William Beckner

Department of Mathematics
University of Texas at Austin
One University Station C1200
Austin, Texas 78712

Phone:

Office: 512-471-0117
Fax: 512-471-9038

E-Mail:

beckner@math.utexas.edu

Research:

• Fourier Analysis
  
• Geometric Inequalities
  
• Lie Groups & Differential Geometry
  
• Mathematical Physics
  
• Partial Differential Equations
  
• Probability
  

Teaching:

Purpose -- to engage students on the cutting edge of curiosity and provide the analytical tools to decode
and explain the universe, investigate new and difficult things, recognize mathematical beauty and
understand how patterns of symmetry and the asymptotics of large-scale behavior encode information
[with lines borrowed from Isaac Newton and friends]

• Real Analysis [Fall 05]
• Harmonic Analysis [Fall 06]
• Dean's Scholars Seminar [Fall 06, 07]
• First-Year Seminar [Fall 07]

Education:

• BS in Physics, University of Missouri (Columbia); Adviser - Bernard Goodman
  
• PhD in Mathematics, Princeton University; Adviser - Elias M. Stein
  
• Post-doctoral study, University of Chicago; Adviser - A.P. Calderon

Honors:

• Prix Salem 1975
• Sloan Research Fellow 1977

Administrative Positions:

• Managing Editor, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2000-05
• Assistant Director, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, 2006-09