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\def\aaAceves{Instituto de Matem\'aticas Unidad Morelia, Morelia, M\'exico}
\def\aaAhn{Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea}
\def\aaAkinola{University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom}
\def\aaAlZhour{Zarqa Private University, Zarqa, Jordan}
\def\aaAminu{University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom}
\def\aaAndjelic{Center for Research on Optimization and Control, Aveiro, Portugal}
\def\aaArav{Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA}
\def\aaArico{Dipartimento di Matematica - Universit\'a di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy}
\def\aaArroyo{UAM-Iztapalapa, M\'exico, City, M\'exico}
\def\aaAvalos{Universidad Aut\'onoma de Nuevo Le\'on, Nuevo Le\'on, M\'exico}
\def\aaBardsley{University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA}
\def\aaBarrett{Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah}
\def\aaBarria{Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, U.S.A.}
\def\aaBaur{Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany}
\def\aaBella{University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA}
\def\aaBengochea{Universidad Aut\'onoma de la Ciudad de M\'exico,  M\'exico D.F.
}

\def\aaBenner{TU Chemnitz, Fakult\"at f\"ur Mathematik, Chemnitz, Germany}
\def\aaBerman{Technion, Haifa, Israel}
\def\aaBini{Dipartimento di Matematica, Universit\'a di Pisa, Pisa, Italy}
\def\aaBoettcher{TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany}
\def\aaBoimond{LISA - University of Angers, Angers, France}
\def\aaBourgeois{Facult\'e de Luminy, Marseille, France}
\def\aaBrualdi{University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, USA}
\def\aaBru{Univ. Polit\'ecnica, Valencia, Spain}
\def\aaBueno{The University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA}
\def\aaBunch{UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA}
\def\aaButkovic{University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom}
\def\aaCanogar{Universidad Nacional de Educaci\'on a Distancia, Madrid, Spain}
\def\aaCarriegos{Universidad de Le\'on, Le\'on, Spain}
\def\aaCastro{Universidad Polit\'ecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain}
\def\aaCatral{University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada}
\def\aaCheng{National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, P.R. China}
\def\aaCorral{Universidad Polit\'ecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain}
\def\aaCorriveau{Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal (UQAM), Montr\'eal, Canada}
\def\aaCortes{Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain}
\def\aaCosta{Centre for Research on Optimization and Control, Aveiro, Portugal}
\def\aaCox{Rice University, Houston, TX, USA}
\def\aaCravo{University of Madeira and CELC, Funchal, Portugal}
\def\aaCvetkovic{Faculty of Science, Novi Sad, Serbia}
\def\aadaCruz{U.B.I, Covilh\~a, Portugal}
\def\aaDamm{TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany}
\def\aaDay{San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA}
\def\aaDeaett{University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA}
\def\aaDeAlba{Drake University, Des Moines, USA}
\def\aaDeb{Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, Sikkim, India}
\def\aaDhillon{University of Texas, Austin, USA}
\def\aaDjordjevicD{Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Nis, Nis, 18000, Serbia}
\def\aaDobovisek{University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Ljubljana, Slovenia}
\def\aaDodig{CELC, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal}
\def\aaDogan{UTEP, El Paso, TX, USA}
\def\aaDolinar{Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia}
\def\aaDominguez{Universidad Polit\'ecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain}
\def\aaDopazo{Facultad de Inform\'atica. Universidad Polit\'ecnica de  Madrid, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain}
\def\aaEngel{Transversal Networks Inc., Madison Wisconsin, USA}
\def\aaEsen{Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey}
\def\aaEstatico{Universit\'a di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy}
\def\aaEubanks{Washington State University, Pullman, USA}
\def\aaFassbender{TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany}
\def\aaFeng{Faculty of  mathematics, TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany}
\def\aaFernandes{Centro de Estruturas Lineares e Combinat\'orias (CELC), Lisboa, Portugal}
\def\aaFerrer{Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain}
\def\aaFosner{Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana, Slovenia}
\def\aaFonseca{Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal}
\def\aaFrank{University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany}
\def\aaFurtado{Centro de Estruturas Lineares e Combinat\'orias da U. L, Porto, Portugal}
\def\aaFuruichi{Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan}
\def\aaGasso{Inst. Mat. Mult.  Universidad Polit\'ecnica Valencia, Valencia, Spain}
\def\aaGaubert{INRIA and CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France}
\def\aaGavalec{University of Hradec Kr\'alov\'e, Hradec Kr\'alov\'e, Czech Republic}
\def\aaGemignani{Department of Mathematics University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy}
\def\aaGlebsky{Universidad Aut\'onoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, M\'exico}
\def\aaGoldberger{Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel}
\def\aaGouveia{Department of Mathematics, FCTUC, Coimbra, Portugal}
\def\aaGrout{Iowa State University, Ames, USA}
\def\aaGrudsky{CINVESTAV del I.P.N., M\'exico, M\'exico}
\def\aaGuo{University of Regina, Regina, Canada}
\def\aaGuzman{Instituto de Investigaciones Econ\'omicas.  UNAM., M\'exico, M\'exico}
\def\aaHardouin{LISA - University of Angers, Angers, France}
\def\aaHarel{Dept of Math, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, USA}
\def\aaHernandez{UNAM, M\'exico, D.F., M\'exico}
\def\aaHnetynkova{Dep. of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona}
\def\aaHogben{Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA}
\def\aaHorn{University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA}
\def\aaHuylebrouck{Dep Architecture Sint-Lucas, Brussels, Belgium}
\def\aaIannazzo{Dipto. di Fisica e Mat., Universit\`a dell'Insubria, Como, Italy}
\def\aaIm{Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea(Rep. of)}
\def\aaKantun{Benem\'erita Universidad Aut\'onoma de Puebla, Puebla, M\'exico}
\def\aaKirkland{University of Regina, Regina, Canada}
\def\aaKlasa{Dawson College, Montreal, Canada}
\def\aaKlein{University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands}
\def\aaKopparty{Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN,  USA}
\def\aaKortesi{University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary}
\def\aaKostic{Faculty of Science, Novi Sad, Serbia}
\def\aaKressner{ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland}
\def\aaKum{Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, S. Korea}
\def\aaLaffey{University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland}
\def\aaLancaster{University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada}
\def\aaLeeH{Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea}
\def\aaLeeG{Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea}
\def\aaLeite{Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo - UFES, Vitoria, Brazil}
\def\aaLeon{University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA}
\def\aaLi{College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA}
\def\aaLim{Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea}
\def\aaLisker{Ferment Magazine, Middletown, Connecticut, USA}
\def\aaLoiseau{IRCCyN-CNRS, Nantes, France}
\def\aaLuviano Flores{IMATE-UNAM, M\'exico, Distrito Federal}
\def\aaMachado{Pontificia Universidade Catolica de S\~ao Paulo, S\~ao Paulo, Brasil}
\def\aaMalik{Department of mathematics, Hindu College, Delhi Univ., Delhi, India}
\def\aaMaracci{Dept of Mathematics and CSCI, Siena University, Siena, Italy}
\def\aaMaroulas{Dept. of Mathematics, Nat. Technical University, Athens, Greece}
\def\aaMarovt{Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana, Slovenia}
\def\aaMarques{University of Algarve and CELC, Faro, Portugal}
\def\aaMartinezAv{Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Pachuca, M\'exico}
\def\aaMartin{North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA}
\def\aaMartins{Centre for Research on Optimization and Control (CEOC), Aveiro, Portugal}
\def\aaMartinez{Universidad  de  Alcal\'a, Alcal\'a de Henares, Spain}
\def\aaMcDonald{Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA}
\def\aaMcEneaney{University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States}
\def\aaDopico{Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Legan\'es, Spain}
\def\aaMead{Boise State University, Boise, USA}
\def\aaMeerbergen{K.U. Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium}
\def\aaMeini{Dipartimento di Matematica, Universit\'a di Pisa, Pisa, Italy}
\def\aaMena{Escuela Polit\'ecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador}
\def\aaMerlet{CNRS/LIAFA, Paris, France}
\def\aaMerris{None--Retired, Hayward, USA}
\def\aaSmigoc{University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland}
\def\aaMikkelson{Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America}
\def\aaMilligan{University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, USA}
\def\aaMishra{BHU Varanasi, Varanasi, India}
\def\aaMitchell{Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States}
\def\aaMoosaei{Guilan, Rasht, Iran}
\def\aaMoro{Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Legan\'es, Spain}
\def\aaMorris{Washington State University, Pullman, USA}
\def\aaMoura{Instituto Superior T\'ecnico, UTL, Lisbon, Portugal}
\def\aaNagy{Emory University, Atlanta, USA}
\def\aaNarayan{Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA}
\def\aaNeumann{Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA}
\def\aaNoutsos{University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece}
\def\aaOlesky{University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada}
\def\aaOlshevsky{University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA}
\def\aaPalma{Instituto de F\'{\i}sica (BUAP), Puebla, M\'exico}
\def\aaParraguez{Pontificia Universidad Cat\'olica de Valpara\'{\i}so, Valpara\'{\i}so, Chile}
\def\aaPatricio{Departamento de Matem\'atica, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal}
\def\aaPenaM{Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain}
\def\aaPenaJM{University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain}
\def\aaPerdigao{Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia-UNL, Lisboa, Portugal}
\def\aaPlavka{Technical University, Kocice, Slovakia}
\def\aaPlestenjak{University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia}
\def\aaPonce{University of Hradec Kr\'alov\'e, Hradec Kr\'alov\'e, Czech Republic}
\def\aaPoole{East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA}
\def\aaPossani{ITAM- Instituto Tecnol\'ogico Aut\'onomo de M\'exico, M\'exico, M\'exico}
\def\aaProkip{Institute of Appl. Problem for Mech. and Math. NAS of Ukr, L'viv, Ukraine}
\def\aaProtasov{Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia}
\def\aaPruneda{University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain}
\def\aaPryporova{Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA}
\def\aaRakotondrajao{University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar}
\def\aaRenaut{Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Tempe, USA}
\def\aaRoca{Dpto. de Matem\'atica Aplicada, Universidad Polit\'ecnica, Valencia, Spain}
\def\aaRodriguez{Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Espa\~na}
\def\aaRump{Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany}
\def\aaRusso{Department of  Mathematics - University of Padua, Padova, Italy}
\def\aaRust{National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA}
\def\aaSalam{Universit\'e du Littoral-C\^ote d'Opale, Calais, France}
\def\aaSanchez{Benem\'erita Universidad Aut\'onoma de Puebla, Puebla, M\'exico}
\def\aaSangare{Institut de Polytechnique, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar}
\def\aaSantos{Instituto Superior T\'ecnico, UTL, Lisbon, Portugal}
\def\aaSato{Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan}
\def\aaSchaeffer{Universidad Aut\'onoma de Nuevo Le\'on, San Nicol\'as de los Garza, M\'exico}
\def\aaSchaffrin{Ohio State University,  Columbus, OH, USA}
\def\aaSchneider{University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI, USA}
\def\aaSebeldin{University UGANC, Guinea, Conakry, Guinea}
\def\aaSeddighin{Indiana University East, Richmod, Indiana}
\def\aaSemrl{University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia}
\def\aaSendov{The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada}
\def\aaSergeev{University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom}
\def\aaShader{University of Wyoming, Laramie, US}
\def\aaShahryari{Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran, Tabriz, Iran}
\def\aaShaked{Emek Yezreel College, Emek Yezreel, Israel}
\def\aaShivakumar{University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada}
\def\aaSinkovic{Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands}
\def\aaSivakumar{Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India}
\def\aaSivic{Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana, Slovenia}
\def\aaSoares{University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal}
\def\aaStefan{Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona}
\def\aaStosic{Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, IST, Lisbon, Portugal}
\def\aaStrong{Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA}
\def\aaStuart{Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, USA}
\def\aaSzyld{Temple University, Phialdelphia, USA}
\def\aaTakane{Instituto de Matem\'aticas UNAM (Cuernavaca), Cuernavaca, M\'exico}
\def\aaTam{University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK}
\def\aaTanguay{Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal (UQAM), Montr\'eal, Canada}
\def\aaTeixeira{Centro de Estruturas Lineares e Combinat\'orias (CELC), Lisboa, Portugal}
\def\aaTrigueros{Depto de Matem\'aticas ITAM, M\'exico DF, M\'exico}
\def\aaUchiyama{Shimane University,  Matsue, Shimane, Japan}
\def\aaUhlig{Mathematics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA}
\def\aaVallejo{Instituto de Matem\'aticas,  Morelia, M\'exico}
\def\aavandenDriessche{University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada}
\def\aavanderHolst{Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands}
\def\aaVanderMeulen{Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada}
\def\aaVanDooren{Universit\'e catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium}
\def\aaVargas{ICYTDF, M\'exico, M\'exico}
\def\aaVerde{UAM Iztapalapa, M\'exico DF, M\'exico}
\def\aaVieira{Feup, Porto, Portugal}
\def\aaWeaver{University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514, USA}
\def\aaWojciechowski{University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA}
\def\aaWrobel{Warsaw University of Technology and Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland}
\def\aaWu{National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan}
\def\aaZandieh{Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA}
\def\aaZimmermann{Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic}
\def\aaZuniga{Department of Mathematics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada}

%%Titles and coauthors
\def\ttAhn{
An extended Lie-Trotter formula and its applications }
\def\qqAhn{ (with  Sejong Kim and Yongdo Lim)
}
\def\ttAlZhour{
Matrix Results on Weighted Drazin Inverse and Some Applications }
\def\qqAlZhour{ (with  Adem Kilicman)
}
\def\ttAndjelic{
One upper bound for the largest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian }
\def\qqAndjelic{ (with  Slobodan Simic)
}
\def\ttArav{
Sign Patterns That Require Almost Unique Rank }
\def\qqArav{ (with  Frank Hall, Zhongshan Li, Assefa Merid, Yubin Gao)
}
\def\ttBarria{
The strong closure of the similarity orbit for a class of pairs of finite rank operators
}
\def\ttBengochea{
Duality in the Hopf Algebra of multivariate polynomials
}
\def\qqBengochea{ (with L. Verde-Star)}

\def\ttBourgeois{
About the logarithm function over the matrices
}
\def\ttBru{
On some classes of $H$-matrices }
\def\qqBru{ (with  Ljiljana Cvetkovi\'c, Vladimir Kosti\'c and Francisco Pedroche)
}
\def\ttBueno{
Algorithms for computing the Geronimus Transformation
}
\def\ttCarriegos{
Reachability of regular switched linear systems
}
\def\ttCastro{
Representations for the generalized Drazin inverse of additive perturbations }
\def\qqCastro{ (with  M. F. Mart\'{\i}nez-Serrano)
}
\def\ttCheng{
One Type of Inverse Eigenvalue Problems in Quaternionic Quantum Mechanics }
\def\qqCheng{ (with  Liang-gui Feng)
}
\def\ttCorral{
On Schur complements of $H$-matrices }
\def\qqCorral{ (with R. Bru,  I. Gim\'{e}nez, J. Mas)
}
\def\ttCortes{
Some properties of the class sign regular matrices and its subclasses }
\def\qqCortes{ (with  J. M. Pe{\~n}a)
}
\def\ttCosta{
Acyclic Birkhoff Polytope }
\def\qqCosta{ (with  C. M. da Fonseca and Enide Andrade Martins)
}
\def\ttCravo{
Controllability of Matrices with Prescribed Blocks
}
\def\ttdaCruz{
On the matrices that preserve the value of the immanant of the upper triangular matrices }
\def\qqdaCruz{ (with Ros\'ario Fernandes)
}
\def\ttDay{
Graph Energy Change Due to Edge Deletion
}
\def\ttSanchez{
Manifold of proper elements }
\def\qqSanchez{ (with S. Djordjevic)
}
\def\ttDodig{
Singular systems, state feedback problem
}
\def\ttDolinar{
General preservers of quasi-commutativity }
\def\qqDolinar{ (with  Bojan Kuzma)
}
\def\ttDominguez{
General solution of certain matrix equations arising in filter design applications
}
\def\ttDopazo{
Further results on the representation of the Drazin inverse of a $2\times 2$ block matrix }
\def\qqDopazo{ (with  M. F. Mart\'{\i}nez-Serrano and N. Castro-Gonz\'{a}lez)
}
\def\ttEsen{
On The Root Clustering of Matrices
}
\def\ttFernandes{
Rank partitions and covering numbers under small  perturbations of an element
}
\def\ttFerrer{
Geometric structure of the equivalence classes of a controllable pair }
\def\qqFerrer{ (with A.~Compta and  M.~Pe{\~n}a)
}
\def\ttFonseca{
An inequality for the multiplicity of an eigenvalue
}
\def\ttFosner{
Commutativity preserving maps on real matrices
}
\def\ttFrank{
An iterative method for transport equations in radiotherapy }
\def\qqFrank{ (with Bruno Dubroca)
}
\def\ttFurtado{
Order Invariant Spectral Properties for Several Matrices }
\def\qqFurtado{ (with  Charles Johnson)
}
\def\ttFuruichi{
On trace inequalities for products of matrices
}
\def\ttGasso{
The class of Inverse-Positive matrices with checkerboard pattern }
\def\qqGasso{ (with  Manuel F. Abad,  and Juan R. Torregrosa)
}
\def\ttGlebsky{
On low rank perturbations of matrices }
\def\qqGlebsky{ (with  Luis Manuel Rivera)
}
\def\ttGoldberger{
An upper bound on the characteristic polynomial of a nonnegative matrix leading to      a proof of the Boyle--Handleman conjecture }
\def\qqGoldberger{ (with  Michael Neumann)
}
\def\ttGouveia{
On a singular Toeplitz pencil
}
\def\ttGrudsky{
Uniform boundedness of Toeplitz Matrices with variable coefficients
}
\def\ttGuzman{
Reduction of an Ito's diffusion input output model for the determination of square mean stability
}

\def\ttHorn{
A Canonical Form for Quasi-Real Normal Matrices Under Real Orthogonal Similarity }
\def\qqHorn{ (with Geoffrey R. Goodson)
}
\def\ttIm{
Representations of trilinear products in Comtrans algebras }
\def\qqIm{ (with  Jonathan D. H. Smith)
}

\def\ttKopparty{
Generalized inverses of infinite matrices
}
\def\ttKortesi{
Using Linear Algebra in Teaching Hamilton Quaternions and Graphs
}
\def\ttLeeG{
Complexity Analysis of the  Primal-Dual Interior Point Method for Second-order Cone Optimization Problem }
\def\qqLeeG{ (with Bo Kyung Choi)
}
\def\ttLeeH{
Contractions and nonlinear matrix equations on positive definite cones }
\def\qqLeeH{ (with Yongdo Lim)
}
\def\ttMachado{
GPEA's researches about the meta resources in teaching and learning the notion of basis of a vector space }
\def\qqMachado{ (with  Bianchini, B. L. and  Maranh\~ao, M. C. S. A.)
}
\def\ttMarovt{
Homomorphisms of matrix semigroups over division rings from dimension two to three }
\def\qqMarovt{ (with Gregor Dolinar)
}
\def\ttMarques{
Some conditions for the commutativity of matrix patterns }
\def\qqMarques{ (with C. R. Johnson)
}
\def\ttMartinez{
Polynomial regression in the Bernstein basis }
\def\qqMartinez{ (with Ana Marco)
}
\def\ttMartins{
On the spectra of some graphs like weighted rooted trees }
\def\qqMartins{ (with Ros\'{a}rio Fernandes and  Helena Gomes)
}
\def\ttMikkelson{
Minimum Rank of Graphs with Loops
}
\def\ttMilligan{
On Euclidean Squared Distance Matrices }
\def\qqMilligan{ (with  Chi-Kwong Li and Michael Trossett)
}
\def\ttMitchell{
Orthogonal Removal of Vertices and Minimum Semidefinite Rank }
\def\qqMitchell{ (with Sivaram Narayan)
}
\def\ttNarayan{
Linearly Independent Vertices and Minimum Semidefinite Rank
}
\def\ttOlshevsky{
Can One Invert a Matrix via Graph Manipulations? }
\def\qqOlshevsky{ (with Tom Bella and Pavel Zhlobich)
}
\def\ttPalma{
Solution of the linear time-dependent potential by using a solvable Lie algebra$^*$ }
\def\qqPalma{ (with  M. Villa, and L. Sandoval)
}
\def\ttPatricio{
Some additive results on Drazin Inverses }
\def\qqPatricio{ (with R. E. Hartwig)
}
\def\ttPenaM{
Perturbations preserving conditioned invariant subspaces }
\def\qqPenaM{ (with A.~Compta and  J.~Ferrer)
}
\def\ttPerdigao{
On the equivalence class graph }
\def\qqPerdigao{ (with   Ros\'ario Fernandes)
}
\def\ttPoole{
Whatever Happened to Rook's Pivoting?
}
\def\ttProkip{
On the problem of diagonalizability of matrices over a principal ideal domain
}
\def\ttProtasov{
$p$-radii  of linear operators and equations of self-similarity
}
\def\ttPruneda{
Complete Orthogonal Decomposition Compared with Direct Projection Methods }
\def\qqPruneda{ (with  Beatriz Lacruz)
}
\def\ttRakotondrajao{
Euler's difference table and maximum permanents of $(0,1)$-matrices
}
\def\ttRoca{
Pencils with Prescribed Constant Subpencils }
\def\qqRoca{ (with  F. C. Silva)
}
\def\ttRodriguez{
The Laplacian Spectrum of Hypergraphs }
\def\qqRodriguez{ (with  Aida Kamisalic)
}
\def\ttRump{
The ratio between the Toeplitz and the unstructured condition number }
\def\qqRump{ (with  H. Sekigawa)
}
\def\ttRusso{
On some general determinantal identities of Sylvester type }
\def\qqRusso{ (with Michela Redivo-Zaglia)
}
\def\ttSalam{
A structure-preserving  Arnoldi-like method for a class of structured matrices
}
\def\ttSato{
The algebraic relations of curvatures of PL manifolds
}
\def\ttSchaeffer{
Locally computable approximations of absorption times for graph clustering }
\def\qqSchaeffer{ (with Pekka Orponen and Vanesa Avalos)
}
\def\ttSchaffrin{
Total least-squares regularization of Tykhonov type and an ancient racetrack in Corinth }
\def\qqSchaffrin{ (with  Kyle Snow)
}
\def\ttSebeldin{
 Algorithm resolving problem of determination of finite cyclicgroup by its automorphism group }
\def\qqSebeldin{ (with V. K. Vildanov and A. L. Sylla)
}
\def\ttSeddighin{
Matrix Optimization in Statistics
}
\def\ttSemrl{
Locally linearly dependent operators
}
\def\ttSendov{
Spectral Manifolds }
\def\qqSendov{ (with A. Daniilidis, J. Malick, and  A. Lewis)
}
\def\ttShahryari{
$Z_2$-graded symmetry classes of tensors
}
\def\ttSinkovic{
An upper bound for the maximum nullity of a symmetric matrix whose graph is outerplanar
}
\def\ttSivic{
On varieties of commuting triples
}
\def\ttSoares{
Inequalities on an indefinite inner product space  }
\def\qqSoares{ (with N. Bebiano et al.)
}
\def\ttStosic{
On Generalized Procrustes Problem }
\def\qqStosic{ (with  Jo\~ao Xavier)
}
\def\ttStuart{
Spectrally Arbitrary Ray Patterns
}
\def\ttTeixeira{
A Completion Problem over the Field of Real Numbers }
\def\qqTeixeira{ (with Fernando C. Silva)
}
\def\ttUchiyama{
A New Majorization between functions
}
\def\ttUhlig{
 Convex and Non-convex Optimization Problems for the Field of Values of a Matrix
}
\def\ttVallejo{
Additivity obstructions for integral matrices and pyramids }
\def\qqVallejo{ (with Miguel Santoyo)
}
\def\ttVargas{
Students difficulties with concept of vector space from point of view of APOS Theory
}
\def\ttVerde{
Linear algebraic approach to rational functions
}
\def\ttVieira{
Euclidean Jordan algebras and inequalities on the parameters and on the spectra  of a strongly  regular graph
}
\def\ttWeaver{
Nonsingularity of Divisor Tournaments }
\def\qqWeaver{ (with  Rohan Hemasinha and Jeffrey L. Stuart)
}
\def\ttWojciechowski{
Orderings of matrix algebras and their applications
}
\def\ttWrobel{
The Gauss-Lucas theorem and the numerical range
}
\def\ttWu{
Numerical ranges of nilpotent operators }
\def\qqWu{ (with Hwa-Long Gau)}
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\begin{document}
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{\LARGE \bf 15-th Conference \\
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\bigskip 
International Linear Algebra Society}

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Westin Resort and Spa\\Canc\'un, M\'exico\\ June 16--20, 2008

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{\Large \bf Organizing Committee}\\
\bigskip {\bf
Rafael Bru

Luz Mar\'{\i}a de Alba

Daniel Hershkowitz

Andre Klein

Beatrice Meini

Dale Olesky

Vadim Olshevsky

Jeff Stuart

Daniel Szyld

Luis Verde-Star 
}
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{\Large \bf Local Organizing Committee}\\

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{\bf
\noindent 
Mar\'{\i}a  Jos\'e  Arroyo, Universidad Aut\'onoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa

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\noindent 
Rub\'en Mart\'{\i}nez-Avenda\~no, Universidad Aut\'onoma del Estado de Hidalgo

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\noindent 
Martha Takane, Instituto de Matem\'aticas, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico

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\noindent 
Luis Verde-Star (Chair), Universidad Aut\'onoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa
}
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\section*{ Acknowledgements}

\bigskip
\noindent
The organizers gratefully acknowledge the support received from:

{\bf


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Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog\'{\i}a

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Rector\'{\i}a General de la Universidad Aut\'onoma Metropolitana


\medskip
Rector\'{\i}a de la UAM-Iztapalapa

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Divisi\'on de Ciencias B\'asicas e Ingenier\'{\i}a, UAM-Iztapalapa

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Departamento de Matem\'aticas, UAM-Iztapalapa


\medskip
Instituto de Matem\'aticas, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico


\medskip
 Direcci\'on General de Asuntos del Personal Acad\'emico, UNAM (Proyectos PAPIIT y PAEP)

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Universidad Aut\'onoma del Estado de Hidalgo

\medskip
International Linear Algebra Society

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Taylor and Francis
}

\newpage
%ttt
{\Large \bf Personal Schedule}
\bigskip

\hbox{ \hskip -0.28in
\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 

\textbf{Monday }
  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {8:10 
Opening ceremony}
  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {8:20
L. Hogben}
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf {9:15 
Mini-break}
  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {9:20
E. Jiang}
  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {10:15 
Coffee break}
  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {10:45} \\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {11:10 }\\  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {11:35}\\  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {12:00}\\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {12:25}\\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {12:50--15:30}\\  \\ 
\textbf {Lunch break}
  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {15:30
A. Boettcher}
  \\
 \hline
\textbf {16:25
Coffee break}
  \\
 \hline
\textbf {16:55} \\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {17:20 }\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {17:45}\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {18:10}\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {18:35}\\  \\
 \hline
\\ 
\hline
\end{tabular}

\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 

\textbf{Tuesday }
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf {8:10
N. Shaked-Monderer}
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf {9:05
Mini-break }
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{9:10
D. Kressner}
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{10:05
Coffee break}
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{10:35}\\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {11:00 }\\  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {11:25}\\  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {11:50}\\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {12:15}\\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {12:40--15:30}\\  \\ 
\textbf {Lunch break}
  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {15:30
F. M. Dopico}
  \\
 \hline
\textbf {16:25
Coffee break}
  \\
 \hline
\textbf {16:55} \\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {17:20 }\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {17:45}\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {18:10}\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {18:35}\\  \\
 \hline
\\ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 

\textbf{Wednesday }
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf {8:10
J. M. Pe\~na}
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{9:05
Mini-break }
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{9:10
J. Nagy}
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{10:05
Coffee break}
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{10:35}\\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {11:00 }\\  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {11:25}\\  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {11:50}\\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {12:15}\\  \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{12:40--13:30}\\ \\
\textbf {Lunch break }\\
\hline
\textbf{13:30--19:00}\\ \\
\textbf {Excursion to Tulum}
\\ \\ \\ 
 \\ \\  \\ \\ \\ 
\\ \\ \\ \\
\hline

\end{tabular}

\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 
\textbf{Thursday }
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf {8:10
H. Fassbender}
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{9:05
Mini-break }
 \\

 \hline 
 \textbf{9:10
P. Van Dooren}
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{10:05
Coffee break}
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{10:35}\\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {11:00 }\\  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {11:25}\\  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {11:50}\\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {12:15}\\  \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{12:40--14:00}\\ 
\textbf {Lunch break}
  \\ 
 \hline
\textbf {14:00 ILAS Business Meeting} 
\\
\hline
\textbf {15:30
L. Gemignani}
  \\
 \hline
\textbf {16:25
Coffee break}
  \\
 \hline
\textbf {16:55} \\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {17:20 }\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {17:45}\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {18:10}\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {18:35}\\  \\
 \hline
\\ 
\hline
\textbf {20:00 Banquet}
\\ 
\hline
\end{tabular}

\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 
 \textbf{Friday }
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf {8:10
P. Rosenthal}
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{9:05
Mini-break }
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{9:10
I. Spitkovsy}
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{10:05
Coffee break}
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{10:35}\\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {11:00 }\\  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {11:25}\\  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {11:50}\\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {12:15}\\  \\
 \hline 
\textbf{12:40--15:30}\\  
\textbf {Lunch break}
 \\
 \hline
\textbf {15:30} \\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {15:55 }\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {16:20}\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {16:45}\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf {17:10}\\  \\
 \hline
\textbf { 17:35 
 Closing Ceremony}\\
 \hline 
\\ \\ \\ \\ 
\hline
\end{tabular}
}
\break
\landscape

\section*{ Schedule for ILAS, Canc\'un, June 16--20, 2008}
 
\section*{ Morning sessions}
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\hbox{ \hskip -0.28in
\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 

\textbf{Monday }
  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {8:10--8:20} \\ 
\textbf {Opening ceremony}
  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {8:20--9:15 IPL} \\ \\
\textbf {L. Hogben}
  \\ \\
 \hline 
\textbf {9:15-- 9:20 }\\ 
\textbf {Mini-break}
  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {9:20--10:15 IPL}\\ \\
\textbf {E. Jiang}
  \\ 
 \hline 
\textbf {10:15--10:45 }\\ 
\textbf {Coffee break}
  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {10:45-- 12:50}\\ \\
\textbf {Parallel session 1 }\\ 
\textbf {5 talks of 25min}\\ 
\textbf { MS4, MS7, CT}
  \\
 \hline 
\textbf {12:50--15:30}\\ \\
\textbf {Lunch break}
  \\ \\
 \hline 
\end{tabular}

\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 

\textbf{Tuesday }
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf {8:10--9:05 IPL}\\ \\
\textbf {N. Shaked-Monderer}
 \\ \\
 \hline 
\textbf {9:05--9:10 }\\ 
\textbf {Mini-break }
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{9:10--10:05 IPL}\\ \\
\textbf {D. Kressner}
 \\ \\
 \hline 
\textbf{10:05--10:35}\\ 
\textbf {Coffee break}
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{10:35--12:40}\\ \\
\textbf {Parallel session 3}\\ 
\textbf {5 talks of 25min}\\ 
\textbf { MS6, MS8, CT}
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{12:40--15:30}\\ \\
\textbf {Lunch break}
 \\
\\ \hbox{ }\\
 \hline 
\end{tabular}
 
\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 

\textbf{Wednesday }
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf {8:10--9:05 IPL}\\ \\ 
\textbf {J. M. Pe\~na}
 \\ \\
 \hline 
\textbf{9:05--9:10 }\\ 
\textbf {Mini-break }
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{9:10--10:05 IPL}\\ \\
\textbf {J. Nagy}
 \\ \\
 \hline 
\textbf{10:05--10:35}\\ 
\textbf {Coffee break}
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{10:35--12:40}\\ \\
\textbf {Parallel session 5}\\ 
\textbf {5 talks of 25min}\\ 
\textbf { MS1, MS4, MS7, CT}
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{12:40--13:30}\\ \\
\textbf {Lunch break }\\
\hline
\textbf{13:30--19:00}\\ 
\textbf {Excursion to Tulum}
 \\
 \hline 
\end{tabular}

\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 
\textbf{Thursday }
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf {8:10--9:05 IPL}\\ \\
\textbf {H. Fassbender}
 \\ \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{9:05--9:10 }\\ 
\textbf {Mini-break }
 \\

 \hline 
 \textbf{9:10--10:05 IPL}\\ \\
\textbf {P. Van Dooren}
 \\ \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{10:05--10:35}\\ 
\textbf {Coffee break}
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{10:35--12:40}\\ \\
\textbf {Parallel session 6}\\ 
\textbf {5 talks of 25min}\\ 
\textbf { MS1, MS5, CT}
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{12:40--14:00}\\ \\
\textbf {Lunch break}
 \\
\\ \hbox{ }\\
 \hline 
\end{tabular}


\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 
 \textbf{Friday }
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf {8:10--9:05 IPL}\\ \\ 
\textbf {P. Rosenthal}
 \\ \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{9:05--9:10 }\\ 
\textbf {Mini-break }
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{9:10--10:05 IPL}\\ \\ 
\textbf {I. Spitkovsy}
 \\ \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{10:05--10:35}\\ 
\textbf {Coffee break}
 \\
 \hline 
 \textbf{10:35--12:40}\\ \\
\textbf {Parallel session 8}\\ 
\textbf {5 talks of 25min}\\ 
\textbf { MS2, MS3, CT}
 \\
 \hline 
\textbf{12:40--15:30}\\ \\
\textbf {Lunch break}
 \\
\\ \hbox{ }\\
 \hline 
\end{tabular}
}
%%zzz
\bigskip
%\begin{center}
\section*{ Afternoon sessions}
\hbox{ \hskip -0.28in
\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 
\textbf{Monday }\\
\hline
\\ \\ 
\hline
\textbf{15:30--16:25 IPL}\\ \\
\textbf{A. Boettcher}\\ \\
 \hline 
\textbf{16:25--16:55}\\ 
\textbf{Coffee break}\\
\hline
\textbf{16:55--19:00}\\ \\
\textbf{Parallel session 2}\\ 
\textbf{5 talks of 25min }\\ 
\textbf{ MS8, CT}\\
 \\ \\ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}


\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline
 \textbf{Tuesday }\\
\hline
\\  \\
\hline
\textbf{15:30--16:25 IPL}\\ \\
\textbf{F. M. Dopico}\\ \\
\hline
 \textbf{16:25--16:55}\\ 
\textbf{Coffee break}\\
\hline
 \textbf{16:55--19:00}\\ \\
\textbf{Parallel session 4} \\
\textbf{5 talks of 25min}\\ 
\textbf{ MS4, MS6, MS7,CT}\\
\\ \\ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline
 \textbf{Wednesday}\\
\hline
\\ \\ \\ \\ 
\\ 
 \textbf{ Excursion }\\ \\ \\  
\textbf{to Tulum }
\\ \\ \\ \\  \\
\\  \\ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 
\textbf{Thursday} \\
\hline 
\textbf{ 14:00--15:25}\\
\textbf{ ILAS Business Meeting }
\\ 
\hline
\textbf{15:30--16:25 IPL}\\ \\
\textbf{L. Gemignani}\\ \\
 \hline 
\textbf{16:25--16:55}\\ 
\textbf{Coffee break}\\
\hline
\textbf{16:55--19:00}\\ \\
\textbf{Parallel session 7} \\
\textbf{5 talks of 25min }\\
\textbf{ MS2, MS3, CT}\\
\hline \\
\\  
\textbf{20:00  ILAS Banquet }
\\ 
\hline
\end{tabular}




\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline 
\textbf{Friday } \\
 \hline 
  \\    \\
 \hline 
\textbf{ 15:30--17:35 }\\ \\
\textbf{ Parallel session 9} \\
\textbf{5 talks of 25min}\\ 
\textbf{ MS1, MS5, CT }
 \\ \\
 \hline 
\textbf{17:35--17:45 }\\ \\ 
\textbf{ Closing ceremony }
 \\
 \hline
\\ \\ \\    \\ \\ 
\hline 
\end{tabular}
}
\bigskip
{\bf IPL means Invited Plenary Talk. (Sal\'on Pintores)}

\bigskip
\noindent
{\bf 
  MS1  Combinatorial Matrix Theory; Parallel Sessions 5, 6, 9.\\ 
 MS2 Eigenproblems: Theory and computation; Parallel Sessions 7, 8.\\ 
 MS3 Implementation and Application issues in regularizing least squares and total least squares; Parallel Sessions 7, 8.\\ 
 MS4 Linear Algebra Education; Parallel Sessions 1, 4, 5.\\ 
 MS5 Linear Algebra in Model Reduction; Parallel Sessions 6, 9.\\ 
 MS6  Matrix functions and matrix equations; Parallel Sessions  3, 4.\\ 
 MS7 Max Algebra; Parallel Sessions 1, 4, 5.\\ 
 MS8  Nonnegative and eventually nonnegative matrices; Parallel Sessions 2, 3.\\ 
 CT  Contributed talks, all Parallel Sessions }

\portrait

\centerline{\LARGE \bf Invited plenary lectures}

\begin{itemize}
\item Monday

\begin{itemize}
\item  8:20--9:15 \quad {\bf Leslie Hogben} (Ames, Iowa, USA)\\ 
Minimum Rank Problems: Recent Developments
\item  9:20--10:15 \quad {\bf ErXiong Jiang} (Shanghai, China)\\ 
Some inverse eigenvalue problems for Jacobi matrices
\item  15:30--16:25\quad {\bf Albrecht Boettcher} (Chemnitz, Germany)\\ 
Toeplitz matrices with Fisher-Hartwig symbols
\end{itemize}
\item Tuesday
\begin{itemize}
\item  8:10--9:05\quad {\bf Naomi Shaked-Monderer} (Emek Yezreel, Israel)\\ 
Completely Positive Matrices and the CP-rank
\item   9:10--10:05\quad {\bf Daniel Kressner} (Zurich, Switzerland)\\ 
Matrix product eigenvalue problems
\item  15:30--16:25\quad {\bf Froil\'an M. Dopico} (Madrid, Spain)\\ 
Implicit Jacobi algorithms for the symmetric eigenproblem
\end{itemize}
\item Wednesday
\begin{itemize}
\item  8:10--9:05\quad  {\bf Juan Manuel Pe\~na} (the LAMA Lecture) (Zaragoza, Spain)\\ 
 From Total Positivity to Positivity: related classes of matrices 
\item  9:10--10:05\quad {\bf James Nagy} (the SIAM Lecture) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)\\ 
Kronecker Products in Imaging Sciences
\end{itemize}
\item Thursday
\begin{itemize}
\item 8:10--9:05\quad {\bf Heike Fassbender} (Braunschweig, Germany)\\ 
TBA
\item  9:10--10:05\quad {\bf Paul Van Dooren} (Louvain, Belgium)\\ 
Some graph optimization problems in data mining
\item  15:30--16:25\quad {\bf Luca Gemignani} (Pisa, Italy)\\ 
Eigenvalue Problems for Rank-structured Matrices 
\end{itemize}
\item Friday 
\begin{itemize}
\item 8:10--9:05\quad {\bf Peter Rosenthal} (Toronto, Canada)\\ 
Invariant subspaces of semigroups of matrices
\item  9:10--10:05\quad {\bf Ilya Spitkovsky} (Williamsburg, Virginia, USA)\\ 
On the current state of the factorization problem for almost periodic matrix functions
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

\newpage

\centerline{\LARGE \bf Mini Symposia}

\bigskip
\noindent {\large \bf   MS1 Combinatorial Matrix Theory }

\medskip
 Organizers: Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University, and Bryan Shader, University of Wyoming.

\medskip
  Parallel Sessions 5, 6, 9.

\bigskip
\noindent {\large \bf   MS2 Eigenproblems: Theory and computation }

\medskip
 Organizer: Julio Moro, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

\medskip
 Parallel Sessions 7, 8.

\bigskip
\noindent {\large \bf   MS3 Implementation and Application issues in regularizing least squares and total least squares }

\medskip
 Organizer: Rosie Renaut, Arizona State University

\medskip
 Parallel Sessions 7, 8.

\bigskip
\noindent {\large \bf   MS4 Linear Algebra Education
 }

\medskip
 Organizers: Mar\'{\i}a Trigueros,  Instituto Tecnol\'ogico Aut\'onomo de M\'exico,
     and Asuman Okta{\c c}, Centro de Investigaci\'on y Estudios Avanzados, IPN, M\'exico,
 and PUCV, Chile.

\medskip
  Parallel Sessions 1, 4, 5.

\bigskip
\noindent {\large \bf   MS5 Linear Algebra in Model Reduction }

\medskip
 Organizer: Peter Benner, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

\medskip
  Parallel Sessions 6, 9.

\bigskip
\noindent {\large \bf   MS6 Matrix functions and matrix equations }

\medskip
 Organizers: Peter Lancaster, University of Calgary, Canada, and Chun-Hua Guo, 
University of Regina, Canada

\medskip
  Parallel Sessions  3, 4.



\bigskip
\noindent {\large \bf   MS7 Max Algebra
 }

\medskip
 Organizers: Hans Schneider, University of Wisconsin, and Peter Butkovic, University of Birmingham, UK

\medskip
  Parallel Sessions 1, 4, 5.

\bigskip
\noindent {\large \bf   MS8 Nonnegative and eventually nonnegative matrices}

\medskip
 Organizer: Judi McDonald, Washington State University, USA 

\medskip
  Parallel Sessions 2, 3.


\landscape

%\section*{Program of the Parallel Sessions}
\section*{Parallel Session 1, Monday Morning}


\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}

\hline 
Time      & 
MS4 \quad  Room 1  & 
MS7 \quad  Room 2  & 
CT  \quad  Room 3          & 
CT \quad  Room 4           
\\ 
\hline 
10:45        & 
Harel, Guershon          & 
Gaubert, Stephane          & 
Dodig, Marija          & 
Costa, Liliana           
\\ 
\hline 
11:10        & 
Dogan-Dunlap, Hamide          & 
van den Driessche, Pauline          & 
Corral, Cristina          & 
Fernandes, Ros\'ario           
\\ 
\hline 
11:35        & 
Maracci, Mirko           & 
McEneaney, William           & 
Fo\v sner, Ajda          & 
Stuart, Jeffrey           
\\ 
\hline 
12:00        & 
Parraguez, Marcela          & 
Zimmermann, Karel          & 
Horn, Roger          & 
Weaver, James           
\\ 
\hline 
12:25        & 
Trigueros, Mar\'{\i}a          & 
Ponce, Daniela          & 
Stosic, Marko          & 
Vallejo, Ernesto           
\\ 
\hline 

\end{tabular}
%PS1MS4
\section*{ MS4 Linear Algebra Education, Monday Morning, Room 1 }

\begin{itemize}

\item 10:45 \quad  
 Intellectual Need and Its Role in Mathematics Instruction: Focus on Linear Algebra, \\
{\bf Harel, Guershon}, 
University of California, San Diego, USA

\item 11:10 \quad 
Thinking Modes Revealed on Students' Responses from an Assignment on Linear Independence, \\
{\bf Dogan-Dunlap, Hamide}, 
University of Texas at El Paso, USA


\item 11:35 \quad 
Basic notions of Vector Space Theory: students' models and conceptions, \\
{\bf Maracci, Mirko}, 
Siena University, Italy

\item 12:00 \quad 
Construction of a vector space schema, \\
{\bf Parraguez, Marcela}, 
PUCV, Chile, \\
(with Okta{\c c}, Asuman)

\item 12:25 \quad 
Spanning sets and vector spaces they generate: an APOS analysis, \\
{\bf Trigueros, Mar\'{\i}a}, 
Instituto Tecnol\'ogico Aut\'onomo de M\'exico, \\
(with Ku, Darly and  Okta{\c c}, Asuman)



\end{itemize}

%PS1MS7
\section*{ MS7 Max Algebra, Monday Morning, Room 2 }
\begin{itemize}

\item 10:45 \quad  
Using max-plus eigenvalues to bound the roots of a polynomial, \\
{\bf Gaubert, Stephane}, 
INRIA, Paris, France, \\
(with Marianne Akian (INRIA)and  Adrien Brandejsky (ENS Cachan))

\item 11:10 \quad 
Bounds for the Perron root using max eigenvalues, \\
{\bf van den Driessche, Pauline}, 
University of Victoria, Canada, \\
(with Elsner, Ludwig)

\item 11:35 \quad 
Max-Plus Bases, Cornices and Pruning, \\
{\bf McEneaney, William}, 
University of California, San Diego, USA

\item 12:00 \quad 
Solving two-sided (max,plus)-linear equation systems, \\
{\bf Zimmermann, Karel}, 
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

\item 12:25 \quad 
NP-hard problems in extremal algebras tackled by particle swarm optimization, \\
{\bf Ponce, Daniela}, 
University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, \\
(with Gavalec, Martin)



\end{itemize}

%PS1CT3
\section*{Contributed Talks, Monday Morning, Room 3 }
\begin{itemize} 
\Dodig
\Corral
\Fosner
\Horn
\Stosic
\end{itemize}

%PS1CT4
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Monday Morning, Room 4} 
\begin{itemize} 
\Costa
\Fernandes
\Stuart
\Weaver
\Vallejo

\end{itemize}





\newpage
\section*{ Parallel Session 2, Monday Afternoon}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}

\hline 
Time      & 
MS8 Room 1  & 
CT Room 2  & 
CT Room 3          & 
CT Room 4           
\\ 

\hline 
16:55        & 
McDonald, Judith          & 
Machado, Silvia          & 
Gouveia, Mar\'{\i}a          & 
Furuichi, Shigeru           
\\ 
\hline 
17:20        & 
\v Smigoc, Helena          & 
Poole, George          & 
Dom\'{\i}nguez, Mar\'{\i}a Elena          & 
Bourgeois, Gerald           
\\ 
\hline 
17:45        & 
Laffey, Thomas          & 
Vargas, Xaab Nop          & 
Rump, Siegfried M.          & 
Soares, Gra{\c c}a           
\\ 
\hline 
18:10        & 
Eubanks, Sherod           & 
Kopparty, Bhaskara Rao          & 
Bru, Rafael          & 
Uchiyama, Mitsuru           
\\ 
\hline 
18:35        & 
Catral, Minerva          & 
Vieira, Luis          & 
Grudsky, Sergey          & 
Lee, Hosoo           
\\ 
\hline 

\end{tabular}
%PS2MS8
\section*{ MS8 Nonnegative and eventually nonnegative matrices, Monday Afternoon, Room 1 }
\begin{itemize}


\item 16:55\quad 
Nonnegative and Eventually Nonnegative Matrices, \\
{\bf McDonald, Judith}, 
Washington State University, USA


\item 17:20 \quad 
An example of constructing a nonnegative matrix with given spectrum, \\
{\bf \v Smigoc, Helena}, 
University College Dublin, \\
(with Laffey, Thomas)

\item 17:45 \quad 
 Some constructive techniques in the nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem, \\
{\bf Laffey, Thomas}, 
University College Dublin, \\
(with \v Smigoc, Helena)

\item 18:10 \quad 
Generalized Soules Matrices, \\
{\bf Eubanks, Sherod}, 
Washington State University, USA

\item 18:35 \quad 
The Kemeny Constant in  Finite Homogeneous Ergodic Markov Chains, \\
{\bf Catral, Minerva},  
University of Victoria, Canada


\end{itemize}

%PS2CT2
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Monday Afternoon, Room 2} 
\begin{itemize} 
\Machado
\Poole
\Vargas
\Kopparty
\Vieira
\end{itemize}

%PS2CT3
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Monday Afternoon, Room 3 } 
\begin{itemize} 
\Gouveia
\Dominguez
\Rump
\Bru
\Grudsky
\end{itemize}

%PS2CT4
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Monday Afternoon, Room 4 }
\begin{itemize} 
\Furuichi
\Bourgeois
\Soares
\Uchiyama
\LeeH
\end{itemize}

\newpage
\section*{Parallel Session 3, Tuesday Morning}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}

\hline 
Time      & 
MS6 \quad  Room 1  & 
MS8 \quad  Room 2  & 
CT \quad  Room 3          & 
CT \quad  Room 4           
\\ 

\hline 
10:35        & 
Bini, Dario          & 
Szyld, Daniel          & 
Arav, Marina          & 
Cravo, Gl\'oria           
\\ 
\hline 
11:00        & 
Fassbender, Heike          & 
Morris, DeAnne          & 
Pruneda, Rosa E.          & 
Pe\~na, Marta           
\\ 
\hline 
11:25        & 
Guo, Chun-Hua          & 
Szyld, Daniel          & 
Semrl, Peter          & 
Roca, Alicia           
\\ 
\hline 
11:50        & 
Iannazzo, Bruno          & 
Neumann, Michael          & 
Glebsky, Lev          & 
Carriegos, Miguel           
\\ 
\hline 
12:15        & 
Klein, Andre          & 
          & 
Gass\'o, Maria T.          & 
Ferrer, Josep           
\\ 
\hline 

\end{tabular}
%PS3MS6
\section*{ MS6  Matrix functions and matrix equations, Tuesday Morning, Room 1 }
\begin{itemize}

\item 10:35\quad 
Fast solution of a certain Riccati Equation through Cauchy-like  matrices, \\
{\bf Bini, Dario}, 
University of Pisa, Italy, \\
(with Beatrice Meini and Federico Poloni)

\item 11:00\quad 
On the numerical solution of large-scale sparse discrete-time Riccati equations, \\
{\bf Fassbender, Heike}, 
TU Braunschweig, Germany, \\
(with Peter Benner)

\item 11:25\quad 
On Newton's method and Halley's method for p-th roots of matrices, \\
{\bf Guo, Chun-Hua}, 
University of Regina, Canada

\item 11:50\quad 
Matrix iterations for matrix functions, \\
{\bf Iannazzo, Bruno}, 
Universit\`a dell'Insubria, Como, Italy

\item 12:15\quad 
Tensor Sylvester matrices and information matrices of multiple stationary processes
, \\
{\bf Klein, Andre}, 
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands


\end{itemize}

%PS3MS8
\section*{ MS8 Nonnegative and eventually nonnegative matrices, Tuesday Morning, Room 2 }
\begin{itemize}


\item 10:35\quad 
On General Matrices Having the Perron-Frobenius Property, \\
{\bf Szyld, Daniel}, 
Temple University, USA, \\
(with Elhashash, Abed)

\item 11:00\quad 
Jordan forms corresponding to nonnegative and eventually nonnegative matrices, \\
{\bf Morris, DeAnne}, 
Washington State University, USA, \\
(with McDonald, Judith)

\item 11:25\quad 
Convergence of Stationary Iterative Methods for Hermitian Semidefinite Linear Systems, \\
{\bf Szyld, Daniel}, 
Temple University, USA, \\
(with Frommer, Andreas and Nabben, Reinhard)


\item 11:50\quad 
On Optimal Condition Numbers For Markov Chains, \\
{\bf Neumann, Michael}, 
University of Connecticut, USA, \\
(with Sze, Nung-Sing)

%\item 12:15\quad 

\end{itemize}

%PS3CT3
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Tuesday Morning, Room 3} 
\begin{itemize} 
\Arav
\Pruneda
\Semrl
\Glebsky
\Gasso
\end{itemize}

%PS3CT4
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Tuesday Morning, Room 4} 
\begin{itemize}  
\Cravo
\PenaM
\Roca
\Carriegos
\Ferrer
\end{itemize}
\newpage
\section*{Parallel Session 4, Tuesday Afternoon}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}

\hline 
Time      & 
MS4 \quad  Room 1  & 
MS6 \quad  Room 2  & 
MS7 \quad   Room 3          & 
CT \quad  Room 4           
\\ 

\hline 
16:55        & 
 Klasa-Bompoint, Jacqueline        & 
Lancaster, Peter          & 
Boimond, Jean-Louis          & 
Russo, Maria Rosaria           
\\ 
\hline 
17:20        & 
Leon, Steven          & 
Meini, Beatrice          & 
Sergeev, Sergey          & 
Bueno Cachadina, M. Isabel           
\\ 
\hline 
17:45        & 
Tanguay, Denis          & 
Mena, Hermann           & 
Merlet, Glenn          & 
Frank, Martin           
\\ 
\hline 
18:10        & 
Martin, William          & 
Z\'u\~niga, Juan Carlos          & 
Butkovic, Peter          & 
Salam, Ahmed           
\\ 
\hline 
18:35        & 
Group discussion          & 
          & 
          & 
Mart\'{\i}nez, Jos\'e-Javier           
\\ 
\hline 

\end{tabular}
%PS4MS4
\section*{ MS4 Linear Algebra Education,  Tuesday Afternoon, Room 1 }
\begin{itemize}


\item 16:55\quad  
Few pedagogical scenarios in Linear Algebra with Cabri and Maple, \\
{\bf Klasa-Bompoint, Jacqueline}, 
Dawson College, Canada




\item 17:20 \quad  
When MATLAB Gives "Wrong" Answers, \\
{\bf Leon, Steven}, 
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA

\item 17:45 \quad  
A fundamental paradox in learning algebra, \\
{\bf Tanguay, Denis}, 
UQAM, Montreal, Canada, \\
(with  Corriveau, Claudia)

\item 18:10 \quad 
Integrating learning theories and application-based modules in teaching linear algebra, \\
{\bf Martin, William}, 
North Dakota State University, \\
(with S. Loch, L. Cooley, S. Dexter and  D. Vidakovic)

 
\item 18:35 \quad 
{\bf Group discussion}

\end{itemize}

%PS4MS6
\section*{ MS6  Matrix functions and matrix equations, Tuesday Afternoon, Room 2 }

\begin{itemize}
\item 16:55\quad 
Linearization of Matrix Polynomials, \\
{\bf Lancaster, Peter}, 
University of Calgary, Canada
\item 17:20 \quad 
From algebraic Riccati equations to unilateral quadratic matrix equations: old and new algorithms, \\
{\bf Meini, Beatrice}, 
University of Pisa, Italy, \\
(with Bini, Dario and Poloni, Federico)
\item 17:45 \quad 
Exponential Integrators for Solving Large-Scale Differential Riccati Equations, \\
{\bf Mena, Hermann}, 
Escuela Polit\'ecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, \\
(with Benner, Peter)
\item 18:10 \quad 
Matrix polynomials, rational matrices and linear systems: A review, \\
{\bf Z\'u\~niga, Juan Carlos}, 
University of Calgary, Canada, \\
(with Lancaster, Peter)
\end{itemize}

%PS4MS7
\section*{  MS7 Max Algebra, Tuesday Afternoon, Room 3 }
\begin{itemize}
\item 16:55\quad  
On Steady State Controller in Min-Plus Algebra, \\
{\bf Boimond, Jean-Louis}, 
University Angers, France, \\
(with S. Lahaye)
\item 17:20 \quad  
On Kleene stars and intersection of finitely generated semimodules, \\
{\bf Sergeev, Sergey}, 
University of Birmingham, UK
\item 17:45 \quad  
 Semi-group of matrices acting on the max-plus projective space, \\
{\bf Merlet, Glenn}, 
LIAFA CNRS-Universite Paris-Diderot, France
\item 18:10 \quad 
On the permuted max-algebraic eigenvector problem, \\
{\bf Butkovic, Peter}, 
University of Birmingham, UK
\end{itemize}

%PS4CT4
\section*{ Contributed Talks, Tuesday Afternoon, Room 4} 
\begin{itemize}
\Russo
\Bueno
\Frank
\Salam
\Martinez
\end{itemize}

\newpage
\section*{Parallel Session 5, Wednesday Morning}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}

\hline 
Time      & 
MS1\quad  Room 1  & 
MS4\quad  Room 2  & 
MS7\quad  Room 3          & 
CT\quad  Room 4           
\\ 

\hline 
10:35        & 
Brualdi, Richard A.          & 
Moura, Ana           & 
Singer, Ivan          & 
Uhlig, Frank           
\\ 
\hline 
11:00        & 
Hershkowitz, Danny          & 
Zandieh, Michelle          & 
Loiseau, Jean Jacques          & 
Schaffrin, Burkhard           
\\ 
\hline 
11:25        & 
Kirkland, Steve          & 
Possani, Edgar          & 
Gavalec, Martin          & 
Wu, Pei Yuan           
\\ 
\hline 
11:50        & 
Pryporova, Olga          & 
Strong, David          & 
Plavka, Jan          & 
Protasov, Vladimir           
\\ 
\hline 
12:15        & 
Berman, Avi          & 
Group discussion          & 
Schneider, Hans          & 
Seddighin, Morteza           
\\ 
\hline 

\end{tabular}
%PS5MS1
\section*{  MS1 Combinatorial Matrix Theory,  Wednesday Morning, Room 1 }
\begin{itemize}


\item 10:35 \quad  A Conjecture in Combinatorial Matrix Theory, \\{\bf  Brualdi, Richard A.},  
 University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA



\item 11:00\quad 
On nonnegative sign equivalent and sign similar factorizations of matrices
 \\{\bf  Hershkowitz, Danny}, 
Technion, Israel
 (with Allan Pinkus) 




\item 11:25\quad  Constructing Laplacian Integral Split Graphs, \\{\bf Kirkland, Steve},  University of Regina, Canada, \\ (with N. Abreu, M. de Freitas and R. Del Vecchio) 

\item 11:50\quad  Potential Diagonal and D-convergence, \\{\bf Pryporova, Olga}, 
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA


\item 12:15\quad  The Colin de Verdi\`ere Parameter- a progress report, \\{\bf Berman, Avi}, Technion, Tel Aviv, Israel

\end{itemize}

%PS5MS4
\section*{ MS4 Linear Algebra Education,  Wednesday  Morning, Room 2 }
\begin{itemize}


\item 10:35\quad  
Skills, Concepts and Models in a Linear Algebra Course, \\
{\bf Moura, Ana}, 
Instituto Superior T\'ecnico, UTL,
Lisbon, Portugal, \\
(with Santos, P. A.)

\item 11:00\quad  
Design of a unit to teach eigenvectors and eigenvalues based on the instructional design principles of Realistic Mathematics Education, \\
{\bf Zandieh, Michelle}, 
Arizona State University, \\
(with Rasmussen, C. and Larson, C.)

\item 11:25\quad 
Use of models in the teaching of linear algebra, \\
{\bf Possani, Edgar}, 
Instituto Tecnol\'ogico Aut\'onomo de M\'exico, \\
(with Preciado, G. and Lozano, D.) 

\item 11:50\quad 
A Java Applet and Introductory Tutorial for the Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel and SOR Methods, \\
{\bf Strong, David}, 
Pepperdine University,  CA, USA 


\item 12:15\quad  
{\bf Group discussion}

\end{itemize}

%PS5MS7
\section*{ MS7 Max Algebra, Wednesday  Morning, Room 3 }
\begin{itemize}


\item 10:35\quad  
Max-min convexity, \\
{\bf Singer, Ivan}, 
Institute of Mathematics, Bucharest, Romania

\item 11:00\quad  
Robust stability of positive difference equations, \\
{\bf Loiseau, Jean Jacques}, 
University Nantes, France, \\
(with M. Di Loreto)

\item 11:25\quad 
Permuted max-min eigenvector problem, \\
{\bf Gavalec, Martin}, 
University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, \\
(with J. Plavka)

\item 11:50\quad 
On the robustness of matrices in max-min algebra, \\
{\bf Plavka, Jan}, 
Technical University Kosice, Slovakia

\item 12:15\quad  
Nonnegative linear algebra and max linear algebra:  where's the difference?, \\
{\bf Schneider, Hans}, 
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

\end{itemize}

%PS5CT4
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Wednesday Morning, Room 4} 
\begin{itemize} 
\Uhlig
\Schaffrin
\Wu
\Protasov
\Seddighin
\end{itemize}

\newpage
\section*{Parallel Session 6, Thursday Morning}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|}

\hline 
Time      & 
MS1\quad  Room 1  & 
MS5 \quad Room 2  & 
CT \quad Room 3          & 
CT \quad Room 4           &
CT \quad Room 5           
\\ 

\hline 
10:35        & 
Barrett, Wayne          & 
Gugercin, Serkan          & 
Wrobel, Iwona           &
Sivic, Klemen          & 
K\"ortesi, Peter          
\\ 
\hline 
11:00        & 
van der Holst, Hein          & 
Van Dooren, Paul          & 
S\'anchez,  Salvador          & 
Marovt, Janko          & 
Im, Bokhee          
\\ 
\hline 
11:25        & 
Grout, Jason        &   
Beattie, Christopher          & 
Furtado, Susana          & 
Olshevsky, Vadim          & 
Al Zhour, Zeyad          
\\ 
\hline 
11:50         &
Shader, Bryan          & 
Feng, Lihong          & 
Sendov, Hristo          & 
Palma, Alejandro          & 
Sebeldin, Anatoly          
\\ 
\hline 
12:15        & 
Deaett, Louis          & 
Freund, Roland           & 
Fonseca, Carlos          & 
Sat\^o, Kenzi      &     
Shahryari, Mohammad          
\\ 
\hline 

\end{tabular}
%PS6MS1
\section*{ MS1 Combinatorial Matrix Theory,  Thursday Morning, Room 1 }
\begin{itemize}


\item 10:35\quad  Minimum rank of edge subdivisions of complete graphs and wheels, \\{\bf Barrett, Wayne},  Brigham Young University, Utah, \\ (with  Ryan Bowcutt, Mark Cutler, Seth Gibelyou, and Kayla Owens)




\item 11:00\quad  Computing the minimum rank of partial $2$-trees, \\{\bf van der Holst, Hein}, 
 Eindhoven University of Technology,  The Netherlands





\item 11:25\quad  Characterizing graphs with minimum rank at most a given number over a finite field using polarities of projective geometries, \\{\bf Grout, Jason}, 
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA


\item 11:50\quad  Average minimum rank of a graph, \\{\bf Shader, Bryan}, 
University of Wyoming,  USA, \\
(with Francesco Barioli,  Shaun Fallat, Tracy Hall, Daniel Hershkowitz, Leslie Hogben, Ryan Martin, and  Hein van der Holst)


\item 12:15\quad  The graph and rank of a positive semidefinite matrix, \\{\bf Deaett, Louis}, 
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA




\end{itemize}

%PS6MS5
\section*{ MS5 Linear Algebra in Model Reduction, Thursday Morning, Room 2 }
\begin{itemize}


\item 10:35\quad 
A Krylov-Based Descent Approach for the Optimal H2 Model Reduction of Large-Scale
Dynamical Systems, \\
{\bf  Gugercin, Serkan},  Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA,  USA



\item 11:00\quad 
H2 Approximation and Tangential Rational Interpolation, \\
{\bf  Van Dooren, Paul}, Universit\'e  Catholique Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium


\item 11:25\quad 
Interpolatory Projection Methods for Parameterized Model Reduction, \\
{\bf Beattie, Christopher}, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA


\item 11:50\quad 
Parametric Model Reduction for Systems with Coupled Parameters, \\
{\bf Feng, Lihong}, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany/Fudan University 
Shanghai, China


\item 12:15\quad 
The Effects of Deflation in Projection-Based Order Reduction, \\
{\bf Freund, Roland}, University of California, Davis, USA




\end{itemize}

%PS6CT3
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Thursday Morning, Room 3} 
\begin{itemize} 
\Wrobel
\Sanchez
\Furtado
\Sendov
\Fonseca
\end{itemize}

%PS6CT4
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Thursday Morning, Room 4} 
\begin{itemize} 
\Sivic
\Marovt
\Olshevsky
\Palma
\Sato
\end{itemize}

%PS6CT5
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Thursday Morning, Room 5} 
\begin{itemize}  
\Kortesi
\Im
\AlZhour
\Sebeldin
\Shahryari
\end{itemize}
\newpage
\section*{Parallel Session 7, Thursday Afternoon}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|}

\hline 
Time      & 
MS2 \quad  Room 1  & 
MS3 \quad  Room 2  & 
CT \quad  Room 3           &
CT \quad  Room 4          & 
CT \quad  Room 5           
\\ 

\hline 
16:55        & 
Dhillon, Inderjit          & 
Rust, Bert W.           &
Day, Jane          & 
Marques, Maria-da-Gra{\c c}a          & 
Prokip, Volodymyr          
\\ 
\hline 
17:20        & 
Cox, Steve           &
Bardsley, John          & 
Mikkelson, Rana          & 
Dolinar, Gregor          & 
Rakotondrajao, Fanja          
\\ 
\hline 
17:45        & 
Meerbergen, Karl          & 
Nagy, James          & 
Perdig\~ao, Cec\'{\i}lia          & 
Ahn, Eunkyung          & 
          
\\ 
\hline 
18:10        & 
Plestenjak, Bor           & 
Hnetynkov\'a, Iveta           & 
Mitchell, Lon          & 
da Cruz, Henrique F        &   
          
\\ 
\hline 
18:35        & 
          & 
Renaut, Rosemary A          & 
Sinkovic, John           &
Lee, Gue Myung          & 
          
\\ 

\hline 
\end{tabular}
%PS7MS2
\section*{ MS2 Eigenproblems: Theory and computation, Thursday Afternoon, Room 1}
\begin{itemize}


\item 16:55\quad  On some modified root-finding problems
, \\{\bf Dhillon, Inderjit},  University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA, \\ 
 (with Matyas Sustik)


\item 17:20 \quad  Eigen-reduction of Large Scale Neuronal Networks
, \\{\bf Cox, Steve}, Rice University, Houston TX, USA, \\
(with Tony Kellems, Derrick Roos and Nan Xiao)


\item 17:45 \quad  Recycling Ritz vectors in the parameterized Lanczos method, \\{\bf Meerbergen, Karl}, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, \\
(with Zhaojun Bai)

\item 18:10 \quad  Numerical methods for two-parameter eigenvalue problems, \\{\bf Plestenjak, Bor}, University of Ljubljana, 
Slovenia 
%\item 18:35 \quad 


\end{itemize}

%PS7MS3
\section*{ MS3 Implementation and Application issues in regularizing least squares, Thursday Afternoon, Room 2 }
\begin{itemize}


\item 16:55\quad 
 A Truncated Singular Component Method for Ill-Posed Problems, \\{\bf 
 Rust, Bert W. },  NIST, USA, \\
 (with Dianne P. O'Leary, University of Maryland)


\item 17:20 \quad  
Truncation Rules for Iterative Deblurring Methods, \\{\bf 
 Bardsley, John }, 
 University of Montana, USA 

\item 17:45 \quad 
Lanczos Hybrid Regularization for Image Processing Applications, \\{\bf 
Nagy, James },  Emory University, Atlanta GA, USA  


\item 18:10 \quad  
On solvability of total least squares problem, \\{\bf 
 Hnetynkov\'a, Iveta }, 
 Charles University in Prague, and Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. 


\item 18:35 \quad 
A Newton Iteration for estimating the regularizing parameter for least squares, \\{\bf 
Renaut, Rosemary A. },  Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA, \\
(with  Jodi Mead, Boise State University) 
\end{itemize}

%PS7CT3
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Thursday Afternoon, Room 3} 
\begin{itemize}
\Day
\Mikkelson
\Perdigao
\Mitchell
\Sinkovic
\end{itemize}

%PS7CT4
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Thursday Afternoon, Room 4} 
\begin{itemize} 
\Marques
\Dolinar
\Ahn
\daCruz
\LeeG
\end{itemize}

%PS7CT5
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Thursday Afternoon, Room 5} 
\begin{itemize}    
\Prokip
\Rakotondrajao


\end{itemize}
\newpage
\section*{Parallel Session 8, Friday Morning}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}

\hline 
Time      & 
MS2 \quad  Room 1  & 
MS3 \quad  Room 2   &
CT \quad  Room 3          & 
CT \quad  Room 4           
\\ 

\hline 
10:35        & 
Olshevsky, Vadim          & 
Estatico, Claudio          & 
Andjelic, Milica          & 
Dopazo, Esther           
\\ 
\hline 
11:00        & 
Bella, Tom          & 
Aric\'o, Antonio           &
Martins, Enide          & 
Bengochea, Gabriel           
\\ 
\hline 
11:25        & 
Li, Chi-Kwong          & 
Stefan, Wolfgang        &   
Schaeffer, Elisa          & 
Castro-Gonz\'alez, Nieves           
\\ 
\hline 
11:50        & 
Karow, Michael          & 
Mead, Jodi           &
Rodr\'{\i}guez, Juan Alberto          & 
Patricio, Pedro           
\\ 
\hline 
12:15        & 
Moro, Julio          & 
           &
Narayan, Sivaram          & 
Verde-Star, Luis           
\\ 
\hline 

\end{tabular}
%PS8MS2
\section*{ MS2 Eigenproblems: Theory and computation, Friday Morning, Room 1 }
\begin{itemize}


\item 10:35\quad   Lipschitz stability of canonical Jordan bases of H-selfadjoint matrices, \\{\bf  Olshevsky, Vadim},  University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, \\
(with Tom Bella and Upendra Prasad)
\item 11:00\quad   Eigenproblems for quasiseparable matrices, \\{\bf  Bella, Tom},  University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, \\
(with Yuli Eidelman, Israel Gohberg and Vadim Olshevsky) 
\item 11:25\quad    Eigenvalues of the sum of matrices  from  unitary similarity orbits, \\{\bf  Li, Chi-Kwong},  College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA, \\
(with Yiu-Tung poon and Nung-Sing Sze)
\item 11:50\quad   Pseudospectra and Stability radii for Hamiltonian Matrices, \\{\bf  Karow, Michael}, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany 
\item 12:15\quad   Structured Holder condition numbers for eigenvalues under fully nongeneric perturbations, \\ {\bf Moro, Julio}, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, \\
(with Mar\'{\i}a J. Pel\'aez)





\end{itemize}
%PS8MS3


\section*{  MS3 Implementation and Application issues in regularizing least squares, Friday Morning, Room 2}
\begin{itemize}

\item 10:35\quad 
Block splitting least square regularization for structured matrices arising in nonlinear microwave imaging, \\{\bf 
Estatico, Claudio },  University of Cagliari, Italy  

\item 11:00\quad   
Signal and Image regularization via antireflective transform, \\
{\bf Aric\'o, Antonio },  Universit\`a degli studi di Cagliari, Italy 

\item 11:25\quad    
Regularizing Least Squares with the Concentration Method, \\
{\bf Stefan, Wolfgang }, Arizona State University,\\ 
(with  Rosemary Renaut and Anne Gelb) 

\item 11:50\quad   
Calculating Weights in Least Squares Estimation Using the Chi-squared Method, \\{\bf 
Mead, Jodi },  Boise State University, Idaho, \\ (with  Rosemary Renaut, ASU) 









\end{itemize}
%PS8CT3
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Friday Morning, Room 3} 
\begin{itemize} 
\Andjelic
\Martins
\Schaeffer
\Rodriguez
\Narayan
\end{itemize}
%PS8CT4
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Friday Morning, Room 4} 
\begin{itemize} 
\Dopazo
\Bengochea
\Castro
\Patricio
\Verde
\end{itemize}
\newpage
\section*{Parallel Session 9, Friday Afternoon}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}

\hline 
Time      & 
MS1 \quad Room 1  & 
MS5 \quad Room 2  & 
CT \quad  Room 3          & 
CT \quad Room 4           
\\ 

\hline 
15:30        & 
Olesky, Dale           & 
Baur, Ulrike          & 
Cort\'es, Vanesa          & 
Guzm\'an, Jos\'e Ram\'on           
\\ 
\hline 
15:55        & 
Vander Meulen, Kevin          & 
Damm, Tobias          & 
Teixeira Matos, Isabel     &      
Milligan, Thomas           
\\ 
\hline 
16:20        & 
DeAlba, Luz          & 
Benner, Peter          & 
Goldberger, Assaf           &
Barr\'{\i}a, Jos\'e           
\\ 
\hline 
16:45        & 
Tam, Bit-Shun          & 
          & 
Wojciechowski, Piotr         &  
Cheng, Wei           
\\ 
\hline 
17:10        & 
          & 
          & 
Esen, \"Ozlem        &   
          
\\ 
\hline
\end{tabular}
%PS9MS1
\section*{ MS1 Combinatorial Matrix Theory, Friday Afternoon, Room 1 }
\begin{itemize}


\item 15:30\quad 
 Group Inverses of Matrices with Path Graphs, \\{\bf Olesky, Dale}, University of Victoria, Canada, \\ (with M. Catral and P. van den Driessche)
 
\item 15:55\quad  Sparse Inertially Arbitrary Sign Patterns, \\{\bf  Vander Meulen, Kevin}, 
Redeemer College, Canada, \\(with L. Vanderspek and M. Cavers)


\item 16:20\quad  The Q-matrix completion problem
, \\{\bf DeAlba, Luz}, 
Drake University, Des Moines, IA, USA, \\
(with Leslie Hogben and  Bhaba Sharma)

\item 16:45\quad  Maximizing spectral radius of unoriented Laplacian matrix, 
\\{\bf Tam, Bit-Shun}, 
Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan, \\(with  Ding-Jung Chang and Shui-Hei Wu)

\end{itemize}
%PS9MS5
\section*{ MS5 Linear Algebra in Model Reduction, Friday Afternoon, Room 2 }
\begin{itemize}

\item 15:30\quad 
Model Reduction for unstable Systems based on Hierarchical Matrix Arithmetic, \\
{\bf Baur, Ulrike}, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

\item 15:55\quad 
Algebraic Gramians and Model Reduction for Different System Classes, \\
{\bf Damm, Tobias}, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany


\item 16:20\quad 
Balancing-Related Model Reduction for Large-Scale Unstable Systems, \\
{\bf Benner, Peter}, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
\end{itemize}
%PS9CT3
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Friday Afternoon, Room 3} 
\begin{itemize}
\Cortes
\Teixeira
\Goldberger
\Wojciechowski
\Esen
\end{itemize}
%PS9CT4
 \section*{Contributed  Talks, Friday Afternoon, Room 4} 
\begin{itemize}  
\Guzman
\Milligan
\Barria
\Cheng
\end{itemize}


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%\setlength{\textheight}{9.40in}
{\LARGE \bf Index}

\medskip \noindent
{\bf Ahn, Eunkyung}: \gc , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Al Zhour, Zeyad}: \fc , Room 5\par \noindent
{\bf Andjelic, Milica}: \ha , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Arav, Marina}: \ca , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Aric\'o, Antonio}: MS3, \hb , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Bardsley, John}: MS3, \gb , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Barrett, Wayne}: MS1, \fa , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Barr\'{\i}a, Jos\'e}: \ic , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Baur, Ulrike}: MS5, \ia , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Beattie, Christopher}: MS5, \fc , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Bella, Tom}: MS2, \hb , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Bengochea, Gabriel}: \hb , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Benner, Peter}: MS5, \ic , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Berman, Avi}: MS1, \ee , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Bini, Dario}: MS6, \ca , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Boettcher, Albrecht}: Plenary, Mo. 15:30--16:25 \par \noindent
{\bf Boimond, Jean-Louis}: MS7, \da , Room 3 \par \noindent
{\bf Bourgeois, Gerald}: \bb , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Brualdi, Richard A.}: MS1, \ea , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Bru, Rafael}: \bd , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Bueno Cachadina, Mar\'{\i}a Isabel}: \db , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Butkovic, Peter}: MS7, \dd , Room 3 \par \noindent
{\bf Carriegos, Miguel}: \cd , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Castro-Gonz\'alez, Nieves}: \hc , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Catral, Minerva}: MS8, \be , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Cheng, Wei}: \ie , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Corral, Cristina}: \ab , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Cort\'es, Vanesa}: \ia , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Costa, Liliana}: \aa , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Cox, Steve}: MS2, \gb , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Cravo, Gl\'oria}: \ca , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf da Cruz, Henrique F.}: \gd , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Damm, Tobias}: MS5, \ib , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Day, Jane}: \ga , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Deaett, Louis}: MS1, \fe , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf DeAlba, Luz}: MS1, \ic , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Dhillon, Inderjit}: MS2, \ga , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Dodig, Marija}: \aa , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Dogan-Dunlap, Hamide}: MS4, \ab , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Dolinar, Gregor}: \gb , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Dom\'{\i}nguez, Mar\'{\i}a Elena}: \bb , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Dopazo, Esther}: \ha , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Esen, \"Ozlem}: \ie , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Estatico, Claudio}: \ha , Room2\par \noindent
{\bf Eubanks, Sherod}: MS8, \bd , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Fassbender, Heike}: Plenary, Thu. 8:10--9:05; MS6, \cb , Room1 \par \noindent 
{\bf Feng, Lihong}: MS5, \fd , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Fernandes, Ros\'ario}: \ab , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Ferrer, Josep}: \ce , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Fonseca, Carlos}: \fe , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Fo\v sner, Ajda}: \ac , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Frank, Martin}: \dc , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Freund, Roland}: MS5, \fe , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Furtado, Susana}: \fc , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Furuichi, Shigeru}: \ba , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Gass\'o, Maria T.}: \ce , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Gaubert, Stephane}: MS7, \aa , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Gavalec, Martin}: MS7, \ec , Room 3 \par \noindent
{\bf Gemignani, Luca}: Plenary, Thu. 15:30--16:25 \par \noindent
{\bf Glebsky, Lev}: \cd , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Goldberger, Assaf}: \ic , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Gouveia, Mar\'{\i}a}: \ba , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Grout, Jason}: MS1, \fc , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Grudsky, Sergey}: \be , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Gugercin, Serkan}: MS5, \fa , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Guo, Chun-Hua}: MS6, \cc , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Guzm\'an, Jos\'e Ram\'on}: \ia , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Harel, Guershon}: MS4, \aa , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Hershkowitz, Danny}: MS1, \eb , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Hnetynkov\'a, Iveta}: MS3, \gd , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Hogben, Leslie}: Plenary, Mo. 8:20--9:15 \par \noindent
{\bf Horn, Roger}: \ad , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Iannazzo, Bruno}: MS6, \cd , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Im, Bokhee}: \fb , Room 5\par \noindent
{\bf Jiang, ErXiong}: Plenary, Mo. 9:20--10:15 \par \noindent
{\bf Karow, Michael}: MS2, \hd , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Kirkland, Steve}: MS1, \ec , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Klasa-Bompoint, Jacqueline}: MS4, \da , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Klein, Andre}: MS6, \ce , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Kopparty, Bhaskara Rao}: \bd  , Room 2\par \noindent
{\bf K\"ortesi, Peter}: \fa , Room 5\par \noindent
{\bf Kressner, Daniel}: Plenary, Tu. 9:10--10:05 \par \noindent
{\bf Laffey, Thomas}: MS8, \bc , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Lancaster, Peter}: MS6, \da , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Lee, Gue Myung}: \ge , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Lee, Hosoo}: \be , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Leon, Steven}: MS4, \db , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Li, Chi-Kwong}: MS2, \hc , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Loiseau, Jean Jacques}: MS7, \eb , Room 3 \par \noindent
{\bf Machado, Silvia}: \ba , Room 2\par \noindent
{\bf Maracci, Mirko}: MS4, \ac , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Marovt, Janko}: \fb , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Marques, Maria-da-Gra{\c c}a}: \ga , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Mart\'{\i}nez, Jos\'e-Javier}: \de , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Martin, William}: MS4, \dd , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Martins, Enide}: \hb , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf McDonald, Judith}: MS8, \ba , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf McEneaney, William}: MS7, \ac , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf M. Dopico, Froil\'an}: Plenary, Tu. 15:30--16:25 \par \noindent
{\bf Mead, Jodi}: MS3, hd , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Meerbergen, Karl}: MS2, \gc , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Meini, Beatrice}: MS6, \db , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Mena, Hermann}: MS6, \dc , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Merlet, Glenn}: MS7, \dc , Room 3 \par \noindent
{\bf Mikkelson, Rana}: \gb , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Milligan, Thomas}: \ib , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Mitchell, Lon}: \gd , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Moro, Julio}: MS2, \he , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Morris, DeAnne}: MS8, \cb , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Moura, Ana}: MS4, \ea , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Nagy, James}: Plenary, Wed. 9:10--10:05; MS3, \gc , Room 2\par \noindent
{\bf Narayan, Sivaram}: \he , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Neumann, Michael}: MS8, \cd , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Olesky, Dale}: MS1, \ia , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Olshevsky, Vadim}: \fc , Room 4; MS2, \ha , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Palma, Alejandro}: \fd , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Parraguez, Marcela}: MS4, \ad , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Patricio, Pedro}: \hd , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Pe\~na, Juan Manuel}: Plenary, Wed. 8:10--9:05 \par \noindent
{\bf Pe\~na, Marta}: \cb , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Perdig\~ao, Cec\'{\i}lia}: \gc , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Plavka, Jan}: MS7, \ed , Room 3 \par \noindent
{\bf Plestenjak, Bor}: MS2, \gd , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Ponce, Daniela}: MS7, \ae , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Poole, George}: \bb , Room 2\par \noindent
{\bf Possani, Edgar}: MS4, \ec , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Prokip, Volodymyr}: \ga , Room 5\par \noindent
{\bf Protasov, Vladimir}: \ed , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Pruneda, Rosa E.}: \cb , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Pryporova, Olga}: MS1, \ed , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Renaut, Rosemary A.}: MS3, \ge , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Roca, Alicia}: \cc , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Rodr\'{\i}guez, Juan Alberto}: \hd , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Rosenthal, Peter}: Plenary, Fri. 8:10--9:05 \par \noindent
{\bf Rump, Siegfried M.}: \bc , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Russo, Maria Rosaria}: \da , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Rust, Bert W.}: MS3, \ga , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Salam, Ahmed}: \dd , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf S\'anchez Perales, Salvador}: \fb , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Sat\^o, Kenzi}: \fe , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Schaeffer, Elisa}: \hc , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Schaffrin, Burkhard}: \eb , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Schneider, Hans}: MS7, \ee , Room 3 \par \noindent
{\bf Sebeldin, Anatoly}: \fd , Room 5\par \noindent
{\bf Seddighin, Morteza}: \ee , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Semrl, Peter}: \cc , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Sendov, Hristo}: \fd , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Sergeev, Sergey}: MS7, \db , Room 3 \par \noindent
{\bf Shader, Bryan}: MS1, \fd , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Shahryari, Mohammad}: \fe , Room 5\par \noindent
{\bf Shaked-Monderer, Naomi}: Plenary, Tu. 8:10--9:05 \par \noindent
{\bf Singer, Ivan}: MS7, \ea , Room 3 \par \noindent
{\bf Sinkovic, John}: \ge , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Sivic, Klemen}: \fa , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf \v Smigoc, Helena}: MS8, \bb , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Soares, Gra{\c c}a}: \bc , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Spitkovsky, Ilya}: Plenary, Fri. 9:10--10:05 \par \noindent
{\bf Stefan, Wolfgang}: MS3, \hc , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Stosic, Marko}: \ae , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Strong, David}: MS4, \ed , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Stuart, Jeffrey}: \ac , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Szyld, Daniel}: MS8, \ca , \cc , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Tam, Bit-Shun}: MS1, \id , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Tanguay, Denis}: MS4, \dc , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Teixeira Matos, Isabel}: \ib , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Trigueros, Mar\'{\i}a}: MS4, \ae , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Uchiyama, Mitsuru}: \bd , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Uhlig, Frank}: \ea , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Vallejo, Ernesto}: \ae , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf van den Driessche, Pauline}: MS7, \ab , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf van der Holst, Hein}: MS1, \fb , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Vander Meulen, Kevin}: MS1, \ib , Room 1 \par \noindent
{\bf Van Dooren, Paul}: Plenary, Thu. 9:10--10:05;  MS5, \fb , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Vargas, Xaab Nop}: \bc , Room 2\par \noindent
{\bf Verde-Star, Luis}: \he  , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Vieira, Luis}: \be , Room 2\par \noindent
{\bf Weaver, James}: \ad , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Wojciechowski, Piotr}: \id , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Wrobel, Iwona}: \fa , Room 3\par \noindent
{\bf Wu, Pei Yuan}: \ec , Room 4\par \noindent
{\bf Zandieh, Michelle}: MS4, \eb , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Zimmermann, Karel}: MS7, \ad , Room 2 \par \noindent
{\bf Z\'u\~niga, Juan Carlos}: MS6, \dd , Room 2 \par \noindent

\end{twocolumn}
\end{document}





\centerline{\LARGE \bfMini Symposia}

\section*{  MS1 Combinatorial Matrix Theory }

 Organizers: Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University, and Bryan Shader, University of Wyoming.

  Parallel Sessions 5, 6, 9.

\section*{  MS2 Eigenproblems: Theory and computation }

 Organizer: Julio Moro, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

 Parallel Sessions 7, 8.
\section*{  MS3 Implementation and Application issues in regularizing least squares and total least squares }

 Organizer: Rosie Renaut, Arizona State University

 Parallel Sessions 7, 8.

\section*{  MS4 Linear Algebra Education
 }

 Organizers: Mar\'{\i}a Trigueros,  Instituto Tecnol\'ogico Aut\'onomo de M\'exico,
     and Asuman Okta{\c c}, Centro de Investigaci\'on y Estudios Avanzados, IPN, M\'exico,
 and PUCV, Chile.

  Parallel Sessions 1, 4, 5.

\section*{  MS5 Linear Algebra in Model Reduction }

 Organizer: Peter Benner, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

  Parallel Sessions 6, 9.

\section*{  MS6 Matrix functions and matrix equations }

 Organizers: Peter Lancaster, University of Calgary, Canada, and Chun-Hua Guo, 
University of Regina, Canada

  Parallel Sessions  3, 4.



\section*{  MS7 Max Algebra
 }

 Organizers: Hans Schneider, University of Wisconsin, and Peter Butkovic, University of Birmingham, UK

  Parallel Sessions 1, 4, 5.

\section*{  MS8 Nonnegative and eventually nonnegative matrices}

 Organizer: Judi McDonald, Washington State University, USA 

  Parallel Sessions 2, 3.


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\subsection*{ Schedule of the Mini Symposia }
\medskip
 




\subsection*{ Schedule of the Contributed talks }
 CT  Alphabetic list of Contributed talks (pdf file). 

 Notes:\\ 
 IPL = Invited Plenary Lecture \\ 
 Plenary talks are 50 min plus 5 min for questions and comments, total=55 min. \\ 
 All other talks (MS and contributed) are 20 min. plus 5 min. for questions, total=25 min. \\ 
 In most Parallel sessions there will be 2 simultaneous CTs. 


 ILAS Student Luncheon, Tuesday, June 17, 12:40 hours. \\ 
ILAS Business Meeting: Thursday, June 19, 14:00--15:25 hours. \\ 
Banquet, Thursday, June 19, 20:00 hours. \\ 



\end{itemize}


\section*{Entries in the Parallel Sessions}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline 
  MS1&  Combinatorial Matrix Theory, Par. Sess. 5,6,9&
 MS2&  Eigenproblems: Theory and computation, Par. Sess. 7,8 \\
\hline 
 MS3& Implem. and Appl. issues in reg. least squares, Par. Sess. 7,8&
 MS4& Linear Algebra Education, Par. Sess. 1, 4, 5\\
\hline 
 MS5& Linear Algebra in Model Reduction, Par. Sess. 6, 9&
 MS6&  Matrix functions and matrix equations, Par. Sess. 3, 4 \\
\hline  
 MS7& Max Algebra, Par. Sess. 1,4,5&
 MS8&  Nonnegative and eventually nonnegative matrices, Par. Sess. 2, 3\\
\hline 
 CT&  Contributed talks& & \\
\hline 
\end{tabular}
