Geomathematical Imaging Group (GMIG)

This new center will work to develop improved technology to meet the complex challenges of modern day prospect evaluation, enhanced oil recovery, and general geological study of the Earth's subsurface by expanding the boundaries of knowledge of seismic imaging, inverse scattering and tomography through collaborative scientific activities and breakthroughs. An international consortium involving Purdue University researchers and leading energy-production companies is being formed.

GMIG will put significant resources in multi-scale approaches to wave-equation modeling, scattering, inverse scattering imaging, global seismology, reflection seismology, and tomography.

This cross-disciplinary program is being developed in conjunction with the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, the Department of Physics, the Department of Statistics, and CRI.

The Center will be housed within the Center for Computational and Applied Mathematics at the College of Science, as an industry and government funded, multi-disciplinary, inter-institutional graduate education and research program.

Professor Maarten de Hoop, Director of Purdue University's Center for Computational and Applied Mathematics, has been named the center's group leader.