Contributed by: Ali H. Sayed 


                  INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON

           NUMERICAL METHODS FOR STRUCTURED MATRICES
                   IN FILTERING AND CONTROL

                  August 1 to August 3, 1996
               Radisson Hotel, Santa Barbara, CA


The objective  of  this   three-day workshop is  to bring together
researchers  from the fields  of filtering, control, and numerical
analysis  to discuss recent  advances and future directions in the
design  of fast and numerically reliable algorithms for structured
matrices,  such as  Toeplitz,  Hankel,  Vandermonde,   and related
structures, with applications in the disciplines of filtering  and
control.

     The meeting  will  be held at the Radisson Hotel  overlooking
the  Pacific Ocean in  the  beautiful surroundings of  the city of
Santa   Barbara.   The  hotel  is  located  close  to   the lively
downtown  area with its numerous shops,  restaurants, and theaters.
Santa  Barbara  has  a  local  airport  with connections to Denver,
San Francisco, and Los Angeles.


Organizers:    T. Kailath and V. Olshevsky
               (Stanford University)
               S. Chandrasekaran, A. J. Laub, and A. H. Sayed
               (University of California, Santa Barbara)

More  information  about the meeting, including alternate hotels,
travel, and program, can be obtained by contacting sayed@ece.ucsb.edu.

 Current list of attendees:
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 D. Bini           (Dip. Matematica, Pisa, Italy)
 T. Boros          (Stanford University, USA)
 J. Bunch          (Univ. California, San Diego, USA)
 R. Brent          (Australian National University, Australia)
 R. Chan           (The University of Hong Kong,  Hong Kong)
 S. Chandrasekaran (Univ. California, Santa Barbara, USA)
 P. Dewilde        (Delft University, The Netherlands)
 O. Dias           (Lehman College, NY, USA)
 W. Eberly         (Univ. of Calgary, Canada)
 L. Elden          (Linkoping University, Sweden)
 F. Gaston         (University of Birmingham, UK)
 L. Gemignani      (Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa, Italy)
 I. Gohberg        (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
 G. Golub          (Stanford University, USA)
 W. Gragg          (Naval Postgraduate School, CA, USA)
 M. Gu             (Univ. California, Berkeley, USA)
 G. Heinig         (Kuwait University, Kuwait)
 M. Hochbruck      (University of Tubingen, Germany)
 X. Huang          (Lehman College, NY, USA)
 T. Kailath        (Stanford University, USA)
 I. Koltracht      (USA)
 A. Laub           (Univ. California, Santa Barbara, USA)
 S. Miller         (Univ. California, Santa Barbara, USA)
 B. Meini          (Dip. Matematica, Pisa, Italy)
 J. G. Nagy        (Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA)
 V. Nascimento     (Univ. California, Santa Barbara, USA)
 V. Olshevsky      (Stanford University, USA)
 V. Pan            (Lehman College, NY, USA)
 H. Park           (Univ. Minnesota, USA)
 R. J. Plemmons    (Wake Forest University, USA)
 A. H. Sayed       (Univ. California, Santa Barbara, USA)
 K. Schubert       (Univ. California, Santa Barbara, USA)
 S. Serra          (Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa, Italy)
 G. Strang         (MIT, USA)
 P. Tilli          (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)
 Y. Yu             (Lehman College, NY, USA)
 A. Zheng          (Lehman College, NY, USA)