ILAS-Net Archive 2020
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2020 December 17 ILAS-NET Message No. 2318
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Leslie Hogben
SUBJECT: ILAS Election Voting Is Now Open
On December 17 each current member of ILAS was e-mailed an individual link,
username, password and instructions for electronic voting, and voting is open.
The ballot is self-explanatory, with instructions. You may vote for
Secretary/Treasurer (one) and members of the Board of Directors (two).
If you did not receive an e-mail and think you are a member, please verify
that you are indeed an ILAS member (remember, receiving ILAS-Net messages
does not imply you are an ILAS member). You can determine whether or not you
are a member of ILAS by consulting the website:
https://www.ilasic.org/misc/membership.html
If you are a member and did not receive an e-mail, please contact Minerva
Catral, Assistant ILAS Secretary Treasurer, at catralm@xavier.edu toobtain
your username and password.
If you have received your instructions but have not yet voted, you may vote
any time through 11:59 PM GMT January 31, 2021 (ILAS operates on Greenwich
Mean Time) but it is recommended to vote by January 30 because the election
ends at 11:59 PM GMT regardless of the time zone you are in.
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2020 December 11 ILAS-NET Message No. 2317
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Adrienne P. Ali
SUBJECT: SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (LA21) – Pivot to Virtual Format!
The SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (LA21) will pivot to a virtual format over the dates of May 17-21, 2021.
Conference: SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (LA21)
The 23rd Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS 2021) is embedded in LA21.
Location: Virtual Format
Dates: May 17-21, 2021
The Call for Participation is available at
https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/la21
Organizing Committee Co-Chairs:
Misha Kilmer, Tufts University, U.S.
Andreas Stathopoulos, William & Mary, U.S.
Organizing Committee:
Evrim Acar Ataman, Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway
Ken Clarkson, IBM Research, U.S.
Mark Embree, Virginia Tech, U.S.
Xiaoye Sherry Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.
Per Gunnar Martinsson, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.
Nicola Mastronardi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Luke Olson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.
Jennifer Pestana, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Miroslav Tuma, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Weichung Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ulrike Meier Yang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S.
Lexing Ying, Stanford University, U.S.
#SIAMLA21
For additional information, contact the SIAM Conference Department (meetings@siam.org).
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2020 December 01 ILAS-NET Message No. 2316
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: ILAS Lecturer and Special Sessions at JMM 2022
Dear ILAS members:
As previously announced, we have a new partnership between ILAS and the
American Mathematical Society (AMS). Under this new agreement, ILAS becomes a
partner with the AMS for the annual Joint Mathematical Meetings (JMM) starting
in January 2022. There will be an ILAS Lecture, and at least four ILAS Special
Sessions at the JMM.
I am writing to remind you to please suggest candidate/s for the ILAS Lecturer
at the JMM in Seattle, Washington, 5-8 January 2022. Please write directly to
me at szyld@temple.edu.
If you would want to organize a Special Session please send a short proposal
with the title of the session (and possible speakers) to our Vice-President
for Conferences Raf Vandebril (raf.vandebril@kuleuven.be) as soon as you can,
but no later than December 15, 2020.
Thank you!
Daniel Szyld
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2020 November 30 ILAS-NET Message No. 2315
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Louis Deaett
SUBJECT: Take a look at IMAGE 65 online now!
The Fall issue of IMAGE, your ILAS bulletin, is now available! Elizabeth Meckes
surveys the beautiful theory describing the distribution of eigenvalues of random
matrices. Beresford Parlett explains how to pass the quals by sleeping in the
ladies' bathroom. Members of ILAS receive honors from the AMS and LMS, while ILAS
finds itself on Twitter, Facebook, and at the JMM. Meanwhile, Problem 60-2 from
2.5 years ago keeps resisting all comers, but almost all of the problems from our
last issue have now been solved. Read the solutions, browse upcoming linear
algebra conferences and special sessions (some of which you can attend without
leaving the comfort of home) and more in IMAGE issue 65:
http://www.ilasic.org/ccount/click.php?id=image65
Louis Deaett
IMAGE Editor-in-Chief
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2020 November 22 ILAS-NET Message No. 2314
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Leslie Hogben and Minerva Catral
SUBJECT: 2021 ILAS Elections
Voting in the next ILAS election (for terms starting March 1, 2021) will take
place Dec 15, 2020 - Jan 31, 2021. Members will be e-mailed their voting
instructions on Dec 15.
In order to vote you need to be a current member of ILAS when the election
begins. The official ILAS membership list
http://www.ilasic.org/misc/membership.html
(scroll down to see the list) lists all current members and is updated
periodically (most recently Nov 21). If you are not
yet a member, you need to submit your membership materials no later than
December 8, 2020 so they can be processed before the election begins. ILAS
will continue processing memberships after Dec. 8, but it will not longer be
possible to add voters for this election.
To verify your ILAS membership status (for those who think they are members):
1) If you are listed on the current online list of members at
http://www.ilasic.org/misc/membership.html
you are a member and will be sent the voting instructions email.
2) If you are not listed on the current online list of members at
http://www.ilasic.org/misc/membership.html
and you believe you are a member because you actually filled in an online form
to join (and made any payment that was due), please email the
Secretary/Treasurer Leslie Hogben (hogben@aimath.org) and Assistant
Secretary/Treasurer Minerva Catral (catralm@xavier.edu). Please state when
you joined or last renewed and your type of membership (regular = $40/year,
life, or fee waiver). If you have an e-mail confirmation of payment it would
help to forward that, but it is not necessary.
3) Receiving ILAS-net messages, including this one, does not imply you are an
ILAS member.
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2020 November 18 ILAS-NET Message No. 2313
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Fernando De Terán
SUBJECT: Call for papers, CMM special issue on Linear Algebra, Matrix Analysis, and Applications
We would like to draw your attention to a special issue of the journal
Computational and Mathematical Methods (CMM) on Linear Algebra, Matrix
Analysis, and Applications
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/25777408
CMM is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing the world's top
research in the expanding area of computational mathematics, science and
engineering. The journal connects methods in business, economics, engineering,
mathematics and computer science in both academia and industry.
Mathematical modelling of problems arising in engineering, physics, mechanics,
etc. leads in many cases, directly or after a discretization process, to
solving systems of linear equations of finite dimension. Besides, other
problems of Numerical Analysis, such as approximation, interpolation, nonlinear
systems, computation of eigenvalues, etc., lead to the resolution of large
systems. Thus, it is essential to develop efficient numerical Linear Algebra
methods, in both sequential and parallel environments, to solve them. The main
purpose of this Special Issue is to collect the most recent methods for solving
such problems and applications from a multidisciplinary approach.
The guest editors of this special issue are Luca Bergamaschi
(luca.bergamaschi@unipd.it), Fernando De Terán (fteran@math.uc3m.es), and Pedro
Alonso (palonso@uniovi.es).
Submission Details:
Authors should follow the author guidelines. All papers must be submitted via
the online system
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/compandmathmethods
Authors need to make sure that they specify the paper is a contribution for
"Special Issue on Linear Algebra, Matrix Analysis and Applications" and select
the article type, when prompted. All papers will be peer reviewed according to
the high standards of CMM.
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2021.
We wish to invite you to participate in the Special Issue with a contribution.
Best regards.
Luca Bergamaschi, Fernando De Terán, and Pedro Alonso
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2020 November 06 ILAS-NET Message No. 2312
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Raf Vandebril
SUBJECT: Deadline Minisymposium Submissions SIAG/LA 2021 extended to November 30
The ILAS 2021 meeting is embedded in the SIAM Conference on Applied Linear
Algebra, May 17-21, 2021, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
The deadline for Minisymposium proposals has been extended to November 30, 2020.
Also, the website contains Covid-19 contingency plans for the meeting, please
check it out!
https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/la21
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2020 November 01 ILAS-NET Message No. 2311
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: ILAS Members become AMS Fellows
Congratulations to ILAS Members Raymond Chan and Valeria Simoncini who were
inducted as AMS Fellow, class of 2021. ILAS is proud to have them in our midst.
For information on the AMS Fellows program, see
http://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/ams-fellows
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2020 October 26 ILAS-NET Message No. 2310
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: New appointment, Assistant Manager ILAS-NET
I would like to announce the appointment of Pietro Paparella of the
University of Washington at Bothell, as the new Assistant Manager for
ILAS-NET and ILAS Information Center (IIC).
Pietro will be working with Sarah Carnochan Naqvi to complement her work
which serves the ILAS community taking care of this very important and
valuable resource.
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2020 October 14 ILAS-NET Message No. 2309
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Raf Vandebril
SUBJECT: Deadline Minisymposium Submissions SIAG/LA 2021 approaching
Deadline Minisymposium Submissions SIAG/LA 2021 approaching
Dear all, as you know, an ILAS 2021 meeting is embedded in the SIAM Conference
on Applied Linear Algebra, May 17-21, 2021, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. We
encourage you to consider organizing a minisymposium, or submitting a
contributed talk or poster. Hence this reminder: the deadline for Minisymposium
Proposal Submissions is the 19th of October.
https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/la21
Here are some deadlines.
- October 19, 2020: Minisymposium Proposal Submissions
- November 2, 2020: SIAM Student Travel and Early Career Travel Award
- November 16, 2020: Contributed Lecture, Poster and Minisymposium Presentation
Abstracts
- April 19, 2021: Hotel reservation and registration deadline.
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2020 October 13 ILAS-NET Message No. 2308
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Michael Tsatsomeros
SUBJECT: Matrix Positivity (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics)
Matrix Positivity (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics)
Johnson, C., Smith, R., & Tsatsomeros, M. (2020)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108778619
Consider this new title for your personal collection and recommend it to your
institutional library.
Available in Hardback or eBook format:
https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/mathematics/algebra/matrix-positivity?format=HB
Book description
Matrix positivity is a central topic in matrix theory: properties that
generalize the notion of positivity to matrices arose from a large variety of
applications, and many have also taken on notable theoretical significance,
either because they are natural or unifying. This is the first book to provide
a comprehensive and up-to-date reference of important material on matrix
positivity classes, their properties, and their relations. The matrix classes
emphasized in this book include the classes of semipositive matrices,
P-matrices, inverse M-matrices, and copositive matrices. This self-contained
reference will be useful to a large variety of mathematicians, engineers, and
social scientists, as well as graduate students. The generalizations of
positivity and the connections observed provide a unique perspective, along
with theoretical insight into applications and future challenges. Direct
applications can be found in data analysis, differential equations,
mathematical programming, computational complexity, models of the economy,
population biology, dynamical systems and control theory.
Reviews
'When one thinks of positive matrices, usually only entrywise positive
matrices and positive definite matrices come to mind. This book compiles
results about an amazing array of 'positive' matrices beyond such familiar
ones; semipositive matrices, inverse M-matrices and copositive matrices, to
name a few. The treatment is lucid and a pleasure to read. Will facilitate
anyone to widen the knowledge of matrix classes.'
R. B. Bapat - Indian Statistical Institute
'Positivity is one of the central topics in mathematics. Positivity of
matrices is a rich and interesting research area of linear algebra and
combinatorial matrix theory. Exhibiting many positivity classes of matrices
with diligence, this monograph will be a very useful reference in research and
applications.'
Fuzhen Zhang - Nova Southeastern University
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2020 October 05 ILAS-NET Message No. 2307
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: ILAS new partner with AMS for JMM
Dear ILAS members:
With great joy, I am writing to announce a new partnership between ILAS and
the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Under this new agreement, ILAS
becomes a partner with the AMS for the annual Joint Mathematical Meetings
(JMM) starting in January 2022. There will be an ILAS Lecture, and at least
four ILAS Special Sessions at the JMM.
I want to publicly thank our Secretary/Treasurer Leslie Hogben, who realized
we had this opportunity, and made the initial contact with the AMS last
January. She accompanied me throughout most of the negotiations. Thanks also
go to the Executive Board (EB), who enthusiastically approved Leslie's
suggestion, and worked with her initially. The EB and the entire ILAS Board
helped me keep focused on what was good for ILAS for the duration of the
negotiations.
For the first JMM when this agreement takes effect, in Seattle, Washington,
5-8 January 2022, the ILAS Board will select the speaker for the "ILAS Lecture
at the JMM" and the Special Sessions. For future meetings, the Board will
develop appropriate mechanisms for selection.
If you have suggestions for the first speaker in this series, please write
directly to me at szyld@temple.edu.
If you would want to organize a Special Session please send a short proposal
with the title of the session (and possible speakers) to our Vice-President
for Conferences Raf Vandebril as soon as you can,
but no later than December 15, 2020.
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2020 September 07 ILAS-NET Message No. 2306
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel 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$1000 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 $750. 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 2020 for receipt of
proposals for sponsorship of ILAS Lectures at non-ILAS meetings and for general
support of conferences taking place in 2021. 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.
Further details on the guidelines for proposals can be found at the following
link:
http://www.ilasic.org/misc/non_ilas_guidelines.html
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 in the website of ILAS-Endorsed Meetings:
https://www.ilasic.org/misc/meetings.html
During the Covid-19 pandemic, ILAS is also endorsing online global seminars of
interest to the Linear Algebra Community. Application for such endorsement can
be done following the same guidelines as for conference endorsements. In fact,
ILAS has already endorsed one such seminar: Communications in Numerical Linear
Algebra
https://sites.google.com/view/commnla/home (Mondays at 15:00 Central European Time)
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2020 September 02 ILAS-NET Message No. 2305
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Manjunatha Prasad Karantha
SUBJECT: International Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Probability and
Statistics (ALAPS 2020)
International Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Probability and
Statistics (ALAPS 2020)
CARAMS, MAHE, Manipal, India
(December 17-18, 2020)
A virtual conference in honor of Professor C R Rao on his birth centenary
year
Professor C. R. Rao is among great Indian Statisticians, the world ever seen, and
we are all proud of observing him to be on his 100 year in the year 2020. Center
for Advanced Research in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (CARAMS), MAHE would
be very glad to celebrate the occasion and dedicate the virtual conference ALAPS
2020 along with worldwide participation of theoretical and applied Mathematicians
and Statisticians.
The virtual conference ALAPS 2020 will be organized by CARAMS, MAHE, in honor of
a great Indian Statistician Professor C. R. Rao (Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao),
celebrating his completion of 100 year. The theme of conference is focused on,
but not limited to the following topics:
- Theory and Applications of Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory
- Mathematical Statistics such as Probability theory, Multivariate Analysis and
Statistical Inference
- Applied Statistics such as Econometrics, Biometrics, Bioinformatics,
Biostatistics, Mathematical Genetics and etc.
- Network Theory and Applications
The conference consists of several invited talks from several mathematicians and
statisticians associated with Prof. C R Rao and working in the area in which Rao
contributed. Organizers welcome contributory talks (12+ min each) from the
participants, with the topics from theme area.
Speakers and participants may join through the web link appearing in the
individual page (my page) of CARAMS, which requires registration for the event.
Alternatively, limited number of delegates may join the event from any of the
following locations with due consent from the organizers:
- Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
- Department of Mathematics, SMIT, Sikkim
- Department of Data Science, PSPH, MAHE, Manipal
- Department of Mathematics, MIT, MAHE, Manipal
Participants seeking certificate of participation/contribution are requested to
register for the event with due payment of registration fee.
Please visit
https://carams.in/
for more details and registration.
Best wishes
On behalf of Organizing Committee:
Narayana Sabhahit (Chairman, Registrar, MAHE),
Manjunatha Prasad Karantha (Organizing Secretary, Coordinator, CARAMS, MAHE)
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2020 September 01 ILAS-NET Message No. 2304
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Manjunatha Prasad Karantha
SUBJECT: Rescheduling of IWMS 2020
28th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics (IWMS 2021)
CARAMS, MAHE, Manipal, India
(December 13-15, 2021)
CRR Day on 15 December 2021 in honor of Professor CR Rao
The 28th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics, IWMS 2021, will be
held during the period December 13-15, 2021 at the Center for Advanced Research
for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education,
(MAHE) Manipal, Karnataka, India. The purpose of the Workshop is to stimulate
research and, in an informal setting, to foster the interaction of researchers in
the interface between statistics and matrix theory. The Workshop will provide a
forum through which statisticians may be better informed of the latest
developments and newest techniques in linear algebra and matrix theory and may
exchange ideas with researchers from a wide variety of countries. As well as
range of plenary speakers we are to strengthening the interactions between
participants by organizing a range of minisymposia in various specialist areas.
The theme of workshop shall focus on
- Matrix Analysis,
- Projectors in Linear Models & Multivariate Analysis,
- Growth Curve Models,
- Linear Regression Models,
- Linear Statistical Inference,
- Modelling Covariance Structures,
- Multivariate and Mixed Linear Models,
- Statistics in Big Data Analysis.
The scientific committee consists of Ravindra B Bapat, Manjunatha Prasad
Karantha, Steve Kirkland, and Simo Puntanen.
**CRR Day on 15th December 2021** : The present 28th IWMS will be held
beside ICLAA 2021 (December 15-17, 2021) and CRR Day will be held on 15th
December 2021, the common day of events, in which the scientific activities
are dedicated Professor C R Rao, who is among great Statisticians and
Matrix theorist India ever produced. We are sure that 28th IWMS will be a
great success with the participation of prominent researchers from across
the globe working in Statistics, Matrix Theory and allied subjects.
Please visit
https://carams.in/events/iwms2021/
for more details and registration.
Best wishes
On behalf of IOC & Local Organizing Committee:
Narayana Sabhahit (Chairman, Registrar, MAHE),
Manjunatha Prasad Karantha (Organizing Secretary, Coordinator, CARAMS, MAHE)
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2020 August 31 ILAS-NET Message No. 2303
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Manjunatha Prasad Karantha
SUBJECT: Rescheduling of ICLAA 2020 (Correction)
International Conference on Linear Algebra and its Applications (ICLAA 2021)
CARAMS, MAHE, Manipal, India
(December 15-17, 2021)
CRR Day on 15 December 2021 in honor of Professor C R Rao
International Conference on Linear Algebra and its Applications (ICLAA 2021)
CARAMS, MAHE, Manipal, India
(December 15-17, 2021)
CRR Day on 15 December 2021 in honor of Professor C R Rao
The ICLAA 2020, scheduled earlier on December 17-19, 2020 which is in sequel to
ICLAA series, has been rescheduled to December 2021 due to prevailing pandemic
COVID 19 situation. The 'International Conference on Linear Algebra and Its
Applications, December 17-19, 2021' will be held at CARAMS, Manipal Academy of
Higher Education, Manipal, India.
The theme of the conference shall focus on
- Classical Matrix Theory
- Nonnegative Matrices and Special Matrices
- Matrices and Graphs
- Combinatorial Matrix Theory
- Matrix and Graph Methods in Statistics and Biological Science
- Matrices in Error Analysis and its Applications.
The scientific committee consists of Ravindra B Bapat, Manjunatha Prasad
Karantha, Steve Kirkland, and Simo Puntanen.
**CRR Day*: The ICLAA 2021 will be held beside 28th IWMS, and on December 15, 2021,
the common day of the events, the scientific activities are dedicated C. R. Rao,
who is among great Statisticians India ever seen.
ICLAA 2021 has been endorsed by ILAS and Stephen J Kirkland has been awarded ILAS
grant for delivering *Hans-Schneider Lecture* at ICLAA 2021.
ELA will be publishing a special issue dedicated to ICLAA 2021, in honor of
Professor C R Rao.
We are sure that ICLAA 2021 will be a great success with the participation of
prominent researchers from across the globe working in Matrix Theory, Graph
Theory, Network Science, Statistics, and allied subjects. Please visit
https://carams.in/events/iclaa2021/
for more details and registration.
Best wishes
Organizing Committee: Narayana Sabhahit (Chairman, Registrar, MAHE),
Manjunatha Prasad Karantha (Organizing Secretary, Coordinator, CARAMS, MAHE)
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2020 August 15 ILAS-NET Message No. 2302
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Abbas Salemi
SUBJECT: 10th Seminar on Linear Algebra and its Applications (SLAA10)
It is our great pleasure and honor to welcome you at the 10th Seminar on Linear
Algebra and its Applications (SLAA10). The SLAA10 will be held virutally on
16-19 August 2020, hosted by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer & Mahani
Mathematical Research Centre, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran. As part
of the series of the bi-annually held seminars of the Iranian Mathematical
Society (IMS), this seminar aims to create a friendly discussion atmosphere for
researchers in linear algebra and numerical linear algebra.
You will find more information about the seminar at
https://slaa10.uk.ac.ir/
A. Salemi
Chair of the Seminar
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2020 August 03 ILAS-NET Message No. 2301
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: Nominations for Upcoming ILAS Elections
Dear ILAS members:
In preparation for the next election, the Nominating Committee has prepared a
slate of candidates as follows.
For the Board of Directors (two to be elected):
Geir Dahl
Melina Freitag
Apoorva Khare
Fernando de Teran
For Secretary/Treasurer (one to be elected):
Minerva Catral
(at the end of this message I list the current composition of the ILAS
leadership, including the whole Board of Directors).
The purpose of this message is to inform you of the possibility to add to this
slate of candidates (according to our By-Laws, Article 10, paragraph 2) by
writing to me the name of any additional candidate. The candidate has to agree
to the nomination, and be supported by at least three members of the Society.
Please send any such additional nominations to me, no later than 31 August 2020.
I take this opportunity to thank the 2020 Nominating Committee for their
outstanding work. It consists of: Michael Overton (chair), Raphi Loewy,
Jennifer Pestana, Rachel Quinlan, and Alison Ramage. I also thank the nominees
who have agree to run.
Daniel B Szyld
ILAS President
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Executive Board:
President: Daniel B Szyld (term ends 28 February 2023)
Vice President: Hugo Woerdeman (term ends 28 February 2022)
2nd Vice President for Conferences: Raf Vandbril (term ends 28 February 2023)
Secretary/Treasurer Leslie Hogben (term ends 28 February 2021)
In addition we have (ex-officio):
Former President: Peter Semrl (term ends 28 February 2021)
Assistant Secretary/Treasurer: Minerva Catral (term ends 28 February 2021)
Additional Members of the Board of Directors:
Maria Isabel Bueno (term ends 28 February 2021),
Vilmar Trevisan (term ends 28 February 2021)
Valeria Simoncini (term ends 28 February 2022)
Michael Tsatsomeros (term ends 28 February 2022)
Sebastian Cioaba (term ends 28 February 2023)
and Dragana Cvetkovic-Ilic (term ends 28 February 2023)
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2020 July 07 ILAS-NET Message No. 2300
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: David Watkins
SUBJECT: ILAS Social Media Presence
ILAS now has a social media presence. Please like and follow us on Facebook
(@International.Linear.Algebra.Society) and follow us on Twitter (@ILAS_news).
We're just getting started, but we plan to provide timely and useful information
to the linear algebra community. Please join us and tell your friends.
David Watkins
ILAS Outreach and Membership Committee
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2020 July 06 ILAS-NET Message No. 2299
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: Raf Vandebril is the new ILAS 2nd VP for Conferences
Raf Vandebril (KU Leuven) is the new Second Vice-President for Conferences.
He replaces Steve Kirkland who has served in this position for over five
years. We thank Steve for the fantastic job he did during this time (and for
his contributions to ILAS in multiple capacities over the years).
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2020 July 04 ILAS-NET Message No. 2298
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: Householder Prize XXI awarded
Congratulations to ILAS members Darion Bini and Peter Benner, whose PhD
students received this years' Householder Prize, and Honorable mention,
respectively.
This prestigious prize is awarded every three years to the best thesis in
Numerical Linear Algebra over the previous three-year period.
Here is the complete annoucement
(see https://users.ba.cnr.it//iac/irmanm21/HHXXI/hhprize.html)
The Alston S. Householder Prize XXI (2020) was awarded to
Estelle Massart for her thesis on "Data fitting on Positive-semidefinite matrix
manifolds" (UCLouvain),
and
Stefano Massei for his thesis on "Exploiting rank structures in the numerical
solution of Markov chains and matrix functions" (Scuola Normale Superiore di
Pisa).
Honorable mentions were awarded to
Pawan Goyal for his thesis on "System-theoretic model order reduction for
bilinear and quadratic-bilinear systems" (Otto von Guericke University
Magdeburg),
and
Theo Mary for his thesis on "Block Low-Rank multifrontal solvers: complexity,
performance, and scalability", (University of Toulouse).
The Householder prize is entirely financed by voluntary contributions. A money
pot is available at
https://www.leetchi.com/c/householder-prize
for the next Householder Prize. A second option is to send money to
h.fassbender@tu-bs.de via paypal. Any amount of money received that way will be
transferred to the money pot.
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2020 July 04 ILAS-NET Message No. 2297
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: Pauline van den Driessche receives prestigious research prize
Congratulations to ILAS member Pauline van den Driessche, University of
Victoria, who is recipient of the 2019 CAIMS-SCMAI Research Prize, for her
"contributions to Mathematical Epidemiology and Matrix Analysis, and the high
impact of this work in many areas of Applied Mathematics more generally."
This is the premier prize of CAIMS, the Canadian Applied and Industrial
Mathematical Society, and Pauline will deliver her prize lecture titled
"Threshold Parameters in Ecology and Epidemiology" on Wednesday July 8, 2020 at
17:00 Eastern time (Toronto time) at the annual meeting of CAIMS, which this
year is jointly held with SIAM.
You can register for the conference (for free) and attend this lecture via Zoom.
https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/an20
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2020 June 23 ILAS-NET Message No. 2296
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: Nominations sought for ILAS Board of Directors
Dear ILAS Members:
In about six months we will have our annual elections. This time, we will
vote to fill two slots at the ILAS Board of Directors. These two slots are
being vacated by Maria Isabel Bueno and Vilmar Trevisan whose terms are
ending. Continuing members are Sebastian Cioaba, Dragana Cvetkovic-Ilic,
Valeria Simoncini, and Michael Tsatsomeros. We will also elect the
Secretary/Treasurer.
I am writing to ask you to consider nominating a colleague (or yourself) to
run for the election. Nominations should be sent in the next week or two to
Michael Overton (mo1@nyu.edu), who is the chair of the Nominating Committee.
The other members of the Nominating Committee are Raphi Loewy, Rachel
Quinlan, Alson Ramage, and Jennifer Pestana. I take this opportunity to thank
the committee for their service to ILAS.
A list of former ILAS Board members can be found at:
https://www.ilasic.org/misc/pastofficers.html
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2020 June 18 ILAS-NET Message No. 2295
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Carlos Fonseca
SUBJECT: COMBINATORIAL MATRICES, by Special Matrices
This special issue is devoted to combinatorial matrices. Combinatorial
matrices cover all type of matrices involving some combinatorial information
related to specific patterns, permutations and combinatorics in general,
Hadamard matrices, Hadamard designs, Latin squares, graph theory, or
alternating sign matrix, among others, and their linear algebraic properties.
GUEST EDITORS:
Wenchang Chu, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy; wenchang.chu@unisalento.it
Emrah Kiliç, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey; ekilic@etu.edu.tr
Helmut Prodinger, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa; hproding@sun.ac.za
All manuscripts are subject to the standard peer review process before
publication.
Manuscripts should be submitted via http://www.editorialmanager.com/spma
When entering your submission (via online submission system), please choose
the option "SI - Combinatorial Matrices".
Deadline for submissions: October 31th, 2020
Carlos Fonseca
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2020 June 02 ILAS-NET Message No. 2294
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: ILAS Lectures at Non-ILAS Conferences and a General Support of Non-ILAS Conferences
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 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$1000 for expenses, or in the case of a Hans Schneider
Lecturer, US$1500. Reimbursement guidelines may be obtained from the
Secretary/Treasurer Leslie Hogben.
General support of conferences of up to $750. 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 Daniel B. Szyld about what you may propose.
This is a reminder that there is a deadline of 30 September 2020 for receipt
of proposals for sponsorship of ILAS Lectures at non-ILAS meetings and for
general support of conferences taking place in 2021. 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.
Further details on the guidelines for proposals can be found at the following
link:
http://www.ilasic.org/misc/non_ilas_guidelines.html
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2020 June 01 ILAS-NET Message No. 2293
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Louis Deaett
SUBJECT: Read issue 64 of IMAGE online now!
It has been a singular spring (or fall in the southern hemisphere). And what
better way to mark the season than to peruse the latest issue of IMAGE, your
ILAS bulletin?
How have you found teaching in the brave new online frontier? We want to know -
our education editor is seeking your reflections for our next issue.
Then you can set this academic year aside by reading some conference reports
that fondly recall the normalcy of seasons past. Look forward to a more normal
time to come by surveying the updated schedule of future conferences, including
ILAS meetings stretching to 2023. Recall good times in Rio with the ILAS 2019
conference report and read an interview with Nair Abreu.
Read about Gilbert Strang's new book on linear algebra and data science,
reviewed by Keivan Hassani Monfared, a real-life data scientist and student of
Bryan Shader.
Or just lose yourself for a while by puzzling over one of the 5 new problems in
this issue.
Find it all here:
http://www.ilasic.org/ccount/click.php?id=image64
Enjoy!
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2020 May 29 ILAS-NET Message No. 2292
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Raf Vanderbril
SUBJECT: SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra and the embedded ILAS meeting
Dear ILAS members, starting July I will take over Steve Kirkland's spot, as
Vice-President for Conferences. Steve has done a great job over many years,
and it is a great honour for me to walk in his footsteps.
Unusual circumstances have caused us to reschedule the ILAS conferences. Galway
moved to 2022 and Madrid to 2023. And as we shared with you already, we will be
embed an ILAS 2021 meeting in the SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra,
May 17-21, 2021, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Hereby I'd like to share you with
the first information on this cooperation initiative between SIAM and ILAS, and
encourage you to consider organizing a minisymposium, or submitting a
contributed talk or poster.
https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/la21
Linear algebra is an important area of mathematics and it is at the heart of
many scientific, engineering, and industrial applications. Research and
development in linear algebra include theoretical studies,algorithmic designs
and implementations on advanced computer architectures, and applications to
various disciplines. The SIAM Conferences on Applied Linear Algebra, organized
by SIAM every three years, are the premier international conferences on applied
linear algebra and now with the embedding of the ILAS we also reach out to the
more theoretically oriented linear algebra. We aspire to a fruitful interaction
between theory and application. We will bring together diverse researchers and
practitioners from academia, research laboratories, and industries all over the
world to present and discuss their latest work and results.
Here are some important deadlines.
- October 19, 2020: Minisymposium Proposal Submissions
- November 2, 2020: SIAM Student Travel and Early Career Travel Award
- November 16, 2020: Contributed Lecture, Poster and Minisymposium Presentation Abstracts
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2020 May 25 ILAS-NET Message No. 2291
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: Outreach and Membership Committee / Membership Campaign
I would like to announce the appointment of David Watkins as the ILAS
Outreach Director. He is also chairing the Outreach and Membership Committee
with Minnie Catral, Andrii Dmytryshyn, and Federico Poloni as additional
members.
Among the activities of this committee is to launch the "ILAS 2020 Membership
Drive."
The goal is to encourage our colleagues who are not currently members of the
Society (including many reading this message) to join. In this manner you
would support the Society's activities: ILAS-net, ELA (Electronic Journal of
Linear Algebra - the research journal of ILAS), IMAGE (ILAS' newsletter),
ILAS conferences, and Linear Algebra speakers at other venues, and of course,
the sense of belonging to our community.
If you are ready to do so (for $40 a year, multi-year and lifetime membership
are also available), please go to the ILAS membership page:
https://www.ilasic.org/misc/memberselect.html
Please also encourage others, including your students and postdocs to join!
Students can request a waiver of their membership fees.
If you have comments or suggestions for the committee, please write to
watkins@wsu.edu
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2020 May 06 ILAS-NET Message No. 2290
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: ILAS Conference Schedule for the next three years 2021-23
It is my great pleasure to announce that the ILAS Board of Directors has
approved the following ILAS Conferences
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23rd Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS2021) embedded
in the SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, May 17-21, 2021, New Orleans,
Louisiana, USA
https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/la21
ILAS is sponsoring four plenary speakers:
- Paola Boito
- Lek-Heng Lim (Hans Schneider Prize Lecture)
- Bryan Shader (the ELA 25th Anniversary Lecture)
- Raf Vandebril (Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture)
Together with other plenary speakers (several of whom are ILAS members) they are
listed in:
https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/program/invited-presentations/la21-invited-presentations
and
https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/program/special-events/la21-special-events
Please consider submitting minisymposia proposals, and contributed talks. (Limit
one talk per participant). (Deadlines to be available in July 2020)
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24th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS2022) June
20-25, 2022, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
25th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS2023) June 5-9,
2023, Madrid, Spain
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Please mark your calendars. I very much look forward to seeing you there!
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2020 May 05 ILAS-NET Message No. 2289
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Leslie Hogben, ILAS Secretary/Treasurer
SUBJECT: ILAS membership list updated
The annual update of the online ILAS membership list has been done and the
list at
https://www.ilasic.org/misc/membership.html (scroll down to see the list)
now includes only 2020 members.
If you are not a member I encourage you to join ILAS: See
https://www.ilasic.org/misc/memberselect.html
If you believe you are a member because you actually filled in an online form
to join (and made any payment that was due), please email the
Secretary/Treasurer Leslie Hogben (ilassecretarytreasurer@gmail.com). Please
state when you joined or last renewed and your type of membership (regular =
$40/year, life, or fee waiver). If you have an e-mail confirmation of payment
it would help to forward that, but it is not necessary.
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2020 April 18 ILAS-NET Message No. 2288
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Melina Freitag
SUBJECT: Online seminar series on Numerical Linear Algebra
Dear all,
We hope you and your families are doing well in this difficult period.
In the spirit of the current "One World Seminars" happening in many academic
disciplines around the world, we also hope to keep the "Numerical Linear
Algebra community spirit" alive and are pleased to announce the
-Online seminar series on Numerical Linear Algebra-
Information about the series can be found here
https://sites.google.com/view/e-nla/home
The plan is to hold the seminar every Wednesday at 4pm CET time. The seminars
will take place online via the free webinar tool Zoom.
The first lecture is on April 29, 2020 and will be delivered by Nick Higham
(University of Manchester) on
"Are Numerical Linear Algebra Algorithms Accurate at Extreme Scale and at Low
Precisions?"
We hope you will be able to participate. Please sign up to the seminar list on
the website in order to get weekly seminar announcements with the Zoom link to
join the seminars.
With best wishes,
Melina Freitag
Stefan Güttel
Daniel Kressner
Jörg Liesen
Valeria Simoncini
Bart Vandereycken
(scientific committee)
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2020 April 11 ILAS-NET Message No. 2287
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: ILAS wikipedia page live
It is with great pleasure that I announce that ILAS has now a Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Linear_Algebra_Society
This is the culmination of several months of work by various ILAS members and
officers (under the leadership of Peter Semrl as ILAS President). I thank in
particular Wayne Barrett and Kevin Vander Meulen for their efforts.
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2020 April 08 ILAS-NET Message No. 2286
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: ELA, The Research Journal of ILAS
Dear ILAS Members,
ILAS is without a doubt the premier society focused on all aspects of Linear
Algebra.
Our research journal, the Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA), can
become the premier journal published work on all aspects of Linear Algebra, a
journal presenting the best science that ILAS members and others produce. Such
a renowned journal would also contribute to the prestige of our society.
Let me also remind you that ELA is a top-tier open-access journal, free to
publish, and free to read and download papers. This puts us in a unique
position these days when governments are starting to insist that the
researchers they fund publish in open-access only journals.
Therefore, I would like to strongly encourage you to submit your high quality
papers to ELA.
As you know, Froilán Dopico joined Michael Tsatsomeros as co-Editor-in-Chief
on August 1st, 2019. The EICs have recently appointed several new Associate
Editors, namely: Francesco Belardo, Steve Butler, Heike Fassbender, Fuad
Kittaneh, Ren-Cang Li, Valeria Simoncini, and K.C. Sivakumar. In addition,
several editors became Advisory Editors: Dario Bini, Sebastian Cioaba, Leslie
Hogben, Raphael Loewy, and Bryan Shader. You can find the complete editorial
board at
https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/ela/about/editorialTeam
The newly enlarged board is ready to receive your submissions through the ELA
website:
https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/ela/index
I take this opportunity to thank the editorial board for their dedicated
service to the society.
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2020 March 14 ILAS-NET Message No. 2285
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: ILAS 2020 conference cancelled (or postponed)
It is with sadness that I have to announce that the 23rd ILAS Conference
scheduled to be held at NUI Galway 22-26 June 2020 has been cancelled. The local
organizers together with the ILAS Board reached the conclusion that we could not
hold on making a decision any longer, and given the pattern of the Covid-19
pandemic, and the measures being taken by NUI, it would be very unlikely that we
will be able to hold the meeting in June.
We will try to reschedule an ILAS Conference for NUI Galway for a future date,
and "you will be the first to know."
Everyone who registered will be contacted by NUI and receive a refund (though
this may take some time). If you made your own hotel arrangements, please cancel
your reservation directly with the hotel. Most airlines are waiving cancellation
fees, so hopefully not many people will be hit financially for this cancellation.
Some details will be posted on the conference website, when available.
http://ilas2020.ie/
We were all very much looking forward to the conference, and it is so unfortunate
that we need to cancel it at this time.
Let me publicly thank Rachel Quinlan and Helena Smigoc who co-chaired the
organization of this conference, and all members of the local organizing, and the
scientific committees for their hard work. We are all disappointed, but I know
they are especially so. They should know that the whole ILAS community
appreciates their efforts. We shall have the chance to thank them in person when
we can reschedule.
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2020 March 13 ILAS-NET Message No. 2284
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: Message from the new President of ILAS
I want to thank the ILAS membership for the trust you have put in me to usher the
Society through the next three years. I have very big shoes to fill, following
the tenure of Peter Semrl, and earlier Steve Kirkland, Danni Heshkowitz, Richard
Brualdi, and Hans Schneider. The Society is in good health thanks to them, and
all the officers who work hard to promote and advance Linear Algebra.
Since March 1st (and even before then), I have been working with Peter Semrl
towards a smooth transition, and with the other members of the Executive Board
(Hugo Woerdeman, Leslie Hogben, Steve Kirkland). I am setting up the appointed
committees, and you will be able to read about their constitution in the
forthcoming report of the President and the Vice-President.
Please do write to me, or to any of the officers, with ideas, issues, suggestions
(or complaints). I want to continue to serve you, the members. Thank you again
for this honor, and this opportunity.
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2020 March 08 ILAS-NET Message No. 2283
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Mansoor Haider
SUBJECT: 2020 Industrial Mathematical & Statistical Modeling (IMSM) Workshop
The 26th Industrial Mathematical & Statistical Modeling (IMSM) Workshop for
Graduate Students will take place at North Carolina State University in Raleigh,
NC, between July 12-22, 2020. The workshop is sponsored by the Statistical and
Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) along with the Center for
Research in Scientific Computation (CRSC), and the Dept. of Mathematics at North
Carolina State University.
The IMSM workshop exposes graduate students in mathematics, statistics and
engineering to exciting real-world problems from industry and government. The
workshop provides students with experience in a research team environment and
exposure to possible career opportunities.
Local expenses and travel support will be covered for graduate students at US
institutions that are admitted to the workshop
The official application deadline is April 2, 2020, but full consideration will
be given to all applications received prior to April 15, 2020.
Further Information is available at: http://www.samsi.info/imsm-20 and questions
can be directed to grad@samsi.info
With best regards,
Mansoor Haider (Chair), Ilse Ipsen, Pierre Gremaud, and Ralph Smith
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2020 February 29 ILAS-NET Message No. 2282
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Peter Semrl
SUBJECT: Message from the Outgoing ILAS President
Today is the last day of my second term as ILAS President. It has been a great
honour to serve our society. The best realisation I've had over these past six
years was that there are so many members willing to dedicate their time and
energy to ILAS. It is people like this that make the society successful. At the
end of my term I would like to thank all of them for their hard work. It was a
pleasure to be a part of this group of dedicated people.
Our discipline, linear algebra, is doing very well, at least in part due to the
activities of ILAS. From tomorrow on the society will have a new President
Daniel Szyld. I am confident that both, linear algebra and our society, will
continue to flourish under his leadership.
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2020 February 28 ILAS-NET Message No. 2281
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Daniel Szyld
SUBJECT: Article about Olga Taussky-Todd
There is a nice piece on the life of Olga Taussky-Todd in the March issue
of the AMS Notices, which can be found in this link:
https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202003/rnoti-p345.pdf
Enjoy!
Daniel B Szyld
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2020 February 28 ILAS-NET Message No. 2280
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Rachel Quinlan
SUBJECT: ILAS 2020 in Galway - registration and abstract submission now open
Dear ILAS Community,
The 23rd ILAS Conference will take place in Galway, Ireland, June 22-26 2020.
Registration (http://ilas2020.ie/registration) and abstract submission
(http://ilas2020.ie/abstracts) are now open at
http://ilas2020.ie
where you can also find information about the conference programme and about
travel and accommodation options.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Galway in June.
With best wishes,
Rachel, Helena and Niall.
Rachel Quinlan, Helena Smigoc and Niall Madden
on behalf of the Scientific and Local Organising Committees
ilas2020.ie/organisation
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2020 February 22 ILAS-NET Message No. 2279
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Fernando de Terán Vergara
SUBJECT: Second announcement of ALAMA2020-ALN2gg
Dear colleagues,
This is the second announcement of the *ALAMA2020-ALN2gg* Meeting that will
be held at Universidad de Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain) *from
3rd to 5th June 2020.*
The important dates are:
*1.- Abstracts submission and acceptance:* ? Abstract's submission:
from 01 December 2019 until 01 March 2020 (included). Extended until 15
March 2020 (included)!
? Acceptance date: until 23 March 2020
*2.- Early bird registration:* ? Until 12 April 2020
*3.- Last day for registration:* ? Until 31 May 2020
In the web page www.alama2020.com you can find all the information related
to the Meeting.
We are pleased to inform you that the journal Linear and Multilinear Algebra
(https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/glma20/current) will publish a special
issue of original articles presented at the Meeting. This special number is
subject to the standard peer review process of the journal.
This edition is celebrated in the honour of *Ion Zaballa*, professor at
Universidad del País Vasco, and of *Dario A. Bini*, professor at Università
di Pisa.
We hope the Meeting will be of your interest.
Best regards,
The Organizing Committee.
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2020 February 04 ILAS-NET Message No. 2278
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Leoonardo Lima
SUBJECT: Workshop on Spectral Graph Theory 2020
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is our pleasure to invite you to the Workshop on Spectral Graph Theory 2020.
On this occasion, we will celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Nair Abreu.
The workshop will be held in Niterói, RJ, Brazil, September 23-25, 2020.
The abstract submission deadline is May, 31st.
For more information, please visit the website:
http://spectralgraphtheory.org/
With our best regards,
Organizing Committee
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2020 January 20 ILAS-NET Message No. 2277
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Peter Semrl
SUBJECT: ILAS Election Results
The ballots for this year's ILAS elections have now been counted, with the
following results:
Daniel Szyld has been elected to the position of President for a three-year
term, beginning on March 1, 2020;
and
Sebastian Cioaba and Dragana Cvetkovic-Ilic have been elected to three-year
terms as members of the ILAS Board, beginning on March 1, 2020.
On behalf of ILAS, I take this opportunity to thank the members of the
Nominating Committee - Richard Brualdi (chair), Nair Abreu, Ravi Bapat, Steve
Kirkland, Naomi Shaked-Monderer - for their efforts on behalf of ILAS, and also
to thank all of the nominees for their participation in the election.
Peter Semrl
ILAS President
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2020 January 13 ILAS-NET Message No. 2276
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Peter Semrl
SUBJECT: ILAS Lectures at Non-ILAS Conferences and a General Support of Non-ILAS Conferences
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 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$1000 for expenses, or in the case of a Hans Schneider
Lecturer, US$1500. Reimbursement guidelines may be obtained from the
Secretary/Treasurer Leslie Hogben.
General support of conferences of up to $750. 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 Peter Semrl about what you may propose.
This is a reminder that there is a deadline of 30 September 2020 for receipt
of proposals for sponsorship of ILAS Lectures at non-ILAS meetings and for
general support of conferences taking place in 2021. 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.
Further details on the guidelines for proposals can be found at the following
link:
http://www.ilasic.org/misc/non_ilas_guidelines.html
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2020 January 12 ILAS-NET Message No. 2275
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Bryan Shader
SUBJECT: New ELA url and management system
Dear ILAS Community,
We are writing to inform you that ELA will be moving to a new location and a
new management system on January 10, 2020.
Previously, ELA had been hosted by BePress through an arrangement with the
University of Wyoming. BePress was a non-profit based out of UC Berkeley and
one of the first champions of open journals. Recently, BePress was acquired by
Elsevier. The University of Wyoming was faced with a decision on whether or
not to stay with BePress but under a new financial arrangement. They elected to
join a consortium of universities in the Rocky Mountains and select the Open
Journal Systems (OJS) as its platform for on-line journals. OJS is part of
the Public Knowledge Project (https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/) which is "an initiative
developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the
quality and reach of scholarly publishing." PKP was started in 1998 at the
University of British Columbia. Over 10,000 journals use the OJS system.
The new website for ELA is located at https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/ela.
Please take a look at it. If you see anything that needs to be changed please
email elamath@uwyo.edu with the subject: ELA website suggestion.
For those of you who currently have an article that is being considered for
submission to the Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra. This platform, like the
previous platform, is hosted by the University of Wyoming Libraries. Your
article has been uploaded into the new platform and an account has been created
for you. You will soon receive an email to the email associated with your
submission with your new log-in name and temporary password. Additionally, you
will receive some emails as the submission is moved to the correct status in
the management system.
For more information about how to access reviews and resubmit edits on the new
platform, please follow this link:
https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/learning-ojs/en/authoring
The move will necessitate some changes in how you interface with ELA.
* If you don't have a paper in the review process, the next time you submit a
paper, you need to create an account on the management system. You will have
the option providing your ORCID; we strongly encourage this.
* All submissions and revisions will be done through the portal at
https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/ela. Acknowledgements and updates on
submissions will be sent from noreply@journals.uwyo.
* You will be able to track the status of your papers by logging into the
management system; and referee reports and decision letters will be posted
there. Whenever an action is taken on a paper, an e-mail will also be sent.
* After acceptance of a paper, you will be asked to provide source files of
the paper. This, as well as the final approval of page proofs, will be done
through the portal.
For more information about how to access reviews and re-submit on the new
platform, please follow this link:
https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/learning-ojs/en/authoring
If you have any questions about the new platform or your account, please contact:
Froilan Dopico (dopico@math.uc3m.es)
Michael Tsatsomeros (tsat@wsu.edu)
Bryan Shader (elamath@uwyo.edu)
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2020 January 09 ILAS-NET Message No. 2274
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Pamela Bye
SUBJECT: 7th IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization
7th IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization
24-26 June 2020, Birmingham
https://ima.org.uk/12530/7th-ima-conference-on-numerical-linear-algebra-and-optimization/
The IMA is pleased to announce the Seventh Biennial IMA Conference on
Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization.
The success of modern codes for large-scale optimization is heavily dependent
on the use of effective tools of numerical linear algebra. On the other hand,
many problems in numerical linear algebra lead to linear, nonlinear or
semidefinite optimization problems. The purpose of the conference is to bring
together researchers from both communities and to find and communicate points
and topics of common interest. This Conference has been organised in
cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Conference topics include any subject that could be of interest to both
communities, such as:
* Direct and iterative methods for large sparse linear systems.
* Eigenvalue computation and optimization.
* Large-scale nonlinear and semidefinite programming.
* Effect of round-off errors, stopping criteria, embedded iterative
procedures.
* Optimization issues for matrix polynomials
* Fast matrix computations.
* Compressed/sparse sensing
* PDE-constrained optimization
* Distributed computing and optimization
* Applications and real time optimization
Invited speakers
Pierre-Antoine Absil (University of Louvain)
Frank E. Curtis (Lehigh University)
Moritz Diehl (University of Freiburg)
Zlatko Drmac (University of Zagreb)
Gabriele Eichfelder (Technical University of Ilmenau)
Melina Freitag (University of Bath)
David Silvester (University of Manchester)
Registration
Registration is currently open at https://my.ima.org.uk/
If you are an IMA Member or you have previously registered for an IMA
conference, then you are already on our database. Please "request a new
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Call for Papers
Mini-symposium proposals and contributed talks are invited on all aspects of
numerical linear algebra and optimization. Mini-symposium proposals should be
submitted to conferences@ima.org.uk by 31 January 2020. A mini-symposium
consists of up to four speakers. For emerging topics the mini-symposium can
be extended to at most two sessions on a single topic (maximum eight speakers).
Organisers will be advised of acceptance by 14 February 2020. Contributed
talks and mini-symposia talks will be accepted on the basis of a one page
extended abstract which should be submitted by 28 February 2020 online at
https://my.ima.org.uk/ or by e-mail to conferences@ima.org.uk. Authors will
be advised of acceptance by 31 March 2020. A book of abstracts will be made
available to delegates at the conference.
Key deadlines
Mini-symposia proposals: 31 January 2020
Notification of acceptance of mini-symposia: 14 February 2020
Abstract submission: 28 February 2020
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 31 March 2020
Conference: 24-26 June 2020
Early Bird Conference Fees
IMA/SIAM Member - £395.00
Non IMA/SIAM Member - £450.00
IMA/SIAM Student - £215.00
Non IMA/SIAM Student - £225.00
Conference Fees will increase by £20 on 22 May 2020
Accommodation
If you would like accommodation on the 23, 24th or 25 June 2020 you can
secure a rate of £90 per night (Single Occupancy) at Edgbaston Park Hotel on
a first come first serve basis up to 45 days prior to the event.
Please arrange your accommodation directly with the hotel. If you wish to
stay at the Edgbaston Park Hotel please contact the conferences department
for a code to access the set rate of £90 per night.
Contact information
For general conference queries please contact the Conferences Department,
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16
Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1EF, UK.
E-mail: conferences@ima.org.uk +44 (0) 1702 354 020(0) 1702 354 020
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