Sara Mitchell is a Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at the University of Iowa. She will be leading a workshop on Time Series Analysis, followed by a Research talk in the Department of Political Science on Friday, Oct. 11th. More information on Mitchell's research can be found on her website at http://saramitchell.org

This event is co-sponsored by QIPSR (Quantitative Initiative for Policy and Social Research), WiPS (Women in Political Science), and The University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences)

Title:  L^p norms of eigenfunctions and Kakeya-Nikodym averages

Abstract:  We consider the problem of determining upper bounds on the growth of L^p norms of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold. After an introduction to the problem, we will discuss recent works of C. Sogge and the speaker with C. Sogge relating such growth to mass concentration in frequency dependent tubes about geodesic segments. We then show that this yields improved L^p bounds for manifolds with nonpositive sectional curvatures, extending a result of Sogge-Zelditch to higher dimensions.

Please join us for a reception following Dr. Tomes' talk on October 17 in 359 Student Center. 

Sponsored by the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History, Anthropology, The Center for Clinical and Translational Science, and the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health Program. 

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