Combinatorial Matrix Theory

Special Session at AMS
Sectional Meeting, Lincoln, NE, October 21-23, 2005
Organizers: Leslie
Hogben and Bryan Shader

Speakers: Under construction: Watch this space for more slides still
to come.
- Francesco Barioli
(University of
Tennessee Chattanooga), Minimum Rank Problem
and zero patterns
- Wayne Barrett (Brigham
Young University), The Minimal Rank Problem and Forbidden
Subgraphs
- Luz DeAlba (Drake
University), Minimum
Rank and Maximum Eigenvalue Multiplicity of Symmetric Tree Sign
Patterns
- J. Ding (University of Southern Mississippi),
Some Results on Structured M-matrices
- Shaun Fallat
(University
of Regina), On
the Exponents of Oscillatory Matrices
- Jason Grout (Brigham
Young University), The Minimal
Rank Problem Over Finite Fields
and Projective Geometries
- Frank Hall (Georgia
State
University), An Interlacing
Result on Normalized Laplacians
- Leslie Hogben (Iowa
State
University), Matrix
Completions Problems
- Brenda Kroschel (St.
Thomas University), The totally nonnegative matrix completion
problem
- Chi-Kwong Li (College
of
William
& Mary), Some recent matrix results
in mathematical biology
- Zhongshan Li (Georgia
State University), Sign patterns that almost require a unique rank
- Judith MacDonald
(Washington
State
University), Spectrally Arbitrary Zero-Nonzero Patterns
- Sivaram Narayan
(Central
Michigan
University), The Minimum Positive Semi-definite Rank of a Graph
- Yiu T. Poon (Iowa
State
University), Some results on linear preservers of matrix spaces
- Bhaba Kumar Sarma (Indian Institute of
Technology Guwahati), Corona of Two Graphs
- Bryan Shader
(University
of Wyoming), Sign
patterns, inverses, and generalized inverses
- Wasin So (San Jose
State
University), Some remarks on uni-spectral graphs
- Jeffrey Stuart
(Pacific
Lutheran
University), Ray Patterns, Determinants and Inversion
- Kevin vander Meulen
(Redeemer College), On
Spectrally Arbitrary Patterns
- Amy Wangsness
(Fitchburg
State College), Some
results on the matrix completion problem for various classes of
P_0,1-matrices