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FFT 2016 Schedule

Below is the list of speakers and the schedule of time slots. Click on any talk title to see an abstract for the talk.

The main events include a Distinguished Lecturer on Thursday afternoon; our Keynote speaker Thursday at 6:45 pm, followed by a light dinner reception on the second floor rotunda of the Mathematics building; and the Norbert Wiener Colloquium on Friday at 3:00 pm, followed by High Tea for all participants of the FFT.

Norbert Wiener Center Distinguished Lecturer (Thursday Afternoon): Henry Landau (Columbia University)
Toeplitz Matrices: Theme and Variations click for abstract

Keynote Address (Thursday Evening): Judith Grabiner (Pitzer College)
Mathematics and Culture: Geometry and Everything Else click for abstract

Norbert Wiener Colloquium (Friday Afternoon):Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)
Geometric graph-based methods for high dimensional data click for abstract

     Thursday,
February 18
   Friday,
February 19
         
    Morning speakers   Morning speakers
9:00-9:30  

Joel Tropp (Caltech)
Universality laws for randomized dimension reduction

9:30-10:00 Justin Romberg (Georgia Tech)
Bilinear lifting for applications in signal processing
9:45-10:15   Boris Gramatikov (JHU School of Medicine)
Detecting central fixation by means of retinal birefringence scanning and time-frequency analysis
10:15-10:45 Azita Mayeli (CUNY, Queensborough and Graduate Center)
The Fugelde conjecture holds in Zp2
10:30-11:00   Kathy Merrill (Colorado College)
Smooth well-localized Parseval wavelets based on simple wavelet sets in Rn
11:00-11:30 Hassan Mansour (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs)
Multipath Removal by Online Blind Deconvolution in Through-the-Wall-Imaging
11:15-11:45   Alex Iosevich (University of Rochester)
Point configurations inside thin subsets of Euclidean space
11:45-12:15 Amit Singer (Princeton)
Solving the 3-D Puzzle of Rotation Assignment in Single Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy

 

       
11:45-1:00   Lunch 12:15-1:45 Lunch
         
    Afternoon speakers   Afternoon speakers
1:00-1:30   Richard G. Spencer (NIH)
Application of the Multidimensional Inverse Laplace Transform and Compressed Sensing in Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry for Tissue Characterization
1:45-2:15 Deguang Han (University of Central Florida)
Duality for Group Representation Frames
1:45-2:15   Piya Pal (University of Maryland, College Park)
Difference set sampling for Source Localization and Beyond
2:30-3:00 Ozgur Yilmaz (University of British Columbia)
Near-optimal compression for compressed sensing

2:30-3:00

  Robert Taylor (Mitre)
Analog Coding: Knots, Tori, Tube Packing, and Why The Digital Era May Not Last Forever
3:15-4:15

Norbert Wiener Colloquium
Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)
Geometric graph-based methods for high dimensional data
(The Norbert Wiener Colloquium will be followed by High Tea)

3:15-3:45   Rodney Kerby (Morgan State University)
Spectral Analysis in non-Archimedean Hilbert Spaces
 

 

4:00-4:50   Norbert Wiener Center Distinguished Lecturer
Henry Landau (Columbia University)
Toeplitz Matrices: Theme and Variations
 

 

5:00   Student and Post-doc poster sessions    
         
    Thursday Evening Program    
6:30   Introductory remarks by Scott Wolpert and Norbert Wiener Center Director, John J. Benedetto    
6:45   Keynote Speaker
Judith Grabiner (Pitzer College)
Mathematics and Culture: Geometry and Everything Else

   
7:30   Social, Light Dinner, Refreshments