Inverse Problems, Summer, 1999

The Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington will be offering a summer research opportunity under the auspices of the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. The program will last for eight weeks, from June 21 until August 13. Participants will be introduced to research problems related to the problem of finding the resistors in a network from boundary measurements. Students in the program will be investigating and formulating discrete problems involving planar and non-planar networks and their relation to continuous inverse problems. Some papers that have been produced on these problems can be viewed from links on this page. This page also includes application forms.

Links to application information:

1. An announcement that will be distributed to departments of mathematics.
2. Application forms

Links to relevant papers:

1. The Dirichlet to Neumann Map for a Resistor Network by E. B. Curtis and J. A. Morrow
2. Finding the Conductors in Circular Networks from Boundary Measurements by E. B. Curtis, E. Mooers, and J. A. Morrow
3. Circular Planar Graphs and Resistor Networks by E. B. Curtis, D. Ingerman, and J. A. Morrow
4. Determining the Resistors in a Network by E. B. Curtis and J. A. Morrow
5. On a Characterization of the Kernel of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann Map for a Planar Region by D. Ingerman and J. Morrow
6. Negative Conductors and Network Planarity by Konrad Schroeder
7. The Dirichlet to Neumann Map for a Cubic Resistor Network by Todd Hollenbeck and J. Morrow
8. Discrete and Continuous Inverse Boundary Problems on a Disk by David Ingerman
9. Planarity of Networks with Four or Five Boundary Nodes by Amanda Mueller
10. Disjoint Boundary-Boundary Paths in Critical Circular Planar Networks by Ryan Sturgell

email addresses:
Brooke Miller miller@math.washington.edu
Jim Morrow morrow@math.washington.edu