Past meetings
GPOTS began in 1981 as the Great Plains Operator Theory Seminar and took its present name in 1989.
Entries from 1979 to 2005 follow a history compiled by David Larson for the proceedings of the 25th symposium, in Contemporary Mathematics 414, pages xv-xvii.
Some entries are incomplete. If you can fill in a gap or correct an error, write to webmaster@gpots.org.
| Year | Host | Dates | Organizers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | May 24-28, 2027 (provisional) | Rufus Willett, Erik Guentner, Forrest Glebe |
| 2026 | University of Iowa | May 26-30, 2026 | Sergii Bezuglyi, Ionut Chifan, Raul Curto, Daniel Drimbe, Palle Jorgensen |
| 2025 | University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras | October 20-24, 2025 | Iván Cardona, Guihua Gong, Valentin Keyantuo, Liangqing Li, Angel Román, Lin Shan, Alejandro Vélez |
| 2024 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | June 3-7, 2024 | Allan Donsig, Ishan, David Pitts, Christopher Schafhauser, Gregory Faurot |
| 2023 | The Ohio State University | May 15-19, 2023 | Ovidiu Costin, Rodica Costin, Jan Lang, David Penneys |
| 2022 | Washington University in St. Louis | May 23-27, 2022 | Gregory Knese, John McCarthy, Yanli Song, Xiang Tang, Brett Wick |
| 2019 | Texas A&M University | May 28 - June 1, 2019 | Michael Anshelevich, Michael Brannan, Ken Dykema, David Kerr, David Larson, Roger Smith, Zhizhang Xie, Guoliang Yu |
| 2018 | Miami University | May 29 - June 2, 2018 | Caleb Eckhardt, Paul McKenney, Narcisse Randrianantoanina |
| 2017 | Texas Christian University | May 22-26, 2017 | José Carrión, Efton Park |
| 2016 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | May 23-27, 2016 | Florin Boca, Marius Junge, Zhong-Jin Ruan |
| 2015 | Purdue University | May 26-30, 2015 | Marius Dadarlat, Andrew Toms |
| 2014 | Kansas State University | Sarah Reznikoff, Gabriel Nagy, Jonathan Brown | |
| 2013 | University of California, Berkeley | Marc Rieffel, Donald Sarason | |
| 2012 | University of Houston | May 30 - June 3, 2012 | Vern Paulsen, David Blecher, Mark Tomforde, Bernhard Bodmann |
| 2011 | Arizona State University | John Quigg, Jack Spielberg, Steven Kaliszewski | |
| 2010 | University of Denver | Frédéric Latrémolière, Nicholas Ormes, Alvaro Arias | |
| 2009 | University of Colorado Boulder | June 2-6, 2009 | Carla Farsi, Alexander Gorokhovsky, Judith Packer, Markus Pflaum, Marty Walter |
| 2008 | University of Cincinnati | Victor Kaftal, Gary Weiss, Herbert Halpern, Costel Peligrad, Shuang Zhang | |
| 2007 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | David Pitts, John Orr, Allan Donsig, Cynthia Farthing | |
| 2006 | University of Iowa | May 24-28, 2006 | Raul Curto, Fred Goodman, Palle Jorgensen, Paul Muhly |
| 2005 | University of Central Florida | June 7-12, 2005 | Deguang Han, Xin Li, Piotr Mikusinski, Ram Mohapatra, Zuhair Nashed, Qiyu Sun, Kuppalapalle Vajravelu |
| 2004 | Texas A&M University | May 26-30, 2004 | Ron Douglas, Ken Dykema, David Larson, Carl Pearcy, Gilles Pisier, Roger Smith, Nico Spronk |
| 2003 | University of Illinois | Florin Boca, Marius Junge, Zhong-Jin Ruan | |
| 2002 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Xingde Dai, Yuanan Diao, Alan Lambert | |
| 2001 | University of New Hampshire | Liming Ge, Don Hadwin, Eric Nordgren | |
| 2000 | University of Puerto Rico | May 23-27, 2000 | Iván Cardona, Ioana Cioranescu, Guihua Gong, Valentin Keyantuo, Liangqing Li, Cornel Pasnicu, Silviu Teleman, Brad Weiner |
| 1999 | Iowa State University | Justin Peters, Yiu Tung Poon, Bruce Wagner | |
| 1998 | Kansas State University | May 27-31, 1998 | Gabriel Nagy, Vladimir Peller |
| 1997 | Queen's University | Jamie Mingo | |
| 1996 | Arizona State University | John Quigg, Jack Spielberg | |
| 1995 | University of Cincinnati | Victor Kaftal, Costel Peligrad, Gary Weiss, Shuang Zhang | |
| 1994 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | John Orr, David Pitts, Gordon Woodward | |
| 1993 | University of Colorado Boulder | Arlan Ramsay, Marty Walter | |
| 1992 | University of Iowa | Raul Curto, Fred Goodman, Palle Jorgensen, Paul Muhly | |
| 1991 | Texas A&M University | David Larson, Carl Pearcy, Roger Smith, Joe Ward | |
| 1990 | University of New Mexico | Frank Gilfeather | |
| 1989 | University of HoustonRenamed the Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium. | David Blecher, Vern Paulsen | |
| 1988 | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis | Bernard Morrel | |
| 1987 | University of Kansas | John Bunce, Bill Paschke, Norberto Salinas, Albert Sheu | |
| 1986 | University of Cincinnati | Victor Kaftal, Gary Weiss | |
| 1985 | Texas A&M University | Roger Smith, Joe Ward, Dana Williams | |
| 1984 | Iowa State University | Justin Peters, Bruce Wagner | |
| 1983 | University of Colorado Boulder | Arlan Ramsay, Marty Walter | |
| 1982 | University of Iowa | Paul Muhly | |
| 1981 | University of KansasHeld as the Great Plains Operator Theory Seminar. | John Bunce, Bill Paschke, Norberto Salinas | |
| 1980 | University of Nebraska-LincolnPrecursor meeting. | Frank Gilfeather, David Larson | |
| 1979 | University of IowaPrecursor meeting. | Paul Muhly |