ORGANIZERS:
Gideon Schechtman (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Tomek Szankowski (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Benjamin Weiss (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Banach spaces are the main objects of functional analysis which in turn is a framework for much of modern mathematical analysis. By its nature, Banach space theory is rather eclectic, both with regard to the problems posed and to the methods applied. It is intertwined with many other fields of mathematics, such as convexity, combinatorics, high-dimensional probability, finite metric spaces, harmonic analysis, non-linear functional analysis, differentiability theory etc.
Since the 1950s, Jerusalem has been one of the most important centres of Banach space theory. This is due mainly to two people, Professors Aryeh Dvoretzky and Joram Lindenstrauss, of The Hebrew University. In 1962, Lindenstrass obtained his PhD under Dvoretzky and he quickly became one of the leading researchers in the field. In 1970, he was invited to give a lecture at ICM. From 1986, Lindenstrass was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences, and in 1981 he received the Israel Prize. He mentored 13 PhD students.
Professor Joram Lindenstrauss passed away on April 29, 2012, and was a very active researcher until his death. This conference will be a tribute to his memory, covering topics that were dealt with by Lindenstrauss in his influential, lifelong research.
SPEAKERS:
Radoslaw Adamczak (University of Warsaw)
Semyon Alesker (Tel Aviv)
Spiros Argyros (NTU of Athens)
Florent Baudier (Texas A&M)
Bela Bollobas (University of Cambridge)
Alejandro Chavez (University of Texas, Austin)
Charles Fefferman (Princeton)
Vladimir Fonf (Ben-Gurion)
Dan Freeman (Saint Louis)
Hillel Furstenberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Apostolos Giannopoulos (University of Athens)
Gilles Godefroy (Université Paris 6)
Bill Johnson (Texas A&M)
Sergei Kisliakov (PDMI, St. Petersburg)
Boaz Klartag (Tel Aviv)
Alexander Koldobsky (University of Missouri)
Hermann Konig (University of Kiel)
Eva Kopecka (University of Innsbruck)
Rafal Latala (University of Warsaw)
Sean Li (New York)
Elon Lindenstrauss (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Alexander Litvak (University of Alberta)
Wolfgang Lusky (University of Paderborn)
Emanuel Milman (Technion)
Vitali Milman (Tel Aviv)
Paul Muller (University of Linz)
Assaf Naor (New York)
Jelani Nelson (Harvard)
Niels Joergen Nielsen (Odense)
Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz (University of Warsaw)
Mikhail Ostrovskii (St. John's)
David Preiss (University of Warwick)
Beata Randrianantoanina (Miami)
Daniel Reem (IMPA, Brazil)
Haskell Rosenthal (University of Texas, Austin)
Mark Rudelson (University of Michigan)
Bunyamin Sari (University of North Texas)
Thomas Schlumprecht (Texas A&M)
Rolf Schneider (University of Freiburg)
Carsten Schutt (University of Kiel)
Eugeniu Spinu (Lakehead)
Nikhil Srivastava (Princeton)
Stanislaw Szarek (Case Western University and Université Paris 6)
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegerman (University of Alberta)
Elisabeth Werner (Case Western)
Michal Wojciechowski (Polish Academy, Warsaw)
Przemyslaw Wojtaszczyk (University of Warsaw)
Ludek Zajicek (Charles University, Prague)
Bentuo Zheng (University of Memphis)
