[time-nuts] Re: Dr Kinali

[Joseph Gwinn]

Re: time-nuts Digest, Vol 222, Issue 14
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> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 11:53:17 +0200
> From: Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.se>
> Subject: [time-nuts] Dr Kinali
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> Dear fellow time-nuts,
> 
> I just saw the PhD defense of Attila Kinali, which was successful and 
> render him being Dr. Kinali.
> 
> It is interesting in that it shows that the Fourier transform 
> traditionally used in engineering is not properly done as viewed in 
> mathematical strictness. Through the formalism of math he redefines a 
> Fourier transform that does work in a mathematical sense while being 
> consistent with the traditional one and hence useful. The key issue is 
> that some functions tend to integrate to infinity while they are in fact 
> power limited, so it's only the length of integration that scales them 
> to infinity. This is where engineering use cheats but a math strict 
> approach cannot cheat.
> 
> He also visited a look at noise models and how these affect predictions 
> of noise of out amplifiers, with illustrations on how that now is used 
> to better model actual noise performance.
> 
> Further he analyzed meta stability of digital circuits and discussed those.
> 
> Overall an impressive thesis, not to say there is not to research on, as 
> there is and several topics was discussed during the defense, as it should.
> 
> Congratulations! Very well executed and performed!

Let me add my congratulations to the chorus.

I assume that the thesis is in German, but I'm hoping that the core 
mathematical arguments at least are also available in English.

Joe Gwinn

PS:  When I saw the posting subject, my heart froze - it sounded like 
an obituary notice - did Attila suffer a bad accident?  The I read 
the text.