Operator Methods for Boundary Value Problems

Seppo Hassi is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Vaasa, having previously worked at the University of Helsinki. His main research interests are in operator and spectral theory and applications in analysis and mathematical physics. Hendrik S. V. de Snoo has worked at the University of Groningen since 1972 and obtained the title of Honorary Professor in 2010. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Western Washington University and the University of the Witwatersrand. He recently held a Mercator professorship at the TU Berlin. He has a lifelong interest in abstract boundary value problems. Franciszek Hugon Szafraniec has established his mathematical career within Jagiellonian University, entering it in 1957 as a student. Receiving all appropriate scientific degrees and titles and going through all the various academic positions there, he retired in 2010. He visited numerous scholarly institutions and attended a vast number of conferences, all of which enriched his main research interest: Hilbert space methods.