Chemnitz 1996 conference report

Abstract

The sixth Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society took place in Chemnitz, Germany (former Karl-Marx-Stadt) at the Technical University Chemnitz-Zwickau, 14-17 August 1996. The conference covered a wide range of topics; special emphasis was laid on Numerical Linear Algebra and Computational Algebra. The conference featured 18 invited plenary lectures and four minisymposia with a total of 14 lectures. Furthermore, 101 contributed talks in 10 different topic areas were given, and a panel discussion on Aspects of Teaching Linear Algebra in the USA and Europe was held. The Hans Schneider prize lecture was presented by Micheal Boyle on The Nonnegative Inverse Eigenvalue Problem, and the Olga Taussky-Todd lecture was given by Robert Guralnick on Traces and Generation of Matrix Algebras. A Hans Schneider prize was also awarded to Bob Thompson posthumously. Bertram Huppert delivered the after dinner talk covering topics from linear algebra to local Saxonic art. The plenary lectures discussed several recent developments in various areas of linear algebra such as symbolic methods, eigenvalue problems, finite difference equations, combinatorial matrix theory, geometric optimization, matrix inequalities, perturbation theory, computer algebra, iterative methods, and linear algebra in control theory. Furthermore, four minisymposia were organized on the topics Perturbation Theory, Canonical Forms, Parallel Computations in Algebra, and C-Algebra Techniques in Computational Linear Algebra.