charge of the copy-editing of the papers of the Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA), the flagship research journal of the Society. President Szyld called for another round of applause to honor him. Then, President Szyld acknowledged the contributions of David Watkins, Beatrice Meini and James Nagy who chaired the Outreach and Membership, Journals and Advisory committees, respectively, for the last three years and who recently rotated off those positions. President Szyld initiated a round of applause in recognition of these ILAS members. Without further comments the minutes of the 2022 Business Meeting held in Galway (Ireland) on June 23, 2022, were approved. C. Report of President and Vice President President Szyld emphasized that the state of the Society is good, that the ILAS 2023 conference was proceeding very well and thanked the local organizers of the conference very much, Fernando De Terán, Ana Luzón, Roberto Canogar and the other members of the organizing committee. President Szyld reported that a new ILAS initiative in 2023 of which the Society is very proud of is the Childcare Grant Program for members who are parents of young children. The other highlight of the year has been the first in person participation of ILAS in the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM). President Szyld informed the members that they would hear about ELA later and encouraged the attendees to submit research papers to ELA. He also mentioned that a report on IMAGE, the semi-annual bulletin for ILAS containing essays related to linear algebra activities, would be presented later during the meeting, and encouraged the attendees to contribute to IMAGE with articles of general interest. President Szyld recalled that ILAS collaborates with SIAM at its conferences on Applied Linear Algebra and announced that the next SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra will be held in Paris (France) on May 13-17, 2024. He also announced that the next ILAS Conference will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on June 23-27, 2025 and that more information about this conference would be presented later during the meeting. Lastly, President Szyld announced that the ILAS Board of Directors in the meeting held the day before (June 13) had approved a decision to remove the individual ILAS members list from the ILAS website. This decision was made in part to comply with the European Union regulation about protection of personal data. D. Report of Secretary/Treasurer Treasurer Catral briefly presented the ILAS 2022–2023 Treasurer’s Report, which had been already published in the issue 70 of IMAGE. She remarked that ILAS is in good financial state with a balance of \$287,901.47 on March 31, 2023. E. Reports of Committees i. Education Committee Sepideh Stewart reported that the Education Committee is composed of Anthony Cronin, Judi McDonald, Rachel Quinlan, Sepideh Stewart (Chair), and David Strong. This ILAS Education Committee was appointed and formed in February 2021 and was re-appointed in March 2023 after the second term of Daniel Szyld as president started. Sepideh Stewart continued by reporting on the ILAS Education Webpages. The Education Committee organized the ILAS Monthly Seminars. In Fall 2022, the committee hosted three seminars via Zoom: (Matrix) Zeros of Polynomials (Damjan Kobal), The Marvelous Minimal Polynomial (Sheldon Axler), and Distance between Vectors and Big Data (Maribel Bueno Cachadiña). A link to the recorded seminars and slides was posted on the ILAS Education Webpages. Although the talks were highly engaging, Sepideh Stewart reported that the attendance at these seminars was lower than anticipated. Therefore, starting in Spring 2023, the Monthly Seminars were replaced by Monthly Video Podcasts. The Committee had posted four Podcasts on the ILAS Education Webpages. The topics were: Linear Algebra Applications for the Modern World (Mike Michalidis), A Linear Algebraic Model used in Statistical Regression (Wayne Stewart), Applications of Linear Algebra to Graph Theory and Network Science (Daryl DeFord) and Building Fourier and Functional Analysis Learning Trajectories for Engineering Mathematics Education (Celil Ekici). Those persons who would like to give a talk were encouraged to contact Judi McDonald. The Education Committee is currently working on Lesson Plans for Teaching Linear Algebra to be posted in a new ILAS Education Webpage. At the time of the meeting the committee was focused on creating lesson plans for teaching linear algebra concepts (at all levels). Sepideh Stewart explained that a lesson plan is a scholarly manuscript consisting of mathematical ideas, examples, tasks, and the teacher’s thought processes on teaching a specific linear algebra topic. The committee was in the process of establishing an Editorial Board to manage the lesson plans. Sepideh Stewart emphasized that the success of these resources for teaching depends on the ILAS members’ contributions. She encouraged the community to write lesson plans and share their ideas and thoughts about teaching various topics. Creating and preserving a record of teaching ideas and experiences will benefit the international linear algebra community and our students. Those persons who would like to submit a lesson plan were encouraged to contact Rachel Quinlan. Next, Sepideh Stewart reported on different publications related to the Education Committee. During the past year, the Committee had two IMAGE education articles. Those persons who would like to contribute a short article were encouraged to contact Anthony Cronin, the IMAGE education editor. The Education Committee proposal for a special issue entitled “Linear Algebra Education: An International Perspective” in the journal “Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies” (PRIMUS) was accepted by the editors of the journal on June 24, 2022. Established in 1991, PRIMUS is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the teaching of undergraduate mathematics. The call for papers was due in February 2023. The Education Committee received 25 papers, and at the time of the meeting, 19 papers were under review. The ILAS education committee members were acting as guest editors of this special issue of PRIMUS. Lastly, Sepideh Stewart reported on Conferences and Workshops organized by the Education Committee. The committee organized two ILAS Special Sessions at the 2023 Joint Mathematical Meetings (JMM) on Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra. Ten speakers presented contributions, and both sessions were well attended. Those persons who would like to give an educational talk at a future JMM were encouraged to contact David Strong. The Committee also organized an ILAS Education Workshop 2023 on June 11, 2023, i.e., the day before the ILAS 2023 Conference started, and an ILAS Education Mini-Symposium in the ILAS 2023 Conference with 12 talks during the education sessions. Sepideh Stewart concluded by emphasizing that the committee focuses on ILAS and its goals and looks forward to serving the ILAS community in the coming year. The Education Committee activities can be seen at https://la-education.oucreate.com/ ii. Outreach and Membership Committee Shahla Nasserasr reported that the Outreach and Membership Committee is composed of Minerva Catral, Andrii Dmytryshyn, Federico Poloni, and Shahla Nasserasr (Chair). This Committee was appointed in March 2023 after the second term of Daniel Szyld as president started. Next, Shahla Nasserasr reported on the following issues. 1- A Qualtrics questionnaire has been created by the committee and will be sent to the ILAS Members for collecting demographic and professional information about the ILAS Membership. 2- The ILAS Corporate sponsors are Birkhauser/Springer, Elsevier Science Inc., Taylor & Francis Group - Informa UK Ltd, MathWorks, World Scientific Publishing Co., and Maplesoft. 3- The Committee maintains the Wikipedia pages for ILAS and ELA in a joint effort with other committees and individuals. 4- The Committee handles the social media presence of ILAS in Facebook and Twitter. Shahla Nasserasr concluded her report by asking the attendees for encouraging their students to join ILAS (for free). iii. Journals Committee Heike Fassbender reported that a new Journals Committee (JC) had been appointed in late April 2023 and that it is composed of Louis Deaett (for IMAGE), Froilán Dopico (for ELA), Zlatko Drmac, Shaun Fallat, Heike Fassbender (Chair), and Daniel Szyld (as ILAS president). The new chair had met with the previous chair (Beatrice Meini) to discuss the handover of tasks. The previous JC met online in October 2022 to discuss the annual report of ELA and IMAGE. The main action concerning ELA was the proposal of 4 new associate editors starting in 2023. In the course of implementing the new ILAS bylaws related to membership and service terms for ELA’s Editorial Board approved on April 2, 2021, the terms of quite a number of ELA editors will end in 2023. The new JC will discuss proposals for new editors with the ELA Editor-in-Chief (EiC) Froilán Dopico in September-October 2023. The main action concerning IMAGE was a discussion on how to improve the IMAGE website and the discoverability of IMAGE content. iv. Report on the Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra The EiC of ELA, Froilán Dopico, stated that ELA’s primary goals are to publish high-quality papers that support and catalyze linear algebra research and to reach prompt decisions on submissions. The EiC remarked that the Editorial Board’s efforts to raise the quality of papers that appear in ELA continue, as are the efforts to speed up the handling of submissions. Next the EiC reported on the following data of the year 2022: - ELA received 262 new submissions of which: 6 were still under review (as of 06/11/2023), 45 were already accepted or published, 192 were rejected outright, i.e., without sending them to reviewers, by the EIC (often in collaboration with Advisory and Associate Editors) or directly by some Editors (after discussion with the EiC), and 25 were rejected after review. - This amounts to 73.3 % of outright rejections and 82.8 % of total rejections. - These data are like those of 2021. The EiC presented detailed data on rankings and impact factors taken from the Journal Citations Reports (JCR)-Clarivate (2021 edition) on ELA and, for the sake of comparison, on other linear algebra related journals. These journals were LAA, LAMA, SIMAX and Operators & Matrices. The EiC concluded from these and other data that ELA is ranked at a higher level than Operators & Matrices and Special Matrices, and clearly below SIMAX, LAMA and LAA. With respect to the evolution of ELA’s Impact Factor, the EiC emphasized that a clear improvement had been observed since 2017 with respect to the four previous years (2013-16). Except for the year 2017, ELA has been ranked in the third quartile (Q3) in the category Mathematics of JCR since 2013. ELA’s percentile in that category improved the last year and ELA was close to be in Q2 at the time of the business meeting. An effort is needed to improve the quartile of ELA, which is very relevant to several evaluation procedures in Europe. It would be desirable to reach a level closer to LAA and LAMA in terms of impact factor and percentile, since these two journals have very similar scopes to ELA. The EiC emphasized that the key for improving the quality and reputation of ELA is to attract a greater participation in the content of ELA by ILAS members, since this participation is currently very limited. The EiC strongly encouraged the people in the audience to submit good papers to ELA since it is the research journal of ILAS. Finally, the EiC sincerely thanked all the editors of ELA, all the referees of ELA, all the authors of ELA, and the librarians of the University of Wyoming (hosting ELA) for making ELA possible. v. Report on IMAGE The EiC of IMAGE, Louis Deaett, reported on IMAGE activities in the past year, including the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 issues. Web site analytics suggest that readership in both the Fall and Spring issues increased substantially year-over-year. Many of the organizational priorities for IMAGE carry over from the previous year. Most importantly, IMAGE is actively working to fill the vacant editorial positions responsible for feature articles and book reviews, and one new such position, responsible for news items. One new plan to is to enhance the news items in IMAGE with the goal of aggregating more "local" awards and accomplishments of ILAS members. Another is to enhance the conferences section by including a digest of ongoing online seminars, as well as special sessions occurring at conferences not specifically devoted to linear algebra. Another near-term initiative is to include more information in the IMAGE portion of the ILAS web site. For example, an index of interviews that have appeared in IMAGE should be posted there soon. F. Transaction of other Business i. Future ILAS meetings Jephian C.-H. Lin reported that the 26th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society will be held in 2025 in the charming city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Jephian C.-H. Lin, on behalf of the local organizing committee, was delighted to invite all the participants in the Business Meeting and in the 25th ILAS Conference in Madrid to join them in Kaohsiung, benefiting from Taiwan's reputation for safety, breathtaking views, and convenience. Jephian C.-H. Lin announced that the proposed conference venue offers excellent accessibility through public transportation and provides a magnificent harbor view, adding to the overall appeal. Moreover, Taiwan's welcoming atmosphere extends to many countries enjoying the visa-exempt program, making travel hassle-free. To stay updated, Jephian C.-H. Lin invited the attendees to visit the official website of the conference at https://ilas2025.tw/ and emphasized that the organizers eagerly await the presence of the ILAS community at the conference in 2025. ii. Any other business President Szyld asked if somebody wanted to discuss any other issue. Several ILAS members asked about what ILAS plans to do with the current funds of the Society and suggested, among others, the following potential new initiatives: - to invest in programs for improving the equity and diversity, - to establish new and more ambitious grant programs for making it easier that students participate in ILAS conferences, - to establish PhD or post-doc fellowships and - to organize summer schools for attracting young people to the field of Linear Algebra. President Szyld answered by emphasizing in the first place that both the Executive Board and the Board of Directors of ILAS are open to new ideas and initiatives and that the suggestions listed in the previous paragraph will be discussed by the Board of Directors. In particular, President Szyld mentioned that the idea of organizing summer schools on trending topics in Linear Algebra and its applications is already under development and had been already discussed in the Board of Directors Meetings. Moreover, President Szyld recalled some of the initiatives that have been adopted in the past few years and that are currently working as, for instance, - the “ILAS Welcoming and Inclusiveness Statement” https://ilasic.org/inclusiveness-statement/, and the fact that ILAS requires that every ILAS Conference or every Conference endorsed by ILAS has a similar statement, - the Childcare grants that ILAS is providing to ILAS members who are parents of young children so as to make it easier to attend an ILAS Conference, - new points in the ILAS Guidelines for organizing ILAS Conferences that will make easier to parents of young children to attend, - the ILAS Grant Program in support of Mathematicians working in Linear Algebra affected by conflicts, - the LAA Early Career Speakers program funded through generous donations by Elsevier and - the appointment of an Investment Committee for taking care of the ILAS funds On the other hand, President Szyld remarked that ILAS is a small society and that the current funds are not large, although they may seem a significant amount from the perspective of one person. Therefore, ILAS must be careful and conservative in the administration of its funds. President Szyld also answered a couple of concrete questions asked by two ILAS Members. Thus, he explained the origins of the Taylor & Francis Donation and the corresponding LAMA Fund. President Szyld explained that Taylor & Francis had funded since 2005 the LAMA Lecture at each ILAS Conference and that to ask Taylor & Francis for the funds every time an ILAS Conference was held was time consuming. Thus, Steve Kirkland had the idea of asking Taylor & Francis for a reasonable amount of money whose interests would allow ILAS to fund the LAMA Lectures for the years to come. President Szyld also explained that the participation of ILAS at the JMM is funded by ILAS via a signed agreement between ILAS and AMS. G. Adjournment President Szyld thanked all the ILAS Officers for their great work for the Society. President Szyld adjourned the meeting at 17:56 CEST. Respectfully submitted by Froilán Dopico, Vice-President of ILAS. |
| 2025 June 01 ILAS-NET Message no. 2591 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Froilán Dopico SUBJECT: ILAS President/Vice President Annual Report: May 1, 2025 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 was another momentous year for ILAS. Highlights include the Hans Schneider Prizes awarded to Dario Bini and Chi-Kwong Li, ILAS participating for a fourth time as a partner in the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), with a record of seven ILAS Special Sessions, increased funding for Ph.D. students and early-career researchers attending ILAS conferences, and the new ranked choice election rules approved by the Board of Directors and now included in the ILAS Bylaws. 1. Board-of-Directors-approved actions since the last report include: - The Board moved on September 5, 2024 to fund with 1000 Euros one application to the “ILAS Grant Program in support of Mathematicians working in Linear Algebra affected by conflicts.” - The Board moved on February 7, 2025 to change the election rules of ILAS to a ranked choice modality and to replace for this purpose the previous points 4, 5 and 6 in “Article 10. Elections’’ of the ILAS Bylaws by the new points 4 and 5 that describe the newly adopted ranked choice voting system. - The Board moved on February 7, 2025 that future Hans Schneider Prizes will consist only of a certificate containing the citation, instead of a plaque, or a medal, and a certificate as in the past. In this way, the three ILAS Prizes (the Hans Schneider Prize, the ILAS Olga Taussky and John Todd Prize and the ILAS Richard A. Brualdi Early Career Prize) will be equal in this respect and will consist only of a certificate containing the citation. - The Board moved on February 7, 2025 to change the name “ILAS Plenary Speaker” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) to “ILAS Invited Address” to adjust to the names used by the organizers of the JMM. - The Board moved on February 7, 2025 to upgrade the funding of the grants provided by ILAS and by Elsevier, the publisher of Linear Algebra and its Applications (LAA), to cover partially the expenses of Ph.D. students and early-career researchers participating in ILAS Conferences and to unify the names of these grants. More precisely, the Board moved to fund: a) For the 2025 ILAS Conference: 10 ILAS-LAA PhD grants of \$700 each + 5 ILAS-LAA Early career grants of \$750 each, b) For the 2026 ILAS Conference: 10 ILAS-LAA PhD grants of \$700 each + 5 ILAS-LAA Early career grants of \$750 each. It was also approved to reassess this initiative after the 2026 ILAS Conference depending on the financial situation of ILAS. 2. Other news: - The Executive Board awarded on August 6, 2024 Dario Bini and Chi-Kwong Li the 2025 Hans Schneider Prize, accepting the recommendation of the Hans Schneider Prize Committee consisting of Leslie Hogben (chair), Misha Kilmer, Stephen Kirkland, Volker Mehrmann and Daniel Szyld (ILAS President, ex officio). Dario Bini was recognized 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 was recognized for his substantial contributions to several areas of linear algebra, including matrix analysis, operator theory, quantum information theory, and combinatorial matrix theory. Dario Bini and Chi-Kwong Li will deliver the Hans Schneider Prize lectures at the 2025 and 2026 ILAS Conferences, respectively. - The Executive Board moved on November 21, 2024 to amend the guidelines of the Hans Schneider Prize and the ILAS Olga Taussky and John Todd Prize to define precisely what documentation must be attached to a nomination. - The Board of Directors approved on October 4, 2024 the request of the organizers of the 9th Linear Algebra Workshop (LAW’25), to be held in Portorož, Slovenia, June 2–6, 2025, for an ILAS Lectureship for the ILAS member Helena Šmigoc. - The Board of Directors approved on October 4, 2024 the request of the organizers of the 36th International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications (IWOTA), to be held at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, July 14–18, 2025, for an ILAS Lectureship for the ILAS member Volker Mehrmann. - The Board of Directors approved on October 4, 2024 the request of the organizers of the XXII Householder Symposium, to be held at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, June 8–13, 2025, for an ILAS Lectureship. On October 4, 2024 the name of the ILAS Lecturer was not yet known due to the special format of the Householder Symposium. The ILAS Board approved on March 28, 2025 an ILAS Lectureship at the XXII Householder Symposium for the ILAS member Ilse Ipsen. - The Joint Mathematics Meetings 2025 (JMM 2025, an ILAS partner conference) was held in Seattle, January 8–11, 2025. The ILAS Invited Address was given by the ILAS member Anne Greenbaum (University of Washington, USA) with the title “Are Iterative Linear System Solvers Backward Stable?”. There were seven ILAS Special Sessions, a record in the time since the agreement between ILAS and JMM was established. These sessions were: (1) Strong Properties of Matrix Classes (organized by Bryan L. Shader and Minerva Catral); (2) Matrix Analysis and Applications (organized by Tin-Yau Tam, Mohsen Aliabadi and Luyining Gan); (3) Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra (organized by David M. Strong, Sepideh Stewart, Gilbert Strang and Megan Wawro); (4) Randomness in Numerical Linear Algebra (organized by Anne Greenbaum and Heather Denise Wilber); (5) 05C50 Offline (organized by Hermie Monterde and Stephen Kirkland); (6) Preserver Problems (organized by Edward Poon, Chi-Kwong Li, Sushil Singla and Bojan Kuzma); and (7) Inverse Spectral Problems for Nonnegative Matrices (organized by Pietro Paparella). - The Executive Board accepted on March 21, 2025 the recommendation of the JMM Committee that Dominique Guillot from the University of Delaware (USA) will give the ILAS Invited Address at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings, to be held in Washington, DC, January 4–7, 2026. In addition to this ILAS Lecture, there will be six ILAS Special Sessions scheduled for JMM 2026. The JMM Committee consisted of Orly Alter, Ángeles Carmona Mejía, Mark Embree, Apoorva Khare (chair), and Daniel Szyld (ILAS President, ex officio). - ILAS funded four applications for the program of childcare grants to participants in the 26th ILAS Conference (Kaohsiung, Taiwan, June 23–27, 2025) with $500 each. 3. ILAS elections ran November 15 – December 15, 2024, and proceeded via electronic voting. The following were elected to offices with three-year terms that began on March 1, 2025: * Vice President: Froilán M. Dopico * Board of Directors: Enide Andrade and Jephian C.-H. Lin The following continue in the ILAS offices which they currently hold: - President: Daniel Szyld (term ends February 28, 2026) - Secretary/Treasurer: Minerva Catral (term ends February 28, 2027) - 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: Fernando De Terán (term ends February 28, 2026), Stefan Güttel (term ends February 28, 2027), Chi-Kwong Li (term ends February 28, 2026) and Naomi Shaked-Monderer (term ends February 28, 2027). Paola Boito and Lek-Heng Lim completed their terms on the ILAS Board of Directors on February 28, 2025. 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 – Sebastian Cioabă, Melina Freitag, Karl Meerbergen, Alicia Roca, and Hugo Woerderman (chair) – for their efforts on behalf of ILAS, and all of the nominees for their participation in the elections. 4. New appointments Editor-in-Chief of ELA (August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2028) Vanni Noferini ILAS 2025 Nominating Committee Federico Poloni Rachel Quinlan Bryan Shader (Chair) Pauline van den Driessche Paul Van Dooren Joint Committee for the 2026 ILAS Olga Taussky and John Todd Prize and for the 2026 ILAS Richard A. Brualdi Early Career Prize Misha Kilmer Steve Kirkland (chair) Lek-Heng Lim Alison Ramage Daniel Szyld (ILAS President, ex officio) 5. ILAS endorsed the following conferences of interest to ILAS members that have taken place since the last President/Vice President annual report: - SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (LA24), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, May 13–17, 2024. Daniel Kressner and Laura Grigori were the co-chairs of the organizing committee. The ILAS members Andrii Dmytryshyn and Beatrice Meini were 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 was the Israel Gohberg ILAS-IWOTA Lecturer, and the ILAS member Melina Freitag was an ILAS supported lecturer. https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/iwota2024/ - Applied Matrix Positivity II, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, UK, November 4–8, 2024. https://www.icms.org.uk/workshops/2024/applied-matrix-positivity-ii 6. ILAS endorsed the following conferences of interest to ILAS members that will take place in the following months: - VII Thematic Conference of the Spanish ALAMA Network of Linear Algebra, Matrix Analysis, and Applications (ALAMA), “A tribute to Nick Higham”, International Center of Mathematical Meetings (CIEM) of the Universidad de Cantabria, Castro Urdiales, Spain, May 14–16, 2025. https://congresosalcala.fgua.es/jornadasalama/?idioma=en - 9th Linear Algebra Workshop (LAW’25), Portorož, Slovenia, June 2–6, 2025. The ILAS member Helena Šmigoc will be an ILAS supported lecturer. http://www.law05.si/law25/ - XXII Householder Symposium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, June 8–13, 2025. The ILAS member Ilse Ipsen will be an ILAS supported lecturer. https://householder-symposium.github.io/ - 36th International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications (IWOTA), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, July 14–18, 2025. The ILAS member Volker Mehrmann will be an ILAS supported lecturer. https://www.utwente.nl/en/iwota2025/ - International Conference on Linear Algebra its Applications (ICLAA 2025) CARAMS, MAHE, Manipal, India, December 17–20, 2025. https://carams.in/events/iclaa2025/ 7. The following ILAS conferences are scheduled: - The 26th ILAS Conference will be held at National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) 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, Switzerland, LAA Lecturer), 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 2025 Hans Schneider Prize winner Dario Bini. Thirty-five mini-symposia covering a wide variety of topics related to linear algebra and its applications are scheduled. https://ilas2025.tw/ - The 27th ILAS Conference will be held at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, May 18–22, 2026, with Mark Embree and Serkan Gugercin (Virginia Tech) as co-Chairs of the Organizing Committee and Agnieszka Miedlar and Eric de Sturler (Virginia Tech) as co-Chairs of the Scientific Committee. https://ilas2026.math.vt.edu/ 8. The following ILAS partner conference is scheduled: - The Joint Mathematics Meetings 2026 will be held in Washington, DC, January 4–7, 2026. The ILAS member Dominique Guillot from the University of Delaware (USA) will give the ILAS Invited Address and the following six ILAS Special Sessions are scheduled: (1) Matrix Analysis and Applications (organized by Hugo Woerdeman and James E. Pascoe); (2) Algebraic Graph Theory: New Trends (organized by Milica Andelic, Zoran Stanic, Sudipta Mallik, and Renata Del-Vecchio); (3) Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra (organized by Sepideh Stewart, David Strong, Gilbert Strang, and Megan Wawro); (4) Recent Advances in Model Order Reduction and Data-Driven Modeling: Theory and Computations (organized by Steffen W. R. Werner and Ionut Farcas); (5) Matrix Analysis (organized by Tin-Yau Tam, Xiang Xiang Wang, Mohsen Aliabadi, and Dominique Guillot); and (6) Combinatorial Matrix Theory (organized by Minerva Catral and Bryan Shader). 9. The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA) is now in its 41st volume. ELA’s URL is https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/ela. Volume 40 was published in 2024 and contains 49 papers. ELA received 259 new submissions in 2024. The current acceptance rate is less than 24%. In 2024, 113869 downloads and 98846 abstract views of ELA papers occurred. The current Editor-in-Chief (EiC), Froilán M. Dopico (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), will complete his second consecutive 3-year term of service on July 31, 2025 and in accordance with the ILAS Bylaws will be replaced, by Vanni Noferini (Aalto University, Finland), on August 1, 2025. 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 2024, the website of IMAGE received 844 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). 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/. On April 29, 2025, there were 1294 active subscribers to the ILAS-NET newsletter. 12. ILAS’s website is located at https://ilasic.org/ and highlights the main activities of ILAS: the Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA), 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 2024, the website of ILAS received 17274 pageviews from users from 99 countries. The front page received 8626 of these pageviews, the conference page 2794, and the IMAGE page 844. 13. Number of current ILAS Members. As of April 14, 2025, the number of ILAS members was 492. 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 ) |
| 2025 May 30 ILAS-NET Message no. 2590 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: Candidates for the next ILAS elections Dear ILAS members: The Nominating Committee, consisting of Federico Poloni, Rachel Quinlan, Bryan Shader (Chair), Pauline van den Driesche, and Paul Van Dooren, has completed their work for the election to be held later in the Fall 2025, for positions which will commence in early 2026. The slate of candidates is: ILAS President Shaun Fallat (U. Regina) Leslie Hogben (American Institute of Math and Iowa State University) Apoorva Khare (Indian Institute of Mathematics) ILAS Board of Directors Shahla Nasserasr (Rochester Institute of Mathematics) Aida Abiad Monge (Eindhoven University) Christian Mehl (Technische Universitat-Berlin) Andrii Dmytryshyn (Chalmers University, Sweden) According to our bylaws (Article 6, section 2 (B)), additional nominations can be made by writing to me. Three members have to make this nomination (with the agreement of the candidate). Nominations by petition will be accepted until June 15, 2025. I take this opportunity to publicly thank the Nominating Committee for their dedication to ILAS, and their work for this election cycle. Daniel B Szyld (szyld@temple.edu) ILAS President |
| 2025 May 10 ILAS-NET Message no. 2589 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Stephen Kirkland SUBJECT: 2026 ILAS Richard A. Brualdi Early Career Prize and 2026 ILAS Olga Taussky-Todd and John Todd Prize This is the first announcement and call for nominations for the 2026 ILAS Richard A. Brualdi Early Career Prize and the 2026 ILAS Olga Taussky-Todd and John Todd Prize. ILAS has formed a selection committee for both prizes, and the committee members are: Lek-Hem Lim, Misha Kilmer, Steve Kirkland (chair), Alison Ramage and Daniel Szyld (ex officio). Below are further details on the prizes. ILAS Richard A. Brualdi Early Career Prize: The prize is awarded to an outstanding early career researcher in the field of linear algebra who is within seven (7) years of receiving the PhD (or equivalent degree) as of October 1 of the year before the award, for distinguished contributions to the field. The prize committee may consider exceptions to the seven-year rule in the case of career interruptions. The awarding of the prize, and the associated principal lecture, will take place at the ILAS meeting in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, May 18-22, 2026. The complete guidelines are available at https://ilasic.org/brualdi-guidelines/ and a listing of previous winners is available at https://ilasic.org/brualdi-prize-winner/. ILAS Olga Taussky-Todd and John Todd Prize: The recipient should have received a Ph.D. degree within about fifteen (15) years from the award of the prize, and should have made significant contributions to linear algebra and matrix theory. The awarding of the prize, and the associated principal lecture, will take place at the ILAS meeting in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, May 18-22, 2026. The complete guidelines are available at https://ilasic.org/taussky-todd-guidelines/ and a listing of previous winners is available at https://ilasic.org/taussky-todd-lecturers/. The deadline for submission of nominations for both prizes is October 1, 2025. Nomination packages should be sent to Steve Kirkland (Stephen.Kirkland@umanitoba.ca). The ILAS community has a wealth of talented researchers, and the selection committee looks forward to receiving and reviewing the nomination packages. |
| 2025 May 8 ILAS-NET Message no. 2588 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 2025 for receipt of proposals for sponsorship of ILAS Lectures at non-ILAS meetings and for general support of conferences taking place in 2026. 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 |
| 2025 April 23 ILAS-NET Message no. 2587 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Carlos Hoppen SUBJECT: Conference Announcement - WSGT 2025 The Brazilian community in Spectral Graph Theory is very pleased to announce the Workshop on Spectral Graph Theory 2025, in honor of Vilmar Trevisan for his 65th birthday. The meeting will be held from October 28 to 31 at the Conference Center of Buona Vitta Gramado, in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The aim of this workshop is to bring together young and experienced researchers in subjects related to spectral graph theory and its applications. The official language of the event is English, and the call for submissions is now open. For more information, please access https://spectralgraphtheory.org/ed2025/ or send us a message to wspectralgraphtheory@gmail.com. |
| 2025 April 15 ILAS-NET Message no. 2586 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Andrii Dmytryshyn SUBJECT: Nordic Numerical Linear Algebra Workshop, Uppsala -- Aug 2025 We are pleased to announce that the fourth Nordic Numerical Linear Algebra workshop will be held at Uppsala University, Sweden on August 19-20, 2025. The workshop is devoted to all aspects of applied and numerical linear algebra, spanning theory, analysis, computation and methods to specific research areas in applications as well as mathematical software. Invited speakers: - Michele Benzi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy - Erna Begović Kovač, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Jörn Zimmerling, Uppsala University, Sweden We warmly encourage contributions for talks and would greatly appreciate your participation. Attendance is free. Please register by June 10, 2025 at http://nordic-nla.eu/uppsala-meeting-2025/ We look forward to welcoming you to the Nordic NLA workshop! Organizers: Roman Iakymchuk, Sven-Erik Ekström, Elias Jarlebring |
| 2025 April 10 ILAS-NET Message no. 2585 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Bryan Shader SUBJECT: Upcoming ILAS elections--suggestions for candidates sought Dear ILAS members: This coming Fall, ILAS will hold annual elections to select the next ILAS President and two members of the ILAS Board of Directors. The second three-year term of Daniel Szyld as ILAS President, and the terms of Fernando De Terán and Chi-Kwong Li as members of the Board of Directors will be completed the end of this year. On behalf of the ILAS Nominating Committee, I am writing to ask you to consider suggesting the name of a colleague (or yourself) to run for the election. Suggestions should be sent by April 23 to bshader at uwyo dot edu. The other members of the 2025 Nominating Committee are Federico Poloni, Rachel Quinlan, Pauline van der Driessche, and Paul Van Dooren. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Daniel, Fernando and Chi-Kwong for their service to ILAS. A list of former ILAS Board members can be found at: https://ilasic.org/past-ilas-officers/. Sincerely, Bryan Shader Chair, ILAS Nominating Committee |
| 2025 April 4 ILAS-NET Message no. 2584 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: Orly Alter highlighted by SIAM ILAS member Orly Alter contributions were highlighted by SIAM on the occasion of April being the Mathematics and Statistics Month. You can see her citation at: https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/siam-celebrates-mathematics-and-statistics-awareness-month-2025/ Congratulations Orly! Daniel |
| 2025 March 28 ILAS-NET Message no. 2583 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: Serkan Güğercin SIAM Fellow Congratulation to ILAS member Serkan Güğercin who has joined the class of 2025 SIAM Fellows! We are very proud of our members' accomplishments. |
| 2025 March 27 ILAS-NET Message no. 2582 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: David S. Bindel SUBJECT: Call for Proposals for organizing the 2028 Householder meeting The Householder Committee seeks a team to organize the 2028 Householder Symposium on Numerical Linear Algebra. The deadline for submitting a proposal is June 1, 2025. Guidelines for preparing a proposal can be found at https://householder-symposium.github.io/organize/ Proposals should be submitted via email to householderxxii@cornell.edu. Please note: Proposals by professional congress and convention bureaus will not be considered. No contact information about local members of our community will be provided. |
| 2025 March 26 ILAS-NET Message no. 2581 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Kennett Dela Rosa SUBJECT: Second Announcement of the International Workshop on Matrix Analysis, Linear Algebra, and Applications (MALAA2025) Second Conference Announcement International Workshop on Matrix Analysis, Linear Algebra, and Applications (MALAA2025) University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines July 1-2, 2025 The Institute of Mathematics’ Matrix Analysis and Linear Algebra Group and its affiliates are organizing the International Workshop on Matrix Analysis, Linear Algebra, and Applications (MALAA2025) which will be held on July 1-2, 2025 (week after ILAS Meeting 2025 in Taiwan). This in-person workshop will be held at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. More information can be found at the website: https://sites.google.com/up.edu.ph/malaa2025/. The workshop aims to provide an environment for experts to showcase their research in the theory and applications of matrix analysis and linear algebra. The workshop is also designed to foster collaboration among the participants. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to invite researchers and students to attend or give a talk at the workshop. Contributed talks in the workshop will be composed of a 15-minute presentation and a 5-minute discussion. A suitable number of contributed talks may be selected depending on the number of abstract submissions and available time slots . Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2025 Registration deadline: May 15, 2025 Please note that we cannot provide any financial support for the participants. We hope that the opportunity to contribute to the conference community will serve as a compelling reason for your participation. Please email updmalaa2025@gmail.com if you have questions and concerns. MALAA2025 Organizing Committee: Ma. Nerissa Abara, Ralph John de la Cruz, Kennett Dela Rosa, Jesus Paolo Joven, Jenny Lualhati, Agnes Paras (University of the Philippines Diliman), Daryl Granario (De La Salle University), Hermie Monterde (University of Manitoba), Carmeliza Navasca (University of Alabama at Birmingham) |
| 2025 March 26 ILAS-NET Message no. 2580 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Sepideh Stewart SUBJECT: Workshop Series on Bridging Abstract and Numerical Linear Algebra We invite the ILAS community to a workshop just before the ILAS Conference in Taiwan. This workshop will discuss ways of bridging abstract and numerical linear algebra. Our topics are included but not limited to the following: a. How to introduce numerical linear algebra in a first course to students (some examples of coding and programming will be provided), b. The role of AI in teaching and learning linear algebra, c. Collaboration, sharing resources (GitHub), and publication d. Future workshop(s) Date: Sunday, June 22, 2025 Time: 2-4 pm Venue: College of Science SC4009-0 Organizers: Sepideh Stewart (University of Oklahoma), Rachel Quinlan (University of Galway), and Mike Michailidis (MathWorks) More information about the Workshop can be found at https://la-education.oucreate.com/conferences-and-workshops/workshop2025/. Please indicate your interest in participating at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeROU1fwpJN70EHfmh-dixS_6Eht6ezpRXP7kzOckbhf1jbAQ/viewform?usp=dialog. We look forward to seeing you in Kaohsiung! |
| 2025 March 25 ILAS-NET Message no. 2579 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: ILAS Address and Special Sessions for the JMM 2026 We look forward to seeing many of you at the ILAS Conference in Kaohsiung this coming June. As you know, we are already starting to prepare ILAS' participation at the Joint Mathematical Meetings (JMM), to be held in Washington, DC, January 4-7, 2026. I am pleased to announce that the ILAS Invited Address will be given by Dominique Guillot (University of Delaware). Let me remind you that proposals for ILAS Special Sessions at the JMM meeting 2026 are due in a little over two weeks, on April 8, 2025. We encourage your submissions. If you want to organize a Special Session please submit your proposal through the link below. Call for Proposals: https://meetings.ams.org/math/jmm2026/cfs.cgi Please also send the title and proposal to our Vice-President for Conferences Raf Vandebril (raf.vandebril@kuleuven.be). |
| 2025 March 25 ILAS-NET Message no. 2578 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Shaun Fallat SUBJECT: Third Announcement of the 2025 Workshop on Matrices and Operators and modality update 2025 Workshop on Matrices and Operators (now a hybrid event) University of Regina, Regina August 19-21, 2025 This three-day conference will now be held in a hybrid mode (in person and over the zoom). If you are interested in attending via Zoom, please indicate this when you register for this conference, otherwise please indicate your intention to attend in person. We look forward to being able to host participants from around the world both in Regina and online! 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 updated official MAO 2025 conference website is https://sites.google.com/view/matrices-and-operators-2025/home. Information concerning registration, housing, the conference schedule (when available), and the conference location can be found on this website. 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 commenced on February 1, 2025. MAO 2025 organizers gratefully acknowledge 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) Dr. Shaun Fallat Professor Department of Math & Stats University of Regina |
| 2025 March 20 ILAS-NET Message no. 2577 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Raf Vandebril SUBJECT: Special Sessions for the JMM 2026 As ILAS has become a partner with the AMS for the annual Joint Mathematical Meetings (JMM), we are again soliciting proposals for ILAS Special Sessions for the JMM meeting in 2026, which will take place in Washington, DC, January 4-7. If you want to organize a Special Session please submit your proposal through the link below. https://meetings.ams.org/math/jmm2026/cfs.cgi Note that the deadline is April 8, 2025. Please also send the title and proposal to our Vice-President for Conferences Raf Vandebril (raf.vandebril@kuleuven.be). |
| 2025 March 10 ILAS-NET Message no. 2576 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: Child care at ILAS Conferences A Reminder to the ILAS members. ILAS is providing grants to ILAS members who are parents of young children so as to make it easier to attend an ILAS Conference. The grants up to the amount of \$500 can be used to pay for childcare either at the conference city, or the home city of the ILAS member. In the latter case, it is for any additional childcare expenses incurred because the ILAS member is attending the conference. The grant can also be used to subsidize the travel of a person who would take care of the child during the conference. Applications need to be sent at least two months in advance of the conference dates indicating: * Name of the ILAS member * Name of the child/ren and their ages * Expected budget and type of expense * Applications can be sent directly to the ILAS President. The ILAS President will communicate the decision to each applicant no later than one month after the application is received. Reimbursements will be sent to the applicant after the applicant has attended the conference and once appropriate receipts for up to $500 have been submitted to the ILAS Secretary/Treasurer. ---- For the ILAS Conference in Kaohsiung, 23-27 June, 2025, the deadline for applications is April 23rd, 2025. ---- Other initiatives that ILAS has put into place include: * Aiming to have a break every two hours or so during the ILAS conferences to allow parents see their children if necessary. * Invited speakers with young children could stay in apartments and not necessarily in a hotel. * If the caretaker/companion is traveling with the parent, ILAS will facilitate free registration to the conference if such caretaker wishes to attend a few lectures. The ILAS President will aim to put in contact parents of young children in case they want to coordinate activities. Children will be welcomed at the coffee breaks, excursions, or other social activities. |
| 2025 2025 March 07 ILAS-NET Message no. 2575 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Jephian C.-H. Lin SUBJECT: ILAS2025: Registration and abstract submission are open We are excited to announce that the 26th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS2025) will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, from June 23 to 27, 2025. Conference website: https://ilas2025.tw/ Subscribe to ILAS-NET to receive the latest information: https://ilasic.org/ilas-net/ The conference will feature ten plenary talks on a variety of topics, including numerical linear algebra, combinatorial matrix theory, operator theory, quantum information, and much more. The plenary speakers are: • Haim Avron (Tel Aviv University) SIAG/LA Lecture • Dario Bini (Università di Pisa) Hans Schneider Prize Lecture • Fan Chung Graham (University of California, San Diego) • Fumio Hiai (Tohoku University) • Daniel Kressner (EPFL) LAA Lecture • Ren-Cang Li (University of Texas at Arlington) • Karen Meagher (University of Regina) • Polona Oblak (University of Ljubljana) • Fernando De Terán Vergara (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) • Karol Życzkowski (Jagiellonian University) There are 35 mini-symposia on various topics in linear algebra. If you would like to give a talk at a mini-symposium, please contact the mini-symposium organizers to see if there are spots available. Alternatively, we are calling for submissions of contributed talks or posters until March 31. The registration is open, and you may enjoy the early bird price before March 31. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you for your consideration, and we look forward to your involvement. |
| 2025 February 25 ILAS-NET Message no. 2574 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Iain Duff SUBJECT: Sparse Days at CERFACS. 2-3 June 2025 Registration is now open for this year's Annual Sparse Days meeting at CERFACS in Toulouse, France on 2nd and 3rd June 2025. The website is https://sparsedays.cerfacs.fr/en/home/. The deadline for registering is 2nd May but it would greatly help our planning if you could register well before that. Even today! When you register, you should indicate whether you want to give a talk and whether you want to attend our traditional conference dinner on the evening of Monday 2nd June which will be held in the restaurant Au Gascon. In addition to our core of numerical linear algebra, talks in optimization, data assimilation, and scientific machine learning, for example are welcome. The maximum length for the talk and questions is 30 minutes but you are welcome to request a shorter slot. As usual we will not be having parallel sessions so talk times are negotiable. |
| 2025 February 13 ILAS-NET Message no. 2573 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: Oscar Rojo (1938-2025) Dear ILAS colleagues and friends, It with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Oscar Rojo on February 7th, after a battle with an aggressive cancer over the last six months. It can be said that Professor Rojo, whose career was mostly at the Universidad Catolica del Norte in Antofagasta, was responsible for the establishment and growth of Linear Algebra research in Chile. His students and colleagues who continue this tradition, are the embodiment of Rojo's legacy. Beyond Chile, many of Rojo's papers have had a considerable impact in the profession, especially in areas related to graphs and matrices and their spectra. We mourn the loss of a good and influential colleague. |
| 2025 February 8 ILAS-NET Message no. 2572 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Manjunatha Prasad Karantha SUBJECT: ICLAA 2025 and IWSMGA 2025 at CARAMS, MAHE, Manipal, India The International Conference on Linear Algebra and its Applications (ICLAA 2025), the sixth in its series, will be organized by the Center for Advanced Research in Applied Mathematics & Statistics, MAHE, Manipal, India, during December 17–20, 2025. The Scientific Advisory Committee comprises Ravindra B Bapat (Chairman), Manjunatha Prasad Karantha (Convener), Steve Kirkland, and Simo Puntanen. The conference is endorsed by ILAS. The registration link is now open. The conference will be following a preconference workshop `International Workshop on Special Matrices, Graphs, and Applications' (IWSMGA 2025) held during December 10-16, 2025, for which the resource persons are Abraham Berman, Stephen J Kirkland, Simo Puntanen, T E S Raghavan, S K Neogy, Sukanta Pati, Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian and others. For more details, such as registration fees, speakers, and special issues, please visit the CARAMS web page. The organizers cordially invite all to join them for the events held at MAHE, Manipal. Organizing Secretary, ICLAA 2025 CARAMS, MAHE, Manipal, India Web: https://carams.in/ email: carams.mahe@gmail.com Conference Page: https://carams.in/events/iclaa2025/ Workshop Page: https://carams.in/events/iwsmga2025/ Email: iclaa2025@gmail.com |
| 2025 January 31 ILAS-NET Message no. 2571 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Shaun Fallat SUBJECT: Second Announcement of the 2025 Workshop on Matrices and Operators Second 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. Information concerning registration, housing, the conference schedule (when available), and the conference location can be found on this website. 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) |
| 2025 January 13 ILAS-NET Message no. 2570 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Apoorva Khare SUBJECT: Call for nominations for the 2026 ILAS JMM Lecturer Dear ILAS members, We are soliciting suggestions for the ILAS Lecturer at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in Washington DC, USA, during 4–7 January 2026. The ILAS JMM Lecturer will represent ILAS via an Invited Address, and could also organize one or more special sessions at the JMM. Please send your suggestions for ILAS JMM Lecturers, along with a short justification and a CV, if possible, to Apoorva Khare (khare@iisc.ac.in) by 31 January 2025. We look forward to hearing from you, and with best regards, Apoorva Khare on behalf of the ILAS JMM Speaker Committee [Orly Alter, Ángeles Carmona, Mark Embree, and Daniel Szyld] |
| 2025 January 13 ILAS-NET Message no. 2569 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 2025 for receipt of proposals for sponsorship of ILAS Lectures at non-ILAS meetings and for general support of conferences taking place in 2026. 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 |
| 2025 January 06 ILAS-NET Message no. 2568 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Andrii Dmytryshyn SUBJECT: Fifteen PhD positions at the Department of Mathematical Sciences Join one of Sweden’s leading mathematics departments! The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg is the largest mathematics department in Sweden, with around 200 dedicated employees. We excel in both pure and applied mathematics as well as mathematical statistics, with research spanning a wide range of areas. We currently have 15 open PhD positions: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I003/304/job?site=5&lang=UK&validator=a72aeedd63ec10de71e46f8d91d0d57c&job_id=13501, including a position in Numerical Linear Algebra: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/work-with-us/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=13487&rmlang=UK |
| 2025 January 06 ILAS-NET Message no. 2567 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Alex Townsend SUBJECT: Deadline Imminent, Submissions for IMA Fox Prize 2025 We would like to remind colleagues that the deadline for the twenty-second IMA Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis is on the 31st of January 2025. This prestigious 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 at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK, preceding the 30th Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference. https://numericalanalysisconference.org.uk/ 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 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 considered. Each entry should be based on a manuscript describing some of the candidate's research 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/ [ima.org.uk] |
| 2025 January 06 ILAS-NET Message no. 2566 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Hermie Monterde SUBJECT: 05C50 ONLINE FOR 2025 Dear ILAS members, Happy new year! The 05C50 Online (https://sites.google.com/view/05c50online/home) is an online international seminar which features recent research trends in Graphs and Matrices. Our speakers for Winter 2025 include Sebi Cioaba, Polona Oblak, Krystal Guo and Vilmar Trevisan. As usual, the seminar runs once every two weeks on a Friday, 10am to 11am Central Time starting January 17, 2025. If you want 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. Hope to see you there! Sincerely, Steve Kirkland and Hermie Monterde (she/her) Department of Mathematics University of Manitoba |