The International Workshop and Conference on Topology and Applications (IWCTA 2018) was organized at Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, Cochin, India from December 5 to 11, 2018. The workshop was held from December 5 to 8, and the conference from December 9 to 11, 2018.
IWCTA featured 43 workshop lectures, 11 plenary talks, 14 invited talks and 82 contributed papers; 294 particpants from 22 countries attended the meeting. The invited speakers at IWCTA included
- Prof. A.N. Sharkovsky, Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Science of Ukraine;
- Prof. Amit Chattopadhyay, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India;
- Prof. Andrei Tetenov, Gorno-Altaisk State University, Russia;
- Prof. Anima Nagar, IIT Delhi;
- Prof. Dan Burghelea, Ohio State University, USA;
- Prof. Dominik Kwietniak, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland;
- Prof. Govind Rangarajan, IISc Bangalore;
- Prof. Henk Bruin, University of Vienna, Austria;
- Prof. Hisao Kato, University of Tsukuba, Japan;
- Prof. James Yorke, University of Maryland, USA;
- Prof. Javier Camargo, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia;
- Prof. Jose S. Canovas, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain;
- Prof. Joseph Auslander, University of Maryland, USA;
- Prof. Karoly Simon, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary;
- Prof. Kit Chan, Bowling Green State University, USA;
- Prof. Krzysztof Lesniak, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland;
- Prof. Lubomir Snoha, Matej Bel University, Slovakia;
- Prof. P.G. Patil, Karnatak University, Dharwad, India;
- Prof. Parmeswaran Sankaran, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India;
- Prof. Patrizio Frosini, University of Bologna, Italy;
- Prof. Robert Devaney, Boston University, USA;
- Prof. Roman Hric, Matej Bel University, Slovakia;
- Prof. Saber Elaydi, Trinity University, USA;
- Prof. Varadachariar Kannan, University of Hyderabad, India;
- Prof. Vijay Natarajan, IISc Bangalore;
- Prof. Vin de Silva, Pomona College, California, USA; and
- Prof. Wlodzimierz J. Charatonik, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA.
The participants who received ICIAM Fellowships were
- MAI THE DUY, HAI PHONG UNIVERSITY, VIETNAM
- GODWIN OKEKE, FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, NIGERIA
- HARI TRIVEDI, THRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY, NEPAL
- YAMILIL LAMA, ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF BHUTAN, BHUTAN, and
- DUROJAYE OLAYIWOLA, PHILLIP FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, NIGERIA
