Houston 2010

 

Madagascar School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics and Hands-On Workshop
Sponsored by PTTC Texas/SE New Mexico Region

 

Program

Day 1: Friday, July 23
9:00-10:30	Introduction (Sergey Fomel)
	The Madagascar project has been in public existence for four years. Madagascar provides a complete environment for organizing one's research, from new software development to running computational experiments to publishing the experimental results in papers and reports, archiving them for future usage, and sharing them with colleagues and sponsors. The introductory presentation will describe the history of the project, the Madagascar components and design principles, and the future development goals.
10:30-10:45	break
10:45-12:15	Workflows in SCons and automatic testing (Jim Jennings)
	The rich and well-documented Python syntax used in SConstruct files provides great flexibility when coding Madagascar SCons workflows. In the first part of this module a few geostatistical workflows will be presented to illustrate some useful techniques. Two important components of the Madagascar design goals are reproducibility and regression testing. In the second part of this module our progress towards these goals will be discussed and some of the built-in tools for automatic testing will be presented.
12:15-1:15	Lunch
1:15-2:45	Seismic finite-difference modeling and migration example (Paul Sava)
	The theoretical part of this module provides an overview of reverse-time imaging methodology applied to wavefield seismic data. The main technique discussed is reverse-time migration with emphasis on modern imaging conditions which enable migration velocity analysis and amplitude-versus-angle analysis. The applied part demonstrates this technique on a complex geologic model using Madagascar codes in a fully reproducible setup.
2:45-3:00	break
3:00-4:30	Discussion
	Open Q&A session and discussions on the future development of Madagascar
5:30-8:00	Dinner and Madagascar 1.0 celebration

 

Day 2: Saturday, July 24
9:00-10:30	Programming with Madagascar (Tariq Alkhalifah)
10:30-10:45	break
10:45-11:15	Vplot graphics language - past, present, and future (Joe Dellinger)
11:15-12:15	Plotting and high-performance computing with Madagascar (Vladimir Bashkardin)
12:15-1:15	Lunch
1:15-2:45	Seismic field data processing example (Ioan Vlad)
2:45-3:00	break
3:00-4:30	Discussion
	Open Q&A session and discussions on the future development of Madagascar

Location

The University of Texas at Austin
Bureau of Economic Geology
Houston Research Center

Address

• 11611 West Little York Rd
• Houston, Texas 77041, USA
• Driving directions

Registration

Register by filling the Registration Form.

The registration cost is $300 and includes morning refreshments, lunch, Friday dinner, and instructor handouts.

The registration is free for graduate students. If you are a graduate student, please e-mail pttc@beg.utexas.edu to obtain a discount code.

Speaker biographies

• Tariq Alkhalifah https://sites.google.com/a/kaust.edu.sa/tariq/
• Vladimir Bashkardin is currently a PhD student in geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the research group of Dr. Sergey Fomel at UT Austin, he worked as a software engineer for Paradigm (former Paradigm Geophysical) with specialization in seismic data visualization and interpretation. He also was a part-time lecturer at Gubkin Oil and Gas University (Moscow, Russia), an industry-oriented school from which he holds a degree in exploration geophysics.
• Joe Dellinger graduated with a PhD in Geophysics from the Stanford Exploration Project in 1991 and currently works for BP in Houston, specializing in anisotropy and multicomponent seismology. Joe has often provided advice to the SEG (much of it unsolicited) on how they should best advance into the brave new online/digital world, for which he was awarded Life Membership in 2001. Joe currently is the editor of the Software and Algorithms section of GEOPHYSICS, and maintains the accompanying software and data website. http://software.seg.org
• 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.beg.utexas.edu/fomel/
• Jim Jennings http://www.aapg.org/education/dist_lect/jennings.cfm
• Paul Sava http://newton.mines.edu/paul/home.php
• Ioan "Nick" Vlad