Applied Math Seminar
Special event: July fest!

Monday July 21, 2008
Sloan Mathematics Corner (directions)
Room 383-N (third floor)

Morning session: Waves and Imaging

9:45a - 10:15a	Liliana Borcea Comp. and appl. math Rice U	SNR enhancement for imaging in randomly layered media
10:15a - 10:45a	Chrysoula Tsogka Applied math U of Crete, Greece	Selective array imaging of cracks in random media -- Slides (pdf)

Break

11:00a - 11:30a	Miguel Moscoso Mathematics U Carlos III, Madrid, Spain	A shape-based approach for microwave imaging for early breast cancer detection
11:30a - 12:00p	Persefoni Kyritsi Dept. comm. tech Aalborg U, Denmark	"The Medium is The Message" : Secure Communication via Waveform Coding in MIMO Systems -- Slides (pdf)

Lunch

Afternoon session 1: Compressed Sensing

2:00p - 2:30p	Jean-Luc Starck CEA, Saclay France	Compressed sensing in astronomy -- Slides (pdf)
2:30p - 3:00p	Jalal Fadili ENSI, Caen France	Optimization for compressed sensing
3:00p - 3:30p	Jean-Francois Mercier ENSTA, Paris France	Compressed sensing with contiguous Fourier measurements -- Slides (pdf)

Break

Afternoon session 2: Analysis and PDE

4:00p - 4:30p	Andrej Zlatos Mathematics U Chicago	Speed-up of reaction-diffusion fronts by flows -- Slides (pdf)
4:30p - 5:00p	Razvan Fetecau Mathematics Simon Fraser U, Vancouver	PDE's that change type arising in the modulation theory for the Boussinesq equations

Organized by Laurent Demanet
Regular seminar schedule

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