Thomas Laffey has made many important contributions to group theory
and to matrix theory. On May 1st please join us at the University
College Dublin to celebrate Tom's 65th birthday. The event will
include some talks related to Tom's work which will be followed by
dinner in Stillorgan Park Hotel.
Talks
Speakers
- LeRoy Beasley (Utah State University, Logan, USA)
Rank and Matrix Factorizations
- Abraham
Berman (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
The minimum rank depends on the field
- Rod Gow(University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
Welcome and Survey of Tom Laffey's mathematical work
- Finbarr Holland (University College Cork, Cork, Ireland)
Tom Laffey's contributions to the IMO
- Charles
Johnson (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA)
Semipositivity, Equilibrants and Matrix Scaling
- Raphael
Loewy (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
The spectrum of a nonnegative matrix
General Info
Venue
All talks will be held in Lecture Theatre 326, UCD Engineering and Materials Science Centre.
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
Ireland
Map (from Google maps)
Accommodations
- Hotels
- Guesthouses and B&Bs
- Donnybrook hall (2km)
- Hazelhurst, 166 Stillorgan road, Tel: 353 1 283 8509 (600m)
- Mrs Moher, 23 Woodbine Avenue, Tel: 353 1 269 1729 (500m)
- Mrs Mona Crowe, Hunestown House, 16 Nutley Lane,
Stillorgan, Co. Dublin. Tel: 353 1 2600539
- Donnybrook Lodge, 131 Stillorgan Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4. Tel: +353 1 2837333
Dinner
A dinner will be held in the
Stillorgan Park Hotel, starting at 7.30 pm.
The cost of the dinner (to include wine) is 35 euro per person.
Organizers
- Rod Gow (rod . gow at ucd . ie)
- Helena Šmigoc (helena . smigoc at ucd . ie)