FFT 2015 Schedule

Below is the list of speakers and the schedule of time slots. Click on any talk title to see an abstract for the talk.

The main events include a Distinguished Lecturer on Thursday afternoon; our Keynote speaker Thursday at 6:45 pm, followed by a light dinner reception on the second floor rotunda of the Mathematics building; and the Norbert Wiener Colloquium on Friday at 3:00 pm, followed by High Tea for all participants of the FFT.

Norbert Wiener Center Distinguished Lecturer (Thursday Afternoon): Robert Calderbank (Duke University)
The Art of Measurement click for abstract

Keynote Address (Thursday Evening): Ali Hirsa (Columbia University)
Methods for Post Trade Allocation click for abstract

Norbert Wiener Colloquium (Friday Afternoon):Richard Baraniuk (Rice University)
Compressive Nonsensing click for abstract

		Thursday, February 19		Friday, February 20
		Morning speakers		Morning speakers
9:00-9:30		Jeff Sieracki (SR2 Group, Inc.) Sparse Key Point Representations of Dynamic and Amorphous Structure	9:00-9:30	Kristine Rosfjord (The MITRE Corporation) TBA
9:45-10:15		Eric Weber (Iowa State University) Spectral Properties of Hadamard Matrices	9:45-10:15	Loukas Grafakos (University of Missouri) Fractional differentiation: Leibniz meets Hölder
10:30-11:00		Jan Ernst (SIEMENS Corporation) The trace model for invariant signal representations.	10:30-11:00	Petros Boufounos (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs) Coding for inference: Universal Quantization and Embeddings
11:15-11:45		Alex Powell (Vanderbilt University) Error bounds for consistent reconstruction	11:15-11:45	Judith Packer (University of Colorado) Projective multiresolution structures for Hilbert modules over unital C*-algebras
11:45-1:30		Lunch	11:45-1:30	Lunch
		Afternoon speakers		Afternoon speakers
1:30-2:00		Rebecca Willett (University of Wisconsin) Poisson Inverse Problems with Physical Constraints	1:30-2:00	Robert Rand (NGA) Approaches for Characterizing Non-Linear Mixtures in Hyperspectral Imagery
2:15-2:45		Demetrio Labate (University of Houston) Directional multiscale representations for phenotypic profiling in neuronal imaging.	2:15-2:45	Deanna Needell (Claremont McKenna College) Recovering overcomplete sparse representations from structured sensing
3:00-3:30		C. Sinan Güntürk (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) A decade of news on quantization	3:00-3:50	Norbert Wiener Colloquium Richard Baraniuk (Rice University) Compressive Nonsensing (The Norbert Wiener Colloquium will be followed by High Tea)
4:00-4:50		Norbert Wiener Center Distinguished Lecturer Robert Calderbank (Duke University) The Art of Measurement
5:00		Student poster sessions
		Thursday Evening Program
6:30		Introductory remarks by Scott Wolpert and Norbert Wiener Center Director, John J. Benedetto
6:45		Keynote Speaker Ali Hirsa (Columbia University) Methods for Post Trade Allocation
7:30		Social, Light Dinner, Refreshments