Background:
During the inaugural year for the newly
established IPRPI center, we host Interdisciplinary Inverse Problems:
Opening Conference for IPRPI during April 5-7. The topics covered
in this conference reflect the active research areas of center participants
including: geophysical imaging, biomedical imaging, radar imaging,
time reversal problems, earthquake dynamics inverse problems, ocean
acoustics inverse problems, and photonics. We expect over 100 participants
including 11 plenary and keynote speakers and several minisymposia.
Plenary Speakers and Panelists:
George Papanicoleao,
Stanford University
Mathias Fink, ESPCI, Paris
Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington
Maarten DeHoop, Colorado School of Mines
William Symes, Rice University
Erkki Somersalo, Helsinki
William Rundell, NSF DMS Director
Albert Tarantola, Institut de Physique du Globe
de Paris
Omar Ghattas, Carnegie Mellon University
Location:
The plenary lectures and the panel for
the conference will be held in CII, Room 4050, in the core campus
area of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Driving directions can be found at:
http://www.rpi.edu/virtual_tour/travel.html
and a campus map is available at:
http://www.rpi.edu/virtual_tour/RPI_Campus_Map.pdf
Schedule:
Schedule
Housing:
There are a number of places to stay
in the Troy/Albany/Schnectady area that are convenient to Rensselaer.
We have reserved blocks of rooms at these hotels.
Franklin Square Inn and Suites
One Fourth Street
Troy, NY 12180
Ph: 518-274-8800
Fax: 518-274-0427
email: fssuites@yahoo.com
Hampton Inn
981 New Loudon Road
Cohoes, NY 12047
Ph: 518-785-0000
Fax: 518-785-1285
The Century House
997 New Loudon Rd. (Rt. 9)
Latham, NY 12110
Ph: 518-785-0931
Fax: 518-785-3274
Best Western Rensselaer Inn
1800 Sixth Avenue
Troy, NY 12180
518-274-3210
518-274-3294
When you request a room you should mention:
"RPI Interdisciplinary Inverse Problems Conference." For
the Franklin Square Inn the rooms will be held until March 24; the
Hampton Inn until March 28, and the Century House until March 8.
Franklin Square Inn is within walking distance.
Both the Hampton Inn and the Century House are a 10-15 minute drive
from Rensselaer. We will provide transportation to and from those
locations each morning and evening.
Registration:
Plenary
Speaker and Panel Member Registration
All
other participants registration
We request that you register in advance so
that we will have an idea of how many we need to accommodate. We
will plan that each participant will attend the entire conference.
If this is not the case, please indicate this on the form to aid
us in meal planning.
Preregistration fee is $50.00 for regular
participants with a $20.00 fee for graduate students. On-site registration
fee is $70.00 for regular participants with a $35.00 fee for graduate
students. The registration form will be available March 5, 2004.
A/V Equipment:
The workshop will provide
a computer projector and an overhead projector. If additional equipment
is needed, please contact Alice Petralia, mclauj3@rpi.edu.
Format:
Each of the three days there will be
three plenary lectures in the morning and in the afternoon concurrent
minisymposia containing six 30-minute talks each. Continental breakfast
and lunch will be provided each of the three days as well as dinner
on Monday and Tuesday evenings. The goal is to have talks on current
research from active programs and to provide ample time for discussion
and interaction among participants.
Contact:
For more information, regarding the
technical program, contact Joyce McLaughlin, mclauj@rpi.edu.
Otherwise please direct your questions to Alice Baker, mclauj3@rpi.edu.
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