ESF exploratory workshop on

Mathematical aspects of the physics with non-self-adjoint operators

30 August - 3 September 2010
Prague, Czech Republic


The workshop is made possible by the kind financial support from:
ESF


It is also partially supported by the Doppler Institute for mathematical physics and applied mathematics, Czech Republic

Doppler Institute
Praha
Imaginary numbers by Yves Tanguy
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Studying non-self-adjoint operators is like being a vet rather than a doctor: one has to acquire a much wider range of knowledge, and to accept that one cannot expect to have as high a rate of success when confronted with particular cases.

A quotation from the preface to the 2007 book Linear operators and their spectra by E. B. Davies