October 14, 2025 - 5:00pm
The University of Oregon will be home to the Functional Analysis in the Pacific Northwest Conference, from November 8-11. The four-day event aims to bring together a diverse field of mathematicians from around the world and foster an environment for collaboration and exchange of ideas, as well as celebrate this year's guest of honor, the influential functional analysis expert William B. Johnson.
"The conference will bring a whole spectrum of experts in functional analysis to present their latest research advancements, said Marcin Bownik, a mathematics professor at the College of Arts and Sciences and event co-organizer. "This will be a great opportunity for UO mathematical community to learn about the latest developments in this area."
Bownik said the conference is geared toward researchers and is open to graduate students, postdocs and faculty.
The Functional Analysis in the Pacific Northwest features an agenda filled with research presentations from experts from around the world, including the US, Canada, Brazil, Switzerland and Poland. Two speakers are from the UO, one postdoc and one faculty member. Among the list of plenary speakers is UO College of Arts and Sciences Professor Christopher Phillips, whose research specialty is operator algebras.
This year’s conference celebrates Johnson, distinguished professor and A.G. and M.E. Owen Chair of Mathematics at Texas A&M University. His work has made an impact in the field of functional analysis, contributing to areas such as classical as well as nonlinear Banach space geometry, its applications to metric geometry, to theoretical computer science such as the celebrated Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma and its handling of the curse of dimensionality, probability in Banach spaces and algebras of operators. Throughout his tenure as an academic, Johnson has been a mentor for previous and current generations.
For more information about the conference, its schedule, and the full list of participants and research abstracts, visit its website. All talks will be in room 110 in Fenton Hall except Monday talks, which will be in Cedar and Spruce Rooms in the Erb Memorial Union.