M16. Recent Advances in Inverse Problems and Distributed Parameter Systems
in applied mathematics and his leadership in inverse problems
It is with the deepest sorrow that we inform our community that Professor H. T. Banks has passed away. Tom will be missed by all of us who have worked with him over the years and his death leaves a large void in our scientif community. We would like to offer our deepest condolences to Tom’s family and firends.
Tom was a leader in the inverse problems community, not only as an outstanding scientist, but also as person. He was always helpful to young scientists, kind-hearted, compassionate, optimistic and devoted to his work and family. It was an honor to work with him in organization of IPMS conferences, a great joy to communicate with him.
We shall always remember Tom. The minisysposium that had been planned to honer Tom’s birthday, will now honor his life’s work.
John Burns, Alemdar Hasanov Hasanoğlu
Since the middle of the 1970’s, Professor H. Thomas Banks, has been one of the world’s most distinguished and active researchers in the area of parameter identification and inverse problems for partial differential equations. Mathematical topics to which H.T. Banks has made contributions (many motivated by applied problems) include: control of delay and partial differential equations, approximation and computational methods, identification and inverse problem methodology for linear and nonlinear distributed parameter systems, nonlinear damping and hysteresis modeling, homogenization, and the mathematics of smart material structures. Service to the profession has always been an important obligation for H.T. Banks. He has received generous recognition for his service and research efforts with students, postdocs and colleagues. These honors include Professor Honoraire, Universite de Compaigne, 1977; appointed University Professor and Drexel Professor of Mathematics, NCSU, 1992; elected Fellow, IEEE; Fellow, Institute of Physics,; Fellow, SIAM; Fellow, AAAS; IEEE-CSS Control Systems Technology Award, 1996; Distinguished Alumni Award, Purdue Univ., 1998; named Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor, NCSU, 2000. He has served on more that 20 editorial boards over the past 20 years.
In this minisymposium we will recognize his accomplishments with presentations by a variety of scientists on topics which are connected to and influenced by the pioneering work of Professor Banks.
Organizers:
John A.Burns, Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Mathematics, Virginia Tech., USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Fumio Kojima, Kobe University, Japan, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Invited Speakers (in alphabetical order):
Laudatio for Prof. Harvey Thomas Banks
Azmy Ackleh, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Finite difference schemes for a structured population model in the space of measures
John Banks, California State University, Monterey Bay, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Population dynamics in applied ecology: models & experiments
John Burns, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Numerical Methods for Control, Optimization, Design and Estimation of Infinite Dimensional Systems
Jared Catenacci, John Hopkins University, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tomographic reconstruction of the Neutron time-energy spectrum from a dense plasma focus
Michael Demetriou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Reconstructing states of PDEs using moving sensors
Fariba Fahroo, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Impact of deep learning on Computational Science
Daniel J. Inman, University of Michigan, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Why are there so many structural health monitoring algorithms
Michele Joyner, East Tennessee State University, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Inverse problem methodology using aggregate data
Fumio Kojima, Kobe University, Japan, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Inverse problem for electromagnetic propagation in human muscle tissues
Kirsten Morris, University of Waterloo, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Optimal sensor and estimator design for DPS
Cynthia J. Musante, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Quantitative systems pharmacology, virtual patients, and virtual clinical trials
Diana Rubio, National University of San Martín, Argentina, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Determination of distributed parameters to model effective permittivity of layered materials
Laura Protter, Syngenta, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
How modeling and simulation helps feed the world: Examples of innovations in agriculture
Nicolas Saintier, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Sensitivity equations for the transport equation in measure space
Ralph Smith, North Carolina State University, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Active subspace techniques for partial differential equation model
Hien Tran, North Carolina State University, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Real-time implementation of a nonlinear observer and feedback controller for the stabilization of a double inverted pendulum
Chunming Wang, University of Southern California, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ensemble Kalman Filter Approach for global ionosphere data assimilation