CAT SEMINAR SERIES, SPRING SEMESTER 1997

Time and Venue: Mondays, 10:20 am, 317 Milner Hall

February

3rd February: J. Hanisch , Block-realtime algorithms for cardinal interpolation and spline-wavelet decomposition
10th February: C. Chui, Cosine Wavelets
17th February: X. Shi, Cosine Wavelets II
24th February: X. Shi, Cosine Wavelets III

March

3rd March: F. Narcowich, A Neural Network Mystery

April

25th and 26th April: CAT Annual Symposium

SPECIAL LECTURES:

Hal Schenck from Cornell University will present a talk entitled Splines, Homological Algebra, and some interesting Ideals , on Friday, the 7th of February, at 3:00 pm, in 216 Milner Hall. Mr. Schenck will be hosted by the Geometry-Analysis-Topology Group .

Eugenio Hernandez from Univeridad Autonoma de Madrid will speak on Band-limited wavelets with subexponential decay , on Tuesday, the 11th of February, at 10:00 am, in 317 Milner Hall. Professor Hernandez will be hosted by the Linear Analysis Group.

Guido Weiss from Washington University at St. Louis will give three lectures in the department, under the auspices of the Frontiers in Mathematics Lecture Series . Details are as follows:

Lecture 1, Tuesday, 11th February, 4:00 pm, 317 Milner Hall: Why are Fourier series natural?
Lecture 2, Thursday, 13th February, 10:00 am, 317 Milner Hall: The characterization of wavelet and other expansions
Lecture 3, Thursday, 13th Feburary, 4:00 pm, 317 Milner Hall: Why are wavelets and related functions important in mathematics and its applications?

Sam Shen from University of Alberta, Canada, will speak on Two mathematical problems in the research into climate change detection , on Wednesday, the 19th of February, at 2:00 pm, in 317 Milner Hall.

Charles Micchelli from IBM will speak on A measure of dissimilarity between multivariate normal probability densities , on Thursday, the 17th of April, at 2:15 pm, in 317 Milner Hall.