Gerald Kaiser

Languages: English, German, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, French, Hebrew, Yiddish

Ph.D. (Mathematics) 1977, University of Toronto
Thesis: Phase-Space Approach to Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

Ph.D. (Physics) 1970, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Thesis: Application of Continuous-Moment Sum Rules

B.Sc. (Mathematics) 1962, Case Institute of Technology

Employment/Positions:
1977-1998 Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of Massachusetts (now Emeritus)
Since 1998: Founder and Head, Signals & Waves
Since 1999: Editor-in-Chief, Progress in Mathematical Physics Book Series
Since 2005: Visiting Scholar, Center for Relativity, University of Texas, Austin

Research interests

Harmonic analysis, potential theory, PDE, wavelets
Real and complex geometry, Clifford analysis
Electromagnetics, optics, acoustics
Quantum physics, relativity, black holes
Efficient representations of waves and information
Physics-based signal and image processing
Radar, remote sensing, communication theory

Membership in professional societies

American Mathematical Society
International Association of Mathematical Physics

Books published

A Friendly Guide to Wavelets, in the Modern Birkhauser Classics book series, 2011
A Friendly Guide to Wavelets, Birkhauser-Boston (1994; sixth printing 1999)

Reviews:
- Proceedings of the IEEE (PDF, 16 KB), December 1995.
- Physics Uspekhi, Russian Academy of Sciences, 40 (10) 1997
- IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, April 1997
- Notices of the Dutch Mathematical Society, February 1997
- The Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, January 1996
- SIAM Review (PDF, 292 KB), December 1995
- Mathematical Reviews, September 1995
- International Mathematical News, Austrian Math. Soc., August 1995
- Physics Today, July 1995
- Computing Reviews, June 1995
- Book of the Month, Library of Science, January 1995
Quantum Physics, Relativity, and Complex Spacetime: Towards a New Synthesis (PDF, 952 KB)
North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1990
- Reviewed in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (PDF, 164 KB), January 1993
- Second edition in progress, to be published by Birkhauser-Boston
Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, G. Kaiser and J.E. Marsden (editors)
Lecture Notes in Mathematics #775, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1980

Conferences organized

3/79: NSF-CBMS Conference on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics
Published as J.E. Marsden, Lectures on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics (SIAM, 1981)
6/90 (with M.B. Ruskai): NSF-CBMS Conference on Wavelets, University of Lowell
Published as I. Daubechies, Ten Lectures on Wavelets (SIAM, 1992)

Gerald Kaiser

Selected journal and conference papers

Recent lectures (samples)

Short courses taught since 1994