The Northeast Analysis Network (NAN) is a regional conference series, seeking to bring together the Mathematical Analysis communities in New York and neighboring Northeast states annually in the early Fall. The University of Rochester, Syracuse University, and the University at Albany hosted the first three conferences (Rochester: NAN 2016; Syracuse: NAN 2017; Albany: NAN 2018). Starting in 2019, the University of Connecticut has joined the series. NAN 2019 was held at Storrs, and after a hiatus due to COVID-19, Albany hosted NAN 2022. NAN 2023 will now take place in Rochester, Sept. 23-24, 2023, and NAN 2024 will be at Syracuse. The conferences are sponsored by the National Science Foundation and by the hosting institutions.
The strong representation of the Mathematical Analysis research area in the Northeast region spans a multitude of research areas in allied fields that are known to benefit from mutual interaction, but lack concrete opportunities for the latter to take place, as typical conferences tend to be limited to rather specialized research areas.
The NAN conference series is a forum for researchers at all stages in their career (finishing graduate students; post-docs; tenured/tenure-track faculty) to showcase their most recent work and share ideas. Each edition features a professional development component, and it is hoped that participants will benefit from each other's knowledge and experience.
The Excelsior Lectures, which are named after the New York State motto, are talks by leading researchers which serve as a focus for each conference. Within each edition of NAN, the first Excelsior Lecture is of expository nature and accessible to young mathematicians and non-experts. Additional activities complement and expand the scope of the conferences, to benefit the community at large and to enrich the professional development of post-docs and graduate students.
Note: The NAN conference series, like many others, was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The mentoring component of NAN does not lend itself well to an online version and the organizers have decided that, while in-person attendance is unsafe or might reasonably be perceived as unsafe by potential participants, it is preferable to delay rather than pivot to a remote format, and only resume in-person meetings when they can be experienced safely.