An item of interest to our IACS friends:
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will host a special four-week mini-course
on boundary value problems and medical imaging starting next Tuesday, Sept. 4. Sponsored
by the Onassis Foundation University Seminars Program, the non-credit course is free and
open to all members of the Harvard community.
To register:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/boundaryproblems
DETAILS
Instructor:
Professor A. S. Fokas, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge, UK
Dates, Times, & Location:
September 4-27, 2012 (Tuesdays & Thursdays) 8:30-10:00 a.m., Maxwell Dworkin G125 (33
Oxford St., Cambridge)
Course Content:
This mini-course will discuss a new method for analyzing linear boundary value problems.
This method, which has been acclaimed as "the most important development in the exact
analysis of linear PDEs since the classical works of the 18th century," is based on
the "synthesis" as opposed to the separation of variables.
It has led to the analytical solution of several non-separable as well as non-self-adjoint
boundary value problems. Furthermore, it has led to new numerical techniques for solving
linear elliptic PDEs in the interior as well as in the exterior of polygons. The
analytical and numerical implementation of the new method to both evolution and elliptic
PDEs will be discussed.
A related topic is the emergence of new analytical methods for solving inverse problems
arising in medicine, including techniques for PET (Positron Emission Tomography) and SPECT
(Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography). A summary of these developments will
also be presented.
Target Audience:
While primarily directed at junior- and senior-level undergraduates and graduate students
in medical disciplines, mathematics, applied mathematics, physics, applied physics and
engineering, the course is free and open to all members of the Harvard community.
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Rosalind Reid
Executive Director, Institute for Applied Computational Science
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/people
rreid(a)seas.harvard.edu | 617-384-9091
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