A photo from one of the workshopsThe Riemann-Hilbert Problem and Toeplitz Operators

Sep 3, 2007 - Sep 7, 2007

Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh

Organisers

Name Institution
Böttcher, Albrecht Techical University of Chemnitz
Deift, Percy New York University
Shargorodsky, Eugene King's College London

Short Report

Applications of the Riemann-Hilbert problem to integrable systems, orthogonal polynomials and random matrices is one of the most vigorously developing branches of mathematics at present. The recent research in this area has resulted in spectacular progress in many directions, especially those related to the study of asymptotic behaviour of integrable models, and in creation of new powerful methods such as the nonlinear steepest descent method for the Riemann-Hilbert problem.

The spectral theory of Toeplitz operators has also seen significant recent progress in several directions including operators with piece-wise continuous symbols on general Carleson curves with arbitrary Muckenhoupt weights and operators with matrix semi-almost periodic symbols. There is also quite a number of recent striking, often counterintuitive, results on Toeplitz matrices. The latter is a subject attracting a great deal of interest from researchers involved with numerical linear algebra, pseudospectra, C*-algebras, orthogonal polynomials, random matrices, representation theory, stochastic processes and other fields.

The main aim of the workshop was to bring together the top researchers who apply the Riemann-Hilbert problem to integrable systems, orthogonal polynomials and random matrices, and those who work in the spectral theory of Toeplitz operators, to review the current state of the field and, most importantly, to discuss plans for the future.

The workshop was attended by 34 researches representing a wide variety of backgrounds and interests. The programme consisted of six 50 minutes long talks and twenty 30 minutes long talks. A most important feature of the timetable were very long lunch breaks from 12:30–12:45 to 15:50. These breaks provided the participants with plenty of time for discussions and much mathematics was done during these periods.

Participants list and links to available presentations are further down this page.

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Photos from the workshop

Arrangements

The workshop will begin on Monday 3 September and finish on Friday 7 September 2007. Participation is by invitation only.

Venue
The Workshop will be held in Scott Russell Building Room 112 at Heriot-Watt University. The campus is on the western edge of the city, near the airport, with excellent public transport to and from Edinburgh city centre. The easiest way to get there from the airport is by taxi at a cost of about £10.00. There is no direct bus from the airport to HW. If you arrive by train or coach in central Edinburgh, there are a number of buses that will take you directly to the campus.

The university's website has a map showing the location of the university and instructions on how to reach it by various forms of transport, http://www.hw.ac.uk/home/dir/40/edinburgh-campus then choose ‘Edinburgh Campus Maps and Directions’.

Registration
There will be a combined Registration and Welcome Buffet from 19.00 to 21.00 on Sunday 2 September, in the College Lounge, Heriot-Watt University. Food will be available between 19.00 and 20.30. Please note you may register at anytime between 19.00 and 21.00. Those who cannot register on Sunday evening may do so on Monday 3 September prior to the start of the lectures or during the first coffee break, at a Registration desk which will be situated in the Scott Russell Room 114.

Audio/Visual Facilities
A data projector, overhead projector, laptop, two blackboards and flipchart will be available.

Accommodation and Facilities
Single study-bedrooms have been reserved at Heriot-Watt University. All rooms have a private shower and toilet and a telephone. The telephone will access incoming calls. You need to buy a telephone card from Reception in order to make outgoing calls. Each room also has an internet point should you wish to bring your laptop, although there is a charge for this service. We have also arranged free email and internet access in some of the central computer labs and the Library. Please see http://www.hw.ac.uk/uics/images/pc_cal_lab_map_print_out.pdf. WIFI access areas are located in some parts of the university. Please see http://www.hw.ac.uk/uics/Help_FAQs/WiFi_Locations.html

On arrival go to the main University and Conference Centre Reception in the James Watt Centre which is manned 24 hours. You may check into your room from 14.00 on the day of arrival. Your room must be vacated by 10.00 on the day of departure. There is a £20.00 charge for any bedroom key not returned to Reception by 11.00 on the morning of departure. Please note that if you do not check out by noon, you will be charged for a full night of accommodation. If you are not leaving immediately, luggage may be left temporarily in the baggage room at James Watt Centre Reception.

Meals and Refreshments
Breakfast will be provided for Heriot-Watt University residents for the period of their stay in the Middle Floor Dining Room. Lunch will be provided on weekdays only (Monday 3 September to Friday 7 September) 11.45 to 14.00 also in the Middle Floor Dining Room.
Evening meals will be provided on campus in the Middle Floor Dining Room on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 18.00 to 20.00.

There will be a buffet supper (free of charge to delegates) in the College Lounge on the evening of Sunday 2 September between 19.00 and 20.30. Participants may register for the workshop during this buffet. There will also be an opportunity to register on Monday morning prior to the first talk.

A Workshop Dinner will be held on Thursday 6 September in Scholars Restaurant at Heriot-Watt.

Financial Matters
The workshop grant will cover the cost of single en-suite bed and breakfast accommodation at Heriot-Watt. Lunches and evening meals Mon-Fri inclusive on campus and the Sunday evening buffet supper will also be provided. Please note that we cannot reimburse any meals taken off campus.

Under the terms of our EPSRC funding we are required to charge a 30.00 GBP registration fee to cover costs not admissable under the grant. Please contact ICMS if this fee will be difficult for you to pay, as we may be able to waive this cost for some participants e.g. graduate students. Otherwise, you will be advised about payment methods at a later date.

 

Programme

Sunday 2 September
19.00 - 21.00 Registration & buffet, College Lounge (Food available until 20.30)

Monday 3 September
08.30 - 09.30
Registration
09.30 - 10.00Estelle Basor (California Polytechnic State University)
Dimer Models and Toeplitz Determinants
10.05 - 10.35Igor Krasovsky (Brunel University)
Hankel determinants with singular symbols
10.40 - 11.10
Yuri Karlovich (Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico)
Algebras of pseudodifferential operators and their applications
11.10 - 11.40
Tea/Coffee
11.40 - 12.30
Harold Widom (Univeristy of California, Santa Cruz)
On the inverse and determinant of certain truncated Wiener-Hopf operators
12.30 - 15.50Lunch (Middle floor dining room)
15.50 - 16.40
Jinho Baik (University of Michighan)
Total Integrals of Painleve II Solutions
16.40 - 17.10Tea/Coffee
17.10 - 17.40
Elias Wegert (TU Bergakademie Freiberg)
Blaschke representation of functions on the circle
18.00Dinner (Middle floor dining room)

Tuesday 4 September
09.10 - 09.40Marko Lindner (University of Reading)
Fredholmness of operators in the Wiener algebra
09.45 - 10.15Nikolai Vasilevski (Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados, Mexico)
On the structure of the C^*-algebra generated by Toeplitz operators with piecewise continuous symbols
10.20 - 10.50Miroslav Englis (Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Toeplitz operators from various viewpoints
10.50 - 11.20
Tea/Coffee
11.20 - 12.10
Torsten Ehrhardt (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Gap probabilities in Random Matrix Theory and Determinants of Wiener-Hopf Hankel operators
12.15 - 12.45
David Wenzel (Technische Universitat Chemnitz)
A probability argument in favor of ignoring small singular values of Toeplitz operators
12.45 - 15.50
Lunch (Middle floor dining room)
15.50 - 16.40
Maurice Duits (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
An equilibrium problem for the limiting eigenvalue distribution of banded Toeplitz matrices
16.40 - 17.10Tea/Coffee
17.10 - 17.40
Sergei Grudsky (Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados, Mexico)
Uniform boundedness of Toeplitz matrices with variable coefficients
18.00 Dinner (Middle floor dining room)

Wednesday 5 September
09.30 - 10.00Mo Man Yue (University of Bristol)
Entanglement in the generalized XY model and block Toeplitz determinant
10.05 - 10.35Francesco Mezzadri (University of Bristol)
Derivative of Riemann-zeta function, Toeplitz determinants
10.40 - 11.10
Yang Chen (Imperial College London)
A singular linear statistics and Painleve III
11.10 - 11.40
Tea/Coffee
11.40 - 12.10
Beatrice Pelloni (University of Reading)
Riemann-Hilbert and d-bar problems and moving boundaries
12.10 Lunch then free afternoon
18.00 Dinner (Middle floor dining room)

Thursday 6 September

09.30 - 10.00Arno Kuijlaars (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Riemann-Hilbert steepest descent analysis for non-intersecting squared Bessel paths
10.05 - 10.35Jani Virtanen (University of Helsinki)
Toeplitz and Hankel operators on the Bergman space A^1
10.40 - 11.10
Eugene Shargorodsky (King's College London)
Toeplitz operators with bounded measurable coefficients
11.10 - 11.40
Tea/Coffee
11.40 - 12.30
Ilya Spitkovsky (College of William and Mary)
On the almost periodic factorization
12.30 - 15.50Lunch (Middle floor dining room)
15.50 - 16.40
Alexander Its (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
On the Riemann-Hilbert approach in the theory of Toeplitz and Hankel determinants
16.40 - 17.10Tea/Coffee
17.10 - 17.40
Thanasis Fokas (Cambridge University)
Riemann-Hilbert and Dbar formalism, imaging and integrability
19.30Workshop Dinner at Scholar's Restaurant

Friday 7 September
09.30 - 10.00Sandra Pott (University of Glasgow)
Tangential interpolation in vector-valued H^p spaces, Carleson measures and applicationd to controlability
10.05 - 10.35
Vladimir Peller (Michighan State University)
Approximation by analytic matirx functions in L^p
10.40 - 11.10
Jonathan Partington (University of Leeds)
Laplace's equation and approximation in Hardy spaces in 2 and 3 dimensions
11.10 - 11.40
Tea/Coffee
11.40 - 12.30
Discussion
12.30 - 15.50
Lunch (Middle floor dining room)
15.50 - 16.40 Discussion
16.40 - 17.10
Tea/Coffee
17.10 - 17.40
Discussion
18.00
Dinner (Middle floor dining room)

Presentations:

Presentation Details
Baik, Jinho
Total Integrals of Painleve II Solutions
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Basor, Estelle
Dimer Models and Toeplitz Determinants
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Chen, Yang
A singular linear statistics and Painleve III
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Duits, Maurice
An equilibrium problem for the limiting eigenvalue distribution of banded Toeplitz matrices
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Ehrhardt, Torsten
Gap probabilities in Random Matrix Theory and determinants of Wiener-Hopf Hankel operators
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Englis, Miroslav
Toeplitz operators from various viewpoints
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Fokas, Thanasis
Riemann-Hilbert and Dbar formalism, imaging and integrability
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Grudsky, Sergei
Uniform boundedness of Toeplitz matrices with variable coefficients (A. Böttcher and S. M. Grudsky)
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Its, Alexander
On the Riemann-Hilbert approach in the theory of Toeplitz and Hankel determinants
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Karlovich, Yuri
Algebras of pseudodifferential operators and their applications
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Krasovsky, Igor
Hankel determinants with singular symbols
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Kuijlaars, Arno
Riemann-Hilbert steepest descent analysis for non-intersecting squared Bessel paths
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Lindner, Marko
Fredholmness of Operators in the Wiener algebra
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Man Yue, Mo
Entanglement in the generalized XY model and block Toeplitz determinant
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Mezzadri, Francesco
Derivative of the Riemann-zeta function, Toeplitz determinants
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Partington, Jonathan
Laplace's equation, and approximation in Hardy spaces in 2 and 3 dimensions
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Peller, Vladimir
Perturbation of functions of contractions
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Pelloni, Beatrice
Riemann-Hilbert and d-bar problems and moving boundaries
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Pott, Sandra
Tangential interpolation in vector-valued H^p spaces, Carleson measures and applications to controllability
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Shargorodsky, Eugene
Toeplitz operators with bounded measurable coefficients
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Spitkovsky, Ilya
On the almost periodic factorization
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Vasilevski, Nikolai
On the structure of the C^*-algebra generated by Toeplitz operators with piece-wise continuous symbols
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Virtanen, Jani
Toeplitz and Hankel operators on the Bergman space A^1
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Wegert, Elias
Blaschke representation of functions on the circle
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Wenzel, David
A probability argument in favor of ignoring small singular values of Toeplitz operators
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Widom, Harold
On the inverse and determinant of certain truncated Wiener-Hopf Operators
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Participants

Name Institution
Baik, Jinho University of Michigan
Basor, Estelle California Polytechnic State University
Borodin, Alexei California Institute of Technology
Böttcher, Albrecht Techical University of Chemnitz
Cafasso, Mattia SISSA
Chen, Yang Imperial College London
Deift, Percy New York University
Dritschel, Michael University of Newcastle
Duits, Maurice Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Ehrhardt, Torsten University of California Santa Cruz
Englis, Miroslav Academy of Sciences, Prague
Fokas, Thanasis Cambridge University
Grudsky, Sergei CINVESTAV
Its, Alexander Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Karlovich, Yuri Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos
Krasovsky, Igor Brunel University
Kuijlaars, Arno Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Lasarow, Andreas Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Lindner, Marko University of Reading
Man Yue, Mo University of Bristol
McGuinness, Bronagh University of Ulster
Mezzadri, Francesco University of Bristol
Partington, Jonathan University of Leeds
Peller, Vladimir Michigan State University
Pelloni, Beatrice University of Reading
Pott, Sandra University of Lund
Shargorodsky, Eugene King's College London
Spitkovsky, Ilya College of William and Mary
Toland, John Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Vasilevski, Nikolai Cinvestav
Virtanen, Jani University of Helsinki
Wegert, Elias Tech Univ Bergakademie Freiberg
Wenzel, David Technical University of Chemnitz
Widom, Harold University of California, Santa Cruz