Speaker: John Conway, George Washington University

Title: Subnormal operators and function theory

Abstract: This expository talk will start with an introduction to subnormal operators and a discussion of the important result of James Thomson on point evaluations. This result means that some operator theoretic problems for subnormal operators are equivalent to problems on analytic functions of a single complex variable. This will be illustrated by some examples of problems that can be so solved and some that I think will be solved in the future.

Place: Science and Technology Building I, Room 242

Refreshments will be served before the talk at 3:00 p.m. in Room 222.

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