krj@csri.toronto.edu (Ken Jackson) (12/27/87)
******************************************************************** | | | INTERNATIONAL MATRIX GROUP ( IMG ) | | -------------------------------------- | | The International Linear Algebra Community | | ------------------------------------------ | | | | E-mail Address: MAR23AA @ TECHNION (bitnet) | | | ==================================================================== 24 December 1987 ------------------------ IMG-NET Message No. 9 ------------------------ CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT: FROM: Danny Hershkowitz SUBJECT: Program for the Haifa Matrix Conference -------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY PROGRAM of THE FOURTH HAIFA MATRIX THEORY CONFERENCE January 3 - 5 , 1988 TeECHNION ================================================ Sunday, January 3, 1988. Spertus Auditorium, Building Research Station 8:30 - 9:20 Registration 9:20 - 9:30 Openning 9:30 - 11:00 Session Chairman: A. Berman, Technion. T. Laffey, University College, Dublin "Some problems on integer matrices". A. Zaks, Technion "Special contractions of the matrix unit disk". S.K. Jain, Ohio University, Athens "Periodicity of graphs of nonnegative matrices". 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 13:00 Session Chairman: T. Laffey, University College, Dublin R. Stern, Concordia University, Montreal "Continuous vs. discrete reachability cones". B.E. Cain, Iowa State University, Ames "Conjugate cones and semidefinite operators". D. Shemesh, CEMA, Haifa "Common triangularization via commutativity subspace". 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break 14:30 - 16:00 Session Chairman: R. Loewy, Technion U.G. Rothblum, Technion "Flexible manufacturing and operator scheduling solved by deconvexification over time". M.B. Priestly, UMIST - The University of Manchester "Matrix formulation of nonlinear time series models". A. Bruckstein, Technion "On some matrix factorization identities and a method of Krein for solving integral equations". 16:00 - 16:15 Coffee 16:15 - 18:15 Session Chairman: L. Elsner, Universitat Bielefeld A. Sidi, Technion "On extensions of the power method for normal operators". D. Olesky, University of Victoria "Recognition algorithms for inheritance in LU factorizations". D. Gill, Tel-Aviv University "An O(N2) method for computing the eigensystem of NxN symmetric tridiagonal matrices by the divide and conquer approach". I. Navot, Technion "Optimization of functionals of Hurwitz polynomials". 18:15 Reception - Technion's faculty club. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, January 4, 1988. Silver Auditorium, Biomedical Engineering 8:30 - 10:00 Session Chairman: D. Olesky, University of Victoria B. Solel, University of Haifa "Isometries of operator algebras". R. Bru, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia "Parallel iterative schemes: block extrapolated Jacobi method". I. Beck, The University of Oslo "Partial orders and the modular group". 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee 10:30 - 12:00 Session Chairman: B. Schwarz, Technion R.C. Thompson, University of California, Santa Barbara "The Lie theoretic proof by F. Rouvier of the Thompson conjectures on the product of exponentials of matrices". M. Goldberg, Technion "On monotone and semimonotone matrix functions". L. Beasley, Utah State University, Logan "Matrix operators which preserve fixed ranks". 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break 13:30 - 15:00 Session Chairman: R.C. Thompson, University of California, Santa Barbara P. Fuhrmann, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, "On the Lienard-Chipart theorem". H. Wimmer, Universitat Wurzburg "Linear matrix equations". M. Tismenetsky, IBM Scientific Center, Haifa "Inversion of block Toeplitz matrices". 15:00 - 15:15 Coffee 15:15 - 17:15 Session Chairman: D. Hershkowitz, Technion. G. Moran, University of Haifa "What is the genus of this surface?". J. Maroulas, Athens School of Economics Title to be announced. V. Vinnikov, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, "Determinantal representations of algebraic curves". Open Problems Session 19:00 Banquet - Dvir Hotel (Center of Carmel). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, January 5, 1988. Silver Auditorium, Biomedical Engineering 8:30 - 10:00 Session Chairman: Y. Censor, University of Haifa I. Lewkowicz, Technion "Remarks on lower bounds for the smallest singular value of a matrix". V. Mehrmann, Universitat Bielefeld "The quaternion QR algorithm". K.-H. Forster, Technische Universitat, Berlin "On the local spectral radius and the Collatz-Wielandt numbers of a nonnegative operator". 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee 10:30 - 12:00 Session Chairman: A. Pinkus, Technion L. Elsner, Universitat Bielefeld "Comparison theorems for the Perron root of nonnegative matrices". N. Dyn, Tel-Aviv University "Uniform refinement of curves and infinite products of matrices". J. K. Merikoski, University of Tampere "On lp1,p2 "antinorms" of a positive matrix". 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break 13:30 - 15:00 Session Chairman: D. London, Technion S. Zenios, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia "Nonlinear network optimization models for matrix balancing". Y. Censor, University of Haifa "Block-iterative algorithms for systems of linear inequalities". H.J. Werner, University of Bonn "More on the IPM method and its use for computing estimations and predictions in the general Gauss-Markov model". 15:00 - 15:15 Coffee 15:15 - 17:15 Session Chairman: L. Lerer, Technion D. Shasha, Technion "Lyapunov scaling factors of Lyapunov diagonally semistable matrices". M. Deza, C.N.R.S., Paris "Distance matrices". F. Avram, Cornell University, Itacha "Szego's theorem for sums with dependent indices". A. Ben-Artzi, Tel-Aviv University "Inertia theorems for nonstationary Lyapunov and Stein equations and dichotomy". ====================================================================== Reposted by: -- Prof. Ken Jackson, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A4. E-mail: krj@csri.toronto.edu Phone: 416-978-7075