Speakers

Courses and invited speakers

Wolfgang Arendt
Universität Ulm
Vector-valued holomorphic functions and one-parameter semigroups
Eva Gallardo Gutierrez
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
An introduction to Rota's universal operators: properties, old and new examples and future issues download abstract view abstract Eva Gallardo Gutierrez
An introduction to Rota's universal operators: properties, old and new examples and future issues
The Invariant Subspace Problem for (separable) Hilbert spaces is a long-standing question and the use of universal operators in the sense of Rota has been one tool for studying the problem. Recall that a Hilbert space operator is called universal (in the sense of Rota) every operator on a separable Hilbert space is similar to a multiple of the restriction of the universal operator to one of its invariant subspaces. In this series of lectures, we will focus on Rota’s universal operators, studying their main properties and exhibiting some old and recent examples. Special attention will be given to the closed subalgebra, not always the zero algebra, of compact operators in the commutant of some of the Rota’s universal operators exhibited. Consequences and questions related will be also addressed.
John McCarthy
Washington University in St. Louis
Non-commutative function theory and non-commutative spectral theory
Jonathan Partington
University of Leeds
Truncated Toeplitz operators and their spectral theory view abstract Jonathan Partington
Truncated Toeplitz operators and their spectral theory
Truncated Toeplitz operators and their asymmetric versions are considered in the context of reflexive Hardy spaces on the half-plane. They are shown to be equivalent by extension to Toeplitz operators with particular 2-by-2 matrix symbols. From this, various results on their spectral properties can be proved. Joint work with Cristina Câmara  (Lisbon)
Marco Peloso
Università Statale di Milano
(Ir)-Regularity of the Bergman projection on domains in C^n and related problems in one complex variable view abstract Marco Peloso
(Ir)-Regularity of the Bergman projection on domains in C^n and related problems in one complex variable
In this talk I will present some recent results on the (ir)-regularity of the Bergman projection on some domains in C^2, called worm domains. Such analysis is done by a reduction to weighted Bergman projections in one complex variables. I will illustrate some of the problems that arise in this context, some solved, many still open.
Alexei Poltoratski
University Texas A&M
Spectral Problems and Krein - de Branges theory view abstract Alexei Poltoratski
Spectral Problems and Krein - de Branges theory
We discuss some of the recent applications of the Krein - de Branges theory of Hilbert spaces of entire functions to spectral problems for differential operators and canonical systems.
Stefan Richter
University of Tennessee in Knoxville
Weak products, Hankel operators, and invariant subspaces download abstract
Richard Rochberg
Washington University in St. Louis
A distance function on reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces view abstract Richard Rochberg
A distance function on reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces
If H, a space of functions on a set X, is a Hilbert space with reproducing kernel, then there is an induced metric δ defined on X. If H is the Hardy space, but only in that case, then δ is the classical pseudohyperbolic metric. In general δ describes the scale on which functions in, or related to, H can vary. For instance any multiplier of H is automatically a Lipschitz function in this metric. The infinitesimal version of this metric is the curvature invariant of Cowen-Douglas theory. In these talks I will introduce the metric and develop its basic properties. I will then discuss places where the metric is a useful tool in studying H. Those include descriptions of interpolating sequences, the search for analytic structure in the spectrum of the multiplier algebra of H, and the study of the possibility of isometric embeddings in complex balls.

Proposed talks

Corentin Avicou
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Semigroups of composition operators on the Hardy space view abstract Corentin Avicou
Semigroups of composition operators on the Hardy space
Composition operators on the Hardy space $H^2(mathbb D)$ have been deeply studied over the past decades. Yet, compute the norm of such operators is still hard. Keeping this in mind, we will introduce an appraoch to this question using semigroups. We will see that the generator of such a semigroup has a very specific expression and we will give a condition for such an operator to generate a semigroup of composition operators on $H^2(mathbb D)$. We will deal with the analyticity and compactness of this semigroups.
Davide Barbieri
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Modular characterization of reproducing systems in spaces invariant under unitary actions of discrete groups view abstract Davide Barbieri
Modular characterization of reproducing systems in spaces invariant under unitary actions of discrete groups
The notions of frames and Riesz bases, together with their reproducing formulas, can be extended to so-called L^2-Hilbert modules. These are modules over a von Neumann algebra, endowed with an inner product which takes values in a space of measurable unbounded operators having finite absolute trace. The developed theory allows in particular to characterize ordinary reproducing systems in Hilbert spaces possessing general discrete groups invariances. More precisely, given a unitary representation P of a discrete group on a separable Hilbert space H, any closed subspace of H that is invariant under P can be obtained as closed span of orbits of a countable family of generators. By constructing an appropriate class of isometries from H to an L^2-Hilbert module over the group von Neumann algebra, one can prove that such a family of orbits forms a frame (Riesz basis) in H if and only if the isometric image of the generators forms a frame (Riesz basis) in the corresponding module. Special cases are the characterizations of reproducing systems in shift-invariant spaces obtained by De Boor, DeVore, Ron and Shen in the 90's with integer translations over L^2(R), and later extensions to discrete abelian groups. When the group is not abelian, Pontryagin duality is not available, but a natural replacement for the character group is the group von Neumann algebra. Its predual, that is isomorphic to the so-called Fourier algebra, is actually the target space of the considered L^2-modular inner products, which generalize the standard tool of shift-invariant spaces theory known as bracket map. This is a joint work with E. Hernández, J. Parcet and V. Paternostro
Hassan Jolany
university of lille1
conical Kahler ricci flow on C^n view abstract Hassan Jolany
conical Kahler ricci flow on C^n
We consider the canonical measure of singular subspaces of C^n along kahler ricci flow. We extend parabolic Schwartz lemma along conical ricci flow.
Karmouni Mohammed
University SIDI MOHAMMED BEN ABDELLAH
On algebric and analytic core view abstract Karmouni Mohammed
On algebric and analytic core
Alessandro Monguzzi
Free researcher
Hardy spaces and the Szego projection on non-smooth worm domains view abstract Alessandro Monguzzi
Hardy spaces and the Szego projection on non-smooth worm domains
In this talk I will define Hardy spaces on non-smooth worm domains and study the associated Szego projection operator. Worm domains are domains in C^2 of primary importance since they are source of counterexamples to many classical conjectures.
KarlMikael Perfekt
Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU
On weak factorizations of and integration operators on Hardy spaces of Dirichlet series view abstract KarlMikael Perfekt
On weak factorizations of and integration operators on Hardy spaces of Dirichlet series
To be announced.
Giulia Sarfatti
University of Bologna
Quaternionic Hankel operators view abstract Giulia Sarfatti
Quaternionic Hankel operators
In this talk we introduce Hankel operators in the quaternionic setting. We show that bounded Hankel operators on the Hardy space of slice regular functions of a quateronic variable can be characterized in terms of quaternionic BMO functions and of Carleson measures. As a consequence of our characterisation result we get an analog of Fefferman Theorem. We conclude showing how Hankel theory can be exploited to measure the L^{infty} distance of an L^{infty} quaternionic function from the space of bounded slice regular functions.
Riikka Schroderus
University of Helsinki
The spectra of linear fractional composition operators on weighted Hardy spaces view abstract Riikka Schroderus
The spectra of linear fractional composition operators on weighted Hardy spaces
Aron Wennman
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
A Critical Topology for Carleman Sobolev Classes view abstract Aron Wennman
A Critical Topology for Carleman Sobolev Classes
Microscopic behavior of 2D Coulomb gas near singular points
Nina Zorboska
University of Manitoba
Hyperbolic distortion, finite Blaschke products and uniform local univalence view abstract Nina Zorboska
Hyperbolic distortion, finite Blaschke products and uniform local univalence
The local hyperbolic distortion of an analytic self-map of the unit disk describes the geometric behaviour of the map. It is also closely related to the characterization of the properties of composition operators acting on some spaces of analytic functions. In my talk I will mention few results on the connections between the boundary regularity of an analytic self-map of the unit disk and the boundary limits of its hyperbolic distortion, and the connections to uniform local univalence. In particular, I will give a characterization of the class of finite Blaschke products via the boundary behaviour of a weighted hyperbolic distortion.