$Case Western Reserve University$

Stanislaw Szarek

What's Happening (2006-2007, 2007-2008,...)

As of August 2010, I am on the CWRU campus, back from the Equipe d'Analyse Fonctionnelle at the Université Pierre et Marie CURIE in Paris, France. However, I will be traveling extensively in the fall, participating in the program on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis at the Fields Institute in Toronto and in the semester on Quantum Information Theory at the Institut Mittag-Leffler in Djursholm, Sweden.

Since June 2007 I have been involved in the NSF Focused Research Group project: Fourier analytic and probabilistic methods in geometric functional analysis and convexity. In addition to CWRU, the FRG project involves Kent State University, University of Michigan and University of Missouri. The project provides numerous research opportunities, particularly for graduate students and postdocs. A major FRG-related event was an international conference on "Perspectives in High Dimensions," which took place in Cleveland from August 1 to August 7, 2010.

In August 2006 I took part in the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain. Here are the slides from my lecture on Convexity, Complexity, and High Dimensions.

Earlier in 2006, I was involved in the trimester on Phenomena in High Dimensions at the Institut Henri Poincare, where I taught this course.

Since January 2009 I am Levi Kerr Professor of Mathematics.

Courses and Such

Fall 2011

Spring 2012

Ongoing

MATH 528, Analysis Seminar

Some other courses I taught at Case in the not-too-distant past

You should direct any questions concerning CWRU Math Competition and the Putnam Competition (which were my charges in some of the past years) to Dr. Contenza

And here are my Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2006 and Spring 2010 graduate courses taught in Paris.

My Research Interests

My primary field is Functional Analysis, more specifically Geometry of Banach Spaces, Convexity and, particularly, their combinatorial and probabilistic aspects. I am also interested in those aspects of other fields such as, e.g., Operator Theory, Approximation Theory, Mathematical Physics, Computer Science or Operation Research that appeal to convexity and/or exhibit probabilistic or geometric flavor (including, but not limited to, Random Matrices and Quantum Information Theory).

Have a pet problem that could fit there? Drop me a line at szarek at cwru.edu

Here is my CV and selected publications with links to preprints.

Links: Banach Space Bulletin Board (Oklahoma State), Functional Analysis archive at UC Davis, arXiv.org

Other Interests

Other than that, I like travel, sailing (Navigare Necesse Est, CNIF), diving, skiing, tennis, table tennis, bridge ...

And here are my daughters, Martina and Natalie (as seen by an Ukrainian artist in Kraków in 1997) and Emily (testing a certain body of water in 2005).