First announcement

Dear Colleague,

we would like to invite you to take part in the Third Najman Conference on Spectral Problems for Operators and Matrices, to be held from September 16-22, 2013 in Biograd, Croatia.

The purpose of this conference is to commemorate the scientific contribution of Branko Najman by bringing together scientists working in related areas of mathematics.

Topics of the conference include all the aspects of the work of the late prof. Najman, with an emphasis on the following areas of research:

  • General operators and spectral theory, structured operators and matrices
  • Indefinite inner product spaces
  • ODEs and Sturm-Liouville theory
  • Elliptic PDEs including Schrödinger operators
  • Semigroups, control theory
  • Matrix analysis
  • Numerical methods related to any of the above.

Each session of the conference will be devoted to a specific topic and will begin with an introductory lecture by a senior researcher.

The advisory board of the conference consists of Paul Binding (University of Calgary), Aad Dijksma (University of Groningen), Vjeran Hari (University of Zagreb), Heinz Langer (TU Wien), Zvonko Tutek (University of Zagreb), Krešimir Veselić (University of Hagen) and Jürgen Voigt (TU Dresden).

More information about the conference can be found on the web-page http://web.math.pmf.unizg.hr/najman_conference. For all inquiries please use the e-mail address: najman_conference@math.hr.

The conference venue will be at the Hotel Adria (http://www.hoteladria.hr/eng). The price for the conference package will be around 300€, which will also cover the accommodation costs, social programme and meals. Limited financial support might be provided for researchers who cannot obtain funding from their home institutes. Please consult the conference website for the most up-to date information.

Please register to the conference as described on the web-page in order to facilitate our preparation.

You are welcome to pass this invitation to any colleagues who might be interested in this conference.

With best regards, the Organizing Committee,

Jussi Behrndt (TU Graz), Luka Grubišić (University of Zagreb), Birgit Jacob (University of Wuppertal), Vadim Kostrykin (University of Mainz), Mark Malamud (Donetsk National University), Ivica Nakić (University of Zagreb), Gerald Teschl (University of Vienna), Ivan Veselić (TU Chemnitz)