PLENARY SPEAKERS
Gábor Kassay
Department of Mathematics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
Title of the talk: Vectorial Form of Ekeland’s Variational Principle with Applications to Vector Equilibrium Problems
Gábor Kassay received his Ph.D. thesis at the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, under the supervision of József Kolumbán in 1994. He is a professor in Mathematics at the same University, with more than 75 published research papers, several books and book-chapters in the larger area of nonlinear analysis, and more than 1500 citations. Gábor Kassay delivered many invited and plenary talks, was session organizer and guest of honor at prestigious international conferences. He has more than 35 coauthors and collaborators from all over the world. He is currently the supervisor of the Research Group of Analysis and Optimization accredited by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Babeş-Bolyai University. Between 2002 and 2004 he was an associate professor of Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, Cyprus.
José Orihuela
Department of Mathematics, Murcia University, Spain
Title of the talk: Compactness, Optimality and Applications
Positions: Catedrático de Análisis Matemático UMU (Murcia University). Académico correspondiente de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Académico numerario de la Academia de Ciencias de la Re-gión de Murcia. Visiting Fellow Brasenose College, Oxford Univesity, 2001-02.
Professional activities: Temporary Lecturer, University College London (1996). Editor of Serdica Mathematical Journal, Sciences Academy of Bulgarie (1999-2011). Scienti c Committee Revista Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Ser. A Mat. (2005-today). President of Sectorial Estudiantes CRUE (2016-2018). Member of Consejo Superior Estadística (2016-18). Rector of Murcia University (2014-2018).
Visiting positions: Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria (1986), University College London (1991 and 1995), University of Bordeaux (1998), Mathematical Institute Oxford University (2001-2002).
Quality index: Almost all, of the more than 50 publications he has, has been cited by other authors in specialized research papers. Some of them has been used in the development of new doctoral thesis not directed by himself (at least nine thesis). Others has been developed by diff erent authors in books going from basic text in Functional Analysis to specialized monographs (more than ten books). Most of the items in the CV are published in ISI journals and some of them as invited for the editors. Many of them has been presented in meetings and schools as invited speaker.
Biagio Ricceri
Department of Mathematics, University of Catania, Italy
Title of the talk: A survey of the applications of certain minimax theorems
Biagio Ricceri was born in 1955.
He is full professor of Mathematical Analysis since 1987.
He was the mentor of 16 scholars. Among them, 6 are full professors and 7 associate professors.
In 1993, he founded the international journal Set-Valued Analysis (Set-Valued and Variational Analysis since 2009), published by Springer, of which he was the Editor-in-Chief until 2014.
In 2015, he became the Editor-in-Chief of Le Matematiche.
In 2016, he founded the international journal Minimax Theory and its Applications, published by Heldermann Verlag, of which is the Editor-in-Chief.
He also currently serves in the Editorial Boards of the following journals: Journal of Convex Analysis, Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis, Fixed Point Theory, Annals of Functional Analysis, Linear and Nonlinear Analysis.
In the past, he also served in the Editorial Boards of Nonlinear Analysis and Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics.
He visited several universities and was an invited plenary speaker at a large number of international Conferences.
He is one of the five members of the Steering Committee of the International Research Working Group in Nonlinear Analysis and Convex Analysis.
He is the author of more than 130 papers dealing with Minimax Theory, Set-Valued Analysis, Optimization Theory, Calculus of Variations, Nonlinear Analysis, Functional Analysis.