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