Inverse Problems Workshop Series II - IPAM

Inverse Problems Workshop Series II

Part of the Long Program Inverse Problems: Computational Methods and Emerging Applications
November 12 - 20, 2003

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Morning Session

01:00-01:00
seg3|Inverse Problems in Materials Science
08:30-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:00
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, Inc.)
Quantum State Tomography : Estimation and Experiment Design
11:30-12:30
Herschel Rabitz (Princeton University)
OPTIMAL QUANTUM SYSTEM CONTROL AND IDENTIFICATION

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Robert McGreevy (CCLRC)
Inverse methods of data analysis in neutron scattering
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
David Keen (Oxford University)
Reverse Monte Carlo modelling of diffraction data from crystalline materials
16:30-17:30
Russel Caflisch (New York University)
Design and Optimization of a Solid State Qubit System

Thursday, November 13, 2003

Morning Session

01:00-01:00
seg2|Level Set Methods for Inverse and Optimal Design Problems
08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
Stanley Osher (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Eric Miller (Northeastern University)
Level Set Methods for Limited View and Low Sensitivity Tomographic Inverse Problems
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Wolfgang Ring (University of Graz)
A level-set shape optimization approach to the solution of a state-constrained optimal control problem.
16:30-17:30
Antonin Chambolle (Ceremade, France)
Total variation minimization and applications
17:30-19:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, November 14, 2003

Morning Session

01:00-01:00
seg2|Level Set Methods for Inverse and Optimal Design Problems
08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
Fadil Santosa (Johns Hopkins University)
Optimization of eigenfunctions in an inhomogeneous medium
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Oleg Alexandrov (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Optimization of eigenfunctions in an inhomogeneous medium

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
14:00-15:00
Blaise Bourdin (McMaster University)
Phase-field method in optimal design
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Michael Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Structural Topology and Material Optimization with Level Set Methods
16:30-16:30
seg1|Computational Methods for Inverse Problems and Applications
16:30-17:30
Frank Natterer (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster)
Various approximations to the inverse problem of the Helmholtz equation

Monday, November 17, 2003

Morning Session

01:00-01:00
seg1|Computational Methods for Inverse Problems and Applications
08:30-09:30
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:30
Grace Wahba (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
A Variety of Regularization problems
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Masahiro Yamamoto (University of Tokyo)
Inverse problems in periodic diffractive optics; uniqueness, stability and reconstruction
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Sergei Pereverzev (Johann Radon Institute)
General approach to regularization of linear ill-posed problems in Hilbert spaces.
16:30-17:30
Anatoly Yagola (Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics)
Using a priori information for constructing regularizing algorithms

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Morning Session

01:00-01:00
seg1|Computational Methods for Inverse Problems and Applications
08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
Habib Ammari (Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS)
Reconstruction of small inhomogeneities from boundary measurements
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Victor Isakov (Wichita State University)
Mathematical aspects of nearfiled acoustical holography

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
David Colton (University of Delaware)
The Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering Problem for Partially Coated Obstacles
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Rainer Kress (University of Gottingen, Germany)
Electrostatic imaging via conformal mapping
16:30-17:30
Thorsten Hohage (University of Gottingen, Germany)
On the solution of the inverse electromagnetic medium scattering problem
17:30-19:00
Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Morning Session

08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
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
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Michael Klibanov (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Convexification-based numerical methods for coefficient inverse problems
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Daniela Calvetti (Case Western Reserve University)
Iterative methods for the solution of linear discrete ill-posed problems with nonnegativity constraint.
16:30-17:30
Lothar Reichel (Kent State University)
Iterative methods for Tikhonov regularization

Thursday, November 20, 2003

Morning Session

01:00-01:00
seg4|Inverse problems and learning theory and algorithms
08:30-08:50
Continental Breakfast
08:50-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:50
Steve Smale (City University of Hong Kong)
The Shannon sampling theorem and some extensions
09:50-10:40
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)

Afternoon Session

12:00-12:50
Federico Girosi (Rand Corporation)
Using Prior Knowledge to Forecast Mortality Time Series
12:50-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Ding-Xuan Zhou (City University of Hong Kong)
Analysis of Support Vector Machine Classification
15:20-15:50
Break
15:50-16:40
Sayan Mukherjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Permutation Tests for Classification and Approximation and estimation bounds for mixture of densities
16:40-17:30
Alessandro Verri (University of Genova, Italy)
On Tikhonov Regularization Algorithms in Statistical Learning
17:30
Conclusion
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