Vasily Vasyunin is a Leading Researcher at the St Petersburg Department of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Saint-Petersburg State University. His research interests include linear and complex analysis, operator models, and harmonic analysis. Vasyunin has taught at universities in Europe, and the United States. He has authored or co-authored over sixty articles.
Alexander L. Volberg is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Michigan State University. He was the recipient of the Onsager Medal as well as the Salem Prize, awarded to a young researcher in the field of analysis. Along with teaching at institutions in Paris and Edinburgh, Volberg also served as a Humboldt senior researcher, Clay senior researcher, and a Simons fellow. He has co-authored 179 papers, and is the author of Calderon-Zygmund Capacities and Operators on Non-Homogenous Spaces (2004).