Xiao-Hui Wu, ExxonMobil

IAMCS Workshop in Large-Scale Inverse Problems and Uncertainty Quantification

February 24-25, 2011

Stephen W. Hawking Auditorium

George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy

Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas

Multilevel Methods for Uncertainty Quantification - Opportunities and Challenges

Multilevel methods are becoming popular for uncertainty quantification and solving large-scale inverse problems. In this talk, we analyze the need for such methods and discuss strategies related to reservoir model evaluations. Successful application of these methods in practice need to overcome several significant challenges, which in the meantime provide abundant interesting research opportunities. These challenges and opportunities will be discussed.