Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 Analysis Seminars

Analysis Seminar

The seminar will meet Tuesdays, 4:00 p.m. in VV B139, unless otherwise indicated.

If you wish to invite a speaker please contact Brian at street(at)math

Analysis Seminar Schedule

date	speaker	institution	title	host(s)
Sept 11	Simon Marshall	UW Madison	Integrals of eigenfunctions on hyperbolic manifolds
Wednesday, Sept 12	Gunther Uhlmann	University of Washington	Distinguished Lecture Series	See colloquium website for location
Friday, Sept 14	Gunther Uhlmann	University of Washington	Distinguished Lecture Series	See colloquium website for location
Sept 18	Grad Student Seminar
Sept 25	Grad Student Seminar
Oct 9	Hong Wang	MIT	About Falconer distance problem in the plane	Ruixiang
Oct 16	Polona Durcik	Caltech	Singular Brascamp-Lieb inequalities and extended boxes in R^n	Joris
Oct 23	Song-Ying Li	UC Irvine	Estimates for the first positive eigenvalue of Kohn Laplacian on a pseudo-Hermitian manifold	Xianghong
Oct 30	Grad student seminar
Nov 6	Hanlong Fang	UW Madison	A generalization of the theorem of Weil and Kodaira on prescribing residues	Brian
Monday, Nov. 12, B139	Kyle Hambrook	San Jose State University	Fourier Decay and Fourier Restriction for Fractal Measures on Curves	Andreas
Nov 13	Laurent Stolovitch	Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis	Equivalence of Cauchy-Riemann manifolds and multisummability theory	Xianghong
Nov 20	Grad Student Seminar
Nov 27	No Seminar
Dec 4	No Seminar
Jan 22	Brian Cook	Kent	Equidistribution results for integral points on affine homogenous algebraic varieties	Street
Jan 29	No Seminar
Feb 5, B239	Alexei Poltoratski	Texas A&M	Completeness of exponentials: Beurling-Malliavin and type problems	Denisov
Friday, Feb 8	Aaron Naber	Northwestern University	A structure theory for spaces with lower Ricci curvature bounds	See colloquium website for location
Feb 12	Shaoming Guo	UW Madison	Polynomial Roth theorems in Salem sets
Wed, Feb 13, B239	Dean Baskin	TAMU	Radiation fields for wave equations	Colloquium
Friday, Feb 15	Lillian Pierce	Duke	Short character sums	Colloquium
Monday, Feb 18, 3:30 p.m, B239.	Daniel Tataru	UC Berkeley	A Morawetz inequality for water waves	PDE Seminar
Feb 19	Wenjia Jing	Tsinghua University	Periodic homogenization of Dirichlet problems in perforated domains: a unified proof	PDE Seminar
Feb 26	No Seminar
Mar 5	Loredana Lanzani	Syracuse University	On regularity and irregularity of the Cauchy-Szegő projection in several complex variables	Xianghong
Mar 12	Trevor Leslie	UW Madison	Energy Equality for the Navier-Stokes Equations at the First Possible Blowup Time
Mar 19	Spring Break!
Mar 26	No seminar
Apr 2	Stefan Steinerberger	Yale	Wasserstein Distance as a Tool in Analysis	Shaoming, Andreas
Apr 9	Franc Forstnerič	Unversity of Ljubljana	Minimal surfaces by way of complex analysis	Xianghong, Andreas
Apr 16	Andrew Zimmer	Louisiana State University	The geometry of domains with negatively pinched Kaehler metrics	Xianghong
Apr 23	Brian Street	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Maximal Hypoellipticity	Street
Apr 30	Zhen Zeng	UPenn	Decay property of multilinear oscillatory integrals	Shaoming
*Madison Lectures in Fourier Analysis
Summer
Sept 10	Jose Madrid	UCLA		Andreas, David
Oct 15	Bassam Shayya	American University of Beirut		Andreas, Betsy

Abstracts

Simon Marshall

Integrals of eigenfunctions on hyperbolic manifolds

Let X be a compact hyperbolic manifold, and let Y be a totally geodesic closed submanifold in X. I will discuss the problem of bounding the integral of a Laplace eigenfunction on X over Y, as the eigenvalue tends to infinity. I will present an upper bound for these integrals that is sharp on average, and briefly describe ongoing work with Farrell Brumley in which we attempt to produce eigenfunctions with very large periods.

Hong Wang

About Falconer distance problem in the plane

If E is a compact set of Hausdorff dimension greater than 5/4 on the plane, we prove that there is a point x\in E such that the set of distances between x and E has positive Lebesgue measure. Our result improves upon Wolff's theorem for dim E> 4/3. This is joint work with Larry Guth, Alex Iosevich and Yumeng Ou.

Polona Durcik

Singular Brascamp-Lieb inequalities and extended boxes in R^n

Brascamp-Lieb inequalities are L^p estimates for certain multilinear forms on functions on Euclidean spaces. In this talk we consider singular Brascamp-Lieb inequalities, which arise when one of the functions is replaced by a Calderon-Zygmund kernel. We focus on a family of multilinear forms in R^n with a certain cubical structure and discuss their connection to some patterns in positive density subsets in R^n. Based on joint works with V. Kovac and C. Thiele.

Song-Ying Li

Estimates for the first positive eigenvalue of Kohn Laplacian on a pseudo-Hermitian manifold

In this talk, I will present my recent works with my collaborators on the lower bound and upper bounds estimates for the first positive eigenvalues of Kohn Laplacian and sub-Laplacian on a strictly pseudoconvex pseudo-Hermitian CR manifold, which include CR Lichnerowicz-Obata theorem for the lower and upper bounds for the first positive eigenvalue for the Kohn Laplacian on strictly pseudoconvex hypersurfaces.

Hanlong Fan

A generalization of the theorem of Weil and Kodaira on prescribing residues

An old theorem of Weil and Kodaira says that: For a K\"ahler manifold X, there exists a closed meromorphic one-form with residue divisor D if and only if D is homologous to zero. In this talk, I will generalize Weil and Kodaira's criterion to non-K\"ahler manifolds.

Kyle Hambrook

Fourier Decay and Fourier Restriction for Fractal Measures on Curves

I will discuss my recent work on some problems concerning Fourier decay and Fourier restriction for fractal measures on curves.

Laurent Stolovitch

Equivalence of Cauchy-Riemann manifolds and multisummability theory

We apply the multisummability theory from Dynamical Systems to CR-geometry. As the main result, we show that two real-analytic hypersurfaces in $\mathbb C^2$ are formally equivalent, if and only if they are $C^\infty$ CR-equivalent at the respective point. As a corollary, we prove that all formal equivalences between real-algebraic Levi-nonflat hypersurfaces in $\mathbb C^2$ are algebraic (and in particular convergent). This is a joint work with I. Kossovskiy and B. Lamel.

Brian Cook

Equidistribution results for integral points on affine homogenous algebraic varieties

Let Q be a homogenous integral polynomial of degree at least two. We consider certain results and questions concerning the distribution of the integral points on the level sets of Q.

Alexei Poltoratski

Completeness of exponentials: Beurling-Malliavin and type problems

This talk is devoted to two old problems of harmonic analysis mentioned in the title. Both problems ask when a family of complex exponentials is complete (spans) an L^2-space. The Beruling-Malliavin problem was solved in the early 1960s and I will present its classical solution along with modern generalizations and applications. I will then discuss history and recent progress in the type problem, which stood open for more than 70 years.

Shaoming Guo

Polynomial Roth theorems in Salem sets

Let P(t) be a polynomial of one real variable. I will report a result on searching for patterns of the form (x, x+t, x+P(t)) within Salem sets, whose Hausdorff dimension is sufficiently close to one. Joint work with Fraser and Pramanik.

Dean Baskin

Radiation fields for wave equations

Radiation fields are rescaled limits of solutions of wave equations near "null infinity" and capture the radiation pattern seen by a distant observer. They are intimately connected with the Fourier and Radon transforms and with scattering theory. In this talk, I will define and discuss radiation fields in a few contexts, with an emphasis on spacetimes that look flat near infinity. The main result is a connection between the asymptotic behavior of the radiation field and a family of quantum objects on an associated asymptotically hyperbolic space.

Lillian Pierce

Short character sums

A surprisingly diverse array of problems in analytic number theory have at their heart a problem of bounding (from above) an exponential sum, or its multiplicative cousin, a so-called character sum. For example, both understanding the Riemann zeta function or Dirichlet L-functions inside the critical strip, and also counting solutions to Diophantine equations via the circle method or power sieve methods, involve bounding such sums. In general, the sums of interest fall into one of two main regimes: complete sums or incomplete sums, with this latter regime including in particular “short sums.” Short sums are particularly useful, and particularly resistant to almost all known methods. In this talk, we will see what makes a sum “short,” sketch why it would be incredibly powerful to understand short sums, and discuss a curious proof from the 1950’s which is still the best way we know to bound short sums. We will end by describing new work which extends the ideas of this curious proof to bound short sums in much more general situations.

Loredana Lanzani

On regularity and irregularity of the Cauchy-Szegő projection in several complex variables

This talk is a survey of my latest, and now final, collaboration with Eli Stein.

It is known that for bounded domains $D$ in $\mathbb C^n$ that are of class $C^2$ and are strongly pseudo-convex, the Cauchy-Szegő projection is bounded in $L^p(\text{b}D, d\Sigma)$ for $1<p<\infty$. (Here $d\Sigma$ is induced Lebesgue measure.) We show, using appropriate worm domains, that this fails for any $p\neq 2$, when we assume that the domain in question is only weakly pseudo-convex. Our starting point are the ideas of Kiselman-Barrett introduced more than 30 years ago in the analysis of the Bergman projection. However the study of the Cauchy-Szegő projection raises a number of new issues and obstacles that need to be overcome. We will also compare these results to the analogous problem for the Cauchy-Leray integral, where however the relevant counter-example is of much simpler nature.

Trevor Leslie

Energy Equality for the Navier-Stokes Equations at the First Possible Blowup Time

In this talk, we discuss the problem of energy equality for strong solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations (NSE) at the first time where such solutions may lose regularity. Our approach is motivated by a famous theorem of Caffarelli, Kohn, and Nirenberg, which states that the set of singular points associated to a suitable weak solution of the NSE has parabolic Hausdorff dimension of at most 1. In particular, we furnish sufficient conditions for energy equality which depend on the dimension of the singularity set in addition to time and space integrability assumptions; in doing so we improve upon the classical results when attention is restricted to the first blowup time. When our method is inconclusive, we are able to quantify the possible failure of energy equality in terms of the lower local dimension and the concentration dimension of a certain measure associated to the solution. The work described is joint with Roman Shvydkoy (UIC).

Stefan Steinerberger

Wasserstein Distance as a Tool in Analysis

Wasserstein Distance is a way of measuring the distance between two probability distributions (minimizing it is a main problem in Optimal Transport). We will give a gentle Introduction into what it means and then use it to prove (1) a completely elementary but possibly new and quite curious inequality for real-valued functions and (2) a statement along the following lines: linear combinations of eigenfunctions of elliptic operators corresponding to high frequencies oscillate a lot and vanish on a large set of co-dimension 1 (this is already interesting for trigonometric polynomials on the 2-torus, sums of finitely many sines and cosines, whose sum has to vanish on long lines) and (3) some statements in Basic Analytic Number Theory that drop out for free as a byproduct.

Franc Forstnerič

Minimal surfaces by way of complex analysis

After a brief historical introduction, I will present some recent developments in the theory of minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces which have been obtained by complex analytic methods. The emphasis will be on results pertaining to the global theory of minimal surfaces including Runge and Mergelyan approximation, the conformal Calabi-Yau problem, properly immersed and embedded minimal surfaces, and a new result on the Gauss map of minimal surfaces.

Andrew Zimmer

The geometry of domains with negatively pinched Kaehler metrics

Every bounded pseudoconvex domain in C^n has a natural complete metric: the Kaehler-Einstein metric constructed by Cheng-Yau. When the boundary of the domain is strongly pseudoconvex, Cheng-Yau showed that the holomorphic sectional curvature of this metric is asymptotically a negative constant. In this talk I will describe some partial converses to this result, including the following: if a smoothly bounded convex domain has a complete Kaehler metric with close to constant negative holomorphic sectional curvature near the boundary, then the domain is strongly pseudoconvex. This is joint work with F. Bracci and H. Gaussier.

Brian Street

Maximal Hypoellipticity

In 1974, Folland and Stein introduced a generalization of ellipticity known as maximal hypoellipticity. This talk will be an introduction to this concept and some of the ways it generalizes ellipticity.

Zhen Zeng

Decay property of multilinear oscillatory integrals

In this talk, I will be talking about the conditions of the phase function $P$ and the linear mappings $\{\pi_i\}_{i=1}^n$ to ensure the asymptotic power decay properties of the following trilinear oscillatory integrals \[ I_{\lambda}(f_1,f_2,f_3)=\int_{\mathbb{R}^m}e^{i\lambda P(x)}\prod_{j=1}^3 f_j(\pi_j(x))\eta(x)dx, \] which falls into the broad goal in the previous work of Christ, Li, Tao and Thiele.