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USU Geology 7600 Course Materials, Fall 2008

Course Syllabus


Class Meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30-11:20, in Geology 217A




Assignments:

  • Assignment I
  • Assignment I Data File




    • PowerPoint Lectures:

  • 26 August: Introduction

  • 28 August: Intro to Linear Inversion

  • 02 September: Linear Least Squares Inversion: The Pseudoinverse

  • 04 September: Linear Least Squares Inversion: Parameter Uncertainty

  • 09 September: Choosing Number of Parameters; Chi-Squared

  • 11 September: Confidence Intervals; Weighted Least Squares

  • 16 September: Weighted Least Squares: Param Unc; Confidence Intervals

  • 18 September: Singular Value Decomposition: Overdetermined Problems

  • 23 September: Singular Value Decomposition and Overparameterized Problems

  • 25 September: The Generalized Inverse: Resolution/Variance

  • 30 September: Damped Least Squares

  • 02 October: Maximum Likelihood

  • 07 October: Solving the Nonlinear Inverse Problem

  • 09 October: Iterative Nonlinear Inversion (Gauss-Newton)

  • 14 October: Stabilizing Iterative Nonlinear Inversion

  • 21 October: Stabilization, Stopping Criteria, Uncertainty

  • 28 October: Deterministic and Stochastic Searches

  • 30 October: L1-norm and "Geological Constraint" Problems (Linear Programming)

  • 04 November: L2-norm and "Geological Constraint" Problems (Quadratic Programming)