LIST OF SPEAKERS AND (tentative) TITLES OF TALKS

Plenary Talks:

·  Richard Brualdi, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, US

    The Bruhat Order and (0,1)-Matrices (Abstract)

·  Lorenzo Farina, Universitą degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

   The positive side of filters (Abstract)

·  Daniel Hershkowitz, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

   Nonnegativity and stability (Abstract)

·  Derek McAuley, Intel Research Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

   Packet traces; good for a small delta (Abstract)

·  Paul Van Dooren, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium  

    About graph similarity algorithms (Abstract)

30 Minute Talks:

·  David Angeli, Universitą degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

    An Input-Output property of non-negative matrices with tree structure (Abstract)

·  Abraham Berman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Open problems on nonnegative matrices (Abstract)

·  Eric Bullinger, University of Stuttgart, Germany

    Positive Matrices in Systems Biology (Abstract)

·  Stephen Duncan, University of Oxford, UK

    Modelling epidemics as a positive system (Abstract)

·  Ludwig Elsner, University of Bielefeld, Germany

    Nonnegative matrices, max-algebra and applications (Abstract)

·  Karl-Heinz Förster, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

    Nonmonic matrix polynomials with nonnegative coefficients (Abstract)

·  Leonid Gurvits, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

    The Hall-Edmonds-Rand theorem for hyperbolic polynomials (Abstract)

·  Diederich Hinrichsen, University of Bremen, Germany

    On the dynamics of perturbed positive systems -a partial survey (Abstract)

·  Charles R. Johnson, College of William & Mary, VA, USA

    An unnatural problem with a remarkable solution (Abstract)

·  Chris King, Northeastern University, Boston, MS, USA

    Some observations on the common quadratic Lyapunov function question (Abstract)

·  Steve Kirkland, University of Regina, Canada

  Subdominant eigenvalues and girth for stochastic matrices (Abstract)

·  Thomas J. Laffey, University College Dublin, Ireland

    Extremality conditions in the trace zero nonnegative eigenvalue zero problem (Abstract)

·  Daniel D. Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA

  Nonnegative matrices in machine learning (Abstract)

·  Arie Leizarowitz, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

  Infinite products of stochastic matrices and asymptotics of TCP congestion models. (Abstract)

·  Raphael Loewy, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    The symmetric nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem (Abstract)

·  Reinhard Nabben, University of Bielefeld, Germany

    Approximate inverse preconditioning for singular systems with applications to Markov chains (Abstract)

·  Michael Neumann, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CN, USA

    Reduced rank nonnegative matrix factorisation for symmetric nonnegative matrices (Abstract)

·  Uriel G. Rothblum, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

  Lower bounds on the minimal coordinate-dependent growth rate in a nonnegative multiplicative system. (Abstract)

·  Hans Schneider, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Comparison theorems for matrix splittings using general cones (Abstract)

·  Naomi Shaked-Monderer, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    The cp rank of matrices generated by Soules matrices (Abstract)

·  Robert Shorten, Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Ireland

    Positive systems and the internet (Abstract)

·  Dusan Stipanovic, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Decentralized optimisation using block iterative schemes: Convergence via M-matrices (Abstract)

·  Bit-Shun Tam, Tamkang University, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan

    The Perron generalized eigenspace and the spectral cone of a cone-preserving map (Abstract)

·  Fabian Wirth, Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Ireland

   Positivity and the joint spectral radius (Abstract)

The following talks had to be cancelled:

·  Oliver Mason, Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Ireland

    On positive diagonal stability for pairs of positive systems

·  Judith McDonald, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

    Spectral properties of eventually nonnegative matrices

·  Michael Tsatsomeros, Washington State University, WA, USA

    On common invariant sets and cones

 

 


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