IPNet Digest Volume 9, Number 09 September 29, 2002 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm Michigan State University Today's Topics: New Book: Inverse Engineering Handbook New Book: Lyapunov-Schmidt Methods in Nonlinear Analysis SIAM Conference: Mathematics for Industry Student Travel Grants: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms Special Issue: Linear Algebra and Its Applications Table of Contents: Inverse Problems Table of Contents: Inverse Problems in Engineering Table of Contents: Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems 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: "Keith A. Woodbury" Subject: Inverse Engineering Handbook Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 Announcing a new reference volume for Inverse Methods.. The Inverse Engineering Handbook is slated to be released by CRC Press at the end of September, 2002. This reference contains contributions from several noted contributors to the field: James V. Beck Keith A. Woodbury Yvon Jarny Diego Murio George Dulikravich & Thomas Martin Ashley Emery Alexey Nenarokomov Please look to the URL http://www.crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=0861&parent_id=392&pc for more information. There is also a brochure (.pdf) at http://www.crcpress.com/us/promotions/dynamic_data/2126_1023_0861FL.pdf ----------------------------- From: "Denis Sidorov" Subject: New book on Lyapunov-Schmidt Methods in Nonlinear Analysis Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 Lyapunov-Schmidt Methods in Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, by Nikolay Sidorov Dept. of Mathematical Analysis, Irkutsk State University, Russia Boris Loginov Ulyanovosk State Technical University, Russia Aleksandr Sinitsyn Michail Falaleev Dept. of Mathematical Analysis, Irkutsk State University, Russia Book Series: MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS : Volume 550 This book concentrates on the branching solutions of nonlinear operator equations and the theory of degenerate operator-differential equations especially applicable to algorithmic analysis and nonlinear PDE's in mechanics and mathematical physics. The authors expound the recent result on the generalized eigen-value problem, the perturbation method, Schmidt's pseudo-inversion for regularization of linear and nonlinear problems in the branching theory and group methods in bifurcation theory. The book covers regular iterative methods in a neighborhood of branch points and the theory of differential-operator equations with a non-invertible operator in the main expression is constructed. Various recent results on theorems of existence are given including asymptotic, approximate and group methods. The reduction of some mathematics, physics and mechanics problems (capillary-gravity surface wave theory, phase transitions theory, Andronov-Hopf bifurcation, boundary-value problems for the Vlasov-Maxwell system, filtration, magnetic insulation) to operator equations gives rich opportunities for creation and application of stated common methods for which existence theorems and the bifurcation of solutions for these applications are investigated. Audience: The book will be of interest to mathematicians, mechanics, physicists and engineers interested in nonlinear equations and applications to nonlinear and singular systems as well as to researchers and students of these topics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-0941-0 November 2002 , 566 pp. EUR 174.00 / USD 160.00 / GBP 110.00 ----------------------------- From: Kirsten Wilden Subject: SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 Conference Name: SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry: Challenges and Frontiers (MI03) Location: The Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto, Canada Dates: June 23-25, 2003 The Call for Presentations for this conference is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/mi03/ **Deadlines** Deadline for submission of minisymposium proposals: November 26, 2002 Deadline for minisymposium speaker abstracts: December 23, 2002 Deadline for submission of contributed abstracts: December 23, 2002 For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ----------------------------- From: Alia Rizk Subject: IBM Research Sponsors Student Travel Grants to SODA 03 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 IBM Research Sponsors Student Travel Grants to the ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 03) 10 grants are available. Program information for SODA 03 is available at http://www.siam.org/meetings/da03/index.htm Award: Ten awards of $500 each will be granted toward travel to SODA 03. To Qualify: Any full-time student in good standing is eligible to receive an award plus gratis meeting registration. Top priority will be given to students presenting papers at the meeting, with second priority to students who are co-authors of papers to be presented at the meetings. An application for a travel award must include: 1. A letter from the student describing his/her academic standing and interests, his/her expected graduation date and degree, advisor's name, and, if available, a URL for a working Web page. 2. If applicable, the title(s) of the paper(s) to be presented by the student (author or co-author) at the meeting. 3. A detailed expense list, in US dollars. 4. Other travel funds that are available to you (optional). 5. Statement from your advisor on availability of funds, indicating why the student is deserving of receiving a travel fund, and any special circumstances. Deadlines: Complete applications must be received at the SIAM office no later than Nov. 12, 2002. Winner will be notified by December 6, 2002. Checks for the awards will be given to the winning students when they arrive at the meeting and check in at the SIAM Registration Desk. Selection: A SIAM committee will select the awardees. The tentative list of winners will be submitted to IBM Research for approval. Applications should be sent to the following address: SIAM Attention: Joanna Littleton IBM Research Student Travel Award, SODA 03 3600 University City Science Center Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688. Students also may apply by e-mail to littleton@siam.org or by fax to 215-386-7999. ----------------------------- From: Hans Schneider Subject: LAA special issue Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS Special Issue in honor of Heydar Radjavi Linear Algebra and its Applications is pleased to announce a special issue in honor of Professor Heydar Radjavi, in recognition of his many important contributions to linear algebra and to operator theory, and in celebration of his 70th birthday on January 17, 2005. Heydar's early results include his seminal characterization of self-commutators of operators on Hilbert space. His definitive trace condition for simultaneous triangularizability of semigroups of matrices was the culmination of work on this topic by several generations of distinguished algebraists. Heydar has obtained numerous other results of broad interest on invariant subspaces, simultaneous triangularizability, products of involutions, semigroups of matrices and many other topics. As he approaches 70, his research productivity is increasing with his age. It is hoped that this special issue will reflect the breadth and influence of his research. Papers on any aspect of linear algebra or operator theory may be submitted to any of the four special editors listed below before July 31, 2003. Submissions will be subject to the normal refereeing procedures and standards of LAA. Rajendra Bhatia Peter Rosenthal Indian Statistical Institute Department of Mathematics 7 Sansanwal Marg University of Toronto New Delhi 110 016 Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3 India Canada +91-11-656-4741 +(416) 978-3093 rbh@isid.ac.in rosent@math.toronto.edu Matjaz Omladic Peter Semrl Department of Mathematics Department of Mathematics University of Ljubljana University of Ljubljana SI-1000 Ljubljana, Jadranska 19 SI-1000 Ljubljana, Jadranska 19 Slovenia Slovenia +(3861) 476-6540 +(3861) 476-6683 matjaz.omladic@fmf.uni-lj.si peter.semrl@fmf.uni-lj.si Submitted by: Hans Schneider hans@math.wisc.edu. Department of Mathematics 608-262-1402 (Work) Van Vleck Hall 608-271-7252 (Home) 480 Lincoln Drive 608-263-8891 (Work FAX) University of Wisconsin-Madison No Home FAX at present Madison WI 53706 USA http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hans (URL) ----------------------------- From: "Elizabeth Martin" Subject: Inverse Problems, volume 18, issue 5 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 Inverse Problems October 2002 Volume 18, Issue 5 Table of Contents All articles are free for 30 days after publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://stacks.iop.org/0266-5611/18/i=5 PAPERS An information approach to regularization parameter selection under model misspecification A M Urmanov, A V Gribok, J W Hines and R E Uhrig On the solution of three-dimensional inverse obstacle acoustic scattering problems by a regularized Newton method C Farhat, R Tezaur and R Djellouli Imaging and time reversal in random media L Borcea, G Papanicolaou, C Tsogka and J Berryman Extraction formulae for an inverse boundary value problem for the equation $\nabla \cdot (\sigma-{\rm i}\omega \epsilon)\nabla u=0$ M Ikehata An interior-point trust-region-based method for large-scale non-negative regularization M Rojas and T Steihaug Integrable discretizations of the sine--Gordon equation M Boiti, F Pempinelli, B Prinari and A Spire Unique determination of inhomogeneity in an elliptic equation S Kim Detecting cavities by electrostatic boundary measurements G Alessandrini, A Morassi and E Rosset Conservation laws for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in Miwa variables G M Pritula and V E Vekslerchik Inversion of scattering from a layer of random spheroids using iterative solutions of the scalar radiative transfer equation Y-Q Jin and Z Liang The solvability conditions for the inverse eigenvalue problem of Hermitian-generalized Hamiltonian matrices Z Zhang, X Hu and L Zhang Reconstruction of a stratified omega medium and the associated Riemann--Hilbert problem A Boutet de Monvel and D Shepelsky Penalized maximum likelihood image restoration with positivity constraints: multiplicative algorithms H Lant\'eri, M Roche and C Aime An inverse problem for the magnetic Schr\"odinger equation and quasi-exponential solutions of nonsmooth partial differential equations A Panchenko The inverse problem of emission tomography D Gourion and D Noll Submitted by: Elizabeth Martin, Senior Production Editor, Inverse Problems Institute of Physics Publishing Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol BS1 6BE UK Tel: +44 (0)117 929 7481 (Direct: +44 (0)117 930 1078) Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4318 (Direct: +44 (0)117 920 0764) E-mail: liz.martin@iop.org WWW: http://www.iop.org ----------------------------- From: "James Beck" Subject: June/August IPIE Table of Contents Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 Inverse Problems in Engineering June 2002 Vol. 10, No. 3 Table of Contents On Point Mass Identification in Rods and Beams From Minimal Frequency Measurements A. Morassi and M. Dilena An Inverse Problem for the Helmholtz Equation Involving Two Semi-Infinite Fluids A. Chakrabarti, P. Daripa and S. Roy The Numerical Solution of the Three Dimensional Inverse Obstacle Scattering Problem for Point Source Generated Wave Fields Y.X. You and G. P. Miao Cauchy Problems for Laplace Equation on Compact Sets V. N. Titarenko and A. G. Yagoia Linear Robust Control of Identified State-Space Non-Linear Inverse Compensated SI Engine A. P. Petridis and A. T. Shenton Inverse Convection-Diffusion Problem of Estimating Boundary Velocity Based on Internal Temperature Measurements I. Szczygiel and A. Ftc ************************************* Inverse Problems in Engineering August 2002 Vol. 10, No. 4 Table of Contents An Iterative Algorithm for the Backward Heat Conduction Problem Based on Variable Relaxation Factors M. Jourhmane and N. S. Mera On Determination of the Material Constants of Laminated Cylindrical Shells Based on an Inverse Optimal Approach X. Han, D. Xu, F. F. Yap and G. R. Lid Application of Inverse Analysis to Thermal Contact Resistance Between Very Rough Nonconforming Surfaces J. Ghojel Boundary Element Regularisation Methods for Solving the Cauchy Problem in Linear Elasticity L. Marin, L. Elliott, D. B. Ingham and D. Lesnic Optimum Robot Design Based on Task Specifications Using Evolutionary Techniques and Kinematic, Dynamic, and Structural Constraints P. S. Shiakolas, D. Koladiya and J. Kebrle Recovery of Cracks from Incomplete Boundary Data A. Cimetiere, F. Delvare, M. Jaoua, M. Kallel and F. Pons ----------------------------- From: magrijn Subject: Journal MCSS Volume 15 (2002), Number 3 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems 2002 Vol. 15, No. 3 Table of Contents Integral characterizations of uniform asymptotic and exponential stability with applications A. Teel, E. Panteley, and A. Loria Exponential stability of slowly time-varying nonlinear systems J. Peuteman and D. Aeyels Decay rates for a beam with pointwise force and moment feedback K. Ammari, Z. Liu and M. Tucsnak Poincare, normal form for a class of driftless systems in a one-dimensional submanifold neighborhood D. Boutat and J.P. Barbot NEW! The tables of contents of MCSS and the .pdf files of its papers are available from the publisher Springer at: http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00498/index.htm Information on MCSS is available also at the Editors' home pages: www.cwi.nl/~schuppen/mcss/mcss.html www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/mcss.html Address for submissions by email or regular mail: J.H. van Schuppen (Editor-in-Chief MCSS) CWI P.O.Box 94079 1090 GB Amsterdam The Netherlands Email mcss@cwi.nl Eduardo Sontag and Jan van Schuppen (Editors) Submitted by: Corry Magrijn (Secretary) for Jan H. van Schuppen (Editor-in-Chief MCSS) ----------------------------- From: Hans Schneider Subject: LAA contents Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 Linear Algebra and its Applications October 2002 Vol 354, Issues 1-3 Table of Contents Ninth Special issue on Linear Algebra and Statistics Special editors: S. Puntanen, G.P.H. Styan, H.J. Werner Idempotency of linear combinations of an idempotent matrix and a tripotent matrix Jerzy K. Baksalary, Oskar Maria Baksalary and George P. H. Styan A property of orthogonal projectors Jerzy K. Baksalary, Oskar Maria Baksalary and Tomasz Szulc Generalized inverses of partitioned matrices in Banachiewicz-Schur form Jerzy K. Baksalary and George P. H. Styan A complementary proof of an eigenvalue property in correspondence analysis J. Benasseni Multi-companion matrices Georgi N. Boshnakov Methods of density estimation on the Grassmann manifold Yasuko Chikuse Operator trigonometry of statistics and econometrics Karl Gustafson Several inequalities involving Khatri-Rao products of positive semidefinite matrices Shuangzhe Liu Admissible linear estimators in linear models with respect to inequality constraints Chang-Yu Lu and Ning-Zhong Shi Estimation and experiments comparison with respect to the matrix risk Augustyn Markiewicz Third and fourth moment matrices of vec X' in multivariate analysis Heinz Neudecker and Gotz Trenkler The 70th anniversary of the distribution of random matrices: A survey Ingram Olkin The asymptotic variance of the univariate PLS estimator A. Phatak, P. M. Reilly and A. Penlidis Regression models with unknown singular covariance matrix Muni S. Srivastava and Dietrich von Rosen Convergence in the Cesaro sense and strong law of large numbers for nonhomogeneous Markov chains Weiguo Yang http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5653-2002-996459998-336498 ************************************* Linear Algebra and its Applications Nov 2002 Vol. 355, Issues 1-3 Table of Contents Some results on complete Lie superalgebras Li Yun Wang and Dao Ji Meng Computation of sparse circulant permanents via determinants B. Codenotti and G. Resta Weighted zeta functions of digraphs Hirobumi Mizuno and Iwao Sato Small polynomial matrix presentations of nonnegative matrices Mike Boyle and Douglas Lind Matrices with doubly signed generalized inverses Jia-Yu Shao and Jin-Ling He The (matrix) discriminant as a determinant Beresford N. Parlett Additive idempotence preservers B. Kuzma Gaussian quadrature formulae for matrix weights Antonio J. Duran and Beatriz Polo Decomposition of Riesz frames and wavelets into a finite union of linearly independent sets Ole Christensen and Alexander M. Lindner On Grassmannians over *-rings Marek Golasiski and Francisco Gomez Ruiz Multiplicative preservers on semigroups of matrices Wai-Shun Cheung, Shaun Fallat and Chi-Kwong Li Upper and lower bounds for ranks of matrix expressions using generalized inverses Yongge Tian Construction of irreducible relative invariant of the prehomogeneous vector space Katsutoshi Amano, Masaki Fujigami and Takeyoshi Kogiso Perturbation of quadrics Josep Clotet, M. Dolors Magret and Xavier Puerta Integral Jordan decomposition of matrices Inder Bir S. Passi, Klaus W. Roggenkamp and Marcos Soriano Ranks of tensors, secant varieties of Segre varieties and fat points M. V. Catalisano, A. V. Geramita and A. Gimigliano Sharp upper bounds for the Laplacian graph eigenvalues Yong-Liang Pan Stability and inertia theorems for generalized Lyapunov equations Tatjana Stykel Submitted by: Hans Schneider hans@math.wisc.edu. Department of Mathematics 608-262-1402 (Work) Van Vleck Hall 608-271-7252 (Home) 480 Lincoln Drive 608-263-8891 (Work FAX) University of Wisconsin-Madison No Home FAX at present Madison WI 53706 USA http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hans (URL) ------- end -------