Inverse Problems of Wave Propagation and Diffraction

Resolution and super-resolution in inverse diffraction.- Mathematical programming for positive solutions of ill-conditioned inverse problems.- Inverse scattering for N-body systems with time-dependent potentials.- Inverse scattering approach for stratified chiral media.- Recovery of strongly scattering permittivity distributions from limited backscattered data using a nonlinear filtering technique.- Retrieval of object information from electron diffraction as Ill-posed inverse problems.- A linear method for solving inverse scattering problems in the resonance region.- Numerical methods in inverse obstacle scattering.- An overview of nonlinear diffraction tomography within the bayesian estimation framework.- Application of the approximate inverse to inverse scattering.- Reconstruction of an impenetrable obstacle immersed in a shallow water acoustic waveguide.- Location and reconstruction of objects using a modified gradient approach.- Generalizations of Karp’s theorem to elastic scattering theory.- Inverse obstacle scattering problem based on resonant frequencies.- New developments in the application of inverse scattering to target recognition and remote sensing.- Inverse 3D acoustic and electromagnetic obstacle scattering by iterative adaptation.- An algorithm for 3D ultrasound tomography.- Regularity of an inverse problem in wave propagation.- Developments in numerical methods for transient scattering problems.- A level-set approach for eddy current imaging of defects in a conductive half-space.- An inverse problem for the two-dimensional wave equation in a stratified medium.- On the inverse seismic problem for horizontally layered media: Subsidiary study.- Scattering of guided waves in laterally varying layered media.- Born inversion in realistic backgrounds by means of recursive Green’s functions.- Nonlinear inversion of seismic reflection data by simulated annealing.- Asymptotic theory for imaging the attenuation factors Q P and Q S.- An inverse time domain problem for a stratified, biperiodic and 2D medium using an optimization method.- Shape reconstruction of a penetrable homogeneous 3D scattering body via the ICBA.- Program of the Conference of Aix-les-Bains (23–27 sept.1996).