Last month the greatest event in Inverse Problems ever took place in Helsinki: the Applied Inverse Problems 2015 conference. In addition, I gave my first technical presentation at the 4D tomography minisymposium (find the slides here). I take the chance to write a series of posts as a walkthrough of my project and its current state. The project When […]
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Creating a voice: a challenging inverse problem (part 2)
(a continuation of this previous post) In this post, I will describe how the human voice is produced and why this is useful to the approach of the Inverse Problems Group at University of Helsinki. Our voice is produced by air flowing from our lungs through our vocal folds and vocal tract. Vocal folds - commonly known as […]
Creating a voice: a challenging inverse problem (part 1)
This month you can read about an exciting inverse problem on the new issue of Physics World. Professor Samuli Siltanen from University of Helsinki was interviewed regarding the current research in Finland for synthesizing speech and creating artificial voice. This study is part of a big research project in Finland, connecting University of Helsinki, University of Tampere, […]
What if getting cancer is mostly about bad luck?
Few days ago, Science published a groundbreaking research by Tomasetti and Vogelstein from Johns Hopkins University, hinting how getting cancer is significantly a matter of bad luck (*). The authors focus on stem cells and their divisions, and by applying some statistics, show that there is a strong correlation between such repeated process and the development of cancer. […]
Women in Inverse Problems in Finland
An exciting "social outcome" of Inverse Days 2014 was the launch of a network of women in the Finnish Inverse Problems community. The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Inverse Problems committed long ago to the goal of gender equality and the percentage of women researchers in the group is higher than the average in the […]
Transmission eigenvalues: promising for applications? (part II)
I have been working with transmission eigenvalues for the past 2 years, before turning to sparse tomography. If you do not know what I am talking about, read this brief introduction first. A breakthrough in such field was reached when the question whether transmission eigenvalues and non-scattering energies coincide or not (*) was solved. The […]
Mathematics and breast cancer prevention
Few days ago I came across this sad and beautiful website: The battle we didn't choose: my wife's battle with breast cancer (*) Angelo Merendino is a photographer based in Cleveland. Angelo and his wife Jennifer's story is moving: love at first sight (at least from Angelo's side :)), soon culminated to a wedding in Central […]
Transmission eigenvalues: promising for applications? (part I)
In the past two years I have been working on my licentiate thesis - now under evaluation by my supervisor - about transmission eigenvalues and non-scattering energies. Let's try to explain in a simple way what the problem is. Imagine you have a medium (i.e. an object of study), of which you know the inner structure. […]
5 upcoming events for Inverse Problems you cannot miss
The following months will be really rich in events regarding Inverse Problems, either if you want to get acquainted with such field or if you are looking for new stimulating collaborations. Here is a small collection of some of the upcoming happenings. Inverse Days 2014 - 20th anniversary Tampere University of Technology is organising this year Inverse […]