IPNet Digest Volume 17, Number 03 April 29, 2010 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm, Michigan State University Today's Topics: Symposium on Statistical Methods in Inverse Problems Student Support for 2010 Inverse Problems Symposium New Deadline for Workshop on Inverse Problems in Electromagnetism Open Research Positions at Centre for Computational Imaging Table of Contents: Inverse Problems Submissions for IPNet Digest: Mail to ipnet-digest@math.msu.edu Information about IPNet: http://www.math.msu.edu/ipnet ----------------------------- Subject: Symposium on inverse problems at ICNAAM 2010 From: "hanna.pikkarainen@oeaw.ac.at" Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 Dear colleagues, we are organising a symposium with title Statistical Methods in Inverse Problems at the International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics held in Rhodes, Greece on September 19-25, 2010. The web page of the conference is http://www.icnaam.org/. The description of the topic of the symposium is: Recently, statistical approaches to inverse problems have become increasingly popular, but have been studied rather independently in separate communities. The main difference between the frequentist and the Bayesian inversion lies in the interpretation of the solution. Whereas frequentists utilize estimators based on the statistical decision theory, the latter approach applies the Bayes formula. However, many similarities exist when the goal is regularization of illposedness. This symposium intends to provide an overview on new developements and interplay between these two statistical approaches to inverse problems. Both theoretical questions and applications are discussed. The symposium is open for applications. The deadline for the abstract submission is July 22, 2010. The acceptance of the presentations will be notified at the latest on July 29, 2010. The instructions for preparing the abstract and corresponding template can be found from the weg page http://www.icnaam.org/abstract.htm The abstracts will be published in a special volume of AIP Conference Proceedings. The abstracts should be sent by email to tapio.helin@oeaw.ac.at or hanna.pikkarainen@oeaw.ac.at. Yours sincerely, Tapio Helin and Hanna Katriina Pikkarainen Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Hanna Katriina Pikkarainen Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics Austrian Academy of Sciences Altenbergerstrasse 69 A-4040 Linz Austria E-mail: hanna.pikkarainen@oeaw.ac.at Tel: +43 (0)732 2468 5233 Fax: +43 (0)732 2468 5212 http://www.ricam.oeaw.ac.at/people/page/pikkarainen/ . ----------------------------- Subject: NSF Funding Available for Graduate Student Travel to IPS 2010, Mich. St. U. From: "Dolan, Kirk" Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 NSF Funding Available for U.S. University Graduate Students in Thermal Processes to Attend 2010 Inverse Problems Symposium, June 6-8, 2010 at Michigan State University. Student Travel Funding is available for to IPS 2010! Funding up to $500 per student is available from National Science Foundation Thermal Transport Processes Program. Eligibility: 1. Must be a graduate student at a U.S. university (Michigan State University students are not eligible). 2. Must be working in engineering or food science aspects of heat transfer. 3. Must submit a statement by April 30th to dolank@msu.edu expressing why you wish to attend IPS 2010. Special positive consideration is given to minority and underrepresented applicants. The schedule is listed at: http://www.inverseproblems2010.org/agenda/index.html The registration fees are $150 regular, $100 for students. The fee includes the tutorial (Survey of Parameter Estimation) on Sunday afternoon, the conference CD, 2 continental breakfasts, 2 lunches, break refreshments, and Monday evening banquet. This is one of the few inverse problems symposiums covering such a wide range of research and industry problems, and offering a workshop on parameter estimation techniques. We look forward to your participation! Best regards, Kirk Dolan (Conference Chairperson), Jongeun Choi (co-chair), Cara Brooks (co-chair) and James Beck (Honorary Chairperson) Kirk Dolan, Chairperson IPS 2010 Associate Professor Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition Department of Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering 135 Trout Food Science Building, Michigan State University dolank@msu.edu ----------------------------- Subject: Deadline Extended for Int'l Workshop on Optimization and Inverse Problems From: OIPE 2010 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 Dear Colleague, Due to numerous requests from prospective authors, the deadline for the submission of 2-page digests for the XI-th International Workshop on Optimization and Inverse Problems in Electromagnetism OIPE 2010, to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 14 to 18 September 2010, was extended to 30 April 2010 . More information and online registration is available on the web-site of the Workshop at oipe.tu-sofia.bg We do hope that this extended deadline will give the authors enough time for preparation and submission of high-quality 2-page digests. Best regards, Ivan Yatchev, OIPE 2010 Chairman ----------------------------- Subject: Open Research Positions at Centre for Computational Imaging From: Alejandro Frangi Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 Open Research Positions in Barcelona - Spain Centre for Computational Imaging and Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine (CISTIB) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain The CISTIB seeks proactive and talented junior and senior researchers with proven track record of publications in leading international journals and conferences. Candidates must hold a PhD degree and have expertise in the area of interest. Background or strong interest in biomedical engineering and proficency in spoken and written English is expected. We are interested in individuals with excellent communication and leadership skills, able to work in a multidisciplinary and international team and contribute to the visibility of the centre in the international scientific community. The ability to interact with other disciplines is essential. The candidate will cooperate with members of the lab working on related topics as well as with our collaborators at several academic institutions in Barcelona and in Europe More information and detailed job profiles available at: http://www.tecn.upf.es/~afrangi/opencalls.htm ----------------------------- Subject: Inverse Problems, volume 26, issues 4-5, 2010 From: Emma Avery Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 Inverse Problems April 2010 Volume 26, Issue 4 Table of Contents PAPERS A rigorous analysis using optimal transport theory for a two-reflector design problem with a point source Tilmann Glimm Source splitting via the point source method Roland Potthast, Filippo M Fazi and Philip A Nelson Picosecond scale experimental verification of a globally convergent algorithm for a coefficient inverse problem Michael V Klibanov, Michael A Fiddy, Larisa Beilina, Natee Pantong and John Schenk Mittag--Leffler's function, Vekua transform and an inverse obstacle scattering problem Masaru Ikehata Uniqueness in inverse elastic scattering with finitely many incident waves Johannes Elschner and Masahiro Yamamoto Integral equation models for image restoration: high accuracy methods and fast algorithms Yao Lu, Lixin Shen and Yuesheng Xu A multi-section approach for rough surface reconstruction via the Kirsch--Kress scheme C Burkard and R Potthast Advancements to the planogram frequency--distance rebinning algorithm Kyle M Champley, Raymond R Raylman and Paul E Kinahan The boundary control approach to inverse spectral theory Sergei Avdonin and Victor Mikhaylov Circular resistor networks for electrical impedance tomography with partial boundary measurements L Borcea, V Druskin and A V Mamonov Analytical and computational methods for transmission eigenvalues David Colton, Peter Monk and Jiguang Sun A posteriori error estimates for the adaptivity technique for the Tikhonov functional and global convergence for a coefficient inverse problem Larisa Beilina and Michael V Klibanov Improving the Gauss--Newton convergence of a certain position registration scheme C Toews and B Nelson Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://iopscience.iop.org/0266-5611/26/4 ************************************************** Inverse Problems May 2010 Volume 26, Issue 5 Table of Contents Identification of a spheroidal defect in an elastic solid using a reciprocity gap functional E I Shifrin and P S Shushpannikov Accelerated Landweber iteration in Banach spaces Torsten Hein and Kamil S Kazimierski Inverse problems for Sturm--Liouville equations with boundary conditions polynomially dependent on the spectral parameter G Freiling and V A Yurko The linear sampling method and energy conservation R Aramini, G Caviglia, A Massa and M Piana The inverse scattering transform and squared eigenfunctions for the nondegenerate 3 $\times$ 3 operator and its soliton structure D J Kaup and Robert A Van Gorder Model functions in the modified L-curve method---case study: the heat flux reconstruction in pool boiling Yi Heng, Shuai Lu, Adel Mhamdi and Sergei V Pereverzev The split common fixed-point problem for demicontractive mappings A Moudafi Guided Bayesian optimal experimental design M R Khodja, M D Prange and H A Djikpesse The multicomponent 2D Toda hierarchy: generalized matrix orthogonal polynomials, multiple orthogonal polynomials and Riemann--Hilbert problems Carlos \'Alvarez-Fern\'andez, Ulises Fidalgo and Manuel Ma\~nas The enclosure method for inverse obstacle scattering problems with dynamical data over a finite time interval Masaru Ikehata Two-dimensional near-field microwave holography Maryam Ravan, Reza K Amineh and Natalia K Nikolova The inverse resonance problem for CMV operators Rudi Weikard and Maxim Zinchenko Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://iopscience.iop.org/0266-5611/26/5 Submitted by: Emma Avery, Senior Production Editor IOP Publishing, Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol BS1 6BE England ------- end -------