"Functional Analysis in the Pacific Northwest" will be held at the University of Oregon (Eugene, OR) November 8 through 11, 2025.

From its beginnings about a hundred years ago, functional analysis has been developing rapidly. Different branches have evolved, which unfortunately can tend to lose contact with each other. The conference aims to bring together mathematicians working in different areas of functional analysis with the goal of generating a lively exchange of ideas between the varied fields of expertise, all in the hope of strengthening existing and sparking new research collaborations and projects among the participants.

The organizers will take the opportunity to celebrate William B. Johnson on his eightieth birthday. Bill Johnson's contributions to functional analysis are many and far reaching, such as classical as well as nonlinear Banach space geometry, its applications to metric geometry, to theoretical computer science such as the celebrated Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma and its handling of the curse of dimensionality, probability in Banach spaces, algebras of operators, among others. Bill's exceptional mentorship has supported many a mathematician young and old to have a strong foundation and to pursue varied interests, including probability, classical and applied harmonic analysis, and theoretical computer science. In short, Bill's career exemplifies what the conference aims to emulate: to celebrate the unity and diversity of functional analysis, and to strengthen collaborations among mathematicians of varying interests and expertise, especially including the early-career mathematicians.