Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

On the Hardy space, by means of an elegant and ingenious argument, Widom showed that the spectrum of a bounded Toeplitz operator is always connected and Douglas showed that the essential spectrum of a bounded Toeplitz operator is also connected. On the Bergman space, in 1979, G. McDonald and the C. Sundberg showed that the essential spectrum of a Toeplitz operator with bounded harmonic symbol is connected if the symbol is either real

In this talk, we will characterize the compact operators on Bergman spaces of the ball and polydisc. The main result we will discuss shows that an operator on the Bergman space is compact if and only if its Berezin transform vanishes on the boundary and additionally this operator belongs to the Toeplitz algebra. We additionally will comment about how to extend these results to bounded symmetric domains, and for "Bergman-type" function spaces.

A recent conjecture in harmonic analysis that was exploredin the past 20 years was the A_2 conjecture, that is the sharp bound onthe A_p weight characteristic of a Calderon-Zygmund singular integraloperator on weighted L_p space. The non-sharp bound had been knownsince the 1970's, but interest in the sharpness was spurred recentlyby connections to quasiconformal mappings and PDE. Finally solved infull by Hytonen, the proof is complex, intricate and lengthy. A new "simple" approach using local mean oscillation and positive operatorbounds was published by Lerner.

We will study one and two weight inequalities for several different operators from harmonic analysis, with an emphasis on vector-valued operators. A large portion of current research in the area of one weight inequalities is devoted to estimating a given operators' norm in terms of a weight's A_p characteristic; we consider some related problems and the extension of several results to the vector-valued setting. In the two weight setting we consider some of the difficulties of characterizing a two weight inequality through Sawyer-type testing

Weighted norm inequalities for singular integral operators acting on scalar weighted L^p is a classical topic that goes back to the 70's with the seminal work of R. Hunt, B. Muckenhoupt, and R. Wheeden. On the other hand, weighted norm inequalities for singular integral operators with matrix valued kernels acting on matrix weighted L^p are poorly understood and results (obtained by F. Nazarov, S. Treil, and A.

We show how to construct frames for square integrable functionsout of modulated Gaussians. Using the frame representation of the Cauchydata, we show that we can build a suitable approximation to the solutionfor low regularity, time dependent wave equations. The talk will highlightthe relationship of the construction to harmonic analysis and will explorethe differences of the new construction to the standard Gaussian beamansatz.

Must the Fourier series of an L^2 function converge pointwise almost everywhere? In the 1960's, Carleson answered this question in the affirmative, by studying a particular type of maximal singular integral operator, which has since become known as the Carleson operator. In the past 40 years, a number of important results have been proved for generalizations of the original Carleson operator. In this talk we will describe new joint work with Po Lam Yung that introduces curved structure to the setting of Carleson operators.

In this talk we will connect functional analysis and analytic function theory by studying the compact linear operators on Bergman spaces. In particular, we will show how it is possible to obtain a characterization of the compact operators in terms of more geometric information associated to the function spaces. We will also point to several interesting lines of inquiry that are connected to the problems in this talk. This talk will be self-contained and accessible to any mathematics graduate student.

A brief overview of some integrable and exactly-solvable Schroedinger equations with trigonometric potentials of Calogero-Moser-Sutherland type is given.All of them are characterized bya discrete symmetry of the Hamiltonian given by the affine Weyl group,a number of polynomial eigenfunctions and eigenvalues which are usually quadratic in the quantum number, each eigenfunction is an element of finite-dimensionallinear space of polynomials characterized by the highest root vector, anda factorization property for eigenfunctions.

Self-adjoint $n$-by-$n$ matrices have a natural partial ordering, namely $ A \leq B $ if the matrix $ B - A$ is positive semi-definite. In 1934 K. Loewner characterized functions that preserve this ordering; these functions are called $n$-matrix monotone. The condition depends on the dimension $n$, but if a function is $n$-matrix monotone for all $n$, then it must extend analytically to a function that maps the upper half-plane to itself. I will describe Loewner's results, and then discuss what happens