Albert Tarantola
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Albert Tarantola (web site) is a Spanish-born physicist (Barcelona, June 15, 1949 — ). His main contributions have been a probabilistic formulation of inverse problems (Tarantola, 1987, 2005) and a theory for the intrinsic formulation of physical laws (Tarantola, 2006). His reseach has mainly been done at the University of Paris (Institut de Physique du Globe). He was the leader of the Geophysical Tomography Group, that during the years 1985—2000 developed modern methods for the interpretation of waveform data. In recent years, with his colleague Bartolomé Coll (web site), he has been working in the development of a fully relativistic theory for positioning (GPS, Galileo, etc.). Although the products of his scientific research are well known, his obvous passion is teaching: he has delivered courses at different universities around the World (Paris, Stanford, Beijing, Bangalore, Salvador de Bahia...), and keeps contact will many of his old students.
[edit] Principal publications
[edit] Books
- Tarantola, Albert, Inverse Problem Theory and Methods for Model Parameter Estimation (free PDF version), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2005. ISBN 0-89871-572-5.
- Tarantola, Albert, Elements for Physics, Quantities, Qualities, and Intrinsic Theories (free PDF version), Springer, 2006. ISBN 3-540-25302-5.
[edit] Principal scientific 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.
