Geometric inverse problems
Marco Mazzucchelli
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
October-December 2021

Schedule

  • Monday 10:15 - 11:45, room IA1/75
  • Tuesday 10:15 - 11:00, room IA1/71

Calendar

October 11: Introduction to inverse problems: hearing the shape of a drum
The boundary rigidity problem
October 12: The X-ray transform on symmetric tensors
October 18: Kernel of the X-ray transform and boundary rigidity by deformation
October 19: Determination of the boundary jet of a metric from the boundary distance
October 25: The lens rigidity problem
Symplectic and Riemannian geometry of tangent bundles
October 26: More symplectic and Riemannian geometry of tangent bundles
November 2: The Santalò formula
November 8: Boundary rigidity within a conformal class of simple Riemannian metrics
November 9: The unit tangent bundle of Riemannian surfaces
Commutator relations
November 22: Pestov identity
November 23: Injectivity of the X-ray transform on 0-tensors
November 29: Injectivity of the X-ray transform on 1-forms
November 30: The Laplace-Beltrami operator
December 6: The Dirichlet-to-Neumann map
The Hilbert transform
Pestov-Uhlmann identity
December 7: The dual X-ray transform
December 13: Proof of Pestov-Uhlmann theorem
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