Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

The two weight inequality for the Hilbert transform arises in the settings of analytic function spaces, operator theory, and spectral theory, and what would be most useful is a characterization in the simplest real-variable terms. We show that the $L^2$ to $L^2$ inequality holds if and only if two $L^2$ to weak-$L^2$ inequalities hold. This is a corollary to a characterization in terms of a two-weight Poisson inequality, and a pair of testing inequalities on bounded functions. Joint work with Eric Sawyer, Chun-Yun Shen, and Ignacio Uriate-Tuero.

Chemical reaction networks taken with mass-action kinetics are dynamical systems governed by polynomial differential equations that arise in systems biology. In general, establishing the existence of (multiple) steady states is challenging, as it requires the solution of a large system of polynomials with unknown coefficients. If, however, the steady state ideal of the system is a binomial ideal, then we show that these questions can be answered easily. This talk focuses on systems with this property, are we say such systems have toric steady states. Our main result gives sufficient conditions for a chemical reaction system to admit toric steady states. Furthermore, we analyze the capacity of such a system to exhibit multiple steady states. An important application concerns the biochemical reaction networks networks that describe the multisite phosphorylation of a protein by a kinase/phosphatase pair in a sequential and distributive mechanism. No prior knowledge of chemical reaction network theory or binomial ideals will be assumed. (This is joint work with Carsten Conradi, Mercedes P\'erez Mill\'an, and Alicia Dickenstein.)

In a joint work with D.Tamarkin we study analytic continuability of solutions of theLaplace-transformed Schroedinger equation by methods of Kashiwara-Schapira style microlocal theoryof sheaves.

The transformation of vibrations into low-power electricity has received growing attention over the last decade. The goal in this research field is to enable self-powered electronic components by harvesting the vibrational energy available in their environment. This talk will be focused on linear and nonlinear vibration-based energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials, including the modeling and experimental validation efforts. Electromechanical modeling discussions will involve both distributed-parameter and lumped-parameter approaches for quantitative prediction and qualitative representation. An important issue in energy harvesters employing linear resonance is that the best performance of the device is limited to a narrow bandwidth around the fundamental resonance frequency. If the excitation frequency slightly deviates from the resonance condition, the power output is drastically reduced. Energy harvesters based on nonlinear configurations (e.g., monostable and bistable Duffing oscillators with electromechanical coupling) offer rich nonlinear dynamic phenomena and outperform resonant energy harvesters under harmonic excitation over a range of frequencies. High-energy limit-cycle oscillations and chaotic vibrations in strongly nonlinear bistable beam and plate configurations are of particular interest. Inherent material nonlinearities and dissipative nonlinearities will also be discussed. Broadband random excitation of energy harvesters will be summarized with an emphasis on stochastic resonance in bistable configurations. Recent efforts on aeroelastic energy harvesting as well as underwater thrust and electricity generation using fiber-based flexible piezoelectric composites will be addressed briefly.