Albert Tarantola

Photograph taken in 2006, at rue de Vaugirard, with one of the two original mètres still in place.

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 the book probabilistic formulation of 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 (free PDF version), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2005.

• Tarantola, Albert, Elements for Physics - Quantities, Qualities, and Instrinsic Theories" (free PDF version), Springer, 2006.

Scientific articles

• Tarantola, Albert, and Bernard Valette, 1982. Inverse Problems = Quest for Information, J. Geophys, 50, 159-170 (free PDF version).

• Tarantola, Albert, and Bernard Valette, 1982. Generalized Nonlinear Inverse Problems Solved Using the Least Squares Criterion, Rev. Geophys. Space Phys., 20, 219-232, 1982 (free PDF version).

• Tarantola, Albert, 1986. A strategy for nonlinear elastic inversion of seismic reflection data, Geophysics, 51, 1893-1903 (free PDF version).

• 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 (free PDF version).

• Tarantola, Albert, 2006. Popper, Bayes, and the Inverse Problems, Nature Physics, Vol. 2, August 2006, 492-494 (free PDF version).

• Tarantola, Albert, 2008. Image and Reciprocal Image of a Measure; Compatibility Theorem, arXiv:0810.4749 (free PDF version).

External links

• Albert Tarantola's home page