Final Announcement

Call for Papers and Registration Information

In celebration of Åke Björck's 60'th birthday a conference will be held at Linköping University, January 9-10, 1995. The theme of the conference will be

LEAST SQUARES METHODS:
Theory, Algorithms and Applications

The following speakers have agreed to give a talk:

    Iain Duff      Gene Golub      Chris Paige       Haesun Park 
    Mike Saunders  Pete Stewart    Charles Van Loan  Jim Varah

Call for Papers

There will be a number of contributed 20 min. talks. No conference proceedings will be published. There are two ways to submit an abstract:

a) send it by mail to Lars Eldén at the address below.
b) send an abstract (ASCII file or LaTeX) by email to laeld@math.liu.se.

Participants and contributors should notice the following dates.

    September 25, 1994     Deadline for abstract submission
    October 15, 1994       Notification of acceptance
    January 9-10, 1995     Conference

A conference dinner and birthday party will be held on the evening of Monday, January 9.

Registration

If you want to receive registration forms etc, please send a message to either of the addresses below. On request, conference information will also be distributed by ordinary mail. In addition, forms can be obtained (math.liu.se in directory pub/conference), or via WWW with URL http://math.liu.se/Num/conference/.

There will be a registration fee of 850 SEK, covering meals (including conference dinner) and refreshments (present rate of exchange: 1 US dollar equals 7.7 SEK). A number of hotel rooms have been reserved for the conference. We encourage early registration, since due to other arrangements in Linköping, the availability of hotel rooms, apart from those already reserved, may be limited.

Correspondence

should be addressed to either:

    Lars Eldén                        Theresia Petersson
    Department of Mathematics         Conference secretary
    Linköping University              Same address as Lars Eldén
    S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden        
    e-mail: laeld@math.liu.se         thpet@math.liu.se
    Phone: +46 13 28 21 83            +46 13 28 14 02
    Fax:   +46 13 10 07 46            +46 13 10 07 46

Organizing Committee

    Lars Eldén and Tommy Elfving      Linköping
    Gene Golub                        Stanford
    Bo Kågström                       Umeå
    Axel Ruhe                         Gothenburg

Note

January 11-13, 1995, a symposium will be held in Stockholm to celebrate Germund Dahlquist's 70'th birthday. This will be announced separately. For information, contact

     Lennart Edsberg

Lars Eldén <laeld@math.liu.se>