Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

In this talk, I will survey the recent understandings on the motion of water waves obtained via rigorous mathematical tools, this includes the evolution of smooth initial data and some typical singular behaviors. In particular, I will present our recently results on gravity water waves with angled crests.

Compressed sensing illustrates the possibility of acquiring and reconstructing sparse signals via underdetermined (linear) systems. It is believed that iid Gaussian measurement vectors give near optimal results, with the necessary number of measurements on the order of $s \log(n/s)$ - $n$ is ambient dimension and $s$ is the sparsity threshold. The recovery algorithm used above relies on a certain quasi-isometry property of the measurement matrix.

Topics: local Hausdorff dimension, local Hausdorff measure, diffusion on compact metric spaces, prospective further research.

In this work we prove that the space of two parameter, matrix-valued BMO functions can be characterized by considering iterated commutators with the Hilbert transform. Specifically, we prove that the norm in the BMO space is equivalent to the norm of the commutator of the BMO function with the Hilbert transform, as an operator on L^2. The upper bound estimate relies on a representation of the Hilbert transform as an average of dyadic shifts, and the boundedness of certain paraproduct operators, while the lower bound follows Ferguson and

In the world of Hamiltonian partial differential equations, complete integrability is often associated to rare and peaceful dynamics, while wave turbulence rather refers to more chaotic dynamics. In this talk I will first try to give an idea of these different notions. Then I will discuss the example of the cubic Szegö equation, a nonlinear wave toy model which surprisingly displays both properties. The key is a Lax pair structure involving Hankel operators from classical analysis, leading to the inversion of large ill-conditioned matrices. .

We study the construction of exponential bases and exponential frames on general $L^2$ space with the measures supported on self-affine fractals. This problem dates back to the conjecture of Fuglede. It lies at the interface between analysis, geometry and number theory and it relates to translational tilings. In this talk, we give an introduction to this topic, and report on some of the recent advances. In particular, the possibility of constructing exponential frames on fractal measures without exponential bases will be discussed.

The Minkowski question mark function is a singular distribution function arising from Number Theory: it maps all quadratic irrationals to rational numbers and rational numbers to dyadic numbers. It generates a singular measure on [0,1]. We are interested in the behavior of the norms and recurrence coefficients of the orthonormal polynomials for this singular measure. Is the Minkowski measure a "regular" measure (in the sense of Ullman, Totik and Stahl), i.e., is the asymptotic zero distribution the equilibrium measure on [0,1]

[Special time and location] The content of this talk is joint work with Yumeng Ou. We describe a novel framework for the he analysis of multilinear singular integrals acting on Banach-valued functions.Our main result is a Coifman-Meyer type theorem for operator-valued multilinear multipliers acting on suitable tuples of UMD spaces, including, in particular, noncommutative Lp spaces.

We will describe sufficient conditions on a set $\Lambda \subset [0,2\pi) $ so that the maximal operator below is bound on $\ell^2(Z)$. $$\sup _{\lambda \in \Lambda} \Big| \sum_{n\neq 0} e^{i \lambda n^2} f(x-n)/n\Big|$$ The integral version of this result is an influential result to E.M. Stein. Of course one should be able to take $\Lambda = [0,2\pi) $, but such a proof would have to go far beyond the already complicated one we will describe. Joint work with Ben Krause.

Uncertainty principles are results which restrict the localization of a function and its Fourier transform. One class of uncertainty principles studies generators of structured systems of functions, such as wavelets or Gabor systems, under the assumption that these systems form a basis or some generalization of a basis. An example is the Balian-Low Theorem for Gabor systems. In this talk, I will discuss sharp, Balian-Low type, uncertainty principles for finitely generated shift-invariant subspaces