ILAS-Net 2026
Message Archive
| 2026 Mar 4 ILAS-NET Message no. 2630 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Angeles Carmona Mejias SUBJECT: Conference Announcement – ALAMA 2026, Huelva, Spain Dear All, On behalf of the General Foundation of the University of Alcalá, acting as the Technical Secretariat of ALAMA 2026, we are pleased to announce the IX Biennial Meeting of the Thematic Network on Linear Algebra, Matrix Analysis and Applications (ALAMA). The meeting will take place from June 17–19, 2026, in Huelva (Spain), hosted by the Faculty of Experimental Sciences at the University of Huelva. We warmly invite researchers interested in presenting their work to submit a contribution. The submission period is currently open and will close soon on March 5, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. (CET). Detailed information about submissions, the scientific program, and practical matters is available at: https://congresosalcala.fgua.es/alama2026/ficha/6351/provisionalschedule/ Contributions must be submitted exclusively through: https://congresosalcala.fgua.es/alama2026/envio_comunicaciones/6408/envio-online/ Registration is open until June 12, 2026. A reduced fee is available until April 20, 2026: https://congresosalcala.fgua.es/alama2026/inscripcion/6481/online-registration All relevant information is available at: www.alama2026.com Thank you for your attention. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information. Kind regards, Technical Secretariat of ALAMA 2026 Departamento de Formación y Congresos Tel.: +34 91 879 74 30 (Ext. 7476) www.fgua.es |
| 2026 Mar 2 ILAS-NET Message no. 2629 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Raf Vandebril SUBJECT: Call for Proposals for the ILAS 2028 Conference Dear Colleagues, The International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) is pleased to invite proposals to host the ILAS 2028 and ILAS 2029 Conference. Please note that there will be no ILAS conference in 2027 due to the SIAM/LA Meeting taking place that year. If you are interested in hosting the 2028 or 2029 conference, we encourage you to contact Raf Vandebril, Vice-President for Conferences, or Shaun Fallat, ILAS President, who will be happy to provide further details. We look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Raf Vandebril Vice-President for Conferences Shaun Fallat ILAS President |
| 2026 Feb 27 ILAS-NET Message no. 2628 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: JMM 27 ILAS Address, Special Sessions, and more We are happy to announce that the ILAS Address at the Joint Mathematics Meeting 2027 will be given by Misha Kilmer from Tuft University. The meeting will take place in Chicago on January 12-15, 2027. I take the opportunity to thank the JMM ILAS Address Committee: Orly Alter, Angeles Carmona, Mark Embree, Apoorva Khare (Chair) for their work over the last three years. As always, ILAS will sponsor several special sessions at the JMM. Please consider submitting a proposal. The deadline is in two months, so it is not too early to start planning for them. Lastly, this is my last communication as ILAS President, as my second term is coming to an end. I want to express my deep appreciation to all of you, the members, for the support for the Society and its activities. For me, it was an honor to serve, and I look forward to being the Past-President for a year, under the guidance of our new President Shaun Fallat. |
| 2026 Feb 20 ILAS-NET Message no. 2627 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel B. Szyld SUBJECT: Bob Plemmons (1938-2026), Beresford Parlett (1932-2026) The ILAS Community lost to dear colleagues earlier this month. Bob Plemmons, who among many contributions co-wrote with Avi Berman the classic book "Nonnegative Matrices in the Mathematical Sciences." https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/winstonsalem/name/robert-plemmons-obituary?id=60741519 https://inside.wfu.edu/2026/02/retired-faculty-member-robert-bob-plemmons-has-passed-away/ Beresford Partlett, who among many contributions wrote the book "The Symmetric Eigenvalue Problem," and who was awarded the Hasn Schneider Prize in 2010. https://eecs.berkeley.edu/news/in-memoriam-beresford-parlett-1932-2026/ https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2026/02/10/beresford-parlett/ |
| 2026 Feb 20 ILAS-NET Message no. 2626 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 15th. 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 |
| 2026 Feb 16 ILAS-NET Message no. 2625 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Juan-Miguel Gracia Melero SUBJECT: Ferran Puerta (1936-2026) Dear ILAS colleagues, It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Ferran Puerta on 11 February during surgery. An engineer, physicist and mathematician, he made a decisive contribution to the training of generations of researchers in Geometry, Algebra and Linear Algebra, and their applications, through his work in research and the writing of textbooks. He also played a key role in the early development of ILAS. In particular, he organised one of its first conferences, the eighth, in Barcelona in 1999. He was a vital and enthusiastic man who left a profound mark on many of us. May he rest in peace. Juan-Miguel Gracia and Ion Zaballa |
| 2026 Feb 11 ILAS-NET Message no. 2624 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Shahla Nasserasr SUBJECT: Linear Algebra Community Inclusivity Survey We are working to make our linear algebra community more inclusive and equitable, and your perspective matters! We invite you to take a few minutes to complete this Qualtrics questionnaire: https://rit.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aXBi5OZhLOY4SJU All questions are optional, so you may answer as many or as few as you wish. Responses will be used to help guide initiatives that support members and foster the continued growth of our community. Best wishes, Shahla Nasserasr on behalf of the Outreach and Membership Committee (Minerva Catral, Andrii Dmytryshyn, and Federico Poloni) |
| 2026 Jan 12 ILAS-NET Message no. 2623 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 2026 for receipt of proposals for sponsorship of ILAS Lectures at non-ILAS meetings and for general support of conferences taking place in 2027. 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 |
| 2026 Jan 12 ILAS-NET Message no. 2622 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Tin Yau Tam SUBJECT: 2026 Spring Biweekly Matrix Seminar on Zoom at UNR The 2026 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 held on January 30, 2026. For the talk schedule, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MswSd16JqsZE294kYCXujLio4cnAiuYv6QKRc6BxvI0/edit# The Zoom link is https://unr.zoom.us/j/89946992179 Please contact Pan Shun Lau at plau@unr.edu if you have any questions. Best regards, Pan Shun Lau and Tin-Yau Tam |
| 2025 Jan 12 ILAS-NET Message no. 2621 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Fabio Durastante SUBJECT: PSCToolkit release Announcement: PSBLAS 3.9.0 and AMG4PSBLAS 1.2.0 We are pleased to announce the release of the newest versions of the two core components in the PSCToolkit suite. PSBLAS (Parallel Sparse BLAS) is the distributed sparse linear algebra library at the heart of PSCToolkit. It provides scalable and efficient support for parallel sparse matrix operations, iterative solvers, distributed memory execution, and interfaces to high-performance computing environments. Highlights in 3.9.0: - Direct support for GPU acceleration, no longer requiring PSBLAS-EXT - CMake installation support, in addition to configure/make - Improved C interface for easier C/C++ integration Download: https://psctoolkit.github.io/products/psblas/ AMG4PSBLAS is the algebraic multigrid preconditioner package designed to work seamlessly with PSBLAS. It implements highly parallel multilevel preconditioners optimized for large-scale iterative solvers. Key features in 1.2.0: - New polynomial smoothers optimized for GPU architectures - CMake support for easier building and integration - Improved C interface for better C/C++ usability Download: https://psctoolkit.github.io/products/amg4psblas/ # Getting Started Both libraries include source code, documentation, and examples. They can be built using configure/make or CMake and are designed to support HPC environments with MPI and optional GPU support. For support, documentation, and issue reporting, visit the PSCToolkit GitHub organization or the project websites. Best regards, The PSCToolkit Team Pasqua D'Ambra Fabio Durastante Salvatore Filippone |
| 2026 Jan 09 ILAS-NET Message no. 2620 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Apoorva Khare SUBJECT: Call for nominations for the 2027 ILAS JMM Lecturer Dear ILAS members, We are soliciting suggestions for the ILAS Lecturer at the 2027 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in Chicago, USA, during 12–15 January 2027. The ILAS JMM Lecturer will represent ILAS via an Invited Address, and could also organize one or more special sessions at the JMM. A list of past ILAS JMM speakers is available at https://ilasic.org/ilas-jmm-lecturers/. 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 2026. 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] |
| 2026 Jan 08 ILAS-NET Message no. 2619 CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Bryan L. Shader SUBJECT: Regional Research Conference on Strong Matrix Properties and the Inverse Eigenvalue Problem NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conference on Strong Matrix Properties and the Inverse Eigenvalue Problem Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA, May 11–15, 2026 Strong properties of matrices, modeled on the Strong Arnold Property, have led to significant recent advances on the Inverse Eigenvalue Problem for Graphs (See https://www.ams.org/notices/202002/rnoti-p257.pdf for an introductory overview). These new strong properties have also energized significant progress in the study of related invariants, such as the maximum multiplicity of an eigenvalue and the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues of a graph, and they have led to new connections with graph minors and graph propagation procedures. These connections have also given rise to new matrix theory questions and results, new forbidden minor characterizations, new minor-monotone graph parameters, and new graph theoretic questions and results. The conference will provide early-career researchers and graduate students, as well as established researchers, with access to cutting edge tools and ideas needed to explore this fruitful, new, and evolving area of mathematics. The conference is one of five Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) Regional Research Conferences in the 2025–2026 series, each of which is partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and features a distinguished team of lecturers delivering a sequence of lectures on a topic of important current research in one sharply focused area of the mathematical sciences. The primary speakers for this conference are: Bryan Shader (University of Wyoming) Helena Šmigoc (University College Dublin) Kevin N. Vander Meulen (Redeemer University) Participation from all countries is encouraged. Support of up to US\$700 will be available for up to 30 participants affiliated with U.S. institutions with preference given to graduate students and junior faculty. The online application can be found at https://sites.google.com/emich.edu/cbms and the deadline to apply is January 23rd, 2026, with decisions available by February 1st. Questions can be directed to the organizer, Lon Mitchell (lon.mitchell@emich.edu). |