Dr. Maarten de Hoop

Professor

E-mail: mdehoop@math.purdue.edu

Curriculum Vitae <pdf>

Associated Website(s): Personal Website

Education

Ph.D.- Delft University of Technology

MS - Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Research Interests

Exploration seismology, global seismology, geodynamics, inverse problems

Teaching Interests

Mathematical geophysics, theoretical seismology

Awards and Honors

  • Recipient of an unrestricted grant from the 1998-1999 DuPont Educational Aid Program

Professional Experience

  • 2005 - present, Professor, the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, USA

  • 2001 - present, Part-time visiting professor and visiting associate professor at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA

  • 2003 - 2005, Professor at the Center for Wave Phenomena, the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, USA

  • 1997 - 2003, Associate professor at the Center for Wave Phenomena, the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, USA

  • 1995 - 1997, Research assistant professor and visiting professor at the Center for Wave Phenomena, the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, USA

  • 1992 - 1995, Senior research scientist and programme leader at Schlumberger Cambridge Research, Cambridge, England

  • 1985 - 1992, Research geophysicist at Koninklijke/Shell Exploratie en Produktie Laboratorium, Rijswijk, the Netherlands

  • 1983 - 1985, Student assistantship in quantum physics in undergraduate curriculum, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Selected Publications <More>

  • `Residual dip moveout in VTI media', Geophys. Prosp. 53 (2005) 1-12, with T. Alkhalifah.

  • `On sensitivity kernels for `wave-equation' transmission tomography', Geoph. J. Int. 160 (2005) 621-633, with R.D. van der Hilst.

  • `A method for inverse scattering based on the generalized Bremmer coupling series', Inverse Problems 21 (2005) 1137-1167, with A.E. Malcolm.

  • `Modeling of seismic data in the downward continuation approach', SIAM J. Appl. Math. 65 (2005) 1388-1406, with C.C. Stolk.

  • `Explicit expressions for pre-stack map time-migration in isotropic and VTI media and the applicability of map depth-migration in heterogeneous anisotropic media', Geophysics 71 (2006) S13-S28, with H. Douma.

  • `Characterization and `source-receiver' continuation of reflection seismic data', Comm. Math. Phys. 263 (2006) 1-19, with G. Uhlmann.

  • ‘Characterization and ‘source-receiver’ continuation of reflection seismic data’, Comm. Math. Phys. 263 (2006) 1-19, with G. Uhlmann.

  • ‘A novel application of time reverse acoustics: Salt dome flank imaging using walk away VSP surveys’, Geophysics 71 (2006) A7-A11, with M.E. Willis, R. Lu, X. Campman, M.N. Toks¨oz, and Y. Zhang.

  • ‘Surface-wave array tomography in SE Tibet from ambient seismic noise and two-station analysis: I – Phase velocity maps’, Geoph. J. Int. 166 (2006) 732-744, with H. Yao and R.D. van der Hilst.

  • ‘Seismic inverse scattering in the downward continuation approach’, Wave Motion 43 (2006) 579-598, with C.C. Stolk.

  • ‘Imaging of structure at and near the core mantle boundary using a generalized Radon transform: 1. Construction of image gathers’, J. Geophys. Res. 111, B12304 (2006) doi:10.1029/2005JB004241, with P. Wang, R.D. van der Hilst, P. Ma, L. Tenorio.

  • 'Wave-equation reflection tomography: Annihilators and sensitivity kernels’, Geoph. J. Int. 167 (2006) 1332-1352, with R.D. van der Hilst and P. Shen.

  • ‘Reply to comment by R. Montelli, G. Nolet and F.A. Dahlen on: ‘Bananadoughnut kernels and mantle tomography’ ’, Geoph. J. Int. 167 (2006) 1211- 1214, with R.D. van der Hilst.

  • ‘Seismo-stratigraphy and thermal structure of Earth’s core-mantle boundary region’, Science 315 (2007) 1813-1817, with R.D. van der Hilst, P. Wang, S.-H. Shim, P. Ma and L. Tenorio.

  • ‘Identification of image artifacts due to internal multiples’, Geophysics 72 (2007) S123-S132, with A.E. Malcolm and H. Calandra.

  • ‘Two-dimensional modelling of subduction zone anisotropy with applications to southwestern Japan’, Geoph. J. Int. 170 (2007) 839-856, with M.D. Long, B.H. Hager and R.D. van der Hilst.

  • ‘Imaging of structure at and near the core mantle boundary using a generalized Radon transform: 2. Statistical inference of singularities’, J. Geophys. Res. 112, B08303 (2007) doi:10.1029/2006JB004513, with P. Ma, P. Wang, L. Tenorio and R.D. van der Hilst.

  • ‘Leading-order seismic imaging using curvelets’, Geophysics 72 (2007) S231- S248, with H. Douma.

  • ‘Wave-equation shear wave splitting tomography’, Geoph. J. Int. 172 (2008) 311-330, with M.D. Long and R.D. van der Hilst.

  • ‘A multi-scale approach to hyperbolic evolution equations with limited smoothness’, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 33 (2008) 988-1017, with F. Andersson, H. Smith and G. Uhlmann.

  • ‘Evolution systems for paraxial wave equations of Schr¨odinger-type with nonsmooth coefficients’, J. Diff. Eqs. 245 (2008) 1413-1432, with G. H¨ormann and M. Oberguggenberger.

  • ‘Imaging the lowermost mantle (D00) and the core-mantle boundary with SKKS coda waves’, Geophys. J. Int. (2008) in print, with P. Wang and R.D. van der Hilst.

  • ‘Estimating a Green’s function from “field-field” correlations in a random
    medium’, SIAM J. Appl. Math. (2008) in print, with K. Sølna.

  • ‘Evolution-equation approach to seismic image, and data, continuation’, Wave Motion (2008) in print, with A.A. Duchkov and A.S. S´a Barreto.

  • ‘Seismic imaging and illumination with internal multiples’, Geophys. J. Int. (2008) in print, with A.E. Malcolm and B. Ursin.

  • ‘Velocity continuation in the downward continuation approach to seismic imaging’, Geophys. J. Int. (2008) in print, with A.A. Duchkov.