Workshop in Analysis and Probability Department of Mathematics Texas A&M University Summer 2011

The Summer 2011 Workshop in Analysis and Probability at Texas A&M University will be in session from July 5 until August 5. For information about the Workshop, consult the Workshop Home Page, whose URL is http://www.math.tamu.edu/conferences/linanalysis/

The Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar (SUMIRFAS) will be held July 29 - 31.

Steve Dilworth, Daniel Freeman, Denka Kuzarova, Edward Odell (co-chair), and Thomas Schlumprecht (co-chair) are organizing a Concentration Week on "Greedy Algorithms in Banach spaces and Compressed Sensing" for the week of July 18-22. When encoding or reconstructing a vector using an iterative algorithm, a natural approach is to take the best or biggest approximation at each iteration. Such techniques are referred to as greedy algorithms. The theory of compressed sensing is concerned with encoding and reconstructing vectors which are sparsely represented with respect to a given basis. Kevin Ford will present a series of talks on deterministic construction of matrices with the restrictive isometry property. There will be a second series of talks devoted to greedy algorithms and bases. The home page for this Concentration Week is at http://www.math.utexas.edu/users/freeman/greedy11/index.html

Florent Baudier (chair), Bill Johnson, Piotr Nowak, and Bunyamin Sari are organizing a Concentration Week on "Non-Linear Geometry of Banach Spaces, Geometric Group Theory, and Differentiability" for the week of August 1-5. The program will include an introductory course by Mark Sapir on coarse embeddings and their applications to geometric group theory, and a series of lectures by Gilles Godefroy on the recent work of the late Nigel Kalton on the coarse classification of Banach spaces. The home page for this Concentration Week is at http://www.math.tamu.edu/~pnowak/index/cw.html

The Workshop is supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Minorities, women, graduate students, and young researchers are especially encouraged to attend.

For logistical support, including requests for support, please contact Cara Barton cara@math.tamu.edu. For more information on the Workshop itself, please contact William Johnson johnson@math.tamu.edu, David Larson larson@math.tamu.edu, Gilles Pisier pisier@math.tamu.edu, or Joel Zinn jzinn@math.tamu.edu.

For information about the Concentration Week "Greedy Algorithms in Banach spaces and Compressed Sensing", contact Thomas Schlumprecht schlump@math.tamu.edu or Ted Odell odell@mail.ma.utexas.edu.

For information about the Concentration Week "Non-Linear Geometry of Banach Spaces, Geometric Group Theory, and Differentiability", contact Florent Baudier florent@math.tamu.edu.