Operator Theory Seminar

 

The Operator Theory Seminar at IUPUI has met regularly since January 2007.

This page is a record, in reverse chronological order, of the topics and speakers that have been included.



FALL 2017

End of Fall Semester 2017

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FALL 2017

November 29

    Michael Pilla, (IUPUI)

     Classifying Linear Fractional Maps on the Unit Ball in C^2, (cont'd)



November 15

    Michael Pilla, (IUPUI)

     Classifying Linear Fractional Maps on the Unit Ball in C^2



November 1

    Jim Carter and Bill Johnston, (Butler U.)

     Buckholtz's Work on Hilbert Space Projections



October 25

    Carl Cowen, (IUPUI)

     Buckholtz's Work on Hilbert Space Projections



October 18

    Carl Cowen, (IUPUI)

     Hyponormality of Toeplitz Operators (cont'd)



October 11

    Carl Cowen, (IUPUI)

     Hyponormality of Toeplitz Operators (cont'd)



October 4

    Carl Cowen, (IUPUI)

     Hyponormality of Toeplitz Operators (cont'd)



September 27

    Carl Cowen, (IUPUI)

     Hyponormality of Toeplitz Operators (cont'd)



September 20

    Carl Cowen, (IUPUI)

     Hyponormality of Toeplitz Operators (cont'd)



September 13

    Carl Cowen, (IUPUI)

     Hyponormality of Toeplitz Operators (cont'd)



September 6

    Carl Cowen, (IUPUI)

     Hyponormality of Toeplitz Operators


August 30

    Bill Higdon

     Weighted composition operators and multiplier spaces




SPRING 2017

End of Spring Semester 2017

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SPRING 2017

April 19

    Rebecca Wahl (Butler University)

    Operators Commuting with Nilpotent Matrices


March 22

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Dynamics and Fixed Points for Analytic Functions on the Unit Disk


February 1

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    Commutants, Kernels, and Invariant Subspaces of Matrices, Redux


January 25

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    A Hyperbolic Universal Operator Commuting with a Compact Operator (cont'd)


January 18

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    A Hyperbolic Universal Operator Commuting with a Compact Operator



FALL 2016

End of Fall Semester 2016

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FALL 2016

November 2

    Scott Kaschner (Butler University)

    Dynamical Degrees and the Projective Heat Map Acting on Pentagons (cont'd)


October 26

    Scott Kaschner (Butler University)

    Dynamical Degrees and the Projective Heat Map Acting on Pentagons


October 19

    John Herr (Butler University)

    Fourier Series for Singular Measures and the Kaczmarz Algorithm (cont'd)


October 5

    John Herr (Butler University)

    Fourier Series for Singular Measures and the Kaczmarz Algorithm (cont'd)


September 28

    John Herr (Butler University)

    Fourier Series for Singular Measures and the Kaczmarz Algorithm (cont'd)


September 21

    John Herr (Butler University)

    Fourier Series for Singular Measures and the Kaczmarz Algorithm (cont'd)


September 14

    John Herr (Butler University)

    Fourier Series for Singular Measures and the Kaczmarz Algorithm


September 7

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Redundant Matrices for Representing Linear Transformations


August 31

    Sivaram Narayan (Central Michigan University

    From Bases to Frames: An Introduction to the Theory of Frames



SPRING 2016

End of Spring Semester 2016

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SPRING 2016

April 20

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Brittney Miller's Work on Kernels of Adjoints of Composition Operators


April 13

    Bill Higdon

    A Refinement of Our Numerical Range Theorem


March 23

    Derek Thompson (Taylor University)

    Complex Symmetric Composition Operators on H^2


March 2

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    Tom Kriete's L^2(d mu) Representation of the Invariant Subspaces of the H^2 Backward Shift Operator


February 24

    Edward Timko (Indiana U, Bloomington)

    Commuting Isometries Satisfying a Class of Polynomial Equations (cont'd)


February 17

    Edward Timko (Indiana U, Bloomington)

    Commuting Isometries Satisfying a Class of Polynomial Equations


January 27

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    S-Inner Operators and Invariant Subspaces



FALL 2015

End of Fall Semester 2015

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FALL 2015

December 2

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    Matrix Invariant Subspace Construction -- Additional Progress (cont'd)


November 18

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    Matrix Invariant Subspace Construction -- Additional Progress


October 28

    Bill Higdon

    Two New Results for Composition Operators Induced by Parabolic Mappings of Non-automorphism Type


October 21

    Rebecca Wahl (Butler University)

    A New Result in the Search for a Proof of the Invariant Subspace Theorem (cont'd)


October 7

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    A New Result in the Search for a Proof of the Invariant Subspace Theorem (cont'd)


September 30

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    A New Result in the Search for a Proof of the Invariant Subspace Theorem (cont'd)


September 23

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    A New Result in the Search for a Proof of the Invariant Subspace Theorem


September 16

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    The Berezin Range of a Composition Operator with Automorphic Symbol (cont'd)


September 9

    Chris Felder (Butler & IUPUI) and Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    The Berezin Range of a Composition Operator with Automorphic Symbol (cont'd)


September 2

    Chris Felder (Butler & IUPUI) and Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    The Berezin Range of a Composition Operator with Automorphic Symbol



SPRING 2015

End of Spring Semester 2015

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SPRING 2015

April 22

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    Rosenblum's Diagonalization of Some Hankel Matrices


April 8

    Bill Higdon

    Vieta's Formulas and Symmetric Polynomials


April 1

    Derek Thompson (Trine University)

    Hyponormal Weighted Composition Operators on H^2, the Hardy Hilbert Space


March 11

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    The Numerical Range of Matrices: Can We Understand Kippenhahn's Algebraic Geometry? (cont'd)


March 4

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    The Numerical Range of Matrices: Can We Understand Kippenhahn's Algebraic Geometry? (cont'd)


February 25

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    The Numerical Range of Matrices: Can We Understand Kippenhahn's Algebraic Geometry?


February 18

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Rosenblum's Paper: On the Operator Equation XB - XA = Q


February 11

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Commutants and the Operator Equation AX=sXA (cont'd)


February 4

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Commutants and the Operator Equation AX=sXA



FALL 2014

End of Fall Semester 2014

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FALL 2014

December 3

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    Kernels of Commuting Matrices (cont'd)


November 19

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    Kernels of Commuting Matrices


November 12

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Applications of Covering Maps in Complex Analysis and Operator Theory


November 5

    Eva Gallardo Gutierrez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

    An Extension of a Theorem of Domar on Invariant Subspaces


October 29

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Intro to Work of Domar on Shifts and Invariant Subspaces


October 8

    Slawek Klimek (IUPUI)

    A Quantum Pair of Pants (cont'd)


October 1

    Slawek Klimek (IUPUI)

    A Quantum Pair of Pants


September 24

    Brittney Miller (Purdue U, West Lafayette)

    Adjoints of Rationally Induced Composition Operators on the Bergman Space (cont'd)


September 17

    Brittney Miller (Purdue U, West Lafayette)

    Adjoints of Rationally Induced Composition Operators on the Bergman Space


September 10

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Sophomoric Matrix Multiplication and Applications to Operator Theory (cont'd)


September 3

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Sophomoric Matrix Multiplication and Applications to Operator Theory



SPRING 2014

End of Spring Semester 2014

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SPRING 2014

April 2

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    Commutants for n by n Matrices


March 5

    Samuel Roth (IUPUI)

    A Proof of von Neumann's Ergodic Theorem and Its Application to Obtain a Beautiful Theorem in Dynamical Systems


February 26

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    A Novel Basis for H^2 and a Conjecture


February 12

    John Clifford (University of Michigan, Dearborn)

    Invertible Composition Operators: The Product of a Composition Operator with the Adjoint of a Composition Operator


January 29

    Bill Higdon (University of Indianapolis)

    The Numerical Range Of Some Weighted Composition Operators (cont'd)


January 22

    Bill Higdon (University of Indianapolis)

    The Numerical Range Of Some Weighted Composition Operators



FALL 2013

End of Fall Semester 2013

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FALL 2013

December 4

    Derek Thompson (Trine University)

    Spectra of Weighted Composition Operators


November 20

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    The Hardy Space H^2 as a Duhamel Algebra (cont'd)


November 13

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    The Hardy Space H^2 as a Duhamel Algebra ('74 and '75 work of Wigley)


November 6

    Samuel Roth (IUPUI)

    Summable Eigenvectors of Infinite Matrices and Some Applications in Dynamics (cont'd)


October 30

    Samuel Roth (IUPUI)

    Summable Eigenvectors of Infinite Matrices and Some Applications in Dynamics


October 23

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Invariant Subspaces for Operators on Finite Dimensional Spaces: work of Gohberg, Lancaster, and Rodman


October 16

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    New Results on Spectra of Composition Operators in the Plane Translation Case: work of Paul Bourdon


September 25

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Recent Work on the Invariant Subspace Problem (cont'd) (joint work with Eva Gallardo)


September 18

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Recent Work on the Invariant Subspace Problem (cont'd) (joint work with Eva Gallardo)


September 11

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Recent Work on the Invariant Subspace Problem (cont'd) (joint work with Eva Gallardo)


September 4

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Recent Work on the Invariant Subspace Problem (joint work with Eva Gallardo)



SPRING 2013

End of Spring Semester 2013

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SPRING 2013


April 24

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    More on Blaschke Products


March 6

    Scott Kaschner (IUPUI)

    Co-dimension 1 Bottcher Functions (cont'd)


February 27

    Scott Kaschner (IUPUI)

    Co-dimension 1 Bottcher Functions


February 20

    Rebecca Wahl (Butler University)

    Geometric Properties of Finite Blaschke Products (cont'd)


February 13

    Rebecca Wahl (Butler University)

    Geometric Properties of Finite Blaschke Products (cont'd)


February 6

    Rebecca Wahl (Butler University)

    Geometric Properties of Finite Blaschke Products



FALL 2012


End of Fall Semester 2012

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FALL 2012


December 13 (Thursday!) in SL 165 (Special Room!) 10:30a (Special Time!)

    Special Seminar with Modern Analysis & Geometry

    Carl Cowen, (IUPUI)

    How I Spent My Sabbatical: Rota's Universal Operators and Invariant Subspaces in Hilbert Spaces

    (joint work with Eva Gallardo Gutierrez, Univ. Complutense de Madrid)


December 5

    Jim Carter, (IUPUI)

    Thomson's work (mid 1970's) on Commutants of Analytic Toeplitz Operators, (con'td)


November 28

    Jim Carter, (IUPUI)

    Thomson's work (mid 1970's) on Commutants of Analytic Toeplitz Operators


November 21

    Thanksgiving Break!!


November 14

    Erin Rizzie (Purdue U, WL)

    Cowen's 1974 Paper on Finite Blaschke Products as Compositions of Other Blaschke Products (cont'd)


November 7

    Erin Rizzie (Purdue U, WL)

    Cowen's 1974 Paper on Finite Blaschke Products as Compositions of Other Blaschke Products (cont'd)


October 31

    Rebecca Wahl (Butler U.)

    Cowen's 1974 Paper on Finite Blaschke Products as Compositions of Other Blaschke Products (cont'd)


October 24

    Derek Thompson (IUPUI)

    Invariant Subspaces for Composition Operators (cont'd)


October 17

    Rebecca Wahl (Butler U.)

    Cowen's 1974 Paper on Finite Blaschke Products as Compositions of Other Blaschke Products


October 10

    No Meeting This Week!


October 3

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Minimal Vectors and Their Application to the Invariant Subspace Problem


September 26

    Derek Thompson (IUPUI)

    Invariant Subspaces for Composition Operators (cont'd)


September 19

    Derek Thompson (IUPUI)

    Invariant Subspaces for Composition Operators (cont'd)


September 12

    Derek Thompson (IUPUI)

    Invariant Subspaces for Composition Operators


September 5

    Bill Johnston (Butler Univ)

    Another Proof that the Hermite Functions Span L^2(R)


August 29

    Organizational Meeting!



SPRING 2012


End of Spring Semester 2012

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SPRING 2012


April 25

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Projections Commuting with Blaschke Toeplitz Operators (joint work with Rebecca Wahl) (conclusion)


April 18

    No Meeting Today!


April 11

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Projections Commuting with Blaschke Toeplitz Operators (joint work with Rebecca Wahl) (cont'd)


April 4

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Projections Commuting with Blaschke Toeplitz Operators (joint work with Rebecca Wahl)


March 28

    No Meeting Today!


March 21

    Rebecca Wahl (Butler)

    Deddens and Wong's work on Commutants of Inner Function Toeplitz Operators


March 14

    No Meeting! SPRING BREAK!


March 7

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    An Old Look at Commutants (joint work with Rebecca Wahl)


February 29

    No Meeting!


February 22

    No Meeting!


February 15

    Jim Carter (IUPUI)

     Composition Operators on the Newton Space (Work of MacDonald and Rosenthal) (concluded)


February 8

    Jim Carter (IUPUI)

     Composition Operators on the Newton Space (Work of MacDonald and Rosenthal) (cont'd)


February 1

    Jim Carter (IUPUI)

     Composition Operators on the Newton Space (Work of MacDonald and Rosenthal) (cont'd)


January 25

    Jim Carter (IUPUI)

     Composition Operators on the Newton Space (Work of MacDonald and Rosenthal)


January 18

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

     The Point Spectrum of Weighted Composition Operators



FALL 2011


End of Fall Semester 2011

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Summer 2007    Spring 2007    Beginning of Seminar    Back to Top of Page

FALL 2011


December 7

    Jim Carter, Derek Thompson (IUPUI)

    Commutants of composition operators on the Hardy Hilbert space and Restrictions to invariant subspaces of composition operators


November 30

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Reducing subspaces for analytic multiplication operators on the Bergman space; work of Douglas, Putinar, and Wang


November 23

    No Meeting Today


November 16

    Bill Johnston (Butler University)

    Orthogonal Bases for L^2 Spaces: Adopting an Elementary Proof Technique of Wheeden and Zygmund

November 9

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Montes' Work on Invariant Subspace Lattice for Composition Operators; Part 7: Conclusion(!)


November 2

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Title: Montes' Work on Invariant Subspace Lattice for Composition Operators; Part 6: Use of the Sobolev Embedding Theorem

October 26

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Montes' Work on Invariant Subspace Lattice for Composition Operators; Part 5: Even More on the Main Equivalence



October 19

     NO SEMINAR


October 12

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Montes' Work on Invariant Subspace Lattice for Composition Operators; Part 4: More on the Main Equivalence


October 5

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Montes' Work on Invariant Subspace Lattice for Composition Operators; Part 3: The Main Equivalence



September 28

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Montes' Work on Invariant Subspace Lattice for Composition Operators; Part 2: Banach Algebra Theorem



September 21

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Montes' Work on Invariant Subspace Lattice for Composition Operators; Part 1: Banach Algebra Theorem

            work of Montes-Rodriguez, Ponce-Escudero, and Shkarin



September 14

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Norm Inequalities through the Magic of Schur Products (concluded)


September 7

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Norm Inequalities through the Magic of Schur Products (cont'd)


August 31

    Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

    Norm Inequalities through the Magic of Schur Products

            work of C. Hammond and L. J. Patton



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SPRING 2011


End of Spring Semester 2011

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April 27

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Commutants of Analytic Toeplitz Operators (cont'd)



April 20

Bobby Bridges (Purdue, West Lafayette)

A Solution of Schroeder's Equation in Several Variables

Abstract



April 13

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Commutants of Analytic Toeplitz Operators


April 6

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

"Norms of Composition Operators with Rational Symbol" by Jonathan Shapiro, et. al. Revisited


March 30

Bill Higdon (University of Indianapolis)

Model for Iteration of Analytic Maps of the Disk to Itself (cont'd)


March 23

Bill Higdon (University of Indianapolis)

Model for Iteration of Analytic Maps of the Disk to Itself


March 16

NO MEETING: IUPUI Spring Break


March 9

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

On Norm Attaining Operators


March 2

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

On Semi-groups


February 23

Derek Thompson (IUPUI)

"Norms of Composition Operators with Rational Symbol" by Jonathan Shapiro, et. al.


February 16

Roland Roeder (IUPUI)

Two Papers of Borcea and Branden on "Linear Operators Preserving Stability" (concluded)


February 9

Roland Roeder (IUPUI)

Two Papers of Borcea and Branden on "Linear Operators Preserving Stability" (cont'd)


February 2

ICE! No Seminar!


January 26

Roland Roeder (IUPUI)

Two Papers of Borcea and Branden on "Linear Operators Preserving Stability" (cont'd)


January 19

Roland Roeder (IUPUI)

Two Papers of Borcea and Branden on "Linear Operators Preserving Stability"

Borcea and Branden I  Borcea and Branden II


FALL 2010


End of Fall Semester 2010

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Seminar cancelled (illness)



November 10

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Discussion on an intertwining problem


November 3

Becky Wahl (Butler University)

Mahvidi on "Invariant Subspaces of Composition Operators " (cont'd)


October 27

Becky Wahl (Butler University)

Mahvidi on "Invariant Subspaces of Composition Operators " (cont'd)


October 27

Becky Wahl (Butler University)

Mahvidi on "Invariant Subspaces of Composition Operators"

Becky Wahl's notes on Mahvidi's paper



October 20

Becky Wahl (Butler University)

Vukotic, et al., on "Uniformly Discrete Sequences..."


October 13

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Unitary Operators Carrying Given Subspaces to Other Given Su bspaces (concluded)


October 6

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Unitary Operators Carrying Given Subspaces to Other Given Su bspaces (cont'd)



September 29

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Unitary Operators Carrying Given Subspaces to Other Given Su bspaces (cont'd)


September 22

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Unitary Operators Carrying Given Subspaces to Other Given Subspaces (cont'd)


September 15

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Unitary Operators Carrying Given Subspaces to Other Given Subspaces (cont'd)


September 8

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Unitary Operators Carrying Given Subspaces to Other Given Subspaces


SPRING 2010


End of Spring Semester 2010

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Summer 2007    Spring 2007    Beginning of Seminar    Back to Top of Page

April 14

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Bottcher's Functional Equation: the fifth case for models for analytic functions mapping the disk to itself (cont'd)


April 7

seminar postponed


March 31

No Meeting


March 24

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Bottcher's Functional Equation: the fifth case for models for analytic functions mapping the disk to itself

Bottcher's Equation paper

March 17

No Meeting


March 10

No Meeting


March 3

No Meeting


February 24

No Meeting


February 10

No Meeting


February 3

Alberto Condori (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)

Hankel Operators and Meromorphic Approximation


January 27

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

What Are the Pseudospectra of an Operator?


January 20

William Higdon (University of Indianapolis)

On Bourdon and Shapiro's "Intertwining relations and extended eigenvalues for analytic Toeplitz operators"


FALL 2009


End of Fall Semester 2009

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Summer 2007    Spring 2007    Beginning of Seminar    Back to Top of Page

December 2

Sivaram Narayan (Central Michigan University)

"Commutators of Weighted Composition Operators"

Abstract


November 25

Thanksgiving break, no meeting


November 18

Sivaram Narayan (Central Michigan University)

"Compact Weighted Composition Operators"

Abstract


November 11

Sivaram Narayan (Central Michigan University)

"Normal Weighted Composition Operators"

Abstract


November 11

Sivaram Narayan (Central Michigan University)

"Normal Weighted Composition Operators"


November 4

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

"Discussion: problems in functional analysis"


October 21

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

"Unitary Equivalence of One-parameter Groups of Toeplitz and Composition Operators"


October 14

No Meeting Today


October 7

Maria Neophytou (Purdue University, West Lafayette)

"Spectra of Some Composition Operators" (cont'd)


September 30

Maria Neophytou (Purdue University, West Lafayette)

"Spectra of Some Composition Operators" (cont'd)


September 23

No Meeting Today


September 16

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

"Spectra of Some Composition Operators"


This paper was written recently by Paul Bourdon of Washington and Lee University.

September 9

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

First Meeting of Fall Semester

"Essentially Linear Fractional Maps of the Disk into Itself"


SPRING 2009


End of Spring Semester 2009

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Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Stephan Garcia's Work on Complex Symmetric Operators (cont'd)


March 25

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Stephan Garcia's Work on Complex Symmetric Operators


March 18

No Meeting (IUPUI Spring Break)


March 11     (Seminar will start at 3:00p today)

Michael Jury (University of Florida)

Valiron's Theorem on the Unit Ball


Abstract: Valiron's theorem in the disk says that every hyperbolic self-map of the disk is conjugate (by a not necessarily invertible transformation) to a hyperbolic automorphism. I will describe a weak version of this theorem in the unit ball of C^n, under a mild smoothness assumption on the map, and a related result of Bracci, Gentili, and Poggi-Corradini. As an application, we obtain a formula for the spectral radii of hyperbolic Schur class composition operators.

March 4

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Integration on spheres


February 25

NO MEETING (IUPUI)


February 18

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Integration on spheres


February 11

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Integration on spheres


February 4

Eva Gallardo-Gutierrez (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

replaced by Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Discussion on "On the path component of compact composition operators in the Hardy space (conclusion)"


January 28 Campus Closed; seminar postponed as above

January 28

Eva Gallardo-Gutierrez (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

On the path component of compact composition operators in the Hardy space (conclusion)


January 21

Eva Gallardo-Gutierrez (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

On the path component of compact composition operators in the Hardy space


January 14 (First meeting of the semester)

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Integrals related to H^2(B^N)


FALL 2008


End of Fall Semester 2008

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Fall 2007    Summer 2007    Spring 2007    Beginning of Seminar   

Discussion on problems in Operator Theory



November 12

Morteza Seddighin (IU East)

Anti-eigenvalues and Operator Inequalities

Abstract

The Kantrovich inequality and Kantrovich-like inequalities for positive bounded operators have had many applications in operator theory, and other areas since 1948. The concept of Antieigenvalue or the operator cosine was independently introduced in 1967 by Karl Gustafson for use in perturbation of semigroup generators. For a positive operator, both the Kantorovich inequality and the value of operator cosine are expressed in terms to the smallest and largest eigenvalues of the operator, and it turns out that the former is obtained from the latter. We will discuss the extensions of Kantorovich inequality and Antieigenvalue to other classes of operators.



November 5

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Maps of the unit ball in the Schur-Agler Class (cont'd)



October 29

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Maps of the unit ball in the Schur-Agler Class (cont'd)



October 22

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Maps of the unit ball in the Schur-Agler Class (cont'd)



October 15

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Maps of the unit ball in the Schur-Agler Class (cont'd)



October 8

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Maps of the unit ball in the Schur-Agler Class (cont'd)



October 1

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Maps of the unit ball in the Schur-Agler Class



September 24

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

A class of analytic maps of the unit ball in C^N into itself



September 17

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Hermitian Weighted Composition Operators on Weighted Hardy Spaces (cont'd)



September 10

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Hermitian Weighted Composition Operators on Weighted Hardy Spaces (cont'd)



September 3

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Hermitian Weighted Composition Operators on Weighted Hardy Spaces


This talk describes work of Gajath Gunatillake, Eungil Ko, and the speaker that extends work in an earlier paper that describes the operators of the title acting on the usual Hardy Hilbert space. A 'Weighted Hardy Space' is a Hilbert space of functions analytic on the unit disk in which the polynomials are dense and the monomials are an orthogonal set. The usual Hardy space, the Dirichlet space, the Bergman space, and weighted Bergman spaces with a radially symmetric wieght function are all examples of a weighted Hardy space.

Necessary conditions for weighted composition operator are given for arbitrary weighted Hardy spaces and these are used to identify all the Hermitian weighted composition operators on the standard Bergman space. In addition, the results on weighted composition operators are used to find the extremal functions, related to contractive divisors, for some specific invariant subspaces for multiplication by z on the Bergman space.

SPRING 2008


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April 23

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Linear Fractional Maps in C^N and their Composition Operators (cont'd)



April 16

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Linear Fractional Maps in C^N and their Composition Operators (cont'd)



April 9

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Linear Fractional Maps in C^N and their Composition Operators (cont'd)



April 2

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Linear Fractional Maps in C^N and their Composition Operators (cont'd)



March 26

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Linear Fractional Maps in C^N and their Composition Operators (cont'd)



March 19

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Linear Fractional Maps in C^N and their Composition Operators



March 12

NO MEETING -- Spring Break!



March 5

Discussion



February 27

Discussion



February 20

William Higdon (University of Indianapolis)

Composition Operators Induced by Parabolic Linear Fractional Self-Maps of the Disk (cont'd)



February 13

William Higdon (University of Indianapolis)

Composition Operators Induced by Parabolic Linear Fractional Self-Maps of the Disk



February 6

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Invariant subspaces for multiplication operators (concluded)



January 30

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Invariant subspaces for multiplication operators



January 23

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Invariant subspaces for multiplication operators The subject begins with the invariant subspaces of a diagonal operator (i.e. a normal operator), but quickly becomes quite complicated and intricate. The goal of this series of talks will be to summarize, with few proofs, a recent long paper by Aleman, Feldman, and Ross on the invariant subspaces of the operator of multiplication (on the Hardy space) by the Riemann map of the disk onto a slit disk. The talks will begin with the ideas from the simpler settings first.

FALL 2007



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December 5

Conversation about Numerical Range and Composition Operators

Final Meeting of Fall Semester



November 28

Conversation about Numerical Range and Composition Operators



November 21

No Meeting: Thanksgiving Recess



November 14

Rebecca Wahl (Butler Univ.)

Invariant Subspaces for a Class of Composition Operators



November 7

Bill Higdon (Univ. of Indianapolis)

Toeplitz-Hausdorff Theorem: the Numerical Range Is Convex



October 31

Bill Higdon (Univ. of Indianapolis)

J. H. Shapiro's Notes on the Numerical Range (cont'd)



October 24

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Computing the Numerical Range



October 17

Bill Higdon (Univ. of Indianapolis)

J. H. Shapiro's Notes on the Numerical Range


For an n x n matrix A, the numerical range of A is the set of numbers in the complex plane < Ax, x > for x a vector of length 1 in complex n-space. A surprising theorem of Toeplitz from the late 19th century asserts this is a convex set. It seems that the numerical range should be a useful tool in the study of operators on a Hilbert space, but up to this time, it has not been much exploited. This will be an introduction to the subject.

October 10

Continuation of Discussion on uses of Halmos's Problem on Multiplication Operators



October 3

Continuation of Discussion on uses of Halmos's Problem on Multiplication Operators



September 26

Continuation of Discussion on uses of Halmos's Problem on Multiplication Operators



September 19

Discussion on uses of Halmos's Problem on Multiplication Operators


Halmos's book, "A Hilbert Space Problem Book", gives a characterization of multiplication operators on functional Hilbert spaces. In his talk of September 12, Professor Montes-Rodriguez used this characterization in a key step to construct an isomorphism between H^2(D) and the Sobolev space, W^{1,2}([0,\infty)). Recently other researchers have used similar constructions to good effect. This meeting of the seminar will be a discussion by participants on the characterization and its recent uses in the study of composition operators.

September 12

Prof. Alfonso Montes-Rodriguez (Univ. of Seville, Spain)

The Lattice of Parabolic Non-automorphism Composition Operators on the Hardy Space


The lattice of composition operators induced by parabolic non-automorphisms in the Hardy space will be characterized. The knowledge of the spectrum and Gelfand Theory is used in connection with an idea that relates these operators with multiplication operators on the Hardy space.

September 5

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Adjoints of Composition Operators with Rational Symbol (cont'd)



August 29

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Adjoints of Composition Operators with Rational Symbol


The paper of Hammond, Morehouse, and Robbins with the above title will be discussed. Based on carefully chosen examples, the authors divide rational functions into three classes and present results which clarify or extend prior work on adjoints of composition operators on H^2 done by Bourdon, by Martin and Vukotic, and by Gallardo-Gutierrez and the speaker.

SPRING/SUMMER 2007



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July 18

Hermitian Weighted Composition Operators on H^2 (Part II, reprise)



July 11

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Hermitian Weighted Composition Operators on H^2 (Part II)



June 27

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Hermitian Weighted Composition Operators on H^2


The weighted composition operators that are Hermitian on the Hardy Hilbert space will be identified and their spectral measures will be described. This is joint work of the speaker with Eungil Ko.

June 20

William Higdon (Univ. of Indianapolis)

Ugur Gul's Work on Spectral Theory of Composition Operators on Hardy Spaces


This discussion will be principally based on Ugur Gul's Thesis, February 2007 that may be downloaded above.

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May 9

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Adjoints of Composition Operators on the Hardy Hilbert Space: the Rational Function Case, Part IV



April 18

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Adjoints of Composition Operators on the Hardy Hilbert Space: the Rational Function Case, Part III



April 11

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Adjoints of Composition Operators on the Hardy Hilbert Space: the Rational Function Case, Part II



April 4

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Adjoints of Composition Operators on the Hardy Hilbert Space: the Rational Function Case, Part I


We begin with a continuation of last week's discussion of the linear fractional case, finishing the easy proof and giving the hard proof, not originally published but the proof that led to the discovery of the formula in the 1988 paper. These ideas are the foundation of the more recent work on rational function symbols that we will begin in this talk.

March 28

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Adjoints of Composition Operators on the Hardy Hilbert Space: the Linear Fractional Case


We begin a discussion of adjoints of composition operators on the space H^2(D), a subject that is not yet closed for general symbols. Formulas have been known for linear fractional symbols and inner function symbols for nearly two decades. More recently, Eva Gallardo-Gutierrez and the speaker have found an interesting formula in the case of rational functions. This week's presentation and those of the next few weeks will be based on the papers "Linear Fractional Composition Operators on H^2" J. Integral Equations and Operator Theory, 11; 151-160, 1988; "The Adjoint of a Composition Operator" preprint, 2005; and "A New Class of Operators and a Description of Adjoints of Composition Operators," J. Functional Analysis, 238; 447-462, 2006.

March 21

Rebecca Wahl (Butler University)

The Weighted Shift Analogy for C*_phi and Spectral Information: phi(z)=z^2/(2-z) (cont'd)


For a certain class of composition operators we show the restriction of C*_phi to an invariant subspace is similar to a weighted shift and that, therefore, the spectrum of C*_phi contains an open disk of eigenvalues. (Based on the paper "Composition operators with multivalent symbol" Acta Scientarium Mathematicarum (Szeged) 66; 755-768, 2000.)

March 7

Rebecca Wahl (Butler University)

The Weighted Shift Analogy for C*_phi and Spectral Information: phi(z)=z^2/(2-z)


For a certain class of composition operators we show the restriction of C*_phi to an invariant subspace is similar to a weighted shift and that, therefore, the spectrum of C*_phi contains an open disk of eigenvalues.

February 28

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Introduction to iteration sequences of analytic maps of the disk and to the work of Poggi-Corradini (cont'd)


Will continue discussion of the Poggi-Corradini paper

February 21

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Introduction to iteration sequences of analytic maps of the disk and to the work of Poggi-Corradini (cont'd)


Will discuss: inequalities for angular derivatives at fixed points and begin discussion of the Poggi-Corradini paper

February 7

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Introduction to iteration sequences of analytic maps of the disk and to the work of Poggi-Corradini (cont'd)


Discussed: conjugation/model for iteration

January 31

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Introduction to iteration sequences of analytic maps of the disk and to the work of Poggi-Corradini


Poggi-Corradini's "Backward-iteration sequences with bounded hyperbolic steps for analytic self-maps of the disk", Rev. Mat. Iberoamericana 19; 943-970, 2003. (pdf version dvi or ps version: paper #11)
Also useful will be his survey "Iteration of self-maps of the disk: an overview", CUBO 6; 73-80, 2004. (pdf version dvi or ps version : paper #13)
Additional bibliographic items to accompany Poggi-Corradini's paper

Discussed: iteration sequences, interpolation sequences, weighted shifts, adjoint composition operators as weighted shifts, circular symmetry

January 24

Bill Higdon (University of Indianapolis)

The Spectra of Composition Operators from Linear Fractional Maps Acting upon the Dirichlet Space


January 17

Carl Cowen (IUPUI)

Organizational Meeting

Beginning of Seminar





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