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{\Large \bf Invited plenary speakers}

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 Albrecht Boettcher (Chemnitz, Germany)


 Froil\'an Dopico (Madrid, Spain)


 Heike Fassbender (Braunschweig, Germany)


 Luca Gemignani (Pisa, Italy)


 Leslie Hogben (Ames, Iowa, USA)


 Erxiong Jiang (Shanghai, China)


 Daniel Kressner (Zurich, Switzerland)


 James Nagy (the SIAM Lecture) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

Juan Manuel Pe\~na  (Zaragoza, Spain)


 Peter Rosenthal (Toronto, Canada)


 Naomi Shaked-Monderer (Emek Yezreel, Israel)


 Ilya Spitkovsky (Williamsburg, Virginia, USA)


 Paul Van Dooren (Louvain, Belgium)

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{\Large \bf Mini-Symposia}

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{\Large MS1 Combinatorial Matrix Theory}

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 Organizers:

  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University, lhogben@iastate.edu

  Bryan Shader, University of Wyoming, bshader@uwyo.edu

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Confirmed participants:

Francesco Barioli  University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Wayne Barrett, Brigham Young University

Avi Berman, Technion

Richard Brualdi, University of Wisconsin

Luz De Alba, Drake University

Louis Deatt, University of Wisconsin

Danny Hershkowitz, Technion

Hein van der Holst, Eindhoven University of Technology

Steve Kirkland, University of Regina

Dale Olesky, University of Victoria

Olga Pryporova, Iowa State University

Michael Tsatsomeros, Washington State University

Kevin Vander Meulen, Redeemer College

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{\Large MS2 Eigenproblems: Theory and computation}

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Organizer: Julio Moro, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 
 jmoro@math.uc3m.es 

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Confirmed participants:

Tom Bella
Department of Mathematics
University of Connecticut
e-mail: bella@math.uconn.edu  


Steve Cox
Dept. of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University
e-mail: cox@rice.edu 

Inderjit Dhillon, University of Texas

Michael Karow
Institut für Mathematik
Technische Universität Berlin
e-mail: karow@math.tu-berlin.de

Chi Kwong Li, College of William and Mary

%Niloufer Mackey
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%Western Michigan University
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Karl Meerbergen
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Department of Computer Science
e-mail: Karl.Meerbergen@cs.kuleuven.be


Julio Moro
Departamento de Matemáticas
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
e-mail: jmoro@math.uc3m.es


Vadim Olshevsky
Department of Mathematics
University of Connecticut
e-mail: olshevsky@math.uconn.edu 


Bor Plestenjak
Department of Mathematics,
University of Ljubljana
e-mail: Bor.Plestenjak@fmf.uni-lj.si

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{\Large MS3 Implementation and Application issues in regularizing least squares and total least squares.}

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Organizer: Rosie Renaut, Arizona State University, renaut@asu.edu

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Confirmed participants:

John Bardlsey bardsleyj@mso.umt.edu

Truncation Rules for Iterative Deblurring Methods

Antonio Arico, arico@unica.it

Signal and Image regularization via antireflective transform

Jodi Mead, Boise State University,  jmead@boisestate.edu,  and Rosemary Renaut

Calculating Weights in Least Squares Estimation Using the
Chi-squared Method

Rosemary A Renaut, Arizona State University,  and Jodi Mead

A Newton Iteration for estimating the regularizing parameter for least squares 

Iveta Hn\v{e}tynkov\'{a}, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, 
and Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.
hnetynkova@cs.cas.cz

On solvability of total least squares problem

Wolfgang Stefan, wolfgang.stefan@gmail.com,   and Anne Gelb, 

Claudio Estatico, University of Cagliari, Italy,

Regularizing Least Squares with the Concentration Method

Julianne Chung, James Nagy, Emory University, 

Lanczos Hybrid Regularization for Image Processing Applications

Bert W. Rust, bwr@nist.gov,   and  Dianne P. O'Leary,

A Truncated Singular Component Method for Ill-Posed Problems

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{\Large MS4 Linear Algebra Education}

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Organizers:

    Maria Trigueros, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, trigue@itam.mx

    Asuman Oktac, Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados, 

oktac@mercurio.red.cinvestav.mx

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Confirmed participants:

1. Hamide Dogan-Dunlap (USA/Turkey): Thinking Modes Revealed on Students'
Responses from an Assignment on Linear Independence.

2. Jacqueline Klasa-Bompoint (Canada): Use of non-standard bases in the
study of conics, Illustrations with Cabri

3. Denis Tanguay and   Claudia Corriveau (Canada)

4. William Martin,  Laurel Cooley (group of presenters) (USA): Integrating learning
theories and
application-based modules in teaching linear algebra

5. Mirko Maracci (Italy)

6. Michelle Zandieh (group) (USA)

7. Ana Moura Santos,  Pedro Santos (Portugal)

8. Edgar Possani,  Gustavo Preciado (group) Mexico: Use of models in the teaching of
linear algebra

Guershon Harel (University of California, San Diego, USA

9. Asuman OktaÇ and Maria Trigueros (group) (Mexico): On the learning of
the concept of base

David Strong 

Marcela Parraguez

Steven J. Leon




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{\Large MS5 Linear Algebra in Model Reduction}
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Organizer: Peter Benner, Chemnitz University of Technology
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Confirmed participants:

1. Serkan Gugercin (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA; gugercin@math.vt.edu):

A Krylov-Based Descent Approach for the Optimal H2 Model Reduction of Large-Scale
Dynamical Systems

2. Paul Van Dooren (Universite Catholique Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium;
paul.vandooren@uclouvain.be):

H2 Approximation and Tangential Rational Interpolation

3. Christopher Beattie (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA; beattie@vt.edu):

Interpolatory Projection Methods for Parameterized Model Reduction

4. Lihong Feng (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany/Fudan University Shang-
hai, China; lhfeng@fudan.edu.cn):

Parametric Model Reduction for Systems with Coupled Parameters

5. Roland Freund (University of California, Davis, USA; freund@math.ucdavis.edu):

The Effects of Deflation in Projection-Based Order Reduction

6. Ulrike Baur (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany;
baur@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de):

Model Reduction for unstable Systems based on Hierarchical Matrix Arithmetic

7. Tobias Damm (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany; damm@mathematik.uni-kl.de):

Algebraic Gramians and Model Reduction for Diㄦent System Classes

8. Peter Benner (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany;

benner@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de):

Balancing-Related Model Reduction for Large-Scale Unstable Systems

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{\Large MS6  Matrix functions and matrix equations}

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Organizers:

Peter Lancaster, University of Calgary, lancaste@ucalgary.ca

Chun-Hua Guo, University of Regina, chguo@math.uregina.ca

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Confirmed participants:

% Amir Amiraslani, University of Calgary, amiram@math.ucalgary.ca

 Peter Benner, TU Chemnitz, benner@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de

 Dario Bini, University of Pisa, bini@dm.unipi.it

 Lyonell Boulton, Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh, lyonell@ma.hw.ac.uk

 Heike Fassbender, TU Braunschweig, h.fassbender@tu-bs.de

 Chun-Hua Guo, University of Regina, chguo@math.uregina.ca

 Bruno Iannazzo, University of Pisa, iannazzo@mail.dm.unipi.it

Andre Klein, University of Amsterdam

 Peter Lancaster, University of Calgary, lancaste@ucalgary.ca

 Beatrice Meini, University of Pisa, meini@dm.unipi.it

 Shu-Fang Xu, Peking University, xsf@pku.edu.cn

Juan Carlos Zuniga, University of Calgary

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{\Large MS7 Max Algebra}
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Organizers:
 Hans Schneider, University of Wisconsin

 Peter Butkovic, University of Birmingham, UK

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Confirmed participants:

Stephane Gaubert, INRIA Paris, France
stephane.gaubert@inria.fr

Using max-plus eigenvalues to bound the roots of a polynomial (with Marianne 
Akian (INRIA) Adrien Brandejsky (ENS Cachan))

Jean Jacques Loiseau,University Nantes, France
jean-jacques.loiseau@irccyn.ec-nantes.fr

Robust stability of positive difference equations (with Michael Di Loreto)

Sergei Sergeev, University of Birmingham, UK
sergiej@gmail.com

Cellular-type conditions for two-matrix eigenproblem

Ivan Singer, Institute of Mathematics, Bucharest, Romania
ivan.singer@imar.ro

Max-min convexity

Bill McEneaney, University of California, San Diego, USA
wmceneaney@ucsd.edu

An Idempotent Semiring Underlying New Fundamental Solutions of Differential 
Equations with Quadratic Nonlinearities

Martin Gavalec, University Hradec Kralove, Czech Rep
martin.gavalec@uhk.cz

Permuted max-min eigenvector problem (with J.Plavka)

Glenn Merlet, University Paris-Dauphine, France
glenn.merlet@gmail.com

Ergodic theorems for products of random matrices in the max-plus algebra

Jean-Louis Boimond, University Angers, France
boimond@istia.univ-angers.fr

On Just In Time Controller Design in Max-Plus Algebra

Hans Schneider, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
hans@math.wisc.edu

TBA

Peter Butkovic, University of Birmingham, UK
p.butkovic@bham.ac.uk

On the permuted max-algebraic eigenvector problem

Jan Plavka, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia
jan.plavka@tuke.sk

On the robustness of matrices in max-min algebra

%Peter Szabo, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia
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%A Note on Partitions and Triangular Toeplitz matrices

%Monika Molnarova, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia
%monika.molnarova@tuke.sk

%Orbit periods with respect to Monge matrices in max-plus algebra

Karel Zimmermann, Charles University, Prague

Pauline van den Driessche, University of Victoria




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{\Large MS8 Nonnegative and eventually nonnegative matrices}

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Organizer: Judi McDonald, Washington State University,

 jmcdonald@math.wsu.edu

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Confirmed participants:

Minerva Catral, University of Victoria, mcatral@math.uvic.ca

Sherod Eubanks, Washington State University, eubanks@math.wsu.edu

Daniel Hershkowitz, Techion, hershkow@techunix.technion.ac.il

Thomas Laffey, University College Dublin, Thomas.Laffey@ucd.ie

Judi McDonald, Washington State University, jmcdonald@math.wsu.edu

Michael Neumann, University of Conneticut, neumann@math.uconn.edu

DeAnne Morris, Washington State University, dmorris@math.wsu.edu

Helena Smigoc, Univeristy College Dublin, helena.smigoc@fmf.uni-lj.si

Michael Tsatsomeros, Washington State University, tsat@math.wsu.edu

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