Harmonic Analysis

and Applications

A Conference in Honor of

John J. Benedetto

On his 60th Birthday

University of Maryland

Sponsored by the

Department of Mathematics

October 7-10, 1999

COLLOQUIUM TALK

• John Benedetto
  • A Hitchhiker's Guide to Harmonic Analysis

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

• Chandler Davis
  • Retrospection and Renewal of an Operator-Theoretic View of Analysis

• Fulvio Ricci
  • Harmonic Analysis on Tube Domains in C^n

• Guido Weiss
  • MRA Tight Frame Wavelets

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Akram Aldroubi
  • p-Frames and Shift Invariant Subspaces of L^p

• Paul Butzer
  • Bernoulli Functions, Hilbert Type Poisson Summation Formulae,
  • Associated Partial Fraction Expansions

• Jim Byrnes
  • Smooth PONS

• Hans Feichtinger
  • Banach Frames and Non-Orthogonal Expansions

• Jean-Pierre Gabardo
  • Frames Associated with General Measure Spaces

• Hans Heinig
  • Revisiting Weighted Fourier Inequalities and Applications

• Stephane Jaffard
  • Wavelet, New Function Spaces and Multifractal Analysis

• Lee Jones
  • Estimating and Learning Mappings in High Dimensions:
  • Adaptive Neural or Fixed Basis Harmonic Analysis Approaches?

• David Larson

• Ka-Sing Lau
  • On Two Scale Dilation Equations and Iterated Function Systems

• Babar Saffari
  • On the Erdos Conjectures for Self-Inversive Polynomials

• Gilbert Walter

CONTRIBUTING SPEAKERS

• Ben Kedem
  • Rice's Formula

• Carlos Cabrelli
  • Tiles, Density and Multiresolution Analysis in R^n

• Christiane Carton-LeBrun
  • Weight Characterization of Averaging Operators

• Pete Casazza
  • Pointwise Inner Products and Weyl-Heisenberg Frames

• Karlheinz Groechenig
  • Non-Uniform Sampling in Shift Invariant Spline Spaces

• Turan Gurkanli
  • Multipliers of Some Banach Ideals

• Kathryn Hare
  • Maximal Operators from Lacunary and Cantor Sets of Directions

• Christian Houdre
  • Signal and Image denoising via Wavelet Methods: Idealism

• David Joyner
  • Harmonic analysis on metaplectic covers of p-adic SL(2): a survey

• Norbert Kaiblinger
  • Eigenvectors for Time-Frequency Shift Operators

• Jelena Kovacevic
  • Quantized Frame Expansions with Erasures

• Joe Lakey
  • On Radial Localization of the Wigner Distribution

• Henry Landau
  • Spectral Representations in the Trigonometric Moment Problem

• Chris Lennard
  • Characterization of L^p(R^n) using the Gabor Frame

• Shidong Li
  • An Irregular Sampling Formulation via the Theory of Pseudoframes

• C. J. Mozzochi
  • On the Distribution of the Eigenvalues of the Hyperbolic Laplacian
  • or PSL(2,Z)

• Manos Papadakis
  • Generalized Frame Multiresolution Analyses of Abstract Hilbert Spaces

• Herve Queffelec
  • Some New Thin Sets of Integers in Harmonic Analysis

• Dan Rockmore
  • Nonlinear Approximation Theory on Finite Groups

• Sandra Saliani
  • Exceptional Sets Related to Wavelet Packets

• Zuowei Shen
  • Affine Frames in L_2(R^d)

• Tony Teolis
  • Efficient and Noise Robust Frequency Estimation using Wavelet and
  • Gabor Filter Banks

• Yang Wang
  • Orthonormal Bases of Exponential Functions for the n-Cube

• Georg Zimmermann
  • STFT of Ultra-Distributions and Hardy's Theorem for the STFT

• Lectures will be held in the Mathematics Department Colloquium Room, room 3206 in the Math Building.
• Schedule/Abstracts A postscript file containing the conference schedule and abstracts of the talks is available here. An HTML file containing only the schedule is also available.
• Please fill out our on-line registration form. This doesn't obligate you for anything, but guarantees that you will receive future program updates by email and will help the organizers estimate probable attendance.
• Hotel reservations are available. Contact the hotels directly; rooms are set aside for the "Harmonic Analysis Conference".
  • Quality Inn, 7200 Baltimore Avenue, College Park, 301-864-5820 at a special conference rate of $64 per night, plus tax. These rooms are all double rooms, (Advise to ask for Group Sales #1093)

    The Quality Inn would like the rooms guaranteed 14 days prior to your arrival.

    Online reservations may be made at this location.

  • Best Western, 8601 Balto. Avenue, College Park, 301-474-2800, at a special conference rate of $79 per night, plus tax. These rooms are king and double rooms. (Group # 4123 or Harmonic Analysis)

    These rooms have now been released for general booking.

    Online reservations may be made at this location.

  • Days Inn of College Park, 9137 Balto. Avenue, College Park, 301-345-5000, at a special conference rate of $56 on Thursday, and $60 per night for Friday and Saturday, plus tax. There are single and double rooms.

    These rooms have now been released for general booking. Cancellations must be received 48 hours prior to arrival.

  • Ramada Limited, 9113 Balto. Avenue, College Park, 301-345-9000, at a special conference rate of $56 on Thursday, and $60 per night for Friday and Saturday, plus tax. There are single and double rooms.

    These rooms have now been released for general booking. Cancellations must be received 48 hours prior to arrival.

• We will be having a banquet in honor of John at 7 pm on Friday, October 8, 1999 in room 2100 of the Inn and Conference Center on campus. If you want to attend the banquet, please send a check for $25.00 and indicate it is for the Benedetto conference banquet. Send your check by September 15, 1999 (for participants from outside the University area) or deliver your check by October 1, 1999 (for University of Maryland participants) to
  • Professor Raymond L. Johnson
  • Department of Mathematics
  • University of Maryland
  • College Park, MD 20742-0001

  Make the check payable to : Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland.

  For clarifications regarding the banquet email Ray Johnson at rlj@math.umd.edu

• There will be an informal party Saturday night, October 9, at the Quality Inn. The room is reserved from 7:30pm to 1:00am. Music will be provided and there will be enough room for dancing.
• How to get to the University of Maryland Mathematics Department:
  • by car.
  • by Metro.
  • from the local airports: BWI, Dulles, and Reagan National.
  • within the Campus.