Joint Colloquium: Mitrea -- Singular Integral Operators and Boundary Value Problems: Recent Progress

THE UNIVERSITIES OF SYDNEY AND NEW SOUTH WALES 

 SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS 

___________________JOINT COLLOQUIUM______________________ 

Speaker: Prof.  Marius Mitrea (University of Missouri, USA) Title: Singular Integral
Operators and Boundary Value Problems: Recent Progress Date: Monday, 27 JULY 200 Time:
1:00 pm Venue: Room 275 Carslaw Building, University of Sydney 

The talk will be preceded by lunch with the speaker.  We will meet at 11:40 on the
outdoor Plaza on the 2nd floor of Carslaw for lunch beforehand at the restaurant
Thai@home on Glebe point Road.  

Abstract: I will review some of the historical developments in the area at the interface
between Partial Differential Equations and Harmonic Analysis, with emphasis on the role
played by boundary integral methods in the treatment of elliptic problems.  The goal is
to highlight the significance of tools from Harmonic Analysis which have played a
fundamental role in establishing progressively sharper results in this field.  The
lecture is largely self-contained and accessible to nonspecialists.