The course is multifaceted and will be what might be called multi-tracked. We will be doing many things, often at nearly the same time. It will be impossible for any class member to progress through the course materials in a linear fashion. I am available for consultation whenever you see me on site. If you are hesitant to interrupt me you will very likely waste your time and thus mine.
Many little consultations are vastly preferable to fewer large ones.
Many other references exist and are quite good. Central to our efforts will be the whole area of integral transforms . However, beyond the rudiments of the theory of integral transforms, we will be interested in their applications not in their mathematical foundation. We have IDL available on the network in the lab as well as on the MacIIci and a variant is available on martha as Wave Advantage. We are negotiating with the computing center to put up IDL on a central system.