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The Ninth International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics, in Celebration of C.R. Rao's 80th Birthday, will be held in the historic walled city of Hyderabad, in Andhra Pradesh, India, on 9-13 December 2000. Hyderabad is approximately midway between Mumbai (Bombay) and Chennai (Madras) and is the fifth largest city in India, with a population of 6 million. Founded by Quli Qutub Shah in 1591, this large metropolis is unique in its rich architectural glory and blend of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups and is an ideal place to celebrate C.R. Rao's 80th Birthday. Fine weather is expected with a midday high of 20C.
The purpose of this Workshop is to stimulate research and, in an informal setting, to foster the interaction of researchers in the interface between matrix theory and statistics. This Workshop will provide a forum through which statisticians working in the field of linear algebra and matrix theory may be better informed of the latest developments and newest techniques and may exchange ideas with researchers from a wide variety of countries.
The program will start with a two-day course on recent advances in Matrix Theory with Special Reference to Applications to Statistics on Saturday 9 December and Sunday 10 December 2000. This will be followed by the presentation of research papers in the Workshop proper on Monday 11 December - Wednesday 13 December 2000; it is expected that many of these papers will be published, after refereeing, in a Special Issue on Linear Algebra and Statistics of Linear Algebra and Its Applications.
International Organizing Committee:
R.W.Farebrother (Victoria University of Manchester, UK),
S.Puntanen (University of Tampere, Finland),
G.P.H.Styan (McGill University, Canada; vice-chair),
H.J.Werner (University of Bonn, Germany; chair).
Local Organizing Committee:
R.Bhatia (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre),
P.Bhimasankaram (Indian Statistical Institute, Hyderabad),
V.Narayana (Indian Statistical Institute, Hyderabad),
M.S.Rao (Osmania University, Hyderabad),
B.Sidharth (Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad),
U.SuryaPrakesh (Osmania University, Hyderabad),
R.J.R.Swamy (Osmania University, Hyderabad),
P.Udayasree (University of Hyderabad),
K.Viswanath (University of Hyderabad).
This Workshop is being organized in Hyderabad by the Indian Statistical Institute and the Society for Development of Statistics, in collaboration with the Birla Science Centre, Osmania University and the University of Hyderabad.
We expect that the Short Course will cover numerical linear algebra, as well as generalized matrix inverses (including Campbell-Youla, Drazin, group and Moore-Penrose inverses), matrix partial orderings (including Loewner, minus and sharp orders), matrix inequalities (including inequalities for determinants, traces, eigenvalues and singular values), together with statistical applications. In addition, we expect that there will be a session on statistical proofs of matrix results, as well as sessions on linear statistical models, on random matrices, and on matrices with special reference to applications in educational testing, electrical engineering, and to psychometrics.
The Short Course will be followed by the Workshop proper, which will include the presentation of both invited and contributed papers on matrices and statistics. There will be also a special session for papers presented by graduate students. We expect that the topics to be covered will be similar to those covered by several Special Issues on Linear Algebra and Statistics of Linear Algebra and Its Applications.
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