CSU HAYWARD
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND
COMPUTER SCIENCE
COLLOQUIUM
Friday, March 5, 2004; Noon-1pm Sc N321
Speaker: Borislava Gutarts, UCLA
The Inverse Scattering Problem in Anisotropic Media
Inverse Problems have found many applications in the last 20 years: from Medical Diagnostics to the Oil Exploration. In this talk two kinds of inverse problems will be defined: the Inverse Scattering Problem and the Inverse Boundary Value Problem. The interesting fact is that the 2-dimensional case is the hardest. I will state my uniqueness result for the Inverse Scattering Problem for Anisotropic Wave Equation in 2-D, at Fixed Energy. I will also outline some of the solved and open problems in the field of Inverse Scattering.
Pizza and soda will be served for those attending talk!