Thu, 22 Sep 2011

12:30 - 13:30
Gibson 1st Floor SR

Travel Time Tomography, Boundary Rigidity and Tensor Tomography

Gunther Uhlmann
(and UC Irvine)
Abstract

We will give a survey on some recent results on travel tomography which consists in determining the index of refraction of a medium by measuring the travel times of sound waves going through the medium. In differential geometry this is known as the boundary rigidity problem. We will also consider the related problem of tensor tomography which consists in determining a function, a vector field or tensors of higher rank from their integrals along geodesics.

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