Scientific programme

The present meeting is a follow-up to the ESF-funded Exploratory Workshop with the same title held in Prague in 2010:

http://www.ujf.cas.cz/ESFxNSA/

Our main objective is to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations across the mathematical physics community and the mathematical analysis community, with a special emphasis on state-of-the-art techniques for the study and application of the theory of non-self-adjoint operators. In Edinburgh the workshop will address modern techniques for the mathematically rigourous justification of non-self-adjoint phenomena encountered in the newly developing fields of:

  • PT-symmetric quantum mechanics,
  • metamaterials,
  • superconductivity,
  • porous media,
  • hydrodynamics.

We hope it will foster contact between leading academics and young researches with potential. Most delegates belong to research communities (mathematical and physical sciences) that would not normally interact with each other. By bringing them together and by motivating exchange of mathematical ideas, we hope they will generate the development of new research trends. During the meeting, there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion sessions. The programme will be organised with a single stream of keynote sessions, alternating with open problem sessions.


Talks

G. Bouchitte Multi-scale approach and resonances in metamaterials abstract presentation
E. B. Davies The History of Science is not as simple as it seems abstract presentation
M. Demuth On eigenvalues of non-selfadjoint operators; A comparison of two approaches abstract presentation
W. D. Evans Bounded operators in Banach spaces and nonlinear eigenvalue problems abstract presentation
H. Langer Continuation of Hermitian functions and inverse spectral problems abstract presentation
M. Levitin Eigenvalues of the operator pencil for a graphene waveguide abstract presentation
M. Marletta Numerical approaches to singular non-selfadjoint differential operators: a review abstract presentation
B. Mityagin Geometric and analytic criteria for convergence of eigenfunction decompositions of Hill and 1D Dirac operators abstract
S. Naboko Operators with Almost Hermitian Spectrum abstract
E. Shargorodsky On the level sets of the resolvent norm of a linear operator abstract presentation
J. Sjostrand Spectral asymptotics for non-selfadjoint differential operators abstract presentation
L. Vega On the evolution of vortex filaments with corners abstract
M. Zworski Decay of correlations in classical and quantum dynamics abstract presentation

Open problems

J. Behrndt Spectral theory of Sturm-Liouville operators with indefinite weights abstract
V. Bruneau Magnetic resonances and meromorphic families of non-self-adjoint operators abstract
C. Camara A Riemann-Hilbert approach to Toeplitz operators and the corona theorem abstract
M. Chugunova Stability of regularized shock solutions in coating flows abstract
P. Djakov 1D Dirac operators with trigonometric polynomial potentials abstract
F. Genoud The spectrum of second order multi-point problems abstract presentation
R. Henry The complex cubic oscillator: spectral instability and real spectrum abstract
F. Herau tba abstract
I. Karambal Perturbation determinant and the Evans function abstract presentation
M. Kolb Differential operators with exotic boundary conditions arising in probability theory abstract
D. Krejcirik The cloaking effect in metamaterials: beyond ellipticity abstract
S. Malham Computing spectral determinants for multi-dimensional non-selfadjoint operators abstract
F. Nier Alternative proofs of maximal and non maximal subelliptic estimates for geometric Kramers-Fokker-Planck equations abstract
Ch. Tretter Two open problems from linear stability analysis in hydrodynamics abstract presentation
J. Viola The rate of exponential resolvent growth for quadratic operators abstract presentation
M. Vogel Eigenvalue statistics for a model non-self-adjoint semiclassical differential operator with a small random perturbation abstract presentation
X.-P. Wang Real resonances of Schroedinger operators with complex-valued potentials abstract presentation


In addition to these scheduled contributions, all participants are encouraged to report on supplementary recently encountered open problems.



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