LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS Special Issue in honor of Shmuel Friedland Linear Algebra and its Applications is pleased to announce a special issue in honor of Professor Shmuel Friedland on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 24 September 2009 in recognition of his many important and fundamental contributions to linear algebra and other topics in mathematics. We solicit papers for the special issue within the entire scope of LAA or the research interests of Shmuel Friedland. The deadline for submission of papers is 30 November 2008. Papers for submission will be subject to normal refereeing procedures according to the usual standards of LAA. They should be sent, preferably as pdf attachments in email, to one of the following five special editors: Avi Berman Department of Mathematics Technion Haifa 32000, Israel berman@technion.ac.il Christian Krattenthaler Fakult\"at f\"ur Mathematik Universit\"at Wien Nordbergstra{\ss}e 15 A-1090 Vienna AUSTRIA Christian.Krattenthaler@univie.ac.at Siegfried M. Rump Institute for Reliable Computing Hamburg University of Technology Schwarzenbergstr. 95 21071 Hamburg Germany rump@tu-harburg.de Ilya Spitkovsky College of William and Mary Department of Mathematics P.O. Box 8795 Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 USA ilya@math.wm.edu Fuzhen Zhang Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Nova Southeastern University 3301 College Avenue Ft. Lauderdale-Davie, Florida 33314 USA zhang@nova.edu The editor-in-chief responsible for this special issue is Hans Schneider. HS 2008.02.25