Syllabus

- The Fourier series, discrete Fourier transform and

evolution theorem as applied to spectral analysis and
filtering of geophysical data
- Sampling theorems, aliasing and the Nyquist
frequency
- Bandpass filtering of seismograms
- Auto-correlation and cross correlation
- The z-transforms and deconvolution and spectral
analysis, 2D Fourier transforms and f-k filtering
- Forward modelling, parameter estimation and
inversion
- Formulation of inverse problems,
- linear least-squares, best linear unbiased estimator
(BLUE),
- propagation of errors, maximum likelihood
solutions,
- linearisation of non-linear problems, Monte Carlo
error propagation,
- ill-posed problems,
- resolution matrix, regularization, cross validation,
- Bayesian inference, Markov chain Monte Carlo
algorithms, neighbourhood algorithms.