1. Students may either (a) write a term paper on an application of inverse theory to a problem of interest to them, preferably including real computations or (b) write a term paper on a technique in inverse theory that will not otherwise be covered in class. Students will be required to give a 30 minute presentation in class on their term paper topic.

2. I have listed several acceptable topics for term papers below. Alternatively you may select another related topic subject to approval of the instructor.

3. Nominal length of reports is 5 double-spaced pages (roughly 2000 words) plus figures and bibliography (minimum of 4 references).

4. Due dates:

March 9, 1999 - Select term paper topic by this date and discuss with instructor

April 13, 1999 - Student presentations of term projects begins

May 5, 1999 - Term paper due

The following is intended to give you an idea of some possible topics:

Simulated annealling

Cellular autonoma

Neural networks

Jackknife and Bootstrap techniques

Backprojection

LSQR

SIRT

Conjugate gradients

Levenberg-Marquardt

Bayes Theory Inversion

Monte Carlo

Hilbert Space approach to inverse problems

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