Samanthak Thiagarajan — How the Fourier Transform Studies the World Through Waves...
Sep 17, 2026, 5:00pm in Hill 705
The Fourier Transform, at least for me, was always a bit mysterious. People usually say the FT is a tool for decomposing complicated waves into simpler ones, but what does that actually mean and how do you do that? In this talk, hopefully we will make this a bit clearer and we'll see some fun applications to problems in number theory, PDEs, and understand how the FT is super useful for music, signal processing, and more.
