5.III.2010 | Second announcement

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the second announcement of Functions and Operators, the conference in honour of Professor Franciszek Hugon Szafraniec on the occasion of his 70th birthday. It is going to be held at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, June 21-25, 2010.

Apologies if you have already received this email more than once. Because some people have reported us about difficulties in sending their emails to the default conference address, in the case (and only then) you experience problems such as these, please forward the message to the alternative e-mail address:

REGISTRATION

The deadline for registration is April 30, 2010. Below you will find the registration form. Please fill it in and send it back to us (fao2010@im.uj.edu.pl).

FEE

The conference fee is 190 EUR. It includes lunches during the conference days and the conference dinner. The fee should be paid on the bank account before May 1, 2010. The payment is possible only through bank transfer. The payment by cash on site is not possible.

The conference fee should be wired to the faculty account:

The account holder address is

Please do not forget to mention FaO2010 on the payment and keep a copy of the payment until the beginning of the conference.

SOCIAL EVENTS

We plan to organize a trip to the Salt Mine of Wieliczka, a world class historical monument inscribed in UNESCO's First World List of Cultural and Natural Heritage. The current ticket price is 41 PLN (about 10 EUR). IMPORTANT UPDATE! This price does not cover a guide, the actual price with a guide is about 55 PLN.

A visit to University Museum in Collegium Maius will be open to everybody.

CONFERENCE DINNER

A celebratory dinner in honour of Professor Szafraniec is going to be in one of the evenings. Every registered participant is invited. Tickets (for accompanying persons) will be available at the conference reception desk for IMPORTANT UPDATE! the price of 120 PLN (approx. 30 EUR).

HOTELS

We urge you to book the hotel as soon as possible (Krakow is a very touristic city and June/July is the high season). We suggest the hotels which offer a lower price for participants of the FaO conference. Attached you will find the list of hotels together with detailed information containing reservation codes, which is a slightly expanded version of that which appeared in the previous announcement.

For other hotels see: http://www.krakow.pl/en/turystyka/hotele

FINANCIAL SUPPORT VIA MUTUAL EXCHANGE AGREEMENTS

We attach the list of universities (Exchange.pdf) which have an exchange agreement with Jagiellonian University. If you find your university on the list, you may apply for financial support. In order for the application to be accepted by Jagiellonian University you should put the name Jan Stochel (and/or Dariusz Cichon) as an inviting person and let us know about that.

ABSTRACTS

Please send us the abstracts (less than one page) before June 1, 2010. We kindly request to use our template, which is available on the conference website www.im.uj.edu.pl/fao2010.

PROCEEDINGS

We intend to publish the conference proceedings as a volume of ''Complex Analysis and Operator Theory''.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For touristic and cultural information about Poland and Kraków we suggest the following addresses:
www.cracow.travel
www.poland.gov.pl
www.krakow.pl/en
en.karnet.krakow.pl

CURRENCY

The current exchange rates are available at http://www.nbp.pl/homen.aspx?f=/kursy/ratesa.html

NEXT ANNOUCEMENT

At the beginning of June we will send you a preliminary programme of the conference.

On behalf of the organizing committee
Jan Stochel

9.XII.2009 | First announcement

Dear Colleagues,

The conference "Functions and Operators" (FaO2010) will take place in Krakow (Poland) between June 21 and June 25, 2010. During the conference we intend to celebrate professor Franciszek Hugon Szafraniec's 70th birthday. The conference is organized by Institute of Mathematics, Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland).

The main topics of the conference include:

• functions (reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, orthogonal polynomials, special functions etc.),
• operators (bounded and unbounded operators with dilation theory in particular, operator algebras and semigroups etc.),
• interconnected topics (positive definite functions, moment problems, commutative and non-commutative harmonic analysis, mathematical physics etc.)

REGISTRATION

All participants will be asked to register filling up the registration form (including the title of a talk) which will be sent with the next announcement in the beginning of 2010. We ask you however to let us know as soon as possible whether you are willing to attend the conference by sending an e-mail at: fao2010@im.uj.edu.pl, so that we can include your e-mail address in the mailing list.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Lecture days start on June 21 and last until June 25, 2010. There will be two sessions: morning and afternoon. Depending on the number of registered participants, parallel sections will be organized. The lectures will take place at the building of Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Jagiellonian University (address: Lojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Krakow, Poland).

FEE

We are trying to reduce the conference fee by applying for the financial support from a few sources. The exact sum of fee will be given in the next announcement.

HOTELS

The participants are asked to make a hotel reservation individually. We suggest the hotels which offer a lower price for participants of the FaO conference. The list of hotels together with a detailed information is attached to this e-mail.

WEB PAGE

The web page devoted to the FaO conference can be found at http://www.im.uj.edu.pl/fao2010. It contains (continuously updated) information on the conference including a list of tentative participants and the web links to hotels.

ADDITIONAL REMARKS

Those of you who need to have a formal invitation in order to apply for a visa (or other issues) are asked to send us the request.

Sincerely,
Jan Stochel (on behalf of the organizing committee)

30.IX.2009 | Initial announcement

It is our pleasure to inform you that we are planning to organize a conference "Functions and Operators" (FaO2010), which will take place in Krakow (Poland) in the week starting on June 21, 2010. During the conference we intend to celebrate Professor Franciszek Hugon Szafraniec's 70th birthday. Exact number of conference days will be adjusted to the expected number of participants as well as to other organizing issues.

The main topics of the conference include: functions (reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, orthogonal polynomials, special functions etc.), operators (bounded and unbounded operators with dilation theory in particular, operator algebras and semigroups), interconnected topics (positive definite functions, moment problems, commutative and non-commutative harmonic analysis) as well as any related ones.

We kindly ask you to let us know as soon as possible whether you are willing to attend the conference by sending an e-mail at: fao2010@im.uj.edu.pl This will help us to give stability to the mailing list as we expect to distribute the next announcement in early autumn 2009. It will contain in particular hotel information as well as financial matters.

Please feel free to pass this announcement to anyone who you think is missing on the list and may be interested in attending. Let us call your attention to another conference which follows the present one. Look at http://www.math.wm.edu/~ckli/wonra10.html

Best regards, Jan Stochel (on behalf of the organizing committee)