Analysis Seminars

In addition to workshops, conferences, researcher schools, and other events in the UK and overseas, the members of the analysis group organize the department’s longest running research seminar series.

Upcoming and recent seminars

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Past Seminars

Rigorous Foundations of the Fokas Transform Method

25 November Anthony Ashton (Cambridge)

Regularity for the Signorini Problem

11 November John Erik Andersson (Warwick)

On the Spectrum of Pauli operators

28 October Daniel Elton (Lancaster)

Beurling Prime Systems

05 March Faez AL Maamori (Reading)

A generalization of Euclid-Euler theorem on perfect numbers

20 February Paulo Almeida (Aveiro, Portugal)

Realizability problem with regularity condition

17 February Raphael Lachieze-Rey (Paris)  

The semigeostrophic equations: a survey of old and new results

02 May 12 – 1pm Room M314 Beatrice Pelloni (Reading)

Hydroelastic waves

14 December 16:00 – 17:00 Room M113 John Toland (Cambridge)

Communicability in the brain

07 December 16:00 -17:00 Zhivko Stoyanov (Reading)

On the facial structure of the unit ball of a JB*-triple and its dual space

30 November 16:00 – 17:00 Antonio Peralta (Granada)

Spectral Geometry on Graphs

23 November 16:00 -17:00 Ram Band (Bristol)

Solitons and integrable systems

23 November 12:00 – 13:00 Barbara Prinari (Colorado)

The index formula of Douglas for Toeplitz operators on Bergman spaces

16 November 12:00 -13:00 Antti Perala (Helsinki)

Differentiability of Fourier Series

Differentiability of Fourier Series of the form $F_k(\tau)=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{\sigma_{k-1}(n)}{n^{k+1}}e^{2\pi i n \tau}$ for $k$ even 09 November 12:00 -13:00 Izabela Petrykiewicz (Grenoble)

Mean Field Limits in Quantum systems

02 November 12:00 -13:00 Peter Pickl (Munich)

Spectral Gap for Glauber type dynamics in infinite particle systems

26 October 12:00 -13:00 Tobias Kuna (Reading)

Analysis day

19 October 12.30 – 17:00 Room M113

Carleson operators of Radon type with polynomial phase

12 October 12:00 -13:00 Lillian Pierce (Oxford)

Some multiplier methods for PDEs

15 March Euan Spence (Bath)  

On fractional Hardy-type inequalities

08 March 16:00 -17:00 Ritva Hurri-Syrjanen (Helsinki)

Steady periodic surface waves on water in the presence of vorticity

22 February 16:00 – 17:00 Geoffrey Burton (Bath)

N-particle quantum statistics on graphs

15 February 16:00 – 17:00 Adam Sawicki (Bristol)

Multilinear Radon-like transforms

08 February 16:00 – 17:00 Neal Bez (Birmingham)

Congruences of modular forms and cyclotomic fields

31 January 12:00 – 13:00 M212 Cecilia Busuioc (Royal Holloway)

Continuous solutions to a balance law

18 January 12:00 – 13:00 Laura Caravenna (Oxford)

The current state of the almost periodic factorization

11 January 16:00 – 17:00 Ilya Spitkovsky (College of William & Mary, Williamsburg)

Local Bifurcation Theory and the Steady Water Wave Problem

13 December 12:00 – 13:00 Room M100 Peter de Boeck (Reading)

Ray Splitting Billiards and Quantum Ergodicity

06 December Alex Strohmaier (Loughborough)

Zig-zag domain walls in ferromagnetic materials

29 November 16:00 – 17:00 Room M212 Roger Moser (Bath)

Unravelling Viscosity Solutions: a gentle introduction for the non – expert

29 November 12:00 – 13:00 Room M100 Nikos Katzourakis (Reading)

A calculus for oscillatory integrals?

22 November 12:00 – 13:00 Room M100 Jim Wright (Edinburgh)

Characterization of gradient Young measures under determinant constraints

Konstantinos Koumatos (Oxford) 15 November 12:00 – 13:00 Room M100

Invasion, co-existence and extinction in spatio-temporally heterogeneous environments

08 November 12:00 – 13:00 Room M100 Alex Hening (Oxford)

Calculus of Variations in L∞ for the non-expert

01 November 12:00 – 13:00 M100 Nikos Katzourakis (Reading)

Laplace transforms and applications of embedding theorems

25 October 16:00 – 17:00 Room M212 Jonathan Partington (Leeds)

The Brownian traveller on manifolds

18 October 16:00 -17:00 Room M212 David Krejcirirk (Prague)

Real and complex spectra of self-adjoint linear pencils

21 March 16:00 – 17:00 Room M212 Michael Levitin (Reading)

Weak solutions to the stationary Euler equations

14 March 16:00 – 17:00 Room M212 Antoine Choffrut (Edinburgh)

On multiscale discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic problems

07 March 12:00 – 13:00 Room M212 Manolis Georgoulis (Leicester)

Realisability problems for geometric random structures

Raphael Lachièze-Rey 17 February 13:00 – 14:00 Room M212

Rates of decay in Tauberian theorems

07 February 16:00 – 17:00 Room M212 Charles Batty (Oxford)

Continuous traffic congestion: models, regularity and numerics

20 January 12:00 -13:00 Room M100 Filippo Santambrogio (Paris, France)

Evolution of linear waves on black holes

17 January 16:00 – 17:00 Room M212 Stefanos Aretakis (Princeton, USA)

An inverse problem for positive Hankel operators

28 November 12:00 – 13:00 Room M113 Alexander Pushnitski (Kings College London)

New developments in the lower dimensional obstacle problem

21 November 12:00 – 13:00 Room M113 Mariana Vega Smit (Duisburg-Essen)

The rigidity problem for symmetrization inequalities

14 November 12:00 – 13:00 Room M113 Filippo Cagnetti (Sussex)

Asymptotic variance of the Beurling transform

07 November 16:00 – 17:00 Room M314 Antti Perälä (Helsinki)  

Critical phenomena and random matrix theory

04 November 11-5 pm Room M212 Joanna Hutchinson (Bristol)

Multidimensional periodic and almost-periodic problems

31 October 16:00 – 17:00 Room M212 Leonid Parnovsky (UCL)

Hamiltonian PDEs and dispersive shock waves

24 October 12:00 – 13:00 Room M113 Tamara Grava (Bristol and SISSA, Italy)

On the global structure of the set of steady-states to the 2D incompressible Euler equations

26 September 12:00 – 13:00 Room M212 Antoine Choffrut (Edinburgh)

Dynamics for systems of screw dislocations

19 September 12:00 – 13:00 Room M212 Giovanni Leoni (Carnegie Mellon, USA)

Moment problem for symmetric algebras of locally convex spaces

27 November 12:00 – 13:00 M212 Maria Infusino (Konstanz, Germany)

The essential numerical range for unbounded linear operators

20 November 12:00 – 13:00 M212 Sabine Boegli (Cardiff)

Rough paths in stochastic analysis and beyond

30 October 12:00 – 13:00 M212 Horatio Boedihardjo (Reading)

Defects in the Landau-de Gennes model for liquid crystals

23 October 12:00 – 13:00 M108 Giacomo Canevari (Oxford)

Can we compute everything?

16 October 12:00 – 13:00 M108 Jonathan Ben-Artzi (Imperial College London)

On conjectures regarding the Bergman projection

9 October 12:00 – 13:00 M212 Antti Perälä (Helsinki)  

Expansions in noninteger bases

2 October 12:00 – 13:00 M212 Simon Baker (Reading)

Spectra and Pseudospectra of Non-Normal Random Tri-Diagonal Matrices and Operators

18 March 12:00 – 13:00 M212 Simon Chandler-Wilde (Reading)

The Exponential Transform of a Path: Uniqueness and Reconstruction

11 March 12:00 – 13:00 PALMER G05 Xi Geng (Oxford)

Wide-stencil Methods for Monge-Ampère Equations

26 February 12:00 – 13:00 M304 Max Jensen (Sussex)

Prescription of eigenvalues in the conformal class of a metric

12 February 12:00 – 13:00 Asma Hassannezhad (Bonn)

Dynamics of maps

Cho-Ho Chu (Queen Mary) 5 February

Toeplitz and Hankel Operators on Weighted Fock Spaces

13 January 16:00 – 17:00 Alex Schuster (San Francisco State)

Thinning and conditioning of the Circular Unitary Ensemble

3 August Christophe Charlier (UC Louvain)

Toeplitz operators on spaces of analytic functions

11 July Alex Schuster (San Francisco State)

Linear dynamics and derivations

17 June Clifford Gilmore (Helsinki)

Upper and lower bounds for determinants of operators

13 May Oscar Bandtlow (Queen Mary)

Numerical approximation of the Laplace eigenvalues with mixed boundary data

06 May Nilima Nigam (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)

Quasi-analyticity and determinacy of the moment problem

Tuesday 13 December Maria Infusino (Universität Konstanz)

The essential numerical range for unbounded linear operators

Friday 25 November Marco Marletta (Cardiff University)

Positive definiteness in Random Matrix Theory

Friday 18 November Nick Jones (University of Bristol)

Duality of weighted Bergman spaces with small exponents

Friday 11 November Antti Perälä (University of Eastern Finland)

Asymptotic analysis of fundamental solutions of hypoelliptic equations

Friday 14 October George Chkadua (University of Reading)

Young towers and uniform statistical properties

Friday 7 October Alexey Korepanov (Warwick University)

Nonuniform stability of coupled differential equations

Friday 24 March Lassi Paunonen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

Absolute continuity and Galois closedness

Wednesday 8 March Tamás Titkos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Bloch functions, asymptotic variance, and geometric zero packing

Wednesday 22 February Håkan Hedenmalm (Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm)

A Perron-Frobenius operator that intertwines the Hilbert Transform: Postivity and Klein-Gordon Equation

Monday 20 February Alfonso Montes-Rodriguez (Universidad de Sevilla)

Contractive inequalities for Hardy spaces

Friday 8 December Jing Zhao (Trondheim)

On the growth of the Riemann zeta function and its argument

Wednesday 6 December Kristian Seip (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Remainers in the Ingham-Karamata Tauberian theorem

Friday 10 November Gregory Debruyne (University of Ghent)

Smooth values of polynomials

Wednesday 8 November Trevor Wooley (University of Bristol)

Some recent developments on complex Tauberian theorems for Laplace transforms

Wednesday 8 November Jasson Vindas (University of Ghent)

A Szegö theorem for truncated Toeplitz operators

Monday 2 October Elizabeth Strouse (Université de Bordeaux, France)

Limit operator theory with applications to Toeplitz Operators

Friday 16 March Raffael Hagger (University of Hannover)

On the construction of fractal attractors by synchronized impulsive odes

Tuesday 5 June Umberto Mosco (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Besov-Morrey and Triebel-Lizorkin-Morrey spaces with variable exponents

Thursday 26 April António Caetano (University of Aveiro)

Deformed Trigonometric Functions and Applications

Lyonell Boulton (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) Tuesday 18 December

The structure of homomorphisms of algebras of operators on Banach spaces

Friday 30 November Bence Horvath (Lancaster University)

Asymptotic correlations in topological quantum chains

Tuesday 4 September Nick Jones (University of Bristol)

Extensions of symmetric operators and a generalized strong Parrott theorem

Friday 29 March Zsigmond Tarcsay (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

On multiplicative chaos measures as statistical limits

Monday 11 March Eero Saksman (University of Helsinki)

The Ising model from 1920 to 2019

Friday 8 March Thomas Bothner (King’s College London)

Singular SPDEs on Riemannian surfaces

Singular SPDEs on Riemannian surfaces Joscha Diehl (Max-Planck Institute)

The beauty of a lifting (of polynomials)

Maria Joao Oliviera (Universidade Aberta / CMAFCIO, University of Lisbon) Friday 14 June

Local symmetry groups and quantum configurations

Friday 24 May Jerry Goldin (Rutgers)

Vortex dynamics on the surface of a torus

Friday 29 November Takashi Sakajo (Kyoto University)

Invariant measures for some periodic nonlinear PDE

Wednesday 27 November Gordon Blower (University of Lancaster)

Commutators of Calderon Zygmund operators (CZOs) in the two weighted setting

Friday 25 October Josh Isralowitz (State University of New York)

Fractional Powers of operators via the semigroup language and applications

Friday 18 October Marta de León Contreras (University of Reading)

Norms and eigenvalues for a family of Hilbert-type matrices

Thursday 10 October Ole Fredrik Brevig (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Toeplitz Operators on Hardy and Bergman spaces

Friday 3 April Alex Schuster (San Francisco State University)

ζ-regularized vacuum expectation values Abstract

Friday 13 March Tobias Hartung (King’s College London) 

Lower bounds and structure of minimizers Abstract

Wednesday 11 March 16:00 – 17:00 M100 Nick Alikakos (University of Athens)  –  CANCELLED

Quantified Asymptotics of Operator Semigroups Abstract

Friday 6 March Abraham Ng (University of Oxford)

Nuclear Dimension of Simple C*-Algebras and Extensions

Wednesday 26 February Sam Evington (University of Oxford)

Additive patterns in number theoretical sequences

Wednesday 5 February Tomos Parry (University of Göttingen)

Tingley’s problem for subsets strictly smaller than the unit sphere

Friday 12 June Antonio Peralta (University of Granada, Spain)

Means and their preservers

Friday 5 June Lajos Molnár (University of Szeged, Hungary)

Quantum states and Quantum channels

Friday 29 May Chi-Kwong Li (College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA)

Toeplitz algebras on Fock spaces

Friday 22 May 4pm (via video link) Robert Fulsche (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)

Additive spectrum preservers on unbounded operators

Wednesday 13 May 4pm (via video link) Bojan Kuzma (University of Primorska, Slovenia)

On Hermitian projections and isometries with finite spectrum

Friday 1 May 4pm (via video link) Dijana Iliševic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

For most frequencies, strong trapping has a weak effect in frequency-domain scattering

Friday 24 April 4pm (via video link) Euan Spence (University of Bath)

Interpolating with outer functions

Wednesday 18 November Bill Ross (University of Richmond, Virginia)

Introduction to soft Riemann-Hilbert problems

August 27, 2021, 12 p.m. – 2:00 p.m (via video link) Håkan Hedenmalm (Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Reading)

Probabilistic limit shapes and harmonic functions

Friday, March 5, 2021, 12:00 p.m. (via video link) Istvan Prause (University of Eastern Finland) 

Observability and Null-Controllability in Banach spaces

Friday 5 February 2021, 4.00pm (via video link), Zoom ID: 610 1486 7631 Christian Seifert (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)

Introductory talk on Wieners theorems and quantum harmonic analysis

Friday 22 January 2021, 12noon (via video link) Eirik Skrettingland (PhD at NTNU, Norway)

Holiday Lecture and Concert

Wednesday, December 15, 16:00 Per Enflo

Positivity, complex FIOs, and Toeplitz operators

Friday 17 December Michael Hitrik (UCLA, California, USA)

Improving semigroup bounds

Friday 21 January, 16:00, Zoom link This talk is based on joint works with Bernard Helffer. Let $[0,\infty[ \ni t \to S(t)$ be a semigroup of bounded operators on a…Read More >

Soft Riemann-Hilbert problems

Monday 21 February, 16:00 – 17:00, M212 Håkan Hedenmalm (Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Reading)

The spectra of some number-theoretic matrices

Friday 25 February, 16:00 – 17:00, Slingo Theatre I will discuss the spectral theory of a family of infinite number-theoretic matrices, whose (n,m)’th entry involves the least common multple of…Read More >

Isosupremic vectorial minimisation problems in $L^\infty$ with general nonlinear constraints

Friday 4 March, 12:00 – 13:00, M113 In this talk we discuss minimisation problems in $L^\infty$ for general quasiconvex first order functionals, where the class of admissible mappings is constrained…Read More >

Symmetries of simple operator algebras

Friday 11 March 2022, 16:00 – 17:00, M108 In this talk I will start with an elementary introduction of group actions on the Hyperfinite II_1 factor and their classification results…Read More >

Malliavin’s problem for Beurling generalized primes

Tuesday, April 12 2022, 10:00 – 11:00, M113 One of the central topics in the theory of Beurling generalized primes is the relationship between the counting function of the generalized…Read More >

Uniqueness sets of unitary weighted composition operators in the Hardy and Bergman spaces

Wednesday April 20 2022, 16:00 – 17:00, M113 Alfonso Montes (University of Seville, Spain)

Pólya’s conjecture for the disk: a computer-assisted proof

Friday April 22 2022, 16:00 – 17:00, M314 (Special Analysis Seminar)  The celebrated Pólya’s conjecture (1954) in spectral geometry states that the eigenvalue counting functions of the Dirichlet and Neumann…Read More >

Fidelity and transversely intersecting Lagrangians

Friday 6 May 2022, 16:00 – 17:00, M314 We start with a compact Kahler manifold that one can consider as a phase space of a classical dynamical system. We define…Read More >

Symbols of compact truncated Toeplitz operators

Wednesday 20 July 2022, 16.00 – 17.00, M212 When Sarason initiated the study of truncated Toeplitz operators in 2007 he posed the question, does every bounded truncated Toeplitz operator have…Read More >