IPNet Digest Volume 12, Number 11 December 15, 2005 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm Michigan State University Today's Topics: Minicourse on Applied Inverse Problems Conference on Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography International Symposium on Process Tomography Journal, Meeting, Books on Inverse Problems from Taylor & Francis Special Issue on Joint Spectral Radius (LAA) Table of Contents: Inverse Problems Table of Contents: Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering Table of Contents: Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems Table of Contents: Nonlinear Analysis, Modelling and Control 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 ----------------------------- From: "aip" Subject: Minicourse announcement Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 Minicourse on Applied Inverse Problems Villa Finaly, Firenze May 22-26, 2006 The minicourse will take place in a XIV century villa on the hills surrounding Firenze and will be especially devoted to young researchers focusing in Inverse Problems. The minicourse will consist of the following three cycles of lectures of 5 hours each: Gen Nakamura (Hokkaido University), "Methods of reconstruction for identifying the discontinuity of a medium", Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington), "Travel Time Tomography", Michael Vogelius (Rutgers University), "Effective Electromagnetic Imaging of low Volume Fraction Inhomogeneities". No registration fee is due, lunches at Villa Finally are provided by the organization. Villa Finaly offers a limited number of accomodations. Partecipation is limited to 30 partecipants, and the deadline to register is March 31st, 2006. For the registration, please send a message to aip@fi.iac.cnr.it. Few contributions for local expenses may be available on request. More information on the minicourse will be posted on the web page http://www.fi.iac.cnr.it/aip2006.html. The organizing committee: Elena Beretta Elisa Francini Gabriele Inglese Sergio Vessella ----------------------------- From: Bill Lionheart Subject: Conference on Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 Announcing: The 7th Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) August 27 - September 1, 2006, Seoul, Korea. Following the tradition of the EIT conference, topics will be limited to biomedical EIT including the following subjects: - Reconstruction algorithms - Instrumentation - Clinical applications - New developments including MREIT and MIT Details on http://www.wc2006-seoul.org/joint/joint01.htm Organized by Jin Keun Seo (seoj@yonsei.ac.kr), Yonsei University, Korea and Eung Je Woo (ejwoo@khu.ac.kr), Kyung Hee University, Korea. Item submitted by: Professor Bill Lionheart School of Mathematics, University of Manchester http://www.ma.umist.ac.uk/bl ----------------------------- From: Bill Lionheart Subject: Symposium on Process Tomography Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 Announcing: The 4th International Symposium on Process Tomography Warsaw, Poland September 14-15, 2006 The symposium is organized by the Institute of Radioelectronics at the Warsaw University of Technology. The deadlines are 1st of February 2006 for abstracts and 1st of June 2006 for full texts. Further information, application form and contact to organizers can be found on symposium web site or via email: Web site: http://www.proctom2006.ire.pw.edu.pl Email: proctom2006@ire.pw.edu.pl. Organizers: Andrzej Plaskowski Tomasz Dyakowski Dominik Sankowski Roman Szabatin Item submitted by: Professor Bill Lionheart School of Mathematics, University of Manchester http://www.ma.umist.ac.uk/bl ----------------------------- From: Taylor & Francis Subject: Journal, Meeting, Books on Inverse Problems from Taylor & Francis Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 Dear IPNET reader Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering continues to be a unique source of information that will offer you the opportunity to publish ideas in a single journal. http://s1.e-srv.net:80/?s2=3D01-4-4CRDCV3C9_gqwgvu-52136 Free Online Sample http://s1.e-srv.net:80/?s2=3D01-4-4CRDCV3C9_grcdXO-9417 5 Reasons to Publish: *Journal Growth - From 2006 the Journal will increase in pages and frequency to 8 issues per volume representing the Journal's continuing growth as a preferred choice for publication. *Readership - Taylor & Francis has a flexible approach to subscriptions therefore maximising readership opportunities. 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This special issue aims to highlight the advances that have been achieved in recent times and to generate a state of the art account of the developments in algebraic and analytic theory of the joint spectral radius, computational aspects and application areas. Theoretical developments in the area have used methods from diverse mathematical fields. Computational complexity theory has been used to show that in general the joint spectral radius is hard to determine, while convex analysis lies at the foundation of many results obtained on analytic properties, and methods from ergodic theory can be used to characterize the continuous time version of the joint spectral radius in the framework of stochastic dynamical systems. In order to make the broad scope of methods visible we encourage submissions from all areas that have an impact on the understanding of the joint spectral radius ranging from matrix analysis, numerical analysis, algebraic theory of matrix semigroups, computational complexity theory, stability theory of switched linear systems, spectral theory of semigroups of matrices. We note that depending on the authors the joint spectral radius is also known as the maximal Lyapunov exponent or Lyapunov indicator, the Bohl exponent or the exponential growth rate and we encourage the submission of papers that create links to fields where notions similar to the joint spectral radius are studied, e.g. papers on continuous time versions of the joint spectral radius and extensions to infinite dimensions. The joint spectral radius has found numerous applications in diverse areas; e.g. it has been used in coding theory to express the capacity of certain channels, in the stability analysis of consensus algorithms, to quantify the smoothness of wavelets obtained via dilation equations, in combinatorial number theory, in probability to analyze the distributions of random power series, in stability analysis of switched linear systems, in approximation theory to verify the convergence of subdivision algorithms,and in the theory of fractals and attractors. We particularly invite papers that explore applications in these or other areas. All papers submitted must meet the publication standards of Linear Algebra and its Applications and will be refereed in the usual way. They should be submitted to one of the special editors of this issue listed below by 31 August 2006. Submission via email by sending a ps or pdf file is encouraged. Vincent Blondel Department of Mathematical Engineering Universite Catholique de Louvain 4 Avenue George Lemaitre B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium vincent.blondel@uclouvain.be Micheal Karow Department of Mathematics Berlin University of Technology Strasse des 17. Juni 136 10623 Berlin Germany karow@math.tu-berlin.de Vladimir Protasov Department of Mechanics and Mathematics Moscow State University Vorobyovy Gory 119992 Moscow Russia vladimir_protassov@yahoo.com Fabian Wirth The Hamilton Institute NUI Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare Ireland fabian.wirth@nuim.ie The responsible editor-in-chief of the special issue is: Hans Schneider Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin - Madison Van Vleck Hall 480 Lincoln Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53706 U.S.A. email: hans@math.wisc.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, Inverse Problems, volume 21, issue 6, December 2005 Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 Inverse Problems December 2005 Volume 21, Issue 6 Table of Contents Special Section on Testing Inversion Algorithms Against Experimental Data: Inhomogeneous Targets Guest Editors' introduction K Belkebir and M Saillard Application of the multiplicative regularized contrast source inversion method on TM- and TE-polarized experimental Fresnel data A Abubakar, P M van den Berg and T M Habashy Inversion of multi-frequency experimental data using an adaptive multiscale approach A Baussard Testing the contrast source extended Born inversion method against real data: the TM case L Crocco, M D'Urso and T Isernia Multi-resolution iterative inversion of real inhomogeneous targets M Donelli, D Franceschini, A Massa, M Pastorino and A Zanetti Retrieval of inhomogeneous targets from experimental frequency diversity data A Dubois, K Belkebir and M Saillard A two-step iterative inexact-Newton method for electromagnetic imaging of dielectric structures from real data C Estatico, G Bozza, A Massa, M Pastorino and A Randazzo Microwave imaging of inhomogeneous objects made of a finite number of dielectric and conductive materials from experimental data O F\'eron, B Duch\^ene and A Mohammad-Djafari Free space experimental scattering database continuation: experimental set-up and measurement precision J-M Geffrin, P Sabouroux and C Eyraud (Features multimedia enhancments in the online journal; see http://stacks.i=op.org/IP/21/S117) Reconstruction by level sets of $n$-ary scattering obstacles A Litman Minimum-phase-based inverse scattering algorithm applied to Institut Fresnel data U Shahid, M Testorf and M A Fiddy Inversion of multi-frequency experimental data for imaging complex objects by a DTA--CSI method C Yu, L-P Song and Q H Liu PAPERS A hierarchical Bayesian approach for parameter estimation in HIV models H T Banks, S Grove, S Hu and Y Ma Data-driven inversion/depth imaging derived from approximations to one-dime= nsional inverse acoustic scattering L Amundsen, A Reitan, H Kr Helgesen and B Arntsen Regularization in Hilbert scales under general smoothing conditions M T Nair, S V Pereverzev and U Tautenhahn On inverse spectral theory for singularly perturbed operators: point spectrum S Albeverio, A Konstantinov and V Koshmanenko On the inverse problem of constructing symmetric pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrices from their three largest eigenvalues M T Chu, F Diele and S Ragni Abel inversion using total-variation regularization T J Asaki, R Chartrand, K R Vixie and B Wohlberg Convergence results for scaled gradient algorithms in positron emission tomography E S Helou Neto and \'A R De Pierro On Cauchy's problem: I. A variational Steklov--Poincar\'e theory F Ben Belgacem and H El Fekih On inverse scattering at a fixed energy for potentials with a regular behaviour at infinity R Weder and D Yafaev A variational approach to an elastic inverse problem B M Brown, M Jais and I W Knowles A Lepskij-type stopping rule for regularized Newton methods F Bauer and T Hohage The conditional stability in line unique continuation for a wave equation and an inverse wave source problem J Cheng, L Peng and M Yamamoto A least-squares functional for solving inverse Sturm--Liouville problems N R\"ohrl An inverse solitary wave problem related to microstructured materials J Janno and J Engelbrecht A sampling method for detecting buried objects using electromagnetic scattering B Gebauer, M Hanke, A Kirsch, W Muniz and C Schneider Estimation of point sources and applications to inverse problems V Komornik and M Yamamoto The multiple-sets split feasibility problem and its applications for inverse problems Y Censor, T Elfving, N Kopf and T Bortfeld The $N$-soliton solution of the Degasperis--Procesi equation Y Matsuno All articles are free for 30 days after publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://stacks.iop.org/IP/21/i=6 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 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4318 E-mail: liz.martin@iop.org WWW: http://www.iop.org ----------------------------- From: "jamesverebeck" Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems in Science & Engineering Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering Dec 2005 Vol. 13, No. 6 Table of Contents Inverse airfoil design by using an accelerated genetic algorithm via distribution strategies A. Hacioglu and I. Ozkol Inverse problem in a porous medium: estimation of effective thermal properties S. Znaidia, F. Mzali, L. Sassi, A. Mhimid, A. Jemni, S. B. Nasrallah and D. Petit Sensitivity coefficients for experimental estimation of interstitial properties during phase change in porous media A. G. A. Nnanna and A. Haji-Sheikh FIR-type and IIR-type neural networks, and their application to shape optimization of a magnetic pole A. Kimura, T. Matsuzaka and Y. Kagawa Material constants identification in anisotropic materials using boundary element techniques L. Comino and R. Gallego Iteratively adaptive regularization in inverse modeling with Bayesian outlook - application on geophysical data I. G. Roy Inverse problem in Lagrangian dynamics: special solutions for potentials possessing families of regular orbits on a given surface A. Kotoulas ----------------------------- From: "magrijn-secretary support" Subject: Contents, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems 2005 Volume 17, No. 4 Table of Contents Hankel/Toeplitz matrices and the static output feedback stabilization problem A. Astolfi and P. Colaneri Ergodicity of hidden Markov models G.B. Di Masi and L. Stettner On multivariate polynomial matrix factorization problems W. Mingsheng and C.P. Kwong INFORMATION The tables of contents of MCSS and the .pdf files of its papers are available from the publisher Springer at: http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00498/index.htm Information on MCSS is available also at the Editors' home pages: www.cwi.nl/~schuppen/mcss/mcss.html www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/mcss.html Address for submissions by email or regular mail: J.H. van Schuppen (Editor-in-Chief MCSS) CWI P.O.Box 94079 1090 GB Amsterdam The Netherlands Email mcss@cwi.nl Eduardo Sontag and Jan van Schuppen (Editors) Submitted by: Corry Magrijn (Secretary) for Jan H. van Schuppen (Editor-in-Chief MCSS) ----------------------------- From: Romas Baronas Subject: Contents, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, ISSN 1392-5113, Volume 10, Number 4, 2005 A free on-line edition is available at: http://www.lana.lt/journal/issues.php TABLE OF CONTENTS A Comparative Study of Two Real Root Isolation Methods, Pages 297-304 A.G. Akritas, A.W. Strzebonski Fixed Point in Minimal Spaces, Pages 305-314 M. Alimohammady, M. Roohi Image Processing in Road Traffic Analysis, Pages 315-332 E. Atkociunas, R. Blake, A. Juozapavicius, M. Kazimianec Investigation of Accuracy of a Calibrated Estimator of a Ratio by Modelling, Pages 333-342 V. Chadysas, D. Krapavickaite Weakly Nonlocal Supersymmetric KdV Hierarchy, Pages 343-348 P. Miskinis Magnetohydrodynamic Natural Convection Flow on a Sphere in Presence of Heat Generation, Pages 349-363 Md.M. Molla, M.A. Taher, Md.M.K. Chowdhury, Md.A. Hossain Numerical Analysis of the Age-Sex-Structured Population Dynamics Taking into Account Spatial Diffusion, Pages 365-381 S. Repsys, V. Skakauskas Chaos to Order: Role of Toxin Producing Phytoplankton in Aquatic Systems, Pages 383-396 R.K. Upadhyay, J. Chattopadhyay 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 ----------------------------- From: Hans Schneider Subject: Contents, Linear Algebra and its Applications Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 Linear Algebra and its Applications 1 January 2006 Vol. 412, No. 1 Table of Contents Tensor properties of multilevel Toeplitz and related matrices Vadim Olshevsky, Ivan Oseledets and Eugene Tyrtyshnikov A min-max theorem for complex symmetric matrices Jeffrey Danciger A combinatorial problem associated with nomograms Jessica Benton, Rion Snow and Nolan Wallach On approximately simultaneously diagonalizable matrices K.C. O Meara and C. Vinsonhaler Call for Papers: Special Issue on Linear and Nonlinear Models and Algorithms in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5653-2006-995879998-609920 ****************************************** Linear Algebra and its Applications 15 January 2006 Vol. 412, Nos. 2-3 Table of Contents Optimal strategies for node selection games on oriented graphs: Skew matrices and symmetric games T.S. Michael and Thomas Quint H^\infty and guaranteed cost control of discrete linear repetitive processes Wojciech Paszke, Krzysztof Gaÿÿkowski, Eric Rogers and David H. Owens On Perron-ÿÿFrobenius property of matrices having some negative entries Dimitrios Noutsos On the positive definite solutions of nonlinear matrix equation X + A X A = Q Vejdi I. Hasanov and Salah M. El-Sayed Trace-minimal graphs and D-optimal weighing designs Bernardo M. Abrego, Silvia Fernandez-Merchant, Michael G. Neubauer and William Watkins Computing greatest common divisors and squarefree decompositions through matrix methods: The parametric and approximate cases Gema M. Diaz-Toca and Laureano Gonzalez-Vega Block diagonalization and LU-equivalence of Hankel matrices Nadia Ben Atti and Gema M. DiazÿÿToca A linear algebraic approach to holomorphic reproducing kernels in C^n Jorge Buescu and A.C. Paixao Root-induced integral quadratic forms M. Barot and J.A. de la Pena An algebraic equation for linear operators Che Tat Ng and Weinian Zhang Realization theorems for stationary multiscale systems Daniel Alpay, Haim Attia and Dan Volok Linear maps preserving zero products on nest subalgebras of von Neumann algebras Jian-Hua Zhang, An-Li Yang and Fang-Fang Pan Polyhedral cones and monomial blowing-ups M.J. Soto and J.L. Vicente Linear k -power/ k -potent preservers between matrix spaces Xian Zhang and Chong-guang Cao A regularization algorithm for matrices of bilinear and sesquilinear forms Roger A. Horn and Vladimir V. Sergeichuk Matrix characterization of linear codes with arbitrary Hamming weight hierarchy G. Viswanath and B. Sundar Rajan A note on generalized and hypergeneralized projectors G.W. Stewart Spectral factorization of non-symmetric polynomial matrices Jovan Stefanovski Maximal subgroups of the Coxeter group W ( H 4) and quaternions Mehmet Koca, Ramazan Koç, Muataz Al-Barwani and Shadia Al-Farsi Least-squares orthogonalization using semidefinite programming Yonina C. Eldar Permutohedra and minimal matrices Shmuel Onn and Ernesto Vallejo Automorphisms of certain groups and semigroups of matrices Michael Alwill, Chi-Kwong Li, Christina Maher and Nung-Sing Sze Two reverse inequalities associated with Tsallis relative operator entropy via generalized Kantorovich constant and their applications Takayuki Furuta Real matrix homotopies based on Householder reflections Stephen E. Wright http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5653-2006-995879997-611361 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 ------- end -------