IPNet Digest Volume 11, Number 02 February 29, 2004 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm Michigan State University Today's Topics: PhD program on Identification in Mathematical Models in Goettingen Invited Session on Inverse Problems for PDE International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics SIAM Conference on Numerical Combustion SIAM Outreach Membership LAA Proceedings of the Haifa 2005 Conference on Matrix Theory Table of Contents: Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering Table of Contents: Linear Algebra and Its Applications Submissions for IPNet Digest: Mail to ipnet-digest@math.msu.edu Information about IPNet: http://www.mth.msu.edu/ipnet Mail to ipnet-request@math.msu.edu ----------------------------- From: "Rainer.Kress" Subject: PhD program on Identification in Mathematical Models Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 The Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Goeöttingen will establish a PhD program on Identification in Mathematical Models: Synergy of Stochastic and Numerical Methods beginning at July 1st, 2004. This research training group (Graduiertenkolleg) is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and offers 14 Scholarships for PHD students and one Postdoctoral Scholarship. The research program includes inverse problems for partial differential equations (for example, inverse scattering theory and impedance tomography), parameter and model identification in statistical inverse problems (for example statistical learning algorithms) and, combining the two preceding areas, new identification and classification problems in mathematics and in applications (for example classification of stochastic processes, geometric identification of fingerprints, identification of alien genes). The topics cover a broad range connecting theoretical mathematical problems, application relevant problems from numerical analysis and statistics, and interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with members of other sciences. The concept of the integrated teaching and research program aims at a solid education in applied mathematics both for science and industry. This will be achieved through dissertations within current mathematical research areas at the borderline of numerical analysis and stochastics and through an interdisciplinary teaching program that integrates elements from stochastics and numerical analysis. Further information on the research and teaching program and, in particular, on the participating research groups can be found on http://www.num.math.uni-goettingen.de/gk The University of Goettingen is aiming at increasing the portion of women among the graduates. Application should be sent to the director of the program, Prof. Dr. Rainer Kress, Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik, Georg-August-Universaet Goeöttingen, Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goeöttingen. In addition to the curriculum vitae, copies of relevant academic transcripts or university degrees and two letters of recommendation, the applications should contain specifications on the intended direction of research within the PhD program and preferences for one of the research groups. ----------------------------- From: Sergio Vessella Subject: Invited Session on Inverse Problems for PDE Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 Dear Colleague, I am organizing an Invited Session on Inverse Problem for PDE. Identification of Coefficients and Domains. Theory and Applications in the context of the 22th IFIP TC7 Conference, to be held in Turin (Italy), July 18-22, 2005. Information about the Conference can be found at the address http://www.polito.it/ifip2005/ In particular I would like to emphasize that, if you plan to participate, you should inform me as soon as possible and submit, by October 2004, two abstracts: 1) a "long abstract" (three pages at most) with a brief introduction and a clear statement of the main results, 2) a "short abstract" (fifteen lines at most). To prepare the "short abstract", please keep to the form that can be downloaded from the web page given above. The abstract should be sent by electronic mail in *.ps or *.pdf format to the address sergio.vessella@dmd.unifi.it The Organizing Committee plans to organize the possibility of submitting journal quality papers, We would appreciate very much if you could contact other colleagues potentially interested in this conference. Best Regards. Sergio Vessella ----------------------------- From: Daniel Lesnic Subject: 5th Int. Conf. Inverse Problems in Eng.: Theory and Practice Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 Dear Colleagues, The general announcement and the first call for papers for the "5th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice", 11-15 July 2005, Cambridge, UK, is now posted at the site: www.engconfintl.org/5ai.html Please note that the abstracts are due by 30th of June 2004. Dr. Daniel Lesnic Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. e-mail: amt5ld@amsta.leeds.ac.uk, tel: +44-(0)113-3435181, fax: +44-(0)113-3435090 ----------------------------- From: Kirsten Wilden Subject: SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 Subject: SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics Registration Dates and Program Now Available! Conference Name: SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics Location: Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel, Nashville, TN Dates: June 13-16, 2004 Invited Plenary Speakers: Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research Martin Grötschel, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB), DFG-Forschungszentrum "Mathematik für Schlüsseltechnologien," and Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University Tom Leighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Akamai Technologies, Inc. Paul Seymour, Princeton University Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley Alexander Vardy, University of California, San Diego Michael Waterman, University of Southern California Registration is Now Available! Pre-Registration Deadline: Thursday, May 13, 2004 Registration and the preliminary program for this conference are available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/dm04/ For additional information, contact the SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ----------------------------- From: Kirsten Wilden Subject: Tenth International SIAM Conference on Numerical Combustion Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 Subject: Tenth International Conference on Numerical Combustion Registration Dates and Program Conference Name: Tenth International Conference on Numerical Combustion Location: Hilton Sedona Resort & Spa, Sedona, Arizona Dates: May 9-12, 2004 Invited Plenary Speakers: Malte Braack, University of Heidelberg, Germany Michael Frenklach, University of California, Berkeley Thomas Jackson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Registration is Now Available! Pre-Registration Deadline: Monday, April 12, 2004 Registration and the conference program for this conference is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/nc04/ For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ----------------------------- From: michelle montgomery Subject: SIAM Outreach Membership Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 The SIAM Board of Trustees has reduced the annual dues amount for the membership option for individuals who live and work in developing countries. This category of SIAM membership, called "Outreach Membership," was created to help make SIAM products and services accessible to a wider and more global group of applied and computational mathematicians. This is a great alternative for individuals in developing countries who cannot afford the full SIAM dues. Eligible individuals' dues are just US $10 per year. Outreach Members receive all print issues of "SIAM News" and electronic-only access to "SIAM Review". They can join any of the SIAM Activity Groups at $10 per group, are entitled to 30% off list prices on all SIAM books, and receive member discounted registration at SIAM sponsored meetings. No additional journal subscriptions at membership rates are available as part of the Outreach Membership. The Outreach Membership application (secure) form can be found online at http://www.siam.org/cust_serv/index.cfm. You will be requested to create a profile for yourself; then you will receive a temporary username and password in order to use the online system. Alternatively, you can use a fill-in form at https://www.siam.org/membership/outreachmem.htm. The list of developing countries can be found at http://www.siam.org/membership/outreachlist.htm. SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 3600 University City Science Center Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA +1 215-382-9800 fax +1 215-386-7999 siam@siam.org www.siam.org Submitted by: Michelle Montgomery Marketing Manager, SIAM ----------------------------- From: Hans Schneider Subject: LAA proceedings of the Haifa 2005 conference on matrix theory Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 LAA proceedings of the Haifa 2005 conference on matrix theory LAA will publish proceedings of the conference on matrix theory to be held in Haifa, Israel, January 3 - 7, 2005. The special editors are Abraham Berman, Leonid Lerer and Raphael Loewy. The submission deadline is expected to be April 30, 2005. Further details will appear in due course in the second conference announcement and at http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hans/speciss.html . Submitted by: Hans Schneider Mathematics Department Office Phone: 608-262-1402 Van Vleck Hall Math Dept Phone: 608-263-3054 University of Wisconsin Math Dept Fax: 608-263-8891 480 Lincoln Drive Email: hans@math.wisc,edu Madison, WI 53706-1313 USA http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hans ----------------------------- From: "James Beck" Subject: Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering Feb. 2004 Vol 12, No. 1 Table of Contents Inverse Geometry Problem of Estimating the Phase Front Motion of Ice in a Thermal Storage System DONG-SEONG KWAG, IN-SON PARK and WOO-SEUNG KIM A Genetic Algorithm Applied to Composite Elastic Parameters Identification MARIANA FERREIRA TEIXEIRA SILVA, LAVINIA MARIA, SANABIO ALVES BORGES, FERNANDO ALVES ROCHINHA and LU~S ALFREDO VIDAL DE CARVALHO The Inverse Estimation of the Local Heat Transfer Coefficient in Falling Film Evaporation HASNA LOUAHLIA-GUALOUS, EUGENE ARTIOUKHINE and PRABODH K. PANDAY Vibration-based Identification of Isotropic Material Properties by Quasi-binary Electronic Holography and Finite Element Modelling DAN N. BORZA Response Surface Method for Solution of Structural Identification Problems ROLANDS RIKARDS and JANIS AUZINS Passive Electric Potential CT Method Using Piezoelectric Material for Crack Identification DAIKI SHIOZAWA, SHIRO KUBO and TAKAHIDE SAKAGAMI Reconstruction of a Combination of the Absorption and Scattering Coefficients with a Discrete Ordinates Method Consistent with the Source-Detector System RAUL F. CARITA MONTERO, NILSON C. ROBERTY and ANTONIO J. SILVA NETO Inverse Radiative Transfer Problems in Two-Dimensional Participating Media MARIELLA J. BERROCAL TITO, NILSON C. ROBERTY, ANTONIO J. SILVA NETO and JORGE BRAVO CABREJOS ---------------------------- Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering Apr. 2004 Vol 12, No. 2 Table of Contents A one-dimensional inverse radiative transfer problem with time-varying boundary conditions N.I. ALVAREZ ACEVEDO, N. C. ROBERTY and A. J. SILVA NETO Inverse finite element technique for identification of thermal resistance of gas-gap between the ingot and mould in continuous casting of metals A. NAWRAT and J. SKOREK Inverse heat transfer for optimization and on-line thermal properties estimation in composites curing A. SKORDOS and I. K. PARTRIDGE Curvature steps and geodesic moves for nonlinear least squares descent algorithms G. CHAVENT Optimal experiment design for the identification of thermo-physical properties of orthotropic solids MZALI, L. SASSI, A. JEMNI, S. BEN NASRALLAH and D. PETIT Interior point algorithms for nonlinear constrained least squares problems HERSKOVTTS, V. DUBEUX, C. M. MOTA SOARES and A. L. ARAUJO A novel inverse problem in gamma-rays emission imaging K. NGUYEN, T. T. TRUONG, H. D. BUI and J. L. DELARBRE ----------------------------- From: Hans Schneider Subject: Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 Linear Algebra and its Applications 1 March 2004 Volume 379 Table of Contents Special Issue on the Tenth ILAS Conference (Auburn, 2002) Auburn, USA, 10 June - 13 June 2002 Edited by R.B. Bapat, R. Kaashoek, R. Mathias, T.Y. Tam and F. Uhlig http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5653-2004-996209999-477635 Cones and norms in the tensor product of matrix spaces T. Ando On a class of rational matrix differential equations arising in stochastic control G. Freiling and A. Hochhaus The high road to an exponential formula Wasin So The inverse eigenvalue problem for symmetric doubly stochastic matrices Suk-Geun Hwang and Sung-Soo Pyo Gradient flow methods for matrix completion with prescribed eigenvalues Moody T. Chu, Fasma Diele and Ivonne Sgura Improved perturbation estimates for the matrix equations X+/-A*X-1A=Q V. I. Hasanov, I. G. Ivanov and F. Uhlig Norm bounds for summation of two normal matrices Man-Duen Choi and Chi-Kwong Li Existence of minimal nonsquare J-symmetric factorizations for self-adjoint rational matrix functions L. Lerer, M. A. Petersen and A. C. M. Ran Strong linear preservers of symmetric doubly stochastic or doubly substochastic matrices Shwu-Huey Lin and Bit-Shun Tam Hermite indices and equivalence relations I. Baragana, V. Fernandez and I. Zaballa An H2-corona theorem on the bidisk for infinitely many functions Tavan T. Trent On matrix inverses modulo a subspace Miguel V. Carriegos and M Isabel Garcia-Planas Dimension of the orbit of marked subspaces Albert Compta, Josep Ferrer and Marta Pena Assignment of infinite structure to an open-loop system A. Amparan, S. Marcaida and I. Zaballa An estimation of the spectral radius of a product of block matrices Mei-Qin Chen and Xiezhang Li Relationships between partial orders of matrices and their powers Jerzy K. Baksalary, Jan Hauke, Xiaoji Liu and Sanyang Liu A nonlinear matrix equation connected to interpolation theory Andre C. M. Ran and Martine C. B. Reurings Properties of Schur complements in partitioned idempotent matrices Jerzy K. Baksalary, Oskar Maria Baksalary and Tomasz Szulc Completely positive matrices Changqing Xu Versal deformations in orbit spaces F. Puerta, X. Puerta and S. Tarragona Unitary dilation approach to contractive matrix completion Li Qiu and Tongwen Chen On computing canonical forms using flows Kenneth R. Driessel Nonnegative matrices A with AA#[ges]0 S. K. Jain and John Tynan Duality and separation theorems in idempotent semimodules Guy Cohen, Stephane Gaubert and Jean-Pierre Quadrat Kronecker-product approximations for some function-related matrices Eugene Tyrtyshnikov Student discussions on a linear algebra problem in a distance-education course Asuman Oktac Inclines and incline matrices: a survey K. H. Kim and F. W. Roush The nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem Patricia D. Egleston, Terry D. Lenker and Sivaram K. Narayan Should we teach linear algebra through geometry? Ghislaine Gueudet-Chartier Report on the 10th ILAS Conference "Challenges in Matrix Theory" at Auburn University in June 2002 Frank Uhlig ---------------------------- Linear Algebra and its Applications 1 April 2004 Volume 381 Table of Contents System theoretic based characterisation and computation of the least common multiple of a set of polynomials Nicos Karcanias and Marilena Mitrouli Conjugacy invariants of [] B. Foreman Inertia theorems for pairs of matrices Cristina Ferreira and Fernando C. Silva A property concerning the Hadamard powers of inverse M-matrices Shencan Chen A limit theorem for sets of stochastic matrices Anne Condon and Michael Saks On the powers of a vectorial matroid - an equivalence relation Rosario Fernandes A decreasing sequence of upper bounds on the largest Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph Oscar Rojo and Hector Rojo The k-edge connected subgraph problem I: Polytopes and critical extreme points M. Didi Biha and A. R. Mahjoub A least squares approach to reduce stable discrete linear systems preserving their stability Sven Feldmann and Patrick Lang Positive extension problems for a class of structured matrices Vladimir Bolotnikov and Paul A. Smith Spectral shorted matrices Jorge Antezana, Gustavo Corach and Demetrio Stojanoff Parametric extensions of Shannon inequality and its reverse one in Hilbert space operators Takayuki Furuta Some facets of the polytope of even permutation matrices Jeffrey Hood and David Perkinson Eventually nonnegative matrices are similar to seminonnegative matrices Sarah Carnochan Naqvi and Judith J. McDonald Numerical ranges of unbounded operators arising in quantum physics N. Bebiano, R. Lemos and J. da Providencia NOTE: The ScienceDirect website http://www.sciencedirect.com contains all articles published in LAA beginning with vol 1 (1968). Also about 100 articles in press beyond vol. 381 have been posted there. Submitted by: Hans Schneider Mathematics Department Office Phone: 608-262-1402 Van Vleck Hall Math Dept Phone: 608-263-3054 University of Wisconsin Math Dept Fax: 608-263-8891 480 Lincoln Drive Email: hans@math.wisc,edu Madison, WI 53706-1313 USA http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hans ------- end -------