Jef
Caers : Research
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General
Research Interests
Geostatistics
- New concepts and philosophies in geostatistics: Can we free geostatistics
from the variogram ?
- Multiple-point Geostatistics
- Theory and Practice of Stochastic Simulation
- Theory of Stochastic Inversion
- Conditioning stochastic simulation to non-linear data
- Integration of data at various scales and precision
- Geostatistics and pattern recognition
- Applications of geostatistics to reservoir characterizations, mining
and environmental sciences
- Discrete Geostatistics, point process models
- Valuation of diamond deposits
Reservoir modeling
- The role of geostatistics in reservoir modeling
- Modeling geological continuity
- Use of seismic data in reservoir characterization
- Probabilistic data integration
- History matching
- Incoporating 4D seismic
- Joint static and dynamic modeling of fractured reservoirs
- Dealing with multi-scale data and other scale issues
Statistical Pattern recognition
- The statistical side and interpretation of Neural Networks
- Pattern recognition and feature extraction
- Image analysis: what is the essence of an image ?
- The concept of Data Generalization
- Classification
- Supervised versus unsupervised learning
Inverse Problems
- Dealing with non-Gaussian priors
- Inversion of seismic data into reservoir properties
- Alternative Bayesian approaches to inverse modeling
- History matching: inversion of flow and pressure data
Applied statistics in general
- Extreme value theory
- Extreme value statistics
- Spatial statistics
- Graphical representation of statistical data
- How can we communicate statistics to the layman ?
- Central limit theorem or not ?
- Maximum likelihood versus least squares methods
- Bayesian versus frequentist approaches
- Valuation of diamond deposits
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