Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminar

When

1 – 2 p.m., Sept. 24, 2025

Speaker:    Christian Cooper, Program in Applied Mathematics

Title:         An Introduction to Integro-differential Operators and their Integro-differential Equations

Abstract:    By making use of standard results of harmonic analysis, in particular the application of Plancherel’s theorem and the formula for the fourier transform of a derivative, it is possible to intuitively expand the Sobolev space to allow nonintegral values. A natural place to study a rich field of operators that in essence differentiate functions with less regularity than is traditionally required. The most principle example: the fractional Laplacian, is studied and used to create a final connection between more general integro-differential operators (and their integro-differential equations) and the equivalent formation of these IDEs in divergence and non-divergence form.