Ebook: The Gohberg Anniversary Collection: Volume I: The Calgary Conference and Matrix Theory Papers

Table of contents of Volume I.- A: The Calgary Conference, honoring Israel Gohberg.- Portrait I. Gohberg.- Acknowledgements.- The Calgary Conference Program.- Conference picture.- Speech of R.S. Phillips, introducing Israel Gohberg.- Mathematical tales.- Four generations.- Gohberg Miscellanea.- The Early Years, by S. Goldberg.- Reminiscences, by M.G. Krein.- Letter of A. Markus, N. Krupnik and I. Feldman.- Speech of R. Duduchava, delivered at the banquet.- My Years in Kishinev, by G. Heinig.- First Meeting, by S. Goldberg.- From Two Sides, by L. Lerer.- Israel Gohberg at Tel-Aviv University, by D. Amir.- Letter of B. Trachtenbrot.- The Dutch Connection, by M.A. Kaashoek.- Speech of L. Frank, delivered during the conference.- Gohberg in Canada, by P. Lancaster.- Israel at the Weizmann Institute, by H. Dym.- Letter of B. Khvedelidze, read at the banquet.- Speech of M.M. Drzjabashian, delivered at the banquet.- I. Gohberg with (some of) his co-authors.- I. Gohberg and (former) students.- Curriculum Vitae.- List of Publications.- B: Papers on Matrix Theory and its Applications.- Some matrix inequalities in multiport network connections.- Complementary triangular forms of upper triangular Toeplitz matrices.- Comparing a matrix to its off-diagonal part.- Ranks of completions of partial matrices.- Finite dimension problems in operator theory.- Matrices with displacement structure, generalized Bézoutians, and Moebius transformations.- Generalized Gohberg-Semencul formulas for matrix inversion.- Variational properties and Rayleigh quotient algorithms for symmetric matrix pencils.- The matrix quadratic equation and factorization of matrix polynomials.- Inversion of partially specified positive definite matrices by inverse scattering.- Fast and efficient parallel inversion of Toeplitz and block Toeplitz matrices.- Stability of invariant lagrangian subspaces II.- On strong ?-stability of invariant subspaces of matrices.- On classification of invariant subspaces of a linear operator.- On the inverse of block tridiagonal matrices with applications to the inverses of band matrices and block band matrices.- Divisibility relations satisfied by the invariant factors of a matrix product.- Table of contents of Volume II.