José Vitória

 

 

 

 

                      Name:

 

 

 

 

José da Silva Lourenço Vitória

 

 

 

Position:

 

Full Professor  (Retired)

Current Address:

 

Departamento de Matemática

Universidade de Coimbra

3001—454 Coimbra-PORTUGAL

E-mail:

 

jvitoria@mat.uc.pt

Phone:

 

351 239 791150

Fax:

 

351 239 832568

 

 

 

 

Academic Career

 Education

Habilitation

 

in Pure Mathematics, University of Coimbra, 1987

Ph. D.

 

in Mathematics, University of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, 1975

B. Sc.

 

in Mathematical Sciences, University of Coimbra, 1962

 

 

Professional Experience

1988 –2003

 

Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra

1979 – 1988

 

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra

1977 – 1979

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra

1975 – 1977

 

Assistant Professor,University of Lourenço Marques/Maputo  – Mozambique

1968 – 1975

 

AssistantLecturer, University of Lourenço Marques/Maputo – Mozambique

1966 – 1968

 

Teaching Assistant, University of Lourenço Marques/MaputoMozambique

 1964–1965

 

Portuguese Army Under-Lieutenant(Angola)

1962–1963

 

Portuguese Army Junior Officer (Portugal)

 

Research

 

 Research Interests

Matrix Analysis in Control Theory, Didactics of Mathematics.

 

Publications

1.  Vitória,J;  Tadeu,P; Costa,C,  Martins, Serôdio,R,” Points on a Plane

Closest to a Point, when Measuring with 1-Norm and Infinity-Norm”, Proceedings of the International Conference in Mathematics, Sciences and Science Education,Aveiro,pp :29--31. 2006

 

2.  Martins,F;  Pereira,E ;  Vitória,J,”Matrix Deflation”, Proceedings of the

International Conference in Mathematics, Sciences and Science Education, Aveiro, pp:147--151. 2006

3.Pereira,E;Serôdio,R;Vitória,J “ Newton’s Method for Matrix Polynomials”,in Differential Equations and Applications ,Volume 5,Chapter11, edited  by Yeol Je Cho,Jong Kyu Kim and Ki Sik Ha ,Nova Science Publishers, New York,2006

4.  Costa,C ;  Vitória,J “Bounds for the Eigenvalues and the Singular Values of Block-Schwarz Matrix”, em Inequality Theory and Applications ,Volume 5,Chapter4, edited  by  Yeol J. Cho, Jong K. Kim andSever S. Dragomir,, Nova Science Publishers , New York, 2006.

5.Martins, Fernando; Pereira, Edgar; Vitória, José Block compound matrices and differential matrix equations. Far East J. Appl. Math. 17 (2004), no. 2, 221--242. (Reviewer: Vladimir P. Kostov) MR2134348 (2006c:15018)

6.Pereira, Edgar; Vitória, José On difference matrix equations. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Difference Equations, 515--522, CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2004. MR2092589 (2005e:39021)

7.On a Block Singular Value Problem Acta Technica Acad. Sci. Hung., 108(1-2) (1997-1999),[2001] 27–40,(with Cecília Costa, T. Pedroso de Lima)

8.Computing the Zeros of Quaternion Polynomials, Computers and Mathematics with Applications  42(2001)1229-1237, (with Edgar Pereira, Rogério Serôdio)

9.Deflation for Block Eigenvalues of Block Partitioned Matrices with an Application to Matrix Polynomials of Commuting Matrices,Computers and Mathematics with Applications 42 (2001) 1177-1188, (with Edgar Pereira)

10.On the Newton’s Method to Solve Matrix Polynomial Equations, CD-ROM Proc. 4th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, pp. 625-629, University of Minho-Guimarães, 4-6 October 2000. (with E. Pereira, L. Machado, Rogério Serôdio).

11.Números: dos Inteiros aos Octoniões, Millenium, Ano 5, N. 19, June 2000, 253-261.

12.The Quaternions in the Teaching of an Astronomy Course Survey Engineers: a First Approach, Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of Cathography and Geodesy ,Lisbon(2000),49-60 ( with J.C. Aleixo,J. Fernandes,C. Macedo,P. Saraiva A.J.Soares,R. Serôdio)

13.Block Singular Values: Which applications?, Proceedings of the ”Jornadas de Aplicações da Matemática”, p. 203-206, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal, 15-16,October 1998 ( with T. Pedroso de Lima,Cecília Costa and Manuela S.Silva)

14.On Block Singular Values of Block Companion Matrices, Proceedings of the 3rd Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control (Controlo 98), 9-11 September 1998, Coimbra, Portugal (with Cecília Costa,T. Pedroso de Lima).

15.Álgebra Linear, Universidade Aberta, 1998 (with Teresa Pedroso de Lima).

16.Nótula sobre zeros de polinómios Bol. Soc. Port. Mat., 37, 21-34 (1997) (with Cecília Costa).

17.Deflation for block eigenvalues of block partitioned matrices with applications to block singular values, Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2nd Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, Vol.II, 435-439, 11–13 September, Porto (1996). (with E. Pereira)

18.Polinómios Matriciais, Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control (Controlo 94) Vol.II, pp.41-46, 14-16 September 1994, IST, Lisboa, Portugal. (with Teresa Pedroso de Lima and Edgar Pereira).

19.Report of the Meeting of Matrix Analysis and Applications. Abstracts from the meeting held at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, October 3–5, 1989, Linear Algebra Appl. 170 (1992), 147–280 ,(with Rafael Brú and Graciano de Oliveira).

20.Report of the International Conference on Linear Algebra and Applications, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia/Spain, 28-30 September 1987, Linear Algebra Appl., 121, 537-710 (1989). (with Rafael Brú).

21.Singular and Singularizable higher-order Differential Matrix Equations, Linear Algebra Appl., 121, 686-691 (1989).

22.On the study of Differential and Difference Equations using Lambda-Matrices, Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol.121, pp.639-643, August 1989 (with Teresa Pedroso de Lima and J. Clímaco).

23.On Difference Equations Having Matrix Coefficients, documento nº58, CEMAPRE, I.S. Economia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 23-24 November 1988.(with Teresa Pedroso de Lima)

24.Some questions of numerical algebra related to differential equations. Numerical methods, Colloq. Math. Soc. János Bolyai, 50, 127-140, North-Holland, Amsterdam-New York(1988).

25.Vectorial Norms of Vector and Minima of Pareto, documento de trabalho 59 do CEMAPRE I.S. Economia/U.T.L., Lisboa, 1988 (with A. Gonçalves).

26.Hypercomplex numbers and rotations, Proceedings of the XII Portuguese-Spanish Conference on Mathematics, Vol. II (Portuguese) (Braga, 1987), 636–644, Univ. Minho, Braga (1987) (with Fátima Silva Leite and Carlota Simões).

27.Teacher education at Coimbra university: mathematics teachers, Panel on Teacher Education at Coimbra University, Coimbra, April 2, 1985. Proc. 5th International Seminar for Teacher Education, pp. 91-92, University of Aveiro, March 29 - April 4, 1985.

28.Pedagogia na universidade, Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática, 9, pp. 11-12 (1986). (with J. Silva).

29.Bounds for the spectral radius of the inverse of a partitioned matrix Proceedings of the Meeting on Linear algebra and applications, (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1983), 425–431, Univ. País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unib., Bilbao, 1984.

30.Block eigenvalues of block compound matrices, Linear Algebra Appl., 47 (1982), 23–34.[M.R. 84d:15010]

31.A block-Cayley-Hamilton theorem, Bull. Math. Soc. Sci. Math. R. S. Roumanie, 26(74) (1982), nº 1, 93–97.[M.R. 83 h:15

32.A note on quasi-tridiagonal block matrices, Revista Universidade de Coimbra, 29, pp. 179-184 (1981) [1982].

33.A survey on vectorial norms of matrices and some open questions, Revista Universidade de Coimbra, 29, pp. 185-193 (1981) [1982].

34.Upper bounds for the latent roots of lambda-matrices, Proc. Anal. Numér. Théor. Approx., 9 (1980), nº 2, 289–292 (1981).[M.R. 83 c:15017]

35.Matricial norms: some applications and open questions, Proceedings of the seventh Spanish-Portuguese conference on mathematics, Part III (Sant Feliu de Guíxois, 1980), Publ. Sec. Mat. Univ. Autònoma Barcelona nº 22 (1980), 317–321.[M.R. 86 g:00012c]

36.On block-quasitridiagonal matrices, Proceedings of the seventh Spanish-Portuguese conference on mathematics, Part I (Sant Feliu de Guíxois, 1980), Publ. Sec. Mat. Univ.Autonoma Barcelona nº 20 (1980), 227–230.[M.R. 86 g:00012c]

37.Latent roots of lambda-matrices, Kronecker sums and matricial norms, Apl. Mat. 25 (1980), nº 6, 395–399.[M.R. 82 a:15019]

38.Matricial norms and the difference between the zeros of determinants with polynomial elements, Linear Algebra Appl., 28 (1979), 279–283.[M.R. 80 k:15014]

39.Generalization of inequalities by Carmichael and Mason and by Parodi, Computing, 22 (1979), nº 4, 363–365.[M.R. 82 g:15013]

40.Sistemas vibratórios, matrizes-lambda e normas vectoriais, Actas do Primeiro Encontro de Física Matemática, Universidade de Coimbra, 1979, pp. 53-70 (1984). (with J. Clímaco).

41.Matricial norms and the roots of polynomials, Rev. Ci. Mat. Univ. Lourenço Marques, 5 (1974/75), 51–56.[M.R. 56# 15672 ]

42.Matricial norms and lambda-matrices, Rev. Ci. Mat. Univ. Lourenço Marques, 5 (1974/75), 11–30.[M.R.56 #15671] 43.Inversion of a matrix partitioned in commuting blocks, Rev. Ci. Mat. Univ. Lourenço Marques, Sér. A 4 (1973), 29–37.[M.R. 52#3187]

44.Matrices partitionnées en blocs commutatifs, Gaz. Mat. (Lisboa), 31 (1970), no. 117-120, 49–57.[M.R. 49# 328]

45.On certain systems of matricial linear equations, II. Rev. Ci. Mat. Univ. Lourenço Marques, Sr. A 1 (1969), 9–14.[M.R.47# 1818 ]

46.On certain systems of matricial linear equations, Rev. Estud. Gerais Univ. Moçambique, Sér. I 4 (1967) 25–35.[M.R. 42# 7674]

 

 

 

 

Scientific Activities

 

Scientific Coordination of the following projects:

Projecto MATH/JNICT A Matemática em Teoria dos Sistemas e Controlo, 1988-1991.

Acção Integrada Luso-Espanhola, Coimbra/Valência, 1985-1986.

 

Participation in the following projects:

Control and systems engineering, under the EC EUROFORM Program, Coimbra/Salford, 1993-1994.

Acção Integrada Luso-Espanhola, Coimbra/Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1982-1983.

 

Research visits and stays at several foreign universities, including: 

Grenoble (France), Salford and Reading (England), Valência, Madrid, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Bilbao and Barcelona(Spain), Bergen (Norway), Prague (Check Republic), Budapest (Hungary), Manaus, Juiz de Fora, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), Pyongyang (North-Korea).

 

Meeting Organization:

Computational Methods and Function Theory – CMFT 2001 – Aveiro,25-29 June, 2001 (Organizing Committee).

3rd Portuguese Meeting on Control ”CONTROLO 98”, Coimbra, 1998 (Programme Committee).

2nd Portuguese Meeting on Control ”CONTROLO 96”, Oporto, 1996 (Programme Committee).

Meeting on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, 21-23 September, 1994 (Scientific Committee).

1st Portuguese Meeting on Control ”CONTROLO 94”, Lisbon, 14-16 September, 1994 (Programme Committee)

Workshop on Multilinear Algebra, Lisbon, 18-20 April, 1990 (Organizing Committee).

Meeting on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Valência, Spain, 3-5 October, 1989 (Scientific Committee).

International Conference on Linear Algebra and Applications, Valência, Spain, 28-30 September,1987(Scientific Committee).

VII GMEL Meeting—Groupement des Mathematiciens d’Expression Latine, Coimbra, 9-14 September, 1985 (Organizing Committee).

International Meeting on Linear Algebra and Applications, Coimbra, October, 1984 (Scientific Committee).

VIII Portuguese-Spanish Meeting on Mathematics, Coimbra, 3-8 May, 1981 (Organizing Committee).

M. Sc. thesis supervised:

Cristina Andrade,  Scalar and Matricial Polynomials with low Degree (Portuguese), Univ.Coimbra (2004)

Pedro Tadeu, Moore-Penrose Inverse,Circulant Matrices and Applications to Geometry (Portuguese), Univ. Beira Interior (2003)        

 

Ricardo Bichinho ,Algorithms of Sebastião e Silva:Extension to Complex and Quaternionic Polynomials(Portuguese) , Univ. Beira Interior (2003)        

 

Fernando Martins, Multiplicative and Additive Block Compound  Matrices with Circulant Blocks(Portuguese), Univ. Beira Interior (2003)

 

J. C. Aleixo, Linear Quaternionic Systems, Univ. Beira Interior (2001).

Helena France, Computing the GCD of Two Polynomials Using Their Associated Matrices, Univ. Porto (2000).

Rogério Serôdio, Polynomials and Matrices of Quaternions, Univ. Beira Interior (1998).

Isabel Mendes, Teaching Geometry in High School, Univ. Coimbra (1997).

Adelaide Patacão, Algebraic and Geometric Questions in Polynomial matrices and Partitioned Matrices, Univ. Coimbra (1997).

Alcina Faria, Mathematics: its Vitality and Progress, Univ. Coimbra (1996) (Co-Advisor Nicolau Raposo).

Edgar Pereira, Computing Block Eigenvalues of Block Matrices, Univ. Beira Interior (1995).

Cecília Costa, Teaching Geometry in Elementary School, Univ. Coimbra (1994).

Anabela Borges, On The Resolution of Linear Invariant Systems In Descriptor Form,Univ. Coimbra (1996) (Co-Advisor Teresa P.Lima).

Helena Seabra, Cones and Matricial Norms, Univ. Coimbra (1985).

Margarida Saraiva, Kronecker Poduct and the Adjoint Operator AdA=AX-XA, Univ. Coimbra (1985).

Teresa P.Lima, Linear Difference Equations Having Matrix Coeffcients, Univ. Coimbra (1985).

Armando Gonçalves, Compacity and Convexity of the Set of Best Approximation using Vectorial Norms, Univ. Coimbra (1985).

M.Madalena Martins, Convergence of Iterative Methods for Solving Systems, Univ. Coimbra (1984).

 

 

Ph. D. thesis supervised:

 

Pedro Tadeu,Geometry in Normed Spaces,Univ.Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro,in progress, [co-Adviser Cecilia Costa ]

Celino Miguel ,Foundations of a Block Linear Algebra (Portuguese), Univ. Beira Interior (2007).[Co-Adviser; Adviser:Edgar Pereira]

Fernando Martins,Block Matrices and Differential Matrix Equations,Univ. Beira Interior,2007 [co-Adviser Edgar Pereira]

Rogério Serôdio, On Polynomials and Matrices over the Hypercomplexes,Univ. Beira Interior, (2006). [co-Adviser Edgar Pereira]

Edgar Pereira, On Solvents of Polynomial Matrices, Univ. Beira Interior (2000).

Cecília Costa, José Vicente Gonçalves:[He was a] Mathematician ... because [he was a] Professor! (Intertwinning Mathematics, its History and Teaching), Univ. Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (2000).

 

Professional Memberships

SPM, APCA.