FCAA Related News, Events and Books (FCAA-Volume 18-1-2015)

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FCAA RELATED NEWS, EVENTS AND BOOKS (FCAA–VOLUME 18–1–2015)

Virginia Kiryakova Dear readers, in the Editorial Notes we announce news for our journal, anniversaries, information on international meetings, events, new books, etc. related to the FCAA (“Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis”) areas. ——– 1. News for the FCAA Journal The journal was founded in 1998 and published by 2010 (Vols. 1–13), by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. In the years 2011–2014 (Vols. 14–17) the FCAA journal was published by Versita (now De Gruyter Open), Warsaw and Springer- Verlag, Wien, with online version available (16 issues) at SpringerLink, http://link.springer.com/journal/13540. Since January 2015, Volume 18 the journal will be published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. The published stuff will appear online at the new De Gryuter website, together with all other journal’s details: http://www.degruyter.com/fcaa = http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/fca. Regularly updated details on the journal as well as contents of all issues, some back volumes (available for free) and the abstracts of the current issues can be found also at Editor’s website: http://www.math.bas.bg/∼fcaa = http://www.diogenes.bg/fcaa. FCAA is indexed by Web of Knowledge of Thomson Reuters and Scopus of Elsevier since 2011 and received its first impact metrics for 2013, as: Impact Factor: 2.974 (Rank 5 out of 251 in category Applied Mathe- matics and 4 out of 95 in category Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applica- tions in the 2013 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Report/Science), SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 2.106. 2. Calendar of Events Related to FC ——– Fifth International Scientific Conference on “Modern Methods, Problems and Applications of Operator Theory and Harmonic Analysis” April 26–May 1, 2015, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia Website: http://karapetyants.sfedu.ru/conf/index eng2015.html

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Conference sections: – Functional Analysis and Operator Theory, – Function Theory, – Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, – Fundamental problems for Information and Communication Technology, – Mathematics in Natural Science, Intellectual Systems and Computer Sci., – Probability-analytical models and methods (devoted to the memory of Prof N.S. Landkoff), – Integral transforms and special functions (devoted to the memory of Prof. A.A. Kilbas). Deadline for application is 1st of April, 2015. Early applications are encouraged. To register please visit: http://karapetyants.sfedu.ru/conf/index eng2015.html. Previous conferences: http://karapetyants.sfedu.ru/conf/index2011.html http://karapetyants.sfedu.ru/conf/index2012.html http://karapetyants.sfedu.ru/conf/index2013.html http://karapetyants.sfedu.ru/conf/index2014.html For any questions, please contact: [email protected] (Alexey Gil). Yours faithfully, Alexey N. Karapetyants and Stefan Samko, On behalf of Organizing and Program Committees ——– Mini-symposium on ”Fractional Calculus and Probability” at the AMMCS – CAIMS 2015 Congress June 7-12, 2015, Waterloo, Ontario - Canada http://www.ammcs-caims2015.wlu.ca/special-sessions/fcp/ In recent years, the relationship between time-modified Lévy processes and related non-local operators has been investigated in depth. Interest- ingly, these processes turn out to be useful in modelling several systems in physics, geophysics and biology and even in the social sciences. In this special session, recent mathematical results will be presented with an em- phasis on applications. If you intend to submit your paper, please go to the AMMCS-CAIMS 2015 Proceedings page. Organizers: Enrico Scalas, [email protected], Mark M. Meerschaert, [email protected]. ——– 7th Conference on Non-integer Order Calculus and its Applications (RRNR 2015), August 28–29, 2015, Szczecin, Poland EDITORIAL 3

Website: http://www.rrnr.zut.edu.pl Visit also: http://www.mmar.edu.pl The Conference is organized by Faculty of Electrical Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, under the auspices of the Committee of Automation and Robotics Polish Academy of Sciences. It is a scientific event, whose aim is to provide a common platform for exchange of new ideas and results in the theory and applications of fractional order systems. This is an international conference, being organized in various Polish cities; see our history on www.rrnr.zut.edu.pl. The acronym RRNR comes from the Polish name of the first event ”Rachunek Rózniczkowy Niecalkowitego Rz¸edu”. The usual number of the conference participants is not large and varies between 30 to 40 thus it gives a good opportunity to a fruitful discussion and exchange of ideas. The RRNR Conference itself is free of charge. The participants cover the cost of travel and accommodation. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a book series Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. ——– International Symposium on Fractional Signals and Systems (FSS 2015), October 1 – 3, 2015, Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://www.fss-conference.com

The organizing committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate at the International Symposium on Fractional Signals and Systems, FSS 2015, hosted by the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Topics: – Fractional order control (tuning, implementation issues, new algorithms); – Signal analysis and filtering with fractional tools (restora- tion, reconstruction, analysis of fractal noises), – Fractional modeling; – Fractional system identification (linear, nonlinear, multivariable methods). Important deadlines: – Submission opens: 1 May 2015; – Initial submission: 1 July 2015; – Author notification: 10 August 2015; – Final submission: 1 September 2015; – Registration deadline: 10 September 2015. Debate sessions moderators: YangQuan Chen, Valerio Duarte, Clara Ionescu, Manuel Ortigueira Local Organizing Committee: Cristina Muresan, Eva H. Dulf, Roxana Both, Bogdan Pop, Ioan Nascu International Program Committee:seeat http://fss-conference.com/organizing-commitee.php For queries and contacts, at http://fss-conference.com/contact.php, or by e-mail: [email protected] On behalf of Organizers, Cristina Muresan ——– 4 EDITORIAL

Special Session on ”Fractional order models and signals” at 54 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2015, (CDC 2015), December 15 – 18, 2015, Osaka, Japan http://www.cdc2015.ctrl.titech.ac.jp/index.php Papers submission deadline: March 24th, 2015. Submission Guidelines at: http://www.cdc2015.ctrl.titech.ac.jp/cfp.php. If you intend to participate, please contact the Organizers of the Session (subject of the e-mail: Invited Session - CDC 2015): Christophe Farges, [email protected], Jocelyn Sabatier, [email protected].

3. New Books ——– R. Gorenflo, A.A. Kilbas, F. Mainardi, S.V. Rogosin, Mittag-Leffler Functions, Related Topics and Applications. Sprin- ger Monographs in Mathematics, Springer, 2014, 443 p., 7 illus., ISBN 978-3-662-43930-2. Details at: http://www.springer.com/mathematics/analysis/book/ 978-3-662-43929-6?wt mc=Alerts.NBA.SpringerAuthors-Nov-6. There the readers can download Table of Contents and Sample Pages. Annotation: – Unique project to be realized in the theory of special functions. – Presents a complete and self-contained description of all aspects of the theory and application of the Mittag-Leffler functions. – The introduced functions are of great importance for solving differential and integral equations of fractional order. As a result of researchers and scientists increasing interest in pure as well as applied mathematics in non-conventional models, particularly those using fractional calculus, Mittag-Leffler functions have recently caught the interest of the scientific community. Focusing on the theory of the Mittag- Leffler functions, the present volume offers a self-contained, comprehensive treatment, ranging from rather elementary matters to the latest research results. In addition to the theory the authors devote some sections of the work to the applications, treating various situations and processes in viscoelasticity, physics, hydrodynamics, diffusion and wave phenomena, as well as stochastics. In particular the Mittag-Leffler functions allow us to describe phenomena in processes that progress or decay too slowly to be represented by classical functions like the exponential function and its suc- cessors. EDITORIAL 5

The book is intended for a broad audience, comprising graduate students, university instructors and scientists in the ﬁeld of pure and applied mathematics, as well as researchers in applied sciences like mathematical physics, theoretical chemistry, bio-mathematics, theory of control, and several other related areas.

Contents: Preface.- Introduction.- 1. History of Mittag-Leffler functions.- 2. Classical Mittag-Leffler function.- 3. Mittag-Leffler functions with two or three parameters.- 4. Generalized Mittag-Leffler functions.- 5. Mittag-Leffler functions and solution to fractional order equations.- 6. Ap- plications to deterministic models.- 7. Applications to stochastic models.- Appendices.- A. Euler Gamma and Beta-functions.- B. Entire functions.- C. Integral transforms.- D. Mellin-Barnes integral.- E. Elements of fractional calculus.- F. Higher transcendental functions.- References. ——– G. Pagnini, E. Scalas (Guest Editors of Theme Issue), Fractional Calculus, Probability and Non-local Operators: Appli- cations and Recent Developments, Part 1 , in the journal “Commu- nications in Industrial and Applied Mathematics”, Vol. 6, No 1 (2014), ISSN: 2038-0909, published by SIMAI.

This is a special issue collecting papers related to the workshop “Frac- tional Calculus, Probability and Non-Local Operators: Applications and Recent Developments” - A workshop on the occasion of the retirement of Francesco Mainardi, held at BCAM, Bilbao Basque Country - Spain, 6-8 November 2013. The papers in this journal’s issue can be freely downloaded at http://caim.simai.eu/index.php/caim/issue/view/48/showToc.

The Editors Gianni Pagnini, Enrico Scalas thank all contributors and take the occasion to inform you about the coming second meeting : http://www.bcamath.org/documentos public/archivos/ actividades cientiﬁcas/FCPNO 2014.pdf. 6 EDITORIAL

4.ReportsonPassedEventsRelatedtoFCAA ——– Days of Analysis in Novi Sad (DANS 2014) July 03 – 07, 2014, Novi Sad, Serbia In the honor of Professor Bogoljub Stankovic on the occasion of his 90th birthday This was the first Russian – Serbian mathematical meeting within the framework of scientific cooperation of Russian and Serbian academies of sciences and arts. Around 60 mathematicians from Austria, Brazil, Bul- garia, Croatia, France, Italy, Macedonia, Monte Negro, Norway, Russian Federation, Serbia, Sweden and United States attended the conference. It was organized with the aim of gathering mathematicians in order to establish fields of research of joint scientific interest. The conference was held at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, of Novi Sad University. The scientific program consisted of 40- minute talks, 20-minute communications, and a poster session. Plenary lectures were given by: S. Pilipovic (Serbia), L. Rodino (Italy), M. Oberguggenberger (Austria), A. Ivic (Serbia), G. Milovanovic (Serbia), T. Atanackovic (Serbia), S. Coriasco (Italy), D. Abreu (Portugal), M. Kun- zinger (Austria), G. Hoermann (Austria), R. Steinbauer (Austria), J. Toft (Sweden), T. Gramchev (Italy), D. Djordjevic (Sebia), V. Dragovic (Ser- bia), P. Ivanishin (Russian Federation), M. Mateljevic (Serbia), D. Stoeva (Bulgaria), N. Antonic (Croatia), V. Kapustin (Russian Federation). The conference was organized at Department of Mathematics and Infor- matics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. Organizing Committee: Stevan Pilipovic (University of Novi Sad), Nenad Teofanov (University of Novi Sad), Vladimir Kapustin (St Petersburg Dept. of Steklov Institute of Mathematics), Nada Aleksic (University of Novi Sad, secretary). ——– At the ceremony in honor to Professor Bogoljub Stankovic, the following speach was presented: Distinguished guests, Rector, Dean, Academicians, Colleagues, I am very much honored to open this meeting devoted to the 90 years of Academician Bogoljub Stanković. During his 90 years he was a witness of the historical development of our country that has changed its name 6 or 7 times during his life time (Still, history goes on). He was born in 1924. in a village of Botoˇs, and finished his primary and grammar school in Novi Sad. As a participant in the resistance movement against occupying forces, he was arrested in 1944. He welcomed the freedom in Dachau Concentration Camp. EDITORIAL 7

Prof. Stanković began his studies of mathematics at the Belgrade Uni- versity, in 1945, and graduated in 1949. The same year he became an assistant professor at the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, where he received his PhD Degree in 1954 under the supervision of Academician Vojislav Avakumovic. In this 1954 he was one of the founders of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad and its Department of Mathematics. Actually, he was one of the founders of the University of Novi Sad where he formally finished his teaching carrier in 1990. Prof. Stanković was elected as a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1963. At present, he is not the oldest academician but the one with the longest academic status in the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. During his professional carrier he has been Rector of the University of Novi Sad, Dean and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Director and Head of the Department of Mathematics. Prof. Stanković has been an eminent representative in Yugoslav institutions and delegations in several world conferences related to culture, education and science. His contributions were recognized by the state and crowned by the most prestigious awards and honors of this country (with different names) for his work in Research, Education and Culture. Long life and a great carrier! Let me continue with the science. His main contributions belong to the theory of Mikusinski’s operators, generalized integral transforms, generalized asymptotics and Abelian and Tauberian type theorems. At present he uses his knowledge in the mathematical justification of various type of fractional order equations. Professor Atanackovic will say something about that tomorrow. (I did this for Taube- rian theorems this morning.) The main mission of Professor Stanković can be stated in one sentence: He was the founder of modern mathematical analysis in Serbia. After the Second World War there has been a strong group working in mathematical analysis led by Academician Jovan Karamata. Profes- sor Stanković was a member of this group, but he started to work in the abstract operational calculus with applications in the theory of partial differential equations, influenced by the strong France mathematical school during his stay in Paris for almost two years. Let me just mention that many fields of functional analysis, mainly related to generalized functions, were developed in Yugoslavia and later Serbia only here in Novi Sad. He was strong enough and brave to enter into totally new fields of functional analysis and then to work in these fields with his students and to produce new interesting results. For example, in order to produce a new Tauberian type theorems we jointly entered into a delicate and very rich theory of hy- perfunctions, totally new for all of us at that time. Generally, in this way 8 EDITORIAL he founded and developed the so-called Novi Sad school of mathematical analysis. He was the founder of the mathematical analysis seminar and has been its leader for 51 years now. In this period, all of us, his students, have followed the PhD programs created by him as the members of this seminar. He invited many good mathematicians as guests within the seminar. We, students and later professors, have presented our first results, new ideas and interests in our scientific work at this seminar. He got us motivated, encouraged us to persevere in the work and gave important advices on how and what to do, what to read, where to go - all in order to develop our mathematical education. Prof. Stanković has established strong scientific cooperation with many mathematicians around the world. Especially, he was one of the founders of conferences on generalized functions – today known as GF conferences. (This year in Souhampton.) The first one was organized in Poland (1963) and the second one in Yugoslavia (1964). Together with him we have organized several such conferences in Novi Sad. Two years ago we have established an International Association for Generalized Functions with its headquarters in Vienna, led by Professor Michael Oberguggenberger. Personally I learnt a lot from Professor. He directed my work and enabled several of my visits to important mathematical centers in Katowice, Moscow and Innsbruck at the beginning of my carrier. He supported me and sometimes advised me in the cases of my, from time to time, not well articulated protests. I have heard from him many interesting details of his life, difficult periods during the Second World War, his activities after that war, stories about our great mathematicians. We are working together for more than 40 years. All that time with deep respect and pleasure. This has been a great privilege for me. Thank you for that. Stevan Pilipović, Professor at University of Novi Sad, Full member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts July 3, 2014 5. 90th Anniversary of Prof. Bogoljub Stankovic – Honorary member of Editorial Board of “FCAA”, Full Member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Academician Bogoljub Stanković was born on 1 September 1924 in a village of Botoˇs, in the county of Zrenjanin, and finished his primary and grammar school in Novi Sad. When the war started he was in the sixth form of the grammar school. In June 1944 he was arrested by the Hungarian secret police and had been to many camps in Hungary and Germany. At the time when the war ended he was in Dachau Concentration Camp. He began his studies of mathematics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1945 and graduated in June 1949. During the last year at the Faculty he received a grant from the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. EDITORIAL 9

In 1949 B. Stanković was elected assistant professor at the Mathemati- cal Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, where he received his PhD Degree in 1954. When the Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy and its Department of Mathematics were founded in 1954, the Faculty’s Main Committee chose him to be one of its first professors. Therefore, since the Department’s early beginnings, he took part in the organization and performance of teaching as well as in the preparation of students for the research work. He was the founder of the mathematical analysis seminar and has been its leader for 51 years by now. Nearly all professors of mathematical analysis have been through this seminar. In 1959, he was elected associate and in 1964 as full professor. He retired in 1990. He was elected a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1963 and in 1972 he became its full member (Academician). He was elected also a full member and the first president of the Vojvodina Academy of Sci- ences and Arts in 1979. Academician Bogoljub Stanković occupied various functions at the University and Faculty. He was Head of the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Novi Sad, Dean and Vice-Dean of the Faculty, Director of the Institute for University Teaching of the University in Novi Sad, Director of the Mathematical Institute of the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Novi Sad and he served as Rector of the University of Novi Sad for one term. He is married and has two daughters. He speaks English and French fluently, and also has some knowledge of German, Russian and Hungarian. Teaching career: It is connected with the Faculty of Philosophy, i.e. the Faculty of Nat- ural Sciences in Novi Sad. As its first professor of analysis at the Depart- ment of Mathematics he had the pleasure of taking part in preparation and adaptation of school curricula from the Department’s earliest beginnings. He was teaching on all subjects in the field of analysis and its application, and supervising the three year study programmes until his retirement. Academician Stanković paid particular attention to modernization of the teaching process and planning of teaching units. In the polls conducted among students, he had always been rated with the highest scores for the lectures he held. He was invited to the University of Paris to teach General Mathematics during 1959/1960 school year. He also gave lectures by invitation at the universities in Zagreb, Budapest, Szeged, Debrecen, Kuwait, Allahabad (in India), Brisbane (in Australia), etc. Prof. Stanković supervised more than 15 doctoral theses of candidates from the country and abroad and also gave his opinion in writing for several foreign doctoral theses. 10 EDITORIAL

Scientific work: On the initiative of Polish mathematicians and the Mathematical In- stitute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Katowice, the researchers in the field of generalized functions gathered at scientific meetings always in a different country. The first meeting was held in Poland in 1963, and the second in Yugoslavia (in the town of Srebrno). By now such meetings were held in the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, the German Democratic Re- public, India etc. Three more meetings were held in Yugoslavia (in 1987 in Dubrovnik, in 1996 and 2004 in Novi Sad). The most eminent mathematicians in this field from all over the world, from Japan to North and South America, took part in these meetings making possible to keep up with the latest results in this field. Academician Bogoljub Stanković was among the initiators of all these meetings and invited to deliver lectures there. Their proceedings were published by the world leading publishers (Plenum Press, World Scientific, etc.) or in international journals (Integral Transform and Special Functions, Uspehi Matematiˇceskih Nauk, etc.). In addition, academician Bogoljub Stanković was invited to take part in a number of other meetings in Hungary, Poland, Germany, Russia, India, Kuwait, Australia and Yugoslavia. He also delivered lectures at almost all world congresses that were held during his scientific career as well as at all Yugoslav congresses of mathematicians. Through joint projects with the Institutes of the Soviet Union Academies of Sciences, Poland and Bulgaria, Prof. Stanković contributed to connecting Yugoslav researchers with the great research centers in the world. He was also the leader of the project financed from the common USA - YU fund (1985-1988 and 1989-1992). That was the first project in former Yugoslavia accepted to be financed by the American National Science Foundation. Academician Bogoljub Stanković has been a member of the Editorial Board of a number of journals published in the country and abroad, as well as of several Proceedings of international meetings. Other activities: Academician Bogoljub Stanković used to be a member of the Mathe- matical Society of Yugoslavia and is now a member of the American Math- ematical Society and the Mathematical Society of Serbia. He had long been a member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers of Yugoslavia, of the Balkan Mathematical Union and of the European Mathematical Society. Academician Bogoljub Stanković has been involved in many social activities. Just to mention some of them: member of the Council for Ed- ucation and Culture of the Federal Assembly; member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union - its Board for Yugoslavia EDITORIAL 11

(1969-1974); also a representative of his country at the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in Caracas and Vice-President of the Presidency for Inter- Parliamentary Union Conference on Mediterranean Sea Pollution in Rome in 1974. He was in a three-member Yugoslav delegation that visited the countries of South America, Caribbean Area and Washington (within the Inter-Parliamentary Union). Significant honors and awards: October Award of Novi Sad City in 1962, Award for the Liberation of Vojvodina in 1976, 7th July Award of the Republic of Serbia in 1978, AVNOJ Award in 1981. Order of Merit to the Nation with Silver Rays in 1965, Order of Labour with Gold Wreath in 1973, Order of Labour with Red Banner in 1973, Order of Brotherhood and Unity with Gold Wreath in 1979. International acknowledgements: Officier de l’ordere national merite, Republique France; Honourable Citizen of the American City of Baltimore. Honorary Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis. Publications: Prof. Stanković authored more than 160 scientific papers (sufficiently long list to be enclosed here), and several monographs. We just mention some of his first and more recent books, as: B. Stanković, Operatori J. Mikusinskog (The Operators of J. Mikusin- ski). Univerzitet N. Sad, 1962 (in Serbian). S. Pilipović, B. Stanković, A. Takaˇci, Asymptotic Behaviour and Stiejt- jes Transformation of Distributions. Teubner Verlag, Leipzig, 1990...... S. Pilipović, B. Stanković, J. Vindas, Asymptotic Behavior of General- ized Functions. Ser. on Analysis, Applications and Computation, 5, World Sci. Publ., Hackensack - NJ, 2012. T.M. Atanackovicć, S. Pilipović, B. Stanković, D. Zorica, Fractional Calculus with Applications in Mechanics: Vibrations and Diffusion Pro- cesses. ISTE - Wiley, London, 2014. T.M. Atanacković, S. Pilipović, B. Stanković, D. Zorica, Fractional Cal- culus with Applications in Mechanics: Wave Propagation, Impact and Vari- ational Principles. ISTE - Wiley, London, 2014. ——– Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Acad. G. Bontchev Str., Block 8, Sofia 1113 – BULGARIA e-mail: [email protected]