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Michael P. Lamoureux
Head, Mathematics and Statistics
Adjunct Professor, Geoscience
University of Calgary

Office: Math Sciences Bldg, Room 514
Ph: (403) 220-8214, Fax: (403) 282-5150
E-mail: mikel@ucalgary.ca

Research Interests:

• Mathematics of wave propagation and seismic imaging
• Numerical methods and applications to geophysics
• Functional analysis, C*-algebras, and noncommutative geometry
• Nonselfadjoint operator algebras, C*-dynamical systems
• Consortia: POTSI and CREWES
  

Teaching Schedule (Winter 2012):

• AMAT 415 Mathematical Methods
  • MWF 10:00 - 10:50,  SB 148
    

• TBA

Operating systems:

• I am seriously engaged with exactly one very lovely OS; you can always ask me for details!
  

Recent Publications:

Gibson, P.C., Lamoureux, M.P., Margrave, G.F., 2011,
Outer preserving linear operators,
Journal of Functional Analysis Volume 261, pp. 2656-2668.

Margrave, G.F., Lamoureux, M.P., and Henley, D.H, 2011,
Gabor deconvolution: Estimating reflectivity by nonstationary deconvolution of seismic data,
Geophysics, Volume 76, pp. 15-30.

Potter, M.E., Lamoureux, M.P., Nauta, M.D., 2011
An FDTD scheme on a face-centered-cubic (FCC) grid for the solution of the wave equation,
Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 230, Issue 15, pp. 6169-6183.

Zhang, D., Cherkaev, E., and Lamoureux, M.P., 2011,
Stieltjes representation of the 3D Bruggeman effective medium and Pade approximation,
Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume 217, Issue 17 (2011 May) pp. 7092-7107.

Zhang, D., Lamoureux, M.P., Margrave, G.F., and Cherkaev, E., 2011,
Rational approximation for estimation of quality Q factor and phase velocity in linear, viscoelastic, isotropic media,
Computational Geosciences, Vol 15, No 1, pp 117--133.

Lamoureux, A.P., Lamoureux, M.P., 2010
Primes from Fractions, Pi in the Sky, Volume 14, pp. 8-11.

Feichtinger, H.G., Helffer, B., Lamoureux, M.P., Lerner, N., Toft, J., 2008,
Pseudo-Differential Operators, Quantization and Signals,
Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 1949.

Lamoureux, M.P. and Mingo, J.A., 2007,
On the characteristic polynomial of the almost Mathieu operator,
Proceedings of the American Math Society, Vol 135, pp 3205--3215.

Gibson P.C., Lamoureux M.P, Margrave G.F., 2006,
Stockwell and Wavelet Transforms,
Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, Vol 12, No. 6, pp 713-721.

Hogan, C. M., Margrave, G. F., and Lamoureux, M. P., 2006,
Stabilizing explicit w−x migration using locally WKBJ operators,
Journal of Seismic Exploration, November.

Margrave, G. F., Geiger, H. D., Al-Saleh, S. M., and Lamoureux, M. P., 2006,
Improving explicit seismic depth migration with a stabilizing Wiener filter and spatial resampling,
Geophysics, 71, S111-S120.

Lamoureux, M.P. and Margrave, G.F, 2006,
An Introduction to Numerical Methods of Pseudodifferential Operators,
Proceedings of the CIME Workshop on Pseudodifferential Operators, Quantization and Signals.

Margrave, G. F., al Saleh, S. M., Lamoureux, M. P., and Sun, W, 2006,
The annular-sum and Hale-McClellan methods of 3D wavefield extrapolation,
18th Annual Research Report of the CREWES Project.

Maier, R., G. F. Margrave, Sun, W, and Lamoureux, M. P., 2006,
A practical implementation of FOCI - FORFOCI depth migration,
18th Annual Research Report of the CREWES Project.

Lamoureux, M.P., 2005,
Seismic image analysis using local spectra,
Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 3, 235-248.

Margrave, G. F., Geiger, H. D., Al-Saleh, S. M., and Lamoureux, M. P., 2005,
Improving explicit seismic depth migration with a stabilizing Wiener filter and spatial resampling,
Geophysics, in press.

Margrave, G. F., Geiger, H. D., Al-Saleh, S. M., Lamoureux, M. P., 2005,
A stable, accurate, and efficient approach to explicit depth migration,
CSEG Expanded Abstracts.

Margrave, G. F., Geiger, H. D., Al-Saleh, S. M., Lamoureux, M. P., 2005,
A stable, accurate, and efficient approach to explicit depth migration,
CSEG Recorder, 30, no. 9 (September), 22-26.

Gibson, P. C., Lamoureux, M. P., 2004,
Maximally symmetric, minimally redundant partitions of unity in the plane,
C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Soc. R. Can. 26 , no. 3, 65--72.

Akers, B., Bohun, S., Gibson, P., Hofinger, A., Lamoureux, M., Lobb, J., Mawby, B., Roberts, M., 2004,
General statistical design of an experimental problem for harmonics,
Can. Appl. Math. Q. 12, no. 4, 415--437.

Aggarwala, R., Lamoureux, M. P., 2004,
Folding distributions for order statistics,
Comm. Statist. Simulation Comput. 33, no. 2, 309--320.

Aggarwala, R., Lamoureux, M. P., 2004,
Moments of order statistics---from even to odd sample sizes,
Comm. Statist. Simulation Comput. 33, no. 2, 293--308.

Margrave, G. F., Ferguson, R. J., Lamoureux, M. P., 2002,
Approximate Fourier integral wavefield extrapolators for heterogeneous, anisotropic media,
Can. Appl. Math. Q. 10, no. 2, 331--343.

Aggarwala, R., Lamoureux, M., Powojowski, M., 2002,
Statistical design in tire manufacturing,
Can. Appl. Math. Q. 10, no. 2, 179--197.

Aggarwala, R., Lamoureux, M. P., 2002,
Inverting the Pascal matrix plus one,
Amer. Math. Monthly 109, no. 4, 371--377.

Donsig, A. P., Hopenwasser, A., Hudson, T. D., Lamoureux, M. P., Solel, B., 2000,
Meet irreducible ideals in direct limit algebras,
Math. Scand. 87, no. 1, 27--63.

Some other projects (OOPS: most of this computer code has died, will try to update some day):

Try the AMAT 307 Ball Bouncer. (A Jython application.)

Try the AMAT 309 Surface Grapher. (A cheesy Java app!)

MITACS Project on Pseudodifferential Operators and Seismic Imaging (POTSI)

Research Interests and Publications

Fractals in Geometer's SketchPad from Pi in the Sky

Mathieu Spectral Zoomer Two dimensional graphics

3D Mathieu viewer Three dimensional graphics