CAAM 641

PROGRAM IN ANALYSIS OF INVERSE PROBLEMS IN GEOPHYSICS

Prerequisites: CAAM 423

Description: Content varies from year to year. Instructor permission required. Repeatable for credit.

Class Resources:


EIT

  • Lecture 1 View pdf
  • Lecture 2 and 3 View pdf
  • Lecture 4 View pdf
  • Lecture 5 View pdf
  • Lecture 6 View pdf
  • ‘Uniqueness for the electrostatic inverse boundary value problem with piecewise constant anisotropic conductivities’, Inverse Problems 33 (2017) 125013, with G. Alessandrini and R. Gaburro. View pdf

Geometric inverse problems

  • ‘Abel transforms with low regularity with applications to X-ray tomography on spherically symmetric manifolds’, Inverse Problems 33 (2017) 124003, with J. Ilmavirta. View pdf
  • ‘Recovery of material parameters in transversely isotropic media’, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 235 (2020) 141-165, with G. Uhlmann and A. Vasy. View pdf
  • ‘A foliated and reversible Finsler manifold is determined by its broken scattering relation’, Pure and Applied Analysis 3-4 (2021) 789-811, with J. Ilmavirta, M. Lassas and T. Saksala. View pdf

Microseismic cloud

  • ‘Stable reconstruction of simple Riemannian manifolds from unknown interior sources’, Inverse Problems (2023), with J. Ilmavirta, M. Lassas and T. Saksala View pdf

Algebraic geometry meets differential geometry, elastic geometry

  • ‘Reconstruction of generic anisotropic stiffness tensors from partial data around one polarization’ (2023), with J. Ilmavirta, M. Lassas and Anthony Várilly-Alvarado View pdf

Spectral rigidity of spherically symmetric manifolds with boundary 

  • ‘Spectral rigidity for spherically symmetric manifolds with boundary’, J. Math. Pures Appl. 160 (2022) 54-98, with J. Ilmavirta and V. Katsnelson. View pdf
  • ‘Spherically symmetric terrestrial planets with discontinuities are spectrally rigid’, (2022) with J. Ilmavirta and V. Katsnelson View pdf

Semiclassical inverse spectral problems for surface waves 

  • ‘Semiclassical inverse spectral problem for seismic surface waves in isotropic media I: Love waves’, Inverse Problems 36 (2020) 075015, with A. Iantchenko, R.D. van der Hilst, and J. Zhai. View pdf
  • ‘Semiclassical inverse spectral problem for seismic surface waves in isotropic media II: Rayleigh waves’, Inverse Problems 36 (2020) 075016, with A. Iantchenko, R.D. van der Hilst, and J. Zhai. View pdf

Inverse problems for the Rayleigh system with spectral data and resonances

  • ‘Inverse problem for the Rayleigh system with spectral data’, J. Math. Phys. 63 (2022) 031505, with A. Iantchenko. View pdf
  • ‘Analysis of wavenumber resonances for the Rayleigh system in a half space’, Proc. R. Soc. A (Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences) (2023), with A. Iantchenko View pdf
  • ‘Inverse problem for the Rayleigh system with wavenumber resonances’, (2023) with A. Iantchenko, not available yet

System of radiative transfer equations and monitoring

  • ‘Three-dimensional random wave coupling along a boundary and an associated inverse problem’, Multiscale Modelling and Simulation (2023) in print, with J. Garnier and K. Sølna View pdf
  • ‘Inverse problem for Love waves in a layered, elastic half-space’, Inverse Problems (2023) in print, with J.Garnier, A. Iantchenko and J. Ricaud View pdf

Inverse boundary value problems for time-harmonic waves

  • ‘Stable determination of polyhedral interfaces from boundary data for the Helmholtz equation’, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 40 (2015) 1365-1392, with E. Beretta, E. Francini and S. Vessella. View pdf
  • ‘Lipschitz stability for a piecewise linear Schrödinger potential from local Cauchy data’, Asympt. Anal. 108 (2017) 115-149, with G. Alessandrini, R. Gaburro and E. Sincich. View pdf
  • ‘Uniqueness and Lipschitz stability of an inverse boundary value problem for time harmonic elastic waves’, Inverse Problems 33 (2017) 035013, with E. Beretta, E. Francini, S. Vessella and J. Zhai. View pdf

Dynamical inverse boundary value problems

Boundary control

  • ‘On the construction of virtual interior point-source traveltime distances from the hyperbolic Neumann-to-Dirichlet map’, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 76 (2016) 805-825, with P. Kepley and L. Oksanen. View pdf
  • ‘An exact redatuming procedure for the inverse boundary value problem for the wave equation’, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 78 (2018) 171-192, with P. Kepley and L. Oksanen. View pdf
  • ‘Recovery of a smooth metric via wave field and coordinate transformation reconstruction’, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 78 (2018) 1931-1953, with P. Kepley and L. Oksanen. View pdf

Scattering control

  • ‘Scattering control for the wave equation with unknown wavespeed’, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 231 (2019) 409-464, with P. Caday, V. Katsnelson and G. Uhlmann. View pdf
  • ‘Reconstruction of piecewise smooth wave speeds using multiple scattering’, Trans. AMS 372 (2019) 1213-1235, with P. Caday, V. Katsnelson and G. Uhlmann. View pdf
  • ‘Recovery of discontinuous Lamé parameters from exterior Cauchy data’, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 46 (2021) 680-715, with P. Caday, V. Katsnelson, and G. Uhlmann. View pdf
  • ‘Recovery of piecewise smooth density and Lamé parameters from high-frequency exterior Cauchy data’, SIAM J. Imaging Sci. (2022), with S. Bhattacharyya, V. Katsnelson and G. Uhlmann View pdf

Self gravitation

  • ‘Recovery of piece-wise smooth parameters from exterior Cauchy data associated with the wave equation containing a nonlocal contribution’ (2023), with S. Bhattacharyya and V. Katsnelson. Link not available yet

Anisotropy

  • ‘Unique recovery of a piecewise analytic density and stiffness tensor from the elastic-wave Dirichlet-to-Neumann map’, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 79 (2019) 2359-2384, with G. Nakamura and J. Zhai. View pdf

Nonlinear waves

  • ‘Nonlinear responses from the interaction of two progressing waves at an interface’, Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré/ Analyse non linéaire 36 (2019) 347-363, with G. Uhlmann and Y. Wang. View pdf
  • ‘Nonlinear interaction of waves in elastodynamics and an inverse problem’, Math. Ann. 376 (2019) 765-795, with G. Uhlmann and Y. Wang. View pdf

Inverse problems in viscoelasticity

  • ‘Holmgren-John unique continuation theorem for viscoelastic systems’, in Time-dependent Problems in Imaging and Parameter Identification (2021) 287-301, with C. -L. Lin and G. Nakamura, edited by B. Kaltenbacher, T. Schuster and A. Wald View pdf
  • ‘Uniform decaying property of solutions for anisotropic viscoelastic systems’ (2023), with C.-L. Lin and G. Nakamura View pdf

Inverse problems in nonlocal elasticity

  • ‘Uniqueness in an inverse problem of fractional elasticity’, Proc. R. Soc. A (Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences) (2023), with G. Covi and M. Salo View pdf
  • ‘Dynamic case’, not available yet

Inverse “source” problems and faults

Inverse dislocation problems

  • ‘Analysis of a model of elastic dislocations in geophysics’, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 236 (2020) 71-111, with A. Aspri, E. Beretta and A. Mazzucato. View pdf

Inverse problems for friction and rupture dynamics

  • ‘Uniqueness for a seismic inverse source problem modeling a subsonic rupture’, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 41 (2016) 1895-1917, with L. Oksanen and J. Tittelfitz. View pdf
  • ‘Quantitative unique continuation for elasticity and Maxwell systems with application to the kinematic inverse rupture problem’, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 48 (2023) 286-314, with M. Lassas, J. Lu and L. Oksanen. View pdf
  • ‘Stable recovery of coefficients in an inverse fault friction problem’ (2023), with M. Lassas, J. Lu and L. Oksanen View pdf

Inverse problems for contact mechanics

Inverse problems for Prompt Elasto-Gravity Signals (PEGS)

  • ‘Early-warning inverse source problem for the elasto-gravitational equations’, (2023), with L. Baldassari, E. Francini and S. Vessella. View pdf
  • ‘Prompt elasto-gravity inverse source problem in inhomogeneous media’, not available yet

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