MOPNET: EPSRC Matrix and Operator Pencil Network
Meeting 3: Monday September 20th to Wednesday September 22nd 2010
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Meeting 3 is funded by EPSRC and also by the NAIS Science and Innovation initiative in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing. This additional funding has enabled us to extend the meeting to three days. The meeting will take place in the Edinburgh Conference Centre at Heriot-Watt University.
The meeting will start on the morning of Monday September 20th and end mid-afternoon on Wednesday September 22nd.
Speakers at Meeting 3
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The following have agreed to speak:
- Dario Bini (Pisa)
- David Burton (Lancaster)
- Younes Chahlaoui (Manchester)
- Bernard Helffer (Paris Sud)
- Ilya Kamotski (Bath)
- Vladimir Kisil (Leeds)
- Matthias Langer (Strathclyde)
- Michael Levitin (Reading)
- Nancy Nichols (Reading)
- Alastair Spence (Bath)
Accommodation and Registration
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Accommodation will be in the Edinburgh Conference Centre on the Heriot-Watt University campus at Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS. Accommodation will be booked when you register. The default dates for accommodation are check in Sunday 19th September and check out Wednesday 22nd September .
Registration is free for Meeting 3. Please send an email to L.Boulton@ma.hw.ac.uk with the subject 'MOPNET 3' to register. Please include the following in the body:
- your name and affiliation in the email body;
- your arrival and departure days;
- state if you require a double room (accompanying persons at your own cost);
- state whether or not you have any special dietary requirements.
Because of the venue and budget, numbers are limited to 35 people , and these places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. PhD students belonging to the network can also be considered for registration if recommended by their supervisors, though the finance available is limited by EPSRC rules.
Travel
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Click here for travel directions. The meeting will be held at Heriot Watt's Riccarton Campus, Edinburgh EH14 4AS. Please remember that this is some way outside Edinburgh city centre.
Timetable
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Monday 20th September
- 9:00-9:30 Registration in Heriot-Watt Conference Centre.
- 9:30-10:30 Michael Levitin (University of Reading), Commutator trace identities for operators and pencils, revisited.
- 10:30-11:00 Coffee.
- 11:00-12:00 Younes Chahlaoui (Manchester University), Gramians based model reduction for hybrid switched systems.
- 12:00-14:00 Lunch.
- 14:00-15:00 David Burton (Lancaster University), Electromagnetic fields of charged beams in gradually tapering waveguides.
- 15:00-15:15 Open Problems Session: Problem on Parametrization of Partial Isometres, contributed by Uwe Prells.
- 15:15-15:45 Coffee.
- 15:45-16:00 Open Problems Session.
- 16:00-17:00 Matthias Langer (University of Strathclyde), Variational principles for eigenvalues of operator functions.
Tuesday 21st September
- 9:30-10:30 Nancy Nichols (University of Reading), Inverse Eigenvalue Problems in Control System Design.
- 10:30-10:45 Open problems session.
- 10:45-11:15 Coffee.
- 11:15-11:30 Open problems session.
- 11:30-12:30 Ilia Kamotski (University of Bath), On nonexistence of Baras-Goldstein type.
- 12:30-14:00 Lunch.
- 14:00-15:00 Bernard Helffer (Université Paris Sud), Spectral problems related to a time dependent model in superconductivity with electric current.
- 15:00-15:15 Open problems session: Questions on polynomial operator pencils in connection with the non hypoanalyticity of some Hörmander operators, contributed by Bernard Helffer.
- 15:15-15:45 Coffee.
- 15:45-16:00 Open problems session.
- 16:00-17:00 Vladimir Kisil (University of Leeds), Covariant pencils of matrices and operators - AKA wavelets.
- 20:00 Meeting Dinner.
Wednesday 22nd September
- 9:30-10:30 Dario Bini (Università di Pisa), Overview of doubling algorithms for matrix polynomials.
- 10:30-10:45 Open problems session: A quadratic pencil problem for Dirichlet-Neumann maps, contributed by Michael Levitin and Marco Marletta (but not our problem originally!).
- 10:45-11:15 Coffee.
- 11:15-11:30 Open problems session.
- 11:30-12:30 Alastair Spence (University of Bath), The use of Cramer's Rule to compute Jordan blocks with application to finding the distance to instability for a stable matrix.
- 12:30-14:00 Lunch.
- 14:00 Scientific Committee Meeting.