Inverse Problems Workshop Series II

November 12 - 20, 2003

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Inverse Problems in Materials Science

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Herschel Rabitz (Princeton University)

OPTIMAL QUANTUM SYSTEM CONTROL AND IDENTIFICATION

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:30

Thursday, November 13, 2003

Level Set Methods for Inverse and Optimal Design Problems

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
Stanley Osher (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics)

Level Set Methods for Optimization Methods Involving Geometry andConstraints

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00
Eric Miller (Northeastern University)

Level Set Methods for Limited View and Low Sensitivity Tomographic Inverse Problems
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:30
Antonin Chambolle (Ceremade, France)

Total variation minimization and applications
PDF Presentation

5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, November 14, 2003

Level Set Methods for Inverse and Optimal Design Problems

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Oleg Alexandrov (University of Minnesota)

Optimization of eigenfunctions in an inhomogeneous medium
PDF Presentation

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00
Blaise Bourdin (Louisiana State University)

Phase-field method in optimal design
PDF Presentation

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Computational Methods for Inverse Problems and Applications

4:30 - 5:30

Saturday, November 15, 2003

Computational Methods for Inverse Problems and Applications

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
Maarten deHoop (Colorado School of Mines)

Aspects of microlocal analysis in global seismology

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30
William Rundell (Texas A&M University / National Science Foundation)

Singular and quadratic inverse eigenvalue problems

11:30 - 12:30

Monday, November 17, 2003

Computational Methods for Inverse Problems and Applications

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:30
Grace Wahba (University of Wisconsin)

A Variety of Regularization problems
PDF Presentation

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Gang Bao (Michigan State University)

Inverse Medium Scattering for 3-D Time-Harmonic Maxwell's Equations

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:30
Anatoly Yagola (Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics)

Using a priori information for constructing regularizing algorithms
Presentation (PowerPoint File)


Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Computational Methods for Inverse Problems and Applications

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
Habib Ammari (Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS, France)

Reconstruction of small inhomogeneities from boundary measurements
PDF Presentation

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Victor Isakov (Wichita State University)

Mathematical aspects of nearfiled acoustical holography
PDF Presentation

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
Rainer Kress (University of Gottingen, Germany)

Electrostatic imaging via conformal mapping
PDF Presentation

4:30 - 5:30
Thorsten Hohage (University of Gottingen, Germany)

On the solution of the inverse electromagnetic medium scattering problem
PDF Presentation

5:30 - 7:00 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
Peter Kuchment (Texas A&M University)

On the circular Radon transform and its applications

10:00 - 11:00
Uri Ascher (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

Computational methods for large distributed parameter estimation problems in 3D
PDF Presentation

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00
Michael Klibanov (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Convexification-based numerical methods for coefficient inverse problems

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:30
Lothar Reichel (Kent State University)

Iterative methods for Tikhonov regularization


Thursday, November 20, 2003

Inverse problems and learning theory and algorithms

Morning Session

8:30 - 8:50 Continental Breakfast
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
Steve Smale (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)

The Shannon sampling theorem and some extensions

9:50 - 10:40
David Donoho (Stanford University)

Isometry and Local Isometry in Manifold Learning

10:40 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 12:00
12:00 - 12:50
12:50 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20
Ding-Xuan Zhou (City University of Hong Kong)

Analysis of Support Vector Machine Classification
PDF Presentation

3:20 - 3:50 Break
3:50 - 4:40
4:40 - 5:30
Alessandro Verri (University of Genova, Italy)

On Tikhonov Regularization Algorithms in Statistical Learning
PDF Presentation

5:30 Conclusion