Applied Inverse Problems Workshop 2005

该奖项旨在支持一个国际合作项目，该项目将于2005年6月26日至30日在英国西伦塞斯特的皇家农业学院组织和举办一次关于应用逆问题主题的国际研讨会（http：//www.cs.ac.uk/aip2005/）。其中一名主席和五名组委会成员来自美国大学。来自NSF的支持将主要用于帮助研究生，博士后和初级教师的参与，否则他们将无法从美国参加。该项目起源于之前的两个“应用逆问题”。第一次是2001年在意大利，第二次是2003年在美国加利福尼亚州的箭头湖。预计将有170人出席。在美国，研究人员估计有15名正教授，20名其他教师和25名博士/博士后。研讨会将由来自世界领先中心的研究人员领导，并将涵盖一系列理论和应用领域，包括已建立的和即将建立的，一套专业的“最小对称”。因此，这种影响触及了当今科学，工程和医学中的许多重要学科，并推动了计算数学本身的边界。资助申请将于工作坊网页公布。将寻求学术导师的推荐，并根据需要和能力优先考虑。妇女、少数民族和残疾人将得到特别考虑。所请求的资金将仅用于支持美国参与者。最广泛意义上的反问题领域是研究从导出量的间接测量中恢复物理或数学结构属性的理论和实践方法。近年来，计算能力的巨大增长使得将反问题技术应用于日益复杂的情况成为可能。在科学、医学和工程学中的应用非常广泛，例如，包括一些医学和其他成像技术，在地球下部结构中确定石油和矿藏的位置，从望远镜数据中创建天体物理图像，寻找材料中的裂缝和界面，形状优化，生长过程中的模型识别，以及最近在生命科学中的建模。本次会议的目标是提供一个论坛的数学家和从业人员在理论和应用等反问题，并弥合研究分析方面和他们的实际，主要是计算，应用之间的差距差距。我们希望通过将研究人员带到最先进的水平，为美国和其他地方的数学和跨学科社区提供及时和重大的推动。年轻的参与者将能够在全球范围内评估他们研究生涯的下一阶段的当前机会。欧洲的位置将为美国的初级参与者提供一个与欧洲（包括东欧）同行交流思想的绝佳机会。研究人员预计，这将导致新的合作。与邀请高级演讲者和贡献论文的传统会议模式相反，研讨会的形式将允许全面了解最新技术状况，探索当前问题和新的应用，并鼓励国家和国际以及企业与行业之间的新合作。

This award is to support an international cooperative project which will organise and run an international workshop on the subject of applied inverse problems at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, UK, 26-30 June, 2005 (http://www.cs.ac.uk/aip2005/). One of the chairs and five of the organizing committee are from US universities. Support from NSF would be used to assist primarily the participation of graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty who would otherwise not be able to attend from the USA. The project has originated from two previous "Applied Inverse Problem". The first was in Italy in 2001 and the second at Lake Arrowhead, CA USA in 2003. A total attendance of 170 is expected. From the USA, the investigator estimates 15 at full professor level, 20 other faculty and 25 PhD/Postdocs. The workshop will be led by researchers from world-leading centres and will cover a number of theoretical and application areas, both established and upcoming, in a set of specialist ``minisymposia''. The impact thus touches many important disciplines in present-day science, engineering and medicine as well as advancing the boundaries of computational mathematics itself. Application for subsidy will be made available on the workshop website. Recommendations from academic supervisors will be sought and priority will be given according to need and ability. Women, minorities and people with disabilities will be given particular consideration. The requested fund will be used to support only US participants.The field of inverse problems in the broadest sense is the study of theoretical and practical methods for recovering the properties of physical or mathematical structures from indirect measurements of derived quantities. In recent years the enormous increase in computing power has made it possible to apply the techniques of inverse problems to situations of growing complexity. Applications are very widespread in science, medicine and engineering and include, for example, a number of medical as well as other imaging techniques, location of oil and mineral deposits in the earth's substructure, creation of astrophysical images from telescope data, finding cracks and interfaces within materials, shape optimization, model identification in growth processes and, more recently, modeling in the life sciences. The goal of this meeting is to provide a forum for mathematicians and practitioners working in the theory and applications of such inverse problems and to bridge the gap between research into analytical aspects and their practical, mostly computational, applications. We expect to provide a timely and significant boost to the mathematical and also cross-disciplinary communities in the USA and elsewhere by bringing researchers up to the state of the art. Younger participants will be able to assess current opportunities on a global scale for the next phases of their research careers. The European location will give junior US participants an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas with their European (including Eastern European) counterparts. The investigators expect that this will result in new collaborations. In contrast to the traditional meeting pattern of senior invited speakers and contributed papers, the workshop format will allow a comprehensive view of the state of the art, the exploration of current problems and new applications and will encourage new collaborations, both national and international and between academe and industry.