- Albert Tarantola
Albert Tarantola is a Spanish-born physicist (Barcelona,
June 15 ,1949 — ), currently working at the University of Paris (Institut de Physique du Globe), and author of a well-known book about "inverse problems" (Tarantola, 1987, 2005). Tarantola was the leader of the Geophysical Tomography Group, that during the years 1985—2000 developed modern methods for the interpretation of waveform data. Apart from doing scientific research, Tarantola has taught both at his own institute in Paris and at other universities.Notable publications
Books
* Tarantola, Albert, "Inverse Problem Theory and Methods for Model Parameter Estimation" ( [http://www.ipgp.jussieu.fr/~tarantola/Files/Professional/Books/index.html free PDF version] ), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2005. ISBN 0-89871-572-5.
* Tarantola, Albert, "Elements for Physics; Quantities, Qualities, and Physical Theories" ( [http://www.ipgp.jussieu.fr/~tarantola/Files/Professional/Books/index.html free PDF version] ), 2006. Springer. ISBN-10 3-540-25302-5.
cientific articles
* Tarantola, Albert, and Bernard Valette, 1982. Inverse Problems = Quest for Information, J. Geophys, 50, 159-170.
* Tarantola, Albert, and Bernard Valette, 1982. Generalized Nonlinear Inverse Problems Solved Using the Least Squares Criterion, Rev. Geophys. Space Phys., 20, 219-232, 1982.
* Tarantola, Albert, 1986. A strategy for nonlinear elastic inversion of seismic reflection data, Geophysics, 51, 1893-1903.
* Mosegaard, Klaus, and Albert Tarantola, 1995. Monte Carlo Sampling of Solutions to Inverse Problems, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 100, No. B7, 12,431-12,447.
* Tarantola, Albert, 1995. Popper, Bayes, and the inverse problem, Nature Physics, Vol. 2, August 2006, 492-494.
External links
* [http://www.ipgp.jussieu.fr/~tarantola/ Albert Tarantola's home page]
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