Barry Simon in the Ceremonial Hall of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Spectral Theory and Mathematical Physics

A conference in honor of Barry Simon's 80th birthday

to be held at the Merkin Center at Caltech, April 27 - May 1, 2026

This conference will bring together leading international researchers in spectral theory and mathematical physics to discuss modern developments in the field. It will also be an opportunity to honor Barry Simon and his vast research contributions.
Speakers
  • Lior Alon
  • Roman Bessonov
  • Jonathan Breuer
  • Jacob Christiansen
  • Sergey Denisov
  • Benjamin Eichinger
  • Rupert Frank
  • Jorge Garza Vargas
  • Lingrui Ge
  • Dirk Hundertmark
  • Vojkan Jakšić
  • Ilya Kachkovskiy
  • Wencai Liu
  • Andrei Martinez Finkelshtein
  • Alexei Poltoratski
  • Alexander Pushnitski
  • Mira Shamis
  • Stanislav Smirnov (to be confirmed)
  • Peter Yuditskii
  • Ofer Zeitouni
  • Xiaowen Zhu
  • Maxim Zinchenko
Organizers
  • Jonathan Breuer (Hebrew University)
  • David Damanik (Rice University)
  • Fritz Gesztesy (Baylor University)
  • Sergei Gukov (Caltech)
  • Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Berkeley)
  • Alexander Kiselev (Duke University)
  • Milivoje Lukić (Rice University)