Dear Colleague,

we would like to invite you to take part in the Fourth Najman Conference on Spectral Problems for Operators and Matrices, to be held from September 20-25, 2015 in Opatija, Croatia.

The purpose of this conference is to commemorate the scientific contribution of Branko Najman by bringing together scientists working in areas of mathematics related to his work, with an emphasis on the following fields 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
  • Evolution equations, semigroups, control theory
  • Matrix analysis
  • Numerical methods related to any of the above.

The conference will feature plenary lectures by distinguished speakers, contributed talks, and a poster session. The invited plenary lectures will be presented by

  • Wolfgang Arendt
  • Albrecht Böttcher
  • Zlatko Drmač
  • Pavel Exner
  • Jürg Fröhlich (to be confirmed)
  • Marcel Griesemer
  • Matthias Langer
  • Sergey Naboko
  • Christiane Tretter

The advisory board of the conference consists of Paul Binding (University of Calgary), Aad Dijksma (University of Groningen), Vjeran Hari (University of Zagreb), Birgit Jacob (University of Wuppertal), Vadim Kostrykin (University of Mainz), Heinz Langer (TU Wien), Mark Malamud (Donetsk National University), Gerald Teschl (University of Vienna), Zvonko Tutek (University of Zagreb), Krešimir Veselić (University of Hagen) and Jürgen Voigt (TU Dresden)

More information about previous conferences in the Najman series can be found on the web-page of the conference
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 Millennium Hotels Opatija (http://www.milenijhoteli.hr/opatij/en/grand-hotel-4-opatijska-cvijeta.php). The price of the conference package will be 423€, including 5 nights halfboard in a single room, coffee breaks, wifi, and the use of conference room and other standard facilities. For price reductions for shared double room accommodation, as well as for accompanying persons please see the conference website. All rooms have a private bath.

Please register for the conference as described on the web-page in order to facilitate our preparation. The deadline for the registration on the conference web page is February 28. Please note that after this deadline, all the following announcements will be sent only to the e-mail addresses of registered participants.

All updates to the conference program will be posted on the conference website.

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), Ivica Nakić (University of Zagreb), Ivan Veselić (TU Chemnitz)

Organizers

Jusssi Behrndt (TU Graz)
Luka Grubišić (Uni. Zagreb)
Ivica Nakić (Uni. Zagreb)
Ivan Veselić (TU Chemnitz)