IPNet Digest Volume 13, Number 04 May 31, 2006 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm Michigan State University Today's Topics: Conference: Scale-Space & Variational Methods in Computer Vision ACM-SIAM Symposium: Discrete Algorithms SIAM Annual Meeting and Joint Conferences PhD Position: Inverse Problems in Biophysics PhD Positions: Inverse Problems in Tomography Postdoctoral Position: Ultrasonic imaging Table of Contents: Inverse Problems Table of Contents: Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control Table of Contents: Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems Table of Contents: Linear Algebra and Its Applications Submissions for IPNet Digest: Mail to ipnet-digest@math.msu.edu Information about IPNet: http://www.math.msu.edu/ipnet ----------------------------- From: "Prof. Fiorella Sgallari" Subject: Conference: Scale-Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 The First International Conference on Scale-Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision. Ischia, Italy, May 30- June 2, 2007 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS This international conference is a joint edition of the 6th Scale Space and the 4th VLSM and it will be a first attempt to bring together two different communities with joint research interests, the one of scale space analysis and the one of variational, geometric and level set methods and their applications in image interpretation and understanding. Such a conference would serve several purposes: international researchers and students would be exposed to state-of-the-art research on mathematical, physical and computational aspects of imaging, computer vision, graphics and inverse problems with applications. TOPICS Linear Scale-Space Theory, Nonlinear Diffusion, Morphological Image Processing, Differential Geometry & Geometric Flows, PDE-Level Set, Langrangian & Variational Methods,Statistical Methods & Energy-minimization Approaches This conference deals with all aspects of these aspects, including - theoretical foundations - efficient numerical methods, - applications in image and surface processing and computer vision (image restoration, shape analysis, grouping, segmentation, motion, stereo, registration) - applications in other fields (biomedical applications, industrial inspection, security). IMPORTANT INFORMATIONS It is planned to publish the proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Computer Vision. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts of not more than 12 pages in Springer LNCS format by October 23rd, 2006. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: October 16th, 2006 Full paper submission: October 23rd, 2006 Notification of acceptance: January 15th, 2007 Deadline for final paper: February 15th, 2007 Conference: May 30 - June 2, 2007 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS and ORGANIZERS Fiorella Sgallari University of Bologna Italy Almerico Murli University of Naples, Italy Nikos Paragios Ecole Centrale de Paris, France CONFERENCE CHAIRS Alfred Bruckstein Technion IIT, Israel Bart ter Haar Romeny Eindhoven University of Technology, NL Guillermo Sapiro University of Minnesota, USA Joackim Weickert Saarland University, Germany For more details, see http://ssvm07.ciram.unibo.it/ [This news item has been edited for length: please see the website above for more information. -Ed] Prof. Fiorella SGALLARI Dept. of Mathematics C.I.R.A.M. Research Center Faculty of Engineering University of Bologna University of Bologna Piazza di Porta San Donato 5 Via Saragozza 8 40127 Bologna (ITALY) 40123 Bologna ( ITALY ) E-mail: SGALLARI@DM.UNIBO.IT SGALLARI@CIRAM.ING.UNIBO.IT Tel.: + 39 051 2094482 + 39 051 2093982 Fax: + 39 051 2094490 + 39 051 582528 Home page: http://www.ciram.unibo.it/~sgallari/ ----------------------------- From: "Kirsten Wilden" Subject: ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 Conference Name: ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA07) Conference Program Chair: Hal Gabow, University of Colorado, Boulder Location: Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana Dates: January 7-9, 2007 The Call for Presentations for this symposium is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/da07/ Submission Deadline: July 5, 2006 For additional information, contact the SIAM Conferences Department at meetings@siam.org. ----------------------------- From: "Kirsten Wilden" Subject: 2006 SIAM Annual Meeting and Joint Conferences Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 Registration and Programs Now Available Conference Names: SIAM Annual Meeting (AN06), being held jointly with the SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering (FM06) and the SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PD06) Location: Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, Boston, Massachusetts Dates: AN06 - July 10-14, 2006 FM06 - July 9-12, 2006 PD06 - July 10-12, 2006 Short Courses (http://www.siam.org/meetings/pd06/shortcourses.php) Two short courses will be held immediately preceding the conference on Sunday, July 9, 2006 at the same location. SC1: Constantine M. Dafermos, Brown University Conservation Laws and Continuum Physics SC2: Lawrence C. Evans, University of California, Berkeley Recent Developments in Weak Convergence Methods for Nonlinear PDE Registration is Now Available! Pre-Registration Deadline: Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Hotel Reservation Deadline: Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Registration and the preliminary program for these conferences are available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/an06/index.php http://www.siam.org/meetings/fm06/index.php http://www.siam.org/meetings/pd06/index.php For additional information, contact the SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ----------------------------- From: "Prof. Heinz W. Engl" Subject: PhD Position: inverse problems in biophysics Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 We have a funded PhD Position for 3 years (available immediately) in a joint doctoral college with biophysicists. The position is at the Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (www.ricam.oeaw.ac.at), information about the project can be found below or via www.wissen.jku.at/mobaindex.htm We are looking for a mathematician (with a master's degree) with an interest in inverse problems keen to work in an interdisciplinary environment with biologists; the main task is to do PhD research, but there is also some coursework introducing the student to relevant fields of biophysics. Expressions of interest with relevant information by EMail to heinz.engl@jku.at Prof.Dr.Heinz W. Engl E-Mail: heinz.engl@jku.at Institut fuer Industriemathematik secretary: doris.nikolaus@jku.at Johannes-Kepler-Universitaet Phone:+43-(0)732-2468...,ext.9219 or 8693, Altenbergerstrasse 69 secretary: ext.9220 A-4040 Linz Fax:ext. 8855 Oesterreich / Austria World Wide Web: http://www.indmath.uni-linz.ac.at/ and Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Austrian Academy of Sciences; http://www.ricam.oeaw.ac.at EMail: heinz.engl@oeaw.ac.at Mobile Phone: +43-(0)664-5209029 Mobile Fax: +43-(0)664-5274338 The Ph.D. Programme Molecular Bioanalytics: From molecular recognition to membrane transport (MoBA) The interdisciplinary graduate research programme involves the Institutes of Biophysics, of Analytical Chemistry, of Applied Physics, of Organic Chemistry, and of Theoretical Physics from the Johannes-Kepler-University Linz (JKU), the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Upper Austrian Research. It is designed to span the gap between the processes of molecular recognition and of molecular membrane transport. The first part is complementary to the GENAU-research network at the JKU Ultra-sensitive proteomics and genomics, whereas the second part is generated by a long tradition of membrane transport research at the JKU. The scientific goal of the graduate programme is to gain insight into the molecular picture (1) of how molecules are recognised on the membrane surface and (2) of how they are conveyed across membrane proteins. The investigations of carriers (sodium-glucose transporter), nuclear pores, as well as water and ion channels (AQPs and TRP-channels) involved in molecular recognition and membrane transport are going to profit from the development of new bioanalytical methods (thin piezo-electrical film transducers, cell-microarrays, molecular imprinted polymers, high-throughput multi-parameter microscopy). Well established analytical techniques with a resolution covering the whole scale from single molecules to molecular ensembles provide a solid basis for the Molecular Bioanalytics (MoBA) programme. The latter is part of the interdisciplinary priority network BioSystem Analysis at the JKU and is designed to provide Austrian and international students with excellent opportunities for multi-disciplinary studies at the edge between physics, medicine, biology and chemistry. Its curriculum comprises a series of lectures in Single Molecule Techniques, in Bioanalysis of Molecular Ensembles and in Biomolecular Techniques which is supplemented by practical courses. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to attend rhetoric courses, courses in presentation techniques and knowledge transfer. The guidelines of the programme include participation in the annual Single Molecules workshop held in Linz and a yearly meeting (Summer school) between the student and the entire faculty. Funding by the programme enables Ph.D. students (i) to attend national and international conferences and (ii) to spend one semester in a foreign laboratory. Combined with research at the frontiers of life science, the programme will be applicable to many scientific and technological fields related to biophysics, applied physics, bioorganic chemistry, structural and molecular biology, mathematical modelling, and scientific computing giving the Ph.D. student lifelong flexibility for continued professional growth. Direct and Inverse Modeling and Simulation of Transport in Membranes and Water Channels ENGL Heinz/BURGER Martin/KÃ��¿½LER Philipp In this project, we plan to develop models and simulations of water transport through membranes and channels that should allow quantitative predictions in realistic situations. The models will be based on partial differential equations and solved numerically by finite element methods. Using these models, the second aim is to determine structural properties of membranes and channels using available indirect measurements in adjacent water layers. The mathematical formulation of these inverse problems leads to parameter identification in systems of partial differential equations, which will be solved by regularization methods. ----------------------------- From: Bill Lionheart Subject: PhD positions in inverse problems Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 PhD Positions in inverse problems in x-ray tomography and mutual inductance tomography We are hoping to recruit mathematics graduates to study for a PhD in inverse problems in collaboration with scientists and engineers in the application areas. One project involves limited angle x-ray tomography reconstruction in material science and would be co-supervised by myself in the School of Mathematics and Prof Withers in the School of Materials here at the University of Manchester. EPSRC funding covers fees and stipend for a UK or EU national. We also expect to have similar funding to work on three-dimensional reconstruction algorithms for X-ray CT applied to airport security, and another project on mutual induction tomography for (non-medical) applications. The successful candidates will be expected to have a good mathematics degree and experience in implementation of numerical algorithms. If you are interested please email me with your CV and any questions you may have. Professor Bill Lionheart School of Mathematics, University of Manchester http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~bl/ ----------------------------- From: Eric Miller Subject: Post doc in ultrasonic imaging, Northeastern University Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 It is anticipated that a postdoctoral position in the area of ultrasonic imaging will be available in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston MA USA starting in mid-summer of 2006. The ideal candidate will have a PhD in an area such as acoustics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or physics with experience in algorithms development for imaging/inverse problems and experimental data collection and processing. The objective of the work here is the development, and implementation using commercial instrumentation, of a new approach by which ultrasonic imaging can be used to guide high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment of cancer. HIFU has shown considerable promise in recent years as a hyperthermia-based tool for successfully treating a range of cancers. HIFU is limited however by difficulties in non-invasively monitoring the progress of the treatment to control the size, shape, and extent of the thermal lesion. We currently employs a model-based approach to the problem of lesion characterization wherein the data collected by the imaging transducer are used to estimate parameters directly related to the size, shape, location, orientation, and contrast of the HIFU-induced lesion. The foci of the current project include: 1/ more extensive phantom and ex vivo experimental evaluation of our current technology; 2/ the development and experimental evaluation of new imaging methods capable of addressing HIFU monitoring scenarios including multi-lesion imaging and tracking of lesion formation; and 3/ initial implementation of all methods to state-of-the-art hardware platforms for eventual use in real-time treatment monitoring. The project is expected to last two years. Appointment for this job will be on a year-by-year basis. For more information about this position, please contact Prof. Eric Miller Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 315 Stearns Center Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave Boston MA 02115 email: elmiller@ece.neu.edu Web: http://www.ece.neu.edu/faculty/elmiller/elmhome/ Interested candidates should provide (preferably via email) Prof. Miller with a copy of their CV, list of references, and copies of relevant articles, theses, technical reports etc. Northeastern University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action, Title IX, educational institution and employer and particularly welcomes applications from minorities, women and persons with disabilities. Go to www.neu.edu/hrm for more information. ----------------------------- From: Liz Martin Subject: Contents list for Inverse Problems Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 Inverse Problems June 2006 Volume 22, Issue 3 Table of Contents All articles are free for 30 days after publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://stacks.iop.org/IP/22/i=3D3 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Explicit finite inverse Hilbert transforms J You and G L Zeng The Lepski\u{\i} principle revisited P Math\'e TOPICAL REVIEW Using fundamental solutions in inverse scattering D Colton and R Kress PAPERS Fast tissue classification in dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance images P Barone Inverse problems of generalized projection operators M Kaasalainen and L Lamberg A non-iterative regularization approach to blind deconvolution L Justen and R Ramlau Error estimates for non-quadratic regularization and the relation to enhancement E Resmerita and O Scherzer A new approach to hyperbolic inverse problems G Eskin Generalized KM theorems and their applications Q Yang and J Zhao Analysis of two linear sampling methods applied to electromagnetic imaging of buried objects F Cakoni, M'B Fares and H Haddar B\"acklund transformations for the constrained dispersionless hierarchies and dispersionless hierarchies with self-consistent sources T Xiao and Y Zeng Lipschitz stability of a non-standard problem for the non-stationary transport equation via a Carleman estimate M V Klibanov and S E Pamyatnykh The inverse nodal problem for Hill's equation Y H Cheng Time reversal detection in one-dimensional random media J-P Fouque and O V Poliannikov The range of the spherical mean value operator for functions supported in a ball D Finch and Rakesh Iterative reconstruction of dielectric rough surface profiles at fixed frequency I Akduman, R Kress and A Yapar Inverse scattering problem for hyperbolic systems on a semi-axis in the case of equal number of incident and scattered waves M I Ismailov Approximate solution of a Cauchy problem for the Helmholtz equation T Regi\'nska and K Regi\'nski New families of exact fan-beam and cone-beam image reconstruction formulae via filtering the backprojection image of differentiated projection data along singly measured lines T Zhuang A framework for studying the regularizing properties of Krylov subspace methods P Brianzi, P Favati, O Menchi and F Romani The inverse source problem for Maxwell's equations R Albanese and P B Monk Truncated Hilbert transform and image reconstruction from limited tomographic data M Defrise, F Noo, R Clackdoyle and H Kudo Detection of small inclusions by elastography J Fehrenbach, M Masmoudi, R Souchon and P Trompette On inverse doping profile problems for the stationary voltage--current map A Leit\~ao, P A Markowich and J P Zubelli Detection of irregular points by regularization in numerical differentiation and application to edge detection X Q Wan, Y B Wang and M Yamamoto Convergence of projected iterative regularization methods for nonlinear problems with smooth solutions B Kaltenbacher and A Neubauer 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, 18 May 2006 Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control 2006 Vol. 11, No. 2 Table of Contents On a Nonlinear System of Reaction-Diffusion Equations G.A. Afrouzi, S.H. Rasouli The SVD-Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra A.G. Akritas, G.I. Malaschonok, P.S. Vigklas Circle and Popov Criterion for Output Feedback Stabilization of Uncertain Systems A. Benabdallah, M.A. Hammami Discrete Multistage Optimization and Hierarchical Market V.J. Bistrickas, N. Simeliene Stability of Nuclear Reactor: Point Model Analysis K. Bucys, D. Svitra Persistence and Stability of a Food Chain Model with Mixed Selection of Functional Responses A. Maiti, B. Patra, G.P. Samanta On Nonlinear Vekua Type Equations S.V. Rogosin Lie Group Analysis of Natural Convection Heat and Mass Transfer in an Inclined Surface S. Sivasankaran, M. Bhuvaneswari, P. Kandaswamy, E.K. Ramasami 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 A free on-line edition is available at: http://www.lana.lt/journal/issues.php Dr. Romas Baronas, Journal Secretary, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control ----------------------------- From: "magrijn-secretary support" Subject: Journal MCSS Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems 2006 Vol. 18, No. 1 Table of Contents Normalized doubly coprime factorizations for infinite-dimensional linear systems R.F. Curtain and M.R. Opmeer Convergence analysis of central and minmax algorithms for models with one unknown parameter H. Akcay and N. At Global complete observability and output-to-state stability imply the existence of a global convergent observer A. Astolfi and L. Praly 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 All submissions (papers to be offered to MCSS for publication) are to be sent via the web as of 1 January 2006 http://mcss.edmgr.com then login (ask for a password on the first visit) For assistance with the login procedure or the web page contact Mr. Harvey Gocuay of Springer Harvey.Gocuay@springer.com Eduardo D. Sontag and Jan H. van Schuppen (Editors) Submitted by: Corry Magrijn (Secretary) for Jan H. van Schuppen (Editor-in-Chief MCSS) ----------------------------- From: Hans Schneider Subject: LAA contents Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 Linear Algebra and its Applications 1 July 2006 Vol. 416, Issue 1 Table of Contents Special Issue devoted to the Haifa 2005 conference on matrix theory Edited by Abraham Berman, Leonid Lerer and Raphael Loewy Preface to the 2005 Haifa Matrix Theory Conference Proceedings Abraham Berman, Leonid Lerer and Raphael Loewy Determinant of the distance matrix of a tree with matrix weights R.B. Bapat A simultaneous reconstruction of missing data in DNA microarrays Shmuel Friedland, Amir Niknejad and Laura Chihara Nonnegative matrix factorization for spectral data analysis V. Paul Pauca, J. Piper and Robert J. Plemmons On the uniqueness of overcomplete dictionaries, and a practical way to retrieve them Michal Aharon, Michael Elad and Alfred M. Bruckstein Bounding the gap between extremal Laplacian eigenvalues of graphs Felix Goldberg The geometry of linear separability in data sets Adi Ben-Israel and Yuri Levin On single and double Soules matrices Mei Q. Chen, Lixing Han and Michael Neumann Computational acceleration of projection algorithms for the linear best approximation problem Yair Censor Nonsingularity of matrices associated with classes of arithmetical functions on lcm-closed sets Shaofang Hong A preconditioned GMRES for complex dense linear systems from electromagnetic wave scattering problems Angelika Bunse-Gerstner and Ignacio Gutierrez-Canas Nonnegative realization of spectra having negative real parts Thomas J. Laffey and Helena Smigoc The Bezoutian, state space realizations and Fisher's information matrix of an ARMA process Andre Klein and Peter Spreij On the second eigenvalue of matrices associated with TCP Abraham Berman, Thomas Laffey, Arie Leizarowitz and Robert Shorten The distance between two convex sets Achiya Dax http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5653-2006-995839998-623403 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 -------