This workshop explored applications of classical function theory within modern mathematics. It brought together researchers from a diverse collection of mathematical fields, whose common ground was that they used function theory to make major progress in their area of study.
These participants might not usually interact, but would be able to communicate mathematically due to their shared background in complex analysis, providing fertile ground for fruitful new interactions between subjects, and thereby for fundamental progress in many areas of mathematics.
The timing of the workshop had been chosen to also celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Alexandre Eremenko (Purdue University), a world leader in function theory whose work had a profound influence on a wide range of disciplines, including the theory of meromorphic functions, differential equations, dynamical systems, geometry (both differential and algebraic), potential theory, holomorphic curves, and theoretical physics.
We were very grateful for the support from ICMS, the National Research Foundation of Korea, and the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.
We were grateful to Springer for providing a copy of the book Research Problems in Function Theory: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by Walter Hayman and Eleanor Lingham as the prize for the poster competition.
