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
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)