Dr Joel Feinstein's talk at Banach Algebras 2011, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He discussed joint work with Herb Kamowitz on compact, power compact, quasicompact and Riesz endomorphisms of commutative Banach algebras, along with some background, examples, and questions.

This is a lecture from Dr Feinstein's 4th-year module G14FUN Functional Analysis. See also Dr Feinstein's blog at http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/ and, in particular, the Functional Analysis screencasts blog page at http://wp.me/PosHB-8v In this screencast, Dr Feinstein discusses two...

This is a lecture from Dr Feinstein's 4th-year module G14FUN Functional Analysis. See also Dr Feinstein's blog at http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/ and, in particular, the Functional Analysis screencasts blog page at http://wp.me/PosHB-8v In this screencast, Dr Feinstein introduces the weak...