Karel PRAVDA-STAROV

Department of Mathematics
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555, USA
 

Office : MS 5634
Phone : + 1 (310) -825-2697 
karel "at" math.ucla.edu


I am an Hedrick Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. The subject of my research deals with semiclassical and microlocal analysis.

Teaching

Math 113, Lecture 2, Fall 2007, Math 2, Lecture 1, Winter 2008, Math 3B, Lecture 2, Winter 2008, Math 133, Lecture 1, Spring 2008.

Quelques documents en français

Mon cv, mon rapport d'activité et un résumé de ma thèse.

My PhD thesis

I have defended my PhD thesis at the University of Rennes 1, France in June 12th, 2006, under the directorship of Nicolas LERNER .My PhD thesis is entitled "Etude du pseudo-spectre d'opérateurs non auto-adjoints”, ps, pdf.  

Publications

1) A general result about the pseudo-spectrum of Schrödinger operators, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A , (2004) 460, 471-477, ps, pdf.
2) A complete study of the pseudo-spectrum for the rotated harmonic oscillator, J. London Math. Soc., (2) 73 (2006), 745-761,
ps, pdf.
3) Etude du pseudo-spectre d'opérateurs non auto-adjoints, PhD Thesis, University of Rennes 1, France (2006), ps, pdf.
4) Boundary pseudospectral behaviour for semi-classical operators in one dimension, Int. Math. Res. Notices, (2007) Vol. 2007, article ID rnm029, 31 pages, doi:10.1093/imrn/rnm029 published on Jun 17, 2007, ps, pdf.
5) Sur le pseudo-spectre de certaines classes d'opérateurs pseudo-différentiels non auto-adjoints, Séminaire : Équations aux Dérivées Partielles, 2006-2007, Exp. No. XV, 33 p., École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, ps, pdf.
6) Explicit examples of nonsolvable weakly hyperbolic operators with real coefficients, Bull. Braz. Math. Soc., 38 (3) (2007), 397-425, ps, pdf.
7) Contraction semigroups of elliptic quadratic differential operators, Mathematische Zeitschrift, 259 (2) (2008), 363-391, ps, pdf.
8) Pseudo-spectrum for a class of semi-classical operators, (2007) accepted for publication in the Bulletin de la SMF, ps, pdf.
9) On the pseudospectrum of elliptic quadratic differential operators, (2007) accepted for publication in Duke Mathematical Journal, pdf.
10) Spectra and semigroup smoothing for non-elliptic quadratic operators, (with Michael Hitrik ), (2007) paper submitted, pdf.