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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