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I work in the intersection of microlocal, semiclassical and harmonic analysis. Key problems I am interested in are:
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How do high energy solutions to PDE and pseudodifferential equations behave? What kind of concentration properties do they display? Typically these kinds of problems involved proving a growth bound for a function norm.
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How do these concentration properties fit in with the theories and hypothesis of Quantum Chaos?
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How can we use growth bounds for solutions to obtain mapping norm estimates for classical harmonic analysis operators (such as Bochner-Riesz means)?
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How can we use Fourier integral operators to produce effective analysis/synthesis systems?
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How do random waves behave, what can we expect at a small scale?