In honor of his sixtieth birthday and planned retirement, the University of South Carolina will host a one-day matrix theory symposium for Tom Markham on December 10, 1999, preceded by a reception for Tom on Thursday, December 9, 5-7 pm. The scientific program begins at 9 am (December 10); both events will be held in the Daniel Management Center on campus. This should be a valuable program highlighting important recent work in the field. All interested parties are invited to attend.
See photos from the reception and symposium.
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome, Charles R. Johnson, College of William and Mary, "Untitled" |
| 9:20-9:40 | Vadim Olshevsky, Georgia State University, "Structured Matrices and Least Decoding of Algebraic Geometric Codes" |
| 9:45-10:05 | T. Y. Tam, Auburn University, "Gradient Flow and the Double Bracket Equation" |
| 10:10-10:25 | BREAK |
| 10:25-10:50 | Miroslav Fiedler, Mathematics Institute of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, "Hankel Matrices" |
| 10:55-11:15 | Peter Nylen, Auburn University, "Inverse Eigenvalue Problem: Existence of Special Mass-Damper-Spring Systems" |
| 11:20-11:40 | Mihaly Bakonyi, Georgia State University, "On an Extension Problem for Polynomials" |
| 11:45-12:05 | Carl Meyer, North Carolina State University, "Schur Complements in Markov Chains" |
| 12:10-1:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 1:30-1:50 | Roger Horn, University of Utah, "Revisiting an Observation by Fiedler and Markham on Hadamard Products" |
| 1:55-2:15 | Shaun Fallat, University of Regina, "Hadamard Products:Classical Analysis and Recent Developments" |
| 2:20-2:40 | Chi-Kwong Li, College of William and Mary, "Interlacing Inequalities on Totally Nonnegative Matrices" |
| 2:45-3:05 | Wayne Barrett, Brigham Young University, "The Cone of Class Function Inequalities for the Positive Semidefinite Matrices" |
| 3:10-3:20 | BREAK |
| 3:20-3:40 | Avi Berman, Technion, "The Spectral Radius of Graphs with Cut Points" |
| 3:45-4:00 | John Drew, College of William and Mary, "Spectrally Arbitrary Patterns" |
| 4:05-4:20 | Frank Hall, Georgia State University, "Diagonalization of Tournament Matrices" |
| 4:25-4:40 | Frank Uhlig, Auburn University, "Two Generic Representations of Subspaces" |
| 4:45-5:00 | Ronald Smith, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, "Almost Principal Minors of Inverse M-matrices" |
Others wishing further information should contact Charles Johnson (crjohnso@math.wm.edu) or Ronald Smith(rsmith@cecasun.utc.edu).
Local accomodations may be arranged with one of the local hotels:
The Department of Mathematics is in the LeConte Building, which is located at the corner of Pickens Street and Greene Street. The Daniel Management Center is on the eighth floor of the Darla Moore School of Business; the School of Business is about two blocks from the Clarion on Pendleton Street.
There are a number of places to eat close by. On Gervais Street, which is parallel to Pendleton Street and 2 blocks north of it, there is a restaurant in the Clarion Town House Hotel & Suites, located at 1615 Gervais Street, about a 5-minute walk from the Business Administration Building. It has a small buffet lunch. In addition, if instead you walk south to Greene Street and head left (east) on that street for 5 minutes, you will pass Andy's Deli, Mr. Friendly's, and other small restaurants, and then you can turn right onto Harden Street and immediately enter the Five Points area, which has numerous delis and other kinds of restaurants which are quite popular, such as the Parthenon (Greek), Yesterday's, The Gourmet Shop(sandwiches, salads), New York Bagel Company, Rising High Natural Bread Co., Harper's, the China Garden, etc., which are on Harden Street and Saluda Avenue, all within a few hundred feet of one another.
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