Dr. Maarten de Hoop

Professor

E-mail: mdehoop@math.purdue.edu

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

  • `Generalization of the Bremmer coupling series', J. Math. Phys. 37 (1996) 3246-3282.

  • `The resolving power of seismic amplitude data: An anisotropic inversion/migration approach', Geophysics 64 (1999) 852-873, with C. Spencer and R. Burridge.

  • `Wavefield reciprocity and optimization in remote sensing', Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A (Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences) 456 (2000) 641-682, with A.T. de Hoop.

  • `Maslov asymptotic extension of generalized Radon transform inversion in anisotropic elastic media: A least-squares approach', Inverse Problems 16 (2000) 519-562, with S. Brandsberg-Dahl.

  • `Focusing in dip and AVA compensation on scattering-angle/azimuth common image gathers', Geophysics 68 (2003) 232-254, with S. Brandsberg-Dahl and B. Ursin.

  • `Symplectic structure of wave-equation imaging: A path-integral approach based on the double-square-root equation', Geoph. J. Int. 153 (2003) 52-74, with J.H. Le Rousseau and B. Biondi.

  • `3D depth imaging with generalized screens: A salt body case study', Geophysics 68 (2003) 1132-1139, with J.H. Le Rousseau and H. Calandra.

  • `Seismic velocity analysis in the scattering-angle/azimuth domain', Geophys. Prosp. 51 (2003) 295-314 with S. Brandsberg-Dahl and B. Ursin.

  • `Retrofocusing of acoustic wave fields by iterated time reversal', SIAM J. Appl. Math. 64 (2004) 1954-1986, with B.L.G. Jonsson, M. Gustafsson and V.H. Weston.

  • `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.