AGENDA

UT-Dallas Geophysical Consortium

2004 Annual Sponsor's Meeting

March 3 & 4, 2004 

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


      WEDNESDAY MAR 3: MORNING SCHEDULE
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      9:30 - 10:00 REGISTRATION, COFFEE AND LATE BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)

      10:00 - 10:15 SUMMARY OF 2003 PROJECTS AND CONSORTIUM HIGHLIGHTS

         George McMechan

      10:15 - 12:00 SEISMIC MIGRATION AND VELOCITY ANALYSIS
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         Weihong Fei       Fast 2-D Model-Based Migration Velocity 
                           Analysis and Reflector Shape Estimation

         Feng Deng         True Amplitude Migration (Project Proposal)

         Weihong Fei       2-D Reflectorless Tomographic Migration Velocity 
                           Analysis

         Hui Chang         Velocity Analysis by Inversion of Anisotropic 
                           Data (Project Proposal)


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

      WEDNESDAY MAR 3: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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       1:00 - 3:15 ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS 
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         Feng Deng         Fast Square-root Approximations for One-way Wave
                           Equations

         Xiaoxian Zeng     VSP Geophone Rotations for the Vinton Dome Data

         Abrahim Shogar    Comparison of Parsimonious and Reverse-Time
                           Migrations of a Land Field Data Set (Project
                           Proposal) 

         Yanrong Hu        Imaging Mining Hazards within Coal Beds using
                           Prestack Elastic Reverse-time Migration of
                           In-seam Seismic Survey Data

         Nistala Suresh    3-D 3-C Seismic Modeling in Anisotropic Media

         Xiaoxian Zeng     Cluster Hardware Update


      3:15 - 3:30  COFFEE BREAK


      3:30 - 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)
                       
        Zijian Zhang     Elastic Inversion and Interpretation of Seismic 
                         Data from Hydrate Ridge. Offshore Oregon

        Keumsuk Lee      GPR Survey of a Delta-Front Analog in the Wall Creek 
                         Formation at the Murphy's Reservoir Site, Wyoming

        Shaoming Lu      Elastic Impedance Inversion of Multi-Channel
                         Seismic Data for Estimation of Gas Hydrate and 
                         Free Gas

        Suresh Nistala   Use of GPR to Locate Engineering Foundation
                         Anomalies

        Gislain Madiba   Simultaneous AVO Elastic Inversion of a 2-D Seismic
                         Data Set from the North Viking Graben, North Sea

        Hui Chang        Inversion of Underground Structures Beneath Station HIA
                         from the SV Receiver Function

        Gordon Davison   Seismic Exploration in Africaa's Hardrock Environments:
                         The Search for Uncoral Reefs

        Geosciences Department  Overview of Activities in Geosciences at UTD

      5:30 BANQUET IN THE GREEN CENTER


      THURSDAY MARCH 4: MORNING SCHEDULE
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      8:30 - 9:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)


      9:00 - 10:15 RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION
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         Keumsuk Lee       3-D Internal Architecture, Prediction of 
                           Concretion Distribution, and 3-D Fluid 
                           Permeability from GPR Data

         Upendra Tiwari    Efects of Incomplete Parameterization on 
                           Inversion of Full-wavefield Viscoelastic 
                           Seismic Data for Petrophysical Reservoir 
                           Properties

         Yanrong Hu        Coalbed Methane; a Review


      10:15 - 10:30  COFFEE BREAK

      10:30 - 11:45 SEISMOLOGY OF GAS HYDRATES
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        Gordon Davison    3-D Seismic Study of a Gas Hydrate Occurance
                          in Offshore Angola, West Africa (Project
                          Proposal).

        Zijian Zhang      Elastic AVA Inversion Study of Gas Hydrates 
                          on the Oregon Continental Margin

        Ashwani Dev       Seismic Characterization of Gas Hydrates in
                          the Gulf of Mexico (Project Proposal)

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


      THURSDAY MARCH 4: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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      12:45 - 2:15   3-D AND 4-D SEISMOLOGY
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         Upendra Tiwari    Time Lapse Reservoir Characterization in a 
                           Viscoelastic Gas Sandstone Reservoir (Project 
                           Proposal)

         Abay Aibaidula    Interpretation of Tuguhu 3-D Seismic Data, 
                           Gungar Basin (Case Study)

         Yogesh Agnihotri  3-D Prestack Parsimonious Migration of 
                           Multicomponent VSP Data by Determining Ray 
                           Incident Directions using Polarization Analysis

         Abay Aibaidula    Processing of 3-D Seismic Data from the 
                           Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma
         

      2:15 - 2:30  COFFEE BREAK
      2:30 - 2:45  SUMMARY OF OTHER 2003 PROJECTS

         George McMechan 

      2:45 - 3:00  DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

      3:00 ADJOURN TO SNACKS & COFFEE, INFORMAL TOUR OF FACILITIES