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Notices of the American Mathematical Society

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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS

An Invitation to Gabor Analysis

Kasso A. Okoudjou

Gabor analysis seeks to develop (discrete) joint time/space-frequency representations of functions (distributions, or signals) initially defined only in time or frequency. Kasso A. Okoudjou gives an overview of some interesting open problems in Gabor analysis that are in need of solutions.

The Origins of Spectra, an Organization for LGBT Mathematicians

Robert Bryant, Ron Buckmire, Lily Khadjavi and Douglas Lind

This is the story of what happened after Colorado's Amendment 2 passed and how our professional societies responded by moving the 1995 JMM from Denver to San Francisco, ultimately leading to the creation of Spectra, an organization for LGBT mathematicians and their allies.

WHAT IS...a Thin Group?

Alex Kontorovich, D. Darren Long, Alexander Lubotzky and Alan W. Reid

Roughly speaking, a thin group is an infinite-index subgroup of an arithmetic group which lives in the same algebraic group. More recently, thin groups have become a hot topic thanks to the explosion of activity in Super Approximation.

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