Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor

Description: Covers numerical computing methods and their application to problems of geological and geophysical interest. Methods include linear least-squares, matrix factorization, decomposition and inversion, nonlinear optimization, and Monte Carlo analysis and data visualization and their implementation in the MATLAB language. Applications include time series analysis, seismic tomography, and geodetic data inversion.

Credit: May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor.