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Inverse Problems and Modelling in Physics - NGEO076
Title: Obrácené úlohy a modelování ve fyzice
Guaranteed by: Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Jakub Velímský, Ph.D.
Is pre-requisite for: NGEO081
Annotation -
Last update: T_KG (01.05.2013)
Model space and data space. State of information. Information obtained from physical theories. Information obtained from measurements. A priori information. Combination of experimental, a priori and theoretical information. Solution of the inverse problem. Special cases: Gaussian and generalized Gaussian hypothesis. The least-squares criterion. Trial and error method. Stochastic metods (Monte Carlo method, simulated annealing, genetic algorithm). Analysis of error and resolution.
Aim of the course -
Last update: T_KG (01.05.2013)

Understanding basic principles of inverse problem theory in physics.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Jakub Velímský, Ph.D. (24.04.2020)

Exam type: oral or telecon.

The exam covers the topics contained in the syllabus.

Literature -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Jakub Velímský, Ph.D. (24.04.2020)

A. Tarantola, Inverse Problem Theory, Elsevier 1987.

http://www.ipgp.jussieu.fr/~tarantola/

Teaching methods -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Jakub Velímský, Ph.D. (06.10.2017)

Lecture

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Jakub Velímský, Ph.D. (24.04.2020)
General theory of inverse problems

Model and data spaces. State of information (probability density, conjuction of probabilities, non-informative state). Information from physical theory. Apriori information and data information. Combining the probabilities. Definition of the solution. Aposteriori information on the model space. Error analysis, resolution and stability. Special cases: Gaussian hypothesis.

Stochastic methods

Trial and error method. Monte Carlo. Integration by a Monte-Carlo method. Metropolis-Hastings rule and sampling methods. Simulated annealing and parallel tempering. Genetic algorithms.

Least-squares criterion

Methods and formulas. Analytical solution. Steepest descent method, Newton method. Nonlinear inverse problem. Linearisation. Conjugated gradients and variable metrics.

Backus method. Introduction to inverse problems on infinitely dimensional (functional) spaces.

 
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