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Presented here are two applications of the maximum entropy method (MEM) that two of my students have recently worked on. The first of these applications, the quantum mechanical inverse scattering problem, was the subject of a Master’s thesis by John P. Halloran, who is now at the Lockheed California Company, in Burbank, California. Some of the results of that work were reported at the Third Rocky Mountain Southwest Theoretical Physics Conference held in Boulder, Colorado, earlier this year. The second application, the processing of seismic time series, is part of a Ph.D. thesis by Kent E. Noffsinger that is in progress.
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Schick, L.H. (1987). Two Recent Applications of Maximum Entropy. In: Smith, C.R., Erickson, G.J. (eds) Maximum-Entropy and Bayesian Spectral Analysis and Estimation Problems. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3961-5_17
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