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24 December 1987
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IMG-NET Message No. 9
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CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT:
FROM: Danny Hershkowitz
SUBJECT: Program for the Haifa Matrix Conference
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               PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
                       of
  THE  FOURTH  HAIFA  MATRIX  THEORY  CONFERENCE
              January  3 - 5 ,  1988
                    TeECHNION
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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.
     
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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).
     
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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".

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          Prof. Ken Jackson, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Toronto,
                      Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A4.             
             E-mail:  krj@csri.toronto.edu   Phone:  416-978-7075