Margaret Cheney
Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute
Date: June 1, 2005
Radar imaging, seismic imaging, and medical imaging all require sophisticated mathematical processing to form an image. The mathematics involved often takes the form of an ``inverse problem'', in which one tries to deduce the coefficient in a differential equation from partial knowledge of the solution of the equation. This talk will discuss examples of various inverse problems, features of such problems, and some of the mathematics involved in addressing them.