First Announcement of the meeting Analytic and Geometric Methods in
Inverse Problems, Helsinki, Finland, August 25-29 2003

The Finnish Inverse Problems Society together with the Finnish
Mathematical Society arranges a theme year of inverse problems in
Finland during the academic year 2003-2004. The theme year includes a
series of conferences and intensive courses on inverse problems and
related topics in mathematics.

The aim of the meeting entitled Analytic and Geometric Methods in
Inverse Problems is to bring together a number of specialists in
inverse problems, and in particular to focus on modern analytic and
geometric tools. The preliminary list of invited speakers includes:

    Carlos Alves
    Juan Antonio Barcelo
    Elena Beretta
    Khosrow Chadan
    David Colton
    Allan Greenleaf
    Alberto Grunbaum
    Martijn de Hoop
    David Isaacson
    Alexander Katchalov
    Rainer Kress
    Yaroslav V. Kurylev
    Stephen McDowall
    Adrian Nachman
    Clifford Nolan
    Alberto Ruiz
    William Rundell
    Vladimir Sharafutdinov
    Gunther Uhlmann
    Michael Vogelius

We ask the interested to visit the web page of the theme year,

  http://www.math.hut.fi/inverseyear/

where you find the necessary information about registration and
accommodation. Please note that the deadline for the early
registration is April 30, 2003.


Just after the opening conference on September 1.-5., there will be a
Workshop on Inverse Spectral Problems. It is sponsored by the European
Science Foundation's programme Partial Differential Operators and
Spectral Theory.

The main speakers here are

  Maciej Zworski (University of Berkeley)
  Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth College)
  David L. Webb (Dartmouth College)
  Peter Perry (University of Kentucky)
  Michiel van den Berg (University of Bristol)
  Slava Kurylev (University of Loughborough)
  Matti Lassas (University of Helsinki)

If you are going to participate in the workshop you should mention this
when you do the registration.

For young researchers and graduate students, financial support towards
the expenses of participation is available both for the opening
conference of the theme year and the workshop.