| Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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| 7:30 am | Registration Opens (Diversions Room
Ground floor of HSC)
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| 8:30 am |
Introduction and Welcoming Remarks by Biswa Datta, Dean Chris
McCord, Vice President James Erman, and Chair William Blair
(Diversions)
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| KEY-NOTE TALK (Diversions)
Chair: Biswa Datta
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| 9 am |
Hans Schneider,
Visualization in max algebra: An
application of diagonal scaling of matrices
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| 9:40 am | Tea/Coffee
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| Session on Matrix Theory and Applications
(Diversions)
Chairs: Y. Hong and Brian Shader
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| 10:00 am | Charles R. Johnson,
Computation of Equilibrants for Semi-positive
Matrices |
| 10:30 am | Tom Laffey,
Constructing Nonnegative Matrices With Given Nonzero Spectrum |
| 11:00 am | Michael Neumann,
On the connections between the inverse
M-matrix problem and the
inverse mean first passage matrix problem for Markov chains |
| 11:30 am | Dale Olesky,
Mv-matrices: A generalization
of M-matrices based on eventually nonnegative matrices |
| 12:00 pm | Vadim Olshevsky,
A quasiseparable approach to CMV and
Fiedler matrices |
| 12:30 pm | LUNCH
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| Session on Optimization (Diversions)
Chairs: Sien Deng and Floyd Hanson
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| 2:00 pm | William Hager, Direct Trajectory
Optimization and Costate
Estimation of General Optimal Control Problems
Using a Radau Pseudospectral Method |
| 2:30 pm | Jorge Moré, Estimating Computational Noise in
Simulation-Based Optimization Problems |
| 3:00 pm | Henry Wolkowicz,
Explicit Sensor Network Localization using
Semidefinite Programming and Clique Reductions |
| 3:40 pm | Biswa Datta, Computational and
Optimization Methods for Inverse Eigenvalue Problems
in Active Vibration Control and Finite Element Model Upating |
| 4:10 pm | Tea/Coffee
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| Session on Numerical Linear
Algebra and Applications (Diversions)
Chairs: Vadim Olshevsky
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| 4:30 pm | Robert Plemmons,
Tensor and Segmentation Methods for Hyperspectral Unmixing |
| 5:00 pm | James Nagy, Efficient Iterative
Methods for Large Scale Inverse Problems |
| 5:30 pm | John Gilbert,
Challenges in Combinatorial Scientific
Computing |
| 6:00 pm | Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, A Parallel Direct Solver for the Simulation of Large-scale Power/Ground Networks |
| 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Reception
(Ellington Room of HSC)
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| Thursday, August 13
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| Session on Inverse Problems
(Diversions) Chair: Karabi Datta and Kumar Singh
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| 8:30 am | John Mottershead,
A Receptance Method for Active Pole
Placement in Structures:
Sensitivity, Partial Pole Placement and Robustness |
| 9:10 am | Yoram Halevi,
Connectivity Constrained Reference Basis Model Updating |
| 9:40 am | Vadim Sokolov,
A New Hybrid Method for the Quadratic
Affine Inverse Eigenvalue Problem |
| 10:10 am | Tea/Coffee
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| Session on Control and Systems (Diversions)
Chair: Biswa Datta
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| 10:30 am | Shankar Bhattacharyya,
Robust Control via Sign Definite
Decomposition |
| 11:00 am | Floyd Hanson,
Stochastic-Volatility, Jump-Diffusion Optimal
Portfolio Problem with
Jump-Bankruptcy Condition
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| 11:30 am | Kumar V. Singh,
Partial Spectrum Assignment in a Time
Delayed System for Active Vibration Control
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| 12:00 pm | B. Ross Barmish,
On Positivity of Multivariate Polynomials
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| 12:30 - 12:45 pm | Group Picture
(Location TBA)
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| 12:45 - 2 pm | LUNCH
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| Session on Matrices and Graphs
(Diversions) Chair: Charles R. Johnson
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| 2:00 pm | Richard Brualdi,
Eigenvalues of Digraphs, with emphasis on the spectral
radius: A Survey |
| 2:40 pm | Bryan Shader,
Expected values of parameters associated
with the minimum rank of a graph |
| 3:20 pm | Avi Berman,
Graphs and Matrices |
| 4:00 pm | TEA/COFFEE
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| 4:20-6:20 pm |
PARALLEL SESSIONS
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| Special Session I: Session
on Linear Algebra Education
(Diversions)
Chair: Karabi Datta
| Special Session II (Heritage North)
Chair: John Gilbert and Vadim Sokolov
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| 4:20 pm | Steve Leon,
Linear Algebra Education Reform:
Accomplishments of the Past and Challenges
for the Future | Yoram Halevi, Can Any Reduced
Order Model Be Obtained Via Projection? |
| 4:50 pm | Ronald Taylor, Implementing
Numerical Linear Algebra in the Undergraduate Science and
Engineering Curriculum | In-Jae Kim, Compressed Sensing and Matrix
Problems| 5:20 pm | Avi Berman,
Multiple Proofs and Motivating Examples
in Teaching Linear Algebra | Roummel Marcia,
Compressive Sensing Matrices and Coded Aperture Imaging | | 5:50 pm | Stahlberg | Ying Wai (Daniel) Fan, Synthetic
Boundary Conditions,
Coordinate Transformations and Preconditioning for Image Deblurring Problems
| | Special Session III
(Heritage South)
Chair: V. Balakrishnan and Z. Zeng
| Special Session IV (Illinois)
Chair: Karabi Datta and Vadim Olshevsky
| | 4:20 pm | Hongchao Zhang,
A Derivative-Free Algorithm for the
Least-Square Minimization | Fuzhen Zhang,
Contractions and Hua Matrices | | 4:50 pm | Qinghong Zhang,
Linear Programming over Cones and Linear
Semi-infinite Programming | Tom Bella, Arbitrary order
Hessenberg-quasiseparable matrices and polynomials | | 5:20 pm | Hongbin Guo, Error analysis
for least squares with monotonical data | Mohan Thapa,
A New Hybrid Method for Finding Eigenpairs of a Symmetric
Quadratic Eigenvalue Problem in an Interval | | 5:50 pm | Carl Jagels,
The Extended Krylov Subspace Method and
Orthogonal Laurent Polynomials | Jianlin Xia,
A stable and highly efficient superfast
Toeplitz solver
| | 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Banquet (Sky
Room of HSC)
MC for the Banquet - William Blair;
Banquet Speakers - TBA
| | Friday, August 14
| | Session on Matrices, Tensors, and Quaternions
(Diversions) Chair: Richard Brualdi
| | 8:30 am | Fuzhen Zhang,
Colorful Quaternions | | 9:00 am | Alan Edelman,
Linear Algebra with 'Ghosts and
Shadows' | | 9:30 am | Shmuel Friedland,
Results and problems for 3-tensors | | 10:10 am | Tea/Coffee
| | Session on Matrices and
Differential Equations (Diversions)
Chair: Biswa Datta
| | 10:30 am | Anton Zettl,
Matrix Representations of Sturm-Liouville
Problems
with Finite Spectrum | | 11:00 am | Steve Campbell , Stabilized
completions of general differential algebraic equations | | 11:30 am | William Trench,
On nonautonomous linear
systems of differential and difference equations with
R-symmetric coefficient matrices
| | Session on Numerical Linear Algebra
(Diversions) Chairs: Robert Plemmons and James Nagy
| | 12:00 pm | Shiv Chandrasekaran,
Banishing Runge, Avoiding Gibbs | | 12:30 pm | Paul Saylor,
A Subsolution Method for the Scattering
Amplitude | | 1:00 pm | Zhonggang Zeng, Matrix
Computation in Numerical Polynomial Algebra and Algebraic Geometry | | 1:40 pm | Concluding Remarks and
Conference Adjournment
| On August 14, packed lunches will be available to the
participants starting at noon outside the Diversions Room.
Shuttles to
O'Hare Airport will leave the campus at 2 pm and at 3 pm.
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