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20th Century Harmonic Analysis -- A Celebration
Lecture Schedule
There is a coffee break midway in each three-hour lecture.
July 3
Part I: Underlying Theory
8:45-9:00 Jim Byrnes
Prometheus Inc. and the University of Massachusetts at Boston
Brief opening remarks
9:00-12:00 Victor P. Havin
St. Petersburg State University and McGill University
On the uncertainty principle in harmonic analysis
14:30-17:30 Harold S. Shapiro
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Operator theory and harmonic analysis
July 4

9:00-12:00 Jean-Pierre Kahane (*)
Université de Paris-Sud
Baire and probability methods in harmonic analysis
14:30-17:30 Bahman Saffari
Université de Paris-Sud
Extremal problems on trigonometric polynomials: a century of progress
July 5

9:00-12:00 Guido Janssen
Philips Research Laboratories
Gabor frames and their applications
14:30-17:30 T. W. Körner
Cambridge University
Does order matter? Hard summation and its effect on Fourier series and wavelets
20:30-22:00 Poster session
Contributed papers
July 6

9:00-12:00 Stephane Jaffard
Université de Paris XII
Wavelet expansions, function spaces and multifractality
14:30-17:30 Nikolai Nikolski
Steklov Institute of Mathematics, St. Petersburg
The problem of efficient inversions and Bezout equations
July 7

9:00-10:15 F. Alberto Grunbaum
University of California at Berkeley
Biomedical imaging, harmonic analysis and beyond
10:45-12:00 Richard Tolimieri
Prometheus Inc.
Lesser known FFT algorithms
14:30-15:45 Larry Zalcman
Bar-Ilan University
Morera's theorem 114 years later
15:45-17:30 Problem session I
July 8-9

Trips to Florence, Siena, and Dievole
July 10
Part II:Specific Applications
9:00-12:00 Herbert Hauptman
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
The phase problem of X-ray crystallography
14:30-17:30 Guido Weiss
Washington University, St. Louis
Connectivity of wavelets
July 11

9:00-12:00 Doug Cochran
Arizona State University
Harmonic analysis and sampling in warped spaces
14:30-17:30 Hugh Montgomery
University of Michigan
Harmonic analysis as practiced by analytic number theorists
18:00-19:00 Vladimir Gurarii
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
How to use the Fourier Transform in asymptotic analysis
July 12

9:00-12:00 Martin Vetterli
EPFL, Lausanne
Wavelets and subband coding: A fruitful interaction between theory and practice
14:30-15:15 Jim Byrnes
The Uncertainty Principle--A different perspective
15:15-17:30 Problem Session II
20:30-22:00 Poster session
Contributed papers
July 13

9:00-12:00 Bill Moran
Flinders University and Elandra Systems Research
Mathematics of radar signal processing
14:30-17:30 Yehoshua Zeevi
Technion, Haifa
The impact of harmonic analysis upon 20th century technology
July 14

9:00-12:00 Problem session III
12:00 Jim Byrnes
Closing remarks

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(*) Due to Professor Kahane's profound disagreement with recent NATO actions he refuses to accept NATO funds. Nevertheless, in the interest of Mathematics and his colleagues, Professor Kahane will actively participate in our conference, with his financial support coming from non-NATO sources.
(**) We are sorry that Eli Stein will not be able to attend the meeting due to a medical problem. We all wish him well.