IPNet Digest Volume 11, Number 10 December 1, 2004 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm Michigan State University Today's Topics: Special Session on Inverse Problems, 5th Int'l ISAAC Congress New book on Inverse Problems Special Issues in Honour of Pauline van den Dreissche Table of Contents: Inverse Problems Table of Contents: Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control Submissions for IPNet Digest: Mail to ipnet-digest@math.msu.edu Information about IPNet: http://www.mth.msu.edu/ipnet ----------------------------- From: "Klibanov, Michael" Subject: 5th International ISAAC Congress, 2005, Catania, Sicily Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:52:17 -0500 Michael Klibanov and Masahiro Yamamoto are organizing a session called "Inverse problems, theory and numerical methods" on the 5th International ISAAC Congress July 25-30, 2005 in Catania, Sicily (Italy). The purpose of this message is to invite you to participate. The local organizer is University of Catania. See http://mathisaac.org for more details about ISAAC and this congress. Actually, Catania is a quite attractive place for tourists, see http://www.tripadvisor.com Organizers are proposing an excellent entertainment program. Besides of this, I am sure that the mathematical part of the meeting will be also quite interesting one. Proceedings will be published. If you decide to participate, please do not forget to pay your registration fee by April 30, 2005 (see details at the above WEB site). Please inform me (copy to Masahiro myama@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp) about your decision soon. If the answer is "yes", please send your abstract before May 31 at three addresses: http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/submit/capg-01, mklibanv@email.uncc.edu and myama@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp We truly hope to see you in Catania! Best regards, Michael Klibanov and Masahiro Yamamoto ----------------------------- From: "Prof. Alexander G.Ramm" Subject: New book on Inverse Problems Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 The book by Alexander G.Ramm, "Inverse problems", Springer, New York, 2005, 462 pages, isbn 0-387-23195-1 and E-ISBN-0-387-23218-4 has appeared. The book consists of 11 chapters, the bibliography, the index and the preface. In Chapter 1 the statements of many inverse problems are given. In Chapter 2 the theory of ill-posed problems is briefly sketched. The emphasis in this Chapter is on the dynamical systems method (DSM), which was not presented in the earlier published books on ill-posed problems. The DSM allows one to solve a wide variety of ill-posed problems, both linear and nonlinear. Chapter 3, which is large, deals with one-dimensional inverse scattering and spectral problems. here the reader finds many novel results and a new approach to classical inverse problems, such as inverse scattering problem on the half-axis and inverse spectral problem. Several new inverse problems are investigated. The basic tool in this Chapter is Property C for ODE, that is, completeness of the set of products of solutions to homogeneous ODE. M.G. Krein's inversion method is presented with detailed proofs apparently for the first time. Consistency of this method is proved. Inverse problems with "incomplete data" are studied. The theory of ground-penetrating radars is developed. An inverse problem of ocean acoustics is formulated and solved. Some new inverse problems for the heat and wave equations are formulated and solved. Chapter 4 deals with the inverse obstacle scattering problem under weak assumptions on the smoothness of the obstacle. Stability estimates for the solution of inverse obstacle scattering problem are obtained. Analysis of the published numerical methods for solving this problem is given. Chapter 5 deals with the inverse potential scattering problem with fixed-energy data. The cases of exact and noisy data are studied. The author's inversion method is presented, its error estimates are obtained, and its comparison with the method based on the usage of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map is given. The presentation is based on Property C for PDE, the notion introduced by the author and applied to a study of many inverse problems. necessary and sufficient condition is given for the scatterer to be spherically symmetric. Error estimates for the Born inversion are derived. Inverse spectral problem is considered. In Chapter 6 examples of non-uniqueness of the solution to three-dimensional inverse problem of geophysics are given, and some uniqueness theorems are proved for inverse problems for parabolic and hyperbolic equations. In Chapter 7 a very brief discussion of some inverse source problems is given. In Chapter 8 a non-over-determined three-dimensional inverse spectral problem is studied. In Chapter 9 the inversion theory for low-frequency data is developed. Many specific inverse problems of geophysics are considered. In Chapter 10 the author's theory of wave scattering by small (in comparison with the wavelength) bodies of arbitrary shapes is summarized. Many-body scattering problem is considered. Inverse problems of finding small subsurface inhomogeneities from the scattering data, measured on the surface, is studied. Inverse problem of radio-measurements is formulated and solved analytically. Chapter 11 deals with Pompeiu problem. The book can be ordered by email orders-ny@springer-sbm.com and by phone: 1-800-springer Alexander G. Ramm ----------------------------- From: Hans Schneider Subject: Special Issues in honour of Pauline van den Dreissche Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 Special issue in honour of Pauline van den Driessche SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Linear Algebra and Its Applications is pleased to announce a special issue in honour of Professor Pauline van den Driessche in recognition of her many important contributions to linear algebra and mathematical biology, and on the occasion of her 65th birthday. The deadline for submission of papers has ben extended to 15 February 2005. Papers are solicited for the special issue within the scope of LAA, especially those that overlap with the research interests of Pauline van den Driessche. Papers for submission should be sent to any of the four special editors, and will be subject to normal refereeing procedures according to LAA standards: Professor Steve Kirkland Department of Mathematics University of Regina Regina, SK, Canada S4S 0A2 e-mail: kirkland@math.uregina.ca Professor Judith McDonald Mathematics Department Box 643113 Washington State University Pullman, WA, USA 99164-3113 e-mail: jmcdonald@math.wsu.edu Professor Dale Olesky Department of Computer Science University of Victoria Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P6 e-mail: dolesky@cs.uvic.ca Professor Michael Tsatsomeros Mathematics Department Box 643113 Washington State University Pullman, WA, USA 99164-3113 e-mail: tsat@math.wsu.edu Submitted by: Hans Schneider Mathematics Department, Van Vleck Hall, University of Wisconsin 480 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1313 USA Office Phone: 608-262-1402 Math Dept Phone: 608-263-3054 Email: hans@math.wisc,edu Math Dept Fax: 608-263-8891 http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hans ----------------------------- From: Liz Martin Subject: Contents list for Inverse Problems Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 Inverse Problems December 2004 Volume 20, Issue 6 Table of Contents All articles are free for 30 days after publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://stacks.iop.org/0266-5611/20/i=6 Special Section on Electromagnetic Characterization of Buried Obstacles Foreword D Lesselier and W C Chew Adaptive multiscale reconstruction of buried objects A Baussard, E L Miller and D Lesselier Electromagnetic inversion using a reduced-order three-dimensional homogeneous model N V Budko and R F Remis Application of a spheroidal-mode approach and a differential evolution algorithm for inversion of magneto-quasistatic data in UXO discrimination X Chen, K O'Neill, B E Barrowes, T M Grzegorczyk and J A Kong Low-frequency detection of two-dimensional buried objects using high-order extended Born approximations T J Cui, Y Qin, G-L Wang and W C Chew Localization and characterization of two-dimensional targets buried in a cluttered environment A Dubois, K Belkebir and M Saillard Nonlinear inversions of immersed objects using laboratory-controlled data B Duch\^ene, A Joisel and M Lambert Pre-stack migration applied to GPR for landmine detection X Feng and M Sato The factorization method for Maxwell's equations A Kirsch Reconstruction of two-dimensional buried objects by a differential evolution method A Massa, M Pastorino and A Randazzo Solution accelerators for large scale three-dimensional electromagnetic inverse problems G A Newman and P T Boggs Fast three-dimensional electromagnetic nonlinear inversion in layered media with a novel scattering approximation L-P Song and Q H Liu 3D near-to-surface conductivity reconstruction by inversion of VETEM data using the distorted Born iterative method G L Wang, W C Chew, T J Cui, A A Aydiner, D L Wright and D V Smith Inverse scattering with sparse Bayesian vector regression Y Yu, B Krishnapuram and L Carin Rapid three-dimensional inversion of multi-transmitter electromagnetic data using the spectral Lanczos decomposition method M S Zhdanov and A Chernyavskiy PAPERS Wavelet modelling of the spherical inverse source problem with application to geomagnetism C Mayer emodulation of RHESSI count rates by an unbiased linear Bayes estimator K Arzner Non-negativity and iterative methods for ill-posed problems D Calvetti, G Landi, L Reichel and F Sgallari Reflecting uncertainty in inverse problems: a Bayesian solution using L\'evy processes R L Wolpert and K Ickstadt Consistency and rates of convergence of nonlinear Tikhonov regularization with random noise N Bissantz, T Hohage and A Munk Continuous future polynomial regularization of 1-smoothing Volterra problems A C Cinzori On the scattering method for the ${\overline{\partial}}$-equation and reconstruction of convection coefficients A Tamasan A new method in inverse scattering based on the topological derivative G R Feijoo Uniqueness results for an inverse periodic transmission problem J Elschner and M Yamamoto Identification of simple poles via boundary measurements and an application of EIT H Kang and H Lee An alternative point of view on the equations of the inverse problem of dynamics M-C Anisiu Automatic multi-mode Lamb wave arrival time extraction for improved tomographic reconstruction J Hou, K R Leonard and M K Hinders 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 E-mail: liz.martin@iop.org Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4318 WWW: http://www.iop.org ----------------------------- From: Romas Baronas Subject: Table of Contents, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control 2004 Volume 9, Number 4 Table of Contents A free on-line edition is available at: http://www.lana.lt/journal/issues.php The Structure Modeling of Material Composed of the Orthotropic Crystals J. Dabulyte, F. Ivanauskas, V. Skakauskas, R. Barauskas Persistence and Extinction of One-Prey and Two-Predators System B. Dubey, R.K. Upadhyay The Joint Universality for L-Functions of Elliptic Curves V.Garbaliauskiene, R.Kacinskaite, A.Laurincikas Linearly Invariant Classes of Functions Analytical in the Half-Plane J. Kirjackis, E.G.Kiriyatzkii Preparation, Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of the Electrochromic Thin Films T. Lukaszewicz, A. Ravinskia, I. Makoed Modeling the Enantioselective Enzymatic Reaction with Modified Genetic Docking Algorithm A. Ziemys, L. Rimkute, J. Kulys Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, an official journal of the Lithuanian Association of Nonlinear Analysts (LANA), welcomes contributions from the international community. For a paper submission, please refer to http://www.lana.lt/journal Dr. Romas Baronas, Journal Secretary, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, e-mail: romas.baronas@maf.vu.lt ------- end -------