Josh Zahl

Professor of Mathematics, University of British Columbia

Dr. Zahl is an associate professor in the mathematics department at The University of British Columbia. He has a broad interest in classical harmonic analysis and combinatorics. He is especially interested in incidence geometry, the restriction and Kakeya problems, and sum-product phenomena.

 

Dr. Zahl is a member of the PIMS Digital Collaboration Committee.

Joshua Zahl
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC/PIMS Young Faculty Award Lecture: Josh Zahl
February 17, 2023
University of British Columbia
A Kakeya set is a compact subset of R^n that contains a unit line segment pointing in every direction. The Kakeya conjecture asserts that such sets must have dimension n. This conjecture is closely related to several open problems in harmonic...