About Speakers
Richard Aron (Kent State University, Kent OHIO, USA)
Richard M. Aron received his PhD in 1971 from the University of Rochester, after working with Leopoldo Nachbin both in Rochester and in IMPA (Rio de Janeiro). Following a post-doctoral position at the University of Kentucky, Aron was Lecturer and Fellow of Trinity College (University of Dublin). Since 1982 he has been Professor of Mathematics (now Emeritus) at Kent State University.
His work has enabled him to travel a great deal, and he has held visiting positions in Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, and Spain. He has been a Fulbright Fellow on four occasions, Univ. de Buenos Aires and Univ. Torcuato di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Pontificia Univ. Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia), and Univ. College Dublin (Ireland). He is on the Editorial Board of several journals and is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. He is the author/co-author of over 100 articles, mostly in non-linear functional analysis.
Fernanda Botelho (University of Memphis, USA)
Fernanda Botelho is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Memphis. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and completed her undergraduate studies at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
Botelho’s research interest is in Operator Theory but she worked in topics from Geometry of Banach spaces and Dynamical Systems. She is authored and co-authored of more than 80 research articles. She was honored with Donavant Professor in 2013-2016. Botelho was the Director of the Mathematical Sciences for the Graduate Programs in 2015-2018 and currently she is the Graduate Coordinator for Mathematics.
Gilles Godefroy (University of Paris 6, France)
Gilles Godefroy earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie - Paris VI. after working with G. Choquet. Godefroy published more than 150 research articles and 2 books. There are many ways one can demonstrate his area of research. He worked on Geometry of Banach spaces, Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Number Theory, Operator Theory, Probability and Stochastic Process. There are several distinctions and awards he achieved throughout his academic and research career.
Miguel Martin (University of Granada, Spain)
Miguel Martin is Professor at the Department of Mathematical Analysis of the University of Granada, Spain. He completed his PhD in 2000 under the supervision of Rafael Payá. During his whole career, he has realized an extensive research related to Functional Analysis, especially to Banach space theory. The concrete main lines of research are norm attaining operators, numerical range, Daugavet type properties, isometries, norm attainment of operators, Lipschitz maps, and the geometry of Lipschitz-free spaces. According to MathSciNet, he has published more than 80 papers in journals and one book in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Mathematics series. These documents have been published with more than 50 co-authors. His wide network of international collaborators from many countries include Aron (USA), Choi (South Korea), Kadets (Ukraine), Kim (Korea), Koszmider (Poland), Lee (Korea), Popov (Ukraine), Randrianantoanina (USA), Rao (India), Ueda (Japan), and Werner (Germany).
TSSRK Rao (Ashoka University, India)
T. S. S. R. K. Rao is a Visiting Professor from Ashoka University. He is a former Head of Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore and Professor in Charge of ISI. Rao is one of the eminent Functional Analyst in India, has published more than 100 research publications in various domain in Functional Analysis. He worked on Approximation Theory, Analysis on Banach spaces and their geometry, Choquet Theory, Optimization techniques etc.
Tomasz Kania (Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Tomasz Kania obtained his Ph.D. from Lancaster University for a thesis concerning closed ideals of algebras of operators on spaces continuous functions (supervised with N. J. Laustsen). Later worked at various institutions including Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Lancaster University, University College Cork in Ireland, University of Warwick, Czech Academy of Sciences, and Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Kania is interested both in isomorphic and isometric Banach space theory, applications of logic and set theory to these, topological methods in analysis as well as Banach/operator algebras and their links to harmonic analysis. More information can be found at math.cas.cz/~kania/
Vladimir G. Troitsky (University of Alberta, Canada)
Vladimir Troitsky is a professor at the University of Alberta. He earned his PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in Banach lattices and positive operators. He has published abbout 50 papers, organized several conferences, and is on the Editorial Board of several journals.
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P. Veeramani (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
P. Veeramani earned his Doctoral degree from IIT Bombay on 1982. He started his professional career as Lecturer PG Dept. of Mathematics of MJ College, Jalgaon, Maharashtra where he was working from Aug 1982 - October 15,1988. Prof Veeramani joined Dept. of Mathematics IIT Madras on Oct 17th 1988 and continued his service till June 30, 2018. Till now there are all together 12 PhD students submitted thesis under his guidance. His areas of research include Functional Analysis, Approximation theory, Fixed point theory and Optimization.