MAM 5 - Fifth International Conference on Matrix Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models

After the meetings in Flint (1995), Winnipeg (1998), Leuven (2000), and Adelaide (2002), the fifth edition of the international conference on Matrix Analytic Methods (MAM5) will be organized by the University of Pisa in June of 2005. The conference is held at the Department of Mathematics in Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 5 (former Via Buonarroti, 2), Pisa.

The conference will provide an international forum for:

presenting recent results on theory, algorithms and applications concerning matrix-analytic methods in stochastic models;
discussing methodologies and the related algorithmic analysis;
improving collaborations among researchers in applied probability, engineering and numerical analysis;
tracing the current state of the art and the lines of the future research, pointing out the main topics of interest.

Organizing Committee

Conference chair:
	Dario A. Bini, University of Pisa, Italy

Program co-chairs:
	Guy Latouche, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Beatrice Meini, University of Pisa, Italy

Organizing committee members:
	Ana da Silva Soares, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Paola Favati, IIT, CNR, Pisa, Italy Giuseppe Fiorentino, Luca Gemignani, Bruno Iannazzo, Ornella Menchi, University of Pisa, Italy

Scientific advisory committee:
	Attahiru Alfa, University of Manitoba, Canda Nigel Bean, University of Adelaide, Australia Lothar Breuer, University of Trier, Germany Srinivas Chakravarthy, Kettering University, USA Tugrul Dayar, Bilkent University, Turkey Winfried Grassmann, University of Saskatchewan, Canada David Green, University of Adelaide, Australia Chun-Hua Guo, University of Regina, Canada Qi-Ming He, Dalhousie University, Canada A. Krishnamoorthy, Cochin University of Science and Technology, India Dirk Kroese, University of Queensland, Australia Ho-Woo Lee, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea Marcel F. Neuts, The University of Arizona, USA Bo Friis Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Shoichi Nishimura, Tokyo University of Science, Japan António Pacheco, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal V. Ramaswami, AT&T Labs, USA Marie-Ange Remiche, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Werner Scheinhardt, University of Twente, The Netherlands Bruno Sericola, IRISA-INRIA, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, France Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA Mark Squillante, IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, USA Tetsuya Takine, Kyoto University, Japan Peter Taylor, University of Melbourne, Australia Miklós Telek, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary Erik van Doorn, University of Twente, The Netherlands Benny van Houdt, University of Antwerp, Belgium Qiang Ye, University of Kentucky, USA