Research Training Group
Inverse Problems and Partial Differential Equations

RTG Academic/Industrial Internships

UW graduate students in the IPDE group are offered the opportunity to pursue an internship with a senior researcher at another academic or industrial institution, funded by the RTG grant, for a period ranging from a few weeks to a semester. Similar such internships were offered before the existence of the grant on an ad hoc basis. Examples of such past internships are the following:

Past Academic Internships

• Michal Skokan, a Ph.D. student of Gunther Uhlmann who graduated in 2004, visited Vladimir Sharafutdinov in Novosibirsk, Russia, for Fall quarter of 2004.
• Bela Frigyik, a Ph.D. student of Gunther Uhlmann, visited Plamen Stefanov at Purdue in Fall 2005, and for several weeks on other occasions.
• Matias Courdurier was coadvised by radiologist Paul Kinahan and Gunther Uhlmann. Courdurier visited Frederic Noo at the Radiology Department at the University of Utah, for several weeks during 2006.
• Venkat Krishnan finished his Ph.D. under Gunther Uhlmann in 2007. He visited Leonid Pestov at the Ugra Institute for Information Technologies in Russia in the summer of 2005. He subsequently made two visits to Plamen Stefanov at Purdue, once for a month, another for two weeks.
• Leo Tzou finished his thesis under Gunther Uhlmann in 2007. He traveled to Finland to visit the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University of Technology for 6 months, working with Matti Lassas and Mikko Salo.
• Ian Langmore, a Ph.D. student of Gunther Uhlmann, visited Guillaume Bal at Columbia University in Spring 2007 and Spring 2008. After defending his Ph.D. at University of Washington, Ian took a postdoctoral position at Columbia starting in July, 2008.
• Matthew Blair spent one month in Autumn 2004 at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics on the UCLA campus, during the program on Multiscale Geometric Analysis. His thesis advisor Hart Smith was a Visiting Research Professor at this program.
• James Vargo, present student of Gunther Uhlmann, visited Matti Lassas at the Helsinki University of Technology for a month in Spring 2008.

Past Industrial Internships

• Alex Tamasan completed his Ph.D. under Gunther Uhlmann in 2002. He spent the summer of 1999 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
• Eric Machorro spent the summers of 2004 and 2005 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with his advisor Anne Greenbaum. He worked with mathematicians and physicists at LLNL on the mathematics of the Boltzmann transport equation.
• Hai Jin, a Ph.D. student of Ken Bube, did a six-month postdoctoral internship at Chevron Energy Technology Company in San Ramon, CA, October 2006-March 2007. He worked on higher order symplectic finite difference schemes for seismic modeling.
• Anusha Sekar, also a Ph.D. student of Ken Bube, did an internship at Chevron Energy Technology Company in San Ramon, CA in summer 2007 and summer 2008. This led to her taking a job at Chevron after finishing her Ph.D.