Newcastle upon Tyne 12-16 July 2004

The next International Workshop on Operator Theory and Applications (IWOTA) is being organised at the University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, where it will be held from Monday, 12 July to Friday, 16 July, 2004. IWOTA is conveniently scheduled near the time of the MTNS meeting (Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems), to which it started off as a satellite conference. In 2004, MTNS will be held the preceding week in Leuven, Belgium. This IWOTA meeting will be the fifteenth in a series of highly successful IWOTA meetings. The previous IWOTA meetings were held in Santa Monica (1981), Rehovot (1983), Amsterdam (1985), Mesa AZ (1987), Rotterdam (1989), Sapporo (1991), Vienna (1993), Regensburg (1995), Bloomington (1995), Groningen (1998), Bordeaux (2000), Faro (2000), Blacksburg (2002) and Cagliari (2003). The organisers of the present meeting intend to adhere to the high standards set by these previous meetings. The purpose of IWOTA 2004 is to bring together mathematicians and engineers interested in operator theory and its applications. Adhering to to the tradition of recent meetings, our focus is primarily on a few special themes, suggested by research existing at Newcastle University and other British universities: applications of operator theory to function theory, including control theory, multivariate operator theory and operator model theory, spectral theory of non-selfadjoint operators, including differential operators, operator spaces and their applications. List of conference registrants and talk titles Conference photo. Conference photo key. Names for the key. List of conference registrants and talk titles If you would like to be added to the IWOTA mailing list, please enter your email address below: Upon submission, you will receive an email at this address with further details on the conference.				Plenary speakers include: Jim Agler   (San Diego, USA) Calin-Grigore Ambrozie   (Bucharest, Romania) William Arveson   (Berkeley, USA) Albrecht Boettcher   (Chemnitz, Germany) Isabelle Chalendar   (Lyon, France) Alastair Gillespie   (Edinburgh, UK) Israel Gohberg   (Tel Aviv, Israel) William Helton   (San Diego, USA) John McCarthy   (St. Louis, USA) Christian Le Merdy   (Besançon, France) Jonathan Partington   (Leeds, UK) Vern Paulsen   (Houston, USA) Vladimir Peller   (Michigan, USA) Malcolm Smith   (Cambridge, UK)   Semi-plenary speakers include: Damir Arov   (Odessa, Ukraine) Douglas Farenick   (Regina, Canada) Birgit Jacob   (Dortmund, Germany) Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel   (Leiden, the Netherlands) Manfred Möller   (Witwatersrand, South Africa) Sandra Pott   (York, UK) Andre Ran   (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Eugene Shargorodsky   (London, UK) Patrick de Wilde   (Delft, the Netherlands) Dmitry Yakubovich   (Madrid, Spain)     IWOTA 2004 is supported in part by grants from The London Mathematical Society, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), and the National Science Foundation (USA).     The steering committee for IWOTA includes Israel Gohberg (president), Tsuyoshi Ando, Joseph Ball, Harm Bart, Hari Bercovici, Antonio Ferreira dos Santos, Aad Dijksma, Harry Dym, Ciprian Foias, William Helton (vice president), Marinus Kaashoek (vice president), Martin Klaus, Heinz Langer, Cornelis van der Mee, Reinhardt Mennicken, Nikolai Nikolskii, Leiba Rodman, Sebastian Seatzu and Joseph Stampfli.
Some useful information for planning your trip: Visa information Getting to the meeting Train travel timetables Train tickets Use this to buy train tickets in advance at reduced fares. If your address is outside of the UK, they will make the tickets available for you to collect at the station. There is also a link for buying Eurostar tickets here for travel from Brussels, Lille and Paris to London by train. Low cost airlines: A number of budget airlines fly into Newcastle from throughout Europe, including EasyJet, Ryan Air and SN Brussels Airlines. Newcastle airport Car rentals: Avis, Europcar, Hertz, National Car Rental all operate out of Newcastle airport. Driving directions City centre map and another map which also shows the names of the University Buildings Climate information for Newcastle Weather forcast for Newcastle Electricity: The electrical current is 220/240 volts (coming into line with the rest of Europe at 230 volts), 50 cycles/sec alternating current (AC). Wall outlets take three-pin plugs, and shaver sockets take two round, oversize prongs. If you plan on bringing a laptop, you will probably only need to change the plug on your power supply to use it here. Currency conversion rates Restaurants Pubs Some restaurant and pub reviews Tourist attractions Northumberland visitors guide Hadrian's wall Detailed historical information on the northeast of England Archaeological information on Northumberland and County Durham				Conference Planner Here is a list of other conferences of possible interest to IWOTA participants, along with their web pages, where available.   COSY   19-23 May   Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Canadian Operator Theory Symposium) GPOTS   26-30 May   College Station, Texas, USA (Great Plains Operator Theory Seminar) ECM   27 June - 2 July   Stockholm, Sweden (European Congress in Mathematics) ICOT   30 June - 5 July   Timisoara, Romania (International Conference in Operator Theory) OTAMP   6-11 July   Bedlowo, Poland (Operator Theory and Applications in Mathematical Physics) MTNS   5-9 July   Leuven, Belgium (Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems) IWOTA   12-16 July   Newcastle, UK (International Workshop in Operator Theory and Its Applications) ILAS   19-22 July   Coimbra, Portugal (International Linear Algebra Society) RANMAM   23-30 July   Lancaster, UK (Random Matrices at Ambleside)