LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS Special Issue In Honor of Harm Bart Linear Algebra and its Applications (LAA)is pleased to announce a special issue in honor of Professor Harm Bart in recognition of his many important contributions to matrix & operator theory and applications, and on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2012. We solicit papers for the special issue within the entire scope of LAA or the research interests of Harm Bart. The deadline for submission of papers is 1 June 2012. Papers for submission will be subject to normal refereeing procedures according to the usual standards of LAA. They should be submitted via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES): http://ees.elsevier.com/laa/ choosing the special issue "In Honor of Harm Bart" and the responsible editor-in-chief Richard Brualdi. Authors will have the opportunity to suggest one of the following special editors for this issue to handle their submission: Albrecht Boettcher Technical University Chemnitz, Germany Harry Dym Weizmann Institute, Israel Rien Kaashoek Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Andre Ran Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands.