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AGENDA

2002 UTD Geophysical Consortium Meeting

 (March 6-7, 2002)


                         THE GALAXY CONFERENCE ROOMS
                          UTD STUDENT UNION BUILDING
                      The University of Texas at Dallas      


      WEDNESDAY MAR 6: MORNING SCHEDULE
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      9:30 - 10:00 REGISTRATION, COFFEE AND LATE BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)

      10:00 - 10:15 SUMMARY OF 2001 PROJECTS AND CONSORTIUM HIGHLIGHTS

         George McMechan

      10:15 - 12:00 SEISMIC IMAGING AND MIGRATION 
                    =============================

         Biaolong Hua      Parsimonious 2-D Prestack Kirchhoff Migration   

         Zhou Yu           Wavelet-transform-based Prestack Multi-resolution
                           Kirchhoff Migration 

         Menno Dillen      Prestack recursive time lapse imaging and
                           interferometry

         Biaolong Hua      3-D Parsimonious Post- and Pre-Stack Kirchhoff
                           Migration

         Zhou Yu           Wavelet-Radon domain de-aliasing and
                           interpolation of seismic data


      12:00 - 1:15 BUFFET LUNCH & INFORMAL DISCUSSION (GALAXY ROOM)

      WEDNESDAY MAR 6: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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      1:15 - 2:30  SEISMIC DATA PROCESSING AND INTERPRETATION
                   ==========================================

         Gislain Madiba    Processing, inversion, and interpretation of
                           a 2-D data set from the North Viking Graben,
                           North Sea

         Keumsuk Lee       Geologic evolution and petroleum systems of the
                           Cuu Long and Nam Con Son Basins, Offshore
                           Southern Vietnam, South China Sea

         Shaoming Lu       Reprocessing and elastic impedance inversion
                           of multi-channel seismic data for gas hydrates
                           and free gas


      2:30 - 2:45  COFFEE BREAK

      2:45 - 4:15  VELOCITY ESTIMATION AND MODEL BUILDING
                   ======================================
         Shi Chen        Summary of velocity estimation methods

         Maulin Patel    Building 2-D stratigraphic and structure
                         models from well log data and control horizons

         Weihong Fei     3-D velocity and depth estimation


      4:15 - 5:30 POSTERS AND INFORMAL DISCUSSION
                  ===============================

      POSTERS (WILL BE UP BOTH DAYS)

        Zijian Zhang     Seismic characteristics of sub-bottom oceanic 
                         sediments for mining polymetallic nodules:
                         Chinese exploration in the western Pacific.

        Keumsuk Lee et al.  Characterization of a delta front reservoir
                         analog in Wyoming

        Bob Szerbiak     3-D characterization of a clastic reservoir 
                         analog; From 3-D migrated GPR data to a 3-D 
                         fluid permeability model to fluid flow simulations

        Shi Chen         Application of nonlinear discriminant functions 
                         for hydrocarbon prediction

        Weihong Fei      Extraction of shear wave velocity profiles
                         from ambient noise

        Don Moore        Tour of the new cluster computer (in FA2.102)
                       

      5:30 BANQUET IN THE GREEN CENTER


      THURSDAY MARCH 7: MORNING SCHEDULE
      ----------------------------------

      8:45 - 9:15 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)

      9:15 - 10:00  PETROPHYSICS 
                    ============

         Adam Koesoemadinata Correlations between seismic parameters, EM
                             parameters and petrophysical/petrological
                             parameters for sandstone 
         
         Robert Szerbiak     Electrical and petrophysical parameter 
                             modeling and inversion for the Ferron 
                             Sandstone


      10:00 - 10:15  COFFEE BREAK


      10:15 - 11:45   NEW PROJECTS IN RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION
                      ==========================================

        Xiaoxian Zeng     3-D imaging of Vinton Dome data

        Gislain Madiba    Processing and inversion of data from  
                          the Alberta foothills

        Shaoming Lu       3-D seismic study of gas hydrates in offshore
                          Angola, West Africa.

        Zijian Zhang      Detailed seismic study of gas hydrates on the
                          Oregon continental margin


      11:45 - 12:45  LUNCH & INFORMAL DISCUSSION (GALAXY ROOM)


      THURSDAY MARCH 7: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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      12:45 - 2:30   SEISMIC MODELING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING
                     =======================================

         Xiaoxian Zeng     Development of a PC cluster for geophysical
                           computing at UTD; Status report

         Pratik Patel      MPI implementation of 2-D acoustic modeling

         Stig Hestholm     3-D viscoelastic finite-difference modeling in
                           transformed coordinates

         Menno Dillen      Comparison of algorithms for 3-D viscoelastic
                           finite-difference modeling

         Stig Hestholm     Free surface topography boundary conditions in
                           3-D seismic modeling.

      2:30 - 2:45  COFFEE BREAK
      2:45 - 3:00  SUMMARY OF OTHER 2001 PROJECTS

         George McMechan 

      3:00 - 3:15  DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

      3:15 ADJOURN TO SNACKS & COFFEE, INFORMAL TOUR OF FACILITIES

 


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