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SCIENTIST IN CHARGE

RESEARCH TOPIC

Functional analysis

 

TEAM

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Roberto Camporesi
Valentina Casarino
Gabriele Grillo
Fabio Nicola
Francesco Longo
Silvia Rivetti

The research focuses on some aspects of functional and harmonic analysis. In particular we study integral operators in Euclidean space, such as singular integrals, Fourier integral operators, convolution operators with singular measures. In the setting of symmetric spaces we study harmonic projection operators and various questions on spaces of spinors. Other interests involve solvability and regularity of invariant differential operators on the Heisenberg group, analysis in phase space, several complex variables, ultracontractivity of parabolic nonlinear equations. Finally, we are interested in multiscale methods and time-frequency analysis with particular attention to the characterization of function spaces, regularity of localization operators and applications to PDE's.

 

 

SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS

F.P. Andriulli, A. Tabacco, G. Vecchi, " A multiresolution approach to the electric field integral equation in antenna problems", Siam J. Scient. Comp. 29 (2007), 1-21.
E. Buzano, F. Nicola, "Complex powers of hypoelliptic pseudodifferential operators", J. Funct. Anal. 245 (2007), 353-378.
M. Bonforte, G. Grillo, "Super and ultracontractive bounds for doubly nonlinear evolution equations", Rev. Mat. Iberoamericana 22 (2006), 111-129.
R. Camporesi,"Helgason Fourier transform for homogeneous vector bundles over compact Riemannian symmetric spaces-the local theory", J. Funct. Anal. 220 (2005), 97-117.
V. Casarino, K.-J. Engel, G. Nickel, S. Piazzera, "Decoupling techniques for wave equations with dynamic boundary conditions", Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 12 (2005), 761-772.

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Coordination of international Research Projects

Nonlinear approximation and adaptivity: breaking complexity in numerical modelling and data representations
(IHP - 5th Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and Demonstration - European Commission)
Local coordinator: Anita Tabacco, 2002-2006

HARP- Harmonic Analysis and Related Problems
(IHP - 5th Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and Demonstration - European Commission)
Local coordinator: Marco Peloso, 2002-2006

Coordination of national Research Projects

Analisi Armonica, (Prin 2005-2007, MIUR)
Local coordinator: Anita Tabacco, 2000-2001

Analisi Armonica, (Prin 2002-2004, MIUR)
Local coordinator: Anita Tabacco, 2002-2003

Analisi Armonica, (Prin 2000-2002, MIUR)
Local coordinator: Anita Tabacco, 2005-2007

 

THESES

Ph.D. dissertations
Donato Ciampa, "On the hypoellipticity of the Kohn-Laplacian on CR Manifolds", 2007 (advisor M. Peloso).
Elena Cordero, "Time-frequency analysis of localization operators and wavelets representations", 2004 (advisor A. Tabacco).
Matteo Bonforte, "Sobolev inequalities, nonlinear evolution equations and ultracontractivity", 2003 (advisor G. Grillo).

Undergraduate theses
Francesco Andriulli, Multi-resolution formulation of the integral equation analysis of antenna problems, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003 (advisor A. Tabacco and G. Vecchi).

 

SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

"Wavelets e dintorni: principi matematici e applicazioni", Nov. 5-10 2007, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (co-organizer A. Tabacco).
"Holomorphic Function Spaces", June 2007, Torino (co-organizer A. Tabacco).
"Torino 2006 Breaking Complexity Spring meeting", April 2006, Torino (organizer A. Tabacco).
Bimestre INdAM "Time-frequency analysis and related topics", May-June 2003, Torino (co-organizer A. Tabacco).