Radford Professor of Mathematics

Department of Mathematics

Washington and Lee University

Lexington, VA 24450

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 2011

John Conway Day & SEAM XXVII at Univeristy of Florida, Gainsville

March 17-19, 2011
Invited Speaker: The Cyclic Behavior of Cosubnormal Operators

Analysis Seminar at Univ. of Virginia, November 15, 2011
Title:  Dynamics of Linear Operators

2010

Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA,
April 19 - 23, 2010
Colloquium Talk: The Dynamics of Linear Operators
Student Talk: The Dynamics of Linear Operators II

Functional Analysis Valencia 2010 at University of Valencia, Spain, June 7 - 11, 2010
On the Occasion of the 80th Birthday of Professor Manuel Valdivia
Invited Speaker at the Special Session on Linear Dynamics
Title: n-Weakly Hypercyclic and n-Weakly Supercyclic Operators

AMS Sectional Meeting at University of Richmond, November 6-7, 2010
Invited Speaker - Title: n-Weakly Hypercyclic Operators

2009

Joint AMS-MAA Meeting at Washington DC, January 8, 2009
Title:  Hypercyclic Operators with a Prescribed Spectrum

Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

April 6 - 10, 2009
Colloquium Talk: A unified approach to some major theorems in topology.
Student Talk: Which line best approximates a function?

2008

SEAM XXIV at Vanderbilt University, March 5-8, 2008
Title: Somewhere Dense Orbits of Tuples of Operators

Invited Speaker at the 5th Advanced Course in Operator Theory and Complex Analysis in Sevilla, Spain, June 24-26, 2008
Title: Hypercyclic Operators with Prescribed Spectrum

Colloquium Talk at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia Spain, June 26-27, 2008
Title: Inverse Limits of Hypercyclic Operators

Analysis Seminar, George Washington University, Sept. 29, 2008
Title: Invariant Subspaces in the Hardy Space of the Slit Disk

2007

Colloquium Talk at University of Richmond, February 19, 2007
Title: How far from normal are you?
SEAM XXIII at University of Richmond, March 9-11, 2007
Title:  Invariant Subspaces on the Slit Disk

AMS Sectional Meeting at Tucson, Arizona, April 21-22, 2007
Title:  Invariant Subspaces on the Slit Disk

2006

Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, Feb. 12 - 18, 2006
Colloquium Talk: How far from normal are you?
Seminar Talk: The distance to the normal matrices: Part II

SEAM XXII at University of Florida, Gainesville, March 1-5, 2006
Title:  Hypercyclic Pairs of Operators

GPOTS - Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium at University of Iowa, May 24-28, 2006
Featured Speaker, Title: Subnormality & C*-algebras

Oberwolfach, Germany, Mini-Conference on "Hypercyclicity and Linear Chaos", August 13-19, 2006
Title: Hypercyclic Tuples of Operators

2005

VOTCAM at University of Richmond, Richmond, VA February 5, 2005
Title: Subnormal Generators of C*-algebras and Spectral Pictures of Toeplitz Operators

Organizer of SEAM XXI held at Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA, April 8-9, 2005

Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, May 1 - 7, 2005
Colloquium Talk: Special Generators of C*-algebras I
Seminar Talk: Special Generators of C*-algebras II

Oberwolfach, Germany, Mini-Conference on "Operators on Spaces of Analytic Functions", August 14-20, 2005
Title: Interpolating Measures for Subnormal Operators
Colloquium at Washington & Lee University, September 22, 2005
Title:  Oberwolfach & Generalized Eigenvectors

2004

SEAM XX at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, March 26-27, 2004

Title:  Subnormal generators of C*-algebras

Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, May 10 - 14, 2004 

Colloquium Talk:  Linear Operators and Generalized Eigenvectors

2003

SEAM XIX at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, March 21 - 23, 2003
Title:  Exotic Orbits for Linear Operators

Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
April 14 - 18, 2003
Colloquium Talk: Understanding the real parts of Calculus through the imaginary parts
Seminar Talk: The C*-algebra generated by a subnormal operator

Colloquium at Washington & Lee University, April 24, 2003
Title:  Dynamics of Linear Operators

YAMS at Furman University, Greenville, SC July 8 - 12, 2003, Invited Speaker
Title:  The Fredholm Index of Toeplitz Operators with Continuous Symbols
 

2002

SEAM XVIII at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 15 - 17, 2002
Title:  Spectral Picture's of Irreducible Subnormal Operators

Analysis Seminar at Washington & Lee University, May 21, 2002
Title:  Orbits of Linear Operators

VOTCAM at University of Richmond, Richmond, VA September 12, 2002
Title:  Generalized Eigenvectors and Interpolating Measures for Subnormal Operators
  

2001

SEAM XVII at University of Georgia, Athens, GA, March 2-3, 2001
Title:  Somewhere Dense Orbits are Everywhere Dense

YAMS at Furman University, Greenville, SC, July 10-14, 2001, 30 min., Invited Speaker
Title:  The Dynamics of Cosubnormal Operators

Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Sept. 3-7, 2001
Colloquium Talk: Dynamics and Chaos
Seminar Talk: The Dynamics of Linear Operators

Wabash Modern Analysis Miniconference at Indiana Univ., Sept. 8-9, 2001
Title:  Countably Hypercyclic Operators

Analysis Seminar, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Oct. 1, 2001
Title:  The Dynamics of Linear Operators

Trends in Banach Spaces and Operator Theory at Univ. of Memphis, Oct. 5-9, 2001
Title:  Orbits of Linear Operators
 

2000

SEAM XVI at University of Virginia, March 17-18, 2000
Title:  Hypercyclic and Supercyclic Cohyponormal Operators

Analysis Seminar at Univ. of Virginia, April 11, 2000
Title:  The Cyclic behavior of Cosubnormal Operators

Wabash Modern Analysis Miniconference at Indianapolis, October 14-15, 2000
Title: Hyponormal Operators with Hypercyclic or Supercyclic Adjoints

Colloquium at Brigham Young University, November 20, 2000
Title:  The Dynamics of Linear Operators

1999

Joint AMS-MAA Meeting at San Antonio, TX January 13-16, 1999
Title:  Pure Subnormal Operators have Cyclic Adjoints

Colloquium at University of Pittsburgh, January 22, 1999
Title:  Cyclic Subnormal Operators and Trace Estimates

Colloquium at Washington & Lee University, February 8, 1999
Title:  The Most Important Matrix

Colloquium at University of California, Riverside, February 12, 1999
Title:  Pure Subnormal Operators have Cyclic Adjoints

Analysis Seminar at Wayne State University, March 30, 1999
Title:  Pure Subnormal Operators have Cyclic Adjoints

Colloquium at Bowling Green State University, April 12, 1999
Title:  Pure Subnormal Operators have Cyclic Adjoints

SEAM XV at Vanderbilt University, May 20--23, 1999
Title:  Subnormal Operators with Hypercyclic Adjoints

Colloquium at Mississippi State University, November 5, 1999
Title:  Hypercyclic and Supercyclic Cosubnormal Operators
 

1998

AMS Sectional Meeting at Kansas State Univ., March 27-28, 1998
Title:When is zero an eigenvalue for the self-commutator of a subnormal operator?

Colloquium at Michigan State University, April 16, 1998
Title:  Subnormal Operators and C* algebras

GPOTS - Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium at Kansas State,  May 27-31, 1998
Title:  Pure Subnormal Operators have Cyclic Adjoints

Canadian Math. Soc. Summer Meeting at Univ. of New Brunswick, St. Johns
June 13-15, 1998, 25 min. Invited Speaker
Title:  Pure Subnormal Operators have Cyclic Adjoints

Wabash Modern Analysis Miniconference at Indianapolis, October 10-11, 1998
Title:  Pure Subnormal Operators have Cyclic Adjoints
 

1997

Analysis Seminar at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Va., Jan. 20, 1997,  Invited Speaker
Title:  The Self-Commutator of a Subnormal Operator

SEAM XIII at Gainesville, Florida, March 14-16, 1997, 20 min.
Title:  The Berger-Shaw Theorem for Cyclic Subnormal Operators

Wabash Modern Analysis Miniconference at Indianapolis, Sept. 20-21 1997, 20 min.
Title: Essentially Subnormal Operators

Analysis Seminar at Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Nov. 11, 1997, Invited Speaker
Title:  Subnormal Operators and Pseudocontinuations
 
 

1996

Young Analysts Meeting of the Southeast (YAMS 2) at Maggie Valley, NC, November 9-10, 1996, 50 min. Invited Speaker
Title:  The Self-Commutator of a Subnormal Operator
 

1995

South Eastern Analysis Meeting (SEAM XI) at Georgia Tech., March 3-5, 1995, 20 min.
Title:  On the failure of spectral mapping theorems for subnormal operators

Workshop on Holomorphic Spaces at MSRI, October 16-20, 1995, 25 min.
Title:  Integrability of Hardy space functions and pointwise multipliers of the Hardy space into the Bergman space