************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 December 30 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1976 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Suk-Geun Hwang SUBJECT: ILAS 2014 Contributed Minisymposia ---------------------------------------------------------- REMINDER for the DUE DATE for application of Contributed MiniSymposia, ILAS 2014. The 19th International Linear Algebra Society Conference in 2014 (ILAS 2014) is scheduled to be held in Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, from August 06 (Wed), 2014 to August 09 (Sat), 2014. ILAS 2014 Conference is one of the satellite conferences of ICM 2014 which will be held in Seoul Korea in 2014 right after the ILAS meeting. The Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) of ILAS 2014 welcomes proposals for contributed minisymposia for ILAS 2014. Each talk at a minisymposium will be 25 minutes (20 minute talk plus 5 minutes of discussion). Each minisymposium will have maximum 300 minutes (12 speakers). Proposals should be in PDF format and be no more than 2 pages total. Proposals should include the name(s) of the organizer(s), a short description of the topics of the minisymposium, and the names of proposed speakers. Proposals are due January 20th, 2014, and decision will be made by SOC by around early February, 2014. Until today only a few applications have been received. Please email proposals directly to (both) SOC members of ILAS 2014: Sang-Gu Lee (sglee@skku.edu) and Fuzhen Zhang (zhang@nova.edu) who will communicate with SOC Chair and members. For your reference, listed below are the Invited Mini-Symposia determined by SOC. INVITED MINISYMPOSIA 1. Combinatorial Problems in Linear Algebra (Richard. A. Brualdi and Geir Dahl / University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA & University of Oslo, Norway) 2. Matrix Inequalities (Fuzhen Zhang and Minghua Lin / Nova Southeastern University, USA & University of Victoria, Canada) 3. Spectral theory of graphs and hypergraphs (Vladimir S. Nikiforov / University of Memphis, USA) 4. Tensor Eigenvalues (Jia-Yu Shao and Liqun Qi / Tongji University, China & Hong Kong Polytechnic University) 5. Quantum Information and Computing (Chi-Kwong Li and Yiu Tung Poon / College of William and Mary, USA & Iowa State University, USA) 6. Riordan arrays and Related Topics (Gi-Sang Cheon and Lou Shapiro /Sungkyunkwan University, Korea & Howard University, USA) 7. Nonnegative Matrices and Generalizations (Judi McDonald / Washington State University, USA) 8. Toeplitz Matrices and Operators (Torsten Ehrhardt / University of California-Santa Cruz, USA) Best wishes, Suk-Geun Hwang SOC Chair http://www.ilas2014.org ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 December 30 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1975 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Stephen Boyd SUBJECT: A new MOOC CVX101: Convex Optimization ---------------------------------------------------------- CVX 101, a new MOOC (massive open on-line course) will run from January 21 to March 14, 2014. You can register (and find out a little bit about the class) at https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/CVX101/Winter2014/about The MOOC will be based on the Stanford course EE364A, which can be browsed at http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee364a/ Feel free to forward this announcement to students, colleagues, or anyone else who might be interested. --Stephen Boyd ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 December 22 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1974 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Judi McDonald SUBJECT: Postdoctoral Research Associate ---------------------------------------------------------- Postdoctoral Research Associate The Department of Mathematics at Washington State University, in Pullman, WA, invites applications for a three year postdoctoral research associate in Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, Mathematics Education, or Statistics, commencing August 2014. The Department contains a diverse group of scholars involved in active collaboration with other researchers at the university, national and international level. Preference will be given to candidates whose research interests and expertise overlap with one or more faculty members of the Department (see http://www.math.wsu.edu/faculty/ ). The position is available for three years and will include a travel allowance and a budget for moving expenses. Responsibilities include contributing to the research profile of the Department and fulfilling a teaching load of one course per semester. Applicants should have received a PhD between July 1, 2010 and September 1, 2014. The successful applicant requires evidence establishing the promise of excellence in research and teaching. To apply see www.wsujobs.com. Statements of research and teaching interests, curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, and three (3) letters of recommendation are required. Recommendation letters will be requested from the reference providers automatically through the online application system. Review of applications begins January 2, 2014, and will continue until the position is filled. Washington State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action educator and employer. ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 December 03 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1973 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Mohammad Sal Moslehian SUBJECT: Special Volume of Ann. Funct. Anal. Dedicated to Prof. Ando ---------------------------------------------------------- In celebration of the distinguished achievements of Prof. Tsuyoshi Ando in matrix analysis and operator theory, an interview with him was conducted by R. A. Brualdi and M. S. Moslehian. It includes Prof. Ando's responses to several questions regarding his education and life. This interview will apprear in the special volume (2014) of Annals of Functional Analysis (http://www.emis.de/journals/AFA/ [1]) dedicated to Prof. T. Ando. It was posted on arxiv at http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.7199 [2] as well. ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 December 02 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1972 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Kevin Vander Meulen SUBJECT: IMAGE 51 Can Now Be Read Online ---------------------------------------------------------- Issue 51 of IMAGE, the bulletin of ILAS, can now be obtained online at http://www.ilasic.org/IMAGE/ Issue 51 includes an interview with Thomas Laffey, an article on Markov chains in seismology, an article on the educational use of the open-source software SAGE, as well as the history of linear algebra in Santa Barbara. This issue includes 2 book reviews, several conference announcements and reports, solutions of all the problems in issue 50, 6 new problems, and more... Enjoy! ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 November 25 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1971 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Leslie Hogben SUBJECT: 2013 ILAS Election Voting Is Now Open ---------------------------------------------------------- Each member of ILAS was e-mailed an individual username and password and instructions for electronic voting on November 20, and voting was opened. If you have not yet voted, you may vote any time until January 20, 2013. If you did not receive an e-mail and wish to vote, please verify that you are a 2013 member (you can determine whether or not you are a 2013 member of ILAS (as of Nov. 08, 2013) by consulting the website: http://www.ilasic.org/misc/membership.html If you are a member and did not receive an e-mail, please contact Leslie Hogben , ILAS Secretary Treasurer, to obtain your username and password. ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 October 31 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1970 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM:Leslie Hogben, ILAS Secretary/Treasurer SUBJECT: Voting in upcoming 2013 ILAS Elections ---------------------------------------------------------- In the upcoming ILAS elections, electronic voting will again be used, with Votenet Solutions, the company that has conducted previous ILAS elections (and that is used by SIAM to conduct its elections). Each member will be e-mailed an individual username and password and instructions for electronic voting. This e-mail will be sent on or about November 20, 2013. You may vote as soon as you receive your username and password. Voting will conclude on January 20, 2014. Any member who prefers to vote by paper ballot should e-mail the Secretary/Treasurer Leslie Hogben to request a paper ballot; such request must be received by November 10. You can determine whether or not you are a 2013 member of ILAS (as of Oct. 28, 2013) by consulting the website http://www.ilasic.org/misc/membership.html Please note: 1) This is the only current online list of ILAS members, even thought there may be other sites with old lists of ILAS members. 2) Receiving ILAS-net messages does not make you an ILAS member. See http://www.ilasic.org/misc/membership.html for information about ILAS membership. After November 10, it is no longer possible to add online voters, so anyone whose membership is processed after that date will receive a PDF ballot to be printed and returned like a paper ballot. Please note that it takes about 2 weeks to process memberships, and no 2013 memberships will be accepted for processing after December 7, 2013 (2014 memberships will continue to be accepted but will probably not processed before 2014). ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 October 03 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1969 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM:Carlos Fonseca SUBJECT: Special Matrices (De Gruyter) ---------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL MATRICES (DE GRUYTER) I would like to inform the ILAS community for a new journal - Special Matrices - published by Versita - De Gruyter: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/spma.2013.1.issue/issue-files/spma.2013.1.issue.xml Special Matrices will be devoted to structured matrices and their applications. The first three papers are already available: Nonnegative definite hermitian matrices with increasing principal minors, by Shmuel Friedland Factorizable matrices, by Miroslav Fiedler and Frank J. Hall A note on the determinant of a Toepliz-Hessenberg matrix, by Mircea Merca. All papers will be freely downloadable. The Editor of Special Matrices is Carlos Fonseca from the University of Coimbra. Please, visit the website http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/spma for further information and submission guidelines. Carlos Fonseca ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 October 03 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1968 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM:Suk-Geun Hwang SUBJECT: ILAS 2014 Announcement ---------------------------------------------------------- Invitations for Contributed Mini Symposia at ILAS 2014 The 19th International Linear Algebra Society Conference in 2014 (ILAS 2014) is scheduled to be held in Suwon, South Korea as follows. DATES : August 06 (Wed) to August 09 (Sat), 2014 VANUE : Sungkyunkwan University, Science Campus, Suwon, Rep. of Korea THEME : Solidarity in Linear Algebra (See the website http://www.ilas2014.org for details) ILAS 2014 Conference is one of the satellite conferences of ICM 2014 which will be held in Seoul Korea in 2014 right after the ILAS meeting. The Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) of ILAS 2014 welcomes proposals for contributed minisymposia for ILAS 2014. Each talk at a minisymposium will be given 25 minutes (20 minutes talk plus 5 minutes discussion). Each minisymposium will have maximum 300 minutes (12 speakers). Proposals should be in PDF format and no more than 2 pages total. Proposals should include the name(s) of the organizer(s), a short description of the topics of the minisymposium, and the names of proposed speakers. Proposals are due January 20th, 2014, and decision will be made by SOC by around early February, 2014. Please email proposals directly to (both) SOC members of ILAS 2014: Sang-Gu Lee (sglee@skku.edu) and Fuzhen Zhang (zhang@nova.edu) who will communicate with SOC Chair and members. For your reference, listed below are the Invited Mini-Symposia. INVITED MINISYMPOSIA 1. Combinatorial Problems in Linear Algebra (Richard. A. Brualdi and Geir Dahl/ University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA & University of Oslo, Norway) 2. Matrix Inequalities (Fuzhen Zhang and Minghua Lin/ Nova Southeastern University, USA & University of Victoria, Canada) 3. Spectral theory of graphs and hypergraphs (Vladimir S. Nikiforov /University of Memphis, USA) 4. Tensor Eigenvalues (Jia-Yu Shao and Liqun Qi/ Tongji University, China &Hong Kong Polytechnic University) 5. Quantum Information and Computing (Chi-Kwong Li and Yiu Tung Poon /College of William and Mary, USA & Iowa State University, USA) 6. Riordan arrays and Related Topics (Gi-Sang Cheon and Lou Shapiro /Sungkyunkwan University, Korea & Howard University, USA) 7. Nonnegative Matrices and Generalizations (Judi McDonald / WashingtonState University, USA) 8. Toeplitz Matrices and Operators (Torsten Ehrhardt / University ofCalifornia-Santa Cruz, USA) Best wishes, Suk-Geun Hwang SOC Chair http://www.ilas2014.org ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 October 02 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1967 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Shaun Fallat SUBJECT: Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting ---------------------------------------------------------- Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting University of Regina, Regina May 10-11, 2014 The Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting (WCLAM) provides an opportunity for mathematicians in western Canada working in linear algebra and related fields to meet present accounts of their recent research, and to have informal discussions. While the meeting has a regional base, it also attracts people from outside the geographical area. Participation is open to anyone who is interested in attending or speaking at the meeting. Previous WCLAMs were held in Regina (1993, 2002), Lethbridge (1995, 2012), Kananaskis (1996), Victoria (1998, 2006), and Winnipeg (2000, 2008), Banff (2004, 2010). The WCLAM '14 will be held at the University of Regina in Regina on May 10-11 and the program will include the following four featured speakers: . Joel Friedman, University of British Columbia . Roger Horn, University of Utah . Mitja Mastnak, Saint Mary's University . Maya Mincheva, Northern Illinois University ________________________________________ Contributed Lectures/Posters: Participants who wish to present a 25-minute lecture or a poster should send a title/abstract to: western.canada.linear.algebra.meeting@uregina.ca Deadline for Abstract submission: 15 April 2014. To register, email western.canada.linear.algebra.meeting@uregina.ca and include the following information: . Your name and institution. . Your position (faculty member, postdoctoral researcher, graduate student, undergraduate student). . Whether you will or will not attend the banquet (evening of May 10). (There will be an extra charge for the banquet. Please indicate if you are bringing a guest.) . Whether you plan to give a talk or present a poster. (Your title/abstract can be submitted with the registration or separately.) Registration Fee: $30 (Canadian), payable by cash or cheque (made out to the University of Regina) at the meeting. Please register by 30 April 2014. Further information about Regina, the University and accommodation while attending WCLAM 2014 can be found at the conference website: http://uregina.ca/~abstsubm/index.html ________________________________________ WCLAM Organising Committee . Shaun Fallat (Regina) . Hadi Kharaghani (Lethbridge) . Steve Kirkland (Manitoba) . Peter Lancaster (Calgary) . Michael Tsatsomeros (Washington State) . Pauline van den Driessche (Victoria) Local Organising Committee . Shaun Fallat (Regina) . Douglas Farenick (Regina) The WCLAM Organising Committee gratefully acknowledges the generous support for this meeting provided by The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, the Faculty of Science, and the President's Office at the University of Regina. ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 September 29 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1966 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Mirjam Duer SUBJECT: Postdoc Position in Matrix Theory/Optimization ---------------------------------------------------------- Applications are invited for a postdoc position at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Trier (Germany). The postdoc will be working in the research project "Completely Positive and Copositive Matrices" which is funded by the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF). The investigators in this project are Mirjam Duer (University of Trier, Germany), Abraham Berman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa) and Naomi Shaked-Monderer (The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College). The research area will be in the intersection of matrix theory and nonlinear optimization. More specifically, we are interested in optimization problems over the copositive and completely positive matrix cones, as well as the geometry of these cones. The position will be starting 1 January 2014 or later, and is granted for one year. Salary will be according to TVL-E13. The position may be extended for a second year which will be spent in Israel at the Technion. Applicants must hold a PhD degree in mathematics or a related field, and should have an expertise in either matrix theory or conic optimization. They should be able to communicate in English, German is desirable but not mandatory. Applications should include: * a letter of application * a detailed curriculum vitae * names of two possible references and should be directed by email in a single pdf-file to: Prof. Dr. Mirjam Duer Department of Mathematics University of Trier 54286 Trier, Germany T: +49 651 201 3481 E: duer@uni-trier.de W: http://www.math.uni-trier.de/~duer/ For full consideration applications must be received by 20 October 2013, however late applications will be considered until the position is filled. ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 September 29 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1965 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Eric Chu SUBJECT: Special Issues of Journals and Research Monograph in Honor of Professor Biswa Datta ---------------------------------------------------------- Biswa Nath Datta has been honored by the following recent publications dedicated to him. A special issue on "Inverse Problems in Science and Industry" of the journal "Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications" ( Vol. 20, 167-170, 2013), has been dedicated to Biswa Nath Datta. The issue contains 17 papers, which address a variety of the theoretical issues, and applications, associated with inverse problems. The publication recognizes Biswa Datta's many significant contributions to linear algebra and control theory. This special issue was edited by Eric Chu, W.-W.Lin and Lothar Reichel. A research monograph entitled "Numerical Linear Algebra in Signals, Systems and Control" ( Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 80, Springer, 2011), was dedicated to Biswa Nath Datta. The monograph was edited by Paul Van Dooren, Shankar Bhattacharyya, Raymond Chan, Vadim Olshevsky and Aurobinda Routray . It contains contributions by some of the leading researchers in these areas which included several invited talks delivered at the International workshop under the same title held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 2007. Datta was honored at a banquet ceremony organized by the local IEEE Chapter during the conference for " his numerous contributions in the area of numerical linear algebra with control and systems theory, and signal processing". The ceremony was presided by the -then President of IEEE Chapter, IIT-Kharagpur. The speakers included, Rajendra Bhatia, the late Gene Golub, Volker Mehrmann, B. M. Mohan, and Paul Van Dooren. A special issue of the journal "Linear Algebra and its Applications" ( Volume 434, Issue 7, April, 2011), was dedicated to Datta "in recognition of his contributions to Linear Algebra, his enthusiasm for linear algebra and its applications, and his efforts over the years to bring together researchers in Linear Algebra with scientists and engineers, who work on applications for which linear algebra is essential". It was noted there that " Biswa Datta's enthusiasm for Linear Algebra and its applications has been a source of inspiration for many colleagues and students". The editors of this issue were Richard Brualdi, Robert Plemmons, Lothar Reichel and Qiang Ye. This issue contained papers on theory, computations and applications of Linear Algebra, mostly based on some of invited and contributed talks given at the IMS Conference on "Linear Algebra, Numerical Linear Algebra and Applications", held at Northern Illinois University, August, 2011. Biswa was honored by distinguished linear algebraists in a banquet ceremony of this conference. The speakers included, Shankar Bhattacharyya, Richard Brualdi, James Nagy, Robert Plemmons, Hans Schneider, and Vadim Sokolov. The ceremony was presided by William Blair who was the Chairman of the Department of Mathematical Sciences of NIU at that time. ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 September 26 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1964 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Stephen Kirkland SUBJECT: 2013 ILAS Elections ---------------------------------------------------------- The Nominating Committee for the 2013 ILAS elections has completed its work. Nominated for a three year term, beginning March 1, 2014, as ILAS President are: - Andre Ran, Netherland - Peter Semrl, Slovenia Nominated for the two open three-year terms, beginning March 1, 2014, as "at-large" members of the ILAS Board of Directors are: - Froilan Dopico, Spain - Julio Moro, Spain - Michael Overton, USA - Eugene Tyrtyshnikov, Russia According to ILAS By-Laws, additional nominations may be made by electronic or regular mail by any three members of ILAS; prior approval of the nominee is required. All such nominations should be sent to the chair of the Nominating Committee, Roger Horn rhorn@math.utah.edu, by October 11, 2013. Many thanks to the Nominating Committee: Shaun Fallat Heike Fassbender Roger Horn (chair) Yimin Wei Zdenek Strakos for their important service to ILAS. Thanks also to the nominees for agreeing to stand for election. ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 September 25 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1963 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Damjana Kokol Bukovsek SUBJECT: LAW and IWMS 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------- 7th Linear Algebra Workshop (LAW'14) Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 4-12, 2014 and 23rd International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics (IWMS) Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 8-12, 2014 he main theme of the Linear Algebra Workshop will be the interplay between operator theory and algebra. The workshop will follow the usual format. A few hours of talks will be scheduled for the morning sessions, while afternoons will be reserved for work in smaller groups. LAW'14 will be organized in conjunction with IWMS that will take place in the second week. The main theme of the International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics will be the interplay between matrices and statistics. Both workshops will be held at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Ljubljana, Slovenia. More information can be found at www.law05.si/law14 and www.law05.si/iwms. ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 September 17 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1962 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Kevin Vander Meulen SUBJECT: Send News and Articles for IMAGE Issue 51 ---------------------------------------------------------- Deadline: October 2, 2013. IMAGE seeks to publish all news of interest to the linear algebra community. Send your items directly to the appropriate person: Problems and Solutions to Bojan Kuzma (bojan.kuzma@upr.si) History of Linear Algebra to Naomi Shaked-Monderer (nomi@tx.technion.ac.il) Book Reviews to Douglas Farenick (Doug.Farenick@uregina.ca) Linear Algebra Education news to David Strong (David.Strong@pepperdine.edu) Announcements and Reports of Conferences, Workshops and Journals to Minerva Catral (catralm@xavier.edu) Interviews of Senior Linear Algebraists to Carlos Fonseca (cmf@mat.uc.pt) Advertisements to Amy Wehe (awehe@fitchburgstate.edu) Feature articles to Michael Cavers (mscavers@gmail.com) All other news to Kevin N. Vander Meulen (kvanderm@redeemer.ca). This includes: Honors and awards, funding opportunities, job openings. Brief references to articles appearing elsewhere, of interest to the linear algebra community. Announcements of new books, software, websites. Transitions (new positions, obituaries). Letters to the Editor. Small items like clever proofs, historical tidbits, cartoons, etc. Suggestions for IMAGE Deadline for submission is Oct. 2, 2013 IMAGE Issue 51 is scheduled to be published online Dec. 1, 2013. Kevin N. Vander Meulen, Editor-in-Chief, IMAGE ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 September 15 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1961 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Suk-Geun Hwang SUBJECT: ILAS 2014 Announcement ---------------------------------------------------------- The 19th International Linear Algebra Society Conference in 2014, ILAS 2014, is scheduled to be held in Suwon, South Korea as follows. DATES : August 06(Wed) to August 09(Sat), 2014 VANUE : Sungkyunkwan University, Science Campus, Suwon, Rep. of Korea THEME : Solidarity in Linear Algebra ILAS 2014 Conference is one of the satellite conferences of ICM 2014 which will be held in Seoul Korea in 2014 right after the ILAS meeting. The Scientific Organizing Committee(SOC) of ILAS 2014 has decided the plenary speakers and invited minisymposia. PLENARY SPEAKERS : 1. Ravindra Bapat (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi, INDIA) 2. Peter Benner (Max Planck Institute, GERMANY) 3. Dario Bini* (University of Pisa, ITALY) / LAA Lecturer 4. Ljiljana Cvetkovic (University of Novi Sad, SERBIA) 5. Shaun Fallat* (University of Regina, CANADA)/ Taussky-Todd Lecturer 6. Andreas Frommer* (University of Wuppertal, GERMANY) / SIAG/LA sponsored speaker 7. Stephane Gaubert (INRIA, Domaine de Voluceau, FRANCE) 8. Chi-Kwong Li (College of William and Mary, USA) 9. Yongdo Lim (Sung Kyun Kwan University, KOREA) 10. Panayiotis Psarrakos (National Technical University of Athens, GREECE) 11. Vladimir Sergeichuk (Institute of Mathematics, Kiev, UKRAINE) 12. Bernd Sturmfels (University of California-Berkeley, USA) 13. Tin-Yau Tam (Auburn University, USA) INVITED MINISYMPOSIA : 1. Combinatorial Problems in Linear Algebra (Richard. A. Brualdi / University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 2. Matrix Inequalities (Fuzhen Zhang / Nova Southeastern University, USA) 3. Spectral Graph Theory and Other Combinatorial Matrix Theory (Vladimir S. Nikiforov / University of Memphis, USA) 4. Tensor Eigenvalues (Jia-Yu Shao / Tongji University, China) 5. Quantum Information and Computing (Chi-Kwong Li / College of William and Mary, USA) 6. Riordan arrays and Related Topics (Gi-Sang Cheon / Sungkyunkwan University, Korea) 7. Nonnegative Matrices and Generalizations (Judi McDonald / Washington State University, USA) * One more may or may not be added. We are looking for about 10 Contributed MINISYMPOSIA. Two SOC members of ILAS 2014 will be in charge of correspondence of this invitation. Details for Contributed MINISYMPOSIA will be sent separately. Some Other Information: 1. Official Homepage of ILAS 2014 : http://www.ilas2014.org 2. Some Possible Travel Grants from AMS for ICM 2014 for US mathematicians: http://www.ams.org/programs/travel-grants/icm 3. ICM 2014 Invitation Program: "NANUM 2014" : http://www.mathunion.org/cdc/grants/icm-korea-2014-support-program/ The SOC wish many mathematicians around the world may participate in and enjoy the ILAS 2014 conference. Suk-Geun Hwang ILAS 2014, SOC Chair ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 September 04 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1960 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Richard Brualdi SUBJECT: New Book ---------------------------------------------------------- A new book of interest to ILAS members was published in July 2014: Title: Matrix Theory Author: Xingzhi Zhan Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Volume 147 American Mathematical Society 2013; 264 pp; hardcover ISBN-10: 0-8218-9491-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-9491-0 More information can be found in the website http://www.ams.org/bookstore?fn=20&arg1=gsmseries&ikey=GSM-147 ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 September 03 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1959 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Steven Leon SUBJECT: Articles on Teaching Proofs in Linear Algebra ---------------------------------------------------------- Fellow ILAS members, Below is a message I received from Aliza Steurer. She is seeking articles on proof writing in linear algebra courses for inclusion in a forthcoming book. In many cases the linear algebra course is the first mathematics course where students encounter proofs. So it is altogether appropriate for a book on proof writing to include articles focusing on teaching proofs in linear algebra. All who teach linear algebra can benefit if we share our ideas on introducing proofs in the first course in linear algebra. I encourage ILAS members to send articles on this subject to Aliza Schurer. Steve Leon, Chair, ILAS Education Committee Forwarded message from Aliza Steurer: We, Aliza Steurer, Rachel Schwell, and Jennifer Franko Vasquez, are preparing a manuscript, tentatively titled Innovative Techniques for Teaching Proof-Writing, that has received preliminary approval by the MAA Notes Series Editorial Board. We are seeking short articles (about five-to-six pages), each of which should discuss an innovative method for teaching students how to write proofs, specifically in the context of an undergraduate linear algebra course. (The book is actually about teaching proof-writing throughout the undergraduate curriculum, but at this time we seek papers in particular about teaching proofs in linear algebra.) Some articles already included in the volume focus on using technology, writing a class journal of proofs, peer review, and ways of actively engaging large (30+) classes in proof-writing. These are just examples; we are open to considering any method. If you are unsure that your idea is appropriate for the volume and do not want to invest the time to write a full-length article only to discover that it is not, please do feel free to send us a short paragraph (to the email address below) describing your technique, and we will be happy to respond to you regarding the prospects of your potential paper. Details regarding what the volume is about, what the article should include, its length, points of discussion, timeline for submission, etc., can be found at this site: https://sites.google.com/site/proofsbook/ (although please note that the timeline you see on the website only applies to authors who have already submitted). Your article would be due by October 15, 2013. Please note that submission of an article does not guarantee inclusion in the volume. Inclusion is determined by us as well as the MAA Notes Series Editorial Board. If you are interested, please send an inquiry to the e-mail address proofsbook@gmail.com, at which point we will give you further information, guidelines, and a template for writing your article. So that all editors may see your inquiry, please do not reply directly to Aliza. We look forward to your submissions! Sincerely, Aliza Steurer, Rachel Schwell, and Jennifer Franko Vasquez ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 September 03 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1958 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Stephen Kirkland SUBJECT: Change of Address for Steve Kirkland ---------------------------------------------------------- I will be taking up the position of Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manitoba. As of 1 October 2013, my mailing address will be: Department of Mathematics University of Manitoba 342 Machray Hall, 186 Dysart Road University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada email: Stephen.Kirkland@umanitoba.ca ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 August 12 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1957 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Tin-Yau Tam SUBJECT: 2013 Frank Uhlig Retirement Colloquium/Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------- Frank Uhlig is retiring from Auburn University in the Fall of 2013 where he has been teaching since 1982 after doing so for ten years in Germany. Several colleagues will gather to celebrate Frank's contribution to mathematics and Auburn University on August 23, 2013. The following is the program. All are welcome. ========================================================= 2013 Frank Uhlig Retirement Colloquium/Workshop ---------------------------------------------------- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Parker Hall Auburn University, AL 36830-5310, USA Friday, August 23, 2013 (US Central Time Zone) 10:30 - 10:45 am Tin-Yau Tam, Auburn University Welcome (Parker 301) 10:50 - 11:25 am Frank Hall, Georgia State University "Some graph theoretic properties of generalized complementary basic properties" (Parker 305) 11:30 - 12:05 am Chris Fuller, Cumberland University "Frank Uhlig's influence on education." (Parker 305) 12:10 - 1:40 pm Lunch 1:45 - 2:05 pm Frank Uhlig, Auburn University "Untitled." (Parker 224) 2:10 - 2:45 pm Alex Fedoseyev, CFD Research Corporation (CFDRC), Huntsville "Generalized Boltzmann Equation by Alexeev with applications to unsolved problems of mechanics: turbulence, Hubble expansion, dark matter&energy"(Parker 224) 2:50 - 3:25 pm Michele Benzi, Emory University "Decay properties of matrix functions" (Parker 224) 3:30 - 3:45 pm Coffee 3:50 - 4:25 pm Peter Nylen, Auburn University "Eigenvalue Interlacing for Structured Matrices" (Parker 224) 4:30 - 5:05 pm Nam-Kiu Tsing, University of Hong Kong "A Revisit to Some Generalized Numerical Ranges" (Parker 224) 6:15 pm - Dinner at Frank and Dorothy's home ========================================================= Poster session: Ivan Ganchev Ivanov, Sofia University, Bulgaria "Numerical Solvers for Generalized Algebraic Riccati Equation" ************************************************************************** ILAS-NET ************************************************************************** 2013 August 12 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1956 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Stephen Kirkland SUBJECT: Lecturers at non-ILAS Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------- As part of ILAS's commitment to supporting activities in Linear Algebra, the Society maintains a program of ILAS Lectureships at non-ILAS conferences. This is a reminder that there is a deadline of 30 September 2013 for receipt of proposals for sponsorship of ILAS Lectures at non-ILAS meetings taking place in 2014. Further details on the guidelines for proposals can be found at the following link: http://www.ilasic.org/misc/non_ilas_guidelines.html . *************************************************************************** ILAS-NET *************************************************************************** 2013 July 25 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1955 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Stephen Kirkland SUBJECT: Proceedings of ICMAA2013 in LAMA ---------------------------------------------------------- The proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications (ICMAA2013) that was held at Konya, Turkey, July 2-5, 2013, will appear as a special issue of Linear and Multilinear Algebra (LAMA). The deadline for submission of papers is November 15, 2013. All submissions must meet the publication standards of LAMA and will be subject to the normal refereeing procedure. Submission is limited to those who participated in the conference. Please submit your paper via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/glma and indicate that your submission is for the ICMAA2013 special issue. Editor-in-Chief of the special issue: Steve Kirkland Special editors: Peter Semrl, Tin-Yau Tam, Fuzhen Zhang *************************************************************************** ILAS-NET *************************************************************************** 2013 July 25 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1954 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Ilse Ipsen SUBJECT: The Householder Symposium XIX ---------------------------------------------------------- The Householder Symposium XIX on Numerical Linear Algebra will be held in Spa, Belgium, 8-13 June 2014. Web page: http://sites.uclouvain.be/HHXIX/ Application deadline: 31 October 2013 Notification of acceptance: 31 January 2014 Attendance at the meeting is by invitation only. Applications are welcome from researchers in numerical linear algebra, matrix theory, and related areas such as optimization, differential equations, signal processing, and control. Each attendee will be given the opportunity to present a talk or a poster. Some talks will be plenary lectures, while others will be shorter presentations arranged in parallel sessions. The Symposium is very informal, with the intermingling of young and established researchers a priority. Participants are expected to attend the entire meeting. The fifteenth Householder Award for the best thesis in numerical linear algebra since 1 January 2011 will be presented. It is expected that partial support will be available for some students, early career participants, and participants from countries with limited resources. The Householder Symposium takes place in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra. *************************************************************************** ILAS-NET *************************************************************************** 2013 July 23 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1953 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Frank Uhlig SUBJECT: The Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture at ICIAM Congresses ---------------------------------------------------------- The Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture at ICIAM Congresses Two Announcements Since 2007 the Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture is given every four years at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). This honor is conferred on a "woman who has made outstanding contributions in applied mathematics and/or scientific computation". The lecture is named in tribute and memory of Olga Taussky-Todd, whose scientific legacy is in both theoretical and applied mathematics, and whose work exemplifies the qualities to be recognized. (1) Call for Nominations: A Taussky-Todd Lecture Committee at ICIAM has been appointed to select the OTT Lecturer for the next ICIAM Congress in Beijing, August 10 - 14, 2015. Nominations of women working in applied or computational mathematics can be submitted via http://www.iciam.org/OTT/OTT-CallforNominations.pdf until November 30, 2013. (2) The Olga Taussky-Todd Lectureship Fund drive at ICIAM ICIAM has begun to seek permanent funding for its Olga Taussky-Todd Lectures at all future ICIAM Congresses through a drive for donations that are tax deductible in the US. The first and almost complete fund phase has involved individuals that are intimately connected to Olga's work and life as well as others connected more loosely. This has generated a broad response from dozens of mathematicians with donations from 7 different countries on 3 continents thus far. We now seek donations from other mathematicians and, later on, from corporations to reach our overall funding goal of approximately $ 60,000 by the end of this year. We welcome your support for promoting the achievements of outstanding female applied or industrial mathematicians at ICIAM Congresses every 4 years. Donations are encouraged and welcome in any amount. They can be made at http://iciam-donations.siam.org . Olga Taussky-Todd Lectures at previous ICIAM Congresses since 2007 are described at http://www.iciam.org/council/council_tf.html and a short personal reminiscence of Olga is available by clicking on the 'get pdf' icon at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pamm.200700990/abstract . *************************************************************************** ILAS-NET *************************************************************************** 2013 July 18 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1952 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Kevin Vander Meulen SUBJECT: David A. Gregory ---------------------------------------------------------- I am sad to announce that David A. Gregory died from cancer on July 12, 2013. He passed away peacefully in palliative care, with friends and family by his side. David was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and continued to be active in the the Queen's - R.M.C. Discrete Mathematics Seminar. David was the author of over 50 research papers and supervised 6 Ph.D. students. He enjoyed combinatorial matrix theory and eigenvalue problems in graph theory. David will be fondly remembered by his colleagues for his gentle helpfulness, his love of good combinatorial matrix theory, his well-crafted lectures, and his carefully composed writing. Personal notes can be read and posted on a memorial page at: http://www.uwyo.edu/bshader/gregoryd *************************************************************************** ILAS-NET *************************************************************************** 2013 July 15 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1951 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Michele Benzi SUBJECT: Journal of Complex Networks ---------------------------------------------------------- JOURNAL OF COMPLEX NETWORKS (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS) I would like to draw the attention of the ILAS community to a new journal, the Journal of Complex Networks, published by Oxford University Press: http://comnet.oxfordjournals.org Volume 1, Issue 1 (June 2013) is now available online (all papers will be downloadable for free for the first two years of the journal). Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to): Mathematical and numerical analysis of networks; Network theory and computer science; Structural analysis of networks; Networks and epidemiology; Social, socio-economic and political networks; Ecological networks; Technological and infrastructural networks; Biological and molecular networks; Evolving networks; Biomedicine related networks; Animal social networks; Climate networks; Cognitive, language and informational networks. The editor-in-chief of the Journal of Complex Networks is Professor Ernesto Estrada of the University of Strathclyde. Visit the website for more information, submission guidelines, and to sign up to receive tables of contents by email. Michele Benzi Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Emory University *************************************************************************** ILAS-NET *************************************************************************** 2013 July 15 ......... ILAS-NET Message No. 1950 ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Sarah Carnochan Naqvi SUBJECT: Launch of New ILAS-Net Service ---------------------------------------------------------- In the last year, ILAS has decided to move its web and email service from any specific university to a commercial site. We have found that as people retire, getting service remotely has become increasingly difficult. With much hard work, we have completed the move of ILAS-Net from Technion to a new commercial service. I thank everyone at Technion for their work and support for both the ILAS-IC website and ILAS-Net. Looking forward, this new service is voluntary and it is much easier for members of ILAS-net to manage their subscriptions. At the bottom of each email is a footer which gives links to how to unsubscribe to ILAS-Net and the Privacy Policy for the list management. Thank you to all for your patience during this transition. 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