The International Organizing Committee and the Local Organizing Committee in collaboration with the Institute of Measurement Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Requests the honor of your participation in the
18th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics June 23 – 27, 2009
Smolenice Castle, Slovakia
This is the next in a long-running series of Workshops with the purpose of stimulating exchanges of ideas and research at the interfaces of matrix theory, statistics, and stochastic processes.
The Workshop includes invited and contributed talks and posters.
International Organizing Committee
• Júlia Volaufová - Chair (USA)
• Simo Puntanen - Vice-Chair (Finland)
• George P. H. Styan - Honorary Chair (Canada)
• Augustyn Markiewicz - (Poland)
• Jeffrey J. Hunter (New Zealand)
• S. Ejaz Ahmed (Canada)
• Götz Trenkler (Germany)
• Dietrich von Rosen (Sweden)
• Hans Joachim Werner (Germany) Local Organizing Committee
• Viktor Witkovský - Chair (Slovakia)
• Gejza Wimmer - Vice-Chair (Slovakia)
• Barbora Arendacká (Slovakia)
• Svorad Štolc Jr. (Slovakia)
• Katarina Cimermanová (Slovakia)
• Stanislav Katina (Slovakia) Workshop Venue
The 18th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics will be held in Smolenice Castle - the Congress Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Smolenice is a village in the western part of Slovakia, located about 60 km north-east of the capital city Bratislava. The Castle, surrounded by a beautiful English park, towers above Smolenice in the eastern foothills of Male Karpaty (Small Carpathians).
For convenience, wireless internet connection is available in the common areas of the Castle.
Invited Speakers
Invited talks are limited to 40 minutes each, including discussion.
The list of invited speakers is in progress Contributed Talks
Contributions falling in the domain of the Workshop are welcome. They may be presented in oral or poster sessions.
Length of oral presentations is limited to 20 minutes. Please indicate all necessary information on the registration form; the final decision will be made by the Organizing Committees.
Registration
To register for IWMS 2009, send an e-mail with the subject title IWMS 2009 - registration, to witkovsky@savba.sk.
Important Dates and Deadlines
• February 28, 2009, reduced fee
• April 30, 2009, registration, fee and abstract submission.
• June 23-27, 2009, 18th IWMS 2009, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia.
Contact Address
18th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics 2009 Viktor Witkovský
Institute of Measurement Science Slovak Academy of Sciences Dúbravská cesta 9
84104 Bratislava, Slovakia E-mail: witkovsky@savba.sk Tel.: +421 905 223191 Fax.: +421 2 54775943
Web: http://www.um.sav.sk/en/iwms2009.html
