Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Orthonormal bases (ONB) are used throughout mathematics and its applications. However, in many settings such bases are not easy to come by. For example, it is known that even the union of as few as two intervals may not admit an ONB of exponentials. In cases where there is no ONB, the next best option is a Riesz basis (i.e. the image of an ONB under a bounded invertible operator). In this talk I will discuss the following question: Does every finite union of rectangles in R^d, with edges parallel to the axes, admit a Riesz basis

We will start with a description of geometric and measure-theoretic objects associated to certain convex functions in R^n. These objects include a quasi-distance and a Borel measure in R^n which render a space of homogeneous type (i.e. a doubling quasi-metric space) associated to such convex functions. We will illustrate how real-analysis techniques in this quasi-metric space can be applied to the regularity theory of convex solutions u to the Monge-Ampere equation det D^2u =f as well as solutions v of the linearized Monge-Ampere equation L_u(v)=g.

In this talk, we will discuss a T1 theorem for band operators (operators with finitely many diagonals) in the setting of matrix A_2 weights. This work is motivated by interest in the currently open A_2 conjecture for matrix weights and generalizes a scalar-valued theorem due to Nazarov-Treil-Volberg, which played a key role in the proof of the scalar A_2 conjecture for dyadic shifts and related operators. This is joint work with Brett Wick.

There is a long standing asymptotic relationship in several areas of analysis, between polynomials and entire functions of exponential type. Many extremal problems for polynomials of degree n turn into analogous extremal problems for entire functions of exponential type, as the degree n approaches infinity. We discuss some of the old such as Bernstein's constant on approximation of |x|, and recent work on Plancherel-Polya and Nikolskii inequalities.

When does the spectrum of an operator determine the operator uniquely?-This question and its many versions have been studied extensively in the field of inverse spectral theory for differential operators. Several notable mathematicians have worked in this area. Among others, there are important contributions by Borg, Levinson, Hochstadt, Liebermann; and more recently by Simon, Gesztezy, del Rio and Horvath, which have further fueled these studies by relating the completeness problems of families of functions to the inverse

We discuss bi-parameter Calderon-Zygmund singular integrals from the point of view of modern probabilistic and dyadic techniques. In particular, we discuss their structure and boundedness via dyadic model operators. In connection to this we demonstrate, via new examples, the delicacy of the problem of finding a completely satisfactory product T1 theorem. Time permitting related non-homogeneous bi-parameter results may be mentioned.

A classical theorem of John Wermer asserts that the algebra of continuous functions on the circle with holomophic extensions to the disc is a maximal subalgebra of the algebra of all continuous functions on the circle. Wermer's theorem has been extended in numerous directions. These will be discussed with an emphasis on extensions to several complex variables.

In this talk we will discuss applications of a new method of proving vector-valued inequalities discovered by M. Bateman and C. Thiele. We give new proofs of the Fefferman-Stein inequality (without using weighted theory) and vector-valued estimates of the Carleson operator using this method. Also as an application to bi-parameter problems, we give a new proof for bi-parameter multipliers without using product theory. As an application to the bilinear setting, we talk about new vector-valued estimates for the bilinear Hilbert transform, and

Philip will be presenting topics (and leading discussion on those topics) from Chapter 2 Section 2 of Bounded Analytic Functions.