Background

During the inaugural year for the newly established IPRPI center, we are organizing day-long workshops to discuss inverse problems (or "imaging") in a number of disciplines. The first in this series is devoted to Geophysical Imaging. The focus will be on seismic imaging, both active and passive, with an aside to magnetotellurics (MT) and the potential for integrating MT and seismic investigations.

Schedule

The workshop will take place on 30 January, 2004. A proto-agenda appears below.

Location

The workshop will be held in the Fischbach Room in RPI's Folsom Library located at the western edge of campus.

The RPI home page (www.rpi.edu) has some nice resources to help you figure out how to get here and find your way on campus. Click on the "Tour & Map" button in the upper right corner of that page.

Driving directions can be found at:

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/NewsComm/sub/tour/driving.html

and a campus map is available at:

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/NewsComm/sub/tour/campusmap.html

Note that Folsom Library is located near the bottom of this map.

The Fischbach room has a computer projector and is internet capable. We will also have overhead projectors available. We can probably find slide projectors if necessary - they should be in the same closet as our 8 track tape player.

We have asked a few of our colleagues (see agenda below) to give formal presentations on their areas of expertise to serve as a focus for discussion. We are hoping to maintain an emphasis on discussion and participation, and encourage all participants to bring overheads/powerpoint/PDFs along with them.

Agenda

The following is our current best guess at agenda (any additional modifications will be second order)

8:30-8:45	Continental Breakfast/Caffeine Upload
8:45-9:00	Welcome and Introduction
9:00-10:00	Vadim Levin (Rutgers) A Sharper Image: Receiver Function Analysis of Massive Digital Data Sets.
10:00-10:15	Discussion and break
10:15-11:15	Gary Pavlis (Indiana University) Direct Imaging of Forward-Scattered, Elastic Wavefields: Progress and Future Directions
11:15-11:30	Discussion and break
11:30-12:30	Steve Park (UC Riverside) Magnetotelluric Data: The "Empty" Method or Neccessary Adjunct to Seismic Imaging?
12:30-1:30	Discussion and Lunch
1:30-2:30	John Hole (Virginia Tech) Tomographic Inversion of Wide-Angle Seismic Data
2:30-2:45	Discussion and break
2:45-3:45	Biondo Biondi (Stanford) Imaging of complex structures by 3-D reflection seismic data
3:45-4:45	Discussion and break
4:45-6:00	"Cocktail Hour" (wings/chips/pizza/beer/soda) Discussions and short presentations We anticipate presentations by Raffaella Montelli and Ying Zhou of Princeton on applications of "banana-doughnut" imaging.

Notes:
1. I will replace the "broad theme" descriptions (Passive Source, Active Source, MT) with talk titles as they become available.
2. We will provide lunch; probably a buffet just outside the Fischbach Room so you won't need to interupt your discussions for a hunter-gatherer excursion.
3. The "Cocktail Hour" will also be held during discussion/presentation time to keep participants from fainting due to lack of calories.

For those of you who want to arrive Thursday (or before) and leave Saturday (or after), there are a number of places to stay in the Troy/Albany/Schenectady area that are convenient to RPI, spanning the entire gamut from luxury suite to spider hole (with air vent).

We have reserved a block of rooms at this pretty reasonable place close to campus:

Franklin Square Inn and Suites
One Fourth Street
Troy, NY 12180
Ph: 518-274-8800 
Fax: 518-274-0427
email: fssuites@yahoo.com

When you request a room, you should mention: "RPI Workshop on Geophysical Imaging"

The rooms will be held until January 15. If they run out of space, or if you have any other lodging issues that you need help resolving, contact Steve Roecker (roecks@rpi.edu) or Alice Baker (mclauj@rpi.edu) and we will do what we can.

For more information, or to report gross deficiencies in this web announcement, please contact Steve Roecker at roecks@rpi.edu or call him at 518-276-6773. Also, if you are planning on coming and haven't told Steve yet, please drop him an email so he can keep a head count. Thanks.

This page was last updated on 8 January, 2004