prof. dr. sc. Vjekoslav Kovač
Title: | Full Professor |
Location:
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A310
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Public phone number: | +385-1-460-5890 |
E-mail: |
E-mail
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Personal web page: |
http://web.math.pmf.unizg.hr/~vjekovac/
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Department:
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Zavod za teoriju vjerojatnosti i matematičku statistiku
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mr.sc. graduation year: | 2006 |
PhD graduation year: | 2011 |
Employed in this institution since: | 2003 |
Teaching
undergraduate
graduate
Consultations
in person: Mondays 10-11 and 14-15 (with prior notification); by email: always (I reply as soon as I can)
Biography
Education:
- 2006 - M. Sc. in Mathematics, University of Zagreb, T(1) theorem in classical and dyadic harmonic analysis
- 2011 - Ph. D. in Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, Applications of the Bellman Function Technique in Multilinear and Nonlinear Harmonic Analysis
- 2019-20 - visiting researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Awards:
- Croatian national award for science for the year 2023, Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Youth (2024)
- Special award for popularization of science and popularization of the Faculty of Science, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb (2024)
- Fulbright Scholarship for visiting research scholars (2019-20)
- Young scientist award, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb (2012)
- Horn-Moez Prize for excellence in first year graduate studies, Special Awards Ceremony, UCLA Math newsletter The Common Denominator (Fall 2007)
- Dorothy Radcliffe Dee Fellowship, Math department, UCLA (2006)
- Top Student scholarship, Izabrano 8 najboljih studenata u Hrvatskoj, Nacional (July 24, 2002)
List of select publications
Selected recent publications:
A. Bulj, V. Kovač, Asymptotic behavior of $L^p$ estimates for a class of multipliers with homogeneous unimodular symbols, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 376 (2023), no. 7, 4539-4567.
V. Kovač, K. A. Škreb, Bilinear embedding in Orlicz spaces for divergence-form operators with complex coefficients, J. Funct. Anal. 284 (2023), issue 9, article 109884, 32 pp.
A. Carbonaro, O. Dragičević, V. Kovač, Sharp $L^p$ estimates of powers of the complex Riesz transform, Math. Ann. 386 (2023), 1081-1125.
A. Carbonaro, O. Dragičević, V. Kovač, K. A. Škreb, Trilinear embedding for divergence-form operators with complex coefficients, Adv. Math. 431 (2023), article 109239, 72 pp.
P. Durcik, V. Kovač, A Szemerédi-type theorem for subsets of the unit cube, Anal. PDE. 15 (2022), no. 2, 507-549.
Professional memberships
Administrative duties:
- Member of the National board for mathematics
- Head of the Division of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics
- Managing editor of the research journal "Glasnik Matematički"
- Co-organizer of the colloquium "Sibe Mardešić"
- Coordinator of the Functional Analysis Seminar
Research interests (within the field of Mathematics):
- Real harmonic analysis, more specifically time-frequency analysis and multilinear singular integrals
- Applications of real analysis techniques to ergodic theory, martingales, geometric measure theory, arithmetic combinatorics, and nonlinear scattering
- Various topics related to analysis, combinatorics, or probability
- Problem solving skills
List of select projects
HRZZ IP-2022-10-5116: Fourier analysis and applications (FANAP), duration: December 31, 2023 - December 30, 2027
HRZZ UIP-2017-05-4129: Multilinear and Nonlinear Harmonic Analysis and Applications (MUNHANAP), duration: March 1, 2018 - February 28, 2023
Past employments
2023– Full Professor (field: Mathematics), Dept. of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb