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Invited Speakers

Natália Bebiano (Portugal)
Title: Entropy and trace inequalities
 Natália Bebiano

Department of Mathematics
University of Coimbra

Portugal
bebiano@mat.uc.pt
webpage

Research interests: Theory of matrices and operators on Hilbert and Krein spaces, theory of numerical ranges of linear operators, theory of permanents, matrix and operator inequalities, mathematical education, history of mathematics in Portugal.


 Jeff Hunter

School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Auckland University of Technology


New Zealand
jeffrey.hunter@aut.ac.nz

Research interests: Applied probability focussing on Markov chains, semi-Markov process, generalized inverses, queueing theory and two dimensional renewal theory.

Slides of the talk

Charles Johnson (USA)
Title: Why are those exponents so critical?
 Charles R. Johnson

Department of Mathematics
The College of William and Mary
Virginia
USA
crjohnso@math.wm.edu
webpage

Research interests: Combinatorial matrix theory, including matrix completion problems and qualitative matrix theory, inequalities for generalized matrix function, norms, numerical ranges, eigenvalues, and non-negative matrices.


Juan Manuel Peña

Department of Applied Mathematics
Faculty of Sciences
University of Zaragoza
Spain
jmpena@unizar.es

Research interests: Nonnegative matrices, numerical linear algebra, error analysis, approximation theory, computer aided geometric design.

Activities
  - Associated Editor of Advances in Computational Mathematics
  - Associate Editor of the International Jounal of Computer Graphics and CAD/CAM


Young Scientists Awards - Mat Triad`2009

Ricardo Covas (Portugal)
Title: Structured families of models with COBS
 Ricardo Covas

Department of Mathematics
Polytechnic Institute of Tomar

Portugal
ricardocovas@gmail.com

Research interests: Inference for mixed linear models, variance components, Jordan algebras.


Aneta Sawikowska (Poland)
Title: Singular value maximization in (0,1)-matrices
 Aneta Sawikowska

Institute of Plant Genetics
Polish Academy of Science

Poland
asaw@igr.poznan.pl

Research interests: Matrix algebra, eigenvalue maximization, optimality of designs in statistical linear models, independent component analysis.


 

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