Please send further contributions to J.R.Partington@leeds.ac.uk. Some of the older links on this page are known to be no longer valid.
26.11.09 There will be a meeting for early-stage researchers in Functional Analysis, to be held in Newcastle from the 11th-13th January 2010. Any postgrads or postdocs in analysis are welcome; for more details, go to http://www.jamespic.me.uk/yfaw.
16.10.09 Dr Pedro Miana (University of Zaragoza, Spain) is visiting Leeds until 15th December. His interests lie in semigroups and Banach algebras.
7.8.09 Prof Christiane Tretter (University of Bern, Switzerland) will give a public lecture on applications of operator theory on Tuesday, September 8, at 7pm at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Title, abstract and the exact venue will be posted in due course.
11.6.09 There is a lectureship in Analysis advertised in Cardiff, deadline June 19: http://www.cf.ac.uk/maths/newsandevents/news/vacancies/index.html, and some temporary lectureships in Mathematics in Glasgow, deadline July 17: http://tr.im/o88B.
1.5.09 There will be an international conference on Operators and Operator Algebras in the University of Edinburgh on December 8th to 11th 2009. The Honorary Organisers are Alastair Gillespie and Allan Sinclair. The conference website is http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~saw/ooae/.
23.1.09 A one-day meeting of the Irish-Scottish Operator Algebra seminar will be held at the University of Glasgow on Saturday 21st February 2009. More details here.
19.11.08 The 3rd International Workshop on Elementary Operators and their Applications (ElOp2009) -- a satellite to the BMC 2009 -- will take place in Queen's University Belfast from 14-17 April 2009. Further details at http://elop2009.awardspace.co.uk/.
17.11.08 There will be a Graduate Student Mini-Meeting on Operator Theory and Spaces of Analytic Functions on Wednesday 17th December and Thursday 18th December 2008 in Leeds. For more information, see the Conference website.
17.10.08 A meeting in Harmonic Analysis and Geometric Measure Theory in memory of Laura Wisewell will take place on December 16, 2008 at the University of Glasgow. Details can be found on http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1spott/LauraWork.html.
16.7.08 There is a one-year teaching fellowship in Pure Mathematics advertised at Leeds, with deadline July 21st: see here.
11.7.08 Glasgow has just advertised a temporary lectureship in Analysis for 2 years, deadline August 1: see here.
1.7.08 We congratulate our NBFAS secretary, Sandra Pott, on her promotion to a Readership at Glasgow.
27.6.08 Dr Romesh Kumar of the University of Jammu is visiting Leeds until September 4th through a UK-India Science Network. He works on composition operators.
19.5.08 There will be a workshop on Phenomena in high dimensions in Lancaster, 14th-19th September 2008.
14.5.08 A two-day meeting New Directions in Noncommutative Geometry is to be held in the School of Mathematics, Manchester University, on Thursday and Friday 10-11 July 2008. This meeting is also a celebration of Roger Plymen's 65th birthday.
25.4.08 There are various posts advertised at Lancaster, including a lectureship in Pure Mathematics. Closing date 27th May 2008.
4.4.08 Two lectureships in Mathematics are advertised at the University of York. Closing date April 29th.
3.3.08 There will be an Instructional Workshop on Subfactors and Planar Algebras (SFPA2008) at Queen's University Belfast, 26-28 August 2008.
19.2.08 There will be a meeting on Banach Algebras and Harmonic Analysis at the University of Leeds on Tuesday 22nd April and Wednesday 23rd April 2008.
16.2.08 There will be a conference at University College, Cork on Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, from 7th to 9th May 2008, in memory of Gerard Murphy.
19.1.08 We congratulate Gordon Blower, former NBFAS secretary, on his promotion to Professor at the University of Lancaster.
13.12.07 Three jobs in Pure Mathematics have just been advertised at Glasgow, including one job which is going to be in Analysis. One appointment may be made at senior level. More information here.
4.12.07 The University of Aberdeen is advertising some "new blood" lectureships, and hopes to make appointments in mathematics under this scheme (at all levels). More details here.
3.12.07 The University of Oxford has joined NBFAS.
3.11.07 We welcome Dr Stuart White of Glasgow as the new NBFAS Treasurer.
5.10.07 Dr Dona Strauss (of the late Maths Department at Hull) has been appointed as an Honorary Visiting Fellow at Leeds.
10.8.07 We are very sad to report that Graham Allan, of Cambridge and formerly Leeds, died on Thursday 9th August.
27.7.07 It is with great sadness that we have to tell you that our NBFAS treasurer, Laura Wisewell of Glasgow, has died. She was only 30 years old.
18.7.07 There are two postdoctoral positions in Analysis at Cardiff, starting on 1 September 2007 or as soon as possible thereafter. One job is for 36 weeks and is related to spectral pollution, spectra of Toeplitz matrices, and Fourier analysis. Another is for two years on a project dealing with spectral problems (arising in oceanography) for PDEs and operator pencils in unbounded domains. Links to full descriptions and "how to apply" details are at http://www.cf.ac.uk/maths/. Informal enquiries to Michael Levitin.
29.6.07 Dr András Zsák of the University of Nottingham has been appointed to a Teaching Fellowship at Leeds for the academic year 2007-8.
22.5.07 Some NBFAS members may be interested in the course on Spectral properties of banded Toeplitz matrices, to be given in Reading on June 18th-19th by Prof. Albrecht Böttcher of Chemnitz. See http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sms05ml/OT/Boettcher/ for details.
21.5.07 There is a workshop on Harmonic Analysis in Edinburgh on June 6th 2007. For more details, see http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~wright/WorkshopII/
8.5.07 There is a 30-month Post-doctoral Research Associate position available at Lancaster University to work with Dr. D. M. Elton on the EPSRC funded project "Spectral Properties of Magnetic Operators". Further details of the project can be found at http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~elton.
30.4.07 There is a postdoc position in Analysis available at Strathclyde, which may be of interest to NBFAS members. See http://www.mis.strath.ac.uk/Personnel/open/r392007.htm. Further information is available from Matthias Langer.
7.3.07 There is a lectureship in Pure Mathematics advertised at Lancaster. Closing date March 30th. Details will be available on http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/personnel/jobs/.
27.2.07 Since 1998 there has been an annual meeting on Functional Analysis at QUB. The tenth edition will take place on 1 December 2007 in the usual format. The main speaker is Professor Thierry Giordano (Ottawa University) on Topological Orbit Equivalence: New developments. More details will be available in due course. Please watch the BFAD website at http://www.qub.ac.uk/bfad.
22.11.06 The next BMC is in Swansea, April 16th-19th 2007. Invited speakers include Alain Connes and there is a special session in Harmonic Analysis. The web page is http://bmc.swansea.ac.uk/.
11.11.06 There will be a two-day Banach Algebras mini-meeting, held in Leeds on May 15th and 16th 2007. Further details will be available later.
30.10.06 The conference MAA 2007 (Modern Analysis and Applications), dedicated to the 100th anniversary of M.G. Krein, will be held in Odessa, Ukraine, April 9th-14th, 2007. Detailed information on the conference is available on the webpage http://maa2007.onu.edu.ua/.
25.10.06 Sandy and Judy Grabiner of Claremont, California, will be visiting Leeds from mid-January to the end of June 2007 (partially supported by the LMS), and Rick Loy (Australian National University, Canberra) will be there for about April, May and June 2007, supported by an EPSRC grant. It is also expected that George Willis (Newcastle, New South Wales) will visit within this period.
24.10.06 Dr Matthew Daws of St John's College, Oxford, has been appointed to a Lectureship in Pure Mathematics at Leeds.
23.10.06 There are the following Pure Mathematics posts at the University of Nottingham advertised: (i) Lecturer in Pure Mathematics. (ii) Associate Professor and Reader in Pure Mathematics. (iii) Professor in Pure Mathematics.
3.10.06 The Banach Algebras 2007 conference will take place in Laval, Quebec, Canada on July 4th to 12th, 2007. The home page of the meeting is http://newton.mat.ulaval.ca/ba07/.
25.9.06 There is a lectureship in Analysis available in the Department of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds (closing date, October 6th). More information is available at the web page http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/ShowVacancies.aspx?Category=Academic or by direct enquiry to the Head of Department, David Salinger, d.l.salinger@leeds.ac.uk.
4.9.06 A meeting of the LMS network "UK Harmonic Analysis and PDE's Research Network" will be held in Glasgow on Tuesday 19th September 2006. Further details at http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~lw/lms.html.
2.9.06 The web page for the Belfast Functional Analysis Day (see below) is now available at http://www.qub.ac.uk/bfad.
17.8.06 The University of Glasgow has advertised some positions in Pure Mathematics on Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader level (deadline September 15), with Analysis being one of the areas of preference. Details can be found here.
11.8.06 Members of NBFAS may be interested in the conference on "Amenability of Groups and Algebras" in Australia (January 4-8, 2007) to mark Rick Loy's retirement. Its web site is here.
28.7.06 The fifth conference on "Positivity and its Applications" will be held in Belfast from Monday 23rd July to Friday 27th July 2007. It will be preceded by a two day instructional meeting, aimed at postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Roko Aliprantis, Gerard Buskes, Anton Schep, Ben de Pagter and Tony Wickstead have already agreed to contribute to the instructional meeting. Some funding will be available to support postgraduate students from the UK and the Republic of Ireland, as well as participants from Africa and the former Soviet Union. Requests to be added to the mailing list for announcements should be sent to Positivity.V@qub.ac.uk.
23.6.06 There will be a meeting on operator algebras and applications in Leeds on September 21st to 23rd 2006, to mark the retirement of Prof. E.C. Lance. A second announcement, containing further information and registration details, will be circulated in July/August. A website will be available in due course at http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~asw/ecl.htm.
21.6.06 This year's BFAD will feature Prof Andreas Defant from Oldenburg University (Germany) with two one-hour lectures on "Classical summation methods in noncommutative probability" as the main speaker. As usual there will be contributed talks by the participants. The meeting will be held in the Department of Pure Mathematics at Queen's University Belfast on Saturday, 25 November 2006. Please direct any inquiries to m.m@qub.ac.uk A web address will be available later this summer.
13.4.06 Professor Mohammad Moslehian of Ferdowsi University, Mashad, Iran, is visiting Leeds until August 31st 2006. He works in Banach and C* algebras.
16.3.06 A two-day workshop dedicated to all aspects of operator algebras, both selfadjoint and non-selfadjoint, will be held in the Department of Pure Mathematics of Queen's University Belfast on Friday, 5 May and Saturday, 6 May 2006. Organisers: Drs Martin Mathieu and Ivan Todorov. Full details at http://www.qub.ac.uk/opaw2006.
13.3.06 Full details of the LMS Regional Meeting and Workshop in Leeds (July 3rd-7th) are now available here.
22.2.06 There is a chair in Pure Mathematics being advertised at Newcastle. Closing date March 24th 2006. More details here.
13.2.06 Professor Nicholas Young (formerly of Newcastle) has been appointed as a Research Professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds.
12.2.06 There is an associate professorship in Pure Mathematics (mathematical analysis) being advertised at Nottingham. Closing date March 17th 2006. More details here.
23.1.06 There is a lectureship in Mathematics being advertised at York. Closing date February 1st 2006. More details here.
10.1.06 We are very sad to report that Maxim Polyakov, post-doctoral fellow at Leeds, died of a heart attack on January 2nd 2006 in Moscow. He was 31 years old.
Last updated on November 26th 2009 by Jonathan Partington