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'''Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 Analysis Seminar Series
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The seminar will meet Tuesdays, 4:00 p.m. in VV B139, unless otherwise indicated.
The 2021-2022 Analysis Seminar will be organized by David Beltran and Andreas Seeger.
Some of the talks will be in person (room Van Vleck B139) and some will be online. The regular time for the Seminar will be Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m. (in some cases we will schedule the seminar at different times, to accommodate speakers).


If you wish to invite a speaker please contact  Brian at street(at)math
Zoom links will be sent to those who have signed up for the Analysis Seminar List.  If you would like to subscribe to the Analysis seminar list, send a blank email to analysis+join (at) g-groups (dot) wisc (dot) edu. If you are from an institution different than UW-Madison, please send as well as an additional email to David and Andreas (dbeltran, seeger at math (dot) wisc (dot) edu) to notify the request.


===[[Previous Analysis seminars]]===
If you'd like to suggest speakers for the spring  semester please contact David and Andreas.


= Analysis Seminar Schedule =
= Analysis Seminar Schedule =
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|Sept 10
|September 21, VV B139
| José Madrid
| Dóminique Kemp
| UCLA
| UW-Madison
|[[#José Madrid On the regularity of maximal operators on Sobolev Spaces ]]
|[[#Dóminique Kemp Decoupling by way of approximation ]]
| Andreas, David
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|September 28, VV B139
| Jack Burkart
| UW-Madison
|[[#Jack Burkart  |  Transcendental Julia Sets with Fractional Packing Dimension ]]
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|October 5, Online
| Giuseppe Negro
| University of Birmingham
|[[#Giuseppe Negro  |  Stability of sharp Fourier restriction to spheres ]]
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|October 12, VV B139
|Rajula Srivastava
|UW Madison
|[[#Rajula Srivastava  |  Lebesgue space estimates for Spherical Maximal Functions on Heisenberg groups ]]
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|Sept 13 (Friday, B139)
|October 19, Online
| Yakun Xi
|Itamar Oliveira
| University of  Rochester
|Cornell University  
|[[#Yakun Xi Distance sets on Riemannian surfaces and microlocal decoupling inequalities ]]
|[[#Itamar Oliveira A new approach to the Fourier extension problem for the paraboloid ]]
| Shaoming
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|Sept 17
|October 26, VV B139
| Joris Roos
| Changkeun Oh
| UW Madison
| UW Madison
|[[#Joris Roos L^p improving estimates for maximal spherical averages ]]
|[[#Changkeun Oh Decoupling inequalities for quadratic forms and beyond ]]
| Brian
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|October 29, Colloquium, Online
| Alexandru Ionescu
| Princeton University
|[[#Alexandru Ionescu  |  Polynomial averages and pointwise ergodic theorems on nilpotent groups]]
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|Sept 20 (2:25 PM Friday, Room B139 VV)
|November 2, VV B139
| Xiaojun Huang
| Liding Yao
| Rutgers University–New Brunswick
| UW Madison
|[[#linktoabstract A generalized Kerner theorem and hyperbolic metrics on Stein spaces with compact spherical boundaries ]]
|[[#Liding Yao An In-depth Look of Rychkov's Universal Extension Operators for Lipschitz Domains ]]
| Xianghong
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|Oct 1
|November 9, VV B139
| Xiaocheng Li
| Lingxiao Zhang
| UW Madison
| UW Madison
|[[#Xiaocheng Li | An Estimate for Spherical Functions on $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R})$ ]]
|[[#Lingxiao Zhang |   Real Analytic Multi-parameter Singular Radon Transforms: necessity of the Stein-Street condition ]]
| Simon
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|Oct 8
|November 12, Colloquium, Online
| Jeff Galkowski
| Kasso Okoudjou
| Northeastern University
| Tufts University
|[[#Jeff Galkowski Concentration and Growth of Laplace Eigenfunctions ]]
|[[#Kasso Okoudjou An exploration in analysis on fractals ]]
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|November 16, VV B139
| Rahul Parhi
| UW Madison (EE)
|[[#Rahul Parhi  |    On BV Spaces, Splines, and Neural Networks ]]
| Betsy
| Betsy
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|Oct 15
|November 30, VV B139
| David Beltran
| Alexei Poltoratski
| UW Madison
| UW Madison
|[[#David Beltran |   Regularity of the centered fractional maximal function ]]
|[[#Alexei Poltoratski | Pointwise convergence for the scattering data and non-linear Fourier transform. ]]
| Brian
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|Oct 22
|December 7, Online
| Laurent Stolovitch
| John Green
| University of Côte d'Azur
| The University of Edinburgh
|[[#Laurent Stolovitch | Linearization of neighborhoods of embeddings of complex compact manifolds ]]
|[[#John Green | Estimates for oscillatory integrals via sublevel set estimates ]]
| Xianghong
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|<b>Wednesday Oct 23 in B129</b>
|December 14, VV B139
|Dominique Kemp
| Tao Mei
|Indiana University
| Baylor University
|[[#Dominique Kemp | Decoupling for Real Analytic Surfaces Exhibiting Zero Curvature]]
|[[#Tao Mei  |   Fourier Multipliers on free groups ]]
|Betsy
| Shaoming
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|Oct 29
|Winter break
| Bingyang Hu
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|February 8, VV B139
|Alexander  Nagel
| UW Madison
| UW Madison
|[[#Bingyang Hu |   Sparse bounds of singular Radon transforms]]
|[[#Alex Nagel |   Global estimates for a class of kernels and multipliers with multiple homogeneities]]
| Street
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|February 15, Online
| Sebastian Bechtel
| Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux
|[[#Sebastian Bechtel  | Square roots of elliptic systems on open sets]]
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|Nov 5
|Friday,  February 18,  Colloquium, VVB239
| Kevin O'Neill
| Andreas Seeger
| UC Davis
| UW Madison
|[[#Kevin O'Neill  |   A Quantitative Stability Theorem for Convolution on the Heisenberg Group ]]
|[[#Andreas Seeger | Spherical maximal functions and fractal dimensions of dilation sets]]
| Betsy
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|Nov 12
|February 22, VV B139
| Francesco di Plinio
|Tongou Yang
| Washington University in St. Louis
|University of British Comlumbia
|[[#Francesco di Plinio Maximal directional integrals along algebraic and lacunary sets]]
|[[#linktoabstract Restricted projections along $C^2$ curves on the sphere ]]
| Shaoming
| Shaoming
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|Nov 13
|Monday, February 28, 4:30 p.m.,  Online
| Xichun Li (Wednesday)
| Po Lam Yung
| UIUC
| Australian National University
|[[#Xiaochun Li |   Roth's type theorems on progressions]]
|[[#Po Lam Yung | Revisiting an old argument for Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem ]]
| Brian, Shaoming
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|Nov 19
|March 8, VV B139
| Joao Ramos
| Brian Street
| University of Bonn
| UW Madison
|[[#linktoabstract |   Title ]]
|[[#Brian Street | Maximal Subellipticity ]]
| Joris, Shaoming
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|Nov 26
|March 15: No Seminar
| No Seminar
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|Dec 3
|March 22
| Person
| Laurent Stolovitch
| Institution
| University of Cote d'Azur
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Classification of reversible parabolic diffeomorphisms of
| Sponsor
$(\mathbb{C}^2,0)$  and of flat CR-singularities of exceptional
hyperbolic type ]]
| Xianghong
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|Dec 10
|March 29, VV B139
| No Seminar
|Betsy Stovall
|UW Madison
|[[#Betsy Stovall  |  On extremizing sequences for adjoint Fourier restriction to the sphere ]]
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|Jan 21
|April 5, Online
| No Seminar
|Malabika Pramanik
|University of British Columbia
|[[#Malabika Pramanik |  Dimensionality and Patterns with Curvature]]
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|Jan 28
|April 12, VV B139
| Person
| Hongki Jung
| Institution
| IU Bloomington
|[[#linktoabstract |   Title ]]
|[[#Hongki Jung | A small cap decoupling for the twisted cubic ]]
| Sponsor
| Shaoming
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|Feb 4
|Friday, April 15, Colloquium, VV B239
| Person
| Bernhard Lamel
| Institution
| Texas A&M University at Qatar
|[[#linktoabstract Title ]]
|[[#Bernhard Lamel Convergence and Divergence of Formal Power Series Maps ]]
| Sponsor
| Xianghong
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|Feb 11
|April 19, Online
| Person
| Carmelo Puliatti
| Institution
| Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
|[[#linktoabstract Title ]]
|[[#Carmelo Puliatti Gradients of single layer potentials for elliptic operators 
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with coefficients of Dini mean oscillation-type ]]
| David
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|Feb 18
|April 25-26-27, Distinguished Lecture Series
| Person
|Larry Guth
| Institution
|MIT
|[[#linktoabstract |   Title ]]
|[[#Larry Guth | Reflections on decoupling and Vinogradov's mean value problem. ]]
| Sponsor
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|Feb 25
|April 25, 4:00 p.m., Lecture I, VV B239
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| Institution
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|[[#linktoabstract  |   Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  | Introduction to decoupling and Vinogradov's mean value problem ]]
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|Mar 3
|April 26, 4:00 p.m., Lecture II, Chamberlin 2241
| Person
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| Institution
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|[[#linktoabstract  |   Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  | Features of the proof of decoupling  ]]
| Sponsor
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|Mar 10
|April 27, 4:00 p.m., Lecture III, VV B239
| Yifei Pan
| Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
| Xianghong
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|Mar 17
| Spring Break!
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|[[#linktoabstract  |    Open problems ]]
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|Mar 24
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| Oscar Dominguez
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| Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
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| Andreas
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|Mar 31
|Talks in the Fall semester 2022:
| Reserved
| Institution
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
| Street
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|Apr 7
|September 20,  PDE and Analysis Seminar
| Hong Wang
|Andrej Zlatoš
| Institution
|UCSD
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
| Street
| Hung Tran
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|<b>Monday, Apr 13</b>
|Yumeng Ou
|CUNY, Baruch College
|[[#linktoabstract  |  TBA ]]
|Zhang
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|Apr 14
| Tamás Titkos
| BBS University of Applied Sciences & Rényi Institute
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Distance preserving maps on spaces of probability measures ]]
| Street
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|Apr 21
|Friday, September 23, 4:00 p.m., Colloquium
| Diogo Oliveira e Silva
|Pablo Shmerkin
| University of Birmingham
|University of British Columbia
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
| Betsy
|Shaoming and Andreas
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|Apr 28
|September 24-25, RTG workshop in Harmonic Analysis
| No Seminar
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|Shaoming and Andreas
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|May 5
|Tuesday, November 8,
|Jonathan Hickman
|Robert Fraser
|University of Edinburgh
|Wichita State University
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
| Andreas
| Shaoming and Andreas
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=Abstracts=
=Abstracts=
===José Madrid===
===Dóminique Kemp===
 
Decoupling by way of approximation


Title: On the regularity of maximal operators on Sobolev Spaces
Since Bourgain and Demeter's seminal 2017 decoupling result for nondegenerate hypersurfaces, several attempts have been made to extend the theory to degenerate hypersurfaces $M$. In this talk, we will discuss using surfaces derived from the local Taylor expansions of $M$ in order to obtain "approximate" decoupling results. By themselves, these approximate decouplings do not avail much. However, upon considerate iteration, for a specifically chosen $M$, they culminate in a decoupling partition of $M$ into caps small enough either as originally desired or otherwise genuinely nondegenerate at the local scale. A key feature that will be discussed is the notion of approximating a non-convex hypersurface $M$ by convex hypersurfaces at various scales. In this manner, contrary to initial intuition, non-trivial $\ell^2$ decoupling results will be obtained for $M$.


Abstract:  In this talk, we will discuss the regularity properties (boundedness and
===Jack Burkart===
continuity) of the classical and fractional maximal
operators when these act on the Sobolev space W^{1,p}(\R^n). We will
focus on the endpoint case p=1. We will talk about
some recent results and current open problems.


===Yakun Xi===
Transcendental Julia Sets with Fractional Packing Dimension


Title: Distance sets on Riemannian surfaces and microlocal decoupling inequalities
If f is an entire function, the Julia set of f is the set of all points such that f and its iterates locally do not form a normal family; nearby points have very different orbits under iteration by f. A topic of interest in complex dynamics is studying the fractal geometry of the Julia set.


Abstract: In this talk, we discuss the generalization of the Falconer distance problem to the Riemannian setting. In particular, we extend the recent result of Guth-Iosevich-Ou-Wang for the distance set in the plane to general Riemannian surfaces. The key new ingredient is a family of refined decoupling inequalities associated with phase functions that satisfy Carleson-Sj\”olin condition. This is joint work with Iosevich and Liu.
In this talk, we will discuss my thesis result where I construct non-polynomial (transcendental) entire functions whose Julia set has packing dimension strictly between (1,2). We will introduce various notions of dimension and basic objects in complex dynamics, and discuss a history of dimension results in complex dynamics. We will discuss some key aspects of the proof, which include a use of Whitney decompositions of domains as a tool to calculate the packing dimension, and some open questions I am thinking about.


===Joris Roos===
===Giuseppe Negro===


Title: L^p improving estimates for maximal spherical averages
Stability of sharp Fourier restriction to spheres


Abstract: For a given compact set of radii $E$ we will discuss $L^p$ improving properties of maximal spherical averages with a supremum over $E$.
In dimension $d\in\{3, 4, 5, 6, 7\}$, we establish that the constant functions maximize the weighted $L^2(S^{d-1}) - L^4(R^d)$ Fourier extension estimate on the sphere, provided that the weight function is sufficiently regular and small, in a proper and effective sense which we will make precise. One of the main tools is an integration by parts identity, which generalizes the so-called "magic identity" of Foschi for the unweighted inequality with $d=3$, which is exactly the classical Stein-Tomas estimate.  
Our results are sharp up to endpoints for a large class of $E$. A new feature is that the optimal exponents depend on both, the upper Minkowski dimension and the Assouad dimension of the set $E$.
Joint work with Tess Anderson, Kevin Hughes and Andreas Seeger.


===Xiaojun Huang===
Joint work with E.Carneiro and D.Oliveira e Silva.


Title: A generalized Kerner theorem and hyperbolic metrics on Stein spaces with compact spherical boundaries
===Rajula Srivastava===


Abstract: This is a joint work with Ming Xiao. We discuss how to construct a hyperbolic metric over a Stein space with spherical boundary. The technique we use is to employ holomorphic continuation along curves for multiple valued functions.
Lebesgue space estimates for Spherical Maximal Functions on Heisenberg groups


===Xiaocheng Li===
We discuss $L^p\to L^q$ estimates for local maximal operators associated with dilates of codimension two spheres in Heisenberg groups, sharp up to endpoints. The proof shall be reduced to estimates for standard oscillatory integrals of Carleson-Sj\"olin-H\"ormander type, relying on the maximal possible number of nonvanishing curvatures for a cone in the fibers of the associated canonical relation. We shall also discuss a new counterexample which shows the sharpness of one of the edges in the region of boundedness. Based on joint work with Joris Roos and Andreas Seeger.


Title:  An Estimate for Spherical Functions on $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R})$
===Itamar Oliveira===


Abstract:  We prove an estimate for spherical functions $\phi_\lambda(a)$ on $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R})$, establishing uniform decay in the spectral parameter $\lambda$ when the group parameter $a$ is restricted to a compact subset of the abelian subgroup $\mathrm{A}$. In the case of $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R})$, it improves a result by J.J. Duistermaat, J.A.C. Kolk and V.S. Varadarajan by removing the limitation that $a$ should remain regular. As in their work, we estimate the oscillatory integral that appears in the integral formula for spherical functions by the method of stationary phase. However, the major difference is that we investigate the stability of the singularities arising from the linearized phase function by classifying their local normal forms when the parameters $\lambda$ and $a$ vary.
A new approach to the Fourier extension problem for the paraboloid


===Jeff Galkowski===
An equivalent formulation of the Fourier Extension (F.E.) conjecture for a compact piece of the paraboloid states that the F.E. operator maps $ L^{2+\frac{2}{d}}([0,1]^{d}) $ to $L^{2+\frac{2}{d}+\varepsilon}(\mathbb{R}^{d+1}) $ for every $\varepsilon>0 $. It has been fully solved only for $ d=1 $ and there are many partial results in higher dimensions regarding the range of $ (p,q) $ for which $L^{p}([0,1]^{d}) $ is mapped to $ L^{q}(\mathbb{R}^{d+1}) $. One can reduce matters to proving that a model operator satisfies the same mapping properties, and we will show that the conjecture holds in higher dimensions for tensor functions, meaning for all $ g $  of the form $ g(x_{1},\ldots,x_{d})=g_{1}(x_{1})\cdot\ldots\cdot g_{d}(x_{d}) $. We will present this theorem as a proof of concept of a more general framework and set of techniques that can also address multilinear versions of this problem and get similar results. This is joint work with Camil Muscalu.


<b>Concentration and Growth of Laplace Eigenfunctions</b>
===Changkeun Oh===


In this talk we will discuss a new approach to understanding eigenfunction concentration. We characterize the features that cause an eigenfunction to saturate the standard supremum bounds in terms of the distribution of L^2 mass along geodesic tubes emanating from a point. We also show that the phenomena behind extreme supremum norm growth is identical to that underlying extreme growth of eigenfunctions when averaged along submanifolds. Finally, we use these ideas to understand a variety of measures of concentration; in each case obtaining quantitative improvements over the known bounds.
Decoupling inequalities for quadratic forms and beyond


===David Beltran===
In this talk, I will present some recent progress on decoupling inequalities for some translation- and dilation-invariant systems (TDI systems in short). In particular, I will emphasize decoupling inequalities for quadratic forms. If time permits, I will also discuss some interesting phenomenon related to Brascamp-Lieb inequalities that appears in the study of a cubic TDI system. Joint work with Shaoming Guo, Pavel Zorin-Kranich, and Ruixiang Zhang.


Title: Regularity of the centered fractional maximal function
===Alexandru Ionescu===


Abstract: I will report some recent progress regarding the boundedness of the map $f \mapsto |\nabla M_\beta f|$ from the endpoint space $W^{1,1}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ to $L^{d/(d-\beta)}(\mathbb{R}^d)$, where $M_\beta$ denotes the fractional version of the centered Hardy--Littlewood maximal function. A key step in our analysis is a relation between the centered and non-centered fractional maximal functions at the derivative level, which allows to exploit the known techniques in the non-centered case.
Polynomial averages and pointwise ergodic theorems on nilpotent groups


This is joint work with José Madrid.
I will talk about some recent work on pointwise almost everywhere convergence for ergodic averages along polynomial sequences in nilpotent groups of step two. Our proof is based on almost-orthogonality techniques that go far beyond Fourier transform tools, which are not available in the non-commutative nilpotent setting. In particular we develop what we call a nilpotent circle method}, which allows us to adapt some the ideas of the classical circle method to the setting of nilpotent groups.


===Dominique Kemp===
===Liding Yao===


<b>Decoupling for Real Analytic Surfaces Exhibiting Zero Curvature</b>
An In-depth Look of Rychkov's Universal Extension Operators for Lipschitz Domains


The celebrated l^2 decoupling theorem of Jean Bourgain and Ciprian Demeter presented a new perspective on a range of problems related to hypersurfaces with nonzero Gaussian curvature, such as exponential sum estimates, additive energy estimates, local smoothing, and counting solutions to Diophantine inequalities. The same authors also extended their theory to the n-dimensional cone. Following their steps, we prove optimal l^2 decoupling results for the remaining class of zero-curvature two-dimensional surfaces without umbilical points (the so-called tangent surfaces). We are also able to prove a decoupling theorem for the real analytic surfaces of revolution. These results should be viewed as partial progress toward the goal of proving a decoupling theorem for arbitrary real analytic hypersurfaces.
Given a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, Rychkov showed that there is a linear extension operator $\mathcal E$ for $\Omega$ which is bounded in Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. We introduce a class of operators that generalize $\mathcal E$ which are more versatile for applications. We also derive some quantitative blow-up estimates of the extended function and all its derivatives in $\overline{\Omega}^c$ up to boundary. This is a joint work with Ziming Shi.


===Lingxiao Zhang===


===Kevin O'Neill===
Real Analytic Multi-parameter Singular Radon Transforms: necessity of the Stein-Street condition


<b>A Quantitative Stability Theorem for Convolution on the Heisenberg Group </b>
We study operators of the form
$Tf(x)= \psi(x) \int f(\gamma_t(x))K(t)\,dt$
where $\gamma_t(x)$ is a real analytic function of $(t,x)$ mapping from a neighborhood of $(0,0)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N \times \mathbb{R}^n$ into $\mathbb{R}^n$ satisfying $\gamma_0(x)\equiv x$, $\psi(x) \in C_c^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)$, and $K(t)$ is a `multi-parameter singular kernel' with compact support in $\mathbb{R}^N$; for example when $K(t)$ is a product singular kernel. The celebrated work of Christ, Nagel, Stein, and Wainger studied such operators with smooth $\gamma_t(x)$, in the single-parameter case when $K(t)$ is a Calder\'on-Zygmund kernel. Street and Stein generalized their work to the multi-parameter case, and gave sufficient conditions for the $L^p$-boundedness of such operators. This paper shows that when $\gamma_t(x)$ is real analytic, the sufficient conditions of Street and Stein are also necessary for the $L^p$-boundedness of $T$, for all such kernels $K$.


Although convolution on Euclidean space and the Heisenberg group satisfy the same $L^p$ bounds with the same optimal constants, the former has maximizers while the latter does not. However, as work of Christ has shown, it is still possible to characterize near-maximizers. Specifically, any near-maximizing triple of the trilinear form for convolution on the Heisenberg group must be close to a particular type of triple of ordered Gaussians after adjusting by symmetry. In this talk, we will use the expansion method to prove a quantitative version of this characterization.
===Kasso Okoudjou===


An exploration in analysis on fractals


Analysis on fractal sets such as the Sierpinski gasket is based on the spectral analysis of a corresponding Laplace operator. In the first part of the talk, I will describe a class of fractals and the analytical tools that they support. In the second part of the talk, I will consider fractal analogs of topics from classical analysis, including the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the spectral theory of Schrödinger operators, and the theory of orthogonal polynomials.


===Francesco di Plinio===
===Rahul Parhi===


<b>Maximal directional integrals along algebraic and lacunary sets </b>
On BV Spaces, Splines, and Neural Networks


I will discuss two recent results obtained in collaboration with (partly) Natalia Accomazzo and Ioannis Parissis (U Basque Country). The first is a sharp $L^2$ estimate for the maximal averaging operator associated to sets of directions from algebraic sets in R^n of arbitrary codimension. The proof uses a new scheme of polynomial partitioning on manifolds which extends ideas by Larry Guth. The second result is a sharp estimate in all dimensions for the maximal directional singular integrals along lacunary directions. This settles a question of Parcet and Rogers. The proof uses a combination of two-dimensional and $n$-dimensional coverings combining seemingly contrasting ideas  of Parcet-Rogers and of  Nagel-Stein-Wainger.
Many problems in science and engineering can be phrased as the problem
of reconstructing a function from a finite number of possibly noisy
measurements. The reconstruction problem is inherently ill-posed when
the allowable functions belong to an infinite set. Classical techniques
to solve this problem assume, a priori, that the underlying function has
some kind of regularity, typically Sobolev, Besov, or BV regularity. The
field of applied harmonic analysis is interested in studying efficient
decompositions and representations for functions with certain
regularity. Common representation systems are based on splines and
wavelets. These are well understood mathematically and have been
successfully applied in a variety of signal processing and statistical
tasks. Neural networks are another type of representation system that is
useful in practice, but poorly understood mathematically.


In this talk, I will discuss my research which aims to rectify this
issue by understanding the regularity properties of neural networks in a
similar vein to classical methods based on splines and wavelets. In
particular, we will show that neural networks are optimal solutions to
variational problems over BV-type function spaces defined via the Radon
transform. These spaces are non-reflexive Banach spaces, generally
distinct from classical spaces studied in analysis. However, in the
univariate setting, neural networks reduce to splines and these function
spaces reduce to classical univariate BV spaces. If time permits, I will
also discuss approximation properties of these spaces, showing that they
are, in some sense, "small" compared to classical multivariate spaces
such as Sobolev or Besov spaces.


This is joint work with Robert Nowak.


===Alexei Poltoratski===


Title: Pointwise convergence for the scattering data and non-linear Fourier transform.


Abstract: This talk is about applications of complex and harmonic analysis in spectral and scattering theory
for differential operators. The scattering transform for the Dirac system of differential equations
can be viewed as the non-linear version of the classical Fourier transform. This connection raises many natural
problems on extensions of classical results of Fourier analysis to non-linear settings. In this talk
I will discuss one of such problems, an extension of Carleson's theorem on pointwise convergence of Fourier series to the non-linear case.
===John Green===
Estimates for oscillatory integrals via sublevel set estimates.
In many situations, oscillatory integral estimates are known to imply sublevel set estimates in a stable manner. Reversing this implication is much more difficult, but understanding when this is true is helpful for understanding scalar oscillatory integral estimates. We shall motivate a line of investigation in which we seek to reverse the implication in the presence of a qualitative structural assumption. After considering some one-dimensional results, we turn to the setting of convex functions in higher dimensions.
===Tao Mei===
Fourier Multipliers on free groups.
In this introductory talk,  I will try to explain what is the noncommutative Lp spaces associated with the free groups, and what are the to be answered questions on  the corresponding Fourier multiplier operators.  At the end, I will explain a recent work on an analogue of Mikhlin’s Lp Fourier multiplier theory on free groups (joint with Eric Ricard and Quanhua Xu).
===Alex Nagel===
Global estimates for a class of kernels and multipliers with multiple homogeneities
In joint work with Fulvio Ricci we obtain global estimates for a class of kernels and multipliers which contain homogeneous Calderon-Zygmund operators for several different homogeneities. This is an extension of earlier work with Ricci, Stein, and Wainger on the local theory.
===Sebastian Bechtel===
Square roots of elliptic systems on open sets
In my talk, we will consider elliptic systems in divergence form with measurable and elliptic complex coefficients on possibly unbounded open sets which are subject to mixed boundary conditions. First, I will present and discuss minimal geometric conditions under which Kato’s square root problem can be solved. In particular, I will present an argument that allows to work on a set that is not supposed to satisfy the interior thickness condition.
Afterwards, we will investigate the question for which integrability parameters p the square root isomorphism $W^{1,2} \to L^2$ extrapolates to an isomorphism $W^{1,p} \to L^p$. We focus on the case $p>2$. I will introduce a critical number that describes the range in which $L$ (compatibly) acts as an isomorphism $W^{1,p} \to W^{-1,p}$. We will then see that this critical number also yields an optimal range in which the square root extrapolates to a $p$-isomorphism, even in the case of mixed boundary conditions.
===Tongou Yang===
Restricted projections along $C^2$ curves on the sphere
Given a $C^2$ closed curve $\gamma(\theta)$ lying on the sphere
$\mathbb S^2$ and a Borel set $A\subseteq \mathbb R^3$. Consider the
projections $P_\theta(A)$ of $A$ into straight lines in the directions
$\gamma(\theta)$. We prove that if $\gamma$ satisfies the torsion
condition: $\det(\gamma,\gamma',\gamma")(\theta)\neq 0$ for any $\theta$,
then for almost every $\theta$, the Hausdorff dimension of $P_\theta(A)$ is
equal to $\min\{1,\dim_H(A)\}$. This solves a conjecture of Fässler and
Orponen. One key feature of our argument is a result of Marcus-Tardos in
topological graph theory. This is a joint work with Malabika Pramanik, Orit Raz and Josh Zahl.
===Po Lam Yung===
Revisiting an old argument for Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem
We will examine an old argument for the Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem due to Karatsuba, and interpret it in the language of Fourier decoupling. This is ongoing work in progress with Brian Cook, Kevin Hughes, Zane Kun Li, Akshat Mudgal and Olivier Robert.
===Brian Street===
Maximal Subellipticity
The theory of elliptic PDEs stands apart from many other areas of PDEs because sharp results are known for very general linear and fully nonlinear elliptic PDEs.  Many of the classical techniques from harmonic analysis were first developed to prove these sharp results; and the study of elliptic PDEs leans heavily on the Fourier transform and Riemannian geometry. Starting with work of Hörmander, Kohn, Folland, Stein, and Rothschild in the 60s and 70s, a far-reaching generalization of ellipticity was introduced:  now known as maximal subellipticity or maximal hypoellipticity.  In the intervening years, many authors have adapted results from elliptic PDEs to various special cases of maximally subelliptic PDEs. Where elliptic operators are connected to Riemannian geometry, maximally subelliptic operators are connected to sub-Riemannian geometry.  The Fourier transform is no longer a central tool but can be replaced with more modern tools from harmonic analysis.


===Laurent Stolovitch===
===Laurent Stolovitch===


<b>Linearization of neighborhoods of embeddings of complex compact manifolds </b>
Classification of reversible parabolic diffeomorphisms of $(\mathbb{C}^2,0)$  and of flat CR-singularities of exceptional hyperbolic type
 
The aim of this joint work with Martin Klimes is twofold:
 
First we study holomorphic germs of parabolic diffeomorphisms of $(\mathbb{C}^2,0)$ that are reversed by a holomorphic reflection and posses an analytic first integral with non-degenerate critical point at the origin. We find a canonical formal normal form and provide a complete analytic classification (in formal generic cases) in terms of a collection of functional invariants.
 
Related to it, we solve the problem of both formal and analytic classification of germs of real analytic surfaces in $\mathbb{C}^2$ with non-degenerate CR singularities of exceptional hyperbolic type, under the assumption that the surface is holomorphically flat, i.e. that it can be locally holomorphically embedded in a real hypersurface of $\mathbb{C}^2$.
 
===Betsy Stovall===
 
On extremizing sequences for adjoint Fourier restriction to the sphere
 
In this talk we will provide a soft answer to the question, "What properties must a function $f$ obeying $\|Ef\|_q \geq C \|f\|_p$ have?," where $E$ denotes the spherical extension operator.  We will use our answer (called a linear profile decomposition) to establish new results about the existence of extremizers (functions obeying $\|Ef\|_q = \|E\|\|f\|_p$) for $E$.  This is joint work with Taryn C. Flock.
 
===Malabika Pramanik===
 
https://people.math.wisc.edu/~seeger/seminar/Malabika-Analysis-Seminar-2022-Title-Abstract.pdf
 
===Hongki Jung===
 
A small cap decoupling for the twisted cubic
 
===Bernhard Lamel===
 
Convergence and Divergence of Formal Power Series Maps
 
Consider two real-analytic hypersurfaces (i.e. defined by convergent power series) in complex spaces. A formal holomorphic map is said to take one into the other if the composition of the power series defining the target with the map (which is just another formal power series) is a (formal) multiple of the defining power series of the source. In this talk, we are going to be interested in conditions for formal holomorphic maps to necessarily be convergent. Now, a formal holomorphic map taking the real line to itself is just a formal power series with real coefficients; this example also gives rise to real hypersurfaces in higher dimensional complex spaces having divergent formal self-maps. On the other hand, a formal map taking the unit sphere in higher dimensional complex space to itself is necessarily a rational map with poles outside of the sphere, in particular, the formal power series defining it converges. The convergence theory for formal self-maps of real hypersurfaces has been developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. For formal embeddings, “ideal" conditions had been long conjectured. I’m going to give an introduction to this problem and talk about some joint work from 2018 with Nordine Mir giving a basically complete answer to the question when a formal map taking a real-analytic hypersurface in complex space into another one is necessarily convergent.
 
===Carmelo Puliatti===
 
Gradients of single layer potentials for elliptic operators 
with coefficients of Dini mean oscillation-type
 
We consider a uniformly elliptic operator $L_A$ in divergence form 
associated with a matrix A with real, bounded, and possibly 
non-symmetric coefficients. If a proper $L^1$-mean oscillation of the 
coefficients of A satisfies suitable Dini-type assumptions, we prove 
the following: if \mu is a compactly supported Radon measure in 
$\mathbb{R}^{n+1}, n >= 2$,  the $L^2(\mu)$-operator norm of the gradient of the 
single layer potential $T_\mu$ associated with $L_A$ is comparable to the 
$L^2$-norm of the n-dimensional Riesz transform $R_\mu$, modulo an 
additive constant.
This makes possible to obtain direct generalizations of some deep 
geometric results, initially proved for the Riesz transform, which 
were recently extended to $T_\mu$ under a H\"older continuity assumption 
on the coefficients of the matrix $A$.
 
This is a joint work with Alejandro Molero, Mihalis Mourgoglou, and 
Xavier Tolsa.


In this work, we address the following question due to Grauert: if a neighborhood M of a holomorphically embedded complex compact manifold C is formally equivalent to another one, are two neighborhoods biholomorphically equivalent? We shall present the case where the other neighborhood is the neighborhood of the zero section of the normal bundle of C in M. The solution to this problem involves "small divisors problems". This is joint work with X. Gong.
===Larry Guth===


Series title: Reflections on decoupling and Vinogradov's mean value problem.


===Bingyang Hu===
Series abstract: Decoupling is a recent development in Fourier analysis that has solved several longstanding problems.  The goal of the lectures is to describe this development to a general mathematical audience. We will focus on one particular application of decoupling: Vinogradov's mean value problem from analytic number theory.  This problem is about the number of solutions of a certain system of diophantine equations.  It was raised in the 1930s and resolved in the last decade. We will give some context about this problem, but the main goal of the lectures is to explore the ideas that go into the proof.  The method of decoupling came as a big surprise to me, and I think to other people working in the field. The main idea in the proof of decoupling is to combine estimates from many different scales.  We will describe this process and reflect on why it is helpful.


<b>Sparse bounds of singular Radon transforms</b>


In this talk, we will first briefly talk about the general theory of sparse domination, and then talk about the sparse bounds of singular Radon transforms, which strengths the $L^p$ boundedness of such operators due to Christ, Nagel, Stein and Wainger in 1999.
Lecture 1: Introduction to decoupling and Vinogradov's mean value problem.
Abstract: In this lecture, we introduce Vinogradov's problem and give an overview of the proof.
 
Lecture 2: Features of the proof of decoupling.
Abstract: In this lecture, we look more closely at some features of the proof of decoupling.  The first feature we examine is the exact form of writing the inequality, which is especially suited for doing induction and connecting information from different scales.  The second feature we examine is called the wave packet decomposition.  This structure has roots in quantum physics and in information theory.
 
Lecture 3: Open problems.
Abstract: In this lecture, we discuss some open problems in number theory that look superficially similar to Vinogradov mean value conjecture, such as Hardy and Littlewood's Hypothesis K*.  In this lecture, we probe the limitations of decoupling by exploring why the techniques from the first two lectures don't work on these open problems.  Hopefully this will give a sense of some of the issues and difficulties involved in these problems.
 
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The 2021-2022 Analysis Seminar will be organized by David Beltran and Andreas Seeger. Some of the talks will be in person (room Van Vleck B139) and some will be online. The regular time for the Seminar will be Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m. (in some cases we will schedule the seminar at different times, to accommodate speakers).

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If you'd like to suggest speakers for the spring semester please contact David and Andreas.

Analysis Seminar Schedule

date speaker institution title host(s)
September 21, VV B139 Dóminique Kemp UW-Madison Decoupling by way of approximation
September 28, VV B139 Jack Burkart UW-Madison Transcendental Julia Sets with Fractional Packing Dimension
October 5, Online Giuseppe Negro University of Birmingham Stability of sharp Fourier restriction to spheres
October 12, VV B139 Rajula Srivastava UW Madison Lebesgue space estimates for Spherical Maximal Functions on Heisenberg groups
October 19, Online Itamar Oliveira Cornell University A new approach to the Fourier extension problem for the paraboloid
October 26, VV B139 Changkeun Oh UW Madison Decoupling inequalities for quadratic forms and beyond
October 29, Colloquium, Online Alexandru Ionescu Princeton University Polynomial averages and pointwise ergodic theorems on nilpotent groups
November 2, VV B139 Liding Yao UW Madison An In-depth Look of Rychkov's Universal Extension Operators for Lipschitz Domains
November 9, VV B139 Lingxiao Zhang UW Madison Real Analytic Multi-parameter Singular Radon Transforms: necessity of the Stein-Street condition
November 12, Colloquium, Online Kasso Okoudjou Tufts University An exploration in analysis on fractals
November 16, VV B139 Rahul Parhi UW Madison (EE) On BV Spaces, Splines, and Neural Networks Betsy
November 30, VV B139 Alexei Poltoratski UW Madison Pointwise convergence for the scattering data and non-linear Fourier transform.
December 7, Online John Green The University of Edinburgh Estimates for oscillatory integrals via sublevel set estimates
December 14, VV B139 Tao Mei Baylor University Fourier Multipliers on free groups Shaoming
Winter break
February 8, VV B139 Alexander Nagel UW Madison Global estimates for a class of kernels and multipliers with multiple homogeneities
February 15, Online Sebastian Bechtel Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux Square roots of elliptic systems on open sets
Friday, February 18, Colloquium, VVB239 Andreas Seeger UW Madison Spherical maximal functions and fractal dimensions of dilation sets
February 22, VV B139 Tongou Yang University of British Comlumbia Restricted projections along $C^2$ curves on the sphere Shaoming
Monday, February 28, 4:30 p.m., Online Po Lam Yung Australian National University Revisiting an old argument for Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem
March 8, VV B139 Brian Street UW Madison Maximal Subellipticity
March 15: No Seminar
March 22 Laurent Stolovitch University of Cote d'Azur Classification of reversible parabolic diffeomorphisms of

$(\mathbb{C}^2,0)$ and of flat CR-singularities of exceptional hyperbolic type

Xianghong
March 29, VV B139 Betsy Stovall UW Madison On extremizing sequences for adjoint Fourier restriction to the sphere
April 5, Online Malabika Pramanik University of British Columbia Dimensionality and Patterns with Curvature
April 12, VV B139 Hongki Jung IU Bloomington A small cap decoupling for the twisted cubic Shaoming
Friday, April 15, Colloquium, VV B239 Bernhard Lamel Texas A&M University at Qatar Convergence and Divergence of Formal Power Series Maps Xianghong
April 19, Online Carmelo Puliatti Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea Gradients of single layer potentials for elliptic operators

with coefficients of Dini mean oscillation-type

David
April 25-26-27, Distinguished Lecture Series Larry Guth MIT Reflections on decoupling and Vinogradov's mean value problem.
April 25, 4:00 p.m., Lecture I, VV B239 Introduction to decoupling and Vinogradov's mean value problem
April 26, 4:00 p.m., Lecture II, Chamberlin 2241 Features of the proof of decoupling
April 27, 4:00 p.m., Lecture III, VV B239 Open problems
Talks in the Fall semester 2022:
September 20, PDE and Analysis Seminar Andrej Zlatoš UCSD Title Hung Tran
Friday, September 23, 4:00 p.m., Colloquium Pablo Shmerkin University of British Columbia Title Shaoming and Andreas
September 24-25, RTG workshop in Harmonic Analysis Shaoming and Andreas
Tuesday, November 8, Robert Fraser Wichita State University Title Shaoming and Andreas

Abstracts

Dóminique Kemp

Decoupling by way of approximation

Since Bourgain and Demeter's seminal 2017 decoupling result for nondegenerate hypersurfaces, several attempts have been made to extend the theory to degenerate hypersurfaces $M$. In this talk, we will discuss using surfaces derived from the local Taylor expansions of $M$ in order to obtain "approximate" decoupling results. By themselves, these approximate decouplings do not avail much. However, upon considerate iteration, for a specifically chosen $M$, they culminate in a decoupling partition of $M$ into caps small enough either as originally desired or otherwise genuinely nondegenerate at the local scale. A key feature that will be discussed is the notion of approximating a non-convex hypersurface $M$ by convex hypersurfaces at various scales. In this manner, contrary to initial intuition, non-trivial $\ell^2$ decoupling results will be obtained for $M$.

Jack Burkart

Transcendental Julia Sets with Fractional Packing Dimension

If f is an entire function, the Julia set of f is the set of all points such that f and its iterates locally do not form a normal family; nearby points have very different orbits under iteration by f. A topic of interest in complex dynamics is studying the fractal geometry of the Julia set.

In this talk, we will discuss my thesis result where I construct non-polynomial (transcendental) entire functions whose Julia set has packing dimension strictly between (1,2). We will introduce various notions of dimension and basic objects in complex dynamics, and discuss a history of dimension results in complex dynamics. We will discuss some key aspects of the proof, which include a use of Whitney decompositions of domains as a tool to calculate the packing dimension, and some open questions I am thinking about.

Giuseppe Negro

Stability of sharp Fourier restriction to spheres

In dimension $d\in\{3, 4, 5, 6, 7\}$, we establish that the constant functions maximize the weighted $L^2(S^{d-1}) - L^4(R^d)$ Fourier extension estimate on the sphere, provided that the weight function is sufficiently regular and small, in a proper and effective sense which we will make precise. One of the main tools is an integration by parts identity, which generalizes the so-called "magic identity" of Foschi for the unweighted inequality with $d=3$, which is exactly the classical Stein-Tomas estimate.

Joint work with E.Carneiro and D.Oliveira e Silva.

Rajula Srivastava

Lebesgue space estimates for Spherical Maximal Functions on Heisenberg groups

We discuss $L^p\to L^q$ estimates for local maximal operators associated with dilates of codimension two spheres in Heisenberg groups, sharp up to endpoints. The proof shall be reduced to estimates for standard oscillatory integrals of Carleson-Sj\"olin-H\"ormander type, relying on the maximal possible number of nonvanishing curvatures for a cone in the fibers of the associated canonical relation. We shall also discuss a new counterexample which shows the sharpness of one of the edges in the region of boundedness. Based on joint work with Joris Roos and Andreas Seeger.

Itamar Oliveira

A new approach to the Fourier extension problem for the paraboloid

An equivalent formulation of the Fourier Extension (F.E.) conjecture for a compact piece of the paraboloid states that the F.E. operator maps $ L^{2+\frac{2}{d}}([0,1]^{d}) $ to $L^{2+\frac{2}{d}+\varepsilon}(\mathbb{R}^{d+1}) $ for every $\varepsilon>0 $. It has been fully solved only for $ d=1 $ and there are many partial results in higher dimensions regarding the range of $ (p,q) $ for which $L^{p}([0,1]^{d}) $ is mapped to $ L^{q}(\mathbb{R}^{d+1}) $. One can reduce matters to proving that a model operator satisfies the same mapping properties, and we will show that the conjecture holds in higher dimensions for tensor functions, meaning for all $ g $ of the form $ g(x_{1},\ldots,x_{d})=g_{1}(x_{1})\cdot\ldots\cdot g_{d}(x_{d}) $. We will present this theorem as a proof of concept of a more general framework and set of techniques that can also address multilinear versions of this problem and get similar results. This is joint work with Camil Muscalu.

Changkeun Oh

Decoupling inequalities for quadratic forms and beyond

In this talk, I will present some recent progress on decoupling inequalities for some translation- and dilation-invariant systems (TDI systems in short). In particular, I will emphasize decoupling inequalities for quadratic forms. If time permits, I will also discuss some interesting phenomenon related to Brascamp-Lieb inequalities that appears in the study of a cubic TDI system. Joint work with Shaoming Guo, Pavel Zorin-Kranich, and Ruixiang Zhang.

Alexandru Ionescu

Polynomial averages and pointwise ergodic theorems on nilpotent groups

I will talk about some recent work on pointwise almost everywhere convergence for ergodic averages along polynomial sequences in nilpotent groups of step two. Our proof is based on almost-orthogonality techniques that go far beyond Fourier transform tools, which are not available in the non-commutative nilpotent setting. In particular we develop what we call a nilpotent circle method}, which allows us to adapt some the ideas of the classical circle method to the setting of nilpotent groups.

Liding Yao

An In-depth Look of Rychkov's Universal Extension Operators for Lipschitz Domains

Given a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, Rychkov showed that there is a linear extension operator $\mathcal E$ for $\Omega$ which is bounded in Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. We introduce a class of operators that generalize $\mathcal E$ which are more versatile for applications. We also derive some quantitative blow-up estimates of the extended function and all its derivatives in $\overline{\Omega}^c$ up to boundary. This is a joint work with Ziming Shi.

Lingxiao Zhang

Real Analytic Multi-parameter Singular Radon Transforms: necessity of the Stein-Street condition

We study operators of the form $Tf(x)= \psi(x) \int f(\gamma_t(x))K(t)\,dt$ where $\gamma_t(x)$ is a real analytic function of $(t,x)$ mapping from a neighborhood of $(0,0)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N \times \mathbb{R}^n$ into $\mathbb{R}^n$ satisfying $\gamma_0(x)\equiv x$, $\psi(x) \in C_c^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)$, and $K(t)$ is a `multi-parameter singular kernel' with compact support in $\mathbb{R}^N$; for example when $K(t)$ is a product singular kernel. The celebrated work of Christ, Nagel, Stein, and Wainger studied such operators with smooth $\gamma_t(x)$, in the single-parameter case when $K(t)$ is a Calder\'on-Zygmund kernel. Street and Stein generalized their work to the multi-parameter case, and gave sufficient conditions for the $L^p$-boundedness of such operators. This paper shows that when $\gamma_t(x)$ is real analytic, the sufficient conditions of Street and Stein are also necessary for the $L^p$-boundedness of $T$, for all such kernels $K$.

Kasso Okoudjou

An exploration in analysis on fractals

Analysis on fractal sets such as the Sierpinski gasket is based on the spectral analysis of a corresponding Laplace operator. In the first part of the talk, I will describe a class of fractals and the analytical tools that they support. In the second part of the talk, I will consider fractal analogs of topics from classical analysis, including the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the spectral theory of Schrödinger operators, and the theory of orthogonal polynomials.

Rahul Parhi

On BV Spaces, Splines, and Neural Networks

Many problems in science and engineering can be phrased as the problem of reconstructing a function from a finite number of possibly noisy measurements. The reconstruction problem is inherently ill-posed when the allowable functions belong to an infinite set. Classical techniques to solve this problem assume, a priori, that the underlying function has some kind of regularity, typically Sobolev, Besov, or BV regularity. The field of applied harmonic analysis is interested in studying efficient decompositions and representations for functions with certain regularity. Common representation systems are based on splines and wavelets. These are well understood mathematically and have been successfully applied in a variety of signal processing and statistical tasks. Neural networks are another type of representation system that is useful in practice, but poorly understood mathematically.

In this talk, I will discuss my research which aims to rectify this issue by understanding the regularity properties of neural networks in a similar vein to classical methods based on splines and wavelets. In particular, we will show that neural networks are optimal solutions to variational problems over BV-type function spaces defined via the Radon transform. These spaces are non-reflexive Banach spaces, generally distinct from classical spaces studied in analysis. However, in the univariate setting, neural networks reduce to splines and these function spaces reduce to classical univariate BV spaces. If time permits, I will also discuss approximation properties of these spaces, showing that they are, in some sense, "small" compared to classical multivariate spaces such as Sobolev or Besov spaces.

This is joint work with Robert Nowak.

Alexei Poltoratski

Title: Pointwise convergence for the scattering data and non-linear Fourier transform.

Abstract: This talk is about applications of complex and harmonic analysis in spectral and scattering theory for differential operators. The scattering transform for the Dirac system of differential equations can be viewed as the non-linear version of the classical Fourier transform. This connection raises many natural problems on extensions of classical results of Fourier analysis to non-linear settings. In this talk I will discuss one of such problems, an extension of Carleson's theorem on pointwise convergence of Fourier series to the non-linear case.

John Green

Estimates for oscillatory integrals via sublevel set estimates.

In many situations, oscillatory integral estimates are known to imply sublevel set estimates in a stable manner. Reversing this implication is much more difficult, but understanding when this is true is helpful for understanding scalar oscillatory integral estimates. We shall motivate a line of investigation in which we seek to reverse the implication in the presence of a qualitative structural assumption. After considering some one-dimensional results, we turn to the setting of convex functions in higher dimensions.

Tao Mei

Fourier Multipliers on free groups.

In this introductory talk, I will try to explain what is the noncommutative Lp spaces associated with the free groups, and what are the to be answered questions on the corresponding Fourier multiplier operators. At the end, I will explain a recent work on an analogue of Mikhlin’s Lp Fourier multiplier theory on free groups (joint with Eric Ricard and Quanhua Xu).

Alex Nagel

Global estimates for a class of kernels and multipliers with multiple homogeneities

In joint work with Fulvio Ricci we obtain global estimates for a class of kernels and multipliers which contain homogeneous Calderon-Zygmund operators for several different homogeneities. This is an extension of earlier work with Ricci, Stein, and Wainger on the local theory.

Sebastian Bechtel

Square roots of elliptic systems on open sets

In my talk, we will consider elliptic systems in divergence form with measurable and elliptic complex coefficients on possibly unbounded open sets which are subject to mixed boundary conditions. First, I will present and discuss minimal geometric conditions under which Kato’s square root problem can be solved. In particular, I will present an argument that allows to work on a set that is not supposed to satisfy the interior thickness condition. Afterwards, we will investigate the question for which integrability parameters p the square root isomorphism $W^{1,2} \to L^2$ extrapolates to an isomorphism $W^{1,p} \to L^p$. We focus on the case $p>2$. I will introduce a critical number that describes the range in which $L$ (compatibly) acts as an isomorphism $W^{1,p} \to W^{-1,p}$. We will then see that this critical number also yields an optimal range in which the square root extrapolates to a $p$-isomorphism, even in the case of mixed boundary conditions.

Tongou Yang

Restricted projections along $C^2$ curves on the sphere

Given a $C^2$ closed curve $\gamma(\theta)$ lying on the sphere $\mathbb S^2$ and a Borel set $A\subseteq \mathbb R^3$. Consider the projections $P_\theta(A)$ of $A$ into straight lines in the directions $\gamma(\theta)$. We prove that if $\gamma$ satisfies the torsion condition: $\det(\gamma,\gamma',\gamma")(\theta)\neq 0$ for any $\theta$, then for almost every $\theta$, the Hausdorff dimension of $P_\theta(A)$ is equal to $\min\{1,\dim_H(A)\}$. This solves a conjecture of Fässler and Orponen. One key feature of our argument is a result of Marcus-Tardos in topological graph theory. This is a joint work with Malabika Pramanik, Orit Raz and Josh Zahl.

Po Lam Yung

Revisiting an old argument for Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem

We will examine an old argument for the Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem due to Karatsuba, and interpret it in the language of Fourier decoupling. This is ongoing work in progress with Brian Cook, Kevin Hughes, Zane Kun Li, Akshat Mudgal and Olivier Robert.

Brian Street

Maximal Subellipticity

The theory of elliptic PDEs stands apart from many other areas of PDEs because sharp results are known for very general linear and fully nonlinear elliptic PDEs. Many of the classical techniques from harmonic analysis were first developed to prove these sharp results; and the study of elliptic PDEs leans heavily on the Fourier transform and Riemannian geometry. Starting with work of Hörmander, Kohn, Folland, Stein, and Rothschild in the 60s and 70s, a far-reaching generalization of ellipticity was introduced: now known as maximal subellipticity or maximal hypoellipticity. In the intervening years, many authors have adapted results from elliptic PDEs to various special cases of maximally subelliptic PDEs. Where elliptic operators are connected to Riemannian geometry, maximally subelliptic operators are connected to sub-Riemannian geometry. The Fourier transform is no longer a central tool but can be replaced with more modern tools from harmonic analysis.

Laurent Stolovitch

Classification of reversible parabolic diffeomorphisms of $(\mathbb{C}^2,0)$ and of flat CR-singularities of exceptional hyperbolic type

The aim of this joint work with Martin Klimes is twofold:

First we study holomorphic germs of parabolic diffeomorphisms of $(\mathbb{C}^2,0)$ that are reversed by a holomorphic reflection and posses an analytic first integral with non-degenerate critical point at the origin. We find a canonical formal normal form and provide a complete analytic classification (in formal generic cases) in terms of a collection of functional invariants.

Related to it, we solve the problem of both formal and analytic classification of germs of real analytic surfaces in $\mathbb{C}^2$ with non-degenerate CR singularities of exceptional hyperbolic type, under the assumption that the surface is holomorphically flat, i.e. that it can be locally holomorphically embedded in a real hypersurface of $\mathbb{C}^2$.

Betsy Stovall

On extremizing sequences for adjoint Fourier restriction to the sphere

In this talk we will provide a soft answer to the question, "What properties must a function $f$ obeying $\|Ef\|_q \geq C \|f\|_p$ have?," where $E$ denotes the spherical extension operator. We will use our answer (called a linear profile decomposition) to establish new results about the existence of extremizers (functions obeying $\|Ef\|_q = \|E\|\|f\|_p$) for $E$. This is joint work with Taryn C. Flock.

Malabika Pramanik

https://people.math.wisc.edu/~seeger/seminar/Malabika-Analysis-Seminar-2022-Title-Abstract.pdf

Hongki Jung

A small cap decoupling for the twisted cubic

Bernhard Lamel

Convergence and Divergence of Formal Power Series Maps

Consider two real-analytic hypersurfaces (i.e. defined by convergent power series) in complex spaces. A formal holomorphic map is said to take one into the other if the composition of the power series defining the target with the map (which is just another formal power series) is a (formal) multiple of the defining power series of the source. In this talk, we are going to be interested in conditions for formal holomorphic maps to necessarily be convergent. Now, a formal holomorphic map taking the real line to itself is just a formal power series with real coefficients; this example also gives rise to real hypersurfaces in higher dimensional complex spaces having divergent formal self-maps. On the other hand, a formal map taking the unit sphere in higher dimensional complex space to itself is necessarily a rational map with poles outside of the sphere, in particular, the formal power series defining it converges. The convergence theory for formal self-maps of real hypersurfaces has been developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. For formal embeddings, “ideal" conditions had been long conjectured. I’m going to give an introduction to this problem and talk about some joint work from 2018 with Nordine Mir giving a basically complete answer to the question when a formal map taking a real-analytic hypersurface in complex space into another one is necessarily convergent.

Carmelo Puliatti

Gradients of single layer potentials for elliptic operators with coefficients of Dini mean oscillation-type

We consider a uniformly elliptic operator $L_A$ in divergence form associated with a matrix A with real, bounded, and possibly non-symmetric coefficients. If a proper $L^1$-mean oscillation of the coefficients of A satisfies suitable Dini-type assumptions, we prove the following: if \mu is a compactly supported Radon measure in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}, n >= 2$, the $L^2(\mu)$-operator norm of the gradient of the single layer potential $T_\mu$ associated with $L_A$ is comparable to the $L^2$-norm of the n-dimensional Riesz transform $R_\mu$, modulo an additive constant. This makes possible to obtain direct generalizations of some deep geometric results, initially proved for the Riesz transform, which were recently extended to $T_\mu$ under a H\"older continuity assumption on the coefficients of the matrix $A$.

This is a joint work with Alejandro Molero, Mihalis Mourgoglou, and Xavier Tolsa.

Larry Guth

Series title: Reflections on decoupling and Vinogradov's mean value problem.

Series abstract: Decoupling is a recent development in Fourier analysis that has solved several longstanding problems. The goal of the lectures is to describe this development to a general mathematical audience. We will focus on one particular application of decoupling: Vinogradov's mean value problem from analytic number theory. This problem is about the number of solutions of a certain system of diophantine equations. It was raised in the 1930s and resolved in the last decade. We will give some context about this problem, but the main goal of the lectures is to explore the ideas that go into the proof. The method of decoupling came as a big surprise to me, and I think to other people working in the field. The main idea in the proof of decoupling is to combine estimates from many different scales. We will describe this process and reflect on why it is helpful.


Lecture 1: Introduction to decoupling and Vinogradov's mean value problem. Abstract: In this lecture, we introduce Vinogradov's problem and give an overview of the proof.

Lecture 2: Features of the proof of decoupling. Abstract: In this lecture, we look more closely at some features of the proof of decoupling. The first feature we examine is the exact form of writing the inequality, which is especially suited for doing induction and connecting information from different scales. The second feature we examine is called the wave packet decomposition. This structure has roots in quantum physics and in information theory.

Lecture 3: Open problems. Abstract: In this lecture, we discuss some open problems in number theory that look superficially similar to Vinogradov mean value conjecture, such as Hardy and Littlewood's Hypothesis K*. In this lecture, we probe the limitations of decoupling by exploring why the techniques from the first two lectures don't work on these open problems. Hopefully this will give a sense of some of the issues and difficulties involved in these problems.

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