SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INVERSE PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING: THEORY AND PRACTICE

CONFERENCE SYNOPSIS In recent years there has been a considerable increase in the number of international conferences in in-verse problems. Whilst there is an obvious aspect to consolidate the theory of inverse problems, of equal importance is the need of engineering applications. We consider that this is the strongest point of this series of conferences which should be maintained. Another aspect which can also be developed in this frame is the need of relating to experimental data and practical experiments in general. CONFERENCE SCOPE The proposed conference is intended to bring together researchers from various fields with a common interest in inverse methods. Many existing challenges in engineering can be solved by the application of inverse methods, and the conference is intended to facilitate exchange of ideas between researchers from different fields. It is of importance to stress that the conference will bring together both the theory and practice on inverse problems. The conference will emphasize a broad range of deterministic, statistical, mathematical, computational and experimental approaches that can be applied to the solution of inverse problems within acoustics, elasticity, electromagnetism, fluid and solid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, optics, porous media, etc. The sessions will be centered on the following types of applications: • Algorithms, theoretical and mathematical aspects • Boundary condition reconstruction • Initial condition reconstruction • Parameter estimation • Experimental design • Imaging, tomography and inverse scattering • Non-destructive evaluation • Inverse design and optimizatio