Workshop on Metric Fixed Point Theory-Seville

Workshop on Metric Fixed Point Theory,Seville, Spain

September 25-29, 1995

During the week of September 25-29, 1995, Professor T. Dominguez Benavides organized a Workshop on Metric Fixed Point Theory at Departamento de Analisis Matematico, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. The scientific program consisted of five mini-courses and lectures. The program was as follow:

Mini-Courses

  • Speaker: K. Goebel (University of Lublin, Poland)
    Title: Singular lipschitzian mappings in Banach spaces, minimal displacement and retractions problems.
  • Speaker: M.A. Khamsi (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
    Title: Fixed point theory in modular function spaces.
  • Speaker: W.A. Kirk (University of Iowa, USA)
    Title: Metric Fixed Point Theory: The abstract theory and foundations.
  • Speaker: S. Prus (University of Lublin, Poland)
    Title: Multidimensional uniform smoothness in Banach spaces.
  • Speaker: B. Sims (University of Newcastle, Australia)
    Title: Banach spaces geometry and the fixed point property.

    Lectures

  • Speaker: I. Beg (University of Kuwait, Kuwait)
    Title: Fandom fixed point theorems.
  • Speaker: R.E. Bruck (University of Southern California, USA)
    Title: The rate of asymptotic regularity is $o(1/sqrt{n})$
  • Speaker: M. Frigon (University of Montreal, Canada)
    Title: On continuation methods for contractive operators.
  • Speaker: J. Myjak (Universita di L'Aguila, Italy)
    Title: On the structure of fixed point set.
  • Speaker: S. Reich (Technion Israel Institut of Mathematics, Israel)
    Title: Fixed point of holomorphic mappings.
  • Speaker: H.K. Xu (University of Durban-Westville, South Africa)
    Title: Geometrical coefficients and fixed points in Banach spaces.

    For more on this workshop please contact Professor T. Dominguez Benavides via email at ayerbe@cica.es.