Twenty-Eighth International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics (IWMS 2021)

28th IWMS will be held in the hybrid format as per the schedule given from December 13-15, 2021. Participants are requested to choose the format in which they like to attend. Kindly contact the organizers and pay the registration fees accordingly.

Purpose

The purpose of International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics is to foster, in an informal setting, the interaction of researchers in the interface between Matrix Theory and Statistics.

The 28th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics, IWMS 2021, will be held during the period December 13-15, 2021 at the Centre for Advanced Research for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, (MAHE) Manipal, Karnataka, India.

The theme of the workshop shall focus on the theory and applications of the following topics in different branches of science such as Biology, Computer and Information Science, Economics, Electronics, Genetics, Office Statistics, Social Statistics and Accountancy:

• Matrix Analysis
• Projectors in Linear Models & Multivariate Analysis
• Growth Curve Models
• Linear Regression Models
• Linear Statistical Inference
• Modelling Covariance Structures
• Multivariate and Mixed Linear Models
• Statistics in Big Data Analysis.

On behalf of the International Organizing Committee, Scientific Committee, and the Local Organizing Committee we have much pleasure in extending a cordial invitation to participate this workshop.

This series of Workshops has a long history, see https://www.sis.uta.fi/tilasto/iwms/IWMS-history.pdf and we welcome the opportunity to hold the workshop once again in India. The 9th Workshop was held at Hyderabad in 2000, celebrating 80th birthday of Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, popularly known as C. R. Rao. The present 28th IWMS will be held beside ICLAA 2021, the common day between IWMS and ICLAA, December 15, 2021, will have some common sessions in honor of Prof. Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao. We are sure that 28th IWMS will be a great success with the participation of prominent researchers from across the globe working in Statistics, Matrix Theory and allied subjects.

The purpose of the Workshop is to stimulate research and, in an informal setting, to foster the interaction of researchers in the interface between statistics and matrix theory. The Workshop will provide a forum through which statisticians may be better informed of the latest developments and newest techniques in linear algebra and matrix theory and may exchange ideas with researchers from a wide variety of countries.

As well as range of plenary speakers we are to strengthening the interactions between participants by organizing a range of minisymposia in various specialist areas. Beside organizing invited talks from eminent speakers, we invite participants to submit their research articles in the sessions of contributory talks.

Special Issue

We intend to publish a special issue dedicated to the conferences ALAPS 2020, IWMS 2021, and ICLAA 2021 in a reputed journal. We thank ‘AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics’ for its consent for publishing a special issue with the articles focused on common area of interest of the journal and conferences.

Guest editorial team invites research articles in the following mentioned focus area for the possible publication in the special issue dedicated to the conferences. Article need not be the one presented in the ALAPS 2020/ IWMS 2021/ ICLAA 2021 and similarly author need not be among speakers or participants of ALAPS 2020/ IWMS 2021/ ICLAA 2021, though we encourage the speakers to submit an article presented in the conference.

Focus Area of Special Issue: Keeping in view of focus area of journal and conference, the articles submitted are expected to be in the following broad area:

1. Linear Algebra & Matrix Theory
2. Graphs & Matrices
3. Applications of Matrices, Graphs, Network and Combinatorics in the area of Statistics & other branches of Sciences.

Guest Editors Team: Consists Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) members

1. Ravindra B Bapat, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi (Chairman, SAC)
2. Manjunatha Prasad Karantha, MAHE, Manipal, India (Convener, SAC)
3. Stephen J Kirkland, University of Manitoba, Canada
4. Simo Puntanen, Tampere University, Finland

associated with

5. Shaun Fallat, University of Regina, Canada
6. Debajit Kalita, Tezpur University, India
7. Rajesh Kannan, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
8. Balaji Ramamurthy, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
9. Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
10. Yimin Wei, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Journal: AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics (An open access journal)

Web Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uakc20.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis online

How to Submit: Author may submit an article with in focus area mentioned above, directly to the convener of SAC, who is the coordinator for the special issue and the proceedings ( km.prasad@manipal.edu; kmprasad63@gmail.com) with the suggestion of a guest editor to handle the paper.

Formatting: Author may refer to instructions for authors on the journal site with the link: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=uakc20

Submission fee & APC: There is no Submission Fee or Article Processing Charges (APC) for the articles submitted for the special issue.

Review Process

1. After receiving an article, manuscript number will be assigned and one among the guest editors will be requested to arrange two reviews of article. In very exceptional cases, we may content with just one review with detailed report
2. Article, if found suitable, guest editor will be inviting two reviewer to assess the article
3. Guest editor will be forwarding his/her recommendation (accept/minor revision/major revision/reject based on report/not suitable; reject) to the coordinator
4. Coordinator will be requesting the author regarding the decision and request the author to take suitable action
5. After an essential decision on the article, coordinator will forward the article along with recommendation and review reports to the Chief-editor of the journal, who will be taking the final decision on the acceptance of article.

Important Dates

Receiving the articles: April 30, 2022
Completing the review process including necessary revision: September 30, 2022
Submitting the final manuscript in the necessary format: October 31, 2022
Publication of special issue: January 31, 2023 (subject to convenience of AKCE Journal)

Proceedings of conferences

This volume is to cherish the beautiful path laid by the living legend

who completed 100 years of fruitful life in 2020 and in memories of young and dynamic

whom we missed in this year of 2021.

The proceedings proposal has been submitted to SPRINGER for the possible publication in a scopus indexed series.

Research articles in detail and expository articles are invited for the possible publication in the volume of proceedings in the focus area of ALAPS 2020, IWMS 2021, ICLAA 2021 and the work by Professor Rao. Though we appreciate the submission of work presented in any of these connected conferences, we also invite any good articles in the form of chapters which throw more light on the work of Professor Rao and help young scholars to understand Rao’s work and further advancements. We welcome articles in memory of Arbind Lal.

Editorial Team

1. Narayanaswamy Balakrishanan, McMaster University, Canada
2. Ravindra B Bapat, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
3. Arup Bose, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
4. Manjunatha Prasad Karantha, MAHE, Manipal, India
5. Stephen J Kirkland, University of Manitoba, Canada
6. Samir Kumar Neogy, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India
7. Sukanta Pati, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
8. Simo Puntanen, Tampere University, Finland

Nature of article

We appreciate articles of following nature:

1. Research or expository
2. It could be in the focus of area of any of the conferences ALAPS 2020, IWMS 2021, and ICLAA 2021 (Pure and applied linear algebra, Matrix Method in Statistics, Matrices and Graphs, Combinatorial Matrix Theory, and Applications of any of these in applied branches of science)
3. It could be in area of applied linear algebra and Statistics in which Rao worked

Timeline

Last Date for receiving the articles: April 30, 2022
Completion of Review, including necessary revision: October 31, 2022
Proof reading & Pre-production work by SPRINGER: December 31, 2022
Publication of edited volume: March 31, 2023

Number of pages

We appreciate the number of pages of article restricted to 20-25, but in some exceptional cases it could be more.

Mini Symposium

Title           : A further introduction to Philatelic Lattice Grids (PLGs) with four-sided stamps
                    (First International Mini-Symposium on Mathematical Philately)
Organizer : George PH Styan (McGill University, Canada)
Confirmed Speakers:

• Garry Ka Lok Chu (Dawson College, Canada)
• George PH Styan (McGill University, Canada)

Title           : Statistics and Big data: A Research Paradigm Shift
Organizer  : Samir K. Neogy (ISI, Delhi, India)
Confirmed Speakers:

• Andrzej Janusz (University of Warsaw, Poland)
• Santosh Singh (Shiv Nadar University, India)

International Organizing Committee – IWMS 2021

• S. Ejaz Ahmed (Canada)
• Francisco Carvalho (Portugal)
• Katarzyna Filipiak (Poland)
• Daniel Klein (Slovakia)
• Augustyn Markiewicz (Poland)
• Dietrich von Rosen (Sweden)
• Martin Singull (Sweden)
• George P. H. Styan (Canada) – Honorary Chairman
• Júlia Volaufová (USA)
• Hans Joachim Werner (Germany)

About IWMS

• A short history of the International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics (IWMS), Simo Puntanen and George P. H. Styan
• More photos and information on the previous workshops

Previous IWMS

1. Tampere, Finland, August 1990
2. Auckland, New Zealand, December 1992
3. Tartu, Estonia, May 1994
4. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 1995
5. Shrewsbury, UK, July 18-19, 1996
6. Istanbul, Turkey, August 1997
7. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, December 1998 [in celebration of T.W. Anderson’s 80th birthday]
8. Tampere, Finland, August 1999
9. Hyderabad, India, December 9-13, 2000, [in celebration of C.R. Rao’s 80th birthday]
10. Voorburg, The Netherlands, August 2001
11. Lyngby, Denmark, August 1992 [in celebration of G.P.H. Styan’s 65th birthday]
12. Dortmund, Germany, August 5-8, 2003
13. Będlewo, Poznań, Poland, August 18-21, 2004 [in celebration of I. Olkin’s 80th birthday]
14. Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland, New Zealand, March 29 – Abril 1, 2005 [memorial session for Jerzy K. Baksalary (1944-2005)]
15. Uppsala, Sweden, June 13-16, 2006
16. Ontario, Canada, June 1-3, 2007
17. Tomar, Portugal, July 22-26, 2008 [in celebration of T.W. Anderson’s 90th birthday]
18. Smolenice Castle, Slovakia, June 23-27, 2009
19. Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, June 5-8, 2010
20. Tartu, Estonia, June 27-30, 2011 [special session for Muni S. Srivastava’s 75th birthday]
21. Będlewo, Poznań, Poland, July 16-20, 2012 [special session for George P.H. Styan’s 75th birthday]
22. University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 12-15, 2013 [memorial session for Shayle R. Searle (1928-2013)]
23. Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 8-12, 2014
24. Haikou City, Hainan Province, China, May 25-28, 2015 [special sessions for Kai-Tai Fang’s 75th Birthday & Simo Puntanen’s 70th Birthday]
25. Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, June 6-9, 2016 [special session for Jeffrey J. Hunter’s 75th birthday]
26. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 5-7, 2018
27. Shanghai, China, June 6-9, 2019

We do hope, we have an opportunity to meet in Manipal and enjoy the academic deliberation.