Inverse Problems Meeting

Welcome to our international virtual conference Inverse Problems. It grew from our earlier special sessions at American Mathematical Society meetings (and at some international meetings involving AMS). We continue interdisciplinary character of these meetings, which combine what is usually understood as inverse problems, which is signal and image processing and recreation of objects this way, with wider understood Inverse Problems. These wider understood Inverse Problems include the natural sciences (physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, and many more), because uncovering laws of nature from observations and experiments means just that. Finally, the big portion of the conference is devoted to pure mathematics, especially topology and in particular knot theory, which describes spaces and objects in the spaces by cleverly chosen sets of invariants, so it also boils down to be included in Inverse Problems family. Such combination has served a purpose for many years (and not limited to our sessions/conferences: think about ancient Greeks’ fascination with static electricity of amber, slowly developing to Maxwell equations, then Yang-Mills equations, general theory of gauge fields as connections on manifolds, and their applications in topology as one of many examples), and we hope it will be helpful also this time, since our goal is common, and it is as somewhat cliché but very accurate poetic metaphor states “To see a World in a Grain of Sand” (William Blake “Auguries of Innocence”). We have 24 talks in our program, so, continuing with the Blake’s metaphoric language, 24 eternities (compressed to 40 and occasionally even 20 minutes!) for our participants to enjoy.

The Organizers,

Jerzy Kocik, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

Tomasz Lipniacki, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Robert Owczarek, University of New Mexico, Los Alamos and Albuquerque, NM

Piotr Stachura, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Rhea Palak Bakshi, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Simina Brânzei, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Mietek Dabkowski, University of Texas, Dallas, TX

Ioannis Diamantis, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

Maria Ekiel-Jeżewska, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Roger Fenn, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Narek Hovsepyan, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Dionne Ibarra, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL

Jerzy Kocik, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

Grzegorz Koczan, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Sofia Lambropoulou, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Tomasz Lipniacki, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Gabriel Montoya-Vega, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Robert Owczarek, University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, NM

Cristian Pantea, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Mirjeta Pasha, Tufts University, Medford, MA

Ken Perko

Józef Przytycki, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Monika Rosicka, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Witold Rosicki, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Marithania Silvero, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Piotr Stachura, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Scientific Committee

Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL

Sofia Lambropolou, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Cristian Pantea, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Józef Przytycki, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Witold Rosicki, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Jerzy Kocik, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

Piotr Stachura, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Tomasz Lipniacki, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Robert Owczarek, University of New Mexico, Los Alamos and Albuquerque, NM

Supporting Institutions