Professor Qing-Wen Wang, the Director of IRCTMT and the “Shanghai Leading Talents”, began the conference with a warm welcome speech. Afterwards, Prof. Gi-Sang Cheon, the Director of AORC and Prof. Steve Kirkland, the former president of the International Congress of Linear Algebra and the head of Mathematics Department of the University of Manitoba, Canada, separately addressed impassioned remark. Finally, on behalf of conference committee, Prof. Chi-Kwong Li from the College of William & Mary, USA, the former vice president of the International Congress of Linear Algebra and “Overseas Prominent Educator”, delivered a welcome speech.

Beginning with 40-minute keynote talk given by Prof. Steve Kirkland, the former president of the International Congress of Linear Algebra and the head of Mathematics Department of the University of Manitoba, Canada, this conference involved 45 experts and scholars making wonderful talks. It included Prof. Man-Duen Choi from Mathematics Department of the University of Toronto, Canada, the fellow of The Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada; Prof. Chi-Kwong Li from the College of William & Mary, USA, the former vice president of the International Congress of Linear Algebra; Prof. Yiu-Tung Poon from Iowa State University, USA; Prof. Edward Poon from Embry-Riddle University, USA; Prof. Fuzhen Zhang from Nova Southeastern University, USA; Prof. Yang Zhang from University of Manitoba, Canada; Prof. Ying-Fen Lin from Queen’s University Belfast, UK; Prof. Fumio Hiai from Tohoku University, Japan; Prof. Bojan Kuzma from University of Primorska, Slovenia; Prof. Dijana Ilisevic from University of Zagreb, Croatia; Prof. Tamas Titkos from BBS University of Applied Sciences, Hungary; Prof. Gi-Sang Cheon from Sungkyunkwan University, Korea; Prof. Seok-Zun Song from Jeju National University, Korea; Prof. Jor-Ting Chan from The University of Hong Kong; Prof. Raymond Nung-Sing Sze from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Dr. Tingran Gao from University of Chicago, USA, etc. All these talks fully reflected the important research progresses of matrix theory in the frontier and cross-disciplinary fields. During the whole conference, participants spoke enthusiastically, exchanged ideas and shared their experiences, which brought a successful conclusion at 18:00pm on 19th, December.