SIAM Activity Group
on Linear Algebra

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics sponsors Activity Groups to foster activity in areas of applied mathematics or applications of interest to SIAM members not otherwise fully covered by SIAM.

The SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra (SIAG/LA) promotes research in linear algebra and its applications. The group organizes regular conferences and supports smaller, less formal conferences as requested by the membership. Additionally, the group sponsors two prizes.

New: International Summer School on Numerical Linear Algebra

SIAG/LA is organizing a new triennial summer school: The SIAG/LA International Summer School on Numerical Linear Algebra (ISSNLA)

The main goal of the SIAG/LA-ISSNLA is to offer accessible courses on current developments in Numerical Linear Algebra and on the applications of Numerical Linear Algebra to other disciplines.
The SIAG/LA-ISSNLA is mainly intended for doctoral students in any field where methods and algorithms of Numerical Linear Algebra are used.
The first Summer School will take place July 21-25, 2008 in Spain (North coast) at the Centro Internacional de Encuentros Matematicos

ISSNLA08 will be held in Spain (North coast) at the Centro Internacional de Encuentros Matematicos
ISSNLA08 local web page
Print your own poster or flyer

The following Summer School will take place in 2010, then every three years thereafter.
Steering Committee: Froilán M. Dopico, Andreas Frommer, Ilse Ipsen, and Daniel Szyld.

Meetings & Events

Members in the News

Carl D. Meyer was interviewed recently on "Air Talk" on Southern California's public radio station KPCC. The interview aired on November 28, 2006. Click here to listen (28 min.).

Prizes

SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra Prize - Established in 1987, this prize is awarded to the author(s) of the most outstanding paper, as determined by the prize committee, on a topic in applicable linear algebra published in English in a peer-reviewed journal.

The 2006 Prize was given to Inderjit Dhillon and Beresford Parlett for their paper "Orthogonal Eigenvectors and Relative Gaps", SIAM. J. Matrix Anal. & Appl. 25, 858 (2003).

Karen Braman and Ralph Byers (University of Kansas) and Roy Mathias (College William & Mary) received the 2003 SIAG/LA Prize for their paper: "The Multishift QR Algorithm. Part II: Aggressive Early Deflation", SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., vol. 23, no. 4, pp 948-973 (2002).
SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra Poster Competition - This prize is awarded for the best poster(s) at the triennial SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra.

Electronic Newsletter

The SIAG/LA electronic newsletter carries news and information of interest to members of SIAG/LA. The following are the types of postings which are appropriate for this mailing list.

SIAG/LA Business Mailings

SIAG/LA Newsletter

Solicitations for SIAG/LA-sponsored conferences and minisymposia

Announcements of SIAG/LA-related conferences and minisymposia

Calls for nominations for SIAG/LA prizes

Other SIAG/LA-related announcements

Postings from SIAG/LA Members

Essays

Announcements of new technical reports, papers, or software

Advertisements for open positions

Other relevant announcements

SIAM Announcements

New SIMAX electronic publications

General conference announcements and other news

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Newsletter Essays

The board of SIAG/LA has decided to occasionally feature essays of interest to members on the SIAG/LA electronic newsletter. If you would like to write a featured essay, feel free to contact any board member.

Report on ICIAM 2007 with focus on the health of Applied Linear Algebra by Valeria Simoncini, 2007.

Too Much Calculus by Gilbert Strang, October 2001.

Current Officers (2007 - 2009)

Chair:	Daniel Szyld (szyld@temple.edu)
Vice Chair:	Michele Benzi (benzi@mathcs.emory.edu)
Program Director:	Andreas Frommer (frommer@math.uni-wuppertal.de )
Secretary:	Victoria E. Howle (victoria.howle@ttu.edu)

Additional Contacts

Liaison to SIAM Book program: Valeria Simoncini (valeria@dm.unibo.it)
Liaisons to SIAM News: Nick Higham (Nick.Higham@manchester.ac.uk) and Françoise Tisseur (ftisseur@maths.manchester.ac.uk)

M. Sipics, Sparse Matrix Algorithm Drives SPICE Performance Gains, SIAM News, May 2007, p. 1.
J. Brandts, B. Fischer, A. Wathen, Reflections on Sir Henk van der Vorst , SIAM News, Dec. 2006, p. 3.
I. Ipsen, New Ideas for SIAM Conferences from Europe , SIAM News, Dec. 2006, p. 5.
G. H. Golub, M. W. Mahoney, P. Drineas, L-H. Lim, Bridging the Gap Between Numerical Linear Algebra, Theoretical Computer Science, and Data Applications , SIAM News, vol. 39, no. 8, October 2006, pp. 1 and 16.
N. J. Higham: An Interview with Peter Lancaster , SIAM News, vol. 38, no. 6, July/August 2005, pp. 5-6.
A. Langville and C. Meyer: The Use of Linear Algebra by Web Search Engines. (An edited version of this article appeared in the Bulletin of the International Linear Algebra Society, No. 33, Dec. 2004, pp. 2-6.)
I.C.F. Ipsen: Accurate Eigenvalues for Fast Trains, SIAM News, vol. 37, No. 9, November 2004, pp. 1-2.
B. N. Parlett: Accurate Eigenvalues, Anyone? , SIAM News, vol. 37, no. 9, November 2004, p. 3.
M.E. Kilmer and C.D.M. Martin: Decomposing a Tensor, SIAM News, vol. 37, no. 9, November 2004, p. 19.
N. Higham: SIAG/LA Prize Winners Speed up the QR Algorithm , SIAM News, vol. 36, no. 9, November 2003.
A. Frommer: QCD simulations: Minuscule particles, gigantic computations, SIAM News, vol. 36, No. 5, p. 1, June 2003.
J. G. Nagy: Kronecker products in image restoration, SIAM News, vol. 36, no. 4, p. 3, May 2003.
M. W. Berry: Growing Interest in Information Retrieval Draws 70 to Raleigh Workshop, (An edited version of this article appeared in SIAM News, vol. 34, no. 1, p. 20, 2001.)
Osni Marques: Soul Searching for Linear Algebra. (An edited version of this article appeared in SIAM News, vol. 34, no. 1, p. 20, 2001.)
I.C.F. Ipsen and V. Mehrmann: SIAG/LA and ILAS Mark Twenty Years of Progress at Joint Applied Linear Algebra Meeting. (An edited version of this article appeared in SIAM News, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 19-20, 2001.)