Call for Papers: Special Issue in Honor of G. W. (Pete) Stewart We are pleased to announce a special issue of Linear Algebra and Its Applications in honor of Pete Stewart, who will celebrate his 70th birthday in October 2010. Pete has been an editor of Linear Algebra and Its Applications for many years and is one of its distinguished editors. All papers submitted must meet the publication standards of Linear Algebra and Its Applications and will be subject to normal refereeing procedures. The deadline for submission of papers is July 15, 2009, and publication is expected in May 2010. Papers should be sent to any of the special editors of this special issue, preferably by email in PDF or PostScript format: Zhaojun Bai Michele Benzi Department of Computer Science Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science University of California at Davis Emory University Davis, CA 95616, USA Atlanta, GA 30322, USA email: bai@cs.ucdavis.edu email: benzi@mathcs.emory.edu Howard Elman Nick Higham Department of Computer Science School of Mathematics University of Maryland The University of Manchester College Park, MD 20742, USA Manchester, M13 9PL, UK email: elman@cs.umd.edu email: Nicholas.J.Higham@manchester.ac.uk Misha Kilmer Department of Mathematics Tufts University Medford, MA 02155, USA email: misha.kilmer@tufts.edu The responsible Editor-in-Chief of the special issue is: Volker Mehrmann Institut f. Mathematik, MA 4-5 TU Berlin D-10623 Berlin, Germany email: mehrmann@math.tu-berlin.de