• 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)
    Example 4.2, Aster et al. (.m)
    Gravity data
    Gravity forward modeling matlab script
    Matlab routine to contour objective function
    random noise, std ~ 0.01
    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.m
    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