Tin-Yau Tam (譚天祐)
Department Chair & Professor
Seneca C. and Mary B. Weeks Chair in Mathematics
Mathematics & Statistics, University of Nevada, Reno
Office: DMSC 314C | Email: ttam@unr.edu | Mail Stop: 0084
Phone: 775-682-7175 | Fax: 775-786-6378
Mailing Address:
314 Davidson Mathematics and Science Center
University of Nevada, Reno (Mail Stop: 0084)
1664 N Virginia St, Reno, NV 89557-0084, USA
About the Weeks Endowed Chair: Mary Lea Benson Weeks was a 1902 State Normal School graduate from the University. She married miner and cattle rancher, Seneca Weeks, in 1907. She left an estate gift to the University to establish an endowed chair in the basic sciences, which was established in 1983.
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Matrix Theory, Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, Multilinear Algebra, Numerical Range, Operator Theory and Their Applications.
I serve on the following editorial boards:
Linear and Multilinear Algebra
Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra
Special Matrices
I serve as a member of
Board of Governors of Pacific Journal of Mathematics
I am a reviewer of
Math Reviews
zbMATH
2024 Distinguished Reviewer for zbMATH, recognized by zbMATH Editorial Board
Scientific Organizing Committee Chair, the 11th International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications (ICMAA 2027), Haci Bayram Veli University, Ankara, Turkey, July 2027 (exact dates to be determined).
Organizer, Minisymposium "Matrix Means and Related Topics" at the 26th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS 2025), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, June 23-27, 2025 (with Trung Hoa Dinh and Sejong Kim).
Scientific Organizing Committee Member, the 17th Workshop on Numerical Ranges and Numerical Radii, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, June 19-21, 2025.
Organizer, ILAS Special Session "Matrix Analysis and Applications" at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM 2025), Seattle, USA, January 8-11, 2025 (with Mohsen Aliabadi and Luyining Gan).
Organizer, Special Session “Numerical Ranges” at the 35th International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications (IWOTA 2024), University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, August 12-16, 2024 (with Ilya Spitkovsky).
Chair of Organizing Committee, 2024 Workshop “Matrices and Operators,” University of Nevada, Reno, USA, June 14-17, 2024 (MAO 2024, with Valentin Deaconu, Alex Kumjian, Pan Shun Lau, Chi-Kwong Li).
Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Matrix Analysis and Quantum Information Theory (MAA & QIT 2024), University of Sciences, Hue University, Hue City, Vietnam, June 3-6, 2024 (with Trung Hoa Dinh, Fuzhen Zhang, Hiroyuki Osaka, Cong Trinh Le, Minh Toan Ho, The Khoi Vu, Hung Nguyen, Qing-Wen Wang, Bui Quang Vu).
Organizer, ILAS Special Session "Generalized Numerical Ranges and Related Topics" at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM 2024), San Francisco, USA, January 3-6, 2024 (with Pan Shun Lau).
Scientific Organizing Committee Member, the 2023 China-Korea International Conference on Matrix Theory with Applications, Nanchang University, Jiangxi, China, December 1-4, 2023.
Co-organizer, minisymposium “Matrix Analysis and Applications” at the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, August 20-25, 2023 (with Luyining Gan, Qing-Wen Wang, Yang Zhang).
Organizer, the 10th International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications (ICMAA 2023), Yunnan University, China, June 21-24, 2023 (with Chaoqian Li, Qing-Wen Wang, Fuzhen Zhang).
Scientific Organizing Committee, the 12th Seminar on Linear Algebra and Its Applications (SLAA), Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran, July 18-19, 2023 (in honor of Professor Heydar Radjavi).
Organizer, JMM-ILAS Special Session "Matrices and Operators" Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM 2023), Boston, USA, January 4-7, 2023 (with Mohsen Aliabadi and Pan Shun Lau).
Organizer, the 9th International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications (ICMAA 2022), University of Aveiro, Portugal, June 15-17, 2022 (with Enide Andrade, Rute Lemos, Qing-Wen Wang, Fuzhen Zhang).
Organizer, JMM-ILAS Special Session "Matrix Analysis and Applications," (Virtual) Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM 2022), April 6-9, 2022 (with Mohsen Aliabadi and Luyining Gan).
Scientific Organizing Committee Member, the 2021 China-Korea International Conference on Matrix Theory with Applications & the 6th International Workshop on Matrix Inequalities and Matrix Equations (IRCTMT-AORC Joint Meeting & MIME 2021, Virtual) Hainan Normal University, Hainan, China & Shanghai University, China, November 26-27, 2021.
Organizer, Mini-symposium (12 speakers in three sessions Virtual) "Matrix Equations, Matrix Inequalities, and Applications" at SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (LA21), New Orleans, May 17-21, 2021 (with Dominique Guillot and Pan Shun Lau).
Organizer, Lecture Series on Renowned Chinese Mathematicians in the 20th Century Who Made Great Contributions to Matrix Theory, December 11, 18, 25, 2020 (Virtual, with Qing-Wen Wang and Fuzhen Zhang).
Organizing Committee Chair, the 8th International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications (ICMAA 2019), University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, July 15-18, 2019.
Organizer, Minisymposium "Matrix Equations and Matrix Inequalities", 2018 ILAS Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 8-12, 2019.
Organizing (Scientific) Committee, the 7th International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications (ICMAA), Shinshu University, Japan, June 22-25, 2018.
Organizing (Scientific) Committee, the 2018 International Workshop on Matrix Inequalities and Matrix Equations, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, June 8-10, 2018.
Co-organizer, the 6th International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications (ICMAA), Duy Tan University, Vietnam, June 14-18, 2017.
Organizer, the 2017 Mathematical Biology Workshop, Auburn University, Alabama, USA, August 24, 2017 (with Overtoun Jenda).
Organizing (Scientific) Committee, the 2017 International Workshop on Matrix Inequalities and Matrix Equations, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, June 6-8, 2017.
Organizing (Scientific) Committee, the 2016 International Workshop on Matrix Inequalities and Matrix Equations, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, June 8-10, 2016.
Organizer, the 2016 Southern Regional Algebra Conference (SRAC), Auburn University, Auburn, March 18-20, 2016 (with Ulrich Albrecht).
Co-organizer, the 5th International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, December 18-20, 2015.
Organizing (Scientific) Committee, the 2015 International Workshop on Matrix Inequalities and Matrix Equations, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, June 28-30, 2015.
Organizing (Scientific) Committee, the 2014 Shanghai International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SICMAA2014), Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, December 14-16, 2014.
Organizer, ILAS 2014 Minisymposium "Inequalities in Matrix, Operators, and Lie Groups", Seoul, South Korea, August 6-8, 2014 (with Natalia Bebiano) .
Organizing (Scientific) Committee, Karatekin Mathematics Days, Turkey, June 11-13, 2014.
Organizing (Scientific) Committee, the 2013 Shanghai International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SICMAA2013), Shanghai, China, December 27-29, 2013, in honor of the 80th birthday of Professor Er-Xiong Jiang.
Organizing Committee, the 4th International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Konya, Turkey, July 2-5, 2013.
Scientific Organizing Committee, the 18th International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) meeting, Providence, RI, USA, June 3-7, 2013.
Nominating Committee Member of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS), 2023.
Advisory Committee Member of the International Linear Algebra Society, ILAS, March 1, 2020 - February 28, 2022.
Scientific Committee Member, International Research Center on Tensor and Matrix Theory of Shanghai University, 2017-present.
Member, Board of Directors of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS), 2010-2013.
Member, American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Member, International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS).
International Workshop on Matrix Analysis, Linear Algebra, and Applications (MALAA2025), ro be held at the Institute of Mathematics, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, July 1-2, 2025.
(Keynote lecture) 12th Seminar on Linear Algebra and Its Applications (SLAA), Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran, July 18-19, 2023 (in honor of Professor Heydar Radjavi).
(Keynote lecture) Matrix Analysis and Its Applications, Quynhon University, Vietnam, July 7-8, 2023.
(Keynote lecture) The Second International Workshop on Matrix Theory and Its Applications, hosted by the Department of Mathematics at Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan, the Department of Mathematics at Naresuan University, Thailand, and Bukhara State University, Uzbekistan, November 15-17, 2022 (Virtual).
(Keynote lecture) The First NU-SIBAU International Workshop on Matrix Theory and Its Applications, hosted by the Department of Mathematics at Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan and the Department of Mathematics at Naresuan University, Thailand, October 15-17, 2021 (Virtual).
The 10th Seminar on Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran, August 16-19, 2020 (Virtual).
The 2019 Conference on Higher Math Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, July 29-August 1, 2019.
Cuarta Escuela de Análisis Funcional y Geometría, Instituto Argentino de Matematica in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 22-26, 2018.
(Keynote Lecture) The 13th International Conference on Matrix Theory and Applications (MTA 2018), Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, August 17-22, 2018.
The 2017 Korea-China International Conference on Matrix Theory and Application, AORC-IRCTMT Joint Meeting (ICMTA 2017), Sunkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea, December 14-17, 2017.
Conference on Linear Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (in honor of the retirement of Professor Ron Smith), March 5-6, 2016.
ILAS 2014, Seoul, South Korea, August 6-9, 2014.
The 2013 Shanghai International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SICMAA2013), Shanghai, China, December 27-29, 2013.
The 4th International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey, July 2-5, 2013.
Hongyang Dai (Ph.D. student), University of Nevada, Reno, USA.
Jie Tian (Ph.D. student), University of Nevada, Reno, USA.
Nancy De Menzelthe (Ph.D. student), University of Nevada, Reno, USA.
Xiang Xiang Wang (Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2025), Research Associate, Michigan State University, USA.
Daryl Granario (Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2020), Associate Professor, De La Salle University, Philippines.
Luyining "Elaine" Gan (Ph.D. Mathematics, 2020), Distinguished Research Fellow, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China.
Sima Ahsani (Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2018), Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, USA.
Jianzhen "Jason" Liu (Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2017), Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo, New York, USA.
Zachary Sarver (Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2016), Software Engineer II, Microsoft, Atlanta, USA.
Mary Clair Thompson (Ph.D. in Mathematics 2013), Data Scientist, Bainbridge Health, North Carolina, USA.
Xuhua "Roy" Liu (Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2012), Associate Professor, University of North Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
Wen Yan (Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2005), Professor, Tuskegee University, Alabama, USA.
Charles Dolberry (Ph.D. In Mathematics, 2002), Associate Professor, Andrew College in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. Deceased on August 14, 2023.
William Chris Hill (Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2001), Professor, Department of Mathematics, Middle Georgia State University, Georgia, USA.