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Schedule for the Mini-Course on Waves in Inhomogeneous
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Lectures will be held in room LCB 215 unless noted otherwise
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| WEEK 1 | ||
| Monday, July 28 | 9:15 - 9:30 | Welcome and information from organizers |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Schuster: Overview of geophysical seismic inversion | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Symes: Seismic imaging as an inverse problem | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | E. Cherkaev: Inverse problems for Maxwell equations in time and frequency domains | |
| Tuesday, July 29 | 9:30 - 10:30 | Papanicolaou: Overview of imaging in clutter |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Symes: High frequency asymptotics and imaging operators | |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Schuster: Basics of seismic migration | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Problem / discussion session | |
| Wednesday, July 30 | 9:30 - 10:30 | Papanicolaou: Synthetic aperture imaging and Kirchhoff migration |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Symes: Basics of seismic traveltime tomography | |
| 3:30 - 7:30 | Barbeque | |
| Thursday, July 31 Lectures in Olpin Union Panorama Room East |
9:30 - 10:30 | Papanicolaou: Introduction to waves in random media |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Symes: A step beyond linearization: velocity analysis | |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Papanicolaou: Basic time reversal and matched fields | |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Robert Nowack: Gaussian beam migration | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Problem / discussion session | |
| Friday, August 1 Lectures in Olpin Union Panorama Room East |
9:30 - 10:30 | Papanicolaou: Local data covariance reduction |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | E. Cherkaev: Ill-posed problems and regularization | |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Schuster: Galileo was a migrationist | |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Dobson: Introduction to waves in periodic media | |
| Saturday, August 2 | Free day | |
| Sunday, August 3 | Canyon hike. Those interested please meet on the Math Plaza at 8:00 am. | |
| WEEK 2 | ||
| Monday, August 4 | 9:30 - 10:30 | Milton: Rainbows, halos, and glories: mathematics in nature |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | A. Cherkaev: Waves in chains and lattices 1 | |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Balk: Linear waves in plain media: What ships and ducks have in common (quantitatively)? | |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Dobson: Waves in periodic media and optimal design 1 | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Problem / discussion session | |
| Tuesday, August 5 | 9:30 - 10:30 | Milton:Analyticity of the effective medium constant |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | A. Cherkaev: Waves in chains and lattices 2 | |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Golden: Sea ice 1 | |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Dobson: Waves in periodic media and optimal design 2 | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Balk: Propagation through random media: Twinkle, twinkle little star | |
| Wed, August 6 | 9:30 - 10:30 | Milton: Some surprises concerning the speed at which a pulse propagates in a composite medium |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | A. Cherkaev: Waves in chains and lattices 3 | |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Golden: Sea ice 2 | |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Balk: Turbulent transport: How does the rain start? | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | E. Cherkaev: Recovering spectral functions from effective measurements Final problem / discussion session |
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| Mini-symposium on current research topics in waves in inhomogeneous media | ||
| Thursday, August 7 | 9:30 - 10:10 | Jakob Jensen (TU Denmark): Topology optimization of bandgap structures |
| 10:10 - 10:50 | Eduard Kirr (Chicago): From periodic to random inhomogeneities along optical waveguides | |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Alexander Figotin (UC Irvine): Unidirectional wave propagation in nonreciprocal photonic crystals | |
| 1:30 - 2:10 | McKay Hyde (Minnesota): Fast, high-order methods for scattering by inhomogeneous media | |
| 2:10 - 2:50 | Yury Grabovsky (Temple): Extrapolation of complex electromagnetic permittivity function using least squares approach | |
| 3:10 - 3:50 | Oscar Bruno (Caltech): High-order, high-frequency methods in computational electromagnetism | |
| 3:50 - 4:30 | Tom Robbins: Traveling periodic waves for integrodifference models | |
| Friday, August 8 | Mini-course concludes. No lectures scheduled since many participants will be traveling to the conference in Irvine. | |
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Salt Lake City, UT 84112
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