The Bureau of Economic Geology and BEG researcher Sergey Fomel recently hosted two important international meetings on computational seismology.
Fomel chaired the organizing committee for the 17th International Workshop on Seismic Anisotropy, which was held September 18–23 in Horseshoe Bay, Texas, and attracted nearly 40 participants from 10 different countries. Forty technical presentations included keynote talks by Michael Slawinski (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Xiaodong Song (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign), Vladimir Grechka (Marathon Oil), Leon Thomsen (Delta Geophysics), and Mrinal Sen (UT Austin). Fomel's Ph.D. students Yanadet Sripanich and Junzhe Sun presented their work on elastic wave extrapolation and parameter estimation in heterogeneous anisotropic media such as fractured shale reservoirs. The workshop was sponsored by the Jackson School of Geosciences at UT Austin, PGS, Schlumberger, and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
On October 24–25, 30 researchers and students, including representatives from eight sponsor companies, attended the Fall meeting of the Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology (TCCS) in Austin. Fourteen research presentations by TCCS staff covered such topics as elastic imaging, full waveform inversion, seismic interpretation, time-lapse image registration, seismic diffraction imaging, and seismic anisotropy. The event also included an overview of the TexNet seismic-monitoring program and a tour of the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
Some of the attendees of the 17th International Workshop on Seismic Anisotropy (17IWSA) gather for a photo at Horseshoe Bay, Texas
