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   Malena Inés Español


  Bio information

  •   Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
  •   I am from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  •   I studied Licenciatura in mathematics  at Universidad de Buenos Aires.
  •   I just finished my Ph.D. in mathematics at Tufts University with Prof.  Misha Kilmer.
  •   My research interests are in the area of computational mathematics, numerical linear algebra, discrete ill-posed problem, regularization methods, multilevel methods.

  •   News

  •   I will be starting a postdoc at CalTech in Michael Ortiz's group in July.
  •   I will participate in the AMS Mathematics Research Communities program in Inverse Problems held in Snowbird Resort, Utah on June 20-26, 2009.
  •   I will attend the Summer School on Seismic Imaging held at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA on August 10-14, 2009.


    Preprints and Publications

    Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
  • “Multilevel Approach for Signal Restoration Problems with Toeplitz Matrices” (with M. E. Kilmer). Accepted for publication in SIAM J. Scientific Computing (May 2009).
  • “A Projection-Based Approach to General-Form Tikhonov Regularization” (with M. E. Kilmer and P. C. Hansen). SIAM J. Scientific Computing 29(1): 315-330 (2007).

  • Manuscripts in Preparation
  • “A Multilevel, Modified Total Least Norm Approach to Signal and Image Deblurring”(with M. E. Kilmer and D. P. O’Leary).
  • “Wavelet Packet-Based Multilevel Methods for Image Deblurring” (with M. E. Kilmer).

  • Other Publications
  • “Multilevel Methods for Discrete Ill-Posed Problems: Application to Deblurring”. Ph.D Thesis. Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, April 2009.
  • “Integrated Circuit Layout Reconstruction” (with Besse, P. Campbell, J. Chung, M. Iwen, E. Keyes, and Q. Song. ). Project Report, IMA Mathematical Modeling in Industry Workshop, August 2005. (pdf)
  • “A Dynamical Study of Oscillatory Chemical Reactions: Control Using Periodical External Forces” (in Spanish). Tesis de Licenciatura. Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, August 2003. (pdf)

  • Talks, Conferences and Workshops

  • Invited speaker, Numerical Analysis Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, April 21st, 2009.
  • I co-organized the minisymposium Inverse Ploblems in Industrial Applications at CSE09, Miami, FL, March 2-6, 2009.
  • Speaker, SIAM Student Chapter at Tufts, November 19th, 2008.
  • Invited speaker, Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, November 12th, 2008.
  • Poster "Multilevel approach for signal restoration problems with Toeplitz matrices" (pdf) presented at
  • Speaker, Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis Seminar, Math Department, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2008.
  • Attendant, MIT Women in Mathematics: A Celebration, Cambridge, MA, April 2008.
  • Speaker, 10th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, Copper Mountain, CO, April 2008.
  • (Slides)
  • Speaker, 12th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium at Tufts, March 2008.
  • Talk "Neural Decoding: Classifiers in action" (Slides)
  • Workshop participant, Graduate Student Workshop on Inverse Problems, Ft. Collins, CO, August 2007.(Photos)
  • Minisymposium speaker, 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2007.(Slides)(Photos)
  • Student Seminar speaker, Mathematics Department, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2007.(Slides)
  • Talk "A Summer experience at The MathWorks" (Slides)
  • Invited speaker, Image Processing Team Meeting at The MathWorks, Natick, MA, August 2006.
  • Graduate Student Session speaker, NES/MAA Fall 2005 Meeting, Durham, NH, November 2005.
  • Workshop participant, Mathematical Modeling in Industry IX, Minneapolis, MN, August 2005. (Slides) (Report)
  • Minisymposium speaker, SIAM Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, July 2005. (Slides)
  • Attendant, Research by Undergraduates in Mathematics Boston University Symposium: RUMBUS 2004, Boston, MA, April 2004.

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