IMA Program Application Form

Description

This program is for graduate students from both IMA Participating Institutions (IMA PI) as well as other U.S. universities. We expect to be able to fund up to 35 students from IMA Participating Institutions and 15 students from other U.S. universities. In order to participate, students must complete the online application form, provide a personal statement, and submit (1) a letter of nomination from the PI chair (for students from an IMA PI) or (2) a recommendation letter (for students from institutions that are not an IMA PI).

The main portion of this program consists of a three-week summer school for graduate students to be held in Summer 2015 on the campus of the University of Maryland. It will focus on modern harmonic analysis and applications.

Specifically, we intend to cover topics from Fourier and time-frequency analysis, finite frame theory, sparse transforms, geometric and analytic methods for modeling big data.

The instruction in the summer school comprises seven four-day-long lecture series including a foundational tutorial and supplemented by computer lab works. The objectives are to (i) quickly review the basic materials (tutorial); (ii) focus on the developments of the last 10 years; and (iii) provide a glimpse of the state of current research and open problems.

Most of the materials intended to be covered in (ii) and (iii) are at this point not easily accessible—not covered in any textbooks, courses, or even survey articles—they are only available in the form of original research papers or preprints. It is our hope that the summer school will bring these materials to graduate students, postdocs, and in general, any nonspecialist.

Organizers

• Radu Balan, Departments of Mathematics and CSCAMM, University of Maryland
• John Benedetto, Department of Mathematics and the Norbert Wiener Center, University of Maryland
• Wojtek Czaja, Department of Mathematics and the Norbert Wiener Center, University of Maryland
• Kasso Okoudjou, Department of Mathematics and the Norbert Wiener Center, University of Maryland

Guest Lecturers

• Anna Gilbert, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor IL
• Chris Heil, Department of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA
• Gilad Lerman, Departments of Mathematics, University of Minnessota, Minneapolis MN
• Nate Strawn, Departments of Mathematics, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

Check the poster and the IMA program homepage. For questions, write to conference organizers.

Background Material and Lecture Notes

Fourier Analysis
Frames and Time-Frequency Analysis
Preconditioning of Finite frames
Nonlinear Analysis with Frames
Sparse Fourier Transform
Dictionary Learning and Data-Driven Convolutions
Harmonic Analysis and Big Data

Schedule

All lectures will take place in Computer Science Instructional Center (CSI) Horwitz lecture room CSI 1115.
Problem sessions will take place in the Mathematics Building (MATH). The following rooms within the main library inside the MATH department are available to the HAA program participants: MATH 1403A, the laptop lounge, the large space downstairs. Additionally we shall use the Computer Lab in MATH 3207.

Week 1

	Monday, 7/20	Tuesday, 7/21	Wednesday, 7/22	Thursday, 7/23	Friday, 7/24
9:00am-10:15am	John Benedetto (CSI)*	John Benedetto (CSI)	John Benedetto (CSI)	John Benedetto (CSI)	Chris Heil (CSI)
10:30am-12:00pm	John Benedetto (CSI)**	Chris Heil (CSI)	Chris Heil (CSI)	Chris Heil (CSI)	Chris Heil (CSI)
2:00pm-4:00pm	Problem Sessions (MATH)	Problem Sessions (MATH)	Problem Sessions (MATH)	Problem Sessions (MATH)	Explore the monuments in downtown DC

* 9:00am-9:15am : Opening Remarks; First lecture: 9:15am-10:30am
** Second lecture: 10:45am-12:00pm

Week 2

	Monday, 7/27	Tuesday, 7/28	Wednesday, 7/29	Thursday, 7/30	Friday, 7/31
9:00am-10:30am	Kasso Okoudjou (CSI)	Kasso Okoudjou (CSI)	Radu Balan (CSI)	Anna Gilbert (CSI)	Anna Gilbert (CSI)
10:45am-12:15pm	Kasso Okoudjou (CSI)	Radu Balan (CSI) ***	Anna Gilbert (CSI)	Radu Balan (CSI) ***	Anna Gilbert (CSI)
2:00pm-4:00pm	Computer Labs (MATH)	Computer Labs (MATH)	Computer Labs (MATH); Reception at 6:00pm in MATH building	Computer Labs (MATH)	Computer Labs (MATH)

*** 10:45am-12:30am

Week 3

	Monday, 8/3	Tuesday, 8/4	Wednesday, 8/5	Thursday, 8/6	Friday, 8/7
9:00am-10:15am	Nate Strawn (CSI)	Nate Strawn (CSI)	Wojtek Czaja(CSI)	Wojtek Czaja (CSI)	Wojtek Czaja (CSI)
10:45am-12:00pm	Nate Strawn (CSI)	Nate Strawn (CSI)	Wojtek Czaja (CSI)	Wojtek Czaja (CSI)	Wojtek Czaja (CSI)
2:00pm-4:00pm	Computer Labs (MATH)	Computer Labs (MATH)	Computer Labs (MATH)	Trip to Great Water Falls - Potomac, VA

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Participants

1. Buddhima Akurugodage, University of Maryland
2. Hussain Al-Hammali, Oregon State University
3. Pavel Andrianov, University of St. Petersburg, Russia
4. Radu Balan, University of Maryland
5. Roswitha Bammer, University of Vienna, Australia
6. John Benedetto, University of Maryland
7. Joseph Borja, University of Michigan
8. Hanqin Cai, The University of Iowa
9. Diana Carbajal, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
10. Cheng Cheng, University of Central Florida
11. Junghee Cho, Seoul National University
12. Bosu Choi, Michigan State University
13. Wojtek Czaja, University of Maryland
14. Shabnam Daghaghi, Texas A&M University
15. Irene de Teresa Trueba, University of Delaware
16. Khoa Dinh, University of Tenessee
17. Markus Faulhuber, University of Vienna, Austria
18. Barry Fell,  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
19. Anna Gilbert, University of Michigan
20. Matt Guay, University of Maryland
21. Alex Gutierrez, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
22. Keaton Hamm, Texas A&M University
23. Christopher Heil, Georgia Institute of Technology
24. John Edward Herr, Iowa State University
25. Martin Hiserote, University of Oregon
26. Xianfeng Hu, Michigan State University
27. Ruihao Huang, Michigan Technological University
28. Vahan Huroyan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
29. Thang Huynh, New York University
30. Ted Juste, University of Central Florida
31. Abbas Kazemipour, University of Maryland
32. Christopher Kennedy, University of Texas, Austin
33. Seth Kwame Kermausuor, Auburn University
34. Ali Koochakzadeh, University of Maryland
35. Richard Lartey, Case Western Reserve
36. Chang Hsin Lee, Vanderbilt University
37. Ron Levie, Tel Aviv University, Isreal
38. Weilin Li, University of Maryland
39. Xueling Li, Michigan Technological University
40. Hsin-Yi Lin, University of Maryland
41. Suhui Liu, The University of Iowa
42. Yuan Liu, Princeton University
43. Tyson Loudon, Colorado School of Mines
44. Richard Lynch, University of Missouri
45. George H. Lytle, University of Kentucky
46. Aaron Nelson, U.S. Air Force
47. Kasso Okoudjou, University of Maryland
48. Bae Jun Park, University of Wisconsin, Madison
49. Josiah Park, University of South Florida
50. Michael Pekala, University of Maryland
51. Armenak Petrosyan, Vanderbilt University
52. Alberto Pinos, Centre de Recerca Matematica, Spain
53. John Keith Rush, University of Wisconsin, Madison
54. Sam Louis Scholze, Texas A&M University
55. Danielle Elizabeth Smiley, Bryn Mawr College
56. Byungjae Son, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
57. Nate Strawn, Georgetown University, Washington DC
58. Sui Tang, Vanderbilt University
59. Monty Taylor, University of Tennessee
60. Tao Wang, The University of Iowa
61. Xu Wang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
62. Daniel Weinberg, University of Maryland
63. Yang Yang, The University of Iowa
64. Liwen Zhang, University of Chicago
65. Yue Zhang, Case Western Reserve
66. Naveed Haghani, University of Maryland
67. Dongmian Zou, University of Maryland

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Practical information

All lectures will take place in CSI 1115, unless otherwise noted. Near campus accommodation will be provided as well as support towards travel expenses.

The IMA will need to receive a personal statement describing your background and reasons for wanting to attend, and a letter of nomination from your department chair. Please send letters to Applications. Deadline for applications is April 30, 2015.

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We thank the IMA for providing the application website and general sponsorhip.

We also thank NSF for additional support.

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Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).