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Renowned female mathematician to speak on wavelets at U of M Oct. 29
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 10/24/2008 ) -- Professor Ingrid Daubechies, considered to be one of the most important mathematicians of our time, will speak at a public lecture at the University of Minnesota at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 29 in Room 125, Willey Hall, 225 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis. Daubechies is a math professor at Princeton University. Her talk, "Surfing with Wavelets," will examine tools used by scientists and non-scientists for analyzing sounds and images known as wavelets. Wavelets are used in the popular jpeg2000 for image compression, by the FBI for encoding digitized fingerprints records, in medicine for managing images from MRI scans and at libraries for storage of huge archive collections. Daubechies has received numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a $500,000 award often referred to as the "genius award." "Professor Daubechies is an an incredible role model for women in science and math," says Fadil Santosa, director of the University's Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), which is sponsoring the event. "She is brilliant researcher and her work is influential, both because she built a rigorous mathematic understanding for wavelets and because her results can be used for so many far-reaching applications." Daubechies talk is part of the IMA's series, "Math Matters," public lectures. For more information, visit www.ima.umn.edu. The IMA was founded in 1982 to foster interdisciplinary research between mathematics, other science disciplines, and industry in order to find solutions to important scientific and technological problems. The IMA is funded primarily by the National Science Foundation. ---------- |
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