Albert Tarantola

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

Albert Tarantola was a Spanish-born physicist (Barcelona, June 15, 1949 – December 6, 2009), of 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 (2005). Inverse Problem Theory and Methods for Model Parameter Estimation. SIAM. ISBN 978-0-89871-572-9. 
• Tarantola, Albert (2006). Elements for Physics Quantities, Qualities, and Intrinsic Theories. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-06452-4. 

Scientific articles

• Tarantola, Albert; Valette, Bernard (1982). "Inverse Problems = Quest for Information" (PDF). Journal of Geophysics. 50: 159–170. 
• Tarantola, Albert; Valette, Bernard (May 1982). "Generalized Nonlinear Inverse Problems Solved Using the Least Squares Criterion" (PDF). Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics. 20: 219–232. Bibcode:1982RvGSP..20..219T. doi:10.1029/RG020i002p00219. 
• Tarantola, Albert (October 1986). "A strategy for nonlinear elastic inversion of seismic reflection data" (PDF). Geophysics. 51 (10): 1893–1903. Bibcode:1986Geop...51.1893T. doi:10.1190/1.1442046. 
• Mosegaard, Klaus; Tarantola, Albert (1995). "Monte Carlo Sampling of Solutions to Inverse Problems" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research. 100 (B7): 12,431–12,447. Bibcode:1995JGR...10012431M. doi:10.1029/94jb03097. 

External links

• "Albert Tarantola's web page".