Prof. Albert Tarantola
Monday April 9th, 2007
at 11am in 118 Zumberge Hall
The title and abstract of the talk follow:
Mapping of Probabilities
(a Theory for the Interpretation of Uncertain Physical Measurements)
Albert Tarantola, University of Paris VI.
While the usual way for "assimilating" uncertain observations goes
through the use of conditional probabilities, one may try to introduce
different concepts, directly borrowed from set theory. It is argued
that these new concepts complete the traditional Kolmogorov point of
view. The resulting theory seems well adapted for facing real world
problems, where observations are only used to "falsify" models (à la
Popper), these falsifications defining the transition from a prior
distribution of models into a posterior distribution (à la Bayes).
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Roger Ghanem
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089
213 740-9528 ghanem@usc.edu
