There were 97 people registered for the conference and 85 showed up. The meeting was enjoyable and successful...

Some photos taken during the conference have been put up online: click here.

We would like to remind you of the Special Issue of LAA for the conference. Deadline for submission is May 1, 2004. Editors for the Special Issue are Chi-Kwong Li, Hugo Woerdeman, and Fuzhen Zhang.

We wish all of you a happy new year!

The Organizing Committee of International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications.

ILAS Invited Speaker: Roger A. Horn, University of Utah.

The Conference is sponsored by ILAS and Nova Southeastern University.

Proceedings of the conference will appear as a special LAA issue. The special editors are: Chi-Kwong Li, Hugo Woerdeman, and Fuzhen Zhang. The deadline of submission is: 1 May 2004.

• Tsuyoshi Ando (Hokkaido University), ando@es.hokudai.ac.jp  
• Chi-Kwong Li (Co-Chair, College of William and Mary), ckli@math.wm.edu 
• George Styan (McGill University), styan@math.mcgill.ca 
• Hugo Woerdeman (College of William and Mary), hugo@math.wm.edu 
• Fuzhen Zhang (Co-Chair, Nova Southeastern University), zhang@nova.edu 

• There will be no registration fee for the meeting, no financial aid to participants. 
• To register for the meeting, please fill out the registration form below and e-mail it to ckli@math.wm.edu by Oct. 15, 2003. 
• If you plan to give a talk, submit your title and abstract to ckli@math.wm.edu by Nov. 1, 2003. 
• Make sure to have your name and affiliation in the registration form correct for name badge.
• In case you change your plan, please make cancellations at your earliest convenience.

Please fill out the following form and send it by e-mail to ckli@math.wm.edu by Oct. 15, 2003: 

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A meeting on Matrix Analysis and 
Applications

Nova Southeastern University, Dec. 
14-16, 2003

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Program

• Reception is to be held in the evening of the 13^th, Saturday, 7:00pm-9:00pm, in the Hotel. You will receive a bag that contains local information and necessary materials.
• Talks start the 14^th Sunday morning, end the 16^th afternoon.
• Group photo is scheduled for the 15^th, Monday, 10am, in front of the conference building.
• A pool party will take place in the evening of the 15^th, Monday, 6pm-9pm, at the Hotel pool area. Happy Hours available until 7pm. Dinner is at your own cost. 
• Talk Format: 25+5 min. That is, all talks will be allocated equal amount of time: 25 min +5 min.
• It is to be determined whether to have parallel sessions, depending on the number of talks.
• ILAS invited speaker R. Horn will be given 55+5 minutes for one lecture.
• Talk schedule will be available online in late November.
• Coffee and cookies will be served at the breaks twice a day.

Meeting Location: Nova Southeastern University, Health Professions Division (HPD) Auditoriums. 

3200 University Dr., Fort Lauderdale. Visit: www.nova.edu

Accommodation:Conference hotel is Best Weston Rolling Hills Hotel & Resort, which is about 15-20 minutes to walk across University Drive from Nova (www.nova.edu). Shuttle service between the hotel and our conference site is expected to be available twice a day by the hotel. Please make room reservations directly with the Hotel. Be sure to mention “Nova Matrix Meeting” to get special rate: $64/night + tax ($79 regular).

 

Best Weston Rolling Hills Hotel & Resort	Tel.954-475-0400, 1-800-327-7735
3501 W. Rolling Hills Circle	Fax: 954-474-9967
Fort Lauderdale	Email: rhhsales@aol.com
Florida 33328, USA	www.bestwestern.com/rollinghillsresort

Transportation: Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport (FLL) is closest to Nova and recommended. There is a free shuttle service from 8am to 11pm between FLL and Rolling Hills Hotel. Make early arrangement with the Hotel (954-475-0400) for pick-up or drop-off. It costs about $27 (one way) by taxi.For those who have to fly to Miami International Airport (MIA), there are shuttle/tax services between MIA and Rolling Hills Hotel.It costs about $37 one way by Super Shuttle (convenient & available at the airport ground transportation. Tel. 305-871-2000) and takes about 40 minutes one way. Rates may reduce for groups. For those who will tour or travel around in the South or Central Florida area, (renting) a car is strongly recommended. Parking at Hotel and conference site is free. Campus shuttles going through all key places of the University including the Library and HPD are frequent and free of charge. City public transportations (buses) are available but less convenient.

Dining:There are several nice dining establishments within walking distance of Nova as well as many world-class establishments within a short drive. 

Local Newspapers: The main local newspapers are the Sun-Sentinel and the Miami Herald. 

Local Attractions:

1. Ft. Lauderdale Beach: A long stretch of beautiful sandy beach. Movie “Where The Boys Are” was filmed here.
2. Flamingo Gardens: a botanical treasure, collection of native and exotic plants, flamingos and alligators. 3750 Flamingo Rd, FL 33330, 954-473-2955 
3. Butterfly Word: Tropical Rain Forest, exotic living butterflies, Hummingbirds 3600 W. Sample Rd. Coconut Creek, FL 33073, 954-977-4400 
4. SawgrassMills Mall: One of the largest shopping center in the US. More than 270 manufacture outlets and retail outlets. 12801 W. Sunrise Blvd., FL 33323, 954-846-2350, 1-800-FL-MILLS 
5. Jungle Queen 3-hour sightseeing cruises or other day or night sightseeing cruises or casino cruises. 954-462-5596 

Central & South Florida Attractions:

1. Key West (FLORIDA KEYS): Ernest Hemingway, tropical ocean and trees... about 3-4 hours to drive from Nova 
2. Everglades National Park: Alligators, Birds, tropical trees.... about 2 hours to drive from Nova 
3. Parrot Jungle and Gardens: colorful birds, tropical garden.... In Miami, about 1 hour to drive from Nova 
4. Miami Beach: South beach... tropical foods...night bars... In Miami, about 40 minutes to drive from Nova 
5. Lion Country Safari: drive through one of the world's great wild animal preserves with over 1,200 wild animals roaming free within inches of your car. In West Palm Beach, about 1 hour to drive form Nova 
6. Central Florida (Orlando): Disney World, Sea World, Universal Studio, Kennedy Space Center.... about 4 hours to drive from Nova 
7. One day or three day cruises to Bahamas or Caribbean.... 

• ILAS Lecturer: Roger Horn, University of Utah, rhorn@math.utah.edu
  Canonical Forms for Congruence  
• Tsuyoshi Ando (organizer), Hokkaido University, ando@es.hokudai.ac.jp
  Interpolation technique in inertia theorems  
• Marina Arav, Georgia State University,marav@mathstat.gsu.edu
  Inequalities for matrix splittings using general cones
• Koenraad Audenaert, University of Wales Bangor, kauden@informatics.bangor.ac.uk
  Quantum Information Theory: An Invitation for Matrix Analysts  
• Jaspal Singh Aujla, National Institute of Technology, aujlajs@yahoo.com
  A Schwartz inequality for convex functions  
• Jerzy K. Baksalary, Zielona Góra University,J.Baksalary@im.uz.zgora.pl
  A new approach to the concept of a strong unified-least-squares matrix
  Unable to come  
• Oskar Maria Baksalary, Adam Mickiewicz University, baxx@amu.edu.pl
  Several further results on generalized and hypergeneralized projectors  
• Harm Bart, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, bart@few.eur.nl
  Integer Combinations of Idempotents and Logarithmic Residues in Banach Algebras  
• Natalia Bebiano, University of Coimbra, bebiano@ci.uc.pt
  Inequalities for quantum relative entropy
  Unable to come.  
• Avi Berman, Technion, berman@techunix.technion.ac.il
  $\{0,1\}$ Completely Positive Matrices  
• Vladimir Bolotnikov, College of William and Mary, vladi@math.wm.edu
  Positive extension problems for a class of structured matrices  
• Ethan S. Brown, MIT, esbrown@mit.edu
• Onn Chan, UBS, onn.chan@ubs.com  
• Pavel Chebotarev, Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chv@lpi.ru
  On of the spectrum of the digraph Laplacian  
• Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto, choi@math.toronto.edu
  The tricky C*-norm  
• Mingzhou Ding, Florida Atlantic University, ding@fau.edu
  Stability of Synchronized Dynamics and Pattern Formation in Coupled Systems  
• D.Z. Djokovic, University of Waterloo, djokovic@uwaterloo.ca
  On representatives of sympletic and orthogonal congruence classes of symmetric matrices  
• Charles Dolberry, University of Arkansas at Monticello, dolberry@uamont.edu  
• Aniekan Ebiefung, University of Chattanooga, Aniekan-Ebiefung@utc.edu
  Leontief  Input-Output Pollution System: An Alternative Formulation and Generalizations  
• Marcella Elliott, The College of The Bahamas (Nassau, Bahamas), mde101@hotmail.com  
• Takayuki Furuta, Tokyo University of Science, furuta@rs.kagu.tus.ac.jp
  Parametric extensions of Shannon inequality and its reverse one in Hilbert space operators via characterizations of operator concave functions (talk on 14 or 15)  
• Mariko Giga, Nippon Medical School,  mariko@nms.ac.jp
  Some extensions of Kantorovich type inequalities  
• Valerie GIRARDIN, Université de Caen, France, girardin@math.unicaen.fr
  Maximum  of entropy and extension of covariance matrices for periodically correlated and multivariate processes  
• Assaf Goldberger, Tel-Aviv University, assafg@post.tau.ac.il
  Nonlinear Perron--Frobenius Theory  
• Frank Hall, Georgia State University, fhall@mathstat.gsu.edu
  From Boolean to sign pattern matrices  
• Matthew He, Nova Southeastern University, hem@nova.edu
  Genetic Code, Hamming Distance and Stochastic Matrices  
• Daniel Hershkowitz, Technion, hershkow@tx.technion.ac.il
  Positivity of principal minors, sign symmetry and stability  
• Olga Holtz, UC-Berkeley Math Dept, holtz@math.tu-berlin.de
  M-matrices satisfy Newton's inequalities  
• Jinchuan Hou, Shanxi Teachers University, jhou@dns.sxtu.edu.cn
  Characterizing isomorphisms between standard operator algebras by spectral functions  
• Ting-Zhu Huang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, tzhuang@uestc.edu.cn 
• Erxiong Jiang, Shanghai University, ejiang@fudan.edu.cn
  OL method for symmetric tridiagonal matrices  
• Charles Johnson, College of William and Mary, crjohnso@math.wm.edu  
• Eizaburo Kamei, Maebashi Institute of Technology, kamei@maebashi-it.ac.jp
  Operator mean versions of Furuta type inequalities and chaotic order  
• Alexei Karlovich, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon,akarlov@math.ist.utl.pt
  On asymptotics of Toeplitz determinants with symbols of nonstandard smoothness  
• Mark Kauderer, Fashion Institute of Technology, book9@bigfoot.com
  Introducing the i-distribution, a new distribution for complex symplectic systems  
• SWARANJIT KAUR, S.R. Govt. College for Women Amritsar , India, swaranjitdr@yahoo.com
  Did not show up.  
• Paul Kenison, Nova Southeastern University, kenisonp@nova.edu  
• Israel Koltracht, University of Conneticut, koltracht@math.uconn.edu
  On Multiple Solutions of a Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problem in R^n.  
• Sang-Gu Lee, SungKyunKwan University, sglee@math.skku.ac.kr
  Linear algebra of Blackout game and Software  
• Rute Lemos, University of Aveiro, Portugal, rute@mat.ua.pt
  On Unbounded Operators Arising in Quantum Physics  
• Izchak Lewkowicz, Ben Gurion University, IZCHAK@EE.BGU.AC.IL
  CONVEX INVERTIBLE CONES, MATRIX SIGN FUNCTION AND THE NEVANLINNA-PICK INTERPOLATION  
• Chi-Kwong Li (organizer), College of William and Mary, ckli@math.wm.edu
  Isometries for Ky Fan norms  
• Wing Suet Li, Georgia Tech, li@math.gatech.edu
  Some remarks on Horn inequalities for Jordan models of $T$, $T|\sM$, and $T_{\sM^{\perp}}$ 
• Zhongshan Li, Georgia State University, matzli@panther.gsu.edu
  Reducible Powerful Ray Pattern Matrices  
• Christina Maher, University of Notre Dame, cmaher@nd.edu  
• Dennis I. Merino, Southeastern Louisiana University, dmerino@selu.edu
  The Jordan Canonical Forms of Lorentz Matrices  
• Tom Milligan, College of William and Mary, milligan@math.wm.edu
  Uniqueness of the Solutions of Completion Problems and Positive Semi-definite Programming  
• Hiroshi Nakazato, Hirosaki University, nakahr@cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp
  The q-numerical range of reducible 3x3 matrices  
• Sivaram Narayan, Central Michigan University, sivaram.narayan@cmich.edu
  Normalizable and Hermitiable Matrices  
• Pierpaolo Natalini, University of Rome III, Largo San Leonardo Murialdo, natalini@mat.uniroma3.it 
• Michael Neumann, University of Connecticut, neumann@math.uconn.edu
• Kazuyoshi Okubo, Hokkaido University of Education, okubo@sap.hokkyodai.ac.jp
  On the Aluthge Transformation and Weakly Unitarily Invariant Norms  
• Vadim Olshevsky, University of Connecticut, olshevsky@math.uconn.edu
  A potpourri on structured matrices
• Edward Poon, Embry-Riddle University, edward.poon@erau.edu  
• S. Petoukhov, Russian Academy of Sciences, petoukhov@hotmail.com. 
• Robert Reams, College of William and Mary, reams@math.wm.edu
  Scaling of Symmetric Matrices by Positive Diagonal Congruence  
• Martine Reurings, College of William and Mary, mcreurin@math.wm.edu  
• Paolo E. Ricci, University of Rome, La Sapienza, riccip@uniroma1.it
  Decomposition theorems for complex matrices.  
• Leiba Rodman, College of William and Mary, lxrodm@math.wm.edu
  Multiplicative Preserver Maps of Invertible Matrices  
• Kenzi SATÔ, Tamagawa University, kenzi@eng.tamagawa.ac.jp
  A method of calculation of eigenvectors of special orthogonal matrices on odd dimensional Euclidean spaces  
• Hans Schneider, University of Wisconsin, hans@math.wisc.edu
  Potter, Wielandt, and Drazin on the matrix equation AB = wBA, with some new answers to old questions  
• Morteza Seddighin, Indiana University East, mseddigh@indiana.edu
  Computation and Application of Antieigenvalues  
• Mohammad Shakil, Florida International University, DrShakil@aol.com
  A study of effects of the eigenstructure of regressor matrix on its condition numbers, collinearity indices, and information indices  
• Jai N. Singh, Barry University, singh_j_n@hotmail.com
  Some remarks on the solution of linear feasibility problems  
• Paul Smith, College of William and Mary, pasmit@wm.edu  
• Graça Soares, Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro University, gsoares@utad.pt
  Generalization of results of Fiedler on the numerical range  
• Seok-Zun Song, Cheju National University, szsong@cheju.ac.kr
  Column rank preserver of nonnegative real matrices  
• Ilya Spitkovsky, College of William & Mary, ilya@math.wm.edu
  When the numerical range goes flat  
• George Styan(organizer), McGill University, styan@math.mcgill.ca
  Issai Schur (1875--1941) and the Schur complement: 1812--1968  
• Nung-Sing Sze, University of Hong Kong, NungSingSze@graduate.hku.hk
  Isomorphisms of semigroups of nonnegative matrices  
• Tin-Yau Tam, Auburn University, tamtiny@mail.auburn.edu
  Some inequalities for the exponentials  
• Bourama TONI, Virginia State University, btoni@vsu.edu
  Dynamical roles of Jacobian loops  
• Michael Tsatsomeros, Washington State University, tsat@math.wsu.edu
  On the problem of common invariant cones  
• Kevin N. Vander Meulen, Redeemer University College, kvanderm@redeemer.on.ca
  Spectrally and Inertially Arbitrary Matrices  
• Luis Verde-Star, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, verde@xanum.uam.mx
  Groups of generalized Pascal matrices  
• Cheng Wang, Nova Southeastern University, wcheng@nova.edu  
• Ann Watkins, California State University - Northridge, ann.watkins@csun.edu  
• William Watkins, California State University - Northridge, lama@csun.edu
  D-optimal designs and trace-minimal graphs  
• James R. Weaver, University of West Florida, jweaver@uwf.edu
  Search Matrices  
• Hugo Woerdeman (organizer), College of William and Mary, hugo@math.wm.edu
  Normal completions and the separability problem in quantum information  
• Takeaki Yamazaki, Kanagawa university, yamazt26@kanagawa-u.ac.jp
  Aluthge transform and a similar one  
• Masahiro YANAGIDA, Tokyo University of Science, yanagida@rs.kagu.tus.ac.jp.
  Relations among operator orders and operator inequalities  
• Fuzhen Zhang (organizer), Nova Southeastern University, zhang@nova.edu
• Peter Zizler Mount Royal College, Alberta, pzizler@mtroyal.ab.ca
  Spectral radius of a sampling operator

For more local information, contact

 

Fuzhen Zhang	E-mail: zhang@nova.edu
Math, Science & Technology	http://www.nova.edu/~zhang
Nova Southeastern University	FAX: (954) 262-3931
3301 College Avenue	Tel. 1-800-338-4723, ext. 8317 or (954) 262-8317
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33314, USA