Qingdao 2015
Introduction
Madagascar school has been organized many times around the word. It provides a platform for Madagascar users to learn and communicate with the developers. This Madagascar school will introduce the advanced usages for the users with fundamental knowledge of Madagascar. Besides the lecture section, this school will also features a discussion section, in which the participants are welcome to share the research experiences using Madagascar. This Madagascar school is convened by Pro. Sergey Fomel, and hosted by Pro. Qizhen Du.
Dates
August 8-9, 2015.
Agenda
| Before the school: Friday, August 7, 2015 | ||
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| 12:00-4:00 | Bring your laptop and get individual help with Madagascar | |
| Gang Fang, Yang Liu, Zhiguang Xue | ||
| Day 1: Saturday, August 8, 2015 | ||
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| 8:00-8:20 | Welcome (Qizhen Du) | |
| 8:20-10:00 | Writing and publishing a reproducible paper using LaTeX and Madagascar (Yang Liu) | |
| 10:00-10:30 | break | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Python interface, parallel programming, graphical user interfaces (Sergey Fomel) | |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00-3:00 | Madagascar development: writing programs in C, C++, and Fortran (Zhiguang Xue) | |
| 3:00-3:30 | break | |
| 3:30-5:00 | Matlab interface, contributing to Madagascar (Gang Fang) | |
| Day 2: Sunday, August 9, 2015 | ||
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| 8:00-12:00 | Open discussion | |
| Gang Fang, Sergey Fomel, Yang Liu, Zhiguang Xue | ||
Location
Room 751 in Engineering Building C, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China
中国石油大学（华东），工科楼C座751会议室 ，山东省青岛市黄岛区长江西路66号
Registration
The Madagascar School participation is free but requires an application.Please send your name and affiliation to rsfschool@gmail.com. The deadline is July 31, 2015.
Pre-workshop Assignment
You must download and install the Madagascar package (stable version 1.7) in the days before the school. If issues come up, there will an opportunity to get installation help on Friday, August 7. Remember to bring your laptop (Linux, Mac, or Windows) to the session!
Additional Installation Requirements
QQ group
Madagascar advanced school QQ group: 468749704
Instructors
- Gang Fang is an assistant research fellow at Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, China Geological Survey. He received a Ph.D in Geophysics from China University of Petroleum (East China) in 2014 and was a visiting Ph.D student at Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin from 2012 to 2013 sponsored by China State Scholarship Fund. His research interests are seismic modeling and seismic imaging.
- Sergey Fomel is a Professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences, the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University in 2001. Sergey started work on Madagascar (at that time named RSF for Regularly Sampled Format) in 2003. http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/researcher/sergey_fomel/
- Yang Liu is a Professor of Geophysics at College of Geo-exploration science and technology at Jilin University, China. He received a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Jilin University in 2006 and was a Postdoctoral fellow at Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin from 2007 to 2010. His research focuses mainly on seismic data processing. http://gest.jlu.edu.cn/?mod=info&act=view&id=54
- Zhiguang Xue is a second-year Ph.D. student working with Prof. Sergey Fomel at the Jackson School of Geosciences, the University of Texas at Austin. He graduated from China University of Petroleum (EastChina) with a Bachelor's Degree in Geophysics in 2012. His research interests are seismic imaging and tomography. https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhiguangxue