Yves Meyer: Detection of gravitational waves and time-frequency wavelets

Summary:
Sergey Klimenko designed the algorithm used to detect gravitational waves. This algorithm depends on the time-frequency wavelets which have been elaborated by Ingrid Daubechies, Stéphane Jaffard, and Jean-Lin Journé. After describing the now famous discovery of gravitational waves the focus will be on time-frequency analysis.

This lecture was held by the 2017 Abel Laurate Yves Meyer, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, at The University of Oslo, May 24, 2017 and was part of the Abel Prize Lectures in connection with the Abel Prize Week celebrations.

Program for the Abel Lectures 2017:
1. Detection of gravitational waves and time-frequency wavelets, by Abel Laureate Yves Meyer, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
2. A Wavelet Zoom to Analyze a Multiscale World, by professor Stéphane Mallat, École Normale Supérieure
3. Wavelet bases: roots, surprises and applications, by professor Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University
4. Wavelets, sparsity and its consequences, professor Emmanuel Jean Candès, Stanford University

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