Provides a basic introduction into Earth Sciences, emphasizing different rock-types and the geological rock-cycle, as well as introduction into geophysics, plate tectonics and planetology.

Processes on Earth surface: Climate, water cycle, weathering and erosion, transport, sedimentation. Rock deformation. Geochronology, stratigraphy and Earth history.

Planet Earth has had complex history since its formation ~4.6 billion years ago. To understand its past evolution, and glimpse at its future, one needs an integrated perspective including many aspects of the earth sciences (e.g., geochemistry, geophysics, geology). The main goal of the course is to achieve this integrated view of the solid part of our planet.

Inverse theory is the art of using observations to infer properties of a system and its future evolution. It permeates science and technology, and is used, to transform observations of waves into 3D images in seismic tomography, medical imaging and material science; to infer and predict flow patterns in the atmosphere, oceans, glaciers, ice sheets or the interior of the Sun; and much more.

This second part of the course on Inverse Theory provides an introduction to the numerical solution of (non-)linear inverse problems including uncertainty quantification. Specific examples are drawn from different areas of geophysics and image processing. Students solve various model problems using Jupyter notebooks (in Julia), and familiarize themselves with relevant open-source libraries.