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Najman Conference on Spectral Theory and Differential Equations

Formation	2000 (2000)

A series of meetings entitled Najman Conference on Spectral Theory and Differential Equations was started in 2000 to bring together mathematicians working in fields related to scientific interests of the Branko Najman who died prematurely in 1996.

These include:

• general operators and spectral theory
• matrix analysis
• block operator matrices and structured operators and matrices
• indefinite inner product spaces
• ordinary differential equations and Sturm-Liouville theory
• elliptic partial differential equations including Schrödinger operators
• semigroups realated to differential operators
• extremal principles for eigenvalues
• singular perturbations in differential equations
• control theory
• numerical methods related to any of the above.

Later the topics of the conference series were regularly adapted and broadend to reflect new developments. The conferences take place at various locations in Croatia.

History of Najman Conferences

First Najman Conference

In 2000 a memorial conference was organized for Branko Najman, who died prematurely, by his colleagues, the organizing committee consisting of P. Binding, H. Langer, Z. Tutek, and J. Voigt. The official title of the event in Dubrovnik was Memorial Conference for Branko Najman on Applied Analysis and Eigenvalue Problems. The second event of the series took place, after a hiatus, in 2009 again in Dubrovnik under the title The Second Najman Conference on Spectral Problems for Operators and Matrices. P. Binding, A. Dijksma, K. Veselić, and J. Voigtwere the scientific committee and L. Grubišić, I. Nakić, and V. Hari the local organizing committee. Since 2013 the conference takes place in a more regular manner every two years, except for an interruption during the Corona lockdown period. In 2013 the event entitled Najman Conference on Spectral Problems for Operators and Matrices took place in Biograd with J. Behrndt, L. Grubišić, B. Jacob, V. Kostrykin, M. Malamud, I. Nakić, G. Teschl, and I. Veselić as organising committee. Starting with the meeting in 2017 the conferences series has adopted the name Najman Conference on Spectral Theory and Differential Equations. Since 2015 members of the organising committee are J. Behrndt, L. Grubišić, I. Nakić, and I. Veselić.

List of Najman Conference

#	Year	Location	Organizers	Participation
1	2000	Dubrovnik, Croatia	P. Binding, H. Langer, Z. Tutek, J. Voigt	$\pm$24
2	2009	Dubrovnik, Croatia	P. Binding, A. Dijksma, L. Grubišić, V. Hari, I. Nakić, K. Veselić, J. Voigt,	$\pm$41
3	2013	Biograd, Croatia	J. Behrndt, L. Grubišić, B. Jacob, V. Kostrykin, M. Malamud, I. Nakić, G. Teschl, I. Veselić	$\pm$84
4	2015	Opatija, Croatia	J. Behrndt, L. Grubišić, I. Nakić, I. Veselić	$\pm$80
5	2017	Opatija, Croatia	J. Behrndt, L. Grubišić, I. Nakić, I. Veselić	$\pm$83
6	2019	Sveti Martin na Muri, Croatia	J. Behrndt, L. Grubišić, I. Nakić, I. Veselić	$\pm$62
7	2023	Brijuni National Park, Croatia	J. Behrndt, L. Grubišić, I. Nakić, I. Veselić	$\pm$38
8	2025	Dubrovnik, Croatia	J. Behrndt, L. Grubišić, I. Nakić, I. Veselić

External links

• Homepage of conferences series