UNION OF BULGARIAN MATHEMATICIANS INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS, BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   NATIONAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM The next meeting of the National Mathematics Colloquium will be held on June 5, 2019 (Wednesday) at 16:15 in the Conference Room of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Acad. G. Bonchev Street, Block 8 A talk on: Optimization theory: a view from variational analysis (with emphasis on the optimal control theory) will be delivered by Professor Emeritus Alexander Ioffe, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.. Everybody is invited. Head of the Colloquium: Acad. P. Popivanov Abstract.  Next year there will be the 60s anniversary of publication of the book of Pontryagin et al "Mathematical theory of optimal processes". The book triggered a series of extensive [...]