Mike Evans -- National Science Foundation Grant

Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Washington and Lee Department of Mathematics will host the Twenty-Sixth Annual Summer Symposium on Real Analysis, June 25-29, 2002.  Participants will be research mathematicians who specialize in the area of real analysis, a field of mathematics that can perhaps be described as "off-road calculus." These mathematicians will come from across the United States and around the world. Specifically, participants are expected from Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, and the U.S.
These summer symposia have been on-going for a quarter of a century under the auspices of the REAL ANALYSIS EXCHANGE, a research journal devoted to this area. Previous conferences have been held in such locations as Estergom, Hungary; Erice, Sicily; Lodz, Poland; Ulster, Northern Ireland; Bratislava, Slovakia; Wolfville, Nova Scotia; Vancouver, British Columbia; Waterloo, Ontario; East Lansing, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Syracuse, New York; Ogden, Utah; Santa Barbara, California; Denton, Texas; and Kansas City, Missouri.
This year's symposium will feature four plenary one-hour presentations by the following professors: Alexander Olevskii (Israel), Lars Olsen (Scotland), Siegfried Graf (Germany), and Christopher Freiling (California). There will also be a series of twenty-minute talks by other conference participants. All talks will be in the Science Center.