Dear, As already announced, ESAT/SCD (EE Dept, K.U.Leuven) and CESAME (Universite Catholique de Louvain) organize an event in memory of Gene Golub in Leuven. The event is part of the Gene Golub Around the World Day (29th February, Gene Golub's birthday - see http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/genearoundtheworld/). On the website you can find the titles of the presentations, together with a short abstract: http://www.kuleuven.be/golub/ Preliminary program: 9:00: Opening: Bart De Moor, Paul Van Dooren, Sabine Van Huffel 9:30: G. Alistair Watson, Univ. Dundee, Div. Mathematics: Some extensions of Gene's work on total least squares 10:00: Claude Brezinski, Univ. des Sciences et Technologies de Lille: Errors in the solution of linear systems, with an application to regularization 10:30: Sabine Van Huffel, K.U.Leuven, EE Dept. (ESAT/SCD): Impact of numerical linear algebra in computational biomedical signal processing 11:00: Coffee 11:30: Paul Van Dooren, UCL, CESAME: How to improve your PR (in collaboration with C. de Kerchove and L. Ninove) 12:00: Martin H. Gutknecht, ETH Zurich, Applied Mathematics: Modified Moments for Indefinite Weight Functions 12:30: Raf Vandebril, K.U.Leuven, Dept. of Computer Science: On the A x equals Lambda B x problem 13:00: Lunch 14:00: Bo Kågström, Umea Univ., Dept. Computing Science: Illconditioned eigenvalue problems - a journey with Gene from Jordan to periodic Schur forms 14:30: Lieven de Lathauwer, EE Dept. (ESAT/SCD) 15:00: Annie Cuyt, Univ. Antwerpen, Dept. Mathematics and Computer Science: Gene's beloved "Shape from Moments" problem 15:30: Coffee 16:00: Gregory Boutry, Univ. Catholique de Lille, Faculte Libre des Sciences et Technologies: Gene from Marrakech to Stanford. 16:30: Bart De Moor, K.U.Leuven, EE Dept. (ESAT/SCD): Generalizations of the singular value and the QR decomposition for multiple matrices 17:00: End 18:00: Chinese Dinner The talks will have the right mix of technical contribution and fond memories of Gene Golub. The event will be followed by a dinner in a Chinese restaurant . Registration, coffee breaks and sandwich lunch are free of charge. The dinner will cost 40 euro. Please register on the website (http://www.kuleuven.be/golub/ ) before Feb. 20, and indicate if you will attend the dinner (please fill out the Dinner Registration Form). All practical details can be found on the website (payment details, hotel information, final program, ...): http://www.kuleuven.be/golub/ . We hope to welcome you at this event, Bart De Moor, Paul Van Dooren, Sabine Van Huffel -- Ida Tassens K.U.Leuven, ESAT/SCD (SISTA) Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 B-3001 Leuven, Belgium Tel. +32/16/32.17.09 Fax. +32/16/32.19.70 ida.tassens@esat.kuleuven.be Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm