SCHEDULE FOR SUMIRFAS 2012
The Informal Regional
Functional Analysis Seminar
August 3-5, 2012
Texas A&M University, College Station
Talks for SUMIRFAS will also be posted on the Workshop in Analysis and Probability page:
http://www.math.tamu.edu/∼kerr/workshop/
All talks will be in Blocker 166. The Blocker Building is on Ireland St. just south of University
Dr. on the Texas A&M campus:
http://www.tamu.edu/map/building/overview/BLOC.html
Coffee and refreshments will be available in Blocker 148.
The usual SUMIRFAS dinner will be on August 4. It will be a BBQ at the home of Jan and
Bill Johnson. Swimming is encouraged.
August 6-10 there will be a Concentration Week on “Recent advances in Harmonic Analysis
and Spectral Theory”, organized by Andrew Comech, David Damanik, Constanze Liaw (chair),
and Alexei Poltoratski. This CW is designed to bring together two groups of experts: those specializing in complex and harmonic analysis and those working in spectral theory of differential
operators and mathematical physics. The main goals of the CW are to study new relationships and to widen further participation in this area in the United States. Introductory series
of lectures by Stephen Gustafson, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Helge Krueger, and Brett Wick are
planned to acquaint non-experts with these topics with the reasonable expectation that some
the participants in the larger Workshop will be attracted to this program and inject new ideas
into the area. The home page for this Workshop is at
http://www.math.tamu.edu/∼comech/events/hast-2012/
We expect to be able to cover housing for most participants from support the National Science
Foundation has provided for the Workshop. When you ask Cara to book your room, please tell
her if you are requesting support. Minorities, women, graduate students, and young researchers
are especially encouraged to apply.
William Johnson, johnson@math.tamu.edu, David Kerr, kerr@math.tamu.edu, or Gilles Pisier,
pisier@math.tamu.edu.
Schedule for SUMIRFAS 2012
Friday, August 3 Blocker 166
1:30–
1:55–
2:00–
3:00–
3:30-
1:55 Coffee & refreshments, Blocker 148
2:00 Greeting
2:50 Ali Kavruk, “Relative Riesz Interpolations in C*-algebra Theory”
3:30 Coffee & refreshments, Blocker 148
4:30 Michael Lacey, “On the Two Weight Inequality for the Hilbert Transform”
Saturday, August 4 Blocker 166
9:30–10:00
10:00–11:00
11:10–12:10
12:10– 2:00
2:00– 3:00
3:10– 3:50
3:50– 4:10
4:10– 5:10
6:30–
Coffee & refreshments, Blocker 148
Paul Mueller, “A Davis Decomposition for Hardy Martingales”
Pete Casazza, “The Kadison-Singer Problem in Mathematics and Engineering”
Lunch
Darrin Speegle, “The HRT Conjecture for Functions with Sufficiently Fast Decay”
Russ Thompson, “An Introduction to the Rate of Escape of Random Walks on Groups”
Coffee & refreshments, Blocker 148
Izabella Laba, “Buffon’s Needle Estimates for Rational Product Cantor Sets”
BBQ & swimming at Jan & Bill Johnson’s house, 1306 Deacon Dr., College Station,
979.696.2812, 979.450.2812. Please tell Cara, cara@math.tamu.edu
if you (and spouse or companion, if applicable) will attend.
Sunday, August 5 Blocker 166
9:30– 9:50 Coffee & refreshments, Blocker 148
9:50–10:50 Ed Effros, “Grothendieck and Quantized Functional Analysis”
11:00–12:00 Su Gao, “Universal Equivalence Relations from Actions of the Unitary Group”