Seminar Schedule
The BSL Seminar regularly takes place Tuesdays at 4:00pm (PST) unless otherwise noted. Seminars will be hybrid with in-person people joining from the BSL Conference Room (220 McCone Hall) and many others joining virtually. Please email Barbara Romanowicz (barbarar@berkeley.edu) to be added to the mailing list to receive the Zoom link.
Spring 2024 Seminars
Name | Affiliation | Title | |
January 23 | Mengsu HU | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Modeling chemo-mechanical effects on multiscale roughness |
January 30 | No Seminar- USGS Hazards Workshop | ||
February 6 | Rudy Wenk | UC Berkeley | Seismic anisotropy of rocks: from serpentine to hydrous mantle phases |
February 13 | Mark Richards | UC Berkeley | Chasing Darwin’s Shadow: Geophysics and Evolution in the Galapagos |
February 20 | Aaron Micallef | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute | A paradigm shift towards finer scale field measurements in seafloor geomorphology |
February 27 | Max Rudolph | UC Davis | Cracks and eruptions on icy moons |
March 5 | Jeremy Rekier | Obs. Royal de Belgique | Free oscillations in the Earth's liquid core, an overview |
March 12 | Arben Pitarka | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Physics-based Ground Motion Modeling and Simulations in the San Francisco Bay Area using High Performance Computing |
March 19 | Eric Dunham | Stanford | Forensic seismic analysis and source modeling of the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline sabotage |
March 26 | Spring Break | ||
April 2 | Larry Hutchings | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Rock Physics Applied to Interpreting Tomographic Images of Elastic Parameters for Geothermal Reservoir Identification and Characterization in the Philippines and Taiwan |
April 9 | Robert Skoumal | USGS Moffett Field | Improving focal mechanisms with machine learning |
April 16 | Solene Antoine | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Kilometer-wide shallow bulk plastic yielding around continental active faults, and its relation to the earthquake source and fault structure |
April 23 | Betsy Madden | San Jose State University | Contributions and challenges of fault and earthquake modeling in seismic hazard assessment |