Michael Stessin

Michael Stessin is a Professor of Mathematics at the University at Albany. He received his Ph. D. in 1976 from Moscow State University.

His research interests include function related operator theory, theory of Hardy and Bergman spaces and approximation theory.

Selected recent publications of M. I. Stessin

• On Toeplitz invariant subspaces of the Bergman space (with B.Korenblum), J. of Functional Analysis, 111, No 1 (1993), pp. 76-96.
• An extension of a theorem of Hadamard and domination in the Bergman space, J. of Functional Analysis, 115, No 1 (1993), pp. 212-226.
• Recapturing functions in H^p (with J.A Cima and T H MacGregor), Indiana Univ. Math. J., 43, No 1 (1994), pp. 205-220.
• Weighted reproducing kernels in Bergman spaces (with T.H.MacGregor), Michgan Math. J., 41 (1994), pp. 523-533.
• Linearity of the nearest cross section operators on holomorphic function spaces (with J.A.Cima ), Journal d'Analyse Mathematique, 65 (1995), pp. 221-236.
• Bounded point evaluations in C^n (with R.M.Range), Transactions of the Amer. Math. Soc., 347, No 6 (1995), pp. 2169-2177.
• On the recovery of analytic fuctions (with J.A.Cima), Canadian Math. J., 48 No 2 (1996), pp. 288-301.
• Multiplication invariant subspaces in Hardy spaces, Canadian Math. J., 49 No 1 (1997), pp. 100-118.
• Wandering property in the Hardy space (with D.Khavinson and T.Lance), Michigan Math J., 44 (1997), pp. 597-606.
• Minimal interpolation in spaces of analytic functions, Complex Varibles, 38 (1999), pp. 47-68.
• Wold decomposition of the Hardy space and Blaschke products similar to a contraction, Colloquium Mathematicum, 81 (1999), 2, pp. 271-284.
• Submodules of the Hardy space over polynomial algebras (with M.J.Jaffrey anr T.L.Lance), Pacific J. Math., 194 (2000), 2, pp. 373-392.
• Projectional generators in Hardy and Bergman spaces (with B.Korenblum and T.L.Lance), Bulletin des Sciences Math., 124 (2000), pp. 435-445.
• Reducing subspaces of weighted shift operators (with K.Zhu), Proc. of the AMS, to appear.
• Multiplication invariant subspaces of the Bergman space (with B.J.Carswell and P.L.Duren), Indiana Math. J., to appear.

Doctoral dissertations directed:

• Marc Jaffrey (Ph.D. 1998)
• Brent Carswell (Ph.D. 1999)
• Angeliki Kazas (Ph.D. 2002)
• Amy Kelly (in progress)