Michael Levitin
michaellevitin.net
Topics in Spectral Geometry with Dan Mangoubi and Iosif Polterovich
INI Programme Geometric Spectral Theory and Applications, January–June 2026
I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading.
I am always interested to hear from candidates for a PhD or a postdoctoral position. Examples of some old and new research are below and elsewhere on this website.
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New papers/preprints
- with Nikolay Filonov, Iosif Polterovich, and David A. Sher, Uniform enclosures for the phase and zeros of Bessel functions and their derivatives (2024)
- with Nikolay Filonov, Iosif Polterovich, and David A. Sher, Inequalities à la Pólya for the Aharonov–Bohm eigenvalues of the disk (2023)
- with Nikolay Filonov, Iosif Polterovich, and David A. Sher, Pólya’s conjecture for Euclidean balls, Invent. Math. (2023)
- with Matteo Capoferri and Dmitri Vassiliev, Geometric wave propagator on Riemannian manifolds, Comm. Anal. Geom. (2022)
News:
- UK Spectral Theory Network
- ICMS workshop Shape Optimisation and Geometric Spectral Theory, September 20-23, 2022, Edinburgh
- GEMSTONE Minicourse The Steklov problem on non-smooth domains, August 29 to September 2, 2022, Montreal, with videos and slides
