OPERATOR THEORY SEMINAR

    FALL 2006




    Bill Ross, November 14, 2006




    The gang in Tom Kriete's office, November 14, 2006. Left to right: Katie Quertermous, Katherine Heller, Rebecca Schmitz, Bill Duren, Matthew Pons, and Tom Kriete

    RECENT PAST SCHEDULES:

    Spring 2006
    Spring 2005 , Fall 2005
    Spring 2004 , Fall 2004
    Spring 2003 , Fall 2003
    Fall 2002

    The seminar meets Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 PM in KER 326. Special lectures outside this hour may be announced from time to time.

    Sept. 11-15

    Tuesday, Sept. 12
    Katie Quertermous
    On the Toeplitzness of composition operators

    Sept. 18-22

    Tuesday, Sept. 19
    Katherine Heller
    Composition operators with maximal norm on weighted Bergman spaces

    Sept. 25-29

    Tuesday, Sept. 26
    Tom Kriete
    De Branges-Rovnyak spaces and composition operators: a theorem of Mike Jury

    Oct. 2-6

    Tuesday, Oct. 3
    Tom Kriete
    Remarks on C*-algebras

    Oct. 9-13

    Tuesday, Oct. 10
    Tom Kriete
    Composition operators within composition algebras

    Oct. 16-20

    Tuesday, Oct. 17
    James Rovnyak
    An introduction to operator identities

    Oct. 23-27

    Tuesday, Oct. 24
    Lev Sakhnovich
    The method of operator identities on the matrix level

    Oct. 30-Nov. 3

    Tuesday, Oct. 31: no meeting

    Nov. 6-10

    Tuesday, Nov. 7
    Bill Ross, University of Richmond
    Common cyclic vectors for unitary operators

    Nov. 13-17

    Tuesday, Nov. 14
    Bill Ross, University of Richmond
    Common cyclic vectors for unitary operators (continued)

    Nov. 20-24

    Thanksgiving break

    Nov. 27-Dec. 1

    Tuesday, Nov. 28 --- KER 326 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE FROM RECENT WEEKS)
    Bill Higdon, University of Indianapolis
    The spectra of composition operators from linear-fractional maps acting on the Dirichlet space
    Abstract

    TWO SPECIAL LECTURES:

    WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 3:30 PM, MEC 339
    SEMINAR ON APPLICATIONS IN MATHEMATICS
    Carl Cowen, President of MAA and Dean of the Sciences at IUPUI
    Connections between mathematics and biology

    THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 10:00 AM, KER 205
    Carl Cowen, IUPUI
    Weighted composition operators on functional Hilbert spaces
    Abstract

    Dec. 4-8

    Tuesday, Dec. 5: no meeting

    Dec. 11-15

    Tuesday, Dec. 12
    Speaker
    Title

    Dec. 18-22

    Tuesday, Dec. 19
    Speaker
    Title