Dennis Healy was a mathematician of extraordinary scientific breadth, influence, and vision. He had enormous impact in the development of fundamental applied mathematics, such as compressed sensing, and in the unrivaled excellence of state of the art government programs which he initiated. He was a world expert in sampling theory, and was considered a polymath by his peers in the broad area integrating quantum physics, signal analysis, image processing, quantization, and a host of other subjects dealing with fundamental initiatives relating both pure science and national security. Dr. Healy died in 2009 at the age of 52.

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  • MS79 & MS94

    Thursday, July 15
    MS79
    In Memory of Dennis Healy and His Scientific Vision - Part I of II
    10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
    Organizer:
    John J. Benedetto, University of Maryland, College Park
    Daniel Rockmore, Dartmouth College
    Anna Tsao, AlgoTek, Inc.
    10:30-10:55 "Robust Principal Component Analysis?", Emmanuel Candes
    11:00-11:25 "Mathematical Sensing , Dennis Healy's Vision", Ronald Coifman
    11:30-11:55 "Deconvolution using Geometrically-based Representations", Glenn Easley
    12:00-12:25 "Recent Advances in Computational Electromagnetics for Metamaterials", Leslie Greengard and Zydrunas Gimbutas

    Thursday, July 15
    MS94
    In memory of Dennis Healy and his scientific vision - Part II of II
    4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    Organizer:
    John J. Benedetto, University of Maryland, College Park
    Daniel Rockmore, Dartmouth College
    Anna Tsao, AlgoTek, Inc.
    4:00-4:25 "Mathematical Tools for Management of System Complexity", Igor Mezic
    4:30-4:55 "Moving Innovation Forward: The Biosensors Program at NIH", Karen Peterson
    5:00-5:25 "Manifold Matching Classification: Joint Optimization of Fidelity and Commensurability", Carey E. Priebe
    5:30-5:55 "Dennis Healy's work at Dartmouth in Computational Harmonic Analysis", Daniel Rockmore