IPNet Digest Volume 18, Number 04 May 3, 2011 Today's Editors: Patricia K. Lamm, Michigan State University Zhewei Dai, Alma College Today's Topics: Applied Inverse Problems Conference 2011 (Final Announcement) British Inverse Problems Workshop Sandpit on Industrial Inverse Problems Workshop on Inverse Problems in Gothenburg, Sweden SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications Int'l Conf. on Applied Mathematics and Approximation Theory Position: Full Professor of Applied Mathematics & Modeling Special Issues: L. P. Euler's Functional Equations & Inequalities Table of Contents: Inverse Problems Table of Contents: Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems Submissions for IPNet Digest: Mail to ipnet-digest@math.msu.edu Information about IPNet: http://www.math.msu.edu/ipnet ----------------------------- Subject: Final announcement: AIP 2011 From: William Rundell Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 AIP 2011 May 23 - 27 2011 Pre-conference workshop May 21, 22 For those registered, please note that hotels have released their AIP-held rooms as of May 2, and the declared rate may have changed or rooms may be unavailable. However if you contact the hotels very soon there may still be availability. Those wishing to be picked up from Houston Airport (IAH) on May 22 must have contacted the conference administration (aipc@math.tamu.edu) indicating this together with flight information by May 6. We should be able to accommodate all requests for flight arrivals mid-afternoon through early evening. We will also be able pick up arrivals into College station (CLL) but prior notice before May 6 is also essential. There are still available slots for poster sessions. Anyone still wishing to be part of the poster session should indicate this by e-mail before May 13. For those who have not yet registered they should do so immediately as head counts for the social events and banquet (no charge) will be set on May 6. ----------------------------- Subject: British Inverse Problems Workshop From: Daniel Lesnic Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 A British Inverse Problems Workshop will be held in the afternoon of Tuesday, 7th of June 2011, from 13.30 to 17.00 in the MALL Room of the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds. http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/rvc/BIPW.html Programme: 13.3O - 14.30 Steven Sourbron (University of Leeds) - "Model-free deconvolution in dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI" 14.30 - 15.30 Ian Craddock (University of Bristol) - "Inverse problems for microwave breast cancer detection" 15.30 - 16.00 Tea/Coffee Break 16.00 - 17.00 Trond Mannseth (University of Bergen, Norway) - "Multiscale regularization" Please note that there are no fees to be charged for participating at the workshop. Please just send an email to D.Lesnic@leeds.ac.uk before 27th of May 2011 if you would like to participate in this event. Submitted by: Daniel Lesnic, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. e-mail: amt5ld@maths.leeds.ac.uk, tel: +44-(0)113-3435181, fax: +44-(0)113-3435090. ----------------------------- Subject: Sandpit on Industrial Inverse Problems From: Daniel Lesnic Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 Announcement of the Fifth Knowledge Transfer Workshop/Sandpit on Inverse Problems in Industry, University of Leeds, 6-7 June 2011 The purpose of the meeting is for industrialists and academics to identify inverse problems of common interest. The programme of talks from industry includes: Steve GRAHAM (UK National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL)) - "Applied mathematical modelling in the nuclear industry" Larissa FRADKIN and Victor ZERNOV (Sound Mathematics Ltd.) - "Defect characterisation in ultrasonic non-destructive testing" Paul CHILDS (Schlumberger Cambridge Research Ltd.) - "Challenges in seismic imaging and inversion" Amit BHAVE (Computational Modelling Cambridge Ltd.) - "Parameter estimation with uncertainty propagation for applications in the chemical, energy, and automotive industries" Further details are available at: http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/rvc/sandpit.html Submitted by: Daniel Lesnic (Organiser), Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. e-mail: amt5ld@maths.leeds.ac.uk ----------------------------- Subject: Workshop on Inverse Problems 02.06.2011-03.06.2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden From: Larisa Beilina Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 Annual Workshop on Inverse Problems First annual workshop on Inverse Problems within the Visby Program will be held at 02.06-03.06. 2011 at the Department of Mathematics, Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden. The workshop will take place at room PASCAL, Hörsalsvägen 1, 10.00-17.00. The subject of the annual workshop is presentation of new analytical developments and new numerical methods for solutions of Inverse Problems. The workshop aims to gather people from the field of applied mathematics to discuss the state-of-the-art and future challenges in solving of Inverse problems for broad range of applications. Confirmed invited speakers: * Anatoliy Bakushinskiy, The Institute for System Analysis of The Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia * Roman Novikov, International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Moscow, Russia and CMAP Ecole Polytechnique, France * Vladimir G. Romanov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia * Anatoliy Yagola, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Department of Mathematics, Russia * Gulnara Kuramshina, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Department of Physical Chemistry, The talks will be given in English. The workshop is sponsored by the Swedish Institute, Visby Program. Participation in this workshop is free. Organiser: Larisa Beilina, Associate Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University, SE-41296, Gothenburg, Sweden Registration is made by sending an e-mail to: larisa@chalmers.se including name, company/university, department. More information about workshop can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/visby2010/annual-workshop-on-inverse-problems Submitted by: Larisa Beilina, Ph.D. Department of Mathematical Sciences Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University, SE-41296, Gothenburg, Sweden ----------------------------- Subject: SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT11) - Registration and Program Now Available! From: Kirsten Wilden Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 Subject: SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT11) - Registration and Program Now Available! Conference Name: SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT11) Location: Hyatt Regency Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Dates: July 25-27, 2011 Invited Speakers: Alain Bensoussan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Tyrone Duncan, University of Kansas, USA Birgit Jacob, Universität Wuppertal, Germany Yannis Kevrekidis, Princeton University, USA Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs-Research, USA Enrique Zuazua, Ikerbasque & Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Basque Country-Spain +++++++++++++++++++++++ Registration and the conference schedule are now posted at http://www.siam.org/meetings/ct11/ PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE June 27, 2011 HOTEL RESERVATION DEADLINE June 27, 2011 +++++++++++++++++++++++ For additional information, contact the SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ----------------------------- Subject: International Conference AMAT 2012 From: "George A Anastassiou (ganastss)" Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 Please find complete information about the International Conference on 'Applied Mathematics and Approximation Theory 2012', to be held in Ankara, Turkey, May 17-19, 2012. So for all you need please visit: http://amat2012.etu.edu.tr/ For whatever you need please contact the organizer Professor Oktay Duman at oduman@etu.edu.tr Please do not contact George Anastassiou. Submitted by: George A. Anastassiou,Ph.D, Department of Mathematical Sciences The University of Memphis, Memphis,TN 38152 USA ganastss@memphis.edu ----------------------------- Subject: Full Professor of Applied Mathematics & Modeling From: "Prof. Heinz W. Engl" Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:19:42 +0200 Job Announcement As stated in its development plan (http://www.univie.ac.at/rektorenteam/ug2002/entwicklungs plan.html) the University of Vienna aims at strengthening its position as a major research-oriented university. Key elements of this strategy include the provision of an attractive range of research-based study programmes, support for furthering the work of junior academic colleagues, and high-calibre professorial appointments. The Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna announces the position of a Full Professor of Applied Mathematics and Modeling (full time, permanent position under private law). The University of Vienna intends to increase the number of women on its faculty, particularly in high-level positions, and therefore specifically invites applications by women. Among equally qualified applicants women will receive preferential consideration. Successful candidates will have the following qualifications: * PhD and post-doctoral experience at a university or other research institution (Austrian or equivalent international academic degree in the relevant field) * Outstanding research and publication record, with an excellent reputation as an active member in the international academic community (Habilitation (venia docendi) or equivalent international qualification in the relevant field is desirable) * Experience in designing, procuring and directing major research projects, and willingness and ability to assume the responsibility of team leadership * Experience in university teaching, and willingness and ability to teach at all curricular levels, to supervise theses, and to further the work of junior academic colleagues The University of Vienna expects the successful candidate to acquire, within three years, proficiency in German sufficient for teaching in Bachelor programmes and participation in committees. The University of Vienna offers: * Attractive terms and conditions of employment with a negotiable and performance-related salary, associated with a retirement fund * A start-up package for the initiation of research projects * An attractive and dynamic research location in a city with a high quality of life and in a country with excellent research funding provision * Support for relocation to Vienna, where appropriate Candidates should send an application containing at least the following documents: * Academic curriculum vitae * Brief description of current research interests and research plans for the immediate future * List of publications together with a) specification of five key publications judged by the applicant to be particularly relevant to the advertised professorship together with an explanation of their relevance b) PDF versions of these five publications provided either as email attachments or through URLs of downloadable copies (PDF versions of monographs need only be provided if easily available.) * List of talks given, including detailed information about invited plenaries at international conferences * List of projects supported by third-party funds * Short survey of previous academic teaching and list of supervised PhD theses Applications in English should be submitted by email (preferably as PDF attachments) to the Dean's office of the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna, Nordbergstraße 15, A- 1090 Wien, dekanat.mathematik@univie.ac.at, no later than June 10th, 2011 with reference DK 506-07/2011. Submitted by: Prof.Dr.Heinz W. Engl E-Mail: heinz.engl@univie.ac.at Vice Rector for Research and Career Development University of Vienna Phone:+43-(0)1-427710050 A-1010 Wien Fax:+43-(0)1-427710099 http://www.univie.ac.at Oesterreich / Austria and Institute Director Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-4040 Linz, Austria EMail: heinz.engl@oeaw.ac.at Fax: +43-(0)732-24685212 http://www.ricam.oeaw.ac.at ----------------------------- Subject: Special Issues on Leonhard Paul Euler's: Functional Equations and Inequalities From: "Int. J. Tomography & Statistics" Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 Dear Colleagues, Greetings from International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Statistics (IJAMAS). Following issues are available without subscription fee. http://www.ceser.in/ceserp/index.php/ijamas/issue/archive February, Volume 07, Number F07 Special Issue-1 on Leonhard Paul Euler's: Functional Equations and Inequalities (Guest Editor-in-Chief: Professor John Michael Rassias) March, Volume 08, Number M07 Special Issue-2 on Leonhard Paul Euler's: Mixed Type Partial Differential Equations (Guest Editor-in-Chief: Professor John Michael Rassias) June, Volume 09, Number J07 Special Issue-3 on Leonhard Paul Euler's: Differential Equations and Inequalities(Guest Editor-in-Chief: Professor John Michael Rassias) September, Volume 10, Number S07 Special Issue-4 on Leonhard Paul Euler's: Differential Equations and Inequalities (Guest Editor-in-Chief: Professor John Michael Rassias) November, Volume 11, Number N07 Special Issue-5 on Leonhard Paul Euler's: Mathematical Topics and Applications (Guest Editor-in-Chief: Professor John Michael Rassias) December , Volume 12, Number D07 Special Issue-6 on Leonhard Paul Euler's: Dynamical Systems and Integro-Differential Equations (Guest Editor-in-Chief: Professor John Michael Rassias) Just REGISTER your-self to download the paper(s) form these Special Issues on Leonhard Paul Euler's: Functional Equations and Inequalities (Guest Editor-in-Chief: Professor John Michael Rassias) Sincerely Executive Editor, International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Statistics http://www.ceser.in/ijamas.html e-mail: ceser_info@yahoo.com, eic.ijamas@yahoo.com ----------------------------- Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems, volume 27, issue 5, May 2011 From: Stephanie Kent Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2011 Inverse Problems May 2011 Volume 27, Issue 5 Table of Contents On the use of Lamb modes in the linear sampling method for elastic waveguides L Bourgeois, F Le Lou\"er and E Lun\'eville A local inverse spectral theorem for Hamiltonian systems Matthias Langer, Harald Woracek Inverse bifurcation problems for nonlinear Sturm--Liouville problems Tetsutaro Shibata Synthetic aperture radar imaging exploiting multiple scattering V Krishnan and B Yazici A 2D nonlinear inversion of well-seismic data Ludovic M\'etivier, Patrick Lailly, Florence Delprat-Jannaud, and Laurence Halpern Reconstruction from a few projections by $\ell$$_{1}$-minimization of the Haar transform E Gardu\ no, G T Herman and R Davidi Quantitative thermo-acoustics and related problems Guillaume Bal, Kui Ren, Gunther Uhlmann and Ting Zhou Mathematical framework for a new microscopic electrical impedance tomography system Eunjung Lee, Jin Keun Seo, Eung Je Woo and Tingting Zhang Bayesian matched-field geoacoustic inversion Stan E Dosso and Jan Dettmer A generalized approach to local regularization of linear Volterra problems in $L^{p}$ spaces Cara D Brooks and Patricia K Lamm Reconstructing perfectly electric conductors by the subspace-based optimization method with continuous variables Xiuzhu Ye, Yu Zhong and Xudong Chen On the Dirichlet boundary controllability of the one-dimensional heat equation: semi-analytical calculations and ill-posedness degree Faker Ben Belgacem and Sidi Mahmoud Kaber 2D and 3D reconstructions in acousto-electric tomography Peter Kuchment and Leonid Kunyansky Boundary data completion: the method of boundary value problem factorization Amel Ben Abda, Jacques Henry and Fadhel Jday Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://iopscience.iop.org/0266-5611/27/5 Submitted by Stephanie Kent, Production Editor ----------------------------- Subject: J. Inverse and Ill-posed Problems, Vol. 18 (8-9), Vol. 19 (1) From: "reference-global@degruyter.com" Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 J. Inverse and Ill-posed Problems March 2011 Vol. 18, No. 8 Table of Contents Inverse and ill-posed problems (Conference in Novosibirsk) S. I. Kabanikhin Iterative processes of gradient type with applications to gravimetry and magnetometry inverse problems Vladimir Vasin and Georgy Skorik Some mathematical problems of acoustic probing Yurii Evgenievich Anikonov, Andrey Egorovich Kovtanyuk, and Mikhail Vladimirovich Neshchadim Algorithm of finding a body projection within an absorbing and scattering medium Dmitry Sergeevich Anikonov, Vasilii Genadievich Nazarov, and Igor Vasilievich Prokhorov Determination of physical and geometrical characteristics of layered inhomogeneous elastic medium I. O. Bogulskii and Yu. M. Volchkov On some classes of inverse problems for parabolic equations Sergey Grigir'evich Pyatkov The optimum of the M. M. Lavrent'ev method Vitaly Pavlovich Tanana and Tatiana Nikolaevna Rudakova Parameter identification methods of hydraulic models for the study of current water in open channels Anatoly Fedorovich Voevodin and Valentina Sergeevna Nikiforovskaya The above issue is now available online from Walter de Gruyter at: http://www.reference-global.com/toc/jiip/2011/18/8?ai=124&ui=34xi&af=T ********************** J. Inverse and Ill-posed Problems March 2011 Vol. 18, No. 9 Table of Contents Recent advances in analytical and numerical methods in inverse problems for PDEs (minisymposium report) Christian Clason and Maxim Shishlenin On a class of finite difference methods for ill-posed Cauchy problems with noisy data Anatoly B. Bakushinsky, Mikhail Yu. Kokurin, and Mikhail M. Kokurin Numerical algorithm for two-dimensional inverse acoustic problem based on Gel'fand-Levitan-Krein equation Sergey I. Kabanikhin and Maxim A. Shishlenin Some regularization methods for a thermoacoustic inverse problem Barbara Kaltenbacher and Wolfgang Polifke Application of inversion methods in solving ill-posed problems for magnetic parameter identification of steel hull vessel D. V. Lukyanenko, A. G. Yagola, and N. A. Evdokimova On sequential minimization of Tikhonov functionals in ill-posed problems with a priori information on solutions Mikhail Yu. Kokurin The above issue is now available online from Walter de Gruyter at: http://www.reference-global.com/toc/jiip/2011/18/9?ai=124&ui=34xi&af=T ********************** J. Inverse and Ill-posed Problems May 2011 Vol. 19, No. 1 Table of Contents An inverse problem for a system of evolution equations Yurii E. Anikonov and Shumin Li On solution uniqueness of the Dirichlet problem for a system of partial differential equations on one function in the unit ball Michail V. Beloglyadov and Vladimir P. Burskii Function spaces and optimal currents in impedance tomography Bangti Jin, Taufiquar Khan, Peter Maass, and Michael Pidcock Identification problems for semilinear integro-differential hyperbolic equations with transformed arguments Alfredo Lorenzi and Francesca Messina Why a minimizer of the Tikhonov functional is closer to the exact solution than the first guess Michael V. Klibanov, Anatoly B. Bakushinsky, and Larisa Beilina Uniqueness for a hyperbolic inverse problem with angular control on the coefficients Rakesh and Paul Sacks On the Cauchy problem for operators with injective symbols in the spaces of distributions Ivan V. Shestakov and Alexander A. Shlapunov Computational methods for ill-posed problems of gravitational gasodynamics Vitaly A. Vshivkov, Galina G. Lazareva, Alexei V. Snytnikov, Igor M. Kulikov, and Alexander V. Tutukov The above issue is now available online from Walter de Gruyter at: http://www.reference-global.com/toc/jiip/2011/19/1?ai=124&ui=34xi&af=T ------- end ------- . .