AGENDA

UT-Dallas Geophysical Consortium

2003 Annual Sponsor's Meeting

March 5 & 6, 2003 

                        THE GALAXY CONFERENCE ROOMS

                         UTD STUDENT UNION BUILDING

                     The University of Texas at Dallas

      WEDNESDAY MAR 5: MORNING SCHEDULE

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      9:30 - 10:00 REGISTRATION, COFFEE AND LATE BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)

      10:00 - 10:15 SUMMARY OF 2002 PROJECTS AND CONSORTIUM HIGHLIGHTS

          George McMechan

      10:15 - 12:15 SEISMIC IMAGING AND MIGRATION 

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         Biaolong Hua      3-D Parsimonious Kirchhoff Depth Migration

         Weihong Fei       Fast 2-D Model-Based Migration Velocity

                           Analysis and Reflector Shape Estimation

         Abrahim Shogar    Comparison of Ray-Based and Wave-Equation-Based

                           Migrations on a Land Field Data Set (Project

                           Proposal) 

         Xiaoxian Zeng     Processing of VSP Data from the Vinton Dome

         Menno Dillen      Recursive Depth Interferometry of Prestack

                           Time Lapse Seismic Wave Fields

      12:15 - 1:30 BUFFET LUNCH & INFORMAL DISCUSSION (REGENCY-3 ROOM)

      WEDNESDAY MAR 5: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE

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      1:30 - 2:45  DRILLING HAZARDS AND GAS HYDRATES

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        Shaoming Lu       Seismic Characterization of Shallow

                          Water Flow in the Gulf of Mexico

        Zijian Zhang      Elastic AVA Inversion Study of Gas Hydrates

                          on the Oregon Continental Margin

        Gordon Davison    3-D Seismic Study of a Gas Hydrate Occurance

                          in Offshore Angola, West Africa (Project

                          Proposal).

      2:45 - 3:00  COFFEE BREAK

      3:00 - 5:00 POSTERS AND INFORMAL DISCUSSION

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      POSTERS (WILL BE UP BOTH DAYS)

        Don Moore        Tour of the Cluster Computer (in FA2.102)

        Bob Loucks et al. Characterizing the Three-Dimensional Architecture

                         of a Coalesced, Collapsed Paleocave System in the

                         Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group

        Biaolong Hua     Parsimonious 2-D Post- and Pre-Stack Kirchhoff

                         Depth Migration

        Gislain Madiba   Simultaneous AVO Elastic Inversion of a 2-D

                         Seismic Data Set from the North Viking Graben,

                         North Sea

        Keumsuk Lee et al.  Characterization of a Delta Front Reservoir

                         Analog in Wyoming

        Bob Szerbiak     Electrical and Petrophysical Parameter Modeling 

                         and Inversion of Ferron Sandstone Data

        Shaoming Lu      Elastic Impedance Inversion of Multi-Channel

                         Seismic Data for Estimation of Gas Hydrate and

                         Free Gas

        Geosciences Department  Overview of Activities in Geosciences at UTD

      5:30 BANQUET IN THE GREEN CENTER

      THURSDAY MARCH 6: MORNING SCHEDULE

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

      9:15 - 10:30 RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION

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         Gislain Madiba    Seismic Impedance Inversion and Interpretation

                           of a Gas Carbonate Reservoir in the Alberta

                           Foothills, Western Canada

         Keumsuk Lee       GPR Survey of a Delta-Front Reservoir Analog 

                           in the Wall Creek Formation, Wyoming

         Upendra Tiwari    Estimation of Water/Gas Saturation and

                           Effective Pressure from Seismic Velocities

                           and Quality Factors as Functions of Frequency:

                           Predictions of an Empirical Model

       10:30 - 10:45  COFFEE BREAK

      10:45 - 11:45 SEISMIC MODELING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING I

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         Pratik Patel      2-D Acoustic and 3-D Viscoelastic Modeling:

                           A High-Performance Cluster Computing Approach

                           using MPI 

         Maulin Patel      Doubling the Speed of Fourier Transforms:

                           Almost Two for the Price of One

         Stig Hestholm     Accurate 3-D Viscoelastic Modeling in a

                           Coordinate-transformed Velocity-stress

                           Formulation

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

      THURSDAY MARCH 6: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE

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      12:45 - 2:00   SEISMIC MODELING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING II

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         Stig Hestholm     A Synthetic Moving Source: Topography and Plane

                           Surface Comparisons.

         Nistala Suresh    3-D Seismic Modeling of Fracture-induced 

                           Anisotropy

         Menno Dillen      Visco-elastic Modeling and Ranging of a Variable

                           Speed Moving Surface Source.

      2:00 - 2:15  COFFEE BREAK

      2:15 - 2:30  SUMMARY OF OTHER 2002 PROJECTS

         George McMechan 

      2:30 - 2:45  DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

      2:45 ADJOURN TO SNACKS & COFFEE, INFORMAL TOUR OF FACILITIES