About Discussion Meeting in Harmonic Analysis(DMHA)

Discussion Meeting in Harmonic Analysis is a regular, biennial event organized by the Harmonic Analysts in India at various places. The first discussion meeting on harmonic analysis (DMHA) was organized by Professor M. G. Nadkarni at the University of Bombay in 1988. It had a very small budget and around 25 participants. The meeting was a great success and the participants decided to have a meeting once every two years at different locations across the country. The vision of that initial group was to have a meeting of all practitioners and students of harmonic analysis in the country, where they would be able to present their works, and discuss new developments in the subject. As participation in the biennial meeting has grown over the years, their vision has been realized. The core of a DMHA is a series of lectures focusing on a couple of themes, by experts in some of the promising fields. The DMHAs are intended to be accessible to mathematicians at the beginning of their career. In recent years, we have also started organizing a weeklong workshop just before the meeting.

The 18^th discussion meeting in harmonic analysis will be held at the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, from 18^th to 21^st December, 2023. (Due to the pandemic, the last DMHA, organized by NISER, Bhubaneswar was held online.) The meeting will be preceded by a workshop during the previous week, 11^th to 16^th December, 2023, in which we plan to have three/ four series of lectures in representation theory and harmonic analysis. As 2023 happened to be the birth centenary of the outstanding Mathematician Harish-Chandra, we have decided to celebrate the event with the upcoming DMHA. Consequently, the meeting is planned as a conference completely dedicated to Harish-Chandra where most of the lectures will be related to his works.