Programme

All talks will take place in room M12 of the Mathematics and Social Sciences Building on the Sackville Street Site of the University of Manchester.
Coffee/Tea will be served in room N2.
Lunch will take place in the Mumford Restaurant, Staff House Conference Suite at 12:45.

Thursday 22, March 2007

9:00 - 9:10 Opening remarks
9:15 - 9:35 Jonathan Cooper (The University of Manchester): Non-linear aeroelastic modelling and prediction
9:40 -10:00 Marta Betcke (The University of Manchester): A local restart technique for symmetric nonlinear eigenvalue problems
10:05-10:25 Zhaojun Bai (University of California Davis): Solving Large Scale Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems in Next-Generation Accelerator Design
11:00-11:20 Volker Mehrmann (TU Berlin): Trimmed Linearization of Structured Matrix Polynomials
11:25-11:45 Christian Schroeder (TU Berlin): A structured method for palindromic eigenvalue problems
11:50-12:10 Christian Mehl (TU Berlin): Perturbation theory for Lagrangian subspaces of symplectic matrices
12:15-12:35 Peter Lancaster (University of Calgary): Matrix Functions with Symmetries
2:00 - 2:15 Discussion on collection of nonlinear eigenvalue problems: T. Betcke, N.J. Higham, V. Mehrmann, C. Schroeder and F. Tisseur
2:15 - 2:35 Steve Mackey (Western Michigan University): Hyperbolic Matrix Polynomials and Definite Linearizations
2:40 - 3:00 Julio Moro (Carlos III University Madrid): Frequency isolation algorithms for hyperbolic quadratic eigenvalue problems
3:05 - 3:15 Nils Wagner (Stuttgart University): Appearence of k-th degree polynomial eigenvalue problems when damping is modeled by fractional derivatives
4:00 - 4:20 Nelson Martins (CEPEL, Brazil): Descriptor and Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems in the Analysis of Large Electrical Power Systems
4:25 - 4:45 J. Rommes (Utrecht University): Computing Transfer Function Dominant Large Second-Order Systems

Friday 23, March 2007

9:00 - 9:20 E. Brian Davies (King's College London): Perturbations of Jordan Matrices
9:25 - 9:45 Lyonell Boulton (Heriot-Watt University): Computing the spectrum of the Cosserat and the Dirac operators: a safe method
9:50 -10:10 Heinrich Voss (TU Hamburg-Harburg): On a quadratic eigenproblem occuring in regularized total least squares
10:15-10:35 Yousef Saad (University of Minnesota): Nonlinear eigenvalue problems in Density Functional Theory
11:15-11:35 Timo Betcke (The University of Manchester): Scaling of Polynomial Eigenvalue Problems
11:40-12:00 Valeria Simoncini (University of Bologna): Spectral considerations in the solution of parameterized linear systems
12:05-12:25 Seamus Garvey (University of Nottingham): Refinement of eigenvalues for polynomial eigenvalue problems using isospectral flows
2:00 - 5:00 Informal discussions
3:30 Coffee/Tea