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The last decades have demonstrated that quantum mechanics is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for contemporary mathematical physics. Of course, it seems to be hardly surprising if one casts a glance toward the history of the subject; recall the pioneering works of von Neumann, Weyl, Kato and their followers which pushed forward some of the classical mathematical disciplines: functional analysis, differential equations, group theory, etc. On the other hand, the evident powerful feedback changed the face of the "naive" quantum physics. It created a contem­ porary quantum mechanics, the mathematical problems of which now constitute the backbone of mathematical physics. The mathematical and physical aspects of these problems cannot be separated, even if one may not share the opinion of Hilbert who rigorously denied differences between pure and applied mathemat­ ics, and the fruitful oscilllation between the two creates a powerful stimulus for development of mathematical physics. The International Conference on Mathematical Results in Quantum Mechan­ ics, held in Blossin (near Berlin), May 17-21, 1993, was the fifth in the series of meetings started in Dubna (in the former USSR) in 1987, which were dedicated to mathematical problems of quantum mechanics. A primary motivation of any meeting is certainly to facilitate an exchange of ideas, but there also other goals. The first meeting and those that followed (Dubna, 1988; Dubna, 1989; Liblice (in the Czech Republic), 1990) were aimed, in particular, at paving ways to East-West contacts.

This volume contains the proceedings of the international conference on " Operator Calculus and Spectral Theory" in Lambrecht, Germany, Decem- ber 9. - 14. , 1991, sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and by the Karl-Weierstrass-Institute of Mathematics, Berlin. The idea was to bring together specialists from different areas of modern analysis, geometry and mathematical physics, in a similar spirit as in the earlier series of conferences of the Karl-Weierstrass- Institute (Ludwigsfelde, 1976; Reinhardsbrunn, 1985; Holzhau, 1988; Breitenbrunn,1990). Berlin, Mainz M. Demuth B. Gramsch B. -W. Schulze List of talks given in La. brecht. 8. - 14. December 91 Name Title S. Albeverio Some recent deveiopments in Dirichlet forms and associated processes U. Bunke On the spectral flow of Dirac operators with negative definite functions as symbols - applications in probability theory and mathematical physics M. Combescure Recurrent versus diffusive behaviour for time-dependent quantum Hamiltonian E. B. Davies Analysis on graphs and noncommutative geometry M. Demuth On stochastic spectral analysis and asymptotics for Schrodinger operators P.Duclos A global approach to the location of quantum resonances v. v. Egorov On negative spectrum of elliptic operators V. EnB Non-threshold states of long-range N-body problems B. Gramsch -algebras and microlocal analysis P. B. Gilkey On the index of geometrical operators for Riemannian manifolds with boundary B. Helffer Spectral problems in statistical mechanics R. Hempe I Second order pertubations of elliptic operators with periodic principal part T. Ichinose On the Weyl quantized relativistic Hamiltonian V. V.

This work contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical Results in Quantum Mechanics held in Blossin, Germany, May 17-21, 1993. It aims to draw attention to the recent developments in quantum mechanics and related mathematical problems. The book features sections not only on traditional subjects such as Schroedinger and Dirac operators and generalized Schroedinger generators, but also on stochastic spectral analysis, many-body problems and statistical physics, chaos, and operator theory and its applications.

The intention of the international conference PDE2000 was to bring together specialists from different areas of modern analysis, mathematical physics and geometry, to discuss not only the recent progress in their own fields but also the interaction between these fields. The special topics of the conference were spectral and scattering theory, semiclassical and asymptotic analysis, pseudodifferential operators and their relation to geometry, as well as partial differential operators and their connection to stochastic analysis and to the theory of semigroups. The scientific advisory board of the conference in Clausthal consisted of M. Ben-Artzi (Jerusalem), Chen Hua (Peking), M. Demuth (Clausthal), T. Ichinose (Kanazawa), L. Rodino (Turin), B.-W. Schulze (Potsdam) and J. Sjostrand (Paris). The book is aimed at researchers in mathematics and mathematical physics with interests in partial differential equations and all its related fields.