Course Syllabus

Class Meets Tue-Thu, 9:00-10:15 pm in Distance Ed 209

Resources:

Matlab scripts from Menke

Assignments:

Due 3 September at 9:00am: Assignment 1 & the data

PowerPoint Lectures:

29 August: Introduction/Motivation for Inverse Theory 31 August: Introduction to Linear Inversion; Minimization of the L2 Norm 5 September: Ordinary Least Squares; the Pseudoinverse 7 September: Gaussian Statistics and Model Parameter Error (OLS) 12 September: Parameter Uncertainty: the Chi-Square Parameter; Solution Appraisal 14 September: Solution Appraisal; Weighted Least Squares 19 September: Overparameterized Inversion: SVD & the Generalized Inverse 21 September: SVD & The Generalized Inverse