LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS
             Special Issue in honor of Miroslav Fiedler



Linear Algebra and its Applications is pleased to announce a special
issue in honor of Professor Miroslav Fiedler in recognition of his many
important and fundamental contributions to linear algebra and matrix
theory for over more than 50 years, and on the occasion of his 80th
birthday on April 7, 2006.

Papers are solicited for the special issue within the scope of LAA or
research interests of Mirek Fiedler.  The deadline for submission of
papers is January 31, 2006.  Papers for submission should be sent to
any of the five special editors, preferably pdf files as attachments in
email, and will be subject to normal refereeing procedures according to
LAA standards:


Peter Butkovic
School of Mathematics
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom
e-mail: p.butkovic@bham.ac.uk


Leslie Hogben
Department of Mathematics
Carver Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
e-mail: lhogben@iastate.edu

Reinhard Nabben 
Technische Universität Berlin
Institut für Mathematik, MA 3-3
D-10623 Berlin
e-mail: nabben@math.tu-berlin.de

Zdenek Strakos
Institute of Computer Science
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Pod Vod vezi 2
182 07 Prague 8
Czech Republic
e-mail: strakos@cs.cas.cz


Miroslav Tuma
Institute of Computer Science
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Pod Vod vezi 2 
182 07 Prague 8 
Czech Republic
e-mail: tuma@cs.cas.cz 


The responsible editor-in-chief for this special issue is Richard A.
Brualdi.