Conference in Honor of Volker Mehrmann on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday
"Numerical Algebra, Matrix Theory, Differential-Algebraic Equations, and Control Theory"
6-9 May 2015, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany 

General information
Location
Participants
Schedule
Impressions
Schedule:

Wednesday, May 6
 
Time
Event/Talk/Poster
Room
08:00-09:00   Registration
09:00-09:30 Opening MA 001
INVITED TALKS (Chair: Jörg Liesen)
09:30-10:00

Maria J. Esteban: Symmetry and symmetry breaking for optimizers of functional inequalities MA 001
10:00-11:00 Coffee break
INVITED TALKS (Chair: Angelika Bunse-Gerstner
11:00-11:30

Shreemayee Bora: Structure Preserving Perturbations and Distance Problems: A decade of work with Volker Mehrmann MA 001
11:30-12:00

Heike Faßbender: Complex J-symmetric eigenproblems -- more on structure-preserving algorithms for structured eigenvalue problems MA 001
12:00-12:30

Julio Moro: Structured vs. unstructured spectral perturbation: a particular overview MA 001
12:30-14:00 Lunch
CONTRIBUTED TALKS (Chair: Heike Faßbender)
14:00-14:20

Rafikul Alam: Fiedler-like pencils for rational eigenvalue problems MA 001
14:20-14:40

Jan Heiland: Discrete input/output maps and a generalization of the proper orthogonal decomposition method MA 001
14:40-15:00

Marc Van Barel: Generalization of Lagrange linearization for polynomial eigenvalue problems MA 001
15:00-15:20

Athanasios Antoulas: Data-driven model reduction in the Loewner framework MA 001
15:20-15:40

Thomas Berger: On the regularization of linear time-invariant descriptor systems MA 001
15:40-16:30 Coffee break
INVITED TALKS (Chair: Dawid Watkins)
16:30-17:00

Daniel Szyld: Asynchronous optimized Schwarz methods MA 001
17:00-17:30

Valeria Simoncini: Decay pattern of matrices: application to matrix functions and matrix equations MA 001
CONTRIBUTED TALKS (Chair: Dawid Watkins)
17:30-17:50

Froilan Dopico: Volker Mehrmann and modern factorizations of symplectic matrices MA 001
17:50-18:10

Thomas J. Laffey: Estimating the traces of powers of certain nonnegative matrices related to orthogonal polynomials MA 001
18:30 Welcome Reception Lichthof

Thursday, May 7
 
Time
Event/Talk/Poster
Room
08:00-09:00   Registration
INVITED TALKS (Chair: Stephen Campbell)
09:00-09:30

Caren Tischendorf: Modeling and Numerical Analysis of PDAEs Describing Flow Networks MA 001
09:30-10:00

Peter Kunkel: On the geometric integration of self-adjoint linear DAEs MA 001
10:00-10:30

Achim Ilchmann: Behaviour of time-varying DAEs MA 001
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
INVITED TALKS (Chair: Timo Reis)
11:00-11:30

Vu Hoang Linh: Spectrum-based robust stability analysis of linear delay differential-algebraic equations MA 001
11:30-12:00

Tatjana Stykel: Model reduction of linear and nonlinear magneto-quasistatic equations MA 001
12:00-12:30

Etienne Emmrich: The peridynamic model in nonlocal elasticity theory MA 001
12:30-14:00 Lunch
CONTRIBUTED TALKS (Chair: Tatjana Stykel)
14:00-14:20

Steffen Börm: Hierarchical vectors MA 001
14:20-14:40

Eugene Tyrtyshnikov: Rank structures of multidimensional matrices MA 001
14:40-15:00

Fernando De Terán: Low rank perturbation of canonical forms MA 001
15:00-15:20

Andre Ran: Eigenvalues of rank one perturbations of matrices with structure in an indefinite inner product space MA 001
15:20-15:40

Tobias Damm: Dual pairs of Lyapunov inequalities MA 001
15:40-16:30 Coffee break
INVITED TALK (Chair: Christian Mehl)
16:30-17:00

Paul Van Dooren: Structured backward stability of linearizations of polynomial matrices MA 001
17:00-19:00 POSTER BLITZ AND POSTER SESSION (Chair: Christian Mehl)


Robert Altmann: Regularization of operator DAEs
Manuel Baumann: Nested Krylov methods for shifted linear systems
Nieves Castro-González: Perturbation theory of the Moore-Penrose inverse and the least squares problem
Abdullah Cihangir: Ultrametric Matrices and the Geometric Inverse M-Matrix Problem
Pratibhamoy Das: A posteriori Error Estimates for a class of Differential Algebraic Equations in Singular Perturbation Context
Jakub Kierzkowski: SOR-like methods for solving the Sylvester equation
Antti Koskela: A structure exploiting infinite Arnoldi exponential integrator for linear inhomogeneous ODEs
Sabine Le Borne: H-FAINV: Hierarchically factored approximate inverse preconditioners
Carlos Marijuan: On the Comparison of Sufficient Conditions for the Real and Symmetric Nonnegative Inverse Eigenvalue Problems
Giampaolo Mele: The waveguide eigenvalue problem and the tensor infinite Arnoldi method
Hermann Mena: Drugs, Herbicides and Numerical Simulations
Helia Niroomand Rad: Modeling of the crosstalk phenomenon for electro-magnetic systems by bilateral coupling of PDEs and DAEs
Vanni Noferini: The sign characteristic of Hermitian matrix functions
Constantin Popa: On single projection Kaczmarz extended type algorithms
Stefano Pozza: Complex Jacobi matrices and Gauss quadrature for quasi-definite linear functionals
Sarosh Quraishi: Dimensionality reduction for studying physical phenomena: Case study with a brake squeal problem
Kersten Schmidt: High-order adaptive sampling of parametric eigenvalue problems -- application to photonic crystal bandstructure calculation
Punit Sharma: Structured eigenvalue backward errors of matrix pencils
Nikta Shayanfar: Linearization schemes for Hermite matrix polynomials
Kirk Soodhalter: Block Krylov subspace methods for shifted systems with different right-hand sides
Zoran Tomljanovic: Damping optimization in mechanical systems with external force
André Uschmajew: Finding a low-rank basis in a matrix subspace
Matthias Voigt: The linear-quadratic optimal control problem revisited
Heiko Weichelt: Inexact nested Newton-ADI method to solve large-scale algebraic Riccati equations

Friday, May 8
 
Time
Event/Talk/Poster
Room
08:00-09:00   Registration
INVITED TALKS (Chair: Francoise Tisseur)
09:00-09:30

Timo Reis: On ADI approximate balanced truncation MA 001
09:30-10:00

Agnieszka Miedlar: Moving eigenvalues and eigenvectors - perturbation theory in practice MA 001
10:00-10:30

Matthias Bollhöfer: Algorithms for Computing Functions of Matrix Inverses MA 001
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
INVITED TALKS (Chair: Valeria Simoncini)
11:00-11:30

David Watkins: Fast and backward stable computation of the zeros of polynomials MA 001
11:30-12:00

Hongguo Xu: Compressing the coefficient matrices of a singular matrix polynomial MA 001
12:00-12:30

D. Steven Mackey: Matrix polynomials in non-standard form MA 001
12:30-14:00 Lunch
CONTRIBUTED TALKS (Chair: Daniel Szyld)
14:00-14:20

Andrii Dmytryshyn (replacing Bo Kågström):Orbit closure hierarchies of skew-symmetric matrix pencils MA 001
14:20-14:40

Zdenek Strakos: On the Vorobyev method of moments MA 001
14:40-15:00

Lothar Reichel: A generalized Krylov subspace method for l_p-l_q minimization MA 001
15:00-15:20

Javier Pérez: On the backward stability of computing polynomial roots via colleague matrices MA 001
15:20-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:00 Conference Photo
A SPECIAL SESSION DEDICATED TO VOLKER MEHRMANN (Chair: Reinhard Nabben)
16:00-18:00

Angelika Bunse-Gerstner, Nancy Nichols, Fredi Tröltzsch, Peter Benner, Christian Mehl MA 001
19:30 Conference dinner

Saturday, May 9
 
Time
Event/Talk/Poster
Room
Registration
INVITED TALKS (Chair: Andreas Steinbrecher)
10:00-10:30

Martin Grötschel: Numerical Linear Algebra: A View from an Outsider MA 001
10:30-11:00

Stephen Campbell: Some advantages of a DAE formulation MA 001
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
INVITED TALKS (Chair: Peter Benner)
11:30-12:00

Federico Poloni: Cyclic reduction and index reduction/shifting for a second-order probabilistic problem MA 001
12:00-12:30

Shmuel Friedland: Low rank approximation of tensors MA 001
12:30-13:00

Francoise Tisseur: Max-Balancing Hungarian Scalings MA 001
13:00-13:30 Closing MA 001


Impressum Andreas Steinbrecher 01.10.2015