Contact Information:

• Norman Bleistein
• Universtiy Emeritus Professor
• Research Professor, Geophysics
• Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP)
• Colorado School of Mines
  Golden, CO 80401, USA
• Honorary Member, Society of Exploration Geophysicists
• Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellow
• Guest Professor, Geophysics, Chinese University of Geosciences, Wuhan
• Fellow, Institute of Physics
• Advisory Board and Adjudicating Editor, Inverse Problems
• Advisory Board, Journal of Science and Engineering
• Advisory Board, Journal, Earth Science Frontiers, Beijing
• Phone: (303)-384-2178
• Fax: (303)-273-3478
• email: norm@dix.mines.edu
• Home phone: (303)-757-8097
• Home fax: (303)-759-3895
• For a current vita, click here.
• For a current publications list, click here.
• Career change, retirement, kinda.

• Mathematics of Multidimensional Seismic Imaging, Migration, and Inversion

  by Norman Bleistein, Jack K. Cohen, and John W. Stockwell, Jr. (Page includes Table of Contents and Errata.)

• Notes and 4-up slides for short courses,

  Mathematics of Modeling, Migration and Inversion with Gaussian Beams

• A bit of history about how I got to do research and write about Gaussian beams.

• My Photos with some workshop albums and travel albums.

• Some recent papers and abstracts. Click here.

• Project Review slides, 2006.
• Click here for 4.6Mb ppt.
• Click here for 2.4Mb pdf.

• Slides, One-day Short course, International Meeting, Sociedade Brassileira de Geofisica, Salvador, 2005. Click here for for a 5.9Mb pdf file of two-up version of the slides.

Current research Interests:

• Modeling, Migration and inversion with Gaussian beams
• Theory of true amplitude one-way wave equations with application to migration and inversion
• Asymptotic analysis

Teaching Interests:

• Kirchhoff Inversion
• Modeling and inversion with Gaussian beams
• True-amplitude one-way wave equations, modeling and inversion
• Asymptotic methods that arise in modeling, migration and inversion
• Applied complex variable methods

Other Interests:

• Bicycling
• Photography
• Traveling
• Skiing