Recently, a research consortium of scientists from various disciplines including mathematics, statistics, computer science and engineering has been formed to address this problem. The consortium, which is headquartered at UW, and which is known as The Center for Ideal Data Representation (IDR), puts forward the premise that the performance required for handling the large data sets which arise in scientific applications will require significant advances in data representation and that these advances are most likely to come through the development of new theories and technologies in the area of multiscale decompositions. The primary focus of the IDR initiative is on redundant systems such as frames, dictionaries and libraries of bases, oversampled signals and more.
The scientific advances of the consortium in data representation will have wide spread applications. The application areas that are already being addressed by the IDR are image and signal processing (including compression, detection, denoising and registration) A/D and D/A conversion, computer graphics, networking trafficing, and interactive visualization of solutions to PDEs.
There are currently fifteen members in the IDR center (from ten institutions), and about forty junior members (post-doctoral fellows, and research students). In addition, the center has official ties with several groups and individuals inside and outside the U.S. More information on IDR can be found from the website: http://www.waveletidr.org
I will review in my talk the structure of IDR center, its main research objectives, and its main activities. I will then briefly comment on some of the projects which involve UW faculty and students. The audience will be invited at the end of the talk to tell us about projects at the UW that may be of interest to the IDR center.
Time and Place: NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME: Tues., Nov. 16, 4:00 pm in 4610 Engr. Hall.
SYSTEMS SEMINAR WEB PAGE: http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~gubner/seminar/