# PIMS Hugh C. Morris Lecture: Conditional Expectation and Calderón-Zygmund Operators

Rodrigo Bañuelos, Purdue University
Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Gowen 201

In his 1983 research announcement "Some results in harmonic analysis in \$\mathbb{R}^n\$, for \$n\to\infty\$" (Bulletin of the AMS), E.M. Stein announced new results for several classical operators in harmonic analysis with operator norms that do not depend on the dimension \$n\$, and raised the following question: "Can one find an appropriate infinite-dimensional formulation of (that part of) harmonic analysis in \$\mathbb{R}^n\$, which displays in a natural way the above uniformity in \$n\$?"  This talk describes the representation of some classical Calderón-Zygmund operators as conditional expectations of stochastic integrals.  From this representation, probability gives bounds on their norms that are not only universal in terms of the geometry of the space where they are defined but in several instances are also sharp.  To illustrate the techniques, we describe an application to a long-standing open problem concerning the norm of the discrete Hilbert transform.  The latter is joint work with Mateusz Kwasnicki of Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland.

Rodrigo Bañuelos received the Ph.D. from UCLA in 1984.  He was a Bantrell Research Fellow at Caltech (1984-1986), an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois (1986-1987) and a recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1987.  He moved to Purdue in 1987 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in 1992.  He was head of the department from 2007 to 2011.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and a 2018 inaugural Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics.  In 2004, he received the Blackwell-Tapia Prize at a conference held at IPAM.  His research is at the interface of probability, harmonic analysis, partial differential equations and spectral theory.  He has authored or co-authored over 100 research articles, one book, and several lecture notes in probability and analysis.  He has lectured widely on these topics worldwide.  He has served on many editorial boards and scientific committees, including the United States National Committee for Mathematics, MSRI’s Scientific Advisory Council, and IPAM’s Board of Trustees.

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