Hunter, Jeffrey J.

Styan, George P.H.

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Res. Lett. Inf. Math. Sci., 2005, Vol.8Available online at http://iims.massey.ac.nz/research/letters/iiiForewordThe 14th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics (IWMS-2005) washeld on the Albany campus of Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand, 29March–1 April 2005. This Workshop was a Satellite meeting to the 55th BiennialSession of the International Statistical Institute held in Sydney, Australia, 5–12 April2005 and was endorsed by the International Linear Algebra Society. The Workshopwas supported by the New Zealand Statistical Association, Massey University, NewZealand Institute of Mathematics & its Applications, Royal Society of New Zealand,and Statistics New Zealand.The International Organising Committee comprised Simo Puntanen (Universityof Tampere, Finland), George P. H. Styan (chair; McGill University, Canada) &Hans Joachim Werner (vice-chair; Universita¨t Bonn, Germany). The Local Organ-ising Committee was chaired by Jeﬀrey J. Hunter, and included Freda Anderson(Workshop Secretary), Merrill Bowers, Paul Cowpertwait, Marie Fitch, StephenFord, Beatrix Jones, Claire Jordan, Nikki Luke, Barry McDonald, Dennis Viehland,and Danny Walsh, all of Massey University, Auckland.A Special Memorial Session in honour of Jerzy K. Baksalary (1944–2005) wasorganized by Oskar Maria Baksalary (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland), SimoPuntanen, George P. H. Styan, and Go¨tz Trenkler (Universita¨t Dortmund, Ger-many).The keynote speakers were: C. Radhakrishna Rao, Pennsylvania State Univer-sity, USA – “Statistical proofs of matrix theorems”; Shayle R. Searle, Cornell Univer-sity, USA – “Reﬂections on a ﬁfty year random walk midst matrices and statistics”;George A. F. Seber, University of Auckland, New Zealand – “Things my mothernever told me about matrices”; and Eugene Seneta, University of Sydney, Australia– “Coeﬃcients of ergodicity in a matrix setting”.C. Radhakrishna Rao was sponsored by Nokia as the IWMS-2005 Nokia Lecturerand was the New Zealand Statistical Association Visiting Lecturer for 2005 and aMassey University Distinguished Visitor. Shayle R. Searle was sponsored by SAS asthe IWMS-2005 SAS Lecturer. Eugene Seneta was sponsored as the New ZealandMathematical Society Lecturer for 2005.The Workshop opened on 29 March 2005 with a powhiri, the Maori welcomeceremony. It removes the tapu of the Manuhiri (visitors) to make them one with theTangata Whenua (home people) and is a gradual process of the Manuhiri and theTangata Whenua coming together. The excursion on 30 March explored WaihekeIsland and its beaches, wineries and a boutique brewery.The invited lectures were: S. Ejaz Ahmed – “Approximation-assisted estima-tion of eigenvectors under quadratic loss”; Anyue Chen – “Asymptotic birth-deathivprocesses: a matrix analysis approach”; Karl E. Gustafson – “The geometry of sta-tistical eﬃciency”; Stephen Haslett & John Haslett – “What are the residuals for thelinear model?”; Moshe Haviv – “On singularly perturbed Markov chains”; JarkkoIsotalo & Simo Puntanen – “Comparison of the ordinary least squares predictor andthe best linear unbiased predictor in the general Gauss–Markov model”; J. A. ‘Nye’John – “Inverse of the information matrix”; Estate Khmaladze – “Inverse matrices,Volterra operators and innovation processes: application to statistics”, To˜nu Kollo& Dietrich von Rosen: “Approximation of the parameter distributions of growthcurve model”; Alexander Kukush – “Invariant estimator in a quadratic measurementerror model”; Alan J. Lee & Alastair J. Scott – “Semi-parametric eﬃciency, projec-tion and the Scott–Wild estimator”; Simo Puntanen, Ka Lok Chu, Jarkko Isotalo& George P. H. Styan – “Decomposing the Watson eﬃciency in partitioned linearmodels”; C. Radhakrishna Rao – “Anti-eigen and anti-singular values of a matrixand applications to problems in statistics”; George P. H. Styan, Ka Lok Chu, JarkkoIsotalo & Simo Puntanen – “Inequalities and equalities for the Watson eﬃciency inorthogonally partitioned full rank linear models”; Garry J. Tee – “Eigenvectors ofblock circulant matrices”; Go¨tz Trenkler – “On the commutativity of orthogonalprojectors”; Hans Joachim Werner & Ingram Olkin – “On permutations of matrixproducts”.The Workshop group photo is on the next page; for other photos please visithttp:// iwms2005.massey.ac.nz/ photos.html.The 15th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics (IWMS-2006) willbe held in Uppsala, Sweden, 13–17 June 2006: http:// www.bt.slu.se/ iwms2006/iwms06.html. The International Organizing Committee is chaired by HansJoachim Werner: ujw902@uni-bonn.de and the Local Organizing Committeeis chaired by Dietrich von Rosen (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences):iwms06@bt.slu.seJeﬀrey J. Hunter & George P. H. StyanJuly 2005vParticipants of the 14th IWMS Workshop(Photograph by Magdala Werner)Row 7: Khmaladze E (Victoria Univ Wellington, NZ), Haslett S (Massey, PalmerstonNorth, NZ), Trenkler G (Dortmund, Germany), Styan G (McGill, Canada), Seber G(Auckland, NZ), Scott A (Auckland, NZ), Jones B (Massey, Auckland, NZ), John N(Waikato, Hamilton, NZ), Walsh D (Massey, Auckland, NZ); Row 6: Isotalo J (Tam-pere, Finland), Chen A (Greenwich, England), Ahmed E (Windsor, Canada), LittlejohnR (AgResearch, Invermay, NZ), Jones G (Massey, Palmerston North, NZ) Sakamoto W(Osaka, Japan); Row 5: Schaﬀrin B (Ohio, US), Doherty M (Statistics NZ, Welling-ton, NZ), Henderson H (AgResearch, Hamilton, NZ), Ruggiero K (CSIRO, Canberra,Australia), Cowpertwait P (Massey, Auckland, NZ); Row 4: Kollo T (Tartu, Estonia),Schliep K (Massey, Palmerston North, NZ), Vehkalahti K (Helsinki, Finland), PuntanenS (Tampere, Finland), Kukush A (Kiev, Ukraine), Seneta E (Sydney, Australia); Row3: McDonald B (Massey, Auckland, NZ), Cuadras C (Barcelona, Spain), Bekker A( UnivSA, Pretoria, South Africa), Traat I (Tartu, Estonia), Fitch M (Massey, Auckland, NZ),Haviv M (Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Israel); Row 2: Gustafson K (Colorado, US), Tee G(Auckland, NZ), Thrush T (Massey, Auckland, NZ), Scheﬀer J (Massey, Auckland, NZ),Searle S (Cornell, US), Rao C R (Penn State, US), Jordan C (Massey, Auckland, NZ),Anderson S (SAS, NZ), Im E (Hawaii, US); Row 1: Werner J (Bonn, Germany), Hunter J(Massey, Auckland, NZ); Absent: Islam R (Charles Sturt, Australia), Lee A (Auckland,NZ), Matsubara K (Osaka, Japan), Wang S-G (Beijing, China)

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