Colloquium Announcement
Department of Mathematics
West Virginia University

for

Thursday, April 9, 1998, at 3:45pm in 324 Armstrong Hall

(Tea and cookies begin at 3:00 in coffee room.)

Professor Bailian Liu

South China Normal University Guangzhou, P.R.China, and (currently visiting) Univerisity of Pittsburgh


Generalized Exponents of Primitive Matrices

The talk will be suitable for a general audience.

Students are strongly encouraged to participate.

Abstract



Generalized exponents of primitive matrices (digraph) are some new concepts raised by R.A.Brualdi & Bailian Liu in 1990. This lecture is a survey of the concepts and results of generalized exponents.


The information on the future (and past) Colloquia can be also found on web at the address:

http://www.math.wvu.edu/homepages/kcies/colloquium.html