A conference on inverse problems
in honor of Gunther Uhlmann

University of California, Irvine, June 18 - 22, 2012

 

Location: Doheny Beach room and Emerald Bay room of the Student Center, UC Irvine

 

Schedule: Please check the conference's website for updates.

 

 

Monday, June 18, 2012

 

Room

Doheny Beach AB

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Conference Opening

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University): Singular Monge-Ampere equations in geometry

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Break

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Mikko Salo (University of Helsinki, Finland): Geodesic ray transforms and tensor tomography

11:45 PM - 12:30 PM

David Isaacson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): Problems that led me to

Gunther Uhlmann

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Lunch

Room

Mini-symposium A: Emerald Bay C

Mini-symposium B: Emerald Bay B

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

A: Fioralba Cakoni (University of Delaware): Nonlinear Integral Equations for Inverse Problems in Corrosion Detection from Partial Cauchy Data

B: Fernando Vasquez (University of Utah): Active Exterior Cloaking

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

A: Jennifer Mueller (Colorado State University): A direct D-bar

reconstruction algorithm for recovering a complex conductivity in 2-D

B: Graeme Milton (University of Utah): Cloaking for elasticity

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

A: Yaroslav Kurylev (University College London, UK): Inverse Problem of

Electro-magneto-encephalography in the 3-shell Model

B: Haoi-Minh Nguyen (University of Minnesota): Approximate cloaking using transformation optics and negative index materials

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Break

 

 

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

 

Room

Doheny Beach AB

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Matti Lassas (University of Helsinki, Finland): Cloaked wave amplifiers via transformation optics

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

Colin Guillarmou (Ecole Normale Superieure): Semiclassical limits of plane wave and Eisenstein functions

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Break

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Jenn-Nan Wang (National Taiwan University): Size estimate problem for the shallow shell system

11:45 PM - 12:30 PM

Ting Zhou (MIT): Quantitative thermo-acoustics and related problems

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

Room

Mini- symposium C: Doheny Beach B

Mini- symposium D: Doheny Beach A

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

C: Todd Quinto (Tufts University): The Microlocal Analysis of some

curvilinear Radon transforms

D: Leonid Kunyansky (University of Arizona): A mathematical model and inversion procedure for Magneto-Acousto-Electric Tomography

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

C: Francois Monard (Columbia University): The inverse conductivity problem with power densities in general dimension

D: Shari Moskow (Drexel University): Local inversions in ultrasound

modulated optical tomography

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

C: Clayton Shonkwiler (University of Georgia): The Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for differential forms

D: Kui Ren (University of Texas at Austin): Uncertainties in quantitative photoacoustic tomography

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

C: Aleksander Denisiuk (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland): On support theorems for the X-Ray transform with incomplete data

D: Faouzi Triki (Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, France): Vibration potential tomography

 

 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

 

Room

Doheny Beach AB

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Carlos Kenig (University of Chicago): Limiting Carleman weights and inverse problems

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

Guillaume Bal (Columbia University): Inverse Problems with Internal Functionals

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Break

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Lassi Paivarinta (University of Helsinki): Non-scattering energies and transmission eigenvalues

11:45 PM - 12:30 PM

Fadil Santosa (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications): Resonances of

Low-loss Resonators

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Joyce McLaughlin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): Biomechanical Imaging of Tissue from Frequency Content Data

Room

Mini- symposium E: Emerald Bay C

Mini- symposium D: Emerald Bay B

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

E: Andras Vasy (Stanford University): Diffraction from conormal singularities

D: Adrian Nachman (University of Toronto): Convergent algorithm for the hybrid problem of reconstructing conductivity from minimal interior data

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

E: Kiril Datchev (MIT): Fractal Weyl laws for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds

D: Alex Tamasan (University of Central Florida): Conductivity imaging via some minimum weighted total variation problems

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Break

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

E: Melissa Tacy (IAS): L^p eigenfunction estimates and directional oscillation

D: Sebastian Imperiale (Columbia University): Reconstruction of coefficients

in elliptic equations from knowledge of their solutions : Scalar and elastic cases

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

E: Matti Lassas/Lauri Oksanen (University of Helsinki, Finland): An

inverse problem for the wave equation with disjoint sources and receivers

D: Chenxi Guo (Columbia University): Linearized internal functionals for anisotropic conductivities

7:00 PM

Conference Banquet at Capital Seafood Restaurant

 

 

Thursday, June 21, 2012

 

Room

Doheny Beach AB

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Steve Zelditch (Northwestern University): Ergodicity and intersections of geodesics and nodal sets of eigenfunctions

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

Alan Greenleaf (University of Rochester): Can there be a general theory of Fourier integral operators?

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Break

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

David Colton (University of Delaware): Transmission Eigenvalues and Inverse Scattering Theory

11:45 PM - 12:30 PM

John Sylvester (University of Washington): Far Field Support for the Helmholtz Equation

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

Room

Mini- symposium E: Doheny Beach B

Mini- symposium A: Doheny Beach A

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

E: Dean Baskin (Northwestern University): Asymptotics of radiation fields in asymptotically Minkowski space

A: Leo Tzou (Stockholm University, Sweden): The Aharonov-Bohm Effect and the Calderon Problem for Connection Laplacians

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

E: Hamid Hezari (MIT): Wave invariants and inverse spectral problems

A: Alberto Ruiz (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain): Stability of Calderon problem with partial Data

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

E: Cliff Nolan (University of Limerick, Ireland): Microlocal analysis of radar imaging of a dynamic reflectivity function

A: Valeri Serov (University of Oulu, Finland): Scattering solutions for the magnetic Schrodinger operator. Backscattering Born approximation

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

E: Carlos Montalto (Purdue University): Stable determination of a simple metric, a covector

field and a potencial from the hyperbolic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map

A: Boaz Haberman (UC Berkeley): Calderon's problem for low regularity conductivities

 

 

 

Friday, June 22, 2012

 

Room

Doheny Beach AB

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Gang Bao (Michigan State University): Inverse Scattering Problems: Theory, Computation, and Applications

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

Liliana Borcea (Rice University): Imaging in random media

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Break

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Margaret Cheney (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): Radar Imaging

11:45 PM - 12:30 PM

Richard Melrose (MIT): Adiabatic limits and eigenvalues

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

Room

Mini- symposium C: Doheny Beach B

Mini- symposium B: Doheny Beach A

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

C: Leonid Pestov (Immanuel Kant State University, Russia): On determining a conformal euclidean metric by its copy

B: Ulf Leonhardt (University of St Andrews, UK): Perfect imaging with positive refraction

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

C: Yernat Assylbekov (Almaty, Kazakhstan): Some integral geometry problems on Finsler and Riemannian surfaces

B: Yaroslav Kurylev (University College London, UK): Manifolds of bounded geometry and stability of inverse problems

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

C: Alexandre Jollivet (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France): Inverse scattering in classical mechanics

B: Hyundae Lee (Inha Univeristy, Korea): Mathematical analysis of the anomalous localized resonance

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

C: Katya Krupchyk (University of Helsinki, Finland): Inverse boundary problems for magnetic Schrodinger operators with continuous magnetic potentials

B: Mikyoung Lim (KAIST, South Korea): Enhancement of near-cloaking using multilayer structures

 

Mini-symposia:

 

A: Inverse Boundary Value Problems; Calderon's Problem

Organizers: Mikko Salo (University of Helsinki) and Rakesh (University of Delaware)

 

B: Transformation Optics and Cloaking

Organizers: Ting Zhou (MIT) and Matti Lassas (University of Helsinki)

 

C: Inverse Problems in Geometry

Organizers: Vladimir Sharafutdinov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics) and Todd Quinto (Tufts University)

 

D: Hybrid Methods (Multi-Physics, Multi-Wave) in Medical Imaging

Organizers: Guillaume Bal (Columbia University) and Shari Moskow (Drexel University)

 

E: Microlocal Methods

Organizers: Allan Greenleaf (University of Rochester) and Raluca Felea (Rochester Institute of Technology)