Inverse Problems in Optical Tomography
Time and place
1 PM on Thursday, November 5th, 2015;
Francis Chung (University of Kentucky)
Abstract
Suppose we have an object in which light is scattered -- a familiar example might be a foggy room or a milky cup of coffee. Can we determine the optical properties of the interior of the object by measuring the scattered light at the boundary?
We can turn this into a mathematical problem by considering a model for light propagation inside a scattering medium. In this talk I'll give an introduction to one such model and discuss the resulting mathematical problem. In particular, I will talk about some recent variations on this problem involving so-called hybrid methods.
