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<center><big>'''Madagascar Workshop at EAGE-St.Petersburg 2014'''</big></center>

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== Date ==

Friday, April 11, 2014

== Agenda ==

The tentative workshop agenda is the following:

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! style="background:#ffdead;" align="center" | TIME 
! style="background:#ffdead;" align="center" | ACTIVITY
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| 9:00-9:15am 
| Welcome 
<br> Speaker: Paul Sava
<br>
[http://www.ahay.org/wikilocal/docs/Madagascar-STP.pptx Slides] (4.3M)
|-
| 9:15-11am
| Madagascar: command-line usage
<br> Speaker: Paul Sava 
<br>
[http://www.ahay.org/wikilocal/docs/slidesPRG.pdf Slides] (244K)
|-
! style="background:#efefef;" | 11:00-11:15am 
! style="background:#efefef;" | BREAK 
|-
| 11:15am-12:00pm 
| Madagascar: reproducible numeric experiments 
<br> Speaker: Paul Sava
<br>
[http://www.ahay.org/RSF/book/rsf/school/gauss.html SConstruct]
<br>
[http://www.ahay.org/wikilocal/docs/slidesPYT.pdf Slides] (232K)
|-
! style="background:#efefef;" | 12:00-1:15pm 
! style="background:#efefef;" | LUNCH
|-
| 1:15pm-2:00pm 
| Introductory exercises
<br> Speaker: Luke Decker
<br>
[http://www.ahay.org/RSF/book/rsf/school/trig.html SConstruct 1]
<br>
[http://www.ahay.org/wikilocal/docs/Decker_ExtraIntroductioryExercise.pdf Slides 1] (536K)
<br>
[http://www.ahay.org/RSF/book/rsf/school/austin.html SConstruct 2]
<br>
[http://www.ahay.org/wikilocal/docs/Decker_IntroductiontoMadagascar1.pdf Slides 2] (1.2M)
|-
! style="background:#efefef;" | 2:00-2:15pm 
! style="background:#efefef;" | BREAK 
|-
| 2:15-3:15pm 
| Wavefield modeling/imaging
<br> Speaker: Paul Sava 
<br>
[http://www.ahay.org/RSF/book/rsf/school/sigsbee.html SConstruct]
<br>
[http://www.ahay.org/wikilocal/docs/slidesWSI.pdf Slides] (5M)
|-
! style="background:#efefef;" | 3:15-3:30pm 
! style="background:#efefef;" | BREAK 
|-
| 3:30-5:00pm 
| Fast research using Madagascar 
<br> Speaker: Tariq Alkhalifah
|-
! style="background:#efefef;" | 5:00-5:15pm 
! style="background:#efefef;" | Discussion and wrap up
|}

== Location ==

The Congress Centre of the [http://www.parkinn.com/hotelpulkovskaya-stpetersburg Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovskaya] hotel 
* Pobedy Square 1
* 196240 St. Petersburg, Russia
 
== Registration ==

The best way to register is by using the [http://www.eage.org/events/index.php?evp=10534&ActiveMenu=10&Opendivs=s3,s10 online registration form]. You can also register using the [http://www.eage.org/images/cms/files/Education/16273-STP14%20registration%20form.pdf PDF form] and returning it to:

EAGE Europe Office<br>
Registration Department<br>
PO Box 59<br>
3990 DB Houten<br>
The Netherlands<br>
Tel.: +31 88 9955055<br>
Fax: +31 306343534<br>
E-mail: registration@eage.org<br>

The workshop registration price varies from €75 for early-registration EAGE student member to €230 for late-registration non-member.

== Pre-workshop Assignment ==

Please try to [[download]] and [[Installation|install]] the Madagascar package ([http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsf/files/latest/download?source=files stable version 1.6]) in the days before the workshop according to the instructions on the left margin of this webpage.  If issues come up, there will an opportunity to install the package at the start of the workshop.  Remember to bring your laptop (Linux, Mac, or Windows) to the session!

== Instructors ==

* '''Tariq Alkhalifah''' is currently a Professor of Geophysics at KAUST in Saudi Arabia. He graduated with a PhD from Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, in 1996, and served afterwards as a Post Doc at Stanford University. He used to be a devoted SU Unix follower for most of his research career even as a Post Doc at Stanford (SEPlib people), but has recently seen the light and converted to Madagascar. https://sites.google.com/a/kaust.edu.sa/tariq/
* '''Luke Decker''' is a Master's student at the Jackson School of Geosciences, the University of Texas at Austin, studying under Professor Sergey Fomel.  He holds undergraduate degrees in Physics (2008) from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and Geophysics (2011) from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.  He worked for several years as a mudlogger for King Canyon Buffalo, Inc., and his research focus is seismic diffraction imaging.
* '''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. 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