Albert Tarantola was a Spanish-born physicist (Barcelona, June 15, 1949 — December 6, 2009), of the University of Paris (Institut de Physique du Globe

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), 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.

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.

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).

External links

• Albert Tarantola's home page