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Plamen Stefanov is a researcher affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their work spans several fields, predominately focusing on mathematics and engineering.

Stefanov's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Local and global boundary rigidity and the geodesic X-ray transform in the normal gauge (2021, Annals of Mathematics)
  • Recovery of a Cubic Non-linearity in the Wave Equation in the Weakly Non-linear Regime (2022, Communications in Mathematical Physics)
  • Growth of MoSe2 electrocatalyst from metallic molybdenum nanoparticles for efficient hydrogen evolution (2020, Materials Today Communications)
  • X-Ray Transform and Boundary Rigidity for Asymptotically Hyperbolic Manifolds (2020, Annales de l'institut Fourier)
  • Inverse problems for real principal type operators (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))

The topics covered in their research focus on numerical methods in inverse problems, advanced mathematical modeling in engineering, geometric analysis and curvature flows, and medical imaging techniques. Further areas of interest include microwave imaging and scattering analysis, advanced mathematical physics problems, and mathematical analysis and transform methods.

Their main fields of study are:

  • Mathematics
  • Engineering

Within these, specific subfields of study include:

  • Mathematical Physics
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Stefanov has published frequently in several academic venues. These include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
  • Annales de l'institut Fourier
  • Asymptotic Analysis
  • Annals of Mathematics

The scientist has collaborated with various coauthors multiple times. Frequent collaborators are:

  • Nikolas Eptaminitakis
  • Günther Uhlmann
  • Antônio Sá Barreto
  • Lauri Oksanen
  • Mikko Salo

Best Publications

  • Thermoacoustic tomography with variable sound speed

    Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann

  • Boundary rigidity and stability for generic simple metrics

    Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann

  • Stability estimates for the X-ray transform of tensor fields and boundary rigidity

    Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann

  • Thermoacoustic tomography arising in brain imaging

    Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann;Gunther Uhlmann

  • An Efficient Neumann Series-Based Algorithm for Thermoacoustic and Photoacoustic Tomography with Variable Sound Speed

    Jianliang Qian;Plamen Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann;Hongkai Zhao

  • The X-Ray Transform for a Generic Family of Curves and Weights

    Béla András Frigyik;Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann

  • Stability estimates for the hyperbolic Dirichlet to Neumann map in anisotropic media

    Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann

  • An inverse boundary value problem for the stationary transport equation

    Mourad Choulli;Plamen Stefanov

  • Boundary rigidity with partial data

    Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther A. Uhlmann;Andras Vasy

  • INVERSE SCATTERING AND INVERSE BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS FOR THE LINEAR BOLTZMANN EQUATION

    M. Choulli;P. Stefanov

  • Stable determination of generic simple metrics from the hyperbolic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map

    Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann

  • Rigidity for metrics with the same lengths of geodesics

    Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann

  • Recovery of a source term or a speed with one measurement and applications

    Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann

  • Uniqueness of the multi-dimensional inverse scattering problem for time dependent potentials

    Plamen D. Stefanov

  • Local and global boundary rigidity and the geodesic X-ray transform in the normal gauge

    Plamen Stefanov;Gunther Alberto Arancibia Uhlmann;Andras Vasy

  • Optical tomography in two dimensions.

    Plamen Stefanov

  • Inverting the local geodesic X-ray transform on tensors

    Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann;Gunther Uhlmann;András Vasy

  • The boundary rigidity problem in the presence of a magnetic field

    Nurlan S. Dairbekov;Gabriel P. Paternain;Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann

  • Quasimodes and resonances: Sharp lower bounds

    Plamen Stefanov

  • The geodesic X-ray transform with fold caustics

    Plamen D. Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann

  • The X-ray transform for a generic family of curves

    Bela Frigyik;Plamen Stefanov;Gunther Uhlmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Gunther Uhlmann
Gunther Uhlmann University of Washington
András Vasy
András Vasy Stanford University
Matti Lassas
Matti Lassas University of Helsinki
Maciej Zworski
Maciej Zworski University of California, Berkeley
Alexander G. Ramm
Alexander G. Ramm Kansas State University
Ge Wang
Ge Wang Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ilia Valov
Ilia Valov RWTH Aachen University
Gabriel P. Paternain
Gabriel P. Paternain University of Cambridge
Peter Kuchment
Peter Kuchment Texas A&M University
Agustín R. González-Elipe
Agustín R. González-Elipe Spanish National Research Council

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