An occasion like this is a good moment to look back, review the changes in our common scientific field, i.e. Harmotnic Analyis to see how it has changed, and what the topics have been at the beginning and now in the late phase of our career.

Since it was the time of Modern Analysis when we started I don't know a better word for the upcoming area ``Postmodern Harmonic Analysis". > After the phase of abstraction (LCA groups, distributions) and diversification (FFT, computational HA, wavelets, Gabor) and many interesting applicadtions (e.g. in mobile communication or signal processing) it is time to think of a more integrative view-point, and bring the established theoretical body closer to applications, maybe also in the way how we teach Fourier Analysis.

I think this way of thinking is also very familiar to Rupert Lasser who was all his academic life moving between the two poles.