Curriculum Vitae


Alexander Iosevich
University of Missouri-Columbia
Department of Mathematics
202 Mathematical Sciences Bldg.
Columbia, MO 65211 USA
Last updated: August 21, 2008

Contents:

Personal Information
Education
External Funding
Positions Held
Research Interests
Conferences Organized
Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics
Selected Community Educational Activities
Teaching Awards
Invited talks and research stays
Lecture series
Published Papers and Papers Accepted for Publication
Submitted Papers

Personal Information:

Email: iosevich@math.missouri.edu
Columbia, MO, 65203
Date of Birth: December 14, 1967
Citizenship: United States of America

Education:

June 1993, Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
     Thesis: "Maximal operators associated to families of flat curves and hypersurfaces"
      Advisor: Christopher Sogge
June 1989, BS in Pure Mathematics, University of Chicago

External Funding:

June 1997, United States National Science Foundation Grant in Classical
Analysis, Grant Number DMS97-06825 Amount: $53,000
March 2000, United States National Science Foundation Grant in Classical
Analysis, Grant Number DMS00-87339 Amount: $77,000
March 2003,  United States National Science Foundation Grant in Classical
Analysis, Grant Number DMS02-45369 Amount: $114,000
June 2005, United States National Science Foundation Collaborative Research Grant
Analysis, Grant Number DMS04-56306 Amount: $474,245

Positions Held:

September 1, 2005-Present, Professor of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
January 1, 2008-July 31, 2008, Visiting Faculty and Program Organizer, Fields Institute of Mathematics, Toronto, Canada
September 1, 2002 to August 31, 2005, Associate Professor in Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia,
Columbia, Missouri

July 2000 to September 2002, Assistant Professor in Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
May 2000 to April 2001, tenured Associate Professor in Department of Mathematics,
Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia
July 1998 to May 2000, Assistant Professor in Department of Mathematics,
Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia
Summer 1999, University of Illinois at Chicago, joint research with N. Katz facilitated by a CRB Grant.
September 1995 to December 1998, Assistant Professor in Department of
Mathematics, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
June/July 1998, Visiting Research Fellowship, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Fall 1997, General Membership at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California
September 1993 to September 1995, Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
September 1989 to September 1993, Graduate Student, Teaching Assistant and
Research Fellow, UCLA, Los Angeles, California

Research Interests:

Classical Analysis with Application to Partial Differential Equations
Fourier Integral Operators
Geometric Combinatorics and Geometric Measure Theory
Analytic Number Theory
Convex Geometry and Probability Theory

Conferences organized:

Fields Institute Program, entitled "Trends in Harmonic Analysis", January 1- June 30, 2008. (Member of the organizing committee along with I. Laba, M. Lacey, and E. Sawyer).
AMS Special Session, Davidson, North Carolina, March 2007 (with M. Lacey and K. Oskolkov).
AMS Special Session, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 3-5, 2006 (with M. Lacey).
Combinatorial and additive number theory (CANT 2005). A conference in celebration of Mel Nathanson’s 60th birthday. (Member of the organizing committee).

CMS conference at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver (with I. Laba), December 6-8, 2003.
ESI (Schrodinger Insitute in Vienna) Workshop on mathematics related to the Kakeya Needle Problem, (with I. Laba and D. Muller), Vienna, Austria, Fall 2003.
A conference on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations at the University of Missouri, May 8-11, 2002, (with L. Grafakos, S. Hofmann, and I. Verbitsky).
Workshop on convexity and Fourier analysis, (with L. Brandolini, L. Colzani, and G. Travaglini), Milan, Italy, June 2001.


Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics:

Izabella Laba, Sinai Robins and I have recently launched a new journal- Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics, or OJAC for short. Please check out the OJAC web page at http://www.ojac.org!

Selected community educational activities:

Summer program for high school students on Fourier analysis in finite fields at the University of Missouri, July 24-28, 2006.
Campus Writing Program's Fall 2005 Faculty Workshop
Summer program for high school students on the Erdos distance problem at the University of Missouri, August 1-5, 2005.
Putnam coach, 2000-Present
MU McNair scholars program- departmental liason, 2004-Present
Summer program for high school students on geometric combinatorics at the University of Missouri, August 9-13 2004.
Volunteer for the 2004 MAA High School Lectureship Program
.
Faculty mentor for the University of Missouri summer minority outreach program, Summer 2003, mentor for Ivy Hunter.
Participant in the Teaching Renewal Conference at the University of Missouri 2002.
Member of the Judge Panel of the 2000 USA College Academic Team. Sponsored by USA TODAY, 2000.
High School Outreach Program, sponsored by Wright State University, 1996.
Volunteer tutor, Bret Harte Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois, 1986.

Teaching Awards:

Nominated for Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award, University of Missouri, 2003
Wolper's house teaching award, University of Missouri, 2001.
Wright State University Athletics Department Award, 1997.
Wright State University Athletics Department Award, 1995.
Nominated for Undergraduate Student Government Teaching Award at McMaster University, 1994.

Invited Talks and Research Stays:

2009

April 2009 (upcoming), an invited lecture at the Spring Lecture Series 2009, University of Arkansas
  Title: TBA

2008

September 2008, An invited lecture at Oberwolfach (Discrete Geometry)
  Title:
Geometric configurations in Euclidean, integer and finite field geometries: combinatorial and algebraic aspects
July 2008, An invited lecture at the University of Crete
  Title: Mixed norm restriction theorems and connections with fractal geometry
July 2008, An invited lecture at the University of Padova
 Title:
Geometric configurations in Euclidean, integer and finite field geometries
July 2008, An invited lecture at the University of Torino
  Title:
Geometric configurations in Euclidean, integer and finite field geometries
July 2008, An invited lecture at Oberwolfach (Harmonic Analysis)
  Title: Geometric configurations in Euclidean, integer and finite field geometries
June 2008, An invited lecture at the Arizona State University MTBI program
   Title: Geometric configurations: an elementary viewpoint
April 2008, A seminar lecture at Wayne State University
  Title: Fourier analysis in vector spaces over finite fields
April 2008, An invited lecture at the Fields Institute Conference on Additive Number Theory
  Title: Distribution of dot products in vector spaces in finite fields and applications to problems in additive number theory and geometric combinatorics
March 2008, A colloquium talk at the McMaster University
  Title: Harmonic analysis in vector spaces over finite fields and applications to additive combinatorics

2007

October 2007, A seminar talk at the Louisiana State University
  Title:
Radon transforms and applications to problems in additive number theory
October 2007, A colloquium at the Louisiana State University
  Title:
Incidence theory: discrete, continous and arithmetic aspects
October 2007, An invited 50 minute address to the American Mathematical Society at DePaul University, Chicago
  Title:
Incidence theory: discrete, continous and arithmetic aspects
October 2007, A colloquium talk at the University of Indiana, Bloomington
  Title: Sums and products in finite fields- an analytic perspective
September 2007, An invited lecture at the agebra seminar at Emory
  Title: Sums and products in finite fields
September 2007, An invited lecture at the analysis seminar at Georgia Tech
  Title: Radon transforms and applications to problems in additive number theory
September 2007, An invited lecture at a mini-conference on discrepancy theory at the University of South Carolina
  Title: Radon transforms and applications to problems in additive number theory
September 2007, A colloquium lecture at the University of Cincinnati
  Title:
Radon transforms and applications to problems in additive number theory
September 2007, (upcoming), A seminar talk at the Georgia Institute of Technology
  Title:
Sums and products in finite fields- an analytic perspective
August 2007, A seminar talk at UMKC (Kansas City)
  Title: Sums and products
June 2007, An invited lecture at the University of Padova
  Title:
Integral geometric viewpoint on sums and products in finite fields
June 2007, An invited lecture at the University of Bologna
  Title: Incidence theory via Fourier analysis in vector spaces over finite fields
June 2007, An invited lecture at the University of Milan
  Title:
Integral geometric viewpoint on sums and products in finite fields
May 2007, An invited lecture at the annual meeting of Italian harmonic analysts at Caramanico
  Title: Incidence theory via Fourier analysis and applications to geometry and arithmetic
May 2007, A seminar lecture at the University of Bergamo
  Title: Integral geometric viewpoint on sums and products in finite fields
April 2007, DePaul University analysis seminar
  Title: Fourier analysis and incidence theory
March 2007, A colloquium lecture at the Bogazici University
  Title: Analytic, combinatorial and number theoretic aspects of incidence theory
March 2007, A lecture at the Istanbul Institute of Mathematics
  Title: Sums/Products via Fourier analysis
March 2007, King's College, London, an analysis seminar lecture
  Title: Ramsey Theory and Fourier analysis
March 2007, An invited 50 minute address to the American Mathematical Society at Davidson College, North Carolina
  Title: Incidence theory: discrete, continous and arithmetic aspects
January 2007, An invited lecture at Bar-Ilan University
  Title: Geometric combinatorics via Fourier analysis

2006

November 2006, A seminar talk at the University of Crete
  Title:
Sums and products in finite fields via Kloosterman sum estimates.
October 2006, AMS lecture in Salt Lake City, Utah
   Title: Sums and products in finite fields via Kloosterman sum estimates.
September 2006, A seminar lecture at Michigan State University
   Title: Erdos/Falconer distance problem in vector spaces over finite fields.
August 2006, An invited lecture at the Rudelson CBMS lecture series conference at Kent State University
    Title:
Analysis, combinatorics and number theory of the Mattila integral.
July 2006, An invited lecture at the Koldobsky CBMS lecture series conference at the Kansas State University
    Title:
Analysis, combinatorics and number theory of the Mattila integral.
July 2006, A lecture at the Universidad Autonoma Barcelona (CRM)
    Title:
Analysis, combinatorics and number theory of the Mattila integral.
July 2006, A lecture at the University of Milano
    Title:
Analysis, combinatorics and number theory of the Mattila integral-lattice points on surfaces.
July 2006, A lecture at the University of Bergamo
    Title:
Analysis, combinatorics and number theory of the Mattila integral-Fourier analysis in finite fields.
June 2006, a plenary lecture at Harmonic Analysis conference in Zharos, Crete
    Title: Analysis, combinatorics and number theory of the Mattila integral.
April 2006, AMS Special Session in Miami
    Title: Erdos/Falconer distance problem in vector spaces over finite fields
March 2006, Combinatoria Number Theory program in Montreal
    Title: Fourier analytic approach to incidence theorems in vector spaces over finite fields
January 2006, Colloquium at Northeastern University
    Title: Analytic, combinatorial and number theoretic aspects of distance set theory
January 2006, Colloquium at the University of Georgia
    Title:
Analytic, combinatorial and number theoretic aspects of distance set theory
January 2006, Analysis Seminar, University of Crete
    Title: Erdos/Falconer distance problems in vector spaces over finite fields
January 2006, Pure Mathematics Seminar, University of Bristol
    Title: Erdos/Falconer distance problem in vector spaces over finite fields

2005

December 2005, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society
    Title: Erdos distance problem in vector spaces over finite fields
November 2005 Colloquium lecture at Kent State University
     Title: Analytic, combinatorial and number theoretic aspects of distance set theory
October 2005, lecture at the Integers conference at the University of Western Georgia
    Title: Erdos distance problem in vector spaces over finite fields
October 2005, seminar talk at the University of South Carolina
July 2005 University of Crete, Greece
    Title:
Mean square averages of the Fourier transform and geometric combinatorics
July 2005, Oberwalfach, Germany
    Title: Some observations on the interaction of harmonic analysis and geometric combinatorics
June 2005, University of Orleans, France
    Title: Mean square averages of the Fourier transform and geometric combinatorics
June 2005, University of Bristol, England
May 2005, CUNY conference in honor of Mel Nathanson's 60th birthday
    Title: Analysis and combinatorics of distance sets
January 2005, Texas A&M University
    Title: Gaussian curvature, geometric combinatorics, and the Fourier transform

2004 

September 2004 AIM workshop on additive number theory/ geometric combinatorics
July 2004 Trimester in Harmonic Analysis, Pisa, Italy
    Title: Average decay of the Fourier transform and applications
June 2004 University of Madrid, Spain, Analysis Seminar
    Title: Combinatorial complexity of convex sequences and related problems in combinatorial geometry
June 2004 Trimester in Harmonic Analysis, Pisa, Italy
    Title: Combinatorial complexity of convex sequences and connections with Fourier analysis

May 2004 Georgia Institute of Technology; an invited lecture associated with
a series of CBMS lectures to be delivered by C. Thiele.
    Title: Combinatorial complexity of convex sequences
May 2004 CUNY Conference on Additive and Combinatorial Number Theory
    Title: Combinatorial complexity of convex sequences
May 2004 University of Edinburgh
    Title: Some remarks on the Mattila integral and related problems

May 2004, University of Bristol, England
    Title: Mean square discrepancy bounds for the distribution of lattice points in convex domains
April 2004, University of Athens
    Title: Convex sequences and the Erdos/Falconer distance problems
April 2004, University of Crete
    Title: Some remarks on the Mattila integral
March 2004 Annual meeting of the Italian harmonic analysts (plenary lecture)
    Title: Some remarks on the Mattila integral
March 2004 University of Bergamo, Italy, seminar
    Title: Average decay of Fourier transforms of measures and applications
March 2004 University of Milano, Italy, seminar
    Title: Combinatorial complexity of convex sequences and related problems
March 2004 Florida State University, AMS Special Session on Harmonic Analysis
    Title: Combinatorial complexity of convex sequences
February 2004 University of Michigan (differential equations seminar)
    Title: Average decay of the Fourier transform, Salem sets, and related problems
January 2004, Temple University, Philadelphia (colloquium)
    Title: Combinatorial complexity of convex sequences: combinatorial and analytic methods
 
2003 

December  2003, University of British Columbia (research collaboration with I. Laba)
November 2003, University of California-Los Angeles
   Title: Distribution of lattice points in convex domains: mean square estimates
October 2003, Conference on additive number theory, University of West Georgia
   Title: Distribution of lattice points in convex domains: mean square estimates
October 2003, University of Wisconsin-Madison
   Title: A Weyl type formula for exponential spectra and frames
June 2003, Harmonic Analysis and Partial DIfferential Equations; Annual Summer Session
   Title: Combinatorial approach to orthogonal exponentials
June 2003, Joint meeting of the Real Sociedad Mathematika Espanola and the AMS in Seville, Spain
   Title: Variants of the Falconer and Erdos distance problems
June 2003, University of Milan
    Title: Variants of the Falconer and Erdos distance problems
May 2003,  Conference on additive number theory and applications to harmonic analysis
    Title: Applications of geometric measure and geometric combinatorics in harmonic analysis
May 2003, Princeton University Analysis Seminar
    Title: Combinatorics of distance sets and applications
April 2003, Riviere-Fabes Symposium in Analysis
   Title: Analysis and combinatorics of distance set
March 2003, The Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics
   Title: Analysis and combinatorics of distances sets
February 2003, Georgia Institute of Techology (research collaboration)
 
2002 

October 2002, AMS Special Session in Madison, Wisconsin
   Title: "Distribution of lattice points inside random ellipsoids" 
July 2002, Convex geometry workshop in Vancouver, Canada
    Title: "Lattice points inside random ellipses"
June 2002, University of Milano, Bicocca

   Title: "Distribution of lattice points inside random ellipses"
June 2002, University of Pisa, AMS Special Session
   Title: "Convex bodies, orthogonal exponentials and geometric combinatorics"
June 2002, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
   Title: "Some elementary combinatorial geometry and applications to harmonic analysis"
June 2002, University of Iraklion, Crete
   Title: "Lattice points inside random ellipses"
March 2002, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
   Title: "Average decay of the Fourier transform and distribution of lattice points in convex domains"
March 2002, AMS Special Session in Harmonic Analysis
   Title: "Average decay of the Fourier transform and applications"
January 2002, Universita di Milano-Bicocca
   Title: "Applications of the average decay of the Fourier transform of measures"

2001 

December 2001, Georgia Institute of Technology
November 2001, Colloquium, Case Western Reserve University
   Title: "Combinatorics of convex sets and applications"
November 2001, Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison
   Title: "Combinatorics of convex sets and applications"
November 2001, Research visit at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
October 2001, Seminar, University of Bristol, England
   Title: "Combinatorial approach to orthogonal exponentials"
September 2001,  Colloquium , University of British Columbia,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
   Title: "Combinatorial aspects of convexity" 
August 2001, Convex geometry conference in Anogia, Crete
    Title: "Various notions of dimension of convex sets and applications"
May 2001, Partial Differential Equations Seminar, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Title: "Regularity of generalized Schrodinger equations"
May 2001, Algebra Seminar, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Title: "Quadratic forms and the Steinhaus tiling problem"
March 2001, Oscillatory Integrals and Dispersive Equations, IPAM conference in Los Angeles, California
July 2001, Mt. Holyoke Harmonic Analysis/ PDE AMS conference
   Title: "Distribution of lattice points in convex domains"
April 2001, University of Milan-Bicocca
   Title: "Extracting geometric information from square functions"
March 2001, AMS Special Session in Harmonic Analysis, Lawrence, Kansas
   Title: "Distribution of lattice points inside convex domains"

2000 

December 2000, Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
   Title: "Distribution of lattice points in convex domains and the geometry of the Gauss map"
November 2000, University of Wisconsin-Madison
   Title: "Distribution of lattice points in convex domains and the geometry of the Gauss map"
November 2000, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
   Research collaboration with Eric Sawyer 
November 2000, Banach space seminar, University of Missouri-Columbia
   Title: "Exponential bases and tiling- combinatorics and the Fourier transform" 
October 2000, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
   Title: "Distribution of lattice points in convex domains and related problems"
October 2000, Special Session in Harmonic Analysis, San Francisco, California
   Title: "Distribution of lattice points in convex domains"
September 2000, Analysis seminar, Washington University in St. Louis
   Title: "Distribution of lattice points in convex domains"
September -November 2000, Probability seminiar, University of Missouri-Columbia

   Title: "A brief introduction to the Kakeya problem and related issues"
July 2000, Meeting of harmonic analysts at El Escorial, Spain.
June 2000, Meeting of the Greek analysts in Iraklion, Crete
   Title: "Fourier bases and the associated combinatorics"
June 2000, University of Iraklion, Crete

   Title: "Distribution of lattice points in convex planar domains"
June 2000, University of Milan-Bicocca
   Title: "Elementary applications of the pigeon-hole principle in analysis"
June 2000, Annual meeting of the Italian harmonic analysts
   Title: "Distribution of lattice points in convex domains"
February 2000, University of Missouri-Columbia
   Title: "The role of Gaussian curvature in harmonic analysis"
February 2000, Syracuse University
   Title: "Fourier bases, tiling, and the Erdos Distance Problem"
February 2000, McMaster University
   Joint research with E. Sawyer

1999 

December 1999, University of Wisconsin- Madison.
   Title: "Fourier bases, tiling, and the Erdos Distance Problem"
August 1999, University of Illinois at Chicago
   Joint research with N. Katz facilitated by a CRB Grant.
August 1999, University of Illinois at Chicago
   Title: "Fourier basis, orthogonality, and a variant of Erdös distance problem" 
July 1999, Joint meeting of the American and Australian Mathematical Societies.
   Title: "Fourier basis, fractals, and the Erdös distance problem"
June 1999, University of Milan
   Title: "Maximal averages over fractals"
June 1999, Meeting of the Italian Mathematical Society, Aosta, Italy
   Title: "Fourier basis and the Erdös distance problem"
May 1999, Wright State University
   Title: "The role of curvature in harmonic analysis"
March 1999, McMaster University
   Title: "Averages over surfaces and related problems"
March 1999, Wright State University
   Joint research with S. Pedersen.
March 1999, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
   Joint research with E. Sawyer.
February 1999, University of Maryland-College Park
   Title: "Lattice points, Fourier bases, and related problems"
January 1999, Conference on Singular and Oscillatory Integrals in honor of Steve Wainger,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
   Title: "Lattice points, Fourier bases, and related problems"

1998 

September 1998, AMS Special Session on orthogonal polynomials and related problems,
DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
   Title: "Smooth hypersurfaces of infinite type"
August 1998, GAFFA Conference, Kiel, Germany
   Title: "Lp improving properties of measures supported on convex finite type hypersurfaces"
July 1998, Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
July 1998, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
   Title: Lp improving properties of measures supported on convex hypersurfaces"
June/July 1998, Visiting Research Fellowship, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
July 1998, Department of Mathematics Analysis Seminar, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
   Title: "Maximal operators over smooth hypersurfaces"
June 1998, Department of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
   Title: "Averages over convex hypersurfaces" 
April 1998, Dixieland Analysis Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
   Title: "Lp improving properties of measures supported on convex hypersurfaces"
April 1998, Department of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
   Title: "Averages over convex surfaces"
February 1998, Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
   Title: "Maximal averages over surfaces"
February 1998, Department of Mathematics, Georgetown University, Washington,
District of Columbia
   Title: "Averages over convex hypersurfaces"

1997 

Fall 1997, General Membership at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California
November 1997, Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
November 1997, Department of Mathematics, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
   Title: "Scaling properties of infinitely flat curves and surfaces"
November 1997, Department of Mathematics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
   Title: "Scaling properties of infinitely flat curves and surfaces"
October 1997, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
   Title: "Scaling properties of convex hypersurfaces" 
September 1997, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California
   Title: "Scaling properties of convex finite type hypersurfaces" 
September 1997, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
   Title: "Scaling properties of convex hypersurfaces"
September 1997, Integrable Systems & Nonlinear PDE Seminar, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana
   Title: "Scaling properties of infinitely flat curves and surfaces"
May 1997, European Union HCM "Fourier Analysis Network" Harmonic Analysis in Varenna Meeting, Varenna, Italy

   Title: "Averages over convex hypersurfaces"
March 1997, Wright State University Analysis Seminar, Dayton, Ohio
   Title: "Fourier transform, restriction theorems, and scaling"
March 1997, American Mathematical Society Annual Analysis Conference in Auburn, Alabama
   Title: "Maximal averages over convex surfaces"

1996

December 1996, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
   Title: "Maximal averages, convex hypersurfaces, and rotational curvature in time"
October 1996, Department of Mathematics Colloquium, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
   Title: "The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and Beyond"
July 1996, Department of Mathematics, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
   Title: "Schulz?s Theorem, mixed homogeneity, and maximal operators"
July 1996, Department of Mathematics, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
    Title: "Maximal operators in Harmonic Analysis"
June 1996, Department of Mathematics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
   Title: "Maximal averages over mixed homogeneous surfaces"

1995

December 1995, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
   Title: "Oscillatory integrals with homogeneous phases and maximal averages over surfaces" 
November 1995, American Mathematical Society Conference in Kent, Ohio, Special Session on
Harmonic Analysis and Applications, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
   Title: "Averaging and maximal averaging operators associated to homogeneous hypersurfaces"
February 1995, Analysis Seminar, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

   Title: "Maximal operators and oscillatory integrals associated to finite type hypersurfaces"

1994

September 1994, Harmonic Analysis Seminar, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
   Title: "(Lp,Lq) mapping properties of averaging operators associated to homogeneous hypersurfaces"
May 1994, Harmonic Analysis Seminar, McMaster University
   Title: "Maximal operators associated to homogeneous and mixed homogeneous hypersurfaces in R3 "
June 1994, Functional Analysis Seminar, Technion, Haifa, Israel

   Title: "Maximal operators associated to homogeneous hypersurfaces in Rn"
June 1994, Mathematics Colloquium, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
   Title: "Maximal operators in Harmonic Analysis"
May 1994, Analysis Seminar, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
   Title: "Weighted oscillatory integrals and the associated maximal operators"

1993

November 1993, Harmonic Analysis Seminar, McMaster University
   Title: "A restriction theorem for operators associated to homogeneous manifolds in codimension two"

1991

March 1991, Classical Analysis Seminar, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
   Title: "Maximal operators associated to families of flat curves in the plane"

Lecture Series

November 2006, A lecture series on harmonic analysis in vector spaces over finite fields at the University of Bristol (four lectures)

May 2006, CUNY, New York, CANT 2006 (three lectures)
   Title: "Three lectures on analytic, combinatorial and number theoretic aspects of incidence theory".

June 2002, University of Padova, Minicorsi di Analisi Matematica (three lectures)
    Title: "Geometric combinatorics and applications to analysis"

July 1998, A series of talks at the University of Milan on avergaing operators over hypersurfaces.
 

PUBLICATIONS:

Published Papers and Papers Accepted for Publication:

The published papers are listed first, organized by year of publication. Accepted papers are listed below, immediately following the published papers.

2008

Covering the plane by rotations, (with M. Kolountzakis and M. Matolci), (Conference proceedings of Complex and Harmonic Analysis, an international conference dedicated to the memory of N. Danikas http://web.auth.gr/comhar/).

Fourier analysis and geometric combinatorics (World Scientific volume dedicated to the annual Padova lectures in analysis).

Ubiquity of simplexes in vector spaces over finite fields, (with D. Hart), (Analysis Mathematica, volume 34 (2008)).

2007

A view from the top: analysis, combinatorics and number theory, (book), AMS Student Library Series, volume 39.

Sum-product estimates in finite fields via Kloosterman sums, (with D. Hart and J. Solymosi), International Mathematics Research Notices (2007).

Erdos distance problem in vector spaces over finite fields, (with M. Rudnev), Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, (2007).

Mean square discrepancy bounds for the number of lattice points inside large convex domains II: rough domains in the plane, (With E. Sawyer and A. Seeger), Journal D'Analyse, vol.101, (2007).

Average decay estimate for Fourier transforms of measures supported on curves, (with L. Brandolini, G. Gigante, A. Greenleaf, A. Seeger, and G. Travaglini), Journal of Geometric Analysis, (2007).

Mattila integrals associated with sign indefinite measures, (with M. Rudnev), Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, vol. 13, (2007).

On distance measures for well-distributed sets, (with M. Rudnev), Journal of Discrete and Computational Geometry, vol. 38, (2007),

2006

A Weyl type formula for Fourier spectra and frames, (With M. Kolountzakis), PAMS, vol. 6, (2006), pages  1-8.

Combinatorial complexity of convex sequences, (With S. Konyagin, M. Rudnev and V. Ten), Journal of Discrete and Computational Geometry, vol. 35, no. 1, (2006), pages 143-158.

2005

K-distance, Falconer conjecture, and discrete analogs, (With I. Laba), Integers, Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Numebr Theory, Proceedings of the Integers Conference in honor of Tom Brown, pages 95-106.

Non-isotropic distance measures for lattice generated sets, (with M. Rudnev), Publicaciones, vol. 49, (2005), pages 225-247.

Circular averages and Falconer/Erdos distance conjecture in the plane for random metrics, (With S. Hofmann), Proc. Amer. Mat. Soc. 133 (2005), pages 133-143.

2004

Fourier analysis and convexity. Edited by Luca Brandolini, Leonardo Colzani, Alex Iosevich and Giancarlo Travaglini. Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA

Falconer conjecture, spherical averages, and discrete analogs, (With G. Arutuynyants), (Towards a theory of geometric graphs, Contemporary Mathematics 342, Janos Pach, Editor).

Lattice points inside random ellipsoids, (with S. Hofmann and D. Weidinger), Michigan Math. J. 52 (2004), no. 1, pages 13-21.

Distance sets of well-distributed planar sets, (with I. Laba), Journal of Discrete and Computational Geometry, vol. 31 no. 2, pages 243-250.

2003

The geometry of the Gauss map and the distribution of lattice points in convex planar domains, (With L. Brandolini, L. Colzani, A. Podkorytov, and G. Travaglini), Mathematika vol. 48 (2001), no. 1-2, pages 107-117  (appeared in 2003).

Sharp rate of average decay of the Fourier transform of a bounded set, (With L. Brandolini and S. Hofmann), GAFA, vol. 13, (2003).

A combinatorial approach to orthogonal exponentials, (with M. Rudnev), International Mathematics Research Notices, vol. 49, (2003), pp.1-12.

Spherical L1- averages of the Fourier transform of the characteristic function of a convex set and the geometry of the Gauss map, (with L. Brandolini and G. Travaglini), Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. vol. 355 (2003), pp. 3513-3535.

Fuglede conjecture holds for convex planar domains, (With N. Katz and T. Tao),  Math Research Letters, vol. 10, 2003, pp.1-11.

Three problems motivated by the average decay of the Fourier transform, (with E. Sawyer), (Mt. Holyoke conference proceedings; Contemporary Mathematics, volume 320, American Mathematical Society, 2003).

2002 

Mean square discrepancy bounds for the number of lattice points inside large convex domains, (With E. Sawyer and A. Seeger), Journal D'Analyse, vol. 87 (2002), pages 209-230.

Dispersive effects in a modified Kuromoto-Sivashinsky equation, (with J. Miller), Comm. in PDE vol. 27 (2002), pages 2423-2448.

Two problems associated with convex finite type domains, (With E. Sawyer and A. Seeger), Publ. Mat., vol. 46, (2002), pages 153-177.

The rate of convergence of Fourier expansions in the plane, a geometric viewpoint, (with L. Brandolini, L. Colzani, and G. Travaglini), Mathematische Zeitschrift, vol. 242, Issue 4, (2002), pages 709-724.

2001

Lattice points and generalized diophantine conditions, Journal of Number Theory, vol. 90, no.1, (2001), pp.19-30.

Spherical means and the restriction phenomenon, (With L. Brandolini and G. Travaglini), Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, vol. 7, (2001), pp. 359-372.

Curvature, combinatorics, and the Fourier transform, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 48, no. 6, (2001), pp. 577-583.

Convex bodies with a point of curvature do not have Fourier bases, (With N. Katz and T. Tao), American Journal of Mathematics, Volume 123 (2001), pp. 115-120.
 

2000

Sharpness results and Knapp's homogeneity argument, (With G. Lu), Bulletin of the Canad. Math. Bull., Volume 43, (2000), pp. 63-68.

How large are the spectral gaps?, (With S. Pedersen), Pacific J. Math., Volume 192, (2000), pp. 307-314.

1999 

On averaging operators associated with convex hypersurfaces of finite type, (With E. Sawyer and A. Seeger), J. Anal. Math., Volume 79 (1999), pp. 159-187.

Scaling properties of convex curves and surfaces, Analysis of  Divergence (Orono, ME, 1997), Appl. Numer. Harmon. Anal., Birkhauser Boston, Boston, MA, 1999, pp. 201-212.

Maximal averages over flat radial hypersurfaces, Rev. Mat. Ibero-Americana, Volume 15, (1999)., pp. 475-485.

Fourier bases and a distance problem of Erdos, (With N. Katz and S. Pedersen), Math Research Letters, Volume 6 (1999), Number 2, pp.105-128.

Fourier transform, L2 restriction theorem, and scaling, Bolletino U.M.I., Volume 8 (1999), pp. 383-387.

Six parameter patient registration directly from projection data, (With E. E. Fitchard, J. S. Aldridge, T. R. Mackie, P. J. Reckwerdt, G. H. Olivera), Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 421, Issue: 1-2, January 21, (1999), pp. 342-351.

Random fluctuations of convex domains and lattice points, (With K. Kinateder), Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 127 (1999), no. 10, pp. 2981-2985.

1998

Spectral and tiling properties of the unit cube, (With S. Pedersen), International Math Research Notices, (1998), Number 16, pp. 819-828.

Some sharp restriction theorems for homogeneous manifolds, (With L. DeCarli), Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, Volume 4 (1998), Number 1, pp. 105-128.

1997

Maximal averages over surfaces, (With E. Sawyer), Advances in Mathematics, Volume 132 (1997), Number 1, pp. 46-119.

1996

Sharp (Lp,Lq) estimates for a class of averaging operators, (With E. Sawyer), Annals of the Fourier Institute in Grenoble, Volume 46 (1996), Number 5, pp. 1359-1384.

Averages over homogeneous hypersurfaces, Forum Mathematicum, Volume 8 (1996), Number 2, pp. 219-235.

Oscillatory integrals and maximal averages over homegeneous surfaces, (With E. Sawyer), Duke Mathematical Journal, Volume 82 (1996), Number 1, pp. 103-141.

1995

A restriction theorem for flat manifolds of codimension two, (With L. DeCarli), Illinois Journal of Mathematics, Volume 39 (1995), Number 4, pp. 576-585.

1994

Maximal Operators associated to families of flat curves in the plane, Duke Mathematical Journal, Volume 76 (1994), Number 2, pp. 633-644.



The following papers have been accepted for publication but have not yet appeared:

Powder diffraction from a combinatorial and analytic viewpoint, (with M. Rudnev), (submitted for publication).

Cubic varieties, Erdos-Falconer distance problem and incidence problems in vector spaces over finite fields, (with Doowon Koh), (to appear in SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics).


Geometric incidence theorems via Fourier analysis, (with H. Jorati and I. Laba), (to appear in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society).


Sums and products in finite fields: an integral geometric viewpoint, (with D. Hart), arXiv:0705.4256, (to appear in Contemporary Mathematics).

Orthogonal exponentials, difference sets, and arithmetic combinatorics, (with P. Jaming), (accepted for publication).

Freiman's theorem, Fourier transform, and additive structure of measures, (with M. Rudnev), (accepted for publication by the Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society).


Extension theorems for the Fourier transform associated with non-degenerate quadratic surfaces in vector spaces over finite fields, (with D. Koh), (accepted for publication by the Illinois Mathematics Journal).

Submitted Papers

On rapid generation of $SL_2({\Bbb F}_q)$, (with J. Chapman),  (to be submitted soon).

Dot product sets in the plane, (with S. Senger), (to be submitted soon).

Pinned distance sets, Wolff's exponent in finite fields and improved sum-product estimates, (with D. Hart), (submitted for publication).

Generalized incidence theorems, homogeneous forms and sum-product estimates in finite fields, (with D. Covert, D. Hart, D. Koh and M. Rudnev), (submitted for publication).

Distance graphs in vector spaces over finite fields, coloring and pseudo-randomness, (with D. Hart, D. Koh, S. Senger and I. Uriarte-Tuero), (submitted for publication)

Extension theorems for spheres in the finite fields setting, (with D. Koh), (submitted for publication).

Averages over hyperplanes, sum-product theory in finite fields, and the Erdos-Falconer distance conjecture, (with D. Hart, D. Koh and M. Rudnev), (submitted for publication).

A universal Stein-Tomas restriction estimate for measures in three dimensions, (with S. Roudenko), (submitted for publication).