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11:14 a.m., June 17, 2009----More than 50 graduate students are converging on the University of Delaware campus from June 15 through July 3 for the 2009 Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) summer program. The three-week course focuses on the mathematics of inverse problems.
The primary mission of the IMA is to increase the impact of mathematics by fostering interdisciplinary research that links mathematics to scientific and technological problems from other disciplines and industry.
Inverse problems constitute a Jeopardy-like twist on mathematics where the answer is known, but the question is not. They are used to address a broad array of issues in fields ranging from medicine to engineering. In medical imaging, for example, inverse problems are involved in gaining information about internal organs from data collected outside the body.
According to Russell Luke, assistant professor in UD's Department of Mathematical Sciences and one of the program organizers, the summer institute received major funding from both the IMA and the National Science Foundation, enabling students from more than 35 institutions in nine countries to attend.
The course is organized into three week-long sessions, each focusing on a specific area of inverse problems and taught by an invited instructor. Additional lectures in each session are contributed by UD faculty members, including, in addition to Luke, Fioralba Cakoni, David Colton, Peter Monk, and Rakesh.
Article by Diane Kukich
Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson