The Kalton years 2010-2025

A workshop in homage to Nigel Kalton

May 19-22, 2026
IMUEx, Badajoz, Spain
Nigel Kalton Workshop

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Nigel Kalton was an extraordinary mathematician and an important, influential source of inspiration for the Banext group at Extremadura -- not to mention how much those of us lucky enough to have met Nigel miss him. In May 2026, it will be twenty years since the fabulous Banach Spaces and their Applications in Analysis conference in honor of Nigel's 60th birthday, held at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; and eleven since its follow-up at the CIRM in Luminy. Following that tradition, we are organizing this workshop focused on Banach space theory and related areas.

The workshop will be structured into four panels.

Panel 1. About Nigel's life and work.

Speakers: F. Albiac, J.M.F. Castillo, G. Godefroy, B. Radrianantoanina.

Panel 2. These ones Nigel didn't see coming.

Plenary lectures on results obtained after his passing that would probably have surprised him -- though this is hard to claim given his sharp mathematical intuition.

Speakers: J.L. Ansorena, F. Cabello Sánchez, V. Ferenczi, G. Lancien, G. Plebanek, N. de Rancourt, P. Scholze, P. Tradacete.

Panel 3. Advances on selected topics.

Invited talks about new advances in topics dear to Nigel.

Speakers: F. Baudier, B.M. Braga, W.H.G. Correa, W. Cuellar, A. Fovelle, R. Pino, F. Sukochev.

Panel 4. Communications from participants.

The Workshop will take place at the Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain, from Tuesday, May 19 until Friday, May 22, 2026. If you wish to participate please fill out the Registration form HERE and do not hesitate to contact the Organizing Committee or email for any assistance.

Organizing Committee:

Félix Cabello Sánchez,

Javier Cabello Sánchez,

Jesús M. F. Castillo,

Ricardo García,

Raúl Martínez Bohórquez,

Daniel Morales González,

Yolanda Moreno Salguero,

José Navarro Garmendia,

Scientific Committee:

Fernando Albiac,

Jesús M. F. Castillo,

Gilles Godefroy,

Beata Radrianantoanina,

Local Staff:

Álvaro Iglesias Cambero

Pedro Martín Jiménez

Emmanuel Moreno Mejía

Jorge Rovira Pérez

Marina Polo Rodríguez

Pablo Torrado López

Speakers

Fernando Albiac

Universidad Pública de Navarra, España

[Title to be announced]

José Luis Ansorena

Universidad de la Rioja, España

Lipschitz free spaces in the Kalton zone

Florent Baudier

Texas A&M University, USA

[Title to be announced]

(Online conference)

Bruno M.Braga

IMPA, Brasil

On homeomorphisms between the spheres of ℓk and ℓ2k

Félix Cabello Sánchez

Inst. Mat. Univ. Extremadura (IMUEX), España

[Title to be announced]

Jesús M.F. Castillo

Inst. Mat. Univ. Extremadura (IMUEX), España

Painted from memory

Willian H.G. Corrêa

Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

Hilbert spaces not isomorphic to their duals

Wilson Cuellar

Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

About algebras of operators on Z2

Valentin Ferenczi

Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

Ext2(ℓ2, ℓ2) is not 0

Audrey Fovelle

Texas A&M University, USA

[Title to be announced]

Gilles Godefroy

Inst. Mat. Jussieu (IMJ), France

MU golden years: Nigel Kalton's Columbia

Gilles Lancien

Université de Franche-Comté, France

Nonlinear embeddings and asymptotic geometry of Banach spaces

Raúl Pino

Universidad de Oviedo, España

Rochberg spaces as generalized Z2

Grzegorz Plebanek

Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Polska

Twisted sums with c0 and the CCKY problem

Beata Radrianantoanina

Miami University, USA

[Title to be announced]

Noé de Rancourt

Université de Lille, France

Ergodicity of the Kalton-Peck space

Peter Scholze

Universität Bonn, Deutschland

Higher Ext groups of non-locally convex vector spaces

(Online conference)

Fedor Sukochev

University of New South Wales, Australia

Regular traces on ideals in L(H)

Pedro Tradacete

ICMAT, España

Progress in Banach Lattices

Registration

Universidad de Extremadura Instituto de Matemáticas UEx Departamento de Matemáticas

Ayuda a Grupos GR24056 y Proyecto de investigación IB24002

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Proyecto PID2023-146505NB-C21 financiado por MCIU/AEI/10.13039/5011000110331 y por el FEDER/UE.

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This outstanding image is a slightly modified version of a drawing by the great artist Jill Thompson reimagining the myth of Orpheus. The image appears as panel 1 in p.4 of volumen 7, Brief Lives, of The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman, published by Vertigo/DC comics. The reproduction here is for non-commercial purposes and has been chosen for the workshop because of its quality and many meanings derived from the Brief Lives story.

Orpheus is a foundational myth in western culture. An extraordinarily gifted being (the singing of Orpheus was even able to move Hades and Persephone to tears). Maybe for that reason the Kindly Ones chased him and only let his head floating in the river. Neil Gaiman continues the history: a millenary order rescued the head and has kept it in custody to this day. Brief Lives begins with Andros, the current guardian, thinking: It is a miracle, of course. The miracle is, of course, to have been even near such an extraordinary talent.