Friday, May 06, 2016
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Lecture 2: Sets of Measure Zero and the Converse to Rademacher's Theorem: Part 2
Peter Jones,
Professor,
Mathematics & Applied Math,
Yale University,
Speaker's Bio:
Peter Jones, James E. English Professor of Mathematics and Applied Math at Yale, is a specialist in the field of complex and harmonic analysis, probability theory, and dynamical systems. He came to Yale in 1985 after teaching for six years at the University of Chicago. For several years he lived in Sweden, where he served as assistant director of the Institut Mittag-Leffler. He was the Goran Gustafsson Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology; KTH, in Sweden in 1990. At Yale, he was director of graduate studies in mathematics 1993-95. In 1994, Jones became the youngest person to receive an honorary degree from KTH for his "pathbreaking scientific contributions to modern mathematic analysis" and for promoting the study of mathematics at the institute. He continues to maintain strong ties with the Swedish mathematical community. Jones' other honors include a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Salem Prize and a Presidential Young Investigator Award.
Peter Jones, James E. English Professor of Mathematics and Applied Math at Yale, is a specialist in the field of complex and harmonic analysis, probability theory, and dynamical systems. He came to Yale in 1985 after teaching for six years at the University of Chicago. For several years he lived in Sweden, where he served as assistant director of the Institut Mittag-Leffler. He was the Goran Gustafsson Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology; KTH, in Sweden in 1990. At Yale, he was director of graduate studies in mathematics 1993-95. In 1994, Jones became the youngest person to receive an honorary degree from KTH for his "pathbreaking scientific contributions to modern mathematic analysis" and for promoting the study of mathematics at the institute. He continues to maintain strong ties with the Swedish mathematical community. Jones' other honors include a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Salem Prize and a Presidential Young Investigator Award.
Abstract: I will outline the proof that (in any dimension) a set measure zero has "Good Tangent Cones". The proof uses estimates from harmonic analysis, and does not use the combinatorial step used by Alberti, Csornyei, and Price mentioned in Lecture 1. I will also discuss the relations of these methods to some unsolved problems in combinatorics.
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