LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS Contents Volume 201 Robert Grone (San Diego, California) A Biography of Marvin Marcus 1 Chi-Kwong Li (Williamsburg, Virginia) Linear Operators Preserving the (p, q) Numerical Radius 21 William Watkins (Northridge, California) Unimodular Congruence of the Laplacian Matrix of a Graph 43 Morris Newman (Santa Barbara, California) Tridiagonal Matrices 51 Russell Merris (Hayward, California) A Note on Unimodular Congruence of Graphs 57 Raphael Loewy (Haifa, Israel) and Stephen Pierce (San Diego, California) Linear Preservers of Balanced Singular Inertia Classes 61 E. R. Barnes (Atlanta, Georgia) and A. J. Hoffman (Yorktown Heights, New York) Bounds for the Spectrum of Normal Matrices 79 Alexander Kovacec (Coimbra, Portugal) On a Conjecture of Marcus and de Oliveira 91 N. Bebiano and M. E. Miranda (Coimbra, Portugal) On a Recent Determinantal Inequality 99 Richard A. Brualdi (Madison, Wisconsin) and Bryan L. Shader (Laramie, Wyoming) Minimum Permanents on Special Faces of the Polytope of Doubly Stochastic Matrices 103 Mao-Ting Chien (Taipei, Taiwan) and Bit-Shun Tam (Tamsui, Taiwan) Circularity of the Numerical Range 113 Henryk Minc (Santa Barbara, California) Minimum Permanents of Doubly Stochastic Matrices With Prescribed Zero Entries on the Main Diagonal 135 Richard Arens (Los Angeles, California) and Moshe Goldberg (Haifa, Israel) Weighted I*be Norms for Matrices 155 Morris Newman and Robert C. Thompson (Santa Barbara, California) A Counterexample Connected With Gersgorin's Theorem 165 LeRoy B. Beasley (Logan, Utah) and Daniel J. Scully (St. Cloud, Minnesota) Linear Operators Which Preserve Combinatorial Orthogonality 171 Robert Grone, Stephen Pierce, James Ross (San Diego, California), and Chi-Kwong Li (Williamsburg, Virginia) Spectral Bounds Derived From Quadratic Forms on Decomposable Tensors 181 Frank Uhlig (Auburn, Alabama) Computing the Inertias in Symmetric Matrix Pencils 199 George W. Soules (Princeton, New Jersey) An Approach to the Permanental-Dominance Conjecture 211 Author Index 231