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| | Congressional lunch briefing 2/28/02 |
 | | Professor Ingrid Daubechies, of Princeton University, spoke on "Mathematics, Patterns and Homeland Security" at this year's Congressional lunch briefing on Capitol Hill for Members of Congress and their staffs, held February 28, 2002, in the Rayburn Building. |
 | | The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, California, joined AMS to sponsor the event, one in a series intended to bring mathematicians to Washington to discuss federally-funded research that affects sensitive issues currently before Congress. |
 | | Professor Daubechies described how mathematicians use wavelet analysis in several of these areas, for example, the FBI uses wavelets to compress its vast library of fingerprint data. |
| www.ams.org /government/briefing0202.html (208 words) |
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