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'''Analysis Seminar
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The seminar will  meet Tuesdays, 4:00 p.m. in VV B139, unless otherwise indicated.
The 2020-2021 Analysis Seminar will be organized by David Beltran and Andreas Seeger.
It will be online for the entire academic year. 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 accomodate speakers).


If you wish to invite a speaker please contact Betsy at stovall(at)math
Zoom links will be sent to those who have signed up for the Analysis Seminar List. For instructions how to sign up for seminar lists, see https://www.math.wisc.edu/node/230


===[[Previous Analysis seminars]]===
If you'd like to suggest  speakers for the spring semester please contact David and Andreas (dbeltran at math, seeger at math).


= Summer/Fall 2017 Analysis Seminar Schedule =
 
 
=[[Previous_Analysis_seminars]]=
 
https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Previous_Analysis_seminars
 
= Current Analysis Seminar Schedule =
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|September 8 in B239
|September 22
| Tess Anderson
|Alexei Poltoratski
| UW Madison
|UW Madison
|[[#linktoabstract |  A Spherical Maximal Function along the Primes]]
|[[#Alexei Poltoratski Dirac inner functions ]]
|Tonghai
|
|-
|September 29
|Joris Roos
|University of Massachusetts - Lowell
|[[#Polona Durcik and Joris Rooslinktoabstract  |  A triangular Hilbert transform with curvature, I ]]
|
|-
|Wednesday September 30, 4 p.m.
|Polona Durcik
|Chapman University
|[[#Polona Durcik and Joris Roos  |  A triangular Hilbert transform with curvature, II ]]
|  
|-
|-
|September 19
|October 6
| Brian Street
|Andrew Zimmer
| UW Madison
|UW Madison
|[[#Brian Street Convenient Coordinates ]]
|[[#Andrew Zimmer Complex analytic problems on domains with good intrinsic geometry ]]
| Betsy
|  
|-
|-
|September 26
|October 13
| Hiroyoshi Mitake
|Hong Wang
| Hiroshima University
|Princeton/IAS
|[[#Hiroyoshi Mitake Derivation of multi-layered interface system and its application ]]
|[[#Hong Wang Improved decoupling for the parabola ]]
| Hung
|  
|-
|-
|October 3
|October 20
| Joris Roos
|Kevin Luli
| UW Madison
|UC Davis
|[[#Joris Roos A polynomial Roth theorem on the real line ]]
|[[#Kevin Luli Smooth Nonnegative Interpolation ]]
| Betsy
|  
|-
|-
|October 10
|October 21, 4.00 p.m.
| Michael Greenblatt
|Niclas Technau
| UI Chicago
|UW Madison
|[[#Michael Greenblatt Maximal averages and Radon transforms for two-dimensional hypersurfaces
|[[#Niclas Technau Number theoretic applications of oscillatory integrals ]]
]]
|  
| Andreas
|-
|-
|October 17
|October 27
| David Beltran
|Terence Harris
| Basque Center of Applied Mathematics
| Cornell University
|[[#David Beltran Fefferman-Stein inequalities ]]
|[[#Terence Harris Low dimensional pinned distance sets via spherical averages ]]
| Andreas
|  
|-
|-
|Wednesday, October 18 in B131
|Monday, November 2, 4 p.m.
|Jonathan Hickman
|Yuval Wigderson
|University of Chicago
|Stanford  University
|[[#Yuval Wigderson  |  New perspectives on the uncertainty principle ]]
|
|-
|November 10, 10 a.m.
|Óscar Domínguez
| Universidad Complutense de Madrid
|[[#Oscar Dominguez  | New Brezis--Van Schaftingen--Yung inequalities via maximal operators, Garsia inequalities and Caffarelli--Silvestre extensions ]]
|
|-
|November 17
|Tamas Titkos
|BBS U of Applied Sciences and Renyi Institute
|[[#Tamas Titkos |  Isometries of Wasserstein spaces ]]
|
|-
|November 24
|Shukun Wu
|University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
||[[#Shukun Wu  |  On the Bochner-Riesz operator and the maximal Bochner-Riesz operator ]]
|
|-
|December 1
| Jonathan Hickman
| The University of Edinburgh
|[[#Jonathan Hickman  | Sobolev improving for averages over space curves ]]
|
|-
|February 2, 7:00 p.m.
|Hanlong Fang
|UW Madison
|[[#Hanlong Fang |  Canonical blow-ups of Grassmann manifolds ]]
|
|-
|February 9
|Bingyang Hu
|Purdue University
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|Andreas
|  
|-
|-
|October 24
|February 16
| Xiaochun Li
|Krystal Taylor
| UIUC
|The Ohio State University
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
| Betsy
|
|-
|-
|Thursday, October 26
|February 23
| Fedya Nazarov
|Dominique Maldague
| Kent State University
|MIT
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
| Betsy, Andreas
|
|-
|March 2
|Diogo Oliveira e Silva
|University of Birmingham
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|
|-
|March 9
|Oleg Safronov
|University of North Carolina Charlotte
|[[#linktoabstract  | Relations between discrete and continuous spectra of differential operators ]]
|
|-
|-
|Friday, October 27 in B239
|March 16
| Stefanie Petermichl
|Ziming Shi
| University of Toulouse
|Rutgers University
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
| Betsy, Andreas
|
|-
|-
|Wednesday, November 1 in B239
|March 23
| Shaoming Guo
|Xiumin Du
| Indiana University
|Northwestern University
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
| Andreas
|
|-
|-
|November 14
|March 30, 10:00  a.m.
| Naser Talebizadeh Sardari
|Etienne Le Masson
| UW Madison
|Cergy Paris University
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Quadratic forms and the semiclassical eigenfunction hypothesis ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
| Betsy
|
|-
|-
|November 28
|April 6
| Xianghong Chen
|TBA
| UW Milwaukee
|
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
| Betsy
|
|-
|-
|December 5
|April 13
|TBA
|
|
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|
|
|-
|April 20
|Jongchon Kim
| UBC
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|
|
|-
|-
|December 12
|April 27
| Alex Stokolos
|Yumeng Ou
| GA Southern
|University of Pennsylvania
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
| Andreas
|
|-
|-
|May 4
|
|
|[[#linktoabstract  |  Title ]]
|}
|}


=Abstracts=
=Abstracts=
===Brian Street===
===Alexei Poltoratski===
 
Title: Dirac inner functions
 
Abstract: My talk will focus on some new (and old) complex analytic objects arising from Dirac systems of differential equations.
We will discuss connections between problems in complex function theory, spectral and scattering problems for differential
operators and the non-linear Fourier transform.
 
===Polona Durcik and Joris Roos===
 
Title: A triangular Hilbert transform with curvature, I & II.
 
Abstract: The triangular Hilbert is a two-dimensional bilinear singular
originating in time-frequency analysis. No Lp bounds are currently
known for this operator.
In these two talks we discuss a recent joint work with Michael Christ
on a variant of the triangular Hilbert transform involving curvature.
This object is closely related to the bilinear Hilbert transform with
curvature and a maximally modulated singular integral of Stein-Wainger
type. As an application we also discuss a quantitative nonlinear Roth
type theorem on patterns in the Euclidean plane.
The second talk will focus on the proof of a key ingredient, a certain
regularity estimate for a local operator.
 
===Andrew Zimmer===
 
Title:  Complex analytic problems on domains with good intrinsic geometry
 
Abstract: In this talk, I will describe a new class of domains in complex Euclidean space which is defined in terms of the existence of a Kaehler metric with good geometric properties. This class is invariant under biholomorphism and includes many well-studied classes of domains such as strongly pseudoconvex domains, finite type domains in dimension two, convex domains, homogeneous domains, and embeddings of Teichmuller spaces. Further, certain analytic problems are tractable for domains in this family even when the boundary is non-smooth. In particular, it is possible to characterize the domains in this family where the dbar-Neumann operator on (0, q)-forms is compact (which generalizes an old result of Fu-Straube for convex domains).
 
===Hong Wang===
 
Title: Improved decoupling for the parabola
 
Abstract: In 2014, Bourgain and Demeter proved the  $l^2$ decoupling estimates for the paraboloid with constant $R^{\epsilon}$. 
We prove an $(l^2, L^6)$ decoupling inequality for the parabola with constant $(\log R)^c$.  This is joint work with Larry Guth and Dominique Maldague.
 
===Kevin Luli===
 
Title: Smooth Nonnegative Interpolation
 
Abstract: Suppose E is an arbitrary subset of R^n. Let f: E  \rightarrow [0, \infty). How can we decide if f extends to a nonnegative function C^m function F defined on all of R^n? Suppose E is finite. Can we compute a nonnegative C^m function F on R^n that agrees with f on E with the least possible C^m norm? How many computer operations does this take? In this talk, I will explain recent results on these problems. Non-negativity is one of the most important shape preserving properties for interpolants. In real life applications, the range of the interpolant is imposed by nature. For example, probability density, the amount of snow, rain, humidity, chemical concentration are all nonnegative quantities and are of interest in natural sciences. Even in one dimension, the existing techniques can only handle nonnegative interpolation under special assumptions on the data set. Our results work without any assumptions on the data sets.
 
===Niclas Technau===
 
Title: Number theoretic applications of oscillatory integrals
 
Abstract: We discuss how the analysis of oscillatory integrals can be used to solve number theoretic problems. More specifically, the focus will be on understanding fine-scale statistics of sequences on the unit circle. Further, we shall briefly explain a connection to quantum chaos.
 
===Terence Harris===
 
Title: Low dimensional pinned distance sets via spherical averages
 
Abstract: An inequality is derived for the average t-energy of weighted pinned distance measures, where 0 < t < 1, in terms of the L^2 spherical averages of Fourier transforms of measures. This generalises the result of Liu (originally for Lebesgue measure) to pinned distance sets of dimension smaller than 1, and strengthens Mattila's result from 1987, originally for the full distance set.
 
===Yuval Wigderson===
 
Title: New perspectives on the uncertainty principle
 
Abstract: The phrase ``uncertainty principle'' refers to a wide array of results in several disparate fields of mathematics, all of which capture the notion that a function and its Fourier transform cannot both be ``very localized''. The measure of localization varies from one uncertainty principle to the next, and well-studied notions include the variance (and higher moments), the entropy, the support-size, and the rate of decay at infinity. Similarly, the proofs of the various uncertainty principles rely on a range of tools, from the elementary to the very deep. In this talk, I'll describe how many of the uncertainty principles all follow from a single, simple result, whose proof uses only a basic property of the Fourier transform: that it and its inverse are bounded as operators $L^1 \to L^\infty$. Using this result, one can also prove new variants of the uncertainty principle, which apply to new measures of localization and to operators other than the Fourier transform. This is joint work with Avi Wigderson.
 
===Oscar Dominguez===
 
Title: New Brezis--Van Schaftingen--Yung inequalities via maximal operators, Garsia inequalities and Caffarelli--Silvestre extensions
 
Abstract: The celebrated Bourgain--Brezis--Mironescu formula enables us to recover Sobolev spaces in terms of limits of Gagliardo seminorms. Very recently, Brezis, Van Schaftingen and Yung have proposed an alternative methodology to approach Sobolev spaces via limits of weak-type Gagliardo functionals. The goal of this talk is twofold. Firstly, we will show that the BvSY result is a special case of a more general phenomenon based on maximal inequalities. In particular, we shall derive not only analogs of the BvSY theorem for different kinds of function spaces (Lebesgue, Calderon, higher-order Sobolev, …), but also applications to ergodic theory, Fourier series, etc. In the second part of the talk, we shall investigate the fractional setting in the BvSY theorem. Our approach is based on new Garsia-type inequalities and an application of the Caffarelli--Silvestre extension. This is joint work with Mario Milman.
 
===Tamas Titkos===
 
Title: Isometries of Wasserstein spaces
 
Abstract: Due to its nice theoretical properties and an astonishing number of
applications via optimal transport problems, probably the most
intensively studied metric nowadays is the p-Wasserstein metric. Given
a complete and separable metric space $X$ and a real number $p\geq1$,
one defines the p-Wasserstein space $\mathcal{W}_p(X)$ as the collection
of Borel probability measures with finite $p$-th moment, endowed with a
distance which is calculated by means of transport plans \cite{5}.
 
The main aim of our research project is to reveal the structure of the
isometry group $\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_p(X))$. Although
$\mathrm{Isom}(X)$ embeds naturally into
$\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_p(X))$ by push-forward, and this embedding
turned out to be surjective in many cases (see e.g. [1]), these two
groups are not isomorphic in general. Kloeckner in [2] described
the isometry group of the quadratic Wasserstein space
$\mathcal{W}_2(\mathbb{R}^n)$, and it turned out that the case of $n=1$
is special in the sense that $\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_2(\mathbb{R})$
is extremely rich. Namely, it contains a large subgroup of wild behaving
isometries that distort the shape of measures. Following this line of
investigation, in \cite{3} we described
$\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_p(\mathbb{R}))$ and
$\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_p([0,1])$ for all $p\geq 1$.
 
In this talk I will survey first some of the earlier results in the
subject, and then I will present the key results of [3]. If time
permits, I will also report on our most recent manuscript [4] in
which we extended Kloeckner's multidimensional results. Joint work with Gy\"orgy P\'al Geh\'er (University of Reading)
and D\'aniel Virosztek (IST Austria).
 
[1] J. Bertrand and B. Kloeckner, \emph{A geometric study of Wasserstein
spaces: isometric rigidity in negative curvature}, International
Mathematics Research Notices, 2016 (5), 1368--1386.


Title: Convenient Coordinates
[2] B. Kloeckner, \emph{A geometric study of Wasserstein spaces: Euclidean
spaces}, Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di
Scienze, Serie 5, Tome 9 (2010) no. 2, 297--323.


Abstract:  We discuss the method of picking a convenient coordinate system adapted to vector fields. Let X_1,...,X_q be either real or complex C^1 vector fields. We discuss the question of when there is a coordinate system in which the vector fields are smoother (e.g., C^m, or C^\infty, or real analytic).  By answering this in a quantitative way, we obtain coordinate charts which can be used as generalized scaling maps.  When the vector fields are real this is joint work with Stovall, and continues in the line of quantitative sub-Riemannian geometry initiated by Nagel, Stein, and Wainger.  When the vector fields are complex one obtains a geometry with more structure which can be thought of as "sub-Hermitian".
[3] Gy. P. Geh\'er, T. Titkos, D. Virosztek, \emph{Isometric study of
Wasserstein spaces – the real line}, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 373
(2020), 5855--5883.


===Hiroyoshi Mitake===
[4] Gy. P. Geh\'er, T. Titkos, D. Virosztek, \emph{The isometry group of
Wasserstein spaces: The Hilbertian case}, submitted manuscript.


Title: Derivation of multi-layered interface system and its application
[5] C. Villani, \emph{Optimal Transport: Old and New,}
(Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften)
Springer, 2009.


Abstract:  In this talk, I will propose a multi-layered interface system which can
===Shukun Wu===
be formally derived by the singular limit of the weakly coupled system of
the Allen-Cahn equation.  By using the level set approach, this system can be
written as a quasi-monotone degenerate parabolic system.
We give results of the well-posedness of viscosity solutions, and study the
singularity of each layers. This is a joint work with H. Ninomiya, K. Todoroki.


===Joris Roos===
Title: On the Bochner-Riesz operator and the maximal Bochner-Riesz operator


Title: A polynomial Roth theorem on the real line
Abstract: The Bochner-Riesz problem is one of the most important problems in the field of Fourier analysis. It has a strong connection to other famous problems, such as the restriction conjecture and the Kakeya conjecture. In this talk, I will present some recent improvements to the Bochner-Riesz conjecture and the maximal Bochner-Riesz conjecture. The main methods we used are polynomial partitioning and the Bourgain Demeter l^2 decoupling theorem.


Abstract: For a polynomial P of degree greater than one, we show the existence of patterns of the form (x,x+t,x+P(t)) with a gap estimate on t in positive density subsets of the reals. This is an extension of an earlier result of Bourgain. Our proof is a combination of Bourgain’s approach and more recent methods that were originally developed for the study of the bilinear Hilbert transform along curves. This talk is based on a joint work with Polona Durcik and Shaoming Guo.


===David Beltran===
===Jonathan Hickman===


Fefferman Stein Inequalities
Title: Sobolev improving for averages over space curves


Given an operator T, we focus on obtaining two-weighted inequalities in which the weights are related via certain maximal function. These inequalites, which originated in work of Fefferman and Stein, have been established in an optimal way for different classical operators in Harmonic Analysis. In this talk, we survey some classical results and we present some recent Fefferman-Stein inequalities for pseudodifferential operators and for the solution operators to dispersive equations.
Abstract: Consider the averaging operator given by convolution with arclength measure on compact piece of a smooth curve in R^n. A simple question is to precisely quantify the gain in regularity induced by this averaging, for instance by studying the L^p-Sobolev mapping properties of the operator. This talk will report on ongoing developments towards understanding this problem. In particular, we will explore some non-trivial necessary conditions on the gain in regularity.  Joint with D. Beltran, S. Guo and A. Seeger.


===Naser Talebizadeh Sardari===
===Hanlong Fang===


Quadratic forms and the semiclassical eigenfunction hypothesis
Title: Canonical blow-ups of Grassmann manifolds


Let <math>Q(X)</math> be any integral primitive positive definite quadratic form in <math>k</math> variables, where <math>k\geq4</math>, and discriminant <math>D</math>. For any integer <math>n</math>, we give an upper bound on the number of integral solutions of <math>Q(X)=n</math>  in terms of <math>n</math>, <math>k</math>, and <math>D</math>. As a corollary, we prove  a conjecture of Lester and Rudnick on the small scale equidistribution of almost all functions belonging to any orthonormal basis of a given  eigenspace of the Laplacian on the flat torus <math>\mathbb{T}^d</math> for <math>d\geq 5</math>. This conjecture is motivated by the work of Berry\cite{Berry, Michael} on semiclassical eigenfunction hypothesis.
Abstract:  We introduce certain canonical blow-ups \mathcal T_{s,p,n}, as well as their distinct submanifolds \mathcal M_{s,p,n}, of Grassmann manifolds G(p,n) by partitioning the Plücker coordinates with respect to a parameter s. Various geometric aspects of \mathcal T_{s,p,n} and \mathcal M_{s,p,n} are studied, for instance, the smoothness, the holomorphic symmetries, the (semi-)positivity of the anti-canonical bundles, the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics, the functoriality, etc. In particular, we introduce the notion of homeward compactification, of which \mathcal T_{s,p,n} are examples, as a generalization of the wonderful compactification.  


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Revision as of 00:31, 27 January 2021

The 2020-2021 Analysis Seminar will be organized by David Beltran and Andreas Seeger. It will be online for the entire academic year. 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 accomodate speakers).

Zoom links will be sent to those who have signed up for the Analysis Seminar List. For instructions how to sign up for seminar lists, see https://www.math.wisc.edu/node/230

If you'd like to suggest speakers for the spring semester please contact David and Andreas (dbeltran at math, seeger at math).


Previous_Analysis_seminars

https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Previous_Analysis_seminars

Current Analysis Seminar Schedule

date speaker institution title host(s)
September 22 Alexei Poltoratski UW Madison Dirac inner functions
September 29 Joris Roos University of Massachusetts - Lowell A triangular Hilbert transform with curvature, I
Wednesday September 30, 4 p.m. Polona Durcik Chapman University A triangular Hilbert transform with curvature, II
October 6 Andrew Zimmer UW Madison Complex analytic problems on domains with good intrinsic geometry
October 13 Hong Wang Princeton/IAS Improved decoupling for the parabola
October 20 Kevin Luli UC Davis Smooth Nonnegative Interpolation
October 21, 4.00 p.m. Niclas Technau UW Madison Number theoretic applications of oscillatory integrals
October 27 Terence Harris Cornell University Low dimensional pinned distance sets via spherical averages
Monday, November 2, 4 p.m. Yuval Wigderson Stanford University New perspectives on the uncertainty principle
November 10, 10 a.m. Óscar Domínguez Universidad Complutense de Madrid New Brezis--Van Schaftingen--Yung inequalities via maximal operators, Garsia inequalities and Caffarelli--Silvestre extensions
November 17 Tamas Titkos BBS U of Applied Sciences and Renyi Institute Isometries of Wasserstein spaces
November 24 Shukun Wu University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) On the Bochner-Riesz operator and the maximal Bochner-Riesz operator
December 1 Jonathan Hickman The University of Edinburgh Sobolev improving for averages over space curves
February 2, 7:00 p.m. Hanlong Fang UW Madison Canonical blow-ups of Grassmann manifolds
February 9 Bingyang Hu Purdue University Title
February 16 Krystal Taylor The Ohio State University Title
February 23 Dominique Maldague MIT Title
March 2 Diogo Oliveira e Silva University of Birmingham Title
March 9 Oleg Safronov University of North Carolina Charlotte Relations between discrete and continuous spectra of differential operators
March 16 Ziming Shi Rutgers University Title
March 23 Xiumin Du Northwestern University Title
March 30, 10:00 a.m. Etienne Le Masson Cergy Paris University Title
April 6 TBA Title
April 13 TBA Title
April 20 Jongchon Kim UBC Title
April 27 Yumeng Ou University of Pennsylvania Title
May 4 Title

Abstracts

Alexei Poltoratski

Title: Dirac inner functions

Abstract: My talk will focus on some new (and old) complex analytic objects arising from Dirac systems of differential equations. We will discuss connections between problems in complex function theory, spectral and scattering problems for differential operators and the non-linear Fourier transform.

Polona Durcik and Joris Roos

Title: A triangular Hilbert transform with curvature, I & II.

Abstract: The triangular Hilbert is a two-dimensional bilinear singular originating in time-frequency analysis. No Lp bounds are currently known for this operator. In these two talks we discuss a recent joint work with Michael Christ on a variant of the triangular Hilbert transform involving curvature. This object is closely related to the bilinear Hilbert transform with curvature and a maximally modulated singular integral of Stein-Wainger type. As an application we also discuss a quantitative nonlinear Roth type theorem on patterns in the Euclidean plane. The second talk will focus on the proof of a key ingredient, a certain regularity estimate for a local operator.

Andrew Zimmer

Title: Complex analytic problems on domains with good intrinsic geometry

Abstract: In this talk, I will describe a new class of domains in complex Euclidean space which is defined in terms of the existence of a Kaehler metric with good geometric properties. This class is invariant under biholomorphism and includes many well-studied classes of domains such as strongly pseudoconvex domains, finite type domains in dimension two, convex domains, homogeneous domains, and embeddings of Teichmuller spaces. Further, certain analytic problems are tractable for domains in this family even when the boundary is non-smooth. In particular, it is possible to characterize the domains in this family where the dbar-Neumann operator on (0, q)-forms is compact (which generalizes an old result of Fu-Straube for convex domains).

Hong Wang

Title: Improved decoupling for the parabola

Abstract: In 2014, Bourgain and Demeter proved the $l^2$ decoupling estimates for the paraboloid with constant $R^{\epsilon}$. We prove an $(l^2, L^6)$ decoupling inequality for the parabola with constant $(\log R)^c$. This is joint work with Larry Guth and Dominique Maldague.

Kevin Luli

Title: Smooth Nonnegative Interpolation

Abstract: Suppose E is an arbitrary subset of R^n. Let f: E \rightarrow [0, \infty). How can we decide if f extends to a nonnegative function C^m function F defined on all of R^n? Suppose E is finite. Can we compute a nonnegative C^m function F on R^n that agrees with f on E with the least possible C^m norm? How many computer operations does this take? In this talk, I will explain recent results on these problems. Non-negativity is one of the most important shape preserving properties for interpolants. In real life applications, the range of the interpolant is imposed by nature. For example, probability density, the amount of snow, rain, humidity, chemical concentration are all nonnegative quantities and are of interest in natural sciences. Even in one dimension, the existing techniques can only handle nonnegative interpolation under special assumptions on the data set. Our results work without any assumptions on the data sets.

Niclas Technau

Title: Number theoretic applications of oscillatory integrals

Abstract: We discuss how the analysis of oscillatory integrals can be used to solve number theoretic problems. More specifically, the focus will be on understanding fine-scale statistics of sequences on the unit circle. Further, we shall briefly explain a connection to quantum chaos.

Terence Harris

Title: Low dimensional pinned distance sets via spherical averages

Abstract: An inequality is derived for the average t-energy of weighted pinned distance measures, where 0 < t < 1, in terms of the L^2 spherical averages of Fourier transforms of measures. This generalises the result of Liu (originally for Lebesgue measure) to pinned distance sets of dimension smaller than 1, and strengthens Mattila's result from 1987, originally for the full distance set.

Yuval Wigderson

Title: New perspectives on the uncertainty principle

Abstract: The phrase ``uncertainty principle refers to a wide array of results in several disparate fields of mathematics, all of which capture the notion that a function and its Fourier transform cannot both be ``very localized. The measure of localization varies from one uncertainty principle to the next, and well-studied notions include the variance (and higher moments), the entropy, the support-size, and the rate of decay at infinity. Similarly, the proofs of the various uncertainty principles rely on a range of tools, from the elementary to the very deep. In this talk, I'll describe how many of the uncertainty principles all follow from a single, simple result, whose proof uses only a basic property of the Fourier transform: that it and its inverse are bounded as operators $L^1 \to L^\infty$. Using this result, one can also prove new variants of the uncertainty principle, which apply to new measures of localization and to operators other than the Fourier transform. This is joint work with Avi Wigderson.

Oscar Dominguez

Title: New Brezis--Van Schaftingen--Yung inequalities via maximal operators, Garsia inequalities and Caffarelli--Silvestre extensions

Abstract: The celebrated Bourgain--Brezis--Mironescu formula enables us to recover Sobolev spaces in terms of limits of Gagliardo seminorms. Very recently, Brezis, Van Schaftingen and Yung have proposed an alternative methodology to approach Sobolev spaces via limits of weak-type Gagliardo functionals. The goal of this talk is twofold. Firstly, we will show that the BvSY result is a special case of a more general phenomenon based on maximal inequalities. In particular, we shall derive not only analogs of the BvSY theorem for different kinds of function spaces (Lebesgue, Calderon, higher-order Sobolev, …), but also applications to ergodic theory, Fourier series, etc. In the second part of the talk, we shall investigate the fractional setting in the BvSY theorem. Our approach is based on new Garsia-type inequalities and an application of the Caffarelli--Silvestre extension. This is joint work with Mario Milman.

Tamas Titkos

Title: Isometries of Wasserstein spaces

Abstract: Due to its nice theoretical properties and an astonishing number of applications via optimal transport problems, probably the most intensively studied metric nowadays is the p-Wasserstein metric. Given a complete and separable metric space $X$ and a real number $p\geq1$, one defines the p-Wasserstein space $\mathcal{W}_p(X)$ as the collection of Borel probability measures with finite $p$-th moment, endowed with a distance which is calculated by means of transport plans \cite{5}.

The main aim of our research project is to reveal the structure of the isometry group $\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_p(X))$. Although $\mathrm{Isom}(X)$ embeds naturally into $\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_p(X))$ by push-forward, and this embedding turned out to be surjective in many cases (see e.g. [1]), these two groups are not isomorphic in general. Kloeckner in [2] described the isometry group of the quadratic Wasserstein space $\mathcal{W}_2(\mathbb{R}^n)$, and it turned out that the case of $n=1$ is special in the sense that $\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_2(\mathbb{R})$ is extremely rich. Namely, it contains a large subgroup of wild behaving isometries that distort the shape of measures. Following this line of investigation, in \cite{3} we described $\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_p(\mathbb{R}))$ and $\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_p([0,1])$ for all $p\geq 1$.

In this talk I will survey first some of the earlier results in the subject, and then I will present the key results of [3]. If time permits, I will also report on our most recent manuscript [4] in which we extended Kloeckner's multidimensional results. Joint work with Gy\"orgy P\'al Geh\'er (University of Reading) and D\'aniel Virosztek (IST Austria).

[1] J. Bertrand and B. Kloeckner, \emph{A geometric study of Wasserstein spaces: isometric rigidity in negative curvature}, International Mathematics Research Notices, 2016 (5), 1368--1386.

[2] B. Kloeckner, \emph{A geometric study of Wasserstein spaces: Euclidean spaces}, Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Serie 5, Tome 9 (2010) no. 2, 297--323.

[3] Gy. P. Geh\'er, T. Titkos, D. Virosztek, \emph{Isometric study of Wasserstein spaces – the real line}, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 373 (2020), 5855--5883.

[4] Gy. P. Geh\'er, T. Titkos, D. Virosztek, \emph{The isometry group of Wasserstein spaces: The Hilbertian case}, submitted manuscript.

[5] C. Villani, \emph{Optimal Transport: Old and New,} (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften) Springer, 2009.

Shukun Wu

Title: On the Bochner-Riesz operator and the maximal Bochner-Riesz operator

Abstract: The Bochner-Riesz problem is one of the most important problems in the field of Fourier analysis. It has a strong connection to other famous problems, such as the restriction conjecture and the Kakeya conjecture. In this talk, I will present some recent improvements to the Bochner-Riesz conjecture and the maximal Bochner-Riesz conjecture. The main methods we used are polynomial partitioning and the Bourgain Demeter l^2 decoupling theorem.


Jonathan Hickman

Title: Sobolev improving for averages over space curves

Abstract: Consider the averaging operator given by convolution with arclength measure on compact piece of a smooth curve in R^n. A simple question is to precisely quantify the gain in regularity induced by this averaging, for instance by studying the L^p-Sobolev mapping properties of the operator. This talk will report on ongoing developments towards understanding this problem. In particular, we will explore some non-trivial necessary conditions on the gain in regularity. Joint with D. Beltran, S. Guo and A. Seeger.

Hanlong Fang

Title: Canonical blow-ups of Grassmann manifolds

Abstract: We introduce certain canonical blow-ups \mathcal T_{s,p,n}, as well as their distinct submanifolds \mathcal M_{s,p,n}, of Grassmann manifolds G(p,n) by partitioning the Plücker coordinates with respect to a parameter s. Various geometric aspects of \mathcal T_{s,p,n} and \mathcal M_{s,p,n} are studied, for instance, the smoothness, the holomorphic symmetries, the (semi-)positivity of the anti-canonical bundles, the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics, the functoriality, etc. In particular, we introduce the notion of homeward compactification, of which \mathcal T_{s,p,n} are examples, as a generalization of the wonderful compactification.

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