Professor Bill Beckner presents his lecture "Enroute to the Land of Fourier: Fair Coins, Smooth Bumps, Symmetry, Uncertainty" to the Math Club.

I will explain in my talk how ideas from representation theory can be applied to a solution of a basic "real life" problem. The problem that I will discuss arise in structural biology and concerns determination of the three dimensional structure of a large molecule from the set of images, taken...