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From: Joe Grcar <JFGrcar@lbl.gov>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 13:22:20 -0800
Subject: John von Neumann's 100th Birthday
This Saturday, Dec 28th, was John von Neumann's 99th birthday.
Please join us to celebrate von Neumann's 100th birthday (a little
early) at the SIAM Meeting on Computational Science and Engineering
in San Diego.
We will gather at a special session from 8 to 10 PM on the evening
of Monday, Feb 10, 2003. Anticipated speakers are biographer William
Aspray, Peter Lax, Pete Stewart, and von Neumann's daughter Marina
v.N. Whitman.
Hope to see you, -- Gene Golub and Joe Grcar
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From: Gene H Golub <golub@sccm.Stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 22:49:01 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Happy Birthday Victor Pereyra
Dear Friends,
December 26 is Victor Pereyra's 65th birthday.
Victor has made many contributions to numerical analysis through his work
which covered many areas such as being a leading figure in deferred
corrections and developing salgorithms for solving Vandermondes,
non-linear least squares, two point bouundary value problems, etc.
In addition, he was very much responsible for the development of numerical
analysis in Venezuela. He has mentored many South American
scientists. Victor continues to work very actively in many areas in NA.
So thanks for all your many contributions. And thanks for all your work
for the community done with humility and humor.
Gene Golub
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From: Stephen Wright <swright@cs.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:40:03 -0600
Subject: Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization
The Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization
Call for Nominations
Nominations are invited for the newly established Lagrange Prize in
Continuous Optimization, awarded jointly by the Mathematical
Programming Society (MPS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (SIAM). The Prize will be presented for the first time at
the XVIIIth International Symposium on Mathematical Programming in
August 2003.
To be eligible, works should form the final publication of the main
result(s) and should be published either (a) as an article in a
recognized journal, or in a comparable, well-referenced volume
intended to publish final publications only; or (b) as a monograph
consisting chiefly of original results rather than previously
published material. Extended abstracts and prepublications, and
articles published in journals, journal sections or proceedings that
are intended to publish non-final papers, are not eligible. The work
must have been published during the six calendar years preceding the
year of the award meeting.
Judging of works will be based primarily on their mathematical
quality, significance, and originality. Clarity and excellence of the
exposition and the value of the work in practical applications may be
considered as secondary attributes.
Full details and prize rules are given at
http://www.mathprog.org/prz/lagrange.htm
To nominate a publication for the prize, please send a copy of the
paper and a letter of nomination by February 28, 2003 to the following
address.
Stephen Wright
Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin
1210 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706,
USA.
email: swright@cs.wisc.edu
Electronic submissions are preferred.
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From: Will Zimmerman <w.zimmerman@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 21:35:59 -0000
Subject: FEMLAB Short Course at the University of Sheffield
Colleagues:
27-31 January 2003: "Chemical Engineering Modelling with
FEMLAB"
http://eyrie.shef.ac.uk/femlab/
Who should take this module?
The module is aimed at graduate Chemical Engineers who use
modelling tools and as a general introduction to FEMLAB for
scientists and engineers. Our last module (June 2002) had all
internal participants who were chemical engineers, and all external
participants were not chemical engineers (physics, mech eng,
medicine, chemistry, applied maths).
e-mail enquiries as below.
Dr WBJ Zimmerman
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow
Reader in Chemical and Process Engineering
University of Sheffield
Newcastle Street
Sheffield S1 3JD
tel:+44-114-222-7517
fax:+44-114-222-7501
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~cpe/staff1/zimmerman.html
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From: Marina Gavrilova <marina@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:16:27 -0500
Subject: Workshop on Computational Geometry at ICCSA
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Workshop on
Computational Geometry and Applications CGA'03
in conjunction with
The 2003 International Conference on Computational Science
and its Applications (ICCSA 2003)
http://www.ucalgary.ca/iccsa/events.htm
May 18, 2003 -- May 21, 2003
Montreal, Canada
Workshop Web Site:
http://http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~marina/Newweb/session.htm
Conference web sites:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/iccsa/
http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/iccsa/
http://www.optimanumerics.com/iccsa/
http://www.sharcnet.ca/iccsa/
Workshop Chair: Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary
Workshop Co-Chair: Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Important Dates
February 1, 2003: Deadline for paper submission.
February 21, 2003: Notification of acceptance.
February 28, 2003: Camera Ready Papers and Pre-registration.
May 18 -- 22, 2003: ICCSA 2003 Conference in Montreal, Canada.
Workshop Description
The Workshop, held for the third year in a row in conjunction with the
International Conference on Computational Science, is intended as an
international forum for researchers in all areas of computational
geometry. Submissions of papers presenting a high-quality original
research are invited to one of the two Workshop tracks:
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From: Hans Joachim Werner <werner@united.econ.uni-bonn.de>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:52:14 +0100
Subject: Workshop in Dortmund on Matrices and Statistics
12th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics
(IWMS-2003)
Dortmund, Germany: 5-8 August 2003
Announcement and Call for Papers
The 12th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics (IWMS-2003)
will be held at the University of Dortmund (Dortmund, Germany) on
August 5-8, 2003, during the week immediately before the 54th
Biennial Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in Berlin.
This Workshop, which will be an ISI Satellite Meeting, will be hosted
by the Department of Statistics at the University of Dortmund and will
be cosponsored by the Bernoulli Society. It has also been endorsed by
the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS).
Organizing Committees & Workshop Secretary
International Organizing Committee (IOC):
Richard William Farebrother (Shrewsbury, England, UK),
Simo Puntanen (Univ. of Tampere, Finland),
George P. H. Styan (McGill Univ., Montreal, Quebec, Canada;
IOC vice-chair),
Hans Joachim Werner: werner@united.econ.uni-bonn.de (Univ. of Bonn,
Germany; IOC-chair).
Local Organizing Committee (LOC) at the Univ. of Dortmund:
Juergen Gross,
Goetz Trenkler: trenkler@statistik.uni-dortmund.de (LOC-chair),
Claus Weihs.
Workshop Secretary (WS):
Mrs. Eva Brune: iwms2003@statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Department of Statistics, IWMS-2003,
Univ. of Dortmund, Vogelpothsweg 87,
D-44221 Dortmund, Germany.
The purpose of this Workshop is to stimulate research and, in an informal
setting, to foster the interaction of researchers in the interface between
matrix theory and statistics. This Workshop will provide a forum through
which statisticians may be better informed of the latest developments and
newest techniques in matrix theory and may exchange ideas with researchers
from a wide variety of countries. This Workshop will include the
presentation of both invited and contributed papers on matrices and
statistics; it is expected that many of these papers will be published,
after refereeing, in a Special Issue on Linear Algebra and Statistics of
Linear Algebra and Its Applications (the 9th Special Issue is Volume 354 and
appeared on October 15, 2002.) Contributed papers are welcome!
Abstracts should arrive by May 15, 2003.
For further more detailed information (paper submission, LaTeX abstract
template, registration fees, accommodations, deadlines, etc.) please visit
our Workshop Web site
http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/IWMS/main.html
or contact either Hans Joachim Werner (IOC-chair) at
werner@united.econ.uni-bonn.de or Goetz Trenkler (LOC-chair) at
trenkler@statistik.uni-dortmund.de
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From: Omar Ghattas <oghattas@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:11:26 -0500
Subject: SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering
An update on the Second SIAM Conference on Computational Science &
Engineering, to be held February 9-13, 2003 in San Diego (see
http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse03):
- The response to this conference has been vigorous. There are over
450 talks scheduled, including 11 plenary lectures from across the
spectrum of CS&E domain areas and enabling technologies (for further
details please see the conference program on the website above).
Although it's too late to submit a talk, there are still a handful
of poster presentation slots that are open. The website for online
submissions is closed, so if you wish to submit a poster, please
send a plain text email to oghattas@cs.cmu.edu with the poster
title, list of authors and their email addresses and professional
affiliations (with presenting author noted), and 75 word abstract.
The poster session will be held the evening of February 11th.
- Three short courses will precede the conference on Sunday, February
9th. The topics are: adaptive methods for PDEs (organized by David
Brown and Lori Freitag), uncertainty quantification (organized by
Roger Ghanem and Steve Wojtkiewicz), and scientific visualization
(organized by Chris Johnson). Please see the website for details and
registration information.
- Gene Golub and Joe Grcar are organizing a special event on the
evening of February 10th to commemorate the 100th anniversary of
John von Neumann's birth. Speakers include William Aspray, Peter
Lax, Pete Stewart, and Marina v.N. Whitman. Details will be posted
as they become available.
- The January 15th deadlines for conference pre-registration, short
course pre-registration, and hotel reservation are fast approaching.
In light of the anticipated large attendance, please make your
arrangements as soon as possible.
Omar Ghattas
Co-chair of the CSE'03 organizing committee
Carnegie Mellon University
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From: Graeme Fairweather <gfairwea@glenclova.mines.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:13:44 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Faculty Position at Colorado School of Mines
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the Assistant,
Associate or Full Professor level to begin in August 2003. Candidates in
all areas of computational mathematics compatible with the research
interests of the department are encouraged to apply. A doctorate in
mathematics or a related field is required. Evidence of interest or
successful involvement in interdisciplinary collaborative research in
engineering or physical sciences is desirable.
Applicants at the assistant professor level should have one or
more years of postdoctoral experience, and show exceptional promise
in teaching and research. Senior-level applicants must demonstrate
established excellence in teaching and research along with a strong
record of external funding.
The Colorado School of Mines is Colorado's oldest public university.
Located in Golden, Colorado, in the foothills of the Rockies 13 miles
west of downtown Denver and 21 miles south of Boulder, the school
has an enrollment of approximately 2500 undergraduates and 700 graduate
students in a broad range of applied science and engineering
disciplines. Research funding is approximately $25 million annually.
Applicants should send (a) a curriculum vitae; (b) four letters of
reference, at least one of which addresses teaching ability, and (c) a
statement describing teaching experience and philosophy, and research
aspirations to: Colorado School of Mines, Office of Human Resources,
Applied Mathematics Search #02-081210, 1500 Illinois Street, Golden, CO
80401-1887; fax 303-384-2025; office: 303-273-3250. To guarantee full
consideration, applications should be submitted by January 24, 2003.
CSM is an EE/AA employer. CSM is committed to enhancing the diversity of
its faculty and staff, and encourages applications from women, minorities,
veterans, and people with disabilities.
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From: Omar Ghattas <oghattas@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 02:56:02 -0500
Subject: Faculty Positions at Carnegie Mellon University
I wish draw your attention to a number of open faculty positions in
Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Please see the
announcement at:
http://betelgeuse.pc.cc.cmu.edu/bhe/about/hiring.html
Of particular interest to NA Digest readers are the position(s) in
computational biomechanics. The search committee has begun to review
applications; if you (or your students/postdocs) are interested,
please do not delay in submitting application materials.
Omar Ghattas
Carnegie Mellon University
www.cs.cmu.edu/~oghattas
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From: Joao Viegas Carreira <jcar@criticalsoftware.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:54:45 -0000
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at Critical Software, Portugal
Applications from Phd's are invited for a two-year position in
high-performance computing, sponsored by the European Union under the Marie
Curie program (http://www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/home.htm), and
offered by Critical Software, Portugal. Critical's high-performance
computing (HPC) business and research unit started in the year 2000,
leveraging on the research done at the University of Coimbra since 1996.
Currently, the company's message passing product, named WMPI
(http://www.criticalsoftware.com/wmpi/), a full implementation of the
MPI-1.2 standard for Windows based clusters, has already gained a large
user base worldwide.
The post-doc fellow will participate in developments of the WMPI framework
(full support of the MPI-2 standard, other platforms such as Linux, IA64,
integration in the global GRID, etc). Critical has a flexible and young
environment and is strongly committed to develop the HPC business unit to a
level of international excellence. Fellows will have the opportunity to
work with state of the art technologies, in a motivating area, and
participate in the construction of a business unit with excellent
opportunities of innovation and growth.
The available position is a CAT 30 (the classification of the Marie Curie
program for a post-doc) for two years. The monthly allowance is aprox. 2300
euros (net). Please send all inquiries and applications (including a
detailed technical CV) to
jobs@criticalsoftware.com
Starting Date: A.S.A.P.
All fellows must be nationals of an EU Member or Associated State
(except Portugal), or have resided in the EU for at least five years
immediately prior to their selection by the company:
Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United
Kingdom.
Associated States: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,
Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Poland,
Romania, Slovakia,Malta, and Slovenia.
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From: William Hager <hager@math.ufl.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 21:31:25 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at University of Florida
The Mathematics Department of the University of Florida expects several
postdoctoral positions beginning the Fall, 2003. There is a one year
position in connection with the 2003/2004 special year program,
which has workshops on
1. Mathematical Imaging and Image Analysis
2. Multiscale Optimization Methods and Applications
3. Computational Methods in Multiscale Analysis and Applications
Additional 3 year positions are pending budget approval.
For further information, please see
http://www.math.ufl.edu/facpositions.html
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From: Hans Petter Langtangen <hpl@simula.no>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:33:22 +0100
Subject: Postgraduate Research Positions in Oslo, Norway
The Department of Scientific Computing at the Simula Research
Laboratory (www.simula.no/sc) in Oslo, Norway, invites applications
for two research positions in scientific computing at the postdoc or
research scientist level. The Laboratory is funded by the Norwegian
government with the purpose of performing long-term basic research in
the computing sciences. The Department of Scientific Computing runs
two fairly large projects, one regarding simulation of the electrical
activity in the human heart and the other on generic tools for coupled
problems (multi-physics simulation). Both projects focus on finite
element methods and software for partial differential equations as
well as mathematical/numerical studies and verification of
implementations. The Simula Research Laboratory has a very close
collaboration with the Norwegian universities and hosts many
university professors.
The successful applicant would preferably have a PhD in scientific
computing, computational mechanics, computational science and
engineering, numerical analysis, applied mathematics, or related
areas, with emphasis on computing and software development. The
ability to initiate and write scientific papers is considered very
important.
Background topics of particular relevance for the positions are
coupled PDE problems, bioengineering PDE models, Navier-Stokes
equations, thermal convection, parallel computing, adaptive methods,
multigrid and domain decomposition methods, design and verification of
numerical software, C++, Diffpack (www.diffpack.com) and Python
programming.
The positions are for a period of two years. To apply, please submit a
curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a brief description of
research interests, and the names and contact information for three
references. The application deadline is February 1.
Contact person:
Professor Hans Petter Langtangen
Email: hpl@simula.no
Department of Scientific Computing
Simula Research Laboratory
P.O. Box 134
1325 Lysaker
Norway
http://www.simula.no/sc
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From: Joao Viegas Carreira <jcar@criticalsoftware.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:54:45 -0000
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at Critical Software, Portugal
Applications from Phd's are invited for a two-year position in
high-performance computing, sponsored by the European Union under the Marie
Curie program (http://www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/home.htm), and
offered by Critical Software, Portugal. Critical's high-performance
computing (HPC) business and research unit started in the year 2000,
leveraging on the research done at the University of Coimbra since 1996.
Currently, the company's message passing product, named WMPI
(http://www.criticalsoftware.com/wmpi/), a full implementation of the
MPI-1.2 standard for Windows based clusters, has already gained a large
user base worldwide.
The post-doc fellow will participate in developments of the WMPI framework
(full support of the MPI-2 standard, other platforms such as Linux, IA64,
integration in the global GRID, etc). Critical has a flexible and young
environment and is strongly committed to develop the HPC business unit to a
level of international excellence. Fellows will have the opportunity to
work with state of the art technologies, in a motivating area, and
participate in the construction of a business unit with excellent
opportunities of innovation and growth.
The available position is a CAT 30 (the classification of the Marie Curie
program for a post-doc) for two years. The monthly allowance is aprox. 2300
euros (net). Please send all inquiries and applications (including a
detailed technical CV) to
jobs@criticalsoftware.com
Starting Date: A.S.A.P.
All fellows must be nationals of an EU Member or Associated State
(except Portugal), or have resided in the EU for at least five years
immediately prior to their selection by the company:
Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United
Kingdom.
Associated States: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,
Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Poland,
Romania, Slovakia,Malta, and Slovenia.
------------------------------
From: Hans Schneider <hans@math.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:45:26 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications
Linear Algebra and its Applications
Volume 361, Pages 1-279 (1 March 2003)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Ninth Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society, Haifa,
Israel 2001, Page 1
Special editors: A.Berman, L.Elsner, M.Goldberg, R.Loewy.
A characterization of the Euclidean space, Pages 3-6
M. Zippin
An upper bound on the Perron value of an almost regular tournament matrix,
Pages 7-22
S. Kirkland
Report on the educational activities during the 9th ILAS Conference at Haifa,
June 2001, Pages 23-39
Tommy Dreyfus, Ted Eisenberg and Frank Uhlig
The adventures of a simple algorithm, Pages 41-61
Achiya Dax
Properties of the Brualdi-Li tournament matrix, Pages 63-73
Rohan Hemasinha, James R. Weaver, Stephen J. Kirkland and Jeffrey L. Stuart
Majorization-constrained doubly stochastic matrices, Pages 75-97
Richard A. Brualdi and Geir Dahl
Twoapplicationsofthetheoryofprimarymatrix functions, Pages 99-106
Roger A. Horn and Gregory G. Piepmeyer
Outer inverses: Jacobi type identities and nullities of submatrices,
Pages 107-120
R. B. Bapat
Set-systems with signed solutions, Pages 121-132
Bryan L. Shader
Applying numerical linear algebra techniques to analyzing algorithms in
signal processing, Pages 133-146
J. R. Bunch, R. C. Le Borne and I. K. Proudler
A new unified, balanced, and conceptual approach to teaching linear algebra,
Pages 147-159
Frank Uhlig
Hua's fundamental theorems of the geometry of matrices and related results,
Pages 161-179
Peter emrl
Miniversal deformations of marked matrices, Pages 181-201
Albert Compta, Josep Ferrer and Ferran Puerta
Complexity of matrix problems, Pages 203-222
Genrich R. Belitskii and Vladimir V. Sergeichuk
Parameterization by polytopes of intersections of orbits by conjugation,
Pages 223-243
R. S. Leite and C. Tomei
2-widths of the Holder unit balls, Pages 245-255
Rosa Amelia Martins and Joao Filipe Queiro
On the Perron roots of principal submatrices of co-order one of irreducible
nonnegative matrices, Pages 257-277
S. V. Savchenko
Author index, Page 279
Lists of Editors, Pages ii-iii
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From: Hershkowitz Daniel <hershkow@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:45:06 +0200 (IST)
Subject: Contents, Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra
Volume 9 (2002) of ELA - The ELECTRONIC Journal of LINEAR ALGEBRA is now
complete.
Its table of contents is:
1. Ji Young Choi, Luz Maria DeAlba, Leslie Hogben, Mandi S. Maxwell and
Amy Wangsness, The P_0-matrix completion problem, pp. 1-20.
2. C. Hillar, Charles R. Johnson and Ilya M. Spitkovsky, Positive
eigenvalues and two-letter generalized words, pp. 21-26.
3. Charles R. Johnson and Carlos M. Saiago, Estimation of the maximum
multiplicity of an eigenvalue in terms of the vertex degrees of the graph
of a matrix, pp. 27-31.
4. Panayiotis J. Psarrakos, On the m-th roots of a complex matrix, pp.
32-41.
5. Michael Soltys, Berkowitz's algorithm and clow sequences, pp. 42-54.
6. Xiezhang Li and Fangjun Arroyo, The convergence rate of the Chebyshev
semiiterative method under a perturbation of the foci of an elliptic
domain, pp. 55-66.
7. Vladimir Bolotnikov, Chi-Kwong Li, Patrick R. Meade, Christian Mehl and
Leiba Rodman, Shells of matrices in indefinite inner product spaces, pp.
67-92.
8. Andre C.M. Ran and Martine C.B. Reurings, The symmetric linear matrix
equation, pp. 93-107.
9. Akio Arimoto, A simple proof of the classification of normal Toeplitz
matrices, pp. 108-111.
10. Siegfried M. Rump, Variational characterizations of the sign-real and
the sign-complex spectral radius, pp. 112-117.
11. Richard A. Brualdi, Maximal nests of subspaces, the matrix bruhat
decomposition, and the marriage theorem - with an application to graph
coloring, pp. 118-121.
12. Robert Reams and Shayne Waldron, Isometric tight frames, pp. 122-128.
13. N. Castro Gonzalez, J.J. Koliha and Yimin Wei, Integral representation
of the Drazin inverse, pp. 129-131.
14. Dragomir Z Djokovic, Proof of Atiyah's conjecture for two special
types of configurations, pp. 132-137.
15. Assaf Goldberger and Michael Neumann, On a strong form of a conjecture
of Boyle and Handelman, pp. 138-149.
16. Adi Ben-Israel, The Moore of the Moore-Penrose inverse, pp. 150-157.
17. Karl-Heinz Foerster and Bela Nagy, On Spectra of Expansion Graphs and
Matrix Polynomials, II, pp. 158-170.
18. Berrabah Bendoukha, Deux modeles pour les operateurs de contraction,
pp. 171-189.
19. Shaun M. Fallat and Michael J. Tsatsomeros, On the Cayley transform of
positivity classes of matrices, pp. 190-196.
20. Ronen Peretz, Iterations of concave maps, the Perron-Frobenius theory
and applications to circle packings, pp. 197-254.
21. Sarah Carnochan Naqvi and Judith J. McDonald, The combinatorial
structure of eventually nonnegative matrices, pp. 255-269.
22. Robert Reams, Constructions of trace zero symmetric stochastic
matrices for the inverse eigenvalue problem, pp. 270-275.
23. Chong-Guang Cao, Xian Zhang and Zhong-Peng Yang, Some inequalities for
the Khatri-Rao product of matrices, pp. 276-281.
24. Aihua Li and Duane Randall, Non-trivial solutions to certain matrix
equations, pp. 282-289.
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