UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory/

Seminar Series Spring 2009 Program

Location: 265 McCone Hall, UC Berkeley
Tuesdays, 4-5pm

Date

Speaker

Institution

Talk title

January 27

Michael Pasyanos

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Broadband Lg Attenuation Modeling in the Middle East

February 3

Karl Kappler

Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

Long-Term Monitoring of ULF Electromagnetic Fields at Parkfield CA

February 10

David Oglesby

University of California, Riverside

Fault Dynamics and Ground Motion on the North Anatolian Fault in the Sea of Marmara

February 17

Steve Morris

University of California, Berkeley

On a similarity principle relating attenuation of seismic waves to creep at Geological Timescales

February 24

Catherine Rychert

University of California, San Diego

A Global Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary

March 3

Matt Fouch

Arizona State University

Plate Tectonics and the Mantle Flow Field Beneath Western North America

March 10

Stephen Stackhouse

University of California, Berkeley

Insights into the lower mantle from ab initio simulations

March 17

Steve Myers

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Numerical experiments investigating the source of explosion S-waves

March 24

Spring Break

March 31

Mathias Obrebski

Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

Seismic Anisotropy Around the Northern Gulf of California Region from SKS Splitting and Receiver Functions

April 7

Hiroaki Matsui

University of California, Berkeley

Sub-grid scale model for geodynamo simulations

April 14

Lawson Lecture: 6:00 pm, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Chris Poland, Degenkolb Engineers,

"Building Resilient Communities: Fresh Challenges for Earthquake Professionals",

April 21

Ahyi Kim

Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

Exit Seminar: 1D and 3D effects on finite source inversion: Examples from Parkfield

April 28

Brendan Crowell

University of California, San Diego

California Real Time Network: Test bed for early warning systems

May 5

Nestor Cuevas

University of California, Berkeley

Exit Seminar: Electrokinetic coupling in hydraulic fracture propagation

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