Description: The theory and numerical solution of matrix equations are important in many applications, in wide range of elds in mathematics and statistics, engineering and computer science. Our speakers have worked on various theoretical and numerical aspects of linear and nonlinear matrix equations for more than thirty years. In ILAS2014, we propose to talk about some of our recent work in matrix equations, with emphasis on the impact of their specic structures, such as sparseness and deniteness, on their numerical behaviour and solution. The topics of the talks include linear equation approach for linear discriminant analysis algorithm, tensor linear equations for PDEs in high dimensions, large-scale generalized Lyapunov and Stein equations for the solution of rational Riccati equations and stochastic optimal control, and the small sample statistical condition estimation for generalized Sylvester equations.

Speakers:
Delin Chu (National Singapore University, SINGAPORE)
Eric King-wah Chu (MonashUniversity, AUSTRALIA)
Hung-Yuan Fan (National Taiwan Normal University, TAIWAN)

Description: The main purpose of this MS is to stimulate interactions of researchers of different geographic areas in the important field of inverse spectral problems. Recent advances in this area will be discussed and new ideas will be exchanged. This will be a special occasion for enlarging horizons and to raise new problems, technical approaches, and applications.

Speakers:
Jesse Barlo (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)?
Wayne Barrett (Brigham Young University, USA)
Natalia Bebiano (University of Coimbra, PORTUGAL)
Kazem Ghanbari (Sahand University of Technology, IRAN)
Tom Laffey (University College Dublin, IRELAND)
Bassam Mourad (Lebanese University, LEBANON)
Mikhail Tyaglov (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CHINA)?- Cancelled

Organizers:
Miklos Palfia (RIMS, Kyoto University, JAPAN), Palfia.Miklos@aut.bme.hu
Takeaki Yamazaki (Toyo University, JAPAN, t-yamazaki@toyo.jp )

Description: We will discuss about “Matrix Geometries"
and “Matrix Means" in the view point of geodesic or geometric means
We ean expect this minisymposium to develop new matrix theory results
combined with matrix geometry.

Speakers:
Stephane Gaubert (Ecole Polytechnique, FRANCE)
Ben Jeuris (KU Leuven, BELGIUM)
Sejong Kim (Louisiana State University, USA)
Gabriel Larotonda (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, AR- GENTINAS)
Jimmie Lawson (Louisiana State University, USA)
Ho Toan Minh (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, VIET- NAM)
Lajos Molnar (University of Debrecen, HUNGARY)
Mikl ?os P ?alfia (Kyoto University, JAPAN)
Takeaki Yamazaki (Toyo University, JAPAN)
Frank Hansen (Tohoku University, JAPAN)

Organizers:
Ajit Kumar (Institute of Chemical Technology, INDIA, ajit72@gmail.com)
Abraham Berman (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, ISRAEL, berman@technion.ac.il)

Description: This mini-symposia on “Teaching of Linear Algebra”, should serve as a forum to share and discuss teaching these two aspects and their importance. We plan to have presentation by experts having years of experiences in teaching Linear Algebra to bring out its geometric aspects. There will be presentations on interactive and innovative teaching of linear algebra using some of the mathematical tools like Sage, Mathematica, MathDisk to bring out computational aspects and its use in some of the real life problems.

Speakers:
S. Kumaresan (University of Hyderabad, INDIA)
Sang-Gu Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, KOREA)
Abraham Berman (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, ISRAEL)
V. M. Sholapurkar (S. P. College,INDIA)
Thahir Ashraf (MathDisk Technology, INDIA)
Ajit Kumar (Institute of Chemical Technology, INDIA)
Han Hyuk Cho (Seoul National University, KOREA)
Natanael Karjanto (Nazarbayev University, KAZAKHSTAN)
Fuzhen Zhang (Nova Southeastern University, USA)
Sepideh Stewart (USA, University of Oklahoma)

Organizers:
Han Hyuk Cho (Seoul National University, KOREA, hancho@snu.ac.kr )
Jang Soo Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, KOREA, jangsookim@skku.edu )
Seungjin Lee (KIAS, KOREA, lsjin@kias.re.kr)

Description: The title of the proposed mini symposium is \Algebraic combinatorics and com- binatorial matrices". Algebraic combinatorics is a fast-growing area which has many connections with various areas in mathematics. In this proposed mini symposium we focus on the role of matrices in algebraic combinatorics.

Speakers:
Han Hyuk Cho (Seoul National University, KOREA)
Jihoon Choi (Seoul National University, KOREA)
Sen-Peng Eu (National Taiwan Normal University, TAIWAN)
Masao Ishikawa (University of the Ryukyus, JAPAN)
Kyoung-Tark Kim (Pusan National University, KOREA)
Sangwook Kim (Chonnam National University, KOREA)
Suh-Ryung Kim (Seoul National University, KOREA)
Boram Park (NIMS, KOREA)
Seunghyun Seo (Kangwon National University, KOREA)
Hwanchul Yoo (KIAS, KOREA)
Meesue Yoo (University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)
Soichi Okada (Nagoya University, Japan)
Chassidy Bozeman (Iowa State University, USA)

Organizers:
Marc Baboulin (University Paris-Sud and Inria, FRANCE, marc.baboulin@inria.fr )
Yimin Wei (Fudan University, CHINA, yimin.wei@gmail.com )

Description: Linear least squares is a classical linear algebra problem in scientic computing, arising for instance in parameter estimation or data assimilation problems. This minisymposium will high-light novel aspects in the solution and the numerical issues of linear least squares problems as well as the potential applications. In this context, speakers will discuss orthogonalization schemes for indenite least squares, Jacobi method for lattice basis reduction (that can be applied to integer linear least squares), conjugate gradient methods for large sparse linear least squares and iterative methods for constrained least squares. The talks will also address recent results for the condition numbers of linear least squares and Moore-Penrose inverse (closed formulas and bounds), including their computation on current multicore+GPU parallel machines.

Speakers:
Marc Baboulin (University Paris-Sud and Inria, FRANCE)
Ken Hayami (National Institute of Informat-ics, JAPAN)
Sanzheng (McMaster University, CANADA)
Miroslav Rozloznik (Czech Academy of Sciences, CZECH REPUBLIC)
David Titley-Peloquin (Cerfacs, FRANCE)
Yimin Wei (Fudan University, CHINA)

Organizers:
A. Carmona (Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, SPAIN, angeles.carmona@upc.edu )
A. M Encinas (Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, SPAIN, andres.marcos.encinas@upc.edu )
M. Mitjana (Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, SPAIN, margarida.mitjana@upc.edu  )

Description: The proposed mini-symposium will give an opportunity to communicate the latest developments in the area and its applications, presenting some current research and stimulating new ideas and collaboration. For this goal we will bring together some of the most renowned experts in the area, as well as promising young researchers.

Speakers:
Milica Andelic (Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal)
V. Anandam (Univ. of Madras, India)
A. M. Encinas (Univ. Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain)
S. Gago (Univ. Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Woong Kook (Seoul National Univ., Korea)
M. Mitjana (Univ. Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Organizers:
Ren-Cang Li (University of Texas at Arlington, USA, rcli@uta.edu )
Wen-Wei Lin (National Chiao Tung University, TAIWAN, wwlin@math.nctu.edu.tw )

Description: Eigenproblems appear ubiquitously all across applied science and engineering, and their solutions are routinely sought and are critical in one way or another to various scientic computational tasks. A lot of progress both in algorithmic advances and software development has been made, but even more remains to be done, especially for large and sparse matrix computational problems which remain challenging and are expected continuing to be that way for a long time. The ten talks in this proposed minisymposium focus on eigenvalue problems of important scientic applications, including the quadratic/palindromic eigenvalue problem in the vibration analysis of rail tracks under excitation for high speed trains, the linear response eigenvalue problem arising from computing excitation states (energies) of physical systems in the study of collective motion of many particle systems, the Schrodinger eigenvalue problem, the eigenvalue problem for photonic crystals, the inverse eigenvalue problem for nonnegative matrices, and certain nonlinear matrix equations whose solutions are critically eigen-dependent. Collectively, talks cover both numerical innovations and theoretical advances.

Speakers:
Qian Jiang (Beijing Eletro-Post University, CHINA)
Yueh-Cheng Kuo (National University of Kaoshiung, TAIWAN)
Tiexiang Li (Southeast Universit, CHINA)?- Cancelled
Min-Hsiung Lin (National Chung Cheng University, TAIWAN)
Teng Zhongming (Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, CHINA)
Chern-Shuh Wang (National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN)
Li Wang (Nanjin Normal University, CHINA)
Weichung Wang (National Taiwan University, TAIWAN)
Wei-guo Wang (Ocean University of China, CHINA)
Lei-Hong Zhang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, CHINA)
Yunfeng Cai (Peking University, CHINA, yfcai@math.pku.edu.cn)
Tsung-Ming Huang (National Taiwan Normal University, TAIWAN, min@ntnu.edu.tw)

Organizers:
Natalia Bebiano (University of Coimbra, PORTUGAL, bebiano@mat.uc.pt )
Tin-Yau Tam (Auburn University, USA, tamtiny@auburn.edu)

Description: The proposed mini-symposium aims to promote and stimulate interactions of mathematicians and scientists in the area of matrix inequalities in a broad sense. Topics cover all inequalities of any type concerning matrices, operators, and Lie groups.

Speakers:
Jaspal Singh Aujla (National Institute of Technology, INDIA)?- Cancelled
Natalia Bebiano (Coimbra University, PORTUGAL)
Masatoshi Fujii (Osaka Kyoiku University, JAPAN)
Luke Oeding (Auburn University, USA)
Takashi Sano (Yamagata University, JAPAN)
Mary Clair Thompson (Lafayette College, USA)
Mohammad Sal Moslehian (Selcuk University, TURKEY)
Lei Cao (Drexel University, USA)
Hanyu Li (Chongqing University, CHINA)
Roy Liu (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA) - Cancelled
Dinh Trung Hoa (Duy Tan University, VIETNAM)
Mandeep Singh (Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, India)
Sangjib Kim (Ewha Womans University, Korea)

Organizers:
Natasa Conrad (Zuse Institute Berlin, GERMANY,  djurdjev@mi.fu-berlin.de)
Konstantin Fackeldey (Zuse Institute Berlin, GERMANY,  fackeldey@zib.de )
Amir Niknejad (College of Mount Saint Vincent, USA, amir.niknejad@mountsaintvincent.edu )
Marcus Weber (Zuse Institute Berlin, GERMANY, weber@zib.de )

Description: Coarse graining methods aim at an efficient trade off between accuracy and complexity. Here in this minisymposium different coarse graining problems in the field of Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Systems Biology, and Bio-Medicine are considered. The coarse graining tools based on matrix methods include but are not limited to dimension reduction techniques such as Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), Principal component analysis (PCA), Spectral Clustering, Latent Semantic Indexing, Nonlinear Dimension Reduction, and Inverse Eigenvalue Problems. The minisymposium addresses deterministic and stochastic frameworks.

Speakers:
Natasa Conrad (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany, djurdjev@mi.fu-berlin.de)
Adam Nielsen (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany, nielsen@zib.de)
Amir Niknejad (College of Mount Saint Vincent, New York, USA, amir.niknejad@mountsaintvincent.edu)
Marcus Weber (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany, weber@zib.de)
Lee Altenberg (Konrad Lorenz Institute, Austria)

Organizers:
Fernando De Ter?n (Universidad carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN, fteran@math.uc3m.es )
Stefan Johansson (Umea University, SWEDEN, stefanj@cs.umu.se )

Description: The subject of the minisymposium is "Solution of Sylvester-like equations and canonical forms", and the scope is theoretical oriented (necessary and sufficient conditions for solvability, formula for the solutions, properties of solutions, etc.) with an emphasis in analyzing the transformations, and the corresponding canonical forms, used in the solution of these equations (Jordan form of matrices, Kronecker form of pencils, canonical form for congruence, etc). We are also interested in possible applications and connections between Sylvester-like equations and related topics (like orbit closures and versal deformations).

Speakers:
Gerald Bourgeois (Univertist? de la Polynesie Franise, FRENCH POLYNESIA)
Chun-Yueh Chiang (National Formosa University, TAIWAN)
Fernando De Teran (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN)
Froilan M. Dopico (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN)
Stefan Johansson (Ume? University, SWEDEN)
Bo Kagstr?m (Ume? University, SWEDEN)
Quoc Phong Vu (Ohio University, USA)
Qing-Wen Wang (Shanghai University, CHINA)

Organizers:
Minerva Catral, (Xavier Univcrsity, USA, catralm@xavier.edu )
Jeffrey Hunter (Auckland University of Technology, NEW ZEALAND, jeffrey.hunter@aut.ac.nz )

Description: Generalized inverses cover a wide range of mathematical areas, including matrix theory, operator theory，-algebras or rings. Its applications are seen in a diversity of areas, among which are in statistics, diffcrential equations, numerical analysis, Markov chains, graph theory, cryptography, control theory, coding theory, data recovery and robotics. This mini-symposium will highlight recent work of researchers on theoretical and applied aspects of generalized inverses. The talks will he on a variety of topics induding perturbation theory of generalized inverses, core inverses, Moore-Penrose generalized inverses and RG-factorization with applications to stochastic models inc1uding discrete-time and continuous-time Markov chains

Speakers:
Oskar Maria Baksalary (Adam Mickiewicz University, POLAND)
Xuzhou Chen (Fitchburg State University, USA)
Jeffrey Hunter (Auckland university of Technology, NEW ZEALAND)
Quan-Lin Li (Yanshan University, CHINA)

Organizers:
Frank Hall (Georgia State University, USA, fhall@gsu.edu )
Zhongshan (Jason) Li  (Georgia State University, USA, zli@gsu.edu )
Hein van der Holst (Georgia State University, USA,  hvanderholst@gsu.edu)

Description: The study of sign pattern matrices is a very important and active area of research. The recent years have witnessed unprecedented expansion in research activities in this area, as reflected in the large number of new research results and references included in the revised and enlarged chapter on sign pattern matrices in the newly published second edition of Handbook of Linear Algebra. As another indication of the significance of sign pattern matrices, the AMS Subject Classification system introduced the classification 15B35 several years ago just for the study of Sign Pattern Matrices. As many graph theoretic and combinatorial concepts, techniques and results are heavily used in the study of sign patterns and their generalizations, the study of sign patterns and their generalizations have become a substantial and central part of combinatorial matrix theory.
Important new connections between sign pattern matrices (and their generalizations such as zero-nonzero patterns and ray patterns) and other areas of study ? such as geometry of the Euclidean space, signed matroids, discrete geometry, real algebraic geometry, convex polytopes, neural networks, communication complexity in computer science, mathematical biology, stochastic
mechanics, and chemical networks ? have been discovered and explored. Many leading researchers, such as Richard Brualdi, Steve Kirkland, Avi Berman, Bryan Shader, Pauline van den Driessche, Judith McDonald, Shmuel Friedland, Frank Hall, Zhongshan Li, Marina Arav, Hein van der Holst, Shaun Fallat, KP Rao, Yubin Gao, Kevin VanderMeullen, Chi-Kwong Li, Dale Olesky, Leslie Hogben, Jia-yu Shao, Fuzhen Zhang, Xingzhi Zhan, Michael Cavers, In-Jae Kim, Bolian Liu and others, have made significant contributions to the recent developments in the study of sign pattern matrices, zero-nonzero patterns and ray patterns.
Some topics that may be covered in this minisymposium include minimum rank problems (over the real numbers, the rational numbers, or other fields), zero-forcing for sign pattern matrices, convex polytopes and minimum ranks of nonnegative sign patterns, sign patterns that allow or require certain eigenvalue properties, inverse eigenvalue problems, spectrally and inertially arbitrary patterns, sign patterns that allow certain types of inverses or generalized inverses, powers of sign patterns, power positivity, sign patterns that allow orthogonality, and some parameters of signed digraphs.
The objective of this minisymposium is to bring together some researchers interested in the study of sign pattern matrices and their generalizations in order to exchange research results, discuss latest developments, foster collaboration, and explore future directions of research.

Speakers:
Avi Berman (Technion, Israel)
Shaun Fallat (University of Regina, Canada)
Wei Gao (Georgia State University, USA)
Frank Hall (Georgia State University, USA)
Zhongshan Li (Georgia State University, USA)
Chin-Hung Lin (Iowa State University, USA)
Yue Liu (Fuzhou University, China)
Jin-Woo Park (Kyungpook National University, Korea)
Bhaskara Rao P.S. Kopparty (Indiana State University, USA) - Cancelled
Kevin VanderMeulen (Redeemer University College, Canada)
Michael Young (Iowa State University, USA)
Ling Zhang (Chongqing Jiaotong University, China)

Organizers:
LeRoy B. Beasley (Utah State University, USA, leroy.b.beasley@usu.edu)
Seok-Zun Song (Jeju National University, KOREA, szsong@jejunu.ac.kr )

Description: The study of the invariants of maps has been an ongoing topic of research for centuries. The eigenvalue-eigenvector problem is one of the most basic and fundamental of these. The study of invariants of linear transformations on matrix spaces began over a century ago. This research involved two basic types of questions. First: what are the invariant sets given a linear transformation (the eigenvalue-eigenvector problem)? And second: given a set or function what are the linear transformations that leave that set or function invariant? When the transformations are between sets of matrices, that study was begun by Frobenius in 1897 when he classified linear operators that preserve the determinant function.

Speakers:
Beasley, L. B. (Utah State University, USA)
Chan, J.-T. (University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG)
Chooi, W.-L. (University of Malaysia, MALAYSIA)
Kuzma, B. (University of Primorska, SLOVENIA)
Song S.-Z. (Jeju National University, KOREA)
Ngai-Ching Wong (National Sun Yat-sen University,TAIWAN)