Editing Austin 2012 (section)

== Speakers ==

* '''Salah Alhadab''' joined Saudi Aramco as Geophysical System Analyst in 2003, after receiving a BS degree in Computer Science. He worked at the Seismic Data Processing Support Group in Saudi Aramco before coming to the University of Texas at Austin, where he is pursuing an MS degree.
* '''Esteban Díaz''' is a graduate student at the Center for Wave Phenomena at Colorado School of Mines, currently enrolled in the M.Sc. program. He is a geophysical engineer (2008) from the Universidad Simón Bolívar. He has worked in seismic data processing and depth imaging. His research interests are image processing, depth imaging, migration velocity analysis and geostatistics.
* '''Sergey Fomel''' has been working at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin since 2002 and currently has an Associate Professor appointment, jointly with the Department of Geological Sciences. He received a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University in 2001 and worked previously at the Institute of Geophysics in Novosibirsk, Russia, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Sergey started work on Madagascar (at that time named RSF for Regularly Sampled Format) in 2003. http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/researcher/sergey_fomel/
* '''Jingwei Hu''' is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), the University of Texas at Austin. Jingwei received her BS degree (2006) in computational mathematics from Peking University, China, and her PhD degree (2011) in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her interests are numerical methods and applied analysis for kinetic theory, conservation laws, quantum mechanics, high frequency waves, and seismic imaging. http://users.ices.utexas.edu/~hu/ 
* '''Parvaneh Karimi''' received her BS in Mining Engineering from Shahid Bahonar University, Iran, and her master's degree in Geophysics (Exploration Seismology) from the University of Tehran. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. 
* '''Siwei Li''' graduated from Peking University with a Bachelor's Degree in Geophysics and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the University of Texas at Austin. 
* '''Paul Sava''' is an Associate Professor of Geophysics and a member of the Center for Wave Phenomena at Colorado School of Mines. He holds an Engineering degree in Geophysics (1995) from the University of Bucharest, an M.Sc. (1998) and a Ph.D. (2004) in Geophysics from Stanford University where he was a member of the Stanford Exploration Project. His research interests are in wavefield seismic imaging, stochastic imaging and inversion, computational methods for wave propagation, numeric optimization and high performance computing. http://newton.mines.edu/paul/home.php