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Department of Mathematics will host the Midwest Panorama of Geometry and Topology Conference this summer!

Monday, February 10, 2025

Jorgensen publishes new book designed for students, researchers in mathematics

Monday, February 3, 2025
Palle Jorgensen, professor in the Department of Mathematics, co-authored a new book that focuses on various topics in the field of mathematics.

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Palle Jorgensen wins Best Paper award

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Evolution of Stress Response and Adhesin Gene Family in Pathogenic Yeasts

Friday, February 14, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Bin He, Biology Dept.
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Operator Theory Seminar - Palle Jorgensen; University of Iowa Department of Mathematics

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Title: Free Probability. Abstract: We study a family of free stochastic processes whose covariance kernels K may be derived as a transform of tempered measures σ. These processes arise, for example, in consideration of non-commutative analysis involving free probability. Hence our use of semi-circle distributions, as opposed to Gaussians. In this setting we find an orthonormal basis in the corresponding non-commutative L2 of sample-space. We define a stochastic integral for our family of...
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Mathematics Special Lecture - Professor Eva Gallardo Gutierrez

Thursday, February 20, 2025 12:30pm to 1:20pm
MacLean Hall
Title: THE INVARIANT SUBSPACE PROBLEM: GENERAL OPERATOR THEORY VS. CONCRETE OPERATOR THEORY? Abstract: The Invariant Subspace Problem for (separable) Hilbert spaces is a long-standing open question that traces back to John Von Neumann’s works in the fifties asking, in particular, if every bounded linear operator acting on an infinite dimensional separable Hilbert space has a non-trivial closed invariant subspace. Whereas there are well-known classes of bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces...
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Mathematics Colloquium - Eva Gallardo-Gutierrez; Complutense University of Madrid

Thursday, February 20, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall
Title: COMPACT PERTURBATIONS OF NORMAL OPERATORS: WHERE ARE THEIR INVARIANT SUBSPACES? Abstract: In this talk, we will address the problem regarding the existence of non-trivial closed invariant subspaces of compact perturbations of normal operators acting boundedly on separable, infinite-dimensional complex Hilbert spaces. After considering the finite-rank case, we will show that a large class of such operators are decomposable, extending, in particular, recent results of Foias, Jung, Ko and...
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