Inverse Problems and Analysis

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Seminars will be held on Thursdays from 2:00 - 3:00 in Ewing 336

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Spring 2013

February 21 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. David Ambrose, Drexel University
Title: Existence Results for Free-Surface Problems in Fluid Dynamics
March 14 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. Peijun Li, Purdue University
Title: An Inverse Random Source Scattering Problem
May 9 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. Yury Grabovsky, Department of Mathematics, Temple University
Title: Probing the boundary of quasiconvexity

Fall 2012

September 27 1:00 - 2:00 EWG 336
Michael Klibanov, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Title: An Approximately Globally Convergent Scheme For a Hyperbolic Coefficient Inverse Problem
October 12 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. Richard Tsai, Dept. Math, U. Texas at Austin
Title: An Implicit Interface Boundary Integral formulation and its application to Poisson’s Equation on Arbitrary Domains
November 13 1:00 - 2:00 EWG 336
Nsoki Mavinga, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore College
Title: Resonance for some nonlinear second order elliptic equations
November 20 1:00 - 2:00 EWG 336
Jiguang Sun, Michigan Technological University
Title: A multi-level FEM for Transmission Eigenvalues of Anisotropic Media
December 4 1:00 - 2:00 EWG 336
Andriy Synyavskyy, University of Delaware
Title: Recovering parameters of a plane stratified dielectric on the perfectly conducting substrate starting from plane wave reflection coefficient
December 11 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Yen Do, Yale University
Title: Quantitative convergence of Fourier series in weighted settings

Spring 2012

February 9 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Nicolas Chaulet, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Title: Simultaneous reconstruction of an obstacle and its Generalized Impedance Boundary Condition
March 1 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Matthias Eller, Georgetown University
Title: Carleman estimates and unique continuation for solutions to homogeneous linear PDE
March 8 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Cristian Gutierrez, Temple University
Title: Refraction problems in geometric optics concerning energy
March 14 1:30 - 2:30 PRN 342A
Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester
Title: Multi-linear operators in geometric measure theory
March 22 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Boundary value problems on polyhedral domains and applications to numerical methods
April 12 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Bruno Despres, University of Paris
Title: Magnetic equations for Fusion plasmas: from physical problems to mathematical and numerical challenges (with a bit on inverse problems)
April 13 3:30 - 4:30 EWG 209
Laurent Demanet, MIT
Title: Super-resolution via sparse recovery: progress and challenges
April 19 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. Antonello Tamburrino, University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale and Michigan State University
Title: Fast Imaging Methods for Static and Quasi-static Electromagnetic Inverse Problems
May 3 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. Der-Chen Chang, Georgetown University
Title: Heat Kernels for a Class of Degenerate Elliptic Operators
May 10 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. Elena Cherkaev, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
Title: Inverse problem for the structure of composite materials
May 15 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Roland Griesmaier , University of Mainz
Title: Source reconstruction using windowed Fourier transforms and the filtered backprojection
May 17 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Nuutti Hyvonen , Aalto University, Finland
Title: Simultaneous reconstruction of outer boundary shape and conductivity distribution in electrical impedance tomography

Fall 2011

October 27, 2011 1:15 - 2:15 EWG 336
Prof. Shari Moskow , Drexel University
Title: Scattering and resonances of thin high contrast dielectric structures
November 3, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Russell Brown , University of Kentucky
Title: Estimates for a family of multi-linear forms and the continuity of a scattering map in two dimensions
November 4, 2011 3:00 - 4:00 GOR 308
Maarten deHoop , Purdue University
Title: Imaging Earth's deep interior - Multi-scale techniques
December 1, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Michael Vogelius , Rutgers University
Title: Approximate Cloaking at all Frequencies, and for the full Wave Equation

Spring 2011

February 24, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. Bojan Guzina , Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
Title: Effect of Low-Frequency Modulation on the Acoustic Radiation Force
March 3, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. Yvonne Ou , University of Delaware
Title: Wave propagation in poroelastic materials
March 17, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. Rakesh , University of Delaware
Title: A Hyperbolic Inverse Problem with  Angular Control on the Coefficients
March 31, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Spring Break - No Speaker
April 7, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. David Isaacson , Rensselaer Polytechnique Institute
Title: Mathematical Problems arising in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer
April 21, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Dr. Cedric Bellis , Columbia University
Title: Wave-based defect imaging in elastic solids using 3D time-domain topological sensitivity
April 28, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. David Colton , University of Delaware
Title: Transmission Eigenvalues for a Spherically Stratified Medium
May 5, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. Nertila Gjini , University of New York in Tirana
Title: Connectedness of self-similar tilings generated by cubic and quartic Pisot units
May 12, 2011 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Prof. Guillaume Bal , Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Title: Hybrid inverse problems and internal functionals

Fall 2010

September 2, 2010 1:30 - 2:30 EWG 336
Dr. Armin Lechleiter, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
Title: Wave Scattering from Infinite Penetrable Layers.
September 9, 2010 1:30 - 2:30 EWG 336
Professor George Hsiao, University of Delaware
Title: Inverse problem in fluid-structure interaction via simple- layer potentials
September 23, 2010 1:30 - 2:30 EWG 336
Dr. Yongzhi Steve Xu, University of Louisville
Title: Upward radiation condition for wave in essentially stratified medium and related inverse scattering problems.
September 30, 2010 1:30 - 2:30 EWG 336
Professor Lassi Paivarinta, University of Helsinki, Finland
Title: On Transmission Eigenvalues
October 14, 2010 1:30 - 2:30 EWG 336
Professor Shari Moskow, Drexel University
Title: Scattering and resonances of thin high contrast  photonic structures
October 21, 2010 1:30 - 2:30 EWG 336
Dr. Jiguang Sun, Delaware State University
Title: Estimation of Transmission Eigenvalues and Index of Refraction from Near Field Data
November 18, 2010 1:30 - 2:30 EWG 336
Professor Charles Epstein, University of Pennsylvania
Title: A new method for the numerical solution of Maxwell's equations
December 3, 2010 1:30 - 2:30 EWG 336
Prof. Taufiquar Khan , Clemson University
Title: Optimal Source for Maximizing Distinguishability in Diffuse Optical Tomography