Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 pm
-
4:00 pm
EST (GMT -05:00)
Matthew Wiersma, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Cohen¹s Factorization Theorem"
Paul
Cohen
is
well
known
as
being
a
Field¹s
Medalist
in
logic,
but
it
is
less
well
known
that
he
began
his
career
as
a
harmonic
analyst.
This
talk
will
be
about
Cohen¹s
Factorization
Theorem
‹
a
theorem
about
Banach
algebras
which
has
had
significant
impacts
within
harmonic
analysis.
I
plan
to
discuss
how
this
theorem
can
be
used
to
solve
easily
stated
problems
about
convolution
products
and
Fourier
series.
No
knowledge
of
Banach
algebras
or
harmonic
analysis
will
be
assumed.
MC 5501