Programme
Tuesday, July 12th
| Arrival of participants - Registration |
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| 18:00 |
Icebreaker - Dinner |
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| 21:30 |
Igel: QUEST workshop welcome Short intro of all QUEST researchers/projects. Short informal meeting of all QUEST funded researchers (Küppers) |
Wednesday, July 13th
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Data, Data, Data Modern aspects of seismic instrumentation, data acquisition, data analysis, and processing tools relevant for source and structural imaging (chairs: Sigloch, Montagner, Boschi) |
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| 08:30 |
Wassermann: Networks, instruments and data centres: what does your seismic (meta-) data really mean? |
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| 09:30 |
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| 10:00 |
Campillo: Quest for time precision in the recycling bin: monitoring the Earth evolution with ambient noise | |
| 11:00 |
Practicals: introduction, the problems, the rules |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch (Joint WP Forward Modelling and HPC Technical Luncheon) |
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| 14:00 |
Shearer: Mining large datasets: advice for the laptop seismologist | |
| 15:00 | Data, Data, Data: discussion | |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
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| 16:00 |
Poster Session I (e.g. Data, Correlations, Models, etc.) |
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| Abreu Solorzano: Generalized complex step finite difference approximations | ||
| Basini: Imaging nonuniform, frequency-dependent noise sources |
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| Bernauer: Measurements of translation, rotation and strain: New approaches to seismic processing and inversion | ||
| Cance: Non periodic homogenization for the elastic waves : An optimization method for strong spatial variations of the dominant wavelength | ||
| Cupillard: 3D implementation of the homogenization technique | ||
| Day: Frequency dependent P'P' precursor observations of small-scale variations of the 660 km seismic discontinuity |
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| De Vos: Sensitivity kernels of interstation cross-correlations | ||
| Durand: Heterogeneous lower mantle shear attenuation from ScS-S differential t* measurements via instantaneous frequency | ||
| Gei: Feasibility of estimation of vertical transverse isotropy from microseismic data recorded by surface monitoring arrays | ||
| Gualtieri: Modeling seismic noise by normal mode summation |
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| Hadziioannou: Examining ambient noise using co-located measurements of rotational and translational measurements |
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| Hosseini: Efficient Processing of Large Waveform Datasets for Global Finite-Frequency Tomography | ||
| Irving: Small scale heterogeneities in Earth's inner core | ||
| Koelemeijer: Normal mode sensitivity to Earth's deep mantle structure | ||
| Mäkinen: Global seismic observations of time variations in the Earth's inner core, and its rotation | ||
| Molinari: Quantitative assessment of European models using the spectral element method | ||
| Nader-Nieto: Observations of earth's free oscillations with rotational ground motion records |
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| Pfaffelmoser: Visualization Approaches for Uncertainty Analysis and Seismic Tomography | ||
| Poli: Observetion of body waves from seismic noise correlation |
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| Stutzmann: Observing and modelling seismic noise | ||
| Tauzin: Ps, Sp and SKSp scattering under western USA | ||
| Valentine: How much information is in a seismogram? Autoencoder networks for seismic data compression |
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| Waszek: Earth's upper inner core: hemispheres, anisotropy and rotation | ||
| Weemstra: Ambient noise cross-correlations applied to reservoir scale OBS-recordings |
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| Yu: Temporal Change of Seismic Wave Velocities Associated with the 2006 Mw 6.1 Taitung Earthquake in the Arc-Continent Collision Suture Zone of Southeast Taiwan | ||
| 19:00 |
Dinner |
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| 21:30 |
Midnight Special I: How to write a successful proposal (and why sometimes the best proposals don't get funded). Short presentation and panel discussion with experienced proponents (chairs: Nissen-Meyer, Bean, Sigloch) |
Thursday, July 14th
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Earthquake sources: modelling and inversion Aspects of forward and inverse modelling of finite sources in kinematic and dynamic problems, uncertainties of source inversion, time reversal (chairs: Brokesova, Vilotte, Ferreira) |
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| 08:30 |
Mai: Earthquake rupture inversions: the (ugly) past, the (not-quite-as-ugly) present, and the (hopefully bright) future |
| 09:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:00 |
Ampuero: Insights on earthquake rupture dynamics from source imaging by dense seismic arrays and networks |
| 11:00 |
Practicals |
| 12:30 |
Lunch (WP Source Technical Luncheon, and WP Industrial applications Technical Luncheon) |
| 14:00 |
Nielsen: Experimental and field constraints on seismic source models |
| 14:30 |
Hjorleifsdottir: Source inversion in a 3D Earth |
| 15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 |
Dalguer: Fault representation methods for spontaneous dynamic rupture simulation |
| 16:00 |
Source problems: discussion |
| 17:00 |
Poster Session II (e.g. Sources, Forward Problems, ect.) |
| Audet: Novel applications of receiver function data: Revealing the San Andreas fault in 4-D | |
| Baron: Numerical modeling of intermediate depth earthquakes in the Vrancea subduction zone |
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| Colombi: Seismic sensitivity to boundary perturbations |
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| Danecek: Wave propagation effects of the Cadiz Gulf sedimentary basin and the Strait of Gibraltar | |
| Dionicio: Multi-scale imaging of extended earthquake source radiation |
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| Eyre: Investigating seismic source mechanism using moment tensor inversion at Turrialba volcano, Costa Rica | |
| Galvez: 3D dynamic rupture earthquake simulations in complex fault systems using an unstructured spectral element method |
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| Lentas: Testing earthquake source models using broad-band seismic data |
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| Magnoni: Using SEM and Adjoint Methods for Central Italy Tomographic Inversion | |
| Mangeney: Slopes instabilities in the Dolomieu crater, la Réunion island : from the seismic signal to the rockfalls characteristics |
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| Meng: Rupture complexity of the 2011 M9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake revealed by High-resolution seismic array processing | |
| Moretti: Numerical modeling of the seismic signal generated by landslides | |
| Pelties: Three dimensional dynamic rupture modeling on unstructured meshes using a discontinuous galerkin method | |
| Razafindrakoto: Resolution Analysis of Tottori earthquake models from strong motion | |
| Rubino: Seismic attenuation and velocity dispersion in heterogeneous partially saturated porous media | |
| Sidler: Comparison of numerical simulations of seismic wave propagation in poroelastic media containing mesoscopic heterogeneities and corresponding visco-elastic equivalent solid composites | |
| Somala: Earthquake source inversion with very dense seismic data | |
| Su: Wave propagation modeling in highly heterogeneous media by a double-grid Chebyshev spectral element method |
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| Wenk: Application of the Discontinuous Galerkin method to complex geometry modeling of seismic wave propagation | |
| Weston: How well can InSAR derived earthquake source parameters explain observed seismic data? | |
| Zecevic: Source location and Moment Tensor Inversion for Mechanisms of LP Events Recorded on Piton de la Fournaise, La Réunion |
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| 19:30 |
Dinner |
| 21:30 |
Midnight Special II: Bunge: What geodynamicists need from seismology |
Friday, July 15th
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Iceland: a geophysical laboratory Introduction to the geophysics of Iceland: tectonics, volcanoes, seismicity, deep structure (chairs: Bean, Wassermann, Jonsson) |
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| 08:30 |
Gudmundsson: Iceland, earthquakes, earth's structure, and processes |
| 09:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:00 | Sigmundsson: Iceland geodynamics, crustal deformation and divergent plate tectonics |
| 11:00 |
Introduction to the excursion(s) |
| 12:00 |
Excursion (lunch box provided) |
| 19:30 |
Dinner |
| 21:30 |
Supervisory and Science Board Meetings |
Saturday, July 16th
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Structural inversion: probabilistic approaches, uncertainties, adjoints Fundamentals of the probabilistic approach, modern tools for uncertainty analysis, applications (chair: Fichtner, Morelli, Tromp) |
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| 08:30 |
Khan: Can one hear the shape of a drum? An elementary route to probabilistic inverse theory |
| 09:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:00 |
Curtis: Fast nonlinear probabilistic inversion for large geophysical problems |
| 11:00 |
Practicals |
| 12:30 |
Lunch (Joint WP Inversion and Geodynamics Technical Luncheon) |
| 14:00 |
Bodin: When one of the things you don't know is the number of things you don't know |
| 14:30 |
Tape: Navigating a sea of choices within a large-scale tomographic inversion |
| 15:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:30 |
Jonsson: Errors at fault: the problem of characterizing, including, and propagating geodetic data errors in model parameter estimations |
| 16.00 |
Inverse problems: discussion |
| 17:00 |
Poster Session III (e.g. Inversion, Tomography, Uncertainty, ect.) |
| Arroucau:Seismicity and crustal structure in the Eastern Tennessee seismic zone |
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| Bozdag: Spectral-element inversions of global CMT earthquakes for adjoint tomography | |
| Chang: Joint inversion for 3D S velocity and radial anisotropy of mantle structure along the Tethyan margin | |
| Colli: Full waveform tomography of the South Atlantic upper mantle | |
| De Wit: Towards quantifying uncertainties in travel time tomography using the null space shuttle | |
| Duchkov: Microseismic data inversion in anisotropic models | |
| Fichtner: Towards a comprehensive seismic model of the European mantle | |
| Fichtner: Resolution analysis in full waveform inversion | |
| Hung: Multi-scale, Finite-Frequency Travel-time Tomography of the Crust and Upper Mantle Structure in the Longmenshan Range and Sichuan Basin, SW China | |
| Käufl: Object-based Probabilistic Full Waveform Tomography - Methodology and Application to the Australian Continental Lithosphere | |
| Knaute: Finite frequency kernels for near-surface land-seismic data |
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| Martin Leon: Preliminary 3D Earth model for the Iberian-Magreb region | |
| Mosca: A global search apporach for ultrasonic surface wave measurements | |
| Peter: Adjoint tomography of the Middle East | |
| Rickers: Imaging mantle plumes using instantaneous phase and amplitude | |
| Schiemenz: Elastic full waveform inversion of the Valhall field OBC data : progress report |
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| Stähler: Waveform tomography of upper mantle discontinuities | |
| Twardzik: Kinematic inversion of the 2004 Parkfield earthquake based on elliptical sub-fault approximations |
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| Valentova: Love wave group velocities in Czech Republic |
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| Wang: Separation of intrinsic and extrinsic anisotropies by homogenization methods |
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| 19:30 |
Dinner |
| 21:30 |
Midnight Special III: Hanasoge: Adjoint tomography of sedimentary basins of the sun |
Sunday, July 17th
| 08:30 - 19:00 |
Excursion |
| 20:00 |
Dinner |
Monday, July 18th
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Forward Look: Challenges in Seismic Inverse problems and e-infrastructure New theoretical developments, projects on the horizon (chairs: Campillo, Capdeville, Seriani) |
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| 08:30 |
Tromp: Sensible choices for adjoint tomography: Misfits, model parameterization, preconditioning, smoothing, iterating |
| 09:00 | Fichtner: Resolution analysis in full waveform inversion |
| 09:30 |
Vilotte: Virtual Earthquake seismology Research Community e-science environment in Europe: a challenging and exciting new FP7-INFRA project |
| 10:00 |
Discussion |
| 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 |
Practical Groups present results |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 | QUEST Work Packages: WP leader presentations. Future activities and General Discussion |
| 17:00 | Soccer Game |
| 20:00 |
Conference Dinner |
Tuesday, July 19th
| 09:30 |
Participants leave |
Note to all speakers:
- 60 Minute time slot will STRICTLY correspond to 45 mins + 15 mins discussion
- 30 Minute time slot will STRICTLY correspond to 20 mins + 10 mins discussion
Poster Wall Format:
portrait (width 95cm, height 150cm)

