IPNet Digest Volume 14, Number 08 October 22, 2007 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm Michigan State University Today's Topics: Survey Request from the IPIA (Inverse Problems Int'l Association) Concerns about the IPIA (Inverse Problems Int'l Association) Int'l Conf. on Inverse Problems, Control and Shape Optimization Int'l Congress on Image and Signal Processing Int'l Conference on Automatic Differentiation SIAM Annual Meeting / SIAM Conference on Imaging Science SIAM Conference on Optimization Postdoctoral Position in Impedance Tomography in Germany Postdoctoral and PhD Positions in Image Processing, etc. Tenure-track Position in Math/Stat at Univ. of Maryland, B.C. Tenured/Tenure-track Positions in Math at Colorado State Univ. Table of Contents: Inverse Problems in Science & Engineering Table of Contents: Linear and Multilinear Algebra Submissions for IPNet Digest: Mail to ipnet-digest@math.msu.edu Information about IPNet: http://www.math.msu.edu/ipnet ----------------------------- Subject: IP_Digest announcement From: William Rundell Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:33:45 -0400 Dear Colleagues, You may be aware that the new society (Inverse Problems International Association, IPIA) has a web page and is the process of seeking input as to how best to serve the mathematical inverse problems community. To this end, we have designed a survey to determine priorities for the society. This survey can be found from http://www.inverse-problems.net/ If you already have registered with IPIA you will be required to login first at http://www.inverse-problems.net/login.php If you have not yet registered, this is quickly done from http://www.inverse-problems.net/register.php The plan is collect this information solely to decide on which activities the society should concentrate. We will then use this to draw up preliminary bye-laws and then hold open elections for the society's officers. I encourage you to fill out this form as soon as possible but certainly by November 1. Please share this information as see fit, for we would like to obtain maximum participation in the survey. With best regards Bill Rundell (for the IPIA steering committee) ----------------------------- Subject: Concerns about the Inverse Problems International Association, IPIA From: "Klibanov, Michael" Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:20:47 -0400 Dear Colleagues: I am interested in the issues raised by the participants of the organizing meeting of Inverse Problems International Association, IPIA in Vancouver in June. That meeting was a good first step with several important issues left unresolved. I am afraid that a rush to elections and organizational structure without a broader discussion and a clear mandate from the community might divide rather than unite us. If you share my concerns, please e-mail me or Bill Rundell With best regards and warm wishes, Michael Klibanov ----------------------------- Subject: PICOF'08 Conference From: el alaoui talibi mohamed Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce the forthcoming 4th International Conference on Inverse Problems, Control and Shape Optimization (PICOF'08) to be held in Marrakech, Morocco on April 16-18, 2008. Please visit the conference website in progress: http://www.ucam.ac.ma/picof08 Best regards. Mohamed EL ALAOUI TALIBI Département de Mathématiques, Faculté des Sciences Semlalia Marrakesh- Morocco e-mail : elalaoui@ucam.ac.ma Phone: office:212 24434649 Personal: 212 63455807 Fax: 212 24437409 ----------------------------- Subject: CISP 2008, Sanya, China: Deadline 10 November From: bai ye <2006conf@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 2008 International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2008) 28 - 30 May 2008, Sanya, Hainan, China Submission Deadline: 10 November 2007 http://www.hainu.edu.cn/CISP2008 Call for Papers, Invited Sessions & Sponsorship The aim of CISP 2008 is to bring together researchers working in many different areas of image and signal processing to foster exchange of new ideas. The CISP 2008 proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be indexed in both EI and ISTP. Selected good papers will be recommended for publication in SCI/SCI-E indexed international journals. CISP 2008 will be co-located with the 2008 International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2008: http://www.hainu.edu.cn/BMEI2008), in order to promote cross-fertilization between the broad areas of biomedical engineering and signal processing. ABOUT SANYA Sanya is one of China's premier tourist destinations, with white-sand beaches, charming scenery, hot-springs, and popular activities such as scuba-diving and rafting. More than 20 ethnic groups, including Han, Li, Miao, and Hui, inhabit Sanya and make Sanya a wonderful place to appreciate the various cultures of China. For more information, visit the conference web page or email the secretariat at cisp2008@hainu.edu.cn Join us at this major event in scenic Hainan !! ----------------------------- Subject: Call for papers, Automatic Differentiation 2008 From: Martin Buecker Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 AD2008 - Second Call for Papers Fifth International Conference on Automatic Differentiation August 11-15, 2008, Bonn, Germany http://www.autodiff.org/ad08 Automatic differentiation (AD) is a methodology for computing derivatives of functions given in the form of computer codes. In addition to recent advances in AD research and software development, conference topics include the use of AD in areas such as optimization, ODEs/DAEs, and inverse problems. Confirmed invited presentations: Mike Giles (Oxford University) Wolfgang Marquardt (RWTH Aachen University) Arnold Neumaier (Vienna University) Alex Pothen (Old Dominion University) Eelco Visser (Delft University) Publication: Proceedings of all accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering series. The number of pages is limited to 10 in Springer's LaTeX2e style for contributed books. Schedule: The conference will start Monday afternoon and finish by noon on Friday. A social event is planned for Wednesday afternoon. Bonn is easily accessible within one hour from Frankfurt/Main International Airport (by train or car). Its picturesque location on the Rhine River makes it ideal for sightseeing tours along the Rhine as well as for visits to the nearby cities of Cologne, Duesseldorf, and Aachen. Details regarding the location, procedures for registration and submission as well as the preliminary program will be made available at http://www.autodiff.org/ad08 Organized by RWTH Aachen University, AD2008 will take place at Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology under the direction of an international program committee. Important dates: November 30, 2007 : Full papers submission January 11, 2008 : Notification of acceptance February 1, 2008 : Camera-ready papers August 11-15, 2008: Conference Previous conferences: 1991: Breckenridge, USA 1996: Santa Fe, USA 2000: Nice, France 2004: Chicago, USA ----------------------------- Subject: Please Post: 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting From: Connie Young Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 Conference Name: 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN08) (This meeting is being held jointly with the SIAM Conference on Imaging Science) Location: Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, CA Dates: July 7-11, 2008 Invited Speakers: Plenary Speakers Karen Devine, Sandia National Laboratories Lars Eldén, Linköping University, Sweden Trey G. Ideker, University of California, San Diego Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University Jean-Michel Morel*, ENS Cachan, France *Joint speaker with the 2008 SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (see http://www.siam.org/meetings/is08/ for additional information about this conference) Topical Speakers Rakesh Agrawal, Microsoft Search Labs John P. Boyd, University of Michigan Rasmus Bro, Copenhagen University, Denmark Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee G. Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, College Park Randall J. LeVeque, University of Washington Mark Newman, University of Michigan Jill P. Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University James G. Nagy, Emory University Steven G. Parker, University of Utah Cécile Penland, NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division Anders Petersson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Research Special Lectures SIAM Past President's Address - Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture - Lecturer TBA I.E. Block Community Lecture - Daniel N. Rockmore, Dartmouth College W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics - Lecturer TBA The John von Neumann Lecture - Lecturer TBA The Call for Presentations is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/an08/ Important Deadlines SUBMISSION DEADLINES January 14, 2008: Minisymposium proposals January 28, 2008: Abstracts for contributed and minisymposium speakers REGISTRATION DEADLINE June 9, 2008 HOTEL RESERVATION DEADLINE June 9, 2008 For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ----------------------------- Subject: REMINDER SIAM OP08 Deadline Extension From: "Nicole C. Jorlett" Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 Conference Name: SIAM Conference on Optimization Location: Boston, Massachusetts Dates: May 10 - 13, 2008 SUBMISSION DEADLINES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED November 8, 2007: Minisymposium proposals November 8, 2007: Abstracts for contributed and minisymposium speakers Visit http://www.siam.org/meetings/op08/participation.php to submit. For more information about the conference, visit http://www.siam.org/meetings/op08/ or contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ----------------------------- Subject: Submission for ipnet From: Rainer.Kress Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 The Institut fuer Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik at the University of Goettinen, Germany, has an immediate opening for a Post Doc within a BMBF project on "Regularization in electrical impedance tomography in medicine and geosciences". The Göttingen part of this project is concerned with boundary integral equation and conformal mapping techniques in impedance tomography. The Post Doc position is for two years with the possibility of an extension for another year. It requires a PhD, preferably in mathematics. Applications should send to Professor Rainer Kress at kress@math.uni-goettingen.de Professor Rainer Kress Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik Lotzestr. 16-18, D 37083 Goettingen, Germany Tel: 0049 551 394511 Fax: 0049 551 393944 http://www.num.math.uni-goettingen.de/kress ----------------------------- Subject: 5 postdocs and 10 phd positions in PDE image processing, visualization and level set inverse problem From: Xue-Cheng Tai Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 Five postdocs and ten phd positions in PDE image processing, visualization and level set inverse problem We are happy to invite application for 5 postdoc and more than 10 phd positions in the field of PDE image processing, visualization and level set methods. Some of the position are located at the Mathematics Department of Bergen, Norway, see http://melding.uib.no/doc/Ledige_stillinger/1188997655.html The other positions are located at the Division of Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, see http://www.spms.ntu.edu.sg/MAS/Employment/Recruitment.htm These position are related to a fund to build up build a national resource to explore new mathematical and computational methods for PDE-based image processing and analysis, surface processing involving compression, reconstruction, remeshing and encoding for Interactive Digital Media development. One of the position is related to use level set methods for PDE inverse problems. Please refer to the above webpages for the details about the applications. Review process will start soon after the deadline. However, we will continue to accept applications until all the positions are filled. Xue-Cheng Tai, Tai@math.uib.no ----------------------------- Subject: position announcement From: "Thomas I. Seidman" Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, UMBC The Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Mathematical Sciences at the rank of Assistant Professor, starting in Fall 2008. The successful candidate should have a PhD in mathematics or a related field, have an active, independent research program, strong potential to obtain external funding, and a commitment to excellence in teaching. Preference will be given to candidates who are able to conduct interdisciplinary research with applications in life sciences, as well as those who are able interact with existing faculty in the department. Current research areas represented in the department include stochastic processes, numerical analysis, differential equations, optimization, mathematical modeling and statistics with applications in biological and environmental sciences and engineering. The department faculty has active research and programmatic collaborations with several research centers in the campus including JCET (www.umbc.edu/jcet) CUERE (www.umbc.edu/cuere/), CASPR (www.umbc.edu/caspr/) , and the School of Aging Studies (www.umbc.edu/erickson/). The department has external grants from a number of agencies including NIH, EPA, NSA, and NSF and a consulting center (www.umbc.edu/circ/) which offers services to both on and off campus researchers. The department possesses excellent computing facilities including a 32-node distributed-memory cluster with low-latency interconnect, and UMBC is in the process of developing a core facility for high-performance computing. The department offers BS, MS, and PhD degrees in applied mathematics and in statistics. For more information, see our website at www.math.umbc.edu. Applicants should send their vita, a summary of their current research program, a teaching statement, and also arrange to have three letters of reference sent to: Search Committee, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250. The screening of applicants will commence November 1, 2007 and will continue until the position is filled. UMBC has an NSF ADVANCE grant to increase the participation and success of women in science and engineering careers. Applications from minorities, women, and people with disabilities are especially encouraged. UMBC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Submitted by: Prof. Thomas I. Seidman UMBC --- Dept. Math/Stat http://www.math.umbc.edu/~seidman Baltimore, MD 21250 (1-410)-455-2438 [FAX: -1066] ----------------------------- Subject: submission for IPNet Digest From: Jennifer Mueller Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 The Department of Mathematics at Colorado State University invites applications for five tenured or tenure-track faculty positions with appointment levels commensurate with experience. Applicants are sought in any area of mathematics. Colorado State has embarked on an ambitious plan to build interdisciplinary research and education across campus. Mathematics has a key role to play and a majority of these positions are intended for mathematicians with the potential to initiate and take an active part in multidisciplinary research and education efforts on campus or with external entities. Applicants should submit an AMS cover sheet, complete curriculum vitae, summary of future research plans, evidence of effective teaching, and at least three letters of recommendation using the service provided by the AMS at http://www.mathjobs.org. Applications postmarked by November 26, 2007 are guaranteed full consideration. Colorado State University is an EEO/AA employer (Equal Opportunity Office, 101 Student Services). A "long version" of the advertisement can be found at http://www.math.colostate.edu/jobs.shtml#tt ----------------------------- Subject: IPNet submission From: "Sternberg, Zoe" Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering 2007 Vol. 15, No. 6 Table of Contents A uniqueness theorem for inverse nodal problem Hikmet Koyunbakan and Etibar S. Panakhov The recovery of analytic potentials for fourth-order differential equations A. Boumenir and S. Sadhan Projected Barzilai-Borwein method for large-scale nonnegative image restoration Yanfei Wang and Shiqian Ma Reconstruction of a grounded object in an electrostatic halfspace with an indicator function C.Van Berkel and W. R. B. Lionheart An inversion method for identification of elastoplastic properties for engineering materials from limited spherical indentation measurements Alemdar Hasanov The estimation of parameters for stochastic differential equations using neural networks Z. Xie, D. Kulasiri, S. Samarasinghe, and C. Rajanayaka Vibrational genetic algorithm (VGA) and dynamic mesh in the optimization of 3D wing geometries Ergüven Vatandas, Abdurrahman Hacioglu and I.brahim Özkol Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering: Volume 15 Issue 6 is now available online at http://www.informaworld.com/IPSE ************************** Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering 2007 Vol. 15, No. 7 Table of Contents Special Issue: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, Cambridge, UK, July 11-15, 2005 Guest Editor: Daniel Lesnic Identification and design of source term in a two-region heat conduction problem Paulo M. P. Silva, Helcio R. B. Orlande, Marcelo J. Colaço, Panayiotis S. Shiakolas, and George S. Dulikravich Numerical analysis of a calibration problem for simulating electric fault arc tests T. Hein, B. Hofmanm. A. Meyer, and P. Steinhorst Application of the generalized extremal optimization algorithm to an inverse radiative transfer problem F. L. de Sousa, F. J. C. P. Soeiro, A. J. Silva Neto, and F. M. Ramos Estimation of thermal resistance distributions for die-attach testing in microelectronics V. Feuillet, Y. Jarny, and Y. Scudeller Estimation of a source term in a two-dimensional heat transfer problem: application to an electron beam welding, theoretical and experimental validations J. Guo, P. Le Masson, S. Rouquette,T. Loulou and E. Artioukhine Experimental validation of an extended Kalman smoothing technique for solving nonlinear inverse heat conduction problems N. Daouas and M. -S. Radhouani Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering: Volume 15 Issue 7 is now available online at http://www.informaworld.com/IPSE Submitted by: Zoe Sternberg Publishing Editor, Applied Science Journals, Taylor & Francis 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4RN, UK Tel: +44 207 017 4506; Fax: +44 207 017 6714 www.informaworld.com/journals ----------------------------- Subject: IPNet submission From: "Sternberg, Zoe" Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 Linear and Multilinear Algebra 2007 Vol. 55, No. 5 Table of Contents Radii and subnorms on finite-dimensional power-associative algebras Moshe Goldberg The semigroup generated by a unitary orbit of a singular matrix H. Radjavi and A. R. Sourour Two generator subalgebras of Lie algebras Kevin Bowman, David A. Towers, and Vicente R. Varea Uniform and minimal {0,1} - cp matrices Abraham Berman and Changqing Xu Maximizing Laplacian spectral radius over trees with fixed diameter A. K. Lal and K. L. Patra Zeros of complex homogeneous polynomials Mary Lillian Lourenço and Neusa Nogas Tocha On the pivot structure for the weighing matrix W(12,11) Christos Kravvaritis, Marilena Mitrouli and Jennifer Seberry On a conjecture about the eigenvalues of doubly stochastic matrices Javad Mashreghi and Roland Rivard Some necessary and some sufficient trace inequalities for Euclidean distance matrices A. Y. Alfakih; Henry Wolkowicz Linear and Multilinear Algebra: Volume 55 Issue 5 is now available online at http://www.informaworld.com/LAMA ***************************** Linear and Multilinear Algebra 2007 Vol. 55, No. 6 Table of Contents On the numerical index of vector-valued function spaces Elmouloudi Ed-Dari, Mohamed Amine Khamsi, and Asuman Güven Aksoy On Tate's trace Martin Argerami, Fernando Szechtman, and Ryan Tifenbach Matrices that preserve vectors of fixed sign variation C. R. Johnson and J. M. Peña Positive and real-positive solutions to the equation axa*=c in C*-algebras D. Cvetkovic'-Ilic', Alegra Dajic', and J. J. Koliha Automorphisms of the standard Borel subalgebra of Lie algebra of Cm type over a commutative ring Qiu Yu, Dengyin Wang, and Shikun Ou An LMI description for the cone of Lorentz-positive maps Roland Hildebrand Positive maps of second-order cones Roland Hildebrand Additive maps on hermitian matrices M. Orel and B. Kuzma Lie derivations on triangular matrices Dominik Benkovi? Linear and Multilinear Algebra: Volume 55 Issue 6 is now available online at informaworldTM. Submitted by: Zoe Sternberg Publishing Editor, Applied Science Journals, Taylor & Francis 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4RN, UK Tel: +44 207 017 4506; Fax: +44 207 017 6714 www.informaworld.com/journals ------- end -------