Dedication

The workshop was held on the occasion of the jubilees celebrated by our esteemed colleagues:

Ivan Kiguradze (A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute, Georgian Academy of Sciences)

• Full Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
• Prominent expert in the field of the qualitative theory of ordinary and functional differential equations, oscillation theory, and boundary value problems
• Author of more than 150 research papers and 9 monographs
• Member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Member of the Editorial Boards of the numerous scientific journals Fasciculi Mathematici, Functional Differential Equations, Georgian Mathematical Journal (Managing Editor), Memoirs on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics (Editor in Chief), Electronic Journal of the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Associate Editor), Nonlinear Oscillations, Boundary Value Problems (Associate Editor), Journal of the Applied Mathematics, Statistic and Informatics
• Founder of the Tbilisi Seminar on Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations and the Seminar on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics at the A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute
• Supervisor of 23 defended PhD Theses
• Holder of numerous prizes and awards: A. Razmadze prize of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1976), Silver Medal of the Purkyně University (1978), I. Javakhishvili medal of Tbilisi State University (1987), Gold Medal of the Faculty of Sciences of the Purkyně University (1988), Medal of the Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists (1990), Order of Honour of the Republic of Georgia (1997), Bernard Bolzano Honorary Medal for Merits in Mathematical Sciences (2006)

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František Neuman (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

• Professor, Doctor of Science
• Expert in the theory transformations of ordinary and functional equations
• Author of 111 scientific publications including 2 books
• Honorary member of the Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists since 1987
• Honors and awards: Award of the Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists for Young Mathematicians (1965), Award of the Mathematical Council of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1977, 1982), Silver Memory Medals of the Masaryk University in Brno (1979) and the MF Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava (1987), Awards of the Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists (1981, 1987), Prize of the Czech Literary Fund for Scientific Literature (1992), Bernard Bolzano Honorary Medal for Merits in Mathematical Sciences (1997)
• Former students: prof. RNDr. Miroslav Bartušek, DrSc., doc. RNDr. Martin Čadek, CSc., doc. RNDr. Jan Čermak CSc., prof. RNDr. Ondrej Došlý, DrSc., doc. RNDr. Jitka Laitochová, CSc., RNDr. Vladimír Kaňovský, CSc., prof. RNDr. Svatoslav Staněk, CSc.

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Irena Rachůnková (Palacký University of Olomouc)

• Professor, Doctor of Science
• Expert in qualitative theory of differential equations and boundary value problems for singular ordinary differential equations and differential equations with impulses
• Author of two monographs and more than 90 research papers in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Journal of Differential Equations, Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, Nonlinear Analysis, Abstract and Applied Analysis, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Applicable Analysis, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal, Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, and other leading mathematical journals
• Former students: RNDr. Martin Šenkyřík, PhD., RNDr. Pavel Calábek, Dr., Mgr. Jan Draessler, PhD., RNDr. Vladimír Polášek, PhD., RNDr. Jan Tomeček, PhD.

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Štefan Schwabik (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

• Professor, Doctor of Science
• Long-term Head of the Department of Real and Probabilistic Analysis
• Editor in Chief of Mathematica Bohemica
• Professor of the Opava University
• Author of 6 monographs, 67 scientific papers, and 6 contributions to international proceedings
• Well-known expert in integration theory (Kurzweil-Henstock), ordinary differential equations, integral equations, generalized differential equations, and history of mathematics
• Member of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists (Vice-President till 2002), American Mathematical Society, and European Mathematical Society
• Member of the Editorial board of Archivum Mathematicum (Brno), Mathematica Slovaca, and Contributing Editor of Real Analysis Exchange
• Member of the Council of Foreign Relations, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Vice-President of the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Speaks Czech, Slovak, German, Hungarian, English, and Russian
• Former students: RNDr. Dana Fraňková, CSc., prof. RNDr. Pavel Kindlman, DrSc., RNDr. Jiří Hnilica, CSc., RNDr. Antonín Slavík, PhD.

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Svatoslav Staněk (Palacký University of Olomouc)

• Professor
• Well-known expert in the theory of boundary value problems for ordinary and functional differential equations
• Head of the Scientific Council of the Mathematics Section, Faculty of Science, Palacký University of Olomouc
• Head of the Seminar on Differential Equations at the Palacký University of Olomouc
• Member of the Editorial Board of Advances in Difference Equations
• Author of two monographs and more than 140 scientific papers in leading international mathematical journals, in particular, in Journal of Differential Equations, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Nonlinear Analysis, Aequationes mathematicae, Funkcialaj Ekvacioj, Abstract and Applied Analysis, Glasgow Mathematical Journal, Archiv der Mathematik, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Mathematische Nachrichten, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, Acta Mathematica Sinica, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Applicable Analysis, Acta Mathematica Hungarica

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