Gerald Kaiser
Signals & Waves
Austin, TX
kaiser (at) wavelets (dotcom)

Kielce, Poland (1942)	Austin, TX (2005)

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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 taught since 1994