RESEARCH INTERESTS:  Functional Analysis, especially in Banach Space Theory, Measure Theory, Tensor Products, Banach Lattices, and Sequence Spaces.

 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: 

1. (with G. Buskes) The Radon-Nikodym property for tensor products of Banach lattices, Positivity 10 (2006), 365--390.
2. Semi-embeddings and weakly sequential completeness of the projective tensor product, Studia Mathematica 169 (2005), no.3, 287--294. MR 2006a:46084
3. (with P.T. Kranz) Some mapping properties of p-summing adjoint operators, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 303 (2005), no.2, 585--590. MR 2005i:47033
4. (with G. Emmanuele) The projective and injective tensor products of L^p[0,1] and X being Grothendieck spaces,  Rocky Mountain J. Math. 35 (2005), no.3, 713--726. MR 2006h:46072
5. (with Pei-Kee Lin) Radon-Nikodym property for the projective tensor product of Kothe function spaces, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 293 (2004), no.1, 149--159. MR 2005c:46028
6. Weakly sequential completeness of the projective tensor product L^p[0,1]\hat{\otimes}X (1 < p < \infty), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), no.2, 381--384. MR 2004i:46025 
   
7. (with J. Diestel, P.N. Dowling, and Eve Oja) Types of Radon-Nikodym properties for the projective tensor product of Banach spaces, Illinois J. Math. 47 (2003), no.4, 1303--1326. MR 2005b:46041
8. Some properties of the injective tensor product of L^p[0,1] and a Banach space,  J. Funct. Anal. 204 (2003), no.1,  101--121. MR 2005b:46044
9. On Banach spaces verifying Grothendieck's theorem, Bull. London Math. Soc. 35 (2003), no.6, 738--748. MR 2004h:46015 
10. Some mapping properties of p-summing operators with Hilbertian domains, Contemporary Math. 328 (2003), 145--149.  MR 2004f:46029 
11. A new proof of \ell_1\check{\otimes}X \subseteq c₀ \hat{\otimes}X, Taiwanese J. Math. 6 (2002), no.2, 181--185. MR 2003b:46021    
12. (with P. Dowling) Observations about the projective tensor product of Banach spaces, III --- L^p[0,1]\hat{\otimes}X, 1 < p < \infty, Quaestiones Math. 25 (2002), no.3, 303--310. MR 2003i:46016 
13. Observations about the projective tensor product of Banach spaces, II --- L^p[0,1]\hat{\otimes}X, 1 < p < \infty, Quaestiones Math. 25 (2002), no.2, 209--227.    MR 2003e:46025   
14. (with J. Diestel) Observations about the projective tensor product of Banach spaces, I --- \ell^p\hat{\otimes}X, 1 < p < infty, Quaestiones Math. 24 (2001), no.4, 519--533.  MR 2002k:46049 
15. Weakly sequential completeness of Banach-valued sequence spaces \ell_p[X], Acta Math. Hungar. 89 (2000),  no.3, 259--267.MR 2003f:46033 

Papers reviewed in the Mathematical Reviews

• Journal of  Mathematical Analysis and Applications
• Positivity
• Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics
• Applied Mathematics Letters
• International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
• Quaestiones Mathematicae
• The Boletin de la Sociedad Matematica Mexicana
  

• 20-minute contribution talk in Banach Spaces and their Applications in Analysis, a Conference in Honor of Nigel Kalton's 60th Birthday, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, May 22--27, 2006.
• 20-minute contribution talk in The Fifth Conference on Function Spaces, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois, May 16--20, 2006.
• Attended the Workshop in Linear Analysis and Probability (Mini-conference in honor of Haskell P. Rosenthal), Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, August 4--7, 2005.
• 20-minute invited talk in the Special Session on Spaces of Vector-Valued Functions, AMS Annual Meeting , Atlanta, Georgia, January 5--8, 2005.
• 20-minute contribution talk in the 24th Annual Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, May 26--30, 2004.
• Attended  the Conference of  Banach Spaces and Applications, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, October 2003.
  
• 20-minute invited talk in the Special Session on Banach Space Theory and Convex Geometry, AMS Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, January 15--18, 2003.
• 50-minute invited talk in seminar,  The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, October 2002.
• 20-minute contribution talk in The Fourth Conference on Function Spaces, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois, May 14--18, 2002.
• 50-minute contribution talk in the Workshop in Linear Analysis and Probability, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, August 2001.
• 50-minute invited talk in seminar,  University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, February 2001. 
• 10-minute contribution talk in the AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2001.