Inverse problems in science and engineering

Workshop theme

Inverse problems are estimation problems in physical sciences and engineering. A problem as simple as weighing with a spring scale poses an inverse problem, but in recent years the term has come to be associated with the estimation of fields or distributed parameters. Many imaging problems partake of the same nature. Such problems are of critical importance in earth sciences, biomedicine, materials science and mechanical engineering, and in many other subjects. These problems also give rise to many interesting and difficult mathematical and computational science questions, and provide an arena in which contemporary mathematics can interact directly with the critical needs of scientists and engineers.

This workshop will bring together applied mathematicians and scientists working in a number of disciplines in which inverse problems play a central role. Along a series of three overview lectures and several invited seminars per day, the programme provides ample time for discussion and for contributed talks by the participants. The workshop is designed as an opportunity for specialists in various inverse problem types to exchange information and ideas.

Applications for this workshop are now closed

Timetable

Monday 12th December 2011
09:00 to 09:45	Registration & Morning Coffee	No Room Required
09:45 to 10:00	Welcome & Announcements	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Wim Mulder Shell Global Solutions International & Delft University of Technology Where should we focus?	Room 1
11:00 to 12:00	Margaret Cheney Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Introduction to Radar Imaging	Room 1
12:00 to 12:30	Informal Discussion Time	No Room Required
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:30	(Inverse Problems in) BioMedical Imaging	Room 1
14:30 to 15:00	John Schotland University of Michigan Acousto-Optic Imaging and Related Inverse Problems	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:00	Bill Lionheart University of Manchester Reconstruction for an offset cone beam x-ray tomography system	Room 1
16:00 to 16:30	Trond Varslot Australian National University Theoretically-exact CT-reconstruction from experimental data	Room 1
16:30 to 17:00	Xiaoyu Luo University of Glasgow Inverse estimation of fibre reinforced soft tissue of human gallbladder wall	Room 1
17:00 to 18:00	Drinks Reception	No Room Required
18:45 to 19:15	Dinner at Fitzwilliam College (residents only)	No Room Required

Tuesday 13th December 2011
09:00 to 09:30	Timo Betcke University College London Modulated plane wave methods for Helmholtz problems in heterogeneous media	Room 1
09:30 to 10:00	Chris Stolk Universiteit van Amsterdam Seismic inverse scattering by reverse time migration	Room 1
10:00 to 10:30	Maarten de Hoop Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Local analysis of the inverse problem associated with the Helmholtz equation -- Lipschitz stability and iterative reconstruction	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Peter Olsson Chalmers University of Technology Re-routing of elastodynamic waves by means of transformation optics in planar, cylindrical, and spherical geometries	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Informal Discussion Time	No Room Required
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:30	Jan-Frederik Pietschmann Universität Münster Identification of non-linearities in transport-diffusion models of crowded motion	Room 1
14:30 to 15:00	Peter Jan van Leeuwen University of Reading Particle filters in highly nonlinear high-dimensional systems	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:00	Henning Omre Norwegian University of Science and Technology Spatial categorical inversion: Seismic inversion into lithology/fluid classes	Room 1
16:00 to 16:30	Chris Farmer University of Oxford Practical and principled methods for large-scale data assimilation and parameter estimation	Room 1
16:30 to 17:00	Dean Oliver University Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research The ensemble Kalman filter for distributed parameter estimation in porous media flow	Room 1
17:00 to 17:30	Besov Priors for Bayesian Inverse problems	Room 1
18:45 to 19:15	Dinner at Fitzwilliam College (residents only)	No Room Required

Wednesday 14th December 2011
09:00 to 09:30	Rene Edouard Plessix Shell International Exploration and Production Some applications of least-squares inversion in exploration geophysics	Room 1
09:30 to 10:00	Hervé Chauris Mines Paris Tech Alternative formulations for full waveform inversion	Room 1
10:00 to 10:30	Florence Delprat-Jannaud IFP Energies nouvelles 2D nonlinear inversion of walkaway data	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Ivan Vasconcelos Schlumberger Cambridge Research Imaging using reciprocity principles: extended images, multiple scattering and nonlinear inversion	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Informal Discussion Time	No Room Required
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
13:30 to 17:30	OPEN FOR BUSINESS SESSION: Inverse Problems in Oil and Gas Exploration: Contemporary Views	Room 1
13:30 to 14:15	The future of imaging and inversion in a complex Earth	No Room Required
14:15 to 15:00	Earth imaging - a developing picture	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:15	Full Waveform Inversion in Laplace Domain	Room 1
16:15 to 17:00	APE ten Kroode Shell International Exploration and Production Seismic inverse problems - towards full wavefield acquisition?	Room 1
17:00 to 17:30	Panel Discussion	Room 1
17:30 to 19:00	Wine reception	No Room Required
18:45 to 19:15	Dinner at Fitzwilliam College (residents only)	No Room Required

Thursday 15th December 2011
09:00 to 09:30	Richard Booth Schlumberger: Brazil Research and Geoengineering Centre Inversion of Pressure Transient Testing Data	Room 1
09:30 to 10:00	Paul Sacks Iowa State University Inverse problems for the potential form wave equation in an annulus	Room 1
10:00 to 10:30	Geometrical implications of the compound representation for weakly scattered amplitudes	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Inverse Source Problems of Active Sound Control for Composite Domains	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Informal Discussion Time	No Room Required
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:30	Lingyun Qiu Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Lipschitz stability of an inverse problem for the Helmholtz equation	Room 1
14:30 to 15:00	Paul Childs Schlumberger Cambridge Research Numerics of waveform inversion for seismic data	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:00	APE ten Kroode Shell International Exploration and Production A wave equation based Kirchhoff operator and its inverse	Room 1
16:00 to 16:30	Laurent Demanet Massachusetts Institute of Technology Can we determine low frequencies from high frequencies?	Room 1
16:30 to 17:00	Evren Yarman WesternGeco (Schlumberger) Band-limited ray tracing	Room 1
17:00 to 17:30	Oliver Dorn University of Manchester Level Set Methods for Inverse Problems	Room 1
19:30 to 22:00	Conference Dinner at St Catherine's College	No Room Required

Friday 16th December 2011
09:00 to 09:30	Alexander Vikhansky Queen Mary University of London Numerical analysis of structural identifiability of electrochemical systems	Room 1
09:30 to 10:00	Guido Vitale Politecnico di Torino Force Traction Microscopy: an inverse problem with pointwise observations	Room 1
10:00 to 10:30	Inverse Problems in the Prediction of Reservoir Petroleum Properties using Multiple Kernel Learning	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Sebastien Rouquette Université de Montpellier Estimation of the heat flux parameters during a static Gas Tungsten Arc Welding experiment	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Informal Discussion Time	No Room Required
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:30	Stephen Marsland Massey University Diffeomorphic Image Registration	Room 1
14:30 to 15:00	Clifford Nolan University of Limerick Microlocal Analysis of Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:00	Hervé Chauris Mines Paris Tech Finite difference resistivity modeling on unstructured grids with large conductivity contrasts	Room 1
16:00 to 16:30	Fadil Santosa University of Minnesota Bar Code Scanning -- An Inverse Problem for Words	Room 1
16:30 to 17:00	Bill Symes Rice University Position tomography and seismic inversion	Room 1
18:45 to 19:15	Dinner at Fitzwilliam College (residents only)	No Room Required

Inverse problems in science and engineering

Speakers

Timo Betcke University College London
Richard Booth Schlumberger: Brazil Research and Geoengineering Centre
Hervé Chauris Mines Paris Tech
Margaret Cheney Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Paul Childs Schlumberger Cambridge Research
Maarten de Hoop Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Florence Delprat-Jannaud IFP Energies nouvelles
Laurent Demanet Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oliver Dorn University of Manchester
Chris Farmer University of Oxford
Bill Lionheart University of Manchester
Xiaoyu Luo University of Glasgow
Stephen Marsland Massey University
Wim Mulder Shell Global Solutions International & Delft University of Technology
Clifford Nolan University of Limerick
Dean Oliver University Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research
Peter Olsson Chalmers University of Technology
Henning Omre Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jan-Frederik Pietschmann Universität Münster
Rene Edouard Plessix Shell International Exploration and Production
Lingyun Qiu Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Sebastien Rouquette Université de Montpellier
Paul Sacks Iowa State University
Fadil Santosa University of Minnesota
John Schotland University of Michigan
Chris Stolk Universiteit van Amsterdam
Bill Symes Rice University
APE ten Kroode Shell International Exploration and Production
Peter Jan van Leeuwen University of Reading
Trond Varslot Australian National University
Ivan Vasconcelos Schlumberger Cambridge Research
Alexander Vikhansky Queen Mary University of London
Guido Vitale Politecnico di Torino
Evren Yarman WesternGeco (Schlumberger)

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Inverse problems in science and engineering

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