Conference to honor MSU professor Alexander Volberg
To honor the 70th birthday of Alexander “Sasha” Volberg, a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics, a conference will be held in Slovenia on March 26–28, 2026.
The conference, “Harmonic Analysis Days in Ljubljana,” aims to bring experts together to present recent advances in harmonic analysis and related areas. Thirteen speakers from around the world have been invited, in addition to Volberg, who will present the day before the program opens.
Volberg specializes in harmonic analysis, singular integrals and operator theory and represents MSU mathematics internationally. His 2014 paper published in Acta Mathematica resolved the 30-year-old David-Semmes conjecture, concerning the possible structure of the singularity in the underlying measure of bounded Calderon-Zygmund operators.
Volberg, who joined MSU in 1991, received his master’s degree from St. Petersburg University and his Ph.D. from the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Volberg has published more than 160 research papers. His many awards and honors include a Salem Prize, a Lars Onsager Medal for the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a Humboldt Foundation Professorship. Volberg has also been honored at an international conference in Bedlewo, Poland, that covered developments in the areas of analysis (notably, harmonic analysis, spectral theory of functions and operators, one- dimensional complex analysis, potential analysis, and their applications), in which he has made substantial and recognized contributions over the past 25 years.
Harmonic Analysis Days in Ljubljana will take place at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Ljubljana.
The registration deadline for the conference is February 28, 2026. More information about the conference can be found here.
