Workshop on Inverse Problems at Columbia University

May 03 - 04, 2007

Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Columbia University, NY 10027, USA

 

 

 

 

 

Program:                                                                           Download program in pdf format

  

Morning Session, May 03, 2007 (Thursday) (Davis Auditorium)

 
8:50-9:10

Guillaume Bal

Opening remarks
     
9:10-9:40 Andreas Hielscher Optical tomography: potential and limits of an emerging biomedical imaging
modality
     
9:50-10:20 Timothy Hall Tropical cyclone landfall in a changing climate: a statistical modeling study
 
Coffee break
 
10:50-11:20 I. Cevdet Noyan The double inverse problem: Strain determination with diffraction in polycrystalline materials
     
11:30-12:00 Allen Boozer Design of magnetic fields for fusion plasmas
     
 
Lunch break (in Davis Auditorium)
 

Afternoon Session, May 03, 2007 (Thursday) (Davis Auditorium)

     
13:30-14:00 Donald Goldfarb Optimization methods for Total-Variation-based image restoration
     
14:10-14:40 Rama Cont Monte-Carlo methods for nonlinear inverse problems
 

Coffee break

 
15:00-15:30 Andrew Laine Challenges in bio-imaging: Opportunities for image analysts
 
15:40-16:10 Alexey Kaplan Utility of state-space reduction in ocean and climate inverse problems
     
16:20-16:50 Ravi Ramamoorthi Spherical (de)convolution for inverse rendering
     
17:00-17:30 Jens Vogelgesang A forward-backward diffusion model for geomorphological generalization
     

Morning Session, May 04, 2007 (Friday) (Davis Auditorium)

 
9:00-9:20 Chris Wiggins Inverse problems and imaging for systems biology
     
9:30-10:00 Fred Chang Dynamic assembly of cells: rings, filaments and tubules
     
10:10-10:40 Ruben L. Gonzalez Single-molecule enzymology of complex biochemical reactions
     
10:50-11:20 Rafa Yuste Reverse engineering the cortical microcircuit
 
Coffee break
 
11:50-12:20 Alexander Klose Fluorescence and bioluminescence tomography for molecular imaging
     
12:30-13:00 Elisa E. Konofagou Ultrasound-based elasticity imaging (Movie 1, Movie 2)
     
 
Lunch break (in APAM office: 200 S. W. Mudd Building)