A celebration honoring Carl D. Meyer on the occasion of his 60th birthday will be held at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC on Thursday, May 15, 2003.

Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra 

May 15, 2003

N.C. State University

Objectives and Themes | Registration | Raleigh Information |  Schedule | Participants | Pictures and More | Program Co-chairs

Objectives and Themes

On November 22, 2002, Carl Meyer turned 60. A gathering of friends, former students, and collaborators will assemble on May 15, 2003 in Raleigh, NC to celebrate this important milestone in Carl's life. At the meeting, there will be a few technical talks on topics close to Carl's scientific interests. 
 

Registration

Although there is no formal conference registration, the organizers would appreciate an RSVP by March 1, 2003. Before April 15, 2003, we also request your plans for the dinner celebration to be held that evening at the Velvet Cloak Inn.  In your registration email to Amy Langville, include the number of dinner guests in your party as well as any special dietary requirements.

Raleigh Information

The Velvet Cloak Inn is within walking distance of the NCSU campus and Hillsborough Street restaurants.  Conference attendees are encouraged to stay there.  The Inn has agreed to give conference attendees the much discounted rate of $69 a night.  Call 919-828-0333 for reservations and mention that you are with the "Matrix Analysis Meeting".   The Velvet Cloak Inn will reserve a block of  rooms for May 14th and May 15th for our conference until the end of April.  Directions and further information about the Velvet Cloak Inn can be found at:  https://www.velvetcloakinn.com/

The banquet to be held after the day's talks will also be at the Velvet Cloak Inn, with meals ranging from $30-40.

Those attendees who are flying should book a flight into RDU (Raleigh-Durham International airport). Directions from RDU airport to the NCSU campus can be found at:  https://www.engr.ncsu.edu/maps/raleighmap.html. Those attendees who are driving to the conference can find directions at:  https://www7.acs.ncsu.edu/uga/visiting.htm#get to.

Please direct all questions and comments to Amy Langville.

Schedule

All talks will be held on the NCSU campus in Harrelson 314. Harrelson Hall is the round building across the brickyard from the 9-story D. H. Hill Library. North Campus Map

• 8:30-8:45          Opening Remarks
  
  

• 8:45-9:30          G. H. Golub, "Updating/downdating Page Rank algorithms"    ps    pdf
  
  

• 9:30-10:15        J. Barlow, "A faster backward stable bidiagonalization procedure"    ps    pdf
  
  

• 10:15-10:45      Coffee break
  
  

• 10:45-11:30      I. C. F. Ipsen, "The idea behind Krylov methods"    ps    pdf
  
  

• 11:30-12:15      D. Pierce, "View of an industrial mathematician"    ps    pdf
  
  

• 12:15-2:00        Lunch
  
  

• 2:00-2:45          G. W. Stewart, "The truncation method for approximating stationary probabilities"    ps    pdf
  
  

• 2:45-3:30          M. Neumann, "The many aspects of Carl Meyer's contribution to group inverses"    ps    pdf
  
  

• 3:30-4:00          S. Kirkland, "Digraph-based conditioning for Markov chains"    ps    pdf   
  
  

• 4:00-4:15          H. Schneider, "Looking for the essence of Carl Meyer's mathematics",   ILAS-sponsored speaker
  
  

• 4:15-4:45          Concluding remarks
  
  

• 5:45-8:30          Cash bar opens at 5:45, Dinner at 6:30, Banquet speaker: Bob Plemmons
  
  

Participants

• Brian Adams, N.C. State University
  
• Jesse Barlow, Penn State University
  
• Michele Benzi, Emory University
  
• Michael Berry, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
  
• Steve Campbell, N.C. State University
  
• Moody Chu, N.C. State University
  
• Anna Engelsone, N.C. State University
  
• William Ferng, Boeing
  
• Bob Funderlic, N.C. State University
  
• Mark Giesbrecht, University of Waterloo
  
• Gene Golub, Stanford University
  
• Frank Hall, Georgia State University
  
• John Haws, Boeing
  
• Myron Henry, University of Southern Mississippi
  
• Ilse Ipsen, N.C. State University
  
• Charles Johnson, College of William and Mary
  
• Erich Kaltofen, N.C. State University
  
• Vicky Kearns, Princeton University Press
  
• Holly Kenney, daughter
  
• Steve Kirkland, University of Regina
  
• Kwangil Koh, N.C. State University
  
• Amy Langville, N.C. State University
  
• John Lavery, Army Research Laboratory
  
• Carl Meyer, N.C. State University
  
• Martin Meyer, son
  
• Becky Meyer, wife
  
• Michele Montgomery, SIAM
  
• Jim Nagy, Emory University
  
• Miki Neumann, University of Connecticut at Storrs
  
• Elmor Peterson, N.C. State University
  
• Daniel Pierce, Boeing daniel.j.pierce@boeing.com
  
• Bob Plemmons, Wake Forest University
  
• George Poole, East Tennessee State University
  
• Alex Pothen, Old Dominion University
  
• Nick Rose, N.C. State University
  
• Hans Schneider, University of Wisconsin
  
• Jeff Scroggs, N.C. State University
  
• Jim Selgrade, N.C. State University
  
• Pete Stewart, University of Maryland at College Park
  
• Billy Stewart, N.C. State University
  
• Ernie Stitzinger, N.C. State University
  
• Xiaobai Sun, Duke University
  
• Daniel Szyld, Temple University
  
• Bob White, N.C. State University
  

Pictures and More

• Group photo 1 at banquet, jpeg
  
• Group photo 2 at banquet, jpeg
  
• Group photo 3 at banquet, jpeg
  
• Group photo 4 at banquet, jpeg
  
• Bob and Mary Jo Plemmons at banquet, jpeg
  
• Shoaf and Selgrade at banquet, jpeg
  
• Campbell speaking during conference, jpeg
  
• Billy Stewart and Hans Schneider, pre-banquet, jpeg
  
• Neumann and Szyld at banquet, jpeg
  
• Carl and Becky Meyer, all smiles, jpeg
  
• Kirkland, Langville and Meyer, jpeg
  
• Myron Henry with Carl's book, jpeg
  
• Pothen and Meyer at banquet, jpeg
  
• Barlow, Ferng, Nagy, Berry, jpeg
  
• The Benzis and the Meyers, jpeg
  
• The Stewart Table at dinner, jpeg
  
• Carl and Michele, jpeg
  
• The Chu-Funderlic Team taking a break, jpeg
  
• Coffee Break, jpeg
  
• Dan'l Pierce lecturing, jpeg
  
• Gene Golub and Gail Funderlic, jpeg
  
• Gene Golub and Jesse Barlow between talks, jpeg
  
• Gene Golub in action, lecturing, jpeg
  
• Henry, Nagy, Campbell, Berry, jpeg
  
• Holly Kenney with baby Allison and Maggie Meyer, jpeg
  
• Carl with "I Love A#" shirt, jpeg
  
• Ipsen, Meyer, Campbell, Szyld, jpeg
  
• The Ipsen, Neumann, Szyld, ... table, jpeg
  
• Ilse Ipsen in action, lecturing, jpeg
  
• Langville and Meyer, jpeg
  
• Carl Meyer lecturing about the health benefits of ketchup, jpeg
  
• Bob Plemmons in action, giving banquet talk, jpeg
  
• Ipsen, Nagy, Szyld between talks, jpeg
  
• A Focused Steve Kirkland in action, lecturing, jpeg
  
• Marty Meyer speaking at dinner, jpeg
  
• The NCSU Math Table at dinner, jpeg
  
• Meyer and Johnson, jpeg
  
• The Meyer dinner table, jpeg
  
• Michele Benzi kicking the events off, jpeg
  
• Mike Berry quizzing Carl about APL, jpeg
  
• Miki Neumann in action, lecturing, jpeg
  
• A Sneaky-looking Pete Stewart in action, lecturing, jpeg
  
• Plemmons and Funderlic, jpeg
  
• The Plemmons, Nagy, Ferng,... dinner table, jpeg
  
• Meyer's "Sauce of the Gods" (abstract), jpeg
  
• The Schneider, Hall, Shoaf dinner table, jpeg
  
• Hans Schneider in action, lecturing, jpeg
  
• Shoaf and Selgrade at banquet, jpeg
  
• Steve Campbell in action, lecturing, jpeg
  
• The Roses, jpeg
  
• Kearn, Berry, and White between talks, jpeg
  

Program Co-chairs

date last modified:01/28/03