Graduate Student Colloquium

Aasaimani Thamizhazhagan, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Uncertainty Principles and Fourier Analysis"

The uncertainty principle is partly a description of a characteristic feature of quantum mechanical systems, partly a statement about the limitations of one's ability to perform measurements on a system without disturbing, and partly a meta-theorem in harmonic analysis that can be summed up as follows:

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