Lecture of Prof. Nick Polydorides,
Title: “Inverse Problems in Earth and Environmental Applications”
Abstract:
In this talk, a brief introduction to some applied projects that evolve around electrical and
mechanical inverse problems will be presented. Firstly applications of electrical tomography in
subsurface imaging and industrial process monitoring will be addressed, while the principles of
model-based image reconstruction will be analyzed. Next, results from an inverse problem in
hydrodynamics of flexible cables like those used in seismic exploration of offshore reservoirs will
be presented. In this context, it will be shown how the shape deformation of a towed cable can
be used to estimate the hydrodynamic loads impinging on them. Other formulations of forward
and inverse problems in engineering will also be discussed.
Thursday, March 7, 2013, at 10.00 am
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics
Short biography of Dr. Polydorides
Nick Polydorides received a B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from UMIST (UK) in
1998, a MSc in Computation from the University of Oxford (UK) in 1999 and a PhD in
Electromagnetic inverse problems from the University of Manchester (UK) in 2002. He held
postdoctoral positions at the University of Manchester and MIT as a Smith Institute Faraday
Fellow and Cyprus Institute Fellow respectively. In January 2010 he joined the EEWRC of the
Cyprus Institute as an Assistant Professor of Applied Inverse Problems. He is currently the
Executive Director of the Cyprus Program at MIT-Energy Initiative.