June 6-8, 2017

Questions in data analysis involving the concepts of time and measurement are often pushed into the background or reserved for a philosophical discussion. Some examples are:

• Is causality a consequence of the laws of physics, or can the arrow of time be reversed?

• How can we determine temporal asymmetry (the “Arrow of Time”) in time series data?

• Do we need the continuum hypothesis for the underlying function in any measurement process?

• Can we say anything about the analyticity of the underlying process of an event?

• Would it be valid to model a non-analytical process as function of time?

• What are the implications of all these questions for classical Fourier techniques, expansions in other basis functions, and for time-domain models?