Recent Advances in Operator Theory

This volume contains a selection of papers in modern operator theory and its applications. Most of them are directly related to lectures presented at the Inter­ national Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications held at the University of Groningen (IWOTA-98) in Groningen, the Netherlands, from June 30-July 3, 1998. The workshop was attended by 97 mathematicians-of which 12 were PhD or postdoctoral students-from 19 countries. The program consisted of 19 plenary lectures of 40 minutes and 7