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 Richard Allen (rallen@berkeley.edu) to be added to the mailing list to receive the Zoom link.
Spring 2026 Seminars
| Name | Affiliation | Title | |
| January 20 | Yuan Tian | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Analysis of seismic waves amplification in sedimentary basins using 3-D wavefield simulation |
| January 27 | Christie Rowe | University of Nevada, Reno | Fault architecture, fault rocks, and the controls on (and records of) transient fault behavior |
| February 3 | Brad Lipovsky | University of Washington | TBD |
| February 10 | Sonia Tikoo | Stanford | TBD |
| February 17 | Yuxin Wu | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Fiber Optic Sensing for Reliable Energy Systems |
| February 24 | Jim Gaherty | Northern Arizona University | TBD |
| March 3 | Emilie Hooft | University of Oregon | TBD |
| March 10 | Robin Matoza | University of California, Santa Barbara | TBD |
| March 17 | Eric Dunham | Stanford | TBD |
| March 24 | Spring Break | ||
| March 31 | Nate Lindsey | Fibersense | Fiber Sensing |
| April 7 | Kate Scharer | USGS | TBD |
| April 14 | SSA | ||
| April 21 | Eyal Shalev or Vladimir Lyakhovsky | Geological Survey of Israel | Quantifying in-situ rock damage using groundwater pressure changes and seismological observations |
| April 28 | Wu-Cheng Chi | Academia Sinica | Hydroseismology: observing typhoon forcing, internal waves, and submarine mass flows |