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.

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TITLE: Square roots of divergence form operators on L^p spaces

ABSTRACT: An abstract is available online at

http://www.ms.uky.edu/~kott/PDEseminarf13/Haller-Dintelmann.pdf

Jasmine Farrier is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville. Her research focuses on inter-branch lawsuits, separation of powers, and constitutional law. She will be introducing her newest book project, including some preliminary findings, titled "Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial: Can Courts Save Congress from the President (and Itself)?"

Sponsored by WiPS (Women in Political Science)

Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky