This award provides support for the seventh meeting in the February Fourier Talks (FFT) series. The 2012 FFT will be held February 16-17, 2012, at the University of Maryland, College Park. The FFT is a high-level forum for harmonic analysts to bring their work to scientists from industry and government agencies. In addition it allows experts in applied and pure harmonic analysis to get familiar with the latest problems in need of mathematical formulation and solution. Finally, it introduces young mathematicians and scientists to applied and pure harmonic analysis. More information, including a list of speakers and abstracts, registration information, and an archive of past conferences, can be found at the conference webpage: www.fft2012.org.
The February Fourier Talks directly encourage dialogue and collaboration between mathematicians and scientists working in industry and government. The structure of the conference consists of three main lectures and sixteen 30 minute invited talks. The conference encourages and financially supports participation by students, recent Ph.D. recipients, and members of groups underrepresented in mathematics.
This grant was used to support participants to the {it February Fourier Talks (FFT)} $2012$, which was held on February $16th$ and $17th$, $2012$ at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Maryland, College Park. {it FFT $2012$} was organized by the Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and its Applications (NWC). The conference brought together about $120$ participants (see list of participants below) including applied and pure harmonic analysts along with scientists and engineers from industry and government for an intense and enriching two-day meeting. In particular, this award from the National Science Foundation for {it FFT $2012$} was used to support $41$ participants, including $28$ junior participants, as well as $10$ members of underrepresented groups. The structure of the conference is aimed at building bridges between pure harmonic analysis and applications thereof. In particular, {it FFT $2012$} was formatted as a two-day single-track meeting with the following structure. ewline egin{center} {f Thirteen $30$ minute talks}end{center} These talks were given by experts in applied and pure harmonic analysis, including academic researchers as well as invited scientists from industry and government agencies. More specifically, the speakers were: Arpad Benyi (Western Washington University), `` Bilinear pseudodifferential operators of H""ormander type'' Marcin Bownik (University of Oregon ), `` Existence of frames with prescribed norms and frame operator'' Andrzej Brodzik (MITRE Corporation), ``On perfect sequences with unique differences'' Heiko Claussen (Siemens Corporate Research), ``Direction of Arrival Estimation for Multiple Source Tracking (MUST) in Industrial Environments'' Fred Goodman (MITRE Corporation), ``Increasing Speaker Recognition Algorithm Agility and Effectiveness for "Unseen" Conditions'' Alfred Hero ( University of Michigan), ``Extracting correlation structure from large random matrices'' Richard Leapman (National Institutes of Health), ``Nanoscale $3$D reconstruction of cells by electron tomography and related techniques'' G""otz Pfander (Jacobs University), ``A two sided Bourgain Tzafriri Restricted Invertibility Theorem'' Teresa Przytycka (National Institutes of Health),``Using network flow to bridge the gap between genotype and phenotype'' Sandra Saliani (Universit'a degli Studi della Basilicata), ``Characterizations of some types of linear independence of integer translates" Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota), ``Collaborative and structured signal modeling and processing'' Ivan Selesnick (Polytechnic Institute of New York University), `` Sparse signal representation and the tunable Q-factor wavelet transform'' Rachel Ward (University of Texas Austin), ``Robust image recovery via total variation minimization'' Norbert Wiener Distinguished Lecturer Series: This lecture was delivered by Dr.~Gilbert Strang of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who spoke about ``Doubly Infinite Matrices: Algebra Needs Help From Analysis''. Norbert Wiener Colloquium: This concluding lecture features a mathematical talk by a renowned applied or pure harmonic analyst. The objective of the Norbert Wiener Colloquium is to give an overview of a particular problem or a new challenge in the field. In $2012$ Dr.~Peter Jones of Yale University gave a talk on ``Product Formulas for Positive Measures and Applications". Keynote Address: In contrast to the highly technical day sessions, this lecture is aimed at a general public audience and highlights the role of mathematics, in general, and harmonic analysis, in particular. Furthermore, this Keynote Address can be seen as an opportunity for practitioners in a specific area to present mathematical problems that one encounters in one's work. For {it FFT $2012$}, Dr.~Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute talked on ``Is God a Mathematician?''. Poster Session: This poster session was organized out of the belief that educating the next generation of U. S. harmonic analysts, with a strong understanding of the foundation of the field and a grasp of the problems arising in applications, is important for a high level and productive workforce in government/industry and academia. The response among both students and senior attendees was very enthusiastic. The conference website is at www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/FFT/2012/index.html
