Seminar Schedule

BSL Earthquake of the Week

Conference Room Projector Instructions

Weekly seminars: Tuesdays at 4pm in McCone 265

	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 22	Tom Heaton	Caltech	The statistics of long-period ground motion; is probabilistic design of tall buildings feasible?
January 29	Weisen Shen	U. Colorado, Boulder	Modeling the crust and uppermost mantle of W. US from surface wave and receiver functions
February 5	Michael Pasyanos	LLNL	LITHO1.0 – An updated crust and lithospheric model of the Earth developed using multiple data constraints
February 12	Jane Kanitpanyacharoen	UC Berkeley, EPS	Exit Seminar, Synchrotron X-ray applications toward an understanding of elastic anisotropy
February 19	Brandon Schmandt	University of New Mexico	Mantle seismic structure beneath USArray and the origin of the Yellowstone hotspot
February 26	Nathan Simmons	LLNL	Global P-wave tomography for prediction of regional and teleseismic travel times
March 5	Ru-shan Wu	UCSC	Break the border of the Linear Kingdom of waveform inversion
March 12	Walter Mooney	USGS, Menlo Park	Understanding Intraplate Earthquakes
March 19	Satoshi Ide	University of Tokyo,ERI	The mechanism and spatial variation of slow earthquakes
March 26	Holiday
April 2	Lars Hansen	Stanford	Feeling olivine fabrics: Implications of seismic anisotropy for the mechanical properties of upper mantle
April 9	Jianbao Sun	Visiting Scholar, BSL	Probabilistic inversion of geodetic data with applications to recent large earthquakes
April 16	Lori Dengler	Humboldt State	Three decades of chasing tsunamis: successes, failures and challenges
MONDAY, April 22 (Note special day.)	Rob Porritt	BSL	Exit Seminar - Tracing the Farallon plate through seismic imaging with USArray
April 30	No BSL Seminar		Prof Barbara Romanowicz will be giving the Chancellor's Research Lecture at International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.
May 7	Sanne Cottaar	BSL	Exit Seminar - Piles and puddles in the deep mantle