Purpose

Invited Speakers

• Tsuyoshi Ando, Hokkaido University, Japan. ando@es.hokudai.ac.jp
• Fumio Hiai, Tohoku University, Japan. hiai.fumio@gmail.com

Remark: The following matrix and operator meetings will be held in the summer of 2018.

• The 2018 International Workshop on Matrix Inequalities and Matrix Equations (MIME 2018) will be held at Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, June 8-10, 2018.
• The 2018 Workshop on Numerical Ranges and Radii (WORNA 2018) will be held at Technical University, Munich, Germany, June 13-17, 2018.
• The 2018 Workshop on Matrices and Operators (MAO 2018) will be held at Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, July 15-17, 2018.
• The 17th Conference of Korean Operator Theory and Applications (KOTAC 2018) will be held in Kyugju, Korea July 18-19, 2018.

Organizers

• Hiromichi Ohno, Shinshu University, Japan.
• Hiroyuki Osaka, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
• Tin-Yau Tam, Auburn University, USA.
• Qing-Wen Wang, Shanghai University, China.
• Fuzhen Zhang, Nova Southeastern University, USA.

Local organizing committee

• Hiromichi Ohno, Shinshu University, Japan.
• Hiroyuki Osaka, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
• Jun Kawabe, Shinshu University
• Akito Suzuki, Shinshu University
• Mamoru Okamoto, Shinshu University

Venue

• Shinshu University, Nagano-Engineering Campus W2 and W5. See Campus Map.
• Registration will be open on the ground floor of the building W2.

From airports to Shinshu University

• From Narita airport to Nagano Station: Please follow the sign "Train" and go to the ticket office of "Narita Express" or "JR line". Please tell staffs that you want to go to Nagano. Then, you can buy tickets from Narita airport to Nagano Station including limited express train tickets of Narita Express and Hokuriku Shinkansen. I recommend reserved seat tickets. It costs about 11,000 yen. You need to change a train at Tokyo Station. Hokuriku Shinkansen starts from Track No.20,21,22,23.
• From Haneda airport to Nagano Station: Please buy a "Tokyo Monorail" ticket from Hameda airport to Hamamatsucho Station. At Hamamatsucho Station, please follow the sign "JR line" and go to the ticket office "JR Resevation Ticket Office". Please tell staffs that you want to go to Nagano. Then, you can buy tickets from Hamamatsucho Station to Nagano Station including a limited express train ticket of Hokuriku Shinkansen. I recommend reserved seat tickets. It costs about 9,000 yen (totally). Then, please go to Tokyo Station by "Yamanote line" or others. You need to change a train at Tokyo Station. Hokuriku Shinkansen starts from Track No.20,21,22,23.
• This is a map from Nagano Station to Shinshu University.
• I will install some signboards in the Nagano-Engineering Campus of Shinshu University.

Events and Their Schedules

• Registration will be open on Friday afternoon, June 22, 2018 and on Saturday, June 23, 2018.
• All talks will be scheduled on Saturday and Sunday, June 23-24, 2018.
• Banquet (4000 yen for students, free for participant who pay for registration fee) will be held on Sunday evening June 24, 2018.
• Free discussion session will be arrangement on Monday, June 25, 2018.

Registration and Deadlines

• Participants need to confirm with Fuzhen Zhang (zhang@nova.edu, for oversea participants) and Hiromichi Ohno (h_ohno@shinshu-u.ac.jp, for Japanese participants) if they can come by April 15 May 15, 2018.
• Registration fee: 6,000 yen for regular participants paid on 22nd or 23rd on arrival; it is waived for students.

Visa Exemption Countries (for short visits)

• See the list of the website and please read the contents carefully.

Travel and Accommodation

• Shinshu University is near Nagano station.
  How to go from airports to Nagano station and Shinshu University (Nagano-Engineering Campus). It takes 20 minutes from Nagano Station to Shinshu University by foot.
• Participants need to book a hotel room by their own. The list of hotels in Nagano is here. We recommend hotels near Nagano station. The following are some of recommendation, but other hotels are also good.
  • Hotel Sunroute Nagano-Higashiguchi,
  • Hotel Mielparque Nagano,
  • Hotel Metropolitan Nagano,
  • Nagano Plaza Hotel,
  • Toyoko Inn Nagano-eki Zenkoji-guchi.
• If you cannot book a hotel room for some reasons, please contact to the local organizer Hiromichi Ohno (h_ohno@shinshu-u.ac.jp). In this case, the local organizer needs to know the following by April 15, 2018:
  • arrival and departure dates from the participants.
  • Accommodation needs:
    (a) if participants need a single room, a double room (one large bed or two beds, or more than one rooms for their family members)
    (b) if the participants come by himself/herself, and want to share room, including the gender (male or female) information.
  • if participants have any dietary restriction (for example, vegetarian, vegan, food allergy), special accommodation, etc.

Submission of Abstracts and Titles

• Participants who want to give a talk should send the title and abstract by May 15, 2018 to Fuzhen Zhang (zhang@nova.edu) using the following LaTex template
• If you need an acceptance letter of your talk, please email Hiromichi Ohno (h_ohno@shinshu-u.ac.jp) and Fuzhen Zhang (zhang@nova.edu).

Program

• PROGRAM, ABSTRACTS

Photos

• PHOTOS

Confirmed Participants

• Tsuyoshi Ando, Hokkaido University, Japan. ando@es.hokudai.ac.jp
• Enide Andrade, University of Aveiro, Portugal. enide@ua.pt
• Hoa Binh, Quy Nhon University, Vietnam(student). hoabinhcdsp@gmail.com
• Lei Cao, Georgian Court University, NJ, USA. leicaomath@gmail.com
• Delin Chu, National University of Singapore.
• Muneo Cho, Kanagawa University, Japan. chiyom01@kanagawa-u.ac.jp
• Carlos M. da Fonseca, Kuwait University.
• Frank Hansen, Tohoku University. frank.hansen@m.tohoku.ac.jp
• Fumio Hiai, Tohoku University, Japan. hiai.fumio@gmail.com
• Jieun Huh, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea.
• Masatoshi Ito, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan. m-ito@maebashi-it.ac.jp
• Takashi Itoh, Gunma University, Japan. itoh@gunma-u.ac.jp
• Sachindranath Jayaraman, IISER Thiruvananthapuram. sachindranathj@gmail.com
• Tongsong Jiang, Heze University, P. R. China. jiangtongsong@sina.com
• Vo Khue, University of Finance and Marketing, Vietnam. bksphcm@gmail.com
• Volha Kushel. kushel@mail.ru
• Seung-Hyeok Kye, Seoul National University, Korea. kye@snu.ac.kr
• Hosoo Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. hosoolee@skku.edu
• Rute Lemos, University of Aveiro, Portugal. rute@ua.pt
• Wen Li, South_China_Normal_University, Guangzhou, China.
• Yongdo Lim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. ylim@skku.edu
• Yue Liu, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, P.R. China. liuyue@fzu.edu.cn
• Yasumichi Matsuzawa, Shinshu University, Japan. myasu@shinshu-u.ac.jp
• Vatsalkumar N. Mer, IISER Thiruvananthapuram. vatsal.n15@iisertvm.ac.in
• Little Hermie Monterde, University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines. lbmonterde@up.edu.ph
• Himadri Mukherjee, BITS Pilani, India. himadrim@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
• Masaru Nagisa, Chiba University, Japan. nagisa@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp
• Hiromichi Ohno, Shinshu University, Japan (organizer). h_ohno@shinshu-u.ac.jp
• Hiroyuki Osaka, Ritsumeikan University, Japan (organizer). osaka@se.ritsumei.ac.jp
• Chris Paige, McGill University, Canada. chris@cs.mcgill.ca
• Agnes T. Paras, University of the Philip-pines Diliman, Philippines. agnes@math.upd.edu.ph
• Yusuke Sawada, Nagoya University, Japan (student). m14017c@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
• Siripong Sirisiuk, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. siripong.srs@gmail.com
• Raymond Nung-Sing Sze, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. raymond.sze@polyu.edu.hk
• Ryo Tabata, National Institute of Technology, Ariake College, Japan. tabata@ariake-nct.ac.jp
• Kotaro Tanahashi, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan. tanahasi@tohoku-mpu.ac.jp
• Tin-Yau Tam, Auburn University, USA (organizer). tamtiny@auburn.edu
• Jun Tomiyama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. juntomi@med.email.ne.jp
• Yukihiro Tsurumi, Ritsumeikan University, Japan (student). ra0006hk@ed.ritsumei.ac.jp
• Yoichi Udagawa, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
• Qing-Wen Wang, Shanghai University, China (organizer). wqw@t.shu.edu.cn
• Changqing Xu, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, China.
• Takanori Yamamoto, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan. yamamoto@elsa.hokkai-s-u.ac.jp
• Takeaki Yamazaki, Toyo University, Japan. t-yamazaki@toyo.jp
• Masahiro Yanagida, Tokyo University of Science, Japan. yanagida@rs.tus.ac.jp
• Ke Ye, Chinese Academy of Science, China. kennyyeke@hotmail.com
• Guan Yu, National University of Singapore. ricky7guanyu@gmail.com
• Daochang Zhang, Northeast Electric Power University.
• Fuzhen Zhang, Nova Southeastern University, USA (organizer). zhang@nova.edu
• Yang Zhang, University of Manitoba, Canada. yang.zhang@umanitoba.ca
• Zhaozhong Zhang, Linyi University. touchang@163.com