General
IWOTA 2014 will be held from July 14 to July 18, 2014 at the VU University in Amsterdam. This is the week after MTNS 2014 , which will be held in Groningen.
During the conference there will be two special days, one on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Dima Arov, and one on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Leiba Rodman.
The program is available via this link as a pdf file.
You can pick up your conference materials during pre-registration which is possible at hotel CASA 400 on Sunday July 13 from 17:00 to 20:00, or at any time during the conference at the VU Sciences building at the registration desk in M 0. The registration desk will open on Monday July 14 at 08:00.
The conference is organized by: Tanja Eisner, Birgit Jacob, André Ran (chair), Hans Zwart.
To contact the organizers with questions regarding IWOTA 2014, please write an email to
iwota2014"at"gmail.com
Steering Committee:
T. Ando (Sapporo), |
Previous IWOTA meetings
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Venue
The conference will be held in the building of the Faculty of Sciences at VU University. The buildings are marked "W & N" in the map below. The entrance is at De Boelelaan 1081 or 1085. The location is easily reached from anywhere in Amsterdam, by tram (lines 5, 16, 24), bus line 55 ( warning to those familiar with Amsterdam: metro line 51 will not be operating at the time of the conference, it is replaced by bus line 55 between Amstel station and VU university) , or bus (besides the buslines marked on the map, lines 170 and 172 stop near the university at the Amstelveense weg). The conference location is in the southern part of the city, and can be reached from Schiphol airport via a short train ride (to station Amsterdam Zuid).
Registration
Registration: please fill in the form below to register. Registration will only take effect fully once payment of the conference fee is received.Conference Fee
The conference fee will be 235 euros. This includes the conference dinner, and a 6 day ticket for use in bus, tram and metro within Amsterdam. It does not include the conference excursion.Final information on the excursion will be made available soon, the current plan is to have a guided tour through the Rijksmuseum (costs: 20 euro per person).
The cost for an additional dinner ticket is 72 euro. When making payment please make sure to include any additional dinners and payment for the excursion.
The registration fee should be payed at the latest on May 31 to the following account:
IBAN: NL82 DEUT 0488 0956 38
Recipient name: Vrije Universiteit.
Recipient address: De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam.
Make sure to mention in your payment also: IWOTA2014, VU code 2842311
otherwise your payment may reach the VU university, but not the right account.
The Swift/BIC code of the bank is DEUTNL2N, the account is with Deutsche Bank, Amsterdam. The account number is 488095638.
The address of the bank is:
Deutsche Bank,
De Entree 99-197,
1101 HE Amsterdam
(this is the physical address), or
Deutsche Bank,
Postbus 12797,
1100 AT Amsterdam
(this is the postal address)
Also make sure that your name is mentioned in the payment, in case your university makes the payment for you.
There is a limited possibility to apply for support
from the organizers.
This will never amount to more
than waiving the registration fee.
This possibility
is open for participants from Ukrain, India, Africa
and South America.
Preference will be given to PhD students and postdocs.
Those who wish to apply for this should send a motivated
request to the organizers via the IWOTA 2014 email address
before April 22.
Hotels
Participants are requested to make their own hotel reservations, with the exception of invited plenary and semi-plenary speakers, for whom a reservation will be made in hotel Casa 400. This hotel has a good bus connection (line 55) to the VU-university. It is located next to Amsterdam Amstel station, one of the (many) train stations in Amsterdam. The hotel has good connections to the city centre as well, via metro, and a direct tram connection (line 12) to the museum quarter. The hotel is recommended to other participants as well. For more information, visit the Casa 400 website .
For those who would like to stay elsewhere, Amsterdam has many excellent hotels in all budget categories. For a start, you can look at the website of the Amsterdam Tourist Office.
Registered Participants
Main speakers
Plenary lectures
- Jonathan Partington
- Leiba Rodman
- Francoise Tisseur
- Pablo Parrilo
- Damir Arov
Semi-plenary lectures
- Jim Agler
- Andras Batkai
- Jussi Behrndt
- Albrecht Boettcher
- Malcolm Brown
- Ralph Chill
- Michael Dritschel
- Tom ter Elst
- Markus Haase
- Mark Malamud
- Mark Opmeer
- Orr Shalit
- Christiane Tretter
- Carsten Trunk
- Hugo Woerdeman
- Christian Wyss
Special day on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Leiba Rodman
- Peter Lancaster
- Christian Mehl
Special day on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Damir Arov
- Harry Dym
- Olof Staffans
Special Sessions
Special sessions will be organized by invitation of the organizers. Suggestions for special sessions may be put to the organizers. Such a suggestion should contain: title and short description of the special session, with a tentative list of speakers to be invited. Lectures in special sessions will be 25 minutes; a special session may consist of 4 or 8 such lectures.Suggestions for special sessions should be sent to the IWOTA 2014 email account: iwota2014"at"gmail.com
Below is a tentative list of special sessions.
- Linear operator theory, function theory, and linear systems.
Organizers: Joe Ball and Rien Kaashoek - Free Noncommutative Function Theory and Free Real Algebraic Geometry.
Organizers: Bill Helton and Igor Klep - Spectral theory for Sturm-Liouville and differential operators
Organizers: Jussi Behrndt and Carsten Trunk - Clifford Analysis and Operator Theory
Organizers: Daniel Alpay, Fabrizio Colombo, Uwe Kaehler, Frank Sommen - Dynamics of Linear Operators
Organizers: Sophie Grivaux, Catalin Badea, Frederic Bayart - Continuous and discrete hypercomplex analysis
Paula Cerejeiras and Irene Sabadini - Infinite dimensional systems
Organizers: Birgit Jacob and Hans Zwart - Semigroups: theory and applications
Organizers: Andras Batkai and Balint Farkas - Free probability and operator theory
Organizers: Roland Speicher, Serban Belinschi and Moritz Weber - Toeplitz operators and related topics
Organizers: Sergei Grudsky and Nikolai Vasilevski - Partial differenatial operators and potential method
Organizers: Roland Duduchava and Vladimir Rabinovich - Operator Theory and Harmonic Analysis
Organizers: Alfonso Montes-Rodriguez, Haakan Hedenhalm and Mauel Cepdello
Special day on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Leiba Rodman
- Operators, matrices and indefinite inner products
Organizers: Christian Mehl and Michal Wojtylak
Special day on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Damir Arov
- Organizers: Harry Dym and Olof Staffans
Contributed Talks
Contributed talks will be considered. Interested persons are requested to send in a title and abstract not later than April 1. Please prepare title and abstract in standard Latex, using the template below and submit ONLY THIS TEMPLATE (so not whatever you have to add before, and after the template to make it run in Latex) via the IWOTA 2014 email account.
There will be a special session of contributed talks on Concrete Operators.
This session will be organized by Alfonso Montes-Rodriguez.
Those who would like to take part
in that session are requested to send their abstract to him at his email address:
amontes"at"us.es.
Abstracts for this session should also be prepared using the template below.
\subsubsection*{Title}
{\sl Firstname Lastname}\index{Lastname, F.}
\medskip
\noindent
Text of your abstract. You may make use of commands from the
packages amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb.
If you want to include graphics, please use pdf or jpg, and also send us the necessary files.
If you need to use references, please do not use "the bibliography" and do not use your bibtex file, but make an itemized list as the one below.
If you want to mention your co-authors, please do so at the end of the abstract.
When sending in your abstract, please rename it as: Lastname_Firstname.tex and send us both a tex file and a pdf file.
The talk is based on joint work with Co Author.
\begin{itemize}
\item[{[1]}] A. U. Thor: An interesting paper on Operator Theory,
\emph{Integral Equations and Operator Theory}, 1 (1927), 372--391.
\item[{[2]}] S.O. Meone: \emph{The standard book on Linear Algebra.}
Springer Verlag, 1999.
\end{itemize}
Program
The morning program will consist of a one-hour plenary lecture followed by two semi-plenary lectures (two or three in parallel). After the lunch break, from 13:30 to 18:00 there will be parallel sessions. Lectures in parallel sessions are 25 minutes each. The Wednesday afternoon will be free of lectures.The preliminary program is available via this link as a pdf file.