Thirteenth International Workshop on Operator Theory and Applications (IWOTA2002), August 6-9, 2002, Blacksburg, Virginia

Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University, Blacksburg VA

Investigators

Abstract

0126746 Ball The International Workshop on Operator Theory and Applications (IWOTA) has been held biannually since 1981 and more frequently in recent years (starting in 1995) in eight countries in North America, Europe and Asia. The IWOTA conferences offer a rich program on a wide range of the latest developments in operator theory and its applications. In a combination of plenary lectures by eminent mathematicians and parallel sessions of invited and contributed talks, the plan is for this year's conference (to be held August 6-9, 2002 on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia) to cover a wide range of topics, including operator/system theory, operator/scattering theory, operator theory/numerical analysis, operator theory/wavelets and signal processing, operator theory/harmonic analysis as well as topics in Krein space operator theory and core engineering. These topics form a core of the basic science behind a variety of applications, including control of industrial processes or high performance aircraft, tomography and image reconstruction, pulse propagation in optical fibers, seismology, data compression and reconstruction, and identification of only approximately known parameters. The original concept of IWOTA was as a satellite conference for operator theorists to the broader based international symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), to be held August 12-16, 2002 at the University of Notre Dame. While this concept is still in place, the scope of IWOTA has broadened considerably in recent years and IWOTA has now attained an independent identity as a world-wide conference for recent developments in core operator theory and its applications. IWOTA's primary objective is to bring together major researchers in the area of operator theory and related fields. These meetings provide opportunities for all participants to present their own work in contributed talks, to interact with other researchers from around the globe, and to broaden their knowledge of the field by hearing the invited lectures of eminent mathematicians. In addition IWOTA emphasizes cross-disciplinary interaction among mathematicians, electrical engineers and mathematical physicists, and encourages participants to continue on to the MTNS conference for a further broader interdisciplinary interaction. In addition, IWOTA encourages and financially supports the participation of young researchers, i.e., advanced graduate students and recent Ph.D. recipients, for whom the opportunities offered by expert conferences are particularly important