Differential Operators and Related Topics Proceedings of the Mark Krein International Conference on Operator Theory and Applications, Odessa, Ukraine, August 18-22, 1997

About the Mark Krein International Conference.- Mark Grigorevich Krein (A short biography).- The Seminar on Ship Hydrodynamics, Organized by M.G. Krein.- Review Papers: The Works of M.G. Krein on Eigenfunction Expansion for Selfadjoint Operators and their Applications and Development.- M.G. Krein and the Extension Theory of Symmetric Operators. Theory of Entire Operators.- Works by M.G. Krein on Inverse Problems.- Research Papers: The Spectrum of Periodic Point Perturbations and the Krein Resolvent Formula.- The Periodic Choquard Equation.- On the Best Constant in a Poincare-Sobolev Inequality.- On Solutions of Parabolic Equations from Families of Banach Spaces Dependent on Time.- Canonical Systems on the Line with Rational Spectral Densities: Explicit Formulas.- Oscillations in Systems with Periodic Coefficients and Sector-restricted Nonlinearities.- Differential Operator Matrices of Mixed Order with Periodic Coefficients.- Asymptotics of Generalized Eigenvectors for Unbounded Jacobi Matrices with Power-like Weights, Pauli Matrices Commutation Relations and Cesaro Averaging.- Functional Means, Convolution Operators and Semigroups.- The Inverse Spectral Problem for First Order Systems on the Half Line.- Exact Solution of the Marchenko Equation Relevant to Inverse Scattering on the Line.- An Arbitrary Oriented Crack in the Box Shell.- Homogeneity of a String having Three Unperturbed Spectra.- On the Integro-differential Equation of a Torsion of an Elastic Medium Including a Cylindrical Crack.- Green's Formula and Theorems on Isomorphisms for General Elliptic Problems for Douglis-Nirenberg Elliptic Systems.- Sobolev's Problem in Complete Scale of Banach Spaces.- On the Simple Waves with Profiles in the Form of some Special Functions-Chebyshov-Hermite, Mathiev, Whittaker-in Two-phase Media.- Inverse Spectral Problem Related to the N-wave Equation.- Degenerated Hyperbolic Approximations of the Wave Theory of Elastic Plates.- Elliptic Problems with a Shift in Complete Scales of Sobolev-type Spaces.- On the Extremal Regularization of the Variational Inequalities with Multivalued Operators.- Poly-Fock Spaces.- Diffraction of Longitudinal Shear Waves by a Hollow Thick Circular Cylinder which is Situated in the Elastic Halfspace.- On M.G. Krein's Spectral Shift Function for Canonical Systems of Differential Equations.- Table of Contents of Volume II.