Wolfgang Pauli Lectures 2015

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Date 29.10.2015
Hour 20:1522:00
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Category Conferences - Seminars
The Wolfgang Pauli Lectures are an annual lecture series that is devoted alternatingly to Physics, Mathematics and Biology. They are named after the great theoretical physicist and Nobel laureat Wolfgang Pauli, who was professor at ETH Zürich from 1928 until his death in 1958. The first Wolfgang Pauli Lectures were given in 1962 by Max Delbrück, and over the years there have been many eminent speakers, including a number of Nobel laureats.

The Wolfgang Pauli Lectures 2015 are dedicated to mathematics.

Surfing with Wavelets
Thursday, October 29, 2015 (20:15 h) Auditorium Maximum, HG F 30

Via internet we can download images from all over the world. Most of these are compressed in some way, to make the transmission and storage more efficient. Mathematics plays an important role in these compression techniques, which we shall explore in the lecture.

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  • General public
  • Free

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