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The Bullerin of the Internationol Lineor Algebrc Society frL lLl Lls rsJ Servingthe Internotionol Lineor Algebro Community IssueNumber 24rpp. L-32, April 2000 Editor-in-Chief; George P. H. SrYAN styan@ total. net, styan@ together. net Dept. of Mathematics& Statistics,McGill University 805 ouest, rue SherlcrookeStreet West Editorial Assistants: Montr6al,Qu6bec, Canada H3A zKG MillieMalde & EvelynM. Styan SeniorAssociate Editors: Steven J. Leoru,Chi-Kwong Lr, Simo PUNTANEN,Hans Joachim WeRrueR. AssociateEditors: S. W. Dnunv, StephenJ. KtRKLAND,Peter SeuRl, Fuzhen Zrarue. PreviousEditors-in-Chief; Robert G. Tnoupsoru (1988-1989); StevenJ. LEoN & RobertC. THoMPSoN(1989-1993) StevenJ. LEoN (1993-1994);Steven J. LEoN & George P H. Srynn (1994-1997). ILASPresidenWice-President's Annual Report: April 2000 (Richard A. Brualdi& DanielHershkowitz) ... .. ..2 Tributeto JimWeaver (Richard A. Brualdi) ......3 Treasurer'sReport: 29 February2000 (James R. Weaver) . ........2O ELA:The ElectronicJournal of LinearAlgebra Volumes 1-4 (JamesR, Weaver) . .......23 Thelnfusion of Matricesinto Statistics (Shayle R. Searle) . .... .. ..25 MRLookup-A Reference Tool for Linking (Annette Emerson) .... ...32 Eigenvaluesand Less Horrible Words (Hans Schneider) ... .32 Letus Rootfor Roof (Shayle R. Searle) .... ...32 IMAGEProblem Corrrer ProblemsandSolutions..... .....5 NewProblems 24-1:Rankof aSkew-SymmetricMatrix(S.W Drury) ..... .......16 24-2:Nonnegative Matrixwith All Entries Summing to One (S.W. Drury) ....... 16 24-3:A PossibleGeneralization of Drury's Determinantal Equality (George P. H. Styan) .......16 24-4:fhe PositiveDefiniteness of a Matrix(YonggeTian) . ....... 16 24-5:Two Products lnvolving ldempotent Matrices (Yongge Tian) . ... ...16 24-6:Rank of a PrincipalSubmatrix (Fuzhen Zhang) .... ...17 24-7:Partitioned Positive Semidefinite Matrices (Fuzhen Zhang) ... ... ...17 24-8:An Inequalitylnvolving Hadamard Products (Fuzhen Zhang) . ... ...17 24-9:Decomposition of SymmetricMatrices (Roman ZmySlony & GotzTrenkler) . ... ..17 Linear Algebn Evenb May2*27,2000:Winnipeg, Manitoba ... ..........18 October2Y26,2000: Raleigh, North Carolina .. ... 18 Decemberf13, 2000:Hyderabad, India . .. .....18 Printed in Canada by the McGill UniversityPrinting Service, Montnial,Qu6bec page 2 fMAGE 24: April2000 ItAS President/Vice-President'sAnnual Report April 2000 L. The following have been elected to ILAS offices with terms o The 10th ILAS Conference, 'Challenges in Matrix The- that beganon March 1, 2000: ory," Auburn University, Auburn, USA, June 10-13, 2002. Secretary/Treasurer : Jeff Stuan (three-year term ending February 28,2003). o The llth ILAS Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, Summer 2004. Board of Directors: Harm Bart and Steve Kirkland (three-year terms ending February 28,2003). 8. The seventhSIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra The following continue in their offrces to which they were pre- will take place October 23-26, 2000, at North Carolina State viously elected: University in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. This conferenceis being held in cooperation with ILAS. There will be two ILAS Vce President: Daniel Hershkowitz sponsoredinvited speakersat the conference: Eduardo Marques (term ends February 28,2001) de Sa' and Hugo J. Woerdeman. The 1999 ILAS Board acted as the selection committee. Under the terms of the agreement Board of Directors: with SIAM, ILAS members who are not already a member of Jose Dias da Silva (term ends February 28,2OOl), the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra (SIAG/LA) will Roger Horn (term ends February 28,2OOl), have the same reduced registration fee that it offers SIAG/LA Nicholas Higham (term ends February 28,2002), members. Pauline van den Driessche (term ends February 28,2002). 9. Steve Kirkland has been selected as the Olga Tauskky 2. The President's Advisory Committee consists of Chi- Todd/John TloddLecturer at the 9th ILAS conferencein Haifa in (chair), Kwong Li Shmuel Friedland, Raphi Loewy, Errd Frank 2001_The selection committee consisted of Roger Horn (chair), tlhlig. Miki Neumann,Andre Ran, md Bit-Shun Tam. 3. This fall there will be elections for Vice-President (the 1.0.Nick Trefethen has been selected as fts LA,r{ Lecturer at term of Danny Hershkowitz ends on February 28, 2001) and the 9th ILAS conferencein Haifa in 2001. This lecture is spon- two members of the Board of Directors (the terms of Jose Dias sored by Elsevier Science Inc., publishers of the journal "Lin- da Silva and Roger Horn end on February 28,2001). The ILAS ear Algebra and its Applications." fiie selection committee con- 2000 Nominating Committee has been appointed and it consists sisted of Moshe Goldberg, Volker Mehrmann (chair), George of Wayne Barrett, Jane Day (chair), Nick Higham, Chi-Kwong Styan, and Hugo Woerdeman. Li, and Michael Tsatsomeros. LL. The next Hans SchneiderPrize in Linear Algebra will be 4. An ad hoc committee has been appointed and charged to awarded at the 10th ILAS conference in Auburn in20O2. considerchanges in the ILAS Bylaws and to possibly make rec- I2.ILAS is continuing to consider requestsfor the sponsor- ommendations for change to the full ILAS membership for its ship of an ILAS Ircturer at a conference which is of substantial approval. The committee consists of Jose Dias da Silva, Raphi interest to ILAS members. Each yetr, US$1,000 is set aside Loewy, Hans Schneider (chair)o srrd Frank Uhlig. Any ILAS to support such conferences, with a morimum amount of member who has concerns about our Bylaws should convey $500 available for any one conference. The guidelines are: (i) the them to a member of this committee. conference must be of interest to a substantial number of ILAS 5. The appointment of George P. H. Styan as an editor-in- members; (ii) the same "organization" is not eligible for sup- chief of IMAGEhas been extendedto May 31,2003. In addition, port more than once every three yqrs; (iii) geographically, the "Jochen" Hans Joachim Werner has been appointed as an editor- support should be distributed widely. in-chief of IMAGE for a six year term beginning June 1, 2000 The fulI ILAS Board (three executives and six other mem- (andso endingon May 3I,2006). Thus beginningJune 1, 2000, bers) reviews proposals and decides on which, if any, will re- George and Jochen will be co-editors-in-chief of IMAGE. ceive support, ond how much that support will be. Next year 6. The 8th ILAS Conference was held at the Universitat we will review these guidelines and this may result in some Politbnica de Catelunya in Barcelona, Spain, on July 19-22, changes. 1999. A report on this conference can be found in IMAGE 23 We are now accepting requests for conferences to be held (October1999, p. 13). in 2001. Such requests should be submitted by September t, 7. The following ILAS conferencesare planned for the neir 2OOO.Electronic requests are preferred and should be sent to future: [email protected] requestshould include the follow- o The 9th ILAS Conference, Tiechnion, Haifa, Israel, June ing: 25-29,2001. IMAGE April 2000 page 3 (1) date and place of conference 16. The ILAS INFORMATION CENTER (IIC) has a daily (2) sponsoring "organization" average of 300 information requests (not counting FTP opera- tions). IIC's primary site is at the Technion. Mirror sites are 1o- (3) organinngcommittee cated in Temple University, in the University of Chemnitz, and (4) purpose of conference in the University of Lisbon. (5) invited speakers,to the extent known (6) expected attendance Richard A. BRUALDI,IIA,S President: [email protected] (7) proposed ILAS Lecturer, with some information about Dept. of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison the lecturer Van Vleck HaIl, 480 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1388,USA (8) amount requested. Daniel HnnssKowITZ, IIA,S Vce-President: hershkow@ tx.technion.ac. iI ILAS is sponsoring one lecture in 2000: Chandler Davis at the Dept. of Mathem.atics, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel 5th Workshop on Numerical Ranges and Numerical Radii, Naf- plio, Greece,orr June 26-28,2000 [cf. IMACE 23, p. 16]. 13. ILAS has endorsedtwo conferencesto be held in 2000. Tributeto im Weaver They are: (i) the SecondConference on Numerical Analysis and f Applications, June 11-15, 2000, {.Iniversityof Rousse,Rousse, Bulgaria; (ii) the International Workshop on Parallel matrix Tiresday,29 February 2000, wils Jim Weaver'slast day as ILAS algorithms and applications August 18-20, 2000, Neuchdtel, Secretary/Treasurer. As you may recall, Jim was appointed to Switzerland-keynote speakers are Ahmed Sameh and Anna the position of Treasurerin 1989 by then presidentHans Schnei- Nagurney. ILAS has also endorsed the Rocky Mountain Math- der and was elected for two 2-year terms and one 4-year term ematics Consortium's Summer School on Matrix Theory to (0319242194,O319442196,and0319643/00). So for 11 years be held at the University of Wyoming in 2001-the principal he has served as ILAS Tieasurer, which was changed to Secre- speakerat the summer school will be Charles R. Johnson. tarylTreasureras a result of changesin our Bylaws. l4.ELN-Electronic jountal of Linear Algebra ILAS owes Jim a big debt of gratitude for his dedicated and professional service for 11 years. As ILAS has grown and as- o Volume 1, published in 1996, contained 6 papers. sumed a more visible and prominent place in our professional lives, the position of SecretarylTreasurerhas become more im- o VolumeZ, publishedin 1997,contained2 papers. portant and more complicated and has required additional ex- pertise. As ILAS members have witnesSed,Jim has responded o Volume 3-the Hans Schneiderissue, published in 1998, wonderfully to these new challenges. That ILAS is on a sound contained 13 papers. financial footing, with detailed documentation of our financial o Volume 4, publishedin 1998 as well, contained5 papers. and other records, is testimony to Jim's talents, hard work, and commitment to ILAS. o published papers. Volume 5, in 1999, contained 8 I hope that you will join me in conveying our deep appreci- o Volume 6-Proceedings of the Eleventh Haifa Matrix ation to Jim for his service to ILAS.