AGENDA

UT-Dallas Geophysical Consortium

2005 Annual Sponsor's Meeting

March 3 & 4, 2005 

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


       THURSDAY 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 2004 PROJECTS AND CONSORTIUM HIGHLIGHTS

          George McMechan

       10:15 - 12:00 SEISMIC MIGRATION AND VELOCITY ANALYSIS
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          Weihong Fei      2-D reflectorless tomographic seismic migration
                           velocity analysis

          Feng Deng        True amplitude migration: correction for transmission
                           losses and attenuation in the time/space domain

          Weihong Fei      3-D Reflectorless tomographic seismic migration
                           velocity analysis

          Andrey Ortega    3D post-stack directional depth migration

          Hui Chang        3-D full-wavefield acoustic inversion for anisotropic
                           parameter estimation


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

       THURSDAY MAR 3: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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       1:00 - 2:00 ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS I
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          Ashwani Dev       Correction of seismic AVO data for recording
                            group effects in the wavenumber domain

          Ibrahim Basi      Husky data processing and parsimonious migration
                            (Project Proposal)

          Yanrong Hu        Effects of Cheng's correction to Hudson's model
                            with examples of 3-D elastic modeling in anisotropic
                            media (Project Proposal)

       2:00 - 2:15  COFFEE BREAK







       2:15 - 3:45 ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS II
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          Sandip Chattopadhyay  Seismic modeling with the spectral element
                            method (Project proposal)

          Suresh Nistala    3-D modeling of fracture-induced shear-wave
                            splitting in the southern California Basin

          Abay Aibaidula    Using AVS inversion and geostatistics to estimate
                            rock properties (Project proposal)

          Xiaoxian Zeng     Cluster hardware update; the move to 64 bit processors

       3:45 - 4:00  COFFEE BREAK

       4:00 - 5:00 POSTERS AND INFORMAL DISCUSSION (POSTERS WILL BE UP BOTH DAYS)
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         Don Moore        Tour of the Cluster Computer (in FA2.102)

         Keumsuk Lee      3-D internal architecture, prediction of concretion
                          distribution, and 3-D fluid permability from GPR data

         Upendra Tiwari   Effects of incomplete parameterization on inversion of
                          full-wavefield viscoelastic seismic data for petro-
                          physical reservoir properties

         Zijian Zhang     Elastic inversion and interpretation of seismic data
                          from Hydrate Ridge, Offshore Oregon

         Feng Deng        Stable 3-D depth explicit extrapolation in hybrid
                          pseudo-screen migration via McClellan Transformation

         Geosciences Department  Overview of Activities in Geosciences at UTD

       5:30 BANQUET IN THE GREEN CENTER

       FRIDAY 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       GPR architecture of a top-truncated mixed-influenced
                            delta in the Frontier Formation, Wyoming

          Ashwani Dev       Seismic characterization of gas hydrates in the
                            Gulf of Mexico (Project proposal)

          Upendra Tiwari    Estimation of effective pressure and water
                            saturation by viscoelastic inversion of synthetic
                            time-lapse data for a gas sandstone reservoir

          Yanrong Hu        Seismic characteristics of coalbed methane reservoirs
                            (Project proposal)








       10:15 - 10:30  COFFEE BREAK

       10:30 - 11:45 3-D / 3-C SEISMOLOGY
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          Xiaoxian Zeng     Orientation of 3-C VSP data

          Yogesh Agnihotri  Prestack parsimonious migration of 3-C 3-D VSP
                            data using ray directions from polarization analysis.

          Abay Aibaidula    Processing angle dependent inversion and interpre-
                            tation of a 3D seismic data set from the Ouachita
                            Mountains,  Oklahoma.

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


       FRIDAY MARCH 4: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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       12:45 - 2:00   3-D AND 4-D SEISMOLOGY
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          Hui Chang         3-D full-wavefield elastic inversion for anisotropic
                            parameter estimation with application to the
                            Borburata field, Venezuela (Project proposal)

          Yogesh Agnihotri  Structure and stratigraphy in the Vinton Dome
                            (Project proposal)

          Upendra Tiwari    Analysis of time-lapse eismic data from the
                            Gannet B Field, Central North Sea, UK (Project
                            proposal)

       2:00 - 2:15  COFFEE BREAK
       2:15 - 2:30  SUMMARY OF OTHER 2004 PROJECTS

          George McMechan

       2:30 - 2:45  DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

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