Spectral Theory and Partial Differential Equations

A conference in honor of James Ralston

UCLA June 17-21, 2013

Invited speakers

Claude Bardos (Paris VI)
Mikhail Belishev (Steklov Institute)
Michael Crandall (Santa Barbara)
Semyon Dyatlov (Berkeley)
Jean-Claude Guillot (Ecole Polytechnique)
Bernard Helffer (Orsay)
J. William Helton (San Diego)
Oleg Imanuvilov (Colorado State)
Hiroshi Isozaki (Tsukuba)
Victor Ivrii (Toronto)
Gilles Lebeau (Nice)
Hailiang Liu (Iowa State)
Richard Melrose (MIT)
Adrian Nachman (Toronto)
Didier Robert (Nantes)
John Sylvester (Washington)
Terence Tao (UCLA)
Daniel Tataru (Berkeley)
Michael Taylor (Chapel Hill)
Andras Vasy (Stanford)
Monica Visan (UCLA)
Masahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo)
Steve Zelditch (Northwestern)
Maciej Zworski (Berkeley)

Organizing committee:

Gregory Eskin (UCLA) Leonid Friedlander (Arizona)
John Garnett (UCLA) Rowan Killip (UCLA) Terence Tao (UCLA)

Conference Website:

http://www.math.ucla.edu/RalstonConference/
We gratefully acknowledge support from the NSF

 


Registration and Applications for Support:

All participants are asked to register via this form.

A portion of the NSF funds are set aside to support post-docs and graduate students to attend the conference. Those wishing to apply should complete the corresponding part of the registration form. Applications for funding are due no later than April 15th. No letters of recommendation are required; however we ask that you have your advisor/mentor send a short message in support of your application to raltsonconf@math.ucla.edu.

Schedule of Lectures:

Click here for the time-table, including abstracts.

Accommodation, Dining, and Navigation:

Westwood village on the southern edge of the UCLA campus has numerous eateries, shops, and hotels. We hope the following resources will help you enjoy your stay:

Below is a map to help with on-campus navigaion:
X = Location of Math Sciences building.
P = Parking: (1) Parking booth on Westwood Plaza (=Blvd). (2) Self-service parking entrance to structure #2.
F = On-campus food: Kerckhoff coffee house (salads/sandwiches) and Ackerman Union (Sbarro/Panda Express/Carls Jr./Rubio's)

Getting around campus