The lecture will be given by Prof. Ingrid Daubechies. Prof. Daubechies is the James B. Duke Professor at Duke University and was previously a professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University. Her fundamental contributions to the theory and application of wavelet methods are of vital importance in many areas of applied mathematics, extending to concrete technical implementations. For her work, she has received numerous awards, such as:
1992: MacArthur Fellow
1993: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2011: Leroy P. Steele Prize for Outstanding Research
2011: Benjamin Franklin Medal
2011: IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
2012: Nemmers Prize in Mathematics
2023: Wolf Prize in Mathematics
2024: Foreign Member of the Royal Society
2025: Bakerian Medal and Lecture
2025: National Medal of Science
