Vita

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT:

• Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2018-present), Associate Professor

• Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2013-2018), Assistant Professor

• Princeton University and Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (2009 - 2013), Veblen Research Instructor

• Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania (2003-present), Research Assistant

• University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (2004-2009), Ph.D.

  • Adviser: Christoph Thiele

  • Thesis: Relational time-frequency analysis

  • M. A. (2004-2006)

• Normal Superior School Bucharest, Romania (2003-2004), M.A.

• University of Bucharest, Romania, (1997 - 2003)

  • Adviser: Nicolae Popa

  • M.A. (2001-2003)

  • B.S. (1997-2001)

• Technical University of Bucharest, Romania, (1996-2001), B.S.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Harmonic Analysis:

  • Time-frequency analysis

  • Kakeya and Restriction Problems

  • Applications of harmonic analysis in additive combinatorics and PDE

• Fluid dynamics

AWARDS:

• ``Simion Stoilow" prize of the Romanian Academy, 2022

• Simons Fellow in Mathematics, 2020/2021 (extended Spring 2022)

• NSF grant DMS-1900801 (July 2019 - June 2022, extended until May 2023)

• NSF grant DMS-1500958 (June 2015 - May 2018, extended until May 2019)

• NSF grant DMS-1449514 (June 2014 - May 2015)

• NSF grant DMS-1200932 (June 2012 - May 2014)

• AMS Simons Award (Summer 2011 - Summer 2013)

• Clay Liftoff Fellowship (Summer 2009)

• Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA (2008-2009)

• Fellowship - University Paris 6, France (Spring 2002)

• Second Prize, Romanian National Mathematics Olympiad (1995)

GRADUATE STUDENTS

• Yung Chang (Martin) Hsu (third year)

• Nicholas Gismondi (third year)

• Alejandra Gaitan Montejo  (graduated, Spring 2022); current position: Business Analytics Manager at CitiBank, New York, NY, US

POSTDOC

• Bingyang Hu (graduated, Spring 2023); current position: Assistant Professor, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, US

CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

• Co-organizer (joint with  F. Di Plinio (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy ) of the UMI-AMS Special Session on ``Harmonic Analysis and Geometric Measure theory" that is part of The 2nd Joint Meeting co-organized by the Unione Matematica Italiana (UMI) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS),  Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, July 23-26 2024.

• Co-organizer (joint with E. Indrei (Purdue University)) of the AMS Special Session on ``The Interface Between Nonlinear PDEs, Harmonic Analysis, and Quantitative Geometric and Functional Inequalities" that is part of the Spring Central Sectional Meeting, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, March 26-27, 2022.

• Co-organizer of the Banff workshop ``Restriction, Kakeya, and Carleson-Type Problems"  April 26 - May 1, 2020, (organized jointly with N. Katz (Caltech) and J. Zahl (UBC) - canceled due to Covid)

• Co-organizer of the Harmonic Analysis Graduate Student Seminar during the MSRI Program in Harmonic Analysis, Spring 2017, (organized jointly with P. Auscher (Univ of Paris Sud))

• Co-organizer of the AIM workshop ``Carleson Theorems and Multilinear Operators", May 2015, (organized jointly with P. Gressman (UPenn), L. Pierce (Duke) and P. L. Yung (Chinese Univ of Hong Kong) )

INVITED TALKS:

“The  curved trilinear Hilbert transform”

• The Tenth Congress of Romanian Mathematicians, Piteşti, Romania, June 30 - July 5, 2023

• Colloquium talk, University of Nantes, Nantes, France, June 2023

• Analysis Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April 2023

“The LGC method (II)”

• Institute of the Romanian Academy ``Simion Stoilow", Bucharest, Romania, December 2022.

• Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the ``Theorie analytique de la chaleur", Edinburgh, UK, 27 June - 1 July 2022.

• $11^{th}$ International Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, El Escorial, Madrid, Spain, June 6 - 10, 2022.

“The LGC method (I)”

• Analysis Seminar, University of Delaware, April 2021

• Analysis Seminar, Louisiana State University, March 2021.

• Conference in Geometric and functional inequalities and recent topics in nonlinear PDE's, February 2021.

“A unified approach to three themes in harmonic analysis”

• Atelier d'Analyse Harmonique 2020, Corsica, France, April 20 - 24, 2020  (cancelled/rescheduled due to Covid)

• Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 13-15, 2020, (cancelled/rescheduled due to Covid)

• Michigan State University, Analysis Seminar, East Lansing, MI, November 2019

• International workshop on Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory, Istanbul, Turkey, 26--29 August, 2019

• The 9th Congress of Romanian Mathematicians, Galati, Romania, June 2019

• Colloquium, University of Nantes, Nantes, France, February 2019

“On the Boundedness of the Hilbert Transform along variable families of "non-flat" curves”

• Indiana University Bloomington, Analysis Seminar, Bloomington, IN, August 2018

• ICM Satellite Conference in Harmonic Analysis, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, July 2018

• University of Maryland, Analysis Seminar, Maryland, MD, May 2018

• Atelier d'Analyse Harmonique 2018, Aussois, France, March 2018

“Recent progress on the pointwise convergence of Fourier Series near L1”

• Harmonic Analysis Seminar, Caltech, CA, November 2017

• Harmonic Analysis and its Interactions: In Honour of Tony Carbery, Edinburgh, UK, July 2017

  • Harmonic Analysis Seminar, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, April 2017

  • Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, March 2017

• Colloquium, Kent State University, Kent, OH, December 2016

“Extremizers for the 2D Kakeya problem- Latest Developments”

• Western Washington University, Colloquium, Bellingham, WA, January 2017

  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, November 2016

“Pointwise convergence of Fourier Series near L1”

• Barcelona Analysis Conference, Barcelona, Spain, September 2016

• Western Washington University, Colloquium, February 2016

• University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, January 2016

• Hausdorff Center of Mathematics, Bonn, Germany, January 2016

• University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, January 2016

“Formation of singularities and long term regularity for certain fluid models”

• Clay Research Conference - Water Waves and Related Fluid Models, Oxford, UK, October 2015

“Extremizers for the 2D Kakeya problem”

• George Boole Mathematical Sciences Conference, Harmonic Analysis, Cork, Ireland, August 2015

• The Eighth Congress of Romanian Mathematicians, Iasi, Romania, July 2015

• AMS-EMS-PMS International Meeting, Porto, Portugal, June 2015

“On the absence of ”splash” singularities in the case of two-fluid interfaces”

• Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, December 2014

• Purdue University, November 2014

• 10th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Madrid, July 2014

“On the boundedness of the Bilinear Hilbert Transform along non-flat smooth curves”

• Western Washington University, Colloquium, November 2014

“On a conjecture of Konyagin”

• University of California, Davis, CA, February 2015

• Harmonic Analysis Workshop - celebrating Michael Cowling’s 65th birthday, Segovia, July 2014

• Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, June 2014

• Princeton University, April 2014

• University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 2014

“Topics in time-frequency analysis II”

• Wabash College, November 2013

“On the pointwise convergence of the sequence of partial Fourier sums along lacunary subsequences”

• AMS Meeting, Alba Iulia, June 2013

• University of Edinburgh, June 2013

• Purdue University, March 2013

“Topics in time-frequency analysis I”

• U Penn, January 2012

• Washintgton University in St. Louis, January 2012

• Purdue University, December 2011

“On the boundedness of the maximal Schrodinger operator in 1 D”

• Oberwolfach, Germany, July 2011 “The Polynomial Carleson Operator”

• The Congress Of Romanian Mathenmaticians, Brasov, June 2011

“Time-frequency analysis”

• Institute of Advanced Studies, September 2010

“On Stein’s Conjecture on the Polynomial Carleson Operator”

• Princeton University, December 2009

• University of Wisconsin, December 2008

• University of Chicago, December 2008

• Cornell University, November 2008

• Oberwolfach, Germany, July 2008

“The (weak-L2) Boundedness of the Quadratic Carleson Operator”

• El Escorial, Spain, June 2008

• University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, January 2008

• University of California, Los Angeles, January 2008

SERVICE:

• NSF panelist

• Referee for: Annals of Mathematics, Acta Mathematica, J. Amer. Math .Soc. (JAMS), Advances in Mathematics,  Geom. Funct. Anal. (GAFA), Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal.(ARMA), Math. Res. Lett.(MRL), Rev. Mat. Iber. (RMI), Transaction of the AMS (TAMS), Stud. Math, J.  Funct. Anal (JFA), J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS), Duke.Math.J.