CIMPA School, Simon Bolivar University, Caracas, April 16th-27th, 2012.
CIMPA School on Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation for waves propagation and imaging
This summer school : focuses on certain recent progress of mathematical modeling and numerical computations related to the waves propagation, for engineering and bio-mathematical applications. Theses topics are of very actual interest and concern particularly the Venezuelan natural environment. The lectures were concerned on the one hand with the mathematical modeling (Data assimilation, Introduction to wave propagations, Basic of control theory) and, on the other hand, with scientific computing theory and practice on free softwares. The main pedagogical goal of the Summer school wass to organize some mini-projects around the school’s topics consisting in building basic solvers for specifc problems. We took benefit of the USB equipment in computer rooms. Considering that a session of mini-projects was addressed to students, it was also organized at the end of the meeting a "seminar for young people" in which venezuelan student will present their research/ mini projects. Direct problems, Inverse problems, and the elaboration of Algorithms associated with each type of these problems were considered. Finally, a serie of high level talks involving international renowned venezuelan and non venezuelan researchers followed the lecture and mini-project session, see schedule.
We acknowledge the French and the spanish Ambassy in Caracas, the International Mathematical Union, the math laboratories of Amiens and Nancy, the funindes-USB for their financial support.