IPNet Digest Volume 10, Number 03 March 31, 2003 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm Michigan State University Today's Topics: Announcement: Inverse Problems Theme Year 2003 - 2004 Int'l Symposium: Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization SIAM Conference: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Travel Grants: Elsevier-sponsored, to 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting Table of Contents: Inverse Problems Table of Contents: Linear Algebra and Its Applications Submissions for IPNet Digest: Mail to ipnet-digest@math.msu.edu Information about IPNet: http://www.mth.msu.edu/ipnet Mail to ipnet-request@math.msu.edu ----------------------------- From: Inverse Problems Theme Year 2003-2004 Subject: First Announcement: Inverse Problems Theme Year 2003 - 2004 Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 First Announcement of the meeting Analytic and Geometric Methods in Inverse Problems, Helsinki, Finland, August 25.-29.2003 The Finnish Inverse Problem Society together with the Finnish Mathematical Society arranges a theme year of inverse problems in Finland during the academic year 2003-2004. The theme year includes a series of conferences and intensive courses on inverse problems and related topics in mathematics. The aim of the meeting entitled Analytic and Geometric Methods in Inverse Problems is to bring together a number of specialists in inverse problems, and in particular to focus on modern analytic and geometric tools. The preliminary list of invited speakers includes: Carlos Alves Juan Antonio Barcelo Elena Beretta Khosrow Chadan David Colton Elisa Francini Allan Greenleaf Alberto Grunbaum Martijn de Hoop David Isaacson Alexander Katchalov Rainer Kress Yaroslav V. Kurylev Stephen McDowall Adrian Nachman Cliff Nolan Alberto Ruiz William Rundell Vladimir Sharafutdinov Gunther Uhlmann Michael Vogelius We ask the interested to visit the web page of the theme year, http://www.math.hut.fi/inverseyear/ where you find the necessary information about registration and accommodation. Please note that the deadline for the early registration is April 30, 2003. Just after the opening conference on September 1.-5., there will be a Workshop on Inverse Spectral Problems. It is sponsored by the European Science Foundation's programme Partial Differential Operators and Spectral Theory. The main speakers here are Maciej Zworski (University of Berkeley) Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth College) David L. Webb (Dartmouth College) Peter Perry (University of Kentucky) Michiel van den Berg (University of Bristol) Slava Kurylev (University of Loughborough) Matti Lassas (University of Helsinki) If you are going to participate in the workshop you should mention this when you do the registration. For young researchers and graduate students, financial support towards the expenses of participation is available both for the opening conference of the theme year and the workshop. ----------------------------- From: Helcio Rangel Barreto Orlande Subject: Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 Dear Colleague: We are in the process of defining dates for a three-day international symposium on INVERSE PROBLEMS, DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION to be held in Rio de Janeiro in March or April of 2004. The conference will emphasize a broad range of deterministic, statistical, mathematical, computational and experimental approaches, which can be applied to the solution of inverse, design and multi-disciplinary optimization problems. The topics listed below give a general guideline for possible contributions: Acoustics Vibrations and structural dynamics Electromagnetism Nuclear transport Geophysics Multi-objective optimization Imaging Design of experiments Heat and mass transfer Physical property estimation Fluid mechanics Signal and noise processing Solid mechanics Benchmark results Tomography Novel inverse methodologies Chemistry and combustion Inverse scattering Materials processing Uncertainty and decision making Contributions dealing with practical applications are encouraged, such as in petrochemistry, aeronautics, astronautics, bio-medicine, groundwater flow, materials processing, remote sensing, non-destructive evaluation, etc. We expect anywhere between 80 and 150 international participants that will have an opportunity to present their research and learn about related mathematical formulations, methods, algorithms and applications thus providing an excellent environment for developing new concepts. Please respond to this e-mail as soon as possible and indicate which of the following choices for the conference week would be the most acceptable to you. March 1-5, 2004 March 8-12, 2004 March 15-19, 2004 March 22-26, 2004 March 29-April 2, 2004 April 5-9, 2004 Please note that Carnival will be during February 21-25, 2004 and Easter Sunday will be on April 11, 2004. During these holidays, prices and availability of accommodation and flights will be severely affected. Thank you for taking your time to respond to this message as soon as possible. Chair: Prof. George S. Dulikravich MAIDO Institute University of Texas at Arlington MAE Dept., Box 19018 (817) 272-7376 Arlington, Texas 76019 USA dulikra@mae.uta.edu Co-chair: Prof. Helcio R. B. Orlande PEM/COPPE/UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro CP 68503 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21945-970 BRAZIL helcio@serv.com.ufrj.br ----------------------------- From: "Darrell Ross" Subject: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Reminder! Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 Subject: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Reminder! Conference Name: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Location: Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, CA Dates: May 1-3, 2003 Reminder, the deadlines Preregistration and Hotel Registration are fast approaching! The Preregistration and Hotel Registration deadlines are on Wednesday, April 2, 2003. SAVE and register now! For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm03/ Darrell Ross SIAM, Conference Program Manager Conference Web Master ross@siam.org ----------------------------- From: michelle montgomery Subject: Elsevier sponsors Travel Grants to 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 Elsevier sponsors Travel Grants to the 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting. Five grants are available. Program information for 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting at http://www.siam.org/meetings/AN03 To qualify: Individuals must be mathematical scientists with full time appointments in universities in "outreach" countries, for whom attendance would otherwise not be within reach. Any country on the list of countries to which we extend SIAM "outreach" membership rates -- you can find the list of countries at https://www.siam.org/membership/outreachlist.htm -- will qualify. Award: 1. round-trip excursion rate airfare (most economical available) to the 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting 2. US$250 to help defray costs while at the meeting 3. one year paid SIAM "outreach" member dues ***SIAM will waive registration fees for the five awardees. To apply: Send a cover letter stating your intention to attend the 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting and explaining the reasons for your request. Provide a letter from your home university or institute expressing support for your attendance at the meeting. The letter should confirm your position, provide the title of your position and be signed by a department chairman or supervisor. A commitment to fund the remainder of the cost of travel/expenses not covered by the award should also be stated. Individuals who will be presenting papers at the conference will be given priority. Append to the letter a copy of the abstract of your presentation. The presentation itself must be submitted by normal channels. Potential awardees must be able to receive permission to travel to Montreal, Canada, with the intent of attending the 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting. Applications must be received by 1 April 2003. Selection: The awardees will be selected by a SIAM committee. The tentative list of winners to be submitted to Elsevier Science for approval on or before 1 May 2003. Applications for the Travel Grants should be sent to: SIAM Attn.: Elsevier/SIAM Travel Grant Application 3600 University City Science Center Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Meetings@siam.org Fax: 215-386-7999 ----------------------------- From: "Elizabeth Martin" Subject: Contents list for Inverse Problems Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 Inverse Problems April 2003 Vol. 19, Issue 2 Table of Contents All articles are free for 30 days after publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://stacks.iop.org/0266-5611/19/i=2 TOPICAL REVIEW Separable nonlinear least squares: the variable projection method and its applications G Golub and V Pereyra PAPERS Hausdorff moments in an inverse problem for the heat equation: numerical experiment Y V Kurylev, N Mandache and K S Peat Selecting Bayesian priors for stochastic rates using extended functional models G J Gibson The linear sampling method for cracks F Cakoni and D Colton Solution of inverse problems in elasticity imaging using the adjoint method A A Oberai, N H Gokhale and G R Feij\'oo A two-step algorithm for the reconstruction of perfectly reflecting periodic profiles G Bruckner and J Elschner A sequential minimization algorithm based on the convexification approach M V Klibanov and A Timonov A projective method for an inverse source problem of the Poisson equation T Nara and S Ando Optical tomography for small volume absorbing inclusions G Bal Quasi-Newton methods in optical tomographic image reconstruction A D Klose and A H Hielscher Solving an inverse problem for Urison-type integral equations using Banach's fixed point theorem H Kunze and S Gomes Environmental uncertainty in ocean acoustic source localization S E Dosso TIGRA---an iterative algorithm for regularizing nonlinear ill-posed problems R Ramlau An inverse spectral problem for a Schr\"odinger operator with an unbounded potential L Cardoulis, M Cristofol and P Gaitan An inverse problem for three-dimensional x-ray scatter/transmission imaging F El Khettabi and E M A Hussein Submitted by: Elizabeth Martin, Senior Production Editor Inverse Problems Institute of Physics Publishing Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol BS1 6BE UK Tel: +44 (0)117 929 7481 (Direct: +44 (0)117 930 1078) Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4318 (Direct: +44 (0)117 920 0764) E-mail: liz.martin@iop.org WWW: http://www.iop.org ----------------------------- From: Hans Schneider Subject: LAA contents Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 Linear Algebra and its Applications May 2003 Volume 364 Table of Contents Classifying quadratic maps from plane to plane R. Duran Diaz, J. Munoz Masque and A. Peinado Dominguez Characterizations and lower bounds for the spread of a normal matrix Jorma Kaarlo Merikoski and Ravinder Kumar Quadrature formulas for matrix measures--a geometric approach Holger Dette and William J. Studden Generalizations of the Ostrowski-Brauer theorem L. Yu. Kolotilina Eigenvalues of matrices with several prescribed blocks, II Gloria Cravo and Fernando C. Silva Minimal-volume projections of cubes and totally unimodular matrices M. I. Ostrovskii Positivity of principal minors, sign symmetry and stability Daniel Hershkowitz and Nathan Keller Affine automorphisms that are isometries Zbigniew Jelonek The characterization of symmetric primitive matrices with exponent n-1 Jun-Liang Cai and Bo-Ying Wang The solvability conditions for the inverse eigenvalue problems of centro-symmetric matrices Fu-Zhao Zhou, Xi-Yan Hu and Lei Zhang Optimal low-rank approximation to a correlation matrix Zhenyue Zhang and Lixin Wu Stability of eigenvalues and spectral decompositions under linear perturbation R. Alam and S. Bora Condition for the numerical range to contain an elliptic disc Hwa-Long Gau and Pei Yuan Wu Permanents of woven matrices Gi-Sang Cheon, Suk-Geun Hwang, Bryan L. Shader and Seok-Zun Song Computing matrix-vector products with centrosymmetric and centrohermitian matrices Heike Fassbender and Khakim D. Ikramov On the number of arcs in primitive digraphs with large exponents Jian Shen and Cynthia J. Wyels More on modifications and improvements of classical iterative schemes for M-matrices A. Hadjidimos, D. Noutsos and M. Tzoumas Looking for nonnegative solutions of a Leontief dynamic model Manuela S. Silva and Teresa P. de Lima Spectrum and commutativity preserving mappings on H2 Tatjana Petek and Humberto Sarria On the Craig-Sakamoto theorem and Olkin's determinantal result Masaya Matsuura http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5653-2003-996359999-400015 Submitted by: Hans Schneider Mathematics Department Van Vleck Hall University of Wisconsin 480 Lincoln Drive Madison, WI 53706-1313 USA Email: hans@math.wisc.edu Office Phone: 608-262-1402 WWW: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hans Math Dept Phone: 608-263-3054 Math Dept Fax: 608-263-8891 ------- end -------