• Introduction to geophysical inverse theory
  • Linear gradient methods (steepest descent, Gauss-Newton, Newton, Conjugate Gradients)
  • Nonlinear methods (Monte Carlo, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing)
  • Solution appraisal (confidence intervals, resolution, variance)
  • Computer applications
  • Crash course in Matlab
  • Inverse filtering
  • Matlab exercises
    Treasure hunt (ppt)
    Introduction (ppt)
    Least squares (ppt)
    Probability (ppt)
    L1 norm minimization (ppt)
    Truncated SVD, nonlinear regression (ppt)
    Conjugate gradients, etc (ppt)
    iterative methods (ppt)
    hw5_2.mat
    Example 4.2, Aster et al. (.m)
    Gravity data
    Gravity forward modeling matlab script
    Matlab routine to contour objective function
    random noise, std ~ 1.0e-7
    mc.m
    mc_neigh.m
    mc_simann_consT.m
    mc_simann.m
    go_ga.m
    bit2num.m
    evaleach.m
    evalpopu.m
    nextpopu.m
    peaksfcn.m
    wavefcn.m
    recfuninv.m
    PSvResponse.m
    ReadSac.m
    RecFun_GUI.m
    RecFun.m
    noise_1Hz.dat
    stack_ALI.sac
    stack_BRD.sac
    stack_GAL.sac
    stack_GAN.sac
    stack_GLB.sac
    stack_GOB.sac
    stack_IML.sac
    stack_LKR.sac
    stack_NAX.sac
    stack_NDR.sac
    stack_PQL.sac
    stack_QUB.sac
    stack_SEK.sac
    stack_SIZ.sac
    Info from Rumi and Esteban's term project 2009