International Workshop on Operator Theory and Applications 2016

Washington University, Saint Louis MO

Investigators

Abstract

The purpose of this grant is to provide funding for the International Workshop on Operator Theory and Applications (IWOTA) to be held July 16-22, 2016 on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. IWOTA is an annual conference that has been held throughout the world and it returns to the United States for the first time since 2008. IWOTA brings together mathematicians from around the world in both pure and applied areas (related to the field of operator theory) for the purposes of collaborating, sharing new research, and educating graduate students and early career researchers. IWOTA 2016 makes a special effort to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in mathematics through its selection of speakers and its designation as a conference conducted "in cooperation with the Association for Women in Mathematics." The funds for this grant will be used to support the travel of main speakers as well as graduate students and early career researchers. IWOTA has two main scientific goals. First, it serves as a meeting place for mathematicians in the field of operator theory. Many of the main speakers of the conference are experts in operator theory with recent innovations to share with the broader community. The conference has numerous special sessions to allow subgroups within operator theory (such as free analysis/probability, applied harmonic analysis, and systems and function theory) to collaborate. Second, IWOTA has always had the goal of increasing the interaction of pure operator theorists, applied mathematicians, and engineers. IWOTA 2016 intends to continue this tradition through its main speakers and special sessions. http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/iwota2016/