The International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications meets annually to bring together mathematicians and engineers who work in functional analysis and its application to related areas.

This meeting will feature plenary lectures by established experts, and workshop sessions for emerging areas of research. Early career researchers are welcome to participate. To discuss the scientific programme, please email Gordon Blower (g.blower@lancaster.ac.uk).

Special Sessions

The programme will include Special Sessions on the following topics (the standard length of talk is 30 minutes including questions):

1. Operator spaces, quantized function theory and noncommutative L^p spaces
   Organizers: David Blecher (Houston) and Christian le Merdy (Franche-Comte)
2. Operator algebras
   Organizer: Joachim Zacharias (Glasgow)
3. Operator Algebras in Quantum Theory
   Organizers: Jason Crann (Carleton University, Canada) and Ivan Todorov (Queen’s Belfast, UK)
4. Noncommutative Probability and Random Matrices
   Organizers: Jani Virtanen (Reading, UK) and Ken Dykema (TAMU, USA)
5. Operator semigroups and functional calculus
   Organizers: Markus Haase (Kiel) and Yuri Tomilov (IMPAN, Warsaw)
6. Spectral theory and differential operators
   Organizers: Malcolm Brown (Cardiff, UK), Ian Wood (Kent, UK) and Andrii Khrabustovskyi (Graz, Austria)
7. Operator Theory and Communications
   Organizer: Lucinda Hadley (Lancaster)
8. Complex geometry and operator theory
   Organizers: Tirthankar Bhattacharyya (IISc Bangalore) and Łukasz Kosiński (Jagiellonian Univ, Krakow)
9. Free algebraic geometry and free analysis
   Organizers: Viktor Vinnikov (Ben Gurion) and Juric Volcic (TAMU)
10. Emerging topics: from Operator Algebras to Geometric Rigidity
    Organizers: Derek Kitson (Mary Immaculate College) and Rupert Levene (University College, Dublin)
11. Early career researchers
    Organizers: Lefteris Kastis and Maria Eugenia Celorrio Ramirez (Lancaster)
12. Quantum groups and algebraic quantum field theory
    Organizers: Robin Hillier (Lancaster) and Uwe Franz (Besancon)
13. TBC
14. Multivariable Operator Theory
    Organizers: Michael Dritschel (Newcastle, UK) and Greg Knese (Washington St Louis, USA)
15. Complex Analysis and Operator Theory
    Organizer: Kehe Zhu (Albany) and Jani Virtanen (Reading, UK)
16. Operator ideals and operators on Banach spaces
    Organizers: Kevin Beanland (Washington and Lee University, Virginia, USA), Tomasz Kania (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, and Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) and Niels Laustsen (Lancaster)

Timetable

The timetable for Plenary and Semiplenary lectures and Special Sessions can be found here (please note that the timetable is subject to change, and will be updated regularly): IWOTA Lancaster UK 2021 Timetable

Registration

IWOTA Lancaster UK 2021 is online. The Special Sessions will be Zoom Meetings; the plenary and semi-plenary talks will be streamed live on the internet. The links for these talks will be available to the registered participants.

Registration for IWOTA Lancaster UK is now open.

Once you have completed the above registration form, please pay your registration fee using Lancaster University's secure website, here. The cost for attending is £30.

Abstract Submission is now open.

Conference Access

Prior to Monday 16th August, registered participants will receive an email with entry code for a website that contains the joining links for the meeting. If you do not receive the email before the start of the conference, please contact rob@waggleevents.org

Financial Support

Application forms for financial support may be found here:

• UK/Europe-based early career researchers: IWOTA 2020 EPSRC application form
• USA-based researchers: IWOTA 2020 NSF application form

For UK-based mathematicians with caring duties the LMS has a Caring Supplementary Grant scheme which allows participants to apply for help covering caring costs.‌‌