Summary
This award supports participation in the fourth May Midwestern Microlocal Meeting, held May 9-10, 2026 in Chicago. The propagation of waves, a ubiquitous phenomenon in the physical world, is described by a variety of interrelated partial differential equations. The study of the solutions of the equations of wave motion has been advanced by the use of the techniques of microlocal analysis, which allow mathematicians to make precise the notion of the distribution of a wave in both position and direction, and to study its evolution from this perspective. Applications of microlocal analysis in sci
