Call for Papers: Special Issue in Honor of Friedrich L. Bauer On June 10 2004, Friedrich L. Bauer, one of the founding fathers of computer science and scientific computing in Germany, celebrated his 80th birthday. He has been an editor of Linear Algebra and Its Applications for since its beginning in 1968 and he is currently one of its distinguished editors. We are pleased to announce a special issue of Linear Algebra and Its Applications in Honor of F. L. Bauer. Papers in pure, applied and numerical linear algebra will be considered. All papers submitted must meet the publication standards of Linear Algebra and Its Applications and will be subject to normal refereeing procedure. The deadline for submission of papers is December 31. 2004, and with publication expected in 2006. Papers should be sent to any of its special editors, preferably by email in a PDF or PostScript format: Heike Fassbender Institut f. Angewandte Mathematik TU Braunschweig Postfach 3329 D-38023 Braunschweig Germany e-mail: h.fassbender@tu-bs.de Michael Griebel Institut f. Numerische Simulation Wegelerstr. 6 D-53115 Bonn Germany e-mail: griebel@ins.uni-bonn.de Olga Holtz University of California-Berkeley Department of Mathematics 821 Evans Hall Berkeley, Ca, 94720 e-mail: holtz@Math.Berkeley.EDU G.W. (Pete) Stewart Department of Computer Science Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Maryland College Park, Md 20742 e-mail: stewart@cs.umd.edu The responsible editor-in-chief of the special issue is: Volker Mehrmann Institut f. Mathematik, MA 4-5 TU Berlin Strasse des 17. Juni 136 D-10623 Berlin Germany e-mail: mehrmann@math.tu-berlin.de