2012 DiPerna Lectures

The 2012 DiPerna Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Emmanuel Candes, Stanford, on January 26.

Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, presents

The DiPerna Memorial Lecture 2012

Emmanuel Candes

Stanford

Thursday, January 26, 4 p.m.

60 Evans

Exact Phase Retrieval via Convex Programming

This talk introduces a novel framework for phase retrieval, a problem which arises in X-ray crystallography, diffraction imaging, astronomical imaging and many other applications. Our approach combines multiple structured illuminations together with ideas from convex programming to recover the phase from intensity measurements, typically from the modulus of the diffracted wave. We demonstrate empirically that any complex-valued object can be recovered from the knowledge of the magnitude of just a few diffracted patterns by solving a simple convex optimization problem inspired by the recent literature on matrix completion. More importantly, we also demonstrate that our noise-aware algorithms are stable in the sense that the reconstruction degrades gracefully as the signal-to-noise ratio decreases. Finally, we present some novel theory showing that our entire approach may be provably surprisingly effective.


Refreshments will be served in 1015 Evans, 3:00-4:00pm