Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation

Ne-Zheng Sun, Adjunct Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, University of California at Los Angles, USA Alexander Y. Sun, Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, USA

• Introduction.- The Classical Inverse Problem.- The Gauss-Newton Method.- Multiobjective Inversion and Regularization.- Statistical Methods for Parameter Estimation.- Model Differentiation.- Model Dimension Reduction.- Development of Data-Driven Models.- Data Assimilation for Inversion.- Model Uncertainty Quantification.- Optimal Experimental Design.- Goal-Oriented Modeling.