A celebration honoring Carl D. Meyer on the occasion of his 60th birthday will be held at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC on Thursday, May 15, 2003.

                                 


Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra

May 15, 2003

N.C. State University

Objectives and Themes    Registration   Raleigh Information  Schedule  
Participants    Program Co-chairs   Group Picture


OBJECTIVES AND THEMES

On November 22, 2002, Carl Meyer turned 60. A gathering of friends, former students, and collaborators will assemble on May 15, 2003 in Raleigh, NC to celebrate this important milestone in Carl's life. At the meeting, there will be a few technical talks on topics close to Carl's scientific interests. 
 

REGISTRATION

Although there is no formal conference registration, the organizers would appreciate an RSVP by March 1, 2003. Before April 15, 2003, we also request your plans for the dinner celebration to be held that evening at the Velvet Cloak Inn.  In your registration email to Amy Langville, include the number of dinner guests in your party as well as any special dietary requirements.

RALEIGH INFORMATION

The Velvet Cloak Inn is within walking distance of the NCSU campus and Hillsborough Street restaurants.  Conference attendees are encouraged to stay there.  The Inn has agreed to give conference attendees the much discounted rate of $69 a night.  Call 919-828-0333 for reservations and mention that you are with the "Matrix Analysis Meeting".   The Velvet Cloak Inn will reserve a block of  rooms for May 14th and May 15th for our conference until the end of April. 

The banquet to be held after the day's talks will also be at the Velvet Cloak Inn, with meals ranging from $30-40.

Those attendees who are flying should book a flight into RDU (Raleigh-Durham International airport).

Please direct all questions and comments to Amy Langville.

SCHEDULE

All talks will be held on the NCSU campus in Harrelson 314. Harrelson Hall is the round building across the brickyard from the 9-story D. H. Hill Library.


PROGRAM (tentative)
8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks
8:45-9:30 G. H. Golub, "Updating/downdating Page Rank algorithms"  (Abstract-pdf)
9:30-10:15 J. Barlow, "A faster backward stable bidiagonalization procedure"    (Abstract-pdf)
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:30 I. C. F. Ipsen, "The idea behind Krylov methods"   (Abstract-pdf)
11:30-12:15 D. Pierce, "View of an industrial mathematician"    (Abstract-pdf)
12:15-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:45 G. W. Stewart, "The truncation method for approximating stationary probabilities"    (Abstract-pdf)
2:45-3:30 M. Neumann, "The many aspects of Carl Meyer's contribution to group inverses"    (Abstract-pdf)
3:30-4:00 S. Kirkland, "Digraph-based conditioning for Markov chains"    (Abstract-pdf)   
4:00-4:15 H. Schneider, "Looking for the essence of Carl Meyer's mathematics",   ILAS-sponsored speaker
4:15-4:45 Concluding remarks
5:45-8:30 Cash bar opens at 5:45, Dinner at 6:30, Banquet speaker: Bob Plemmons

Participants

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Michele Benzi Steve Campbell
Mathematics and Computer Science Mathematics
Emory University North Carolina State University
Atlanta, GA 30322 USA Raleigh, NC 27695-8205 USA

Amy Langville
Mathematics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8205

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