Sunday, July 18

Mathematics Department

17.00 - 22.00: Registration

Monday, July 19

University Auditorium

8.00 - 9.00: Registration

9.00 - 9.30: Opening session

9.30 - 10.15: Rajendra Bhatia (Indian Statistical Institute New Delhi)

Positive definite matrices and mean inequalities

10.15 - 11.00: Fernando Silva (Lisbon University)

Inertia theorems for pairs of matrices

11.00 - 11.30: Break

11.30 - 12.15: Christian Krattenthaler (Claude Bernard University Lyon)

Determinant evaluations

12.15 - 13.00: Arun Ram (University of Wisconsin Madison)

Generalized matrix algebras and applications

13.00 - 15.00: Lunch

Mathematics Department

15.00 - 16.40: Parallel Sessions

Mini-symposium on group representations

Mini-symposium on matrix inequalities

Contributed talks - Session 1

Contributed talks - Session 2

Contributed talks - Session 3

University Auditorium

16.40 - 17.00: Break

17.00 - 17.45: Uwe Helmke (Würzburg University)

Lie group methods in numerical linear algebra

17.45 - 18.30: Erik Elmroth (Umea University)

Interactive investigation of nearby Jordan and Kronecker structures

18.30: ILAS Business Meeting

Tuesday, July 20

University Auditorium

8.30 - 9.15: Joachim Rosenthal (Notre Dame University)

Public key crypto-systems built from semi-group actions

9.15 - 10.00: Shmuel Friedland (University of Illinois Chicago)

Convergence of products of matrices in projective spaces

10.00 - 10.30: Break

10.30 - 11.15: Peter Gritzmann (Technical University Munich)

Discrete tomography

11.15 - 12.00: Beatrice Meini (University of Pisa) - SIAG/LA speaker

Nonlinear matrix equations and structured linear algebra

12.00 - 14.00: Lunch

Mathematics Department

14.00 - 16.00: Parallel Sessions

Mini-symposium on combinatorial matrix theory

Contributed talks - Session 4

Contributed talks - Session 5

Contributed talks - Session 6

Contributed talks - Session 7

16.00 - 16.30: Break

Visit to the University

Wine reception

Wednesday, July 21

University Auditorium

8.30 - 9.15: Peter Lancaster (University of Calgary) - Hans Schneider Prize speaker

An inverse problem for vibrating systems

9.15 - 10.00: William Helton (University of California San Diego)

Noncommutative convexity

10.00 - 10.30: Break

10.30 - 11.15: Robert Guralnick (University of Southern California)

Semisimplicity of low dimensional representations

11.15 - 12.00: Matjaz Omladic (University of Ljubljana)

A variety of commuting triples

12.00 - 14.00: Lunch

Mathematics Department

14.00 - 16.00: Parallel Sessions

Mini-symposium on Markov methods for search engines

Contributed talks - Session 8

Contributed talks - Session 9

Contributed talks - Session 10

Contributed talks - Session 11

16.00 - 16.30: Break

16.30 - 18.00: Parallel Sessions

Mini-symposium on group representations

Contributed talks - Session 12

Contributed talks - Session 13

Contributed talks - Session 14

Contributed talks - Session 15

S. Marcos Palace

Conference Dinner

Hans Schneider Prize Ceremony

Banquet speech: Alan J. Hoffman (T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM)

Thursday, July 22

University Auditorium

8.30 - 9.15: Siegfried Rump (Technical University Hamburg-Harburg)

Structured perturbation results on matrices, eigenvalues and pseudospectra

9.15 - 10.00: Julio Moro (Carlos III University Madrid) - SIAG/LA speaker

First order spectral perturbation theory

10.00 - 10.30: Break

10.30 - 11.15: George Cybenko (Dartmouth College)

Linear algebra in process detection

11.15 - 12.00: Hal Caswell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Population growth, linear algebra, and ecology

12.00 - 14.00: Lunch

Mathematics Department

14.00 - 16.00: Parallel Sessions

Mini-symposia on nonnegative matrices, matrix inequalities

Contributed talks - Session 16

Contributed talks - Session 17

Contributed talks - Session 18

Contributed talks - Session 19

University Auditorium

16.00 - 16.30: Break

16.30 - 17.15: Xavier Puerta (Polytechnic University Catalonia)

The geometry of the cover problem and related questions

17.15 - 18.00: Peter Semrl (University of Ljubljana) - Taussky-Todd speaker

Maps on matrix algebras and spaces

Closing session