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Contents Volume 379 Special Issue on the Tenth ILAS Conference (Auburn, 2002) Conference photo R.B. Bapat, R. Kaashoek, R. Mathias, T.Y. Tam and F. Uhlig Preface T. Ando Cones and norms in the tensor product of matrix spaces G. Freiling and A. Hochhaus On a class of rational matrix differential equations arising in stochastic control W. So The high road to an exponential formula S.-G. Hwang and S.-S. Pyo The inverse eigenvalue problem for symmetric doubly stochastic matrices M.T. Chu, F. Diele and I. Sgura Gradient flow methods for matrix completion with prescribed eigen- values V.I. Hasanov, I.G. Ivanov and F. Uhlig Improved perturbation estimates for the matrix equations X+A°X"'A=Q M.-D. Choi and C.-K. Li Norm bounds for summation of two normal matrices L. Lerer, M.A. Petersen and A.C.M. Ran Existence of minimal nonsquare /-symmetric factorizations for self- adjoint rational matrix functions S.-H. Lin and B.-S. Tam Strong linear preservers of symmetric doubly stochastic or doubly substochastic matrices I. Baragana, V. Fernandez and I. Zaballa Hermite indices and equivalence relations T.T. Trent An H?-corona theorem on the bidisk for infinitely many functions M.V. Carriegos and M.I. Garcia-Planas On matrix inverses modulo a subspace 229 Table of Contents continues Table of Contents continued A. Compta, J. Ferrer and M. Pena Dimension of the orbit of marked subspaces A. Amparan, S. Marcaida and I. Zaballa Assignment of infinite structure to an open-loop system M.-Q. Chen and X. Li An estimation of the spectral radius of a product of block matrices J.K. Baksalary, J. Hauke, X. Liu and S. Liu Relationships between partial orders of matrices and_ their powers A.C.M. Ran and M.C.B. Reurings A nonlinear matrix equation connected to interpolation theory .... J.K. Baksalary, O.M. Baksalary and T. Szulc Properties of Schur complements in partitioned idempotent matrices C. Xu Completely positive matrices F. Puerta, X. Puerta and S. Tarragona Versal deformations in orbit spaces L. Qiu and T. Chen Unitary dilation approach to contractive matrix completion K.R. Driessel On computing canonical forms using flows S.K. Jain and J. Tynan Nonnegative matrices A with AA* > 0 G. Cohen, S. Gaubert and J.-P. Quadrat Duality and separation theorems in idempotent semimodules E. Tyrtyshnikov Kronecker-product approximations for some _ function-related matrices A. Oktac¢ Student discussions on a Linear Algebra problem in a distance- education course K.H. Kim and F.W. Roush Inclines and incline matrices: a survey P.D. Egleston, T.D. Lenker and S.K. Narayan The nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem Table of Contents continues Table of Contents continued G. Gueudet-Chartier Should we teach linear algebra through geometry? F. Uhlig Report on the 10th ILAS Conference “Challenges in Matrix Theory” at Auburn University in June 2002 Author index to volume 379 CONTENTS This journal is part of ContentsDirect, the free alerting service which sends tables of contents by e-mail for Elsevier books and journals. You can register for ContentsDirect ®e online at: http://contentsdirect.elsevier.com