About
About Gerry
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 (with Anne Boutet de Monvel), Progress in Mathematical Physics Book Series
2005-2012: Visiting Scholar, Center for Relativity, University of Texas, Austin
I now live and work in beautiful Bend, OR
Research interests
- Quantum physics, relativity, black holes, quantum gravity
- Complex spacetime and relativistic coherent-state representations
- Real and complex differential geometry
- Clifford analysis
- Electrodynamics & optics
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
North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1990
Reviewed in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, January 1993
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)