Research Training Group
Inverse Problems and Partial Differential Equations

Visitors to RTG/IPDE group

The RTG grant supports the visits of experts from other insitutions to come to the University of Washington and interact with the IPDE group. Following are some recent visits to the IPDE group (not all of which were funded by RTG).

• Spring 2012

Past Visitors

• Spring 2011
  • 4/12-15: Alessio Figalli (UT Austin) talked about "A new transportation distance between non-negative measures."

• Summer 2009
  • 7/13-14: Frederic Robert (University of Nancy) visited Robin Graham.
• Autumn 2009
  • 10/7: Elton Hsu (Northwestern University) spoke in DGPDE/Probability seminar about Volume Growth, Brownian motion, and Stochastic Completeness of a Complete Riemannian manifold.
  • 10/5-31: Leonid Pestov (Ugra Institute of Information Technologies, Russia), talked in IP seminar about Numerical recovery of the density by the boundary control method
  • 10/28: Kengo Hirachi (University of Tokyo, Japan), talked in DGPDE seminar about Quadratic invariants of conformal structures.
  • 11/1-15: Alexander Denisjuk (Elblag University of Humanities and Economy, Poland) gave two talks in IP seminar.
  • 11/06: Young-Heon Kim (UBC), talked in RTG seminar about non-negatively cross-curved transportation costs.
  • 11/13: Dmitri Burago (Penn State University) talked in joint RTG/IP/DGPDE seminar on Topological Aspects of the Dvoretzky Theorem.
  • 11/15-17: Kiril Datchev (UC Berkeley) talked in IP seminar about Quantum decay rates for manifolds with hyperbolic ends.
  • 11/23: Paul Kinahan came over from the UW Medical Center Imaging Research Laboratory to talk to us about Reconstruction of Positron Emission Tomography Images using Planograms.
  • 11/25: Albert Chau (UBC) spoke in DGPDE seminar On the parabolic complex Monge Ampere equation and applications.
  • 12/2-3: Dean Baskin (Stanford) spoke about Wave equations in asymptotically de Sitter spaces in the DGPDE seminar.
  • 12/4: Weiyong He (U. of Oregon) spoke in the DGPDE seminar about Extremal metrics and the Calabi Flow.
  • 12/8-12: Marius Mitrea (U. of Missouri Columbia) talked about Recent Progress for Elliptic Boundary Value Problems in Nonsmooth Domains in the DGPDE seminar.
• Winter 2010
  • 1/25: John Sylvester (UW) spoke about The support of a far field in the IP seminar.
  • 1/27: Hamid Hezari (MIT) spoke about Inverse spectral problems for symmetric analytic domains in R^n in a joint DGPDE and IP seminar.
  • 2/1: Jaemin Shin (Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications) spoke about a Direct approach to the inverse scattering problem for the Landau-Lifschitz equation in the IP seminar.
  • 2/17: Yuri Burago (Steklov Institute at St. Petersburg) spoke about BV functions in irregular regions in the DGPDE seminar.
  • 2/22: Linh Nguyen (Texas A&M) spoke about Some mathematical problems of thermoacoustic tomography in the IP seminar.
  • 3/8: Frédéric de Gournay (Université de Versailles) spoke about EIT perturbed by ultrasound: recovering a conductivity map from the energy density in the IP seminar.
  • 3/10: Peng Lu (U. of Oregon) spoke about a Local curvature bound in Ricci flow in the DGPDE seminar.
  • 3/12: Erin Miller (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) spoke about Inverse problems and radiation detection in the IP seminar.
• Spring 2010
  • 5/3: Pierre Garapon (Stanford University) spoke about Resolution issues and imaging techniques in the IP seminar.
  • 5/10: A. Carmona (PUC, Spain) spoke about Inverse Problems on Weighted Networks in the IP seminar.
  • 5/12: Fang Wang (MIT) spoke about Radiation field for Einstein Vacuum equations in the DGPDE seminar.

(See also the main seminar pages: RTG; Inverse Problems; Differential Geometry/PDE; Probability.)