FFT 2017 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 dinner reception and refreshments in the 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.

NWC Distinguished Lecturer (Thursday Afternoon): Charles K. Chui (Stanford)
Blind-source signal decomposition according to a general mathematical model

Keynote Address (Thursday Evening): Robert Kanigel (MIT)
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Norbert Wiener Colloquium (Friday Afternoon): David Donoho (Stanford)
Accelerating Multidimensional NMR Spectroscopy by Compressed Sensing of Hypercomplex FTs

		Thursday, February 16		Friday, February 17
		Morning speakers		Morning speakers
9:00-9:30		Nathan Cahill (RIT) Data Representation Techniques for the Exploration of Brain Networks	9:30-10:00	Edinah Gnang (Purdue) On the spectra of direct sums and Kronecker products of side length 2 hypermatrices and related algorithmic problems in data science.
9:45-10:15		Amanda Ziemann (Los Alamos National Lab) Hello, is it me you're looking for? Searching for material targets in hyperspectral remote sensing imagery	10:15-10:45	Rad Balu (ARL) Fashioning Classical Stochastic Processes Via Quantum Noises
10:30-11:00		Yves Pommier (NIH) Cancer Cell Line Genomics and Precision Medicine	11:00-11:30	Hau-tieng Wu (Toronto) De-shape short time Fourier transform, wave-shape manifold, and medical applications
11:15-11:45		Andy Kebo (US Government) Histogram convergence	11:45-12:15	Abdelkrim Bourouihiya (Nova Southeastern University) HRT Conjecture for certain Classes of Elementary Functions
		Break for lunch		Break for lunch
		Afternoon speakers		Afternoon speakers
2:00-2:30		Michael Rivera (MITRE) Optical Applications of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation	2:00-2:30	Laura De Carli (FIU) Stability theorems and sets of sampling in shift invariant subspaces of Lp
2:45-3:15		Svetlana Roudenko (GWU) Dynamics of collapses in the focusing Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation	2:45-3:15	Gilad Lerman (Minnesota) Robust and Non-convex Principal Components
3:30-4:00		Marie-Pierre Jolly (Siemens) Automatic Segmentation of the Left Ventricle in Cardiac MR Cine Images for Volume and Myocardial Strain Quantification	3:30-4:30	Norbert Wiener Colloquium David Donoho (Stanford) Accelerating Multidimensional NMR Spectroscopy by Compressed Sensing of Hypercomplex FTs (The Norbert Wiener Colloquium will be followed by High Tea)
4:15-5:00		Norbert Wiener Center Distinguished Lecturer Charles Chui (Stanford) Blind-source signal decomposition according to a general mathematical model
5:00-6:15		Student and Post-doc poster sessions (Prizes to be awarded!)
		Thursday Evening Program
6:30		Introductory remarks by Scott Wolpert and Norbert Wiener Center Director, John J. Benedetto
6:40		Keynote Speaker Robert Kanigel (MIT) INFINITY + 25
7:30		Social, Light Dinner, Refreshments