IPNet Digest Volume 10, Number 10 October 31, 2003 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm Michigan State University Today's Topics: SPIE Conference on Image Reconstruction from Incomplete Data Workshop on Modeling of Water Flow and Contaminant Transport SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms SIAM International Conference on Numerical Combustion New book on Multi-scale Image Analysis Table of Contents: Inverse Problems in Engineering 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: Russell Luke Subject: SPIE Conference on Image Reconstruction from Incomplete Data Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 Conference on Image Reconstruction from Incomplete Data III Part of the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting 2-6 August 2004 Colorado Convention Center Denver, Colorado USA http://spie.org/Conferences/Calls/04/am/conferences/index.cfm?fuseaction=AM320 Conference Chairs: Philip J. Bones, Univ. of Canterbury (New Zealand); Michael A. Fiddy, UNC Charlotte (North Carolina); Rick P. Millane, Univ. of Canterbury (New Zealand) Program Committee Yoram Bresler, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana Champaign; Julian C. Christou, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz; Christopher Dainty, Univ.Galway, Ireland; Peter C. Doerschuk, Purdue Univ.; James R. Fienup, U of Rochester; Donald Fraser, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia); Richard G. Lane, Univ. of Canterbury (New Zealand); D. Russell Luke, Simon Fraser University Robert V. McGahan, Air Force Research Lab.; Alok Mitra, University of Auckland, N.Z. Rocco Pierri, Seconda Univ.degli Studi di Napoli (Italy); Marc Saillard, CNRS (France); Michael B.Silevitch, Northeastern Univ.; Eric Thiebaut, Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon I (France); Markus E. Testorf, Dartmouth College Jong Ye, Philips Research USA The theme of this conference is methods and algorithms for reconstructing images of a physical system or object from remotely-sensed data, in which the data are incomplete (in the sense that they do not, by themselves, allow a direct computation of a high-fidelity image). It is therefore necessary to incorporate other information or constraints to obtain a useful solution. The design of effective and efficient algorithms for using the different kinds of available data and constraints to obtain a solution is of primary importance in these kinds of problems. In many, although not all, of these problems the data are related to a wavefield that carries information concerning the object, i.e. they often involve scattering or diffraction. Example technical areas include phase retrieval, deconvolution, inverse scattering, regularization, and imaging through turbulence. Example application areas include radar imaging, medical imaging (ultrasonic, x-ray CT, MRI, optical diffusion and optical coherence, etc.), laser imaging, optical and radio astronomy, microscopy, crystallography, geophysical imaging (atmospheric profiling, ocean acoustic, seismic, etc.), and signal design. The applications and methods used are diverse, and we invite contributions from researchers in any discipline who make use of these kind of techniques. Topics may include, but are not limited to: phase retrieval superresolution and deconvolution image and system modeling and regularization probabilistic and Bayesian methods for inverse problems optimization methods for image recovery matched filtering sampling and aliasing computationally efficient algorithms wavefield propagation radar and inverse scattering imaging of, or through, turbulent, refracting, or highly scattering media profile inversion applications in remote sensing, medicine, biology, geophysics, etc. For those who are interested, various real data sets are available for evaluating inverse scattering and phase retrieval algorithms.  It is our intention to have at least one session during the meeting devoted to processing real data, thereby providing participants with a means to compare their algorithms with those of others.  The gateway to a description of these data and the data sets themselves can be found on http://opticscenter.uncc.edu/SPIE_IRID3.html Submitted by: Russell Luke Department of Mathematics Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6 CANADA rluke@cecm.sfu.ca ----------------------------- From: Water Resources Research Center Subject: Applied Modeling Workshop in Honolulu Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 Rien van Genuchten and Jirka Simunek of the George Brown Salinity Laboratory will be offering a 2-day workshop entitled "Applied Modeling of Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in Soils and Groundwater" at the University of Hawaii on December 15 and 16, 2003. The Water Resources Research Center at the University of Hawaii is hosting this event. Details about the workshop can be found at: http://www.wrrc.hawaii.edu/WRRCconfflyr.pdf Dr. van Genuchten provided your e-mail address to us with the hope of bringing this information to the attention of yourself or others in your organization. For further details, please contact myself (cray@hawaii.edu) or Philip Moravcik at the Water Resources Research Center (morav@hawaii.edu). Lodging and parking information will be provided upon request. Sincerely, Chittaranjan Ray Submitted by: Chittaranjan Ray, Associate Professor | Phone : (808) 956-9652 Dept. of Civil & Env. Engineering and | Phone : (808) 956-7550 Water Resources Research Center | Fax : (808) 956-5014/9660 (CEE) University of Hawaii at Manoa | Phone : (808) 956-7847 (WRRC) 2540 Dole Street, 383 Holmes Hall | e-mail: cray@hawaii.edu Honolulu, HI 96822 | http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/~ray ----------------------------- From: "Darrell Ross" Subject: Call for Papers: SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences (LS04) http://www.siam.org/meetings/ls04/ July 11-14, 2004 (Held in conjuntion with SIAM AN04) Co-Chairs: Carson C. Chow, University of Pittsburgh and Tamar Schlick, New York University Doubletree Hotel, Portland-Lloyd Center Portland, Oregon Call for Papers is now Open! DEADLINE DATES Minisymposium proposals: December 11, 2003 Minisymposium abstracts and contributed abstracts: January 8, 2004 Contributed papers in lecture format: January 8, 200 For more information please visit: http://www.siam.org/meetings/ls04/ Submitted by: Darrell Ross SIAM, Conference Program Manager Conference Web Master ross@siam.org ----------------------------- From: Kirsten Wilden Subject: ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 Subject: ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA04) Conference Name: ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA04) Conference Program Chair: Ian Munro, University of Waterloo, Canada Location: Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel, New Orleans, Lousiana Dates: January 11-13, 2004 Pre-registration is now available at http://www.siam.org/meetings/da04/. The pre-registration deadline is December 15, 2003. The preliminary program for this symposium is also available at http://www.siam.org/meetings/da04/. For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ----------------------------- From: Kirsten Wilden Subject: International Conference on Numerical Combustion Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 Subject: International Conference on Numerical Combustion (NC04) **CFP Deadlines** Conference Name: International Conference on Numerical Combustion (NC04) Location: Hilton Sedona Resort & Spa, Sedona, Arizona Dates: May 9-12, 2004 The Call for Presentations for this conference is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/nc04/ **Deadlines** Minisymposium proposals: November 5, 2003 Minisymposium abstracts: December 3, 2003 Contributed abstracts in lecture or poster format: December 3, 2003 For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org ----------------------------- From: "Haar Romenij, B.M. ter" Subject: New book on Multi-scale Image Analysis Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 New book: Front-End Vision and Multi-Scale Image Analysis: Multi-scale computer vision theory and Applications, written in Mathematica by Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Imaging and Informatics, The Netherlands Book Series: COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING AND VISION : Volume 27, ISBN 1-4020-1503-8 (hardbound), ISBN 1-4020-1507-0 (paperback). A breakthrough in interactive teaching of multi-scale methods for image analysis. This book contains all chapters as Mathematica notebook files on an enclosed CD-ROM. Front-End Vision and Multi-Scale Image Analysis is a tutorial in multi-scale methods for computer vision and image processing. It builds on the cross fertilization between human visual perception and multi-scale computer vision (`scale-space') theory and applications. The multi-scale strategies recognized in the first stages of the human visual system are carefully examined, and taken as inspiration for the many geometric methods discussed. All chapters are written in Mathematica, a spectacular high-level language for symbolic and numerical manipulations. The book presents a new and effective approach to quickly mastering the mathematics of computer vision and image analysis. The typically short code is given for every topic discussed, and invites the reader to spend many fascinating hours `playing' with computer vision. Front-End Vision and Multi-Scale Image Analysis is intended for undergraduate and graduate students, and all with an interest in computer vision, medical imaging, and human visual perception. See http://www.kap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-1507-0. Special reduced price for educational use (6 copies or more). Submitted by: Prof. Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, PhD Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Image Analysis Visiting address: Den Dolech 2, WH 2.106 Postal address: PO Box 513 - NL 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands Tel. +31-40-2475537, Fax +31-40-2472740 Secretary: Margret Philips ( M.M.J.L.Philips@tue.nl) Email: B.M.terHaarRomeny@tue.nl ----------------------------- From: "James Beck" Subject: Oct. Inverse Prob in Eng Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 Inverse Problems in Engineering October 2003 Vol. 11, No. 5 Table of Contents Optimal Geometric Representation of Turbomachinery Cascades Using NURBS W. S. Ghaly and T. T. Mengistu Upper Bound of Experiment Informativeness M. Romanovski An Inverse Mass Transfer Problem in Solid-Liquid Adsorption Systems J.F. V. Vasconcellos, A. J. Silva Neto and C. C. Santana A Downhill Simple Method for Computation of Interfacial Heat Transfer Coefficients in Alloy Casting, M. Pohanka and K. A. Woodbury The Use of Model Reduction and Function Decomposition for Identifying Boundary Conditions of a Linear Thermal System, M. Girault, D. Petit and E. Videcoq Submitted by: Jim Beck 1935 Danbury W Okemos, MI 48864-1873 517 349-6688 e-mail: jamesverebeck@comcast.net, or=20 beck@egr.msu.edu or jvb@beckeng.com ------- end -------