Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


 
Inside-Out: Inverse Boundary Problems

 

Gunther Uhlmann

University of Washington
 
 

MIT

Thursday, April 4, 2002


Talk at 4:30 p.m. in Room 2-190

Tea from 4:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Room 2-290
Refreshments afterwards, in Room 2-290


 
 

Abstract:   We survey recent progress in inverse boundary problems. In these problems one attempts to determine the internal properties of a medium by making measurements at the boundary of the medium. In particular we will consider the problem of determining a Riemannian metric on a Riemannian manifold with boundary by making measurements at the boundary. We shall consider also the inverse problem of determining a potential or a conductivity on a bounded domain in Euclidean space from partial information on the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for the associated Schroedinger equation or conductivity equation.


 

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