Programme
All talks are 25 minutes maximum, plus time for questions.- 9:50 - 10:00 Opening remarks
- 10:00-10:30 Rajendra Bhatia (Indian Statistical Institute)
- Norms of Derivatives of Matrix Functions
- 10:30-11:00 E. Brian Davies (King's College, London)
- Spectral Theory of Large Finite Directed Graphs
- Coffee/Tea
- 11:30-12:00 Bruno Iannazzo (Universita dell'Insubria)
- Computing Matrix Functions by Matrix Iterations
- 12:00-12:30 Chun-Hua Guo (University of Regina )
- On Newton's Method and Halley's Method for pth Roots of Matrices
- Lunch
- 2:00-2:30 Michel Crouzeix (University of Rennes)
- Some Estimates for Non Self-Adjoint Operators
- 2:30-3:00 Christiane Tretter (University of Bern)
- The Quadratic Numerical Range: A New Concept for Localizing Spectra and More ...
- Coffee/Tea
- 4:00-4:30 Joerg Liesen (Technische Universitat Berlin)
- On Matrix Approximation Theory
- 4:30-5:00 Beatrice Meini (University of Pisa)
- Some Recent Results Concerning Algebraic Riccati Equations
- Chinese dinner at Tai Pan restaurant, 6.30
Thursday May 15, 2008
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Chair for morning: Ilse
Ipsen
(North Carolina State University)
Chair for afternoon: Dario Bini (University of Pisa)
- 9:00-9:30 Nick Trefethen (Oxford University)
- Matrix Functions, Quadrature Formulas, and Rational Approximation
- 9:30-10:00 Nick Hale (Oxford University)
- Computing $A^\alpha$, $\log(A)$ and Related Matrix Functions by Contour Integrals
- 10:00-10:30 Andreas Frommer (University of Wuppertal)
- Smooth Convergence and Error Estimates for the Lanczos Spectral Decomposition Method
- 10:30-11:00 Valeria Simoncini (University of Bologna)
- Extended Krylov Subspace Method for Matrix Functions: New Theoretical and Computational Results
- Coffee/Tea
- 11:30-12:00 Marlis Hochbruck (University of Dusseldorf)
- Rational Approximation to Trigonometric Matrix Operators
- 12:00-12:30 Roger Horn (University of Utah)
- Primary Matrix Functions and the Implication e^Ae^B = e^Be^A implies AB = BA
- Lunch
- 1.45-2:15 Krystyna Zietak (Wroclaw University of Technology)
- Algorithms For the Matrix Sector Function
- 2.15-2:45 Michael Eiermann (University of Freiberg)
- Thick-restart Arnoldi methods for the evaluation of matrix functions
- 2:45-3:00 Nick Higham (University of Manchester)
- Discussion of open problems, summary, and closing.
Friday May 16, 2008
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Chair for morning: Beresford
Parlett (University of California, Berkeley)
Chair for afternoon: Sven Hammarling (University of Manchester and NAG)