Friday, May 17, 2002; Noon-1pm Sc N321

Speaker: Nirdosh Bhatnagar

A broad perspective on the principles and applications of wavelet transforms will be provided in this talk. The following topics will be covered briefly.

• What are wavelets, and why study them?
• Applications of wavelets.
• Some history.
• Continuous wavelet transforms.
• Multiresolution analysis and discrete wavelet transforms.
• Daubechies' orthogonal wavelet transforms.
• Other types of wavelet transformations.
• Epilogue.