| General
                                          Information     
                                        The Conference will honor the
                                        90th birthday of Vladimir A.
                                        Marchenko, an outstanding
                                        mathematician whose works on
                                        inverse spectral problems for
                                        differential operators and
                                        inverse scattering problems gave
                                        him world-wide recognition. His
                                        pioneering works on spectra of
                                        large random matrices and
                                        boundary value problems with
                                        fine-grained boundaries for
                                        differential operators laied the
                                        foundation of new areas of
                                        research in moderm mathematical
                                        physics and theory of partial
                                        differential equations. He is a
                                        founder and leader of a
                                        well-known Kharkiv school of
                                        mathematical physics. 
                                      
                                        
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                                                Kharkiv is a very
                                                special city for
                                                V.A.Marchenko. Here he
                                                was born, educated, has
                                                been working for many
                                                years at the B.Verkin
                                                Institute for Low
                                                Temperature Physics
                                                & Engineering and
                                                teaching at the
                                                V.Karazin Kharkiv
                                                National University. Conference
                                                    Topics The
                                                Conference will focus on
                                                the areas largely
                                                influenced by
                                                V.A.Marchenko:      
                                                
                                                  
                                                    
                                                      |  | Spectral
                                                          analysis of
                                                          differential
                                                          and difference
                                                          equations and
                                                          random
                                                          matrices |  
                                                      |  | Inverse
                                                          spectral and
                                                          inverse
                                                          scattering
                                                          problems |  
                                                      |  | Nonlinear
                                                          equations:
                                                          integrability
                                                          and asymptotic
                                                          behavior of
                                                          solutions |  
                                                      |  | Boundary
                                                          value problems
                                                          of
                                                          mathematical
                                                          physics and
                                                          homogenization
                                                          theory |  |  
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