Lashi Bandara

Lashi Bandara

Senior Lecturer in Mathematics

Deakin University

I am a global analyst. I use operator methods in geometry, particular when they encode geometric/topological information. I typically work with differential operators on vector bundles and analyse them through functional calculus and real-variable harmonic analysis.

My current focus is on index theory in settings with boundary. I have contributed extensively to the topic over the past 5 years, in particular upgrading Fourier circle methods with the holomorphic functional calculus. This has allowed for analysis of non-Dirac-type operators and also non-compact boundary.

Broadly speaking, the following are my detailed interests:

  • Global analysis - use of operator methods in geometry, index theory.
  • Harmonic analysis - in the flavour of Calderon, Zygmund, Stein, etc.
  • Geometric analysis - analysis on non-compact manifolds, non-smooth metrics, analysis on measure metric spaces, Spin geometry.
  • Boundary value problems - first-order boundary value problems on bundles, non-smooth coefficients, non-compact boundary.
  • Spectral and operator theory - essential self-adjointness, asymptotics of eigenvalues, etc.
Interests
  • Global Analysis
  • Differential Geometry
  • Operator Theory
  • Functional Analysis
  • Index theory
  • Spectral Theory
  • Functional Calculus
Education
  • PhD in Pure Mathematics, 2013

    Australian National University

  • Honours in Science, 2006

    Monash University

  • BSc, 2004

    Monash University

  • BCompSc, 2004

    Monash University

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