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Dan Ediden
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University of Missouri
Phase Retrieval and systems of polynomial equations
A signal vector can be easily reconstructed from a set of linear measurements such as the discrete Fourier transform. However, in many physical problems only the intensity, but not the phase, of the measurements can be obtained. From a mathematical perspective, the phase retrieval problem is to recover an unknown signal from the absolute values of a collection of measurements. This reconstruction problem has a long history in engineering and physics and arises in a variety of situations such as optics and speech recognition. In this talk we explain how, in many contexts, algebraic methods can be used to estimate the minimum number of phaseless measurements needed to recover generic signals.
Dan Edidin is the Leonard Blumenthal Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at University of Missouri. Originally trained in algebraic geometry, he received his PhD from MIT under the supervision of Joe Harris and Steve Kleiman and was a postdoc at University of Chicago with Bill Fulton. His research interests are on problems related to group actions on algebraic varieties in both pure and applied mathematics.