early draft for EUCETIFA HOMEPAGE (by HGFei)
As the local project leader I have been just invited by the European Commission to prepare for negotiations for a MARIE CURIE EXCELLENCE GRANT (you can read the "official short version" here) which will lead to the establishment of EUCETIFA, the
EUROPEAN CENTER for TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
with Karlheinz Gröchenig as Key Scientist. The project was submitted for the Call FP6-2002-Mobility-8, "Structuring the European Research Area", Prop. No 517154, ACRONYM EUCETIFA, and will run for 4 years, located at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna (head Harald Rindler). It is one of the goals of this program to bring leading international scientist (back) to Europe, who have the capability to build up strong research groups on the basis of existing expertise and high level research. The center will go into action by October 1st, 2005.
Contact: H.G.Feichtinger: email resp. Gröchenig, Karlheinz (presently at GSF Muenich), some JPG-pictures of KHGr.
A SUMMARY (in GERMAN) published in the local UNIVERSITAETS-ZEITUNG. (January 2005) and June 2005.
First JOB ANNOUCEMENT (Feb. 1st, 2005), the deadline was May 31st,2005. The hiring process for the first round has been closed by now. Later on perhaps PhD (starting Nov./Dec. 2005) will be announced here (as well as further PostDoc hiring in 2006).
THE MISSION OF EUCETIFA according to the proposal: (also material for the press and the media):
EUCETIFA, the EUROPEAN CENTER for TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
(Foundations, Algorithms and Applications) will establish European leadership in an emerging area of application oriented mathematics. The core competence of the team is the development of mathematical foundations and efficient algorithms for applications in the areas of communication theory, signal- and image processing, astronomy, geosciences, and related areas. The team-leader, Professor Karlheinz Gröchenig is full professor in the USA and recognized as an international leader in this field.
EUCETIFA will promote systematic transfer of knowledge from problem identification in science or technology to working computer code by following the principles outlined below:
a) Openness towards applications, actively identifying promising areas of future relevance;
b) Mathematical modelling, leading to rigorous and detailed mathematical descriptions of those problems;
c) Development of the mathematical framework that ensures correct treatment based on math.analysis;
d) Development of efficient numerical algorithms, addressing numerical and implementational questions;
e) Interaction with applied scientists to test these algorithms and establish ``best practice’’
f) Education and Training for team-members and associated PostDocs and PhD students
Spearheaded by the tremendeous impact of wavelets, applied harmonic analysis has proven to be a powerful tool for the treatment of time-varying systems. The methods developed by the team-leader open a new view on important classes of pseudo-differential operators of high relevance e.g. for communication theory or applications in geophysical signal processing. It is one of the goals of this project to bridge the gap between these areas in order to enable further advances and breakthroughs.
Three work-packages form the scientific cornerstones: (A) Pseudo-Differential Operators and Time-variant processes and their applications, (B) Sampling and Time-Frequency analysis (with the general goal of optimal extraction of information from valuable data), and (C) Localization methods based on Banach algebra methods, and their consequences for application areas.
The project will provide leadership in an area which is expected to grow fast in the coming years and where shortage of mathematical expertise may occur if no counteraction is taken. Well embedded into the European research area, the participating researchers will be connected to other European research centers and several labs of European based international companies. Hence EUCETIFA will also function as a center of excellence and as a partner for the development of emerging technologies there, also providing academic and practical training.
The center can build on the international visibility of an informal group (NuHAG) at the host institution, and will counteract brain drain to the USA by bringing an excellent scientist of high originality back to Europe, who will attract talented young researchers from all over the world to Vienna. Based on previous experience with the new ``holistic’’ approach one can predict that engineers and mathematicians cooperating with this new center will have very good chances for a good academic or industrial career.
INTERNATIONAL contacts:
Norbert Wiener Center for harmonic Analysis and Applications (under John Benedetto) and
Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modelling (Univ. College Park, MD)
For an overview over the full list of proposals and their evaluations see http://www.cordis.lu/fp6/mc_excell_actions.htm.
The proposal has scored high in all categories, i.e. scientific quality of the project, international standing of the proposed project leader (K.Groechenig), feasibility and managment, but also qualification and infrastructure of the host institution (NuHAG, and Univ. Vienna). More informations to come. The "positive evaluation" of the evaluation has been announced by the European Commission only Sept 29th, 2004.
In the previous year (2003) Josef Penninger was one of two Austrian "Price Winners" (MC Excellence Grant)
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