Kielce Ghetto 1942 ...	... Bergen-Belsen DP Camp 1946 ...	... Pasadena 2005 ...

 

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& History

Two rescue stories

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

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 (with Anne Boutet de Monvel, Univ. Paris 7), 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, 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

• 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)

Selected journal and conference papers

Recent lectures (samples)

Short courses in applied wavelet analysis

Short courses taught since 1994

Some related or otherwise interesting websites

• Birkhauser's Progress in Mathematical Physics Book Series
• The Wavelet Digest
• Wim Sweldens
• Wavelet NetCare
• Amara's wavelet page
• Lost Causes in Theoretical Physics by Ray Streater
• Antennas HQ
• Mathematics HQ Resource Directory