Special issue devoted to the Haifa 2005 conference on matrix theory LAA will publish a special issue devoted to papers presented at the conference on matrix theory to be held in Haifa, Israel, January 3 - 7, 2005. The special editors are Abraham Berman, Leonid Lerer and Raphael Loewy. The submission deadline is April 30, 2005. Further details will appear in due course in the second conference announcement and at http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hans/speciss.html . The usual standards of LAA will apply. The editor-in-chief responsible for this issue is Hans Schneider.