This award provides support for the fifth meeting in the series of February Fourier Talks (FFT), held 18-19 February 2010 at the University of Maryland, College Park. The conference encourages and financially supports participation by students, recent Ph.D. recipients, and members of groups underrepresented in mathematics.
The meeting includes invited lectures on topics of current research interest and also encourages poster presentations by students and recent Ph.D. recipients. The conference brings together workers in a variety of different areas of research in harmonic analysis, with emphasis on facilitating the process of making pure mathematics applicable.
Conference web site: http://norbertwiener.umd.edu/FFT/
This grant was used to support participants to the February Fourier Talks (FFT) 2010, which was held on February 18th and 19th, 2010 at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Maryland, College Park. FFT 2010 was organized by the Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and its Applications (NWC). The conference brought together 155 participants 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 FFT 2010 was used to support 32 junior people, as well as 10 senior participants. The structure of the conference is aimed at building bridges between pure harmonic analysis and applications thereof. In particular, FFT 2010 was formatted as a two-day single-track meeting with the following structure. Thirteen 30 minute talks : 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. The Norbert Wiener Distinguished Lecturer Series: This lecture was delivered by Dr. Elias Stein of Princeton University. The 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. For FFT 2010 the Norbert Wiener Colloquium was delivered by Dr. Charles Fefferman of Princeton University. The 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. In 2010 the Keynote Address was delivered by Dr. William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters Art Museum, who spoke on ``Infinite Possibilities: Reading between the lines of the Archimedes Palimpsest''. He gave a fascinating account of his group's work on a project involving conservation, imaging scholarship, and publication concerning the work of Archimedes. The 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 and 19 students or postdocs presented posters at FFT 2010. Finally, this award from the National Science Foundation for FFT 2010 was also used to support 3 junior female scientists to participate in a workshop on Computational Analysis in Systems Biology. This endeavor grew out of the interaction we had with Dr. Robert Bonner of the NIH at FFT 2010. In order to disseminate information about the FFT to the varied communities we target, we have advertised using media such as professional mailing lists, the Notices of the AMS, and postings on many professional societies web sites, e.g., SIAM, IEEE, NuHAG, NWC. Furthermore, the FFT has an up-to-date web site www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/FFT which contains information about past meetings, including the list of speakers together with links to abstracts. In addition, the talks at FFT 2010 were videotaped, and these presentations are now available at the above web site.
