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Inverse Problems Workshop Series II

November 12 - 20, 2003

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

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

Alan Ardell (UCLA)

"Interfacial Energies, Diffusion Coefficients and Solubility Limits from Data on Precipitate Coarsening in Ni-base Alloys"

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Robert Kosut (SC Solutions)

"Quantum State Tomography : Estimation and Experiment Design"

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

Robert McGreevy (CCLRC)

"Inverse methods of data analysis in neutron scattering"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

David Keen (Oxford University)

"Reverse Monte Carlo modelling of diffraction data from crystalline materials"

4:30 - 5:30

Russel Caflisch (UCLA)

"Design and Optimization of a Solid State Qubit System"


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

Martin Burger (UCLA)

"Level-set based fast optimization techniques"

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

Wolfgang Ring (University of Graz)

"A level-set shape optimization approach to the solution of a state-constrained optimal control problem. "

4:30 - 5:30

Antonin Chambolle (Ceremade, France)

"Total variation minimization and applications"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Fadil Santosa (University of Minnesota)

"Optimization of eigenfunctions in an inhomogeneous medium"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Oleg Alexandrov (University of Minnesota)

"Optimization of eigenfunctions in an inhomogeneous medium"
Presentation (PDF File)

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"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Michael Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

"Structural Topology and Material Optimization with Level Set Methods"
Presentation (PDF File)

Computational Methods for Inverse Problems and Applications

4:30 - 5:30

Frank Natterer (University of Muenster, Germany)

"Various approximations to the inverse problem of the Helmholtz equation"
Presentation (PDF File)


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

Alfred Louis (Saarland University)

"The approximate inverse with applications to 3D X-ray CT"


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"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Masahiro Yamamoto (University of Tokyo)

"Inverse problems in periodic diffractive optics; uniqueness, stability and reconstruction"

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

Sergei Pereverzev (Johann Radon Institute)

"General approach to regularization of linear ill-posed problems in Hilbert spaces."
lecture(.doc)

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 "
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Victor Isakov (Wichita State University)

"Mathematical aspects of nearfiled acoustical holography"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

David Colton (University of Delaware)

"The Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering Problem for Partially Coated Obstacles"

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

Rainer Kress (University of Gottingen, Germany)

"Electrostatic imaging via conformal mapping"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:30 - 5:30

Thorsten Hohage (University of Gottingen, Germany)

"On the solution of the inverse electromagnetic medium scattering problem"
Presentation (PDF File)

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"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

Liliana Borcea (Rice University)

"On the convergence of discrete inverse Sturm-Liouville problems on finite difference optimal grids"

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

Daniela Calvetti (Case Western Reserve University)

"Iterative methods for the solution of linear discrete ill-posed problems with nonnegativity constraint."

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

Tomaso Poggio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Inverse Problems and Learning Machines: stable solutions are predictive (and vice versa for ERM)"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:00 - 12:50

Federico Girosi (Rand Corporation)

"Using Prior Knowledge to Forecast Mortality Time Series"

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"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:20 - 3:50 Break
3:50 - 4:40

Sayan Mukherjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Permutation Tests for Classification and Approximation and estimation bounds for mixture of densities"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:40 - 5:30

Alessandro Verri (University of Genova, Italy)

"On Tikhonov Regularization Algorithms in Statistical Learning"
Presentation (PDF File)

5:30 Conclusion

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