-- Latest update: 04/10/04

International Conference

Wavelet Theory and Applications: New Directions and Challenges

10 - 13 August 2004

Part of IMS program on Mathematics and Computation in Imaging Science and Information Processing (July - December 2003 and August 2004)

• Say Song Goh (National University of Singapore)
• Seng Luan Lee (National University of Singapore)
• Amos Ron (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
• Zuowei Shen (National University of Singapore)

• Carl de Boor (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
• Albert Cohen (University Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
• Wolfgang Dahmen (Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule-Aachen, Germany)
• David Donoho (Stanford University, USA)
• Rong-Qing Jia (University of Alberta, Canada)
• Amos Ron (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
• Zuowei Shen (National University of Singapore)

• Confirmed visitors

• IMS Auditorium
  Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS
  3 Prince George's Park
  Singapore 118402
• Directions to the institute

 

Tuesday, 10 August 2004
8:30am – 8:50am	Registration
8:50am – 9:00am	Opening address
9:00am – 10:00am	The dual weighted residual method from a wavelet perspective Wolfgang Dahmen, Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule-Aachen, Germany
10:00am – 10:30am	--- Tea break ---
10:30am – 11:00am	Wavelet-based extraction of coherent structures to analyze and compute Navier-Stokes equations Marie Farge, LMD-CNRS, ENS Pari    Presentation slides: PDF
11:00am – 11:30am	Adaptive wavelet methods for modeling and computing turbulent flows Kai Schneider, L3M-CNRS & CMI, Université de Provence, Marseille
11:30am – 1:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
1:30pm – 2:30pm	Unitary extension principle and applications Zuowei Shen, National University of Singapore
2:30pm – 3:00pm	--- Tea break ---
3:00pm – 3:30pm	High resolution image reconstruction: a framelet approach Sherman D. Riemenschneider, West Virginia University
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Pseudo-splines, wavelets and framelets Dong Bin, National University of Singapore
4:00pm – 4:30pm	--- Tea break ---
4:30pm – 5:00pm	Tight wavelet frames with symmetry Say Song Goh, National University of Singapore
5:00pm - 5:30pm	MRA framelets and their connections to Riesz wavelets Bin Han, University of Alberta

 

Wednesday, 11 August 2004
9:00am – 10:00am	Universal algorithms for learning theory Albert Cohen, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, University Pierre et Marie Curie
10:00am – 10:30am	--- Tea break ---
10:30am – 11:00am	Stability of algorithms and generalization Sayan Mukherjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:00am – 11:30am	Support vector machine soft margin classifiers Ding-Xuan Zhou, City University of Hong Kong
11:30am – 1:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
1:30pm – 2:00pm	Highly sparse expansions from redundant dictionaries are unique and independent of the sparseness measure Remi Gribonval, IRISA-INRIA, France
2:00pm – 2:30pm	Localized frames and sparsity Karlheinz Gröchenig, Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry, Germany
2:30pm – 3:00pm	--- Tea break ---
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Constructing wavelet frames with given properties Alexander Petukhov, University of Georgia
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Greedy algorithms in stable recovery of sparse overcomplete representations Vladimir Temlyakov, University of South Carolina
4:00pm – 4:30pm	--- Tea break ---
4:30pm – 5:30pm	Poster Sessions: 1) Fredholm properties of refinement operators and L_2-solutions of refinement equations (tentative) Victor Didenko, Universiti Brunei Darussalam 2) Can the Fama-French three-factor model explain the cross-section of stock returns using wavelet analysis? Francis In, Monash University, Clayton Campus 3) Second generation wavelets for GIS data compression Biswajeet Pradhan, Asian Institute of Medicine, Science & Technology, Malaysia 4) Ultrasonic testing based on wavelet and JTFA Xiufeng Zhang, Tsinghua University    Paper: PDF

 

Thursday, 12 August 2004
9:00am – 10:00am	Ideal interpolation Carl de Boor, University of Wisconsin - Madison
10:00am – 10:30am	--- Tea break ---
10:30am – 11:00am	The Bramble-Hilbert Lemma and Whitney estimates for convex domains: applications to multivariate piecewise polynomial approximation Dany Leviatan, Tel Aviv University
11:00am – 11:30am	The analysis of intrinsic mode functions and instantaneous phase Robert C. Sharpley, University of South Carolina
11:30am – 1:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
1:30pm – 2:30pm	Continuously differentiable wavelets on triangulations Rong-Qing Jia, University of Alberta
2:30pm – 3:00pm	--- Tea break ---
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Approximation power of refinable spaces Olga Holtz, University of California-Berkeley    Presentation slides: PDF
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Adaptive multivariate approximation using binary space partitions and geometric wavelets Shai Dekel, RealTimeImage
4:00pm – 4:30pm	--- Tea break ---
4:30pm – 5:00pm	On vanishing moments for multivariate wavelets Maria Skopina, Saint Petersburg University
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Discretizing manifolds via minimum energy points Doug Hardin, Vanderbilt University

 

Friday, 13 August 2004
9:00am – 10:00am	Caplets: wavelets without wavelets Amos Ron, University of Wisconsin-Madison    Presentation slides: PDF
10:00am – 10:30am	--- Tea break ---
10:30am – 11:00am	On the analysis of synthetic NMR signals Jeff Kline, University of Wisconsin - Madison
11:00am – 11:30am	Geometric image representation with Bandelets Erwan LE Pennec, Ecole Polytechnique
11:30am – 1:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
1:30pm – 2:00pm	Adaptive scattered data fitting by spline--wavelets: regularization and robust fitting Angela Kunoth, Universität Bonn
2:00pm – 2:30pm	Perturbation that does not affect the regularity of a linear subdivision scheme -- not even by a bit Thomas Yu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2:30pm – 3:00pm	--- Tea break ---
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Image compression by linear splines over adaptive triangulations Nira Dyn, Tel Aviv University
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Analysis on multi-resolution mosaic images Wen-Liang Hwang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
4:00pm – 4:30pm	--- Tea break ---
4:30pm – 5:30pm	Compressed sensing David Donoho, Stanford University

Abstracts for poster sessions are welcomed and should be received by latest 11 June 2004. Please submit your abstracts to Say Song Goh at matgohss@nus.edu.sg. The author will be notified by email within a month of submission.

Please complete the registration form (MSWord|PDF|PS) and fax to (65) 6873 8292 or email to ims@nus.edu.sg at least one month before the conference. If you are an IMS member or are applying for IMS membership, you do not need to register for the attendance of the conference. Registration is free.

• General enquiries: Secretary (ims@nus.edu.sg)

• Enquires on scientific aspects: Say Song Goh (matgohss@nus.edu.sg)