05/01 Séminaires Généraux : Thomas Bodin (LGL-TPE)
(à salle Fontannes, la Doua, du 05/01/2015 14:00 au 05/11/2015 14:00)
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Jan 05, 2015
from 02:00 PM to 02:00 PM |
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| Contact Name | Benoit Tauzin |
| Contact Phone | 04 72 43 26 59 |
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Inference transdimensionelle en sciences de la Terre
An inverse problem is the task often occurring in many branches of Earth sciences, where the values of some model parameters describing the Earth must be obtained given noisy observations made at the surface. In all applications of inversion, assumptions are made about the nature of the model parametrisation and data noise characteristics, and results can significantly depend on those assumptions. These quantities are often manually `tuned' by means of subjective trial-and-error procedures, and this prevents to accurately quantify uncertainties in the solution.A Bayesian approach allows these assumptions to be relaxed by incorporating relevant parameters as unknowns in the inference problem. Probabilistic sampling techniques such as transdimensional Markov chain Monte Carlo, allow sampling over complex posterior probability density functions, thus providing information on constraint, trade-offs and uncertainty in the unknowns.
This presentation will present a review of transdimensional inference, and its application to different problems, ranging from Geochemistry to Solid Earth Geophysics.
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