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Title:
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Inverse Problems

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Organizers:
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Assad Oberai (oberai@rpi.edu)
Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Center for Inverse Problems at RPI
Scientific Computation Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Gonzalo Feijoo (gfeijoo@whoi.edu)
Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Paul Barbone (barbone@bu.edu)
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 
Center for Biodynamics 
Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems
Boston University

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Minisymposium description:
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With the growing acceptance of models that predict the behavior of
physical systems, the field of inverse problems has received significant
attention. In a typical inverse problem given some measured data and a
model, the goal is to find the parameters of the model. These parameters
can be a set of scalar fields that describe constitutive properties of a
material, the boundary that represents the domain of validity of the
model, or the set of boundary conditions or external forces that are
applied to the model.

We would like to invite researchers to discuss new developments in
solving inverse problems. Areas of interest include, but are not limited
to
Mechanics, Geophysics, Acoustics, Bioengineering, Medical Imaging, 
Aeronautics and Data Assimilation in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences.

Aspects of these problems that are of interest are:
.    New application areas.
.    Novel algorithms.
.    Results on uniqueness and existence of solutions.
.    Computational tools.
.    Industrial experiences.
.    Probabilistic considerations.