AGENDA

UT-Dallas Geophysical Consortium

2009 Annual Sponsor's Meeting

March 5 & 6, 2009

                                  

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


      THURSDAY MAR 5: MORNING SCHEDULE
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      9:15 - 9:45 REGISTRATION, COFFEE AND LATE BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)

      9:45 - 10:00 SUMMARY OF 2008 PROJECTS AND CONSORTIUM HIGHLIGHTS

         George McMechan

      10:00 - 12:00 SEISMIC MIGRATION AND VELOCITY ANALYSIS
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         Bao Nguyen       Source wavefield reconstruction techniques for 
                          prestack reverse-time migration: A comparative study

         Ernesto Oropeza  Parsimonious anisotropic prestack migration 

         Ting Gong        Velocity analysis for wave equation based processing 
                          with application to land field data with strong 
                          topography and near-surface velocity variations

         Kun Xu           Implementation of prestack reverse-time migration 
                          in the frequency domain 

         Ernesto Oropeza  Migration velocity analysis for anisotropic media


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

      THURSDAY MAR 5: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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      1:00 - 2:40     ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS    
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         Juanjuan Cao    Velocity-independent prediction of multiples
                         from slowness relations in 2-D

         Ashwani Dev     Anti-alias spatial filtering: A slowness-frequency
                         approach

         Juanjuan Cao    Velocity-independent prediction of multiples
                         from slowness relations in 3-D

         Gordon Davison  Detecting structures and stratigraphy in 3-D seismic
                         volumes





      2:40 - 2:50  COFFEE BREAK


      2:50 - 4:20 ALGORITHMS AND HARDWARE
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         Yanrong Hu      Elastic stiffness vs compliance: Theoretical issues

         Heru Rusmanugroho  3-D anisotropic elastic wavefield separation 

         Qunshan Zhang   3-D anisotropic elastic wavefield decomposition
                         in the wavenumber domain

         Xiaoxian Zeng   Cluster hardware update and the Texas 
                         Advanced Computing Center (TACC)


      4:20 - 5:15 POSTERS AND INFORMAL DISCUSSION (POSTERS WILL BE UP BOTH DAYS)
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        Ashwani Dev      Wavenumber domain correction to elastic seismic data
                         for recording groups

        Cambrey Salazar  3-D, 3-C Full-wavefield finite-difference anisotropic 
                         modeling of the fractured Barnett Shale

        Heru Rusmanugroho Sensitivity of 3-D 9-C wide azimuth data to changes
                         in fracture density and fluid content, in fractured
                         reservoirs

        Lee et al.       A 3-D GPR and wavelet transform analysis of the
                         morphology of shoreface deposits in the Upper Cretaceous
                         Ferron Sandstone Formation, Utah

        Feng Deng        3-D true amplitude prestack migration

        Yanrong Hu       3-D, 3-C full-wavefield modeling of strong anisotropy

        Juanjuan Cao     Multiple prediction and subtraction, from slowness
                         relations

        Geosciences Department  Overview of Activities in Geosciences at UTD

        Authors          Reprints of 2008 papers

      5:30 BANQUET IN THE MCDERMOTT SUITE (4TH FLOOR OF THE MCDERMOTT LIBRARY)






      FRIDAY MARCH 6: MORNING SCHEDULE
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      8:30 - 9:00 BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)

      9:00 - 10:15 FIELD DATA ANALYSIS
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         Jack Deans       Inversion of data from a carbonate reservoir in 
                          the Permian Basin

         Martin Nyamapfumba  Seismic attributes and interpretation of gas
                          hydrate data from Block 31, offshore Angola 

         Ashwani Dev      Interpreting the Effects of Structural Control on
                          Gas Hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico

      10:15 - 10:30     COFFEE BREAK


      10:30 - 11:50 3-D SEISMIC MODELING AND INVERSION
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         Yanrong Hu      3-C, 3-D seismic modeling for HTI media with
                         high crack density

         Heru Rusmanugroho AVO characterization from wide azimuth 9-C
                         seismic data

         Hui Chang       3-D full-wavefield elastic inversion for anisotropic
                         parameters


      11:50 - 12:50  LUNCH & INFORMAL DISCUSSION (GALAXY ROOM)

      FRIDAY MARCH 6: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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      12:50 - 2:05  RESERVOIR ANALOGS
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         Hussein Harbi   Tomography and 3D migration of an Ellenberger
                         reservoir analog, Burnet County, central Texas

         Xiaoxian Zeng   Imaging and analysis of Texas Gulf Coast barrier
                         bars as reservoir analogs

         Hussein Harbi   Porosity and permeability analysis using GPR
                         scattering and EM property inversions


      2:05 - 2:20  COFFEE BREAK

      2:20 - 2:40  SUMMARY OF OTHER 2008 PROJECTS

         George McMechan 

      2:40 - 3:05  DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

      3:05 ADJOURN TO SNACKS & COFFEE