Editing RSF School and Workshop, Vancouver 2006 (section)

== Speaker biographies ==

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'''Roscoe Bartlett''', PhD, Carnegie Mellon University 2001, is a computational scientist at Sandia National Laboratories.  His thesis area was large scale optimization, successive quadratic programming methods, and large-scale object-oriented numerics.  He started at SNL in 2001 and he works on a number of projects related to large-scale optimization.  Roscoe is the head of the Thyra interoperability effort within Trilinos which seeks to develop and insure the interoperability of numerical algorithms both internal and extrnal to Trilinos from linear solvers all the way to nonlinear optimizers.  He is also the lead developer of MOOCHO, a Trilinos package for massively parallel, simulation-constrained, nonlinear, deriative-based optimization.<br clear=all>

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'''Jon F. Claerbout''' (M.I.T., B.S. physics, 1960; M.S. 1963; Ph.D. geophysics, 1967), professor at Stanford University, 1967-present. Consulted with Chevron (1967-73). Best Presentation Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) for his paper, "Extrapolation of Wave Fields." Honorary member and SEG Fessenden Award "in recognition of his outstanding and original pioneering work in seismic wave analysis." Founded the Stanford Exploration Project (SEP) in 1973. Elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Authored three published books (two translated to Russian and Chinese) and [http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/prof/ five internet books].
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering. SEG's highest award, the Maurice Ewing Medal. Honorary Member of the European Assn. of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE). EAGE's highest recognition, the Erasmus Award.<br clear=all>

'''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 software.seg.org].

'''Sergey Fomel''' is a research scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin. Received a Diploma in Geophysics from the Novosibirsk State University and worked at the Institute of Geophysics in Novosibirsk, Russia in 1990-1994. Receiving a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University in 2001 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before joining UT Austin.
For six months in 1998, worked at Schlumberger Geco-Prakla in England. Received a J. Clarence Karcher award from SEG "for numerous contributions to seismology". 

'''Gilles Hennenfent''' received in 2003 the Engineering diploma in applied physics from the École Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg, France, and the M.Sc. in photonics, image and cybernetics from the Louis Pasteur University, France. Since 2004, he is a PhD student at the [http://slim.eos.ubc.ca Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modeling] at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include fast approximate algorithms and multi-scale methods applied to stable seismic signal recovery.

'''Felix J. Herrmann''' received the Ph.D. degree in engineering physics from the Delft University of Technology, 
the Netherlands, in 1997. He was a visiting scholar in 1998 at Stanford University, California, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1999–2002. He is currently an assistant professor at the department of Earth & Ocean Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the head of the Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modeling. He is interested in theoretical aspects of exploration and global reflection seismology. His research is directed towards creating a fundamental understanding of seismic imaging and inversion as well as establishing a direct link between local aspects of seismic reflectivity and major events in the geological and rock-physical processes that are responsible for rapid changes in Earth’s elastic properties. 

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'''Igor Morozov''' received his Ph.D. in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (1985) and M.Sc. in Physics (1982) from Moscow State University (Russia). Worked at the Institute of Physics of the Earth (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia), the University of Wyoming and Rice University (U.S.A.). From 2002 – Professor of Geophysics at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada). Research interests include studies of the deep crust and mantle, in particular using ultra-long range nuclear-explosion profiles, reflection, wide-angle and earthquake seismology, seismic nuclear test monitoring, and also development of computational methods and geophysical software.<br clear=all>

'''Paul Sava''' is an Assistant Professor of Geophysics and a member of the Center for Wave Phenomena at Colorado School of Mines. Prior to arriving to CSM, he was a Research Associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas (Austin). Paul 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. He is a recipient of a Stanford Graduate Fellowship (1997-2000) and of three Awards of Merit for best student presentations at the SEG conventions (1999, 2001 and 2004). He has received a Honorable Mention in the category Best Paper in Geophysics (2003) for "Angle-domain common-image gathers by wavefield continuation methods", co-authored by Sergey Fomel. Paul's main research interests are in seismic imaging and velocity analysis using wavefield extrapolation techniques, computational methods for wave propagation, optimization and high performance computing. 

'''Matthias Schwab''' -- Formerly manager at the The Boston Consulting Group serving clients in the field of Energy and Industrial Goods. Received PhD from Stanford University in exploration geophysics (SEP). Before he studied geophysics and mathematics at Technical University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, and attended Rice University as a Fulbright student. During his studies he participated in seismic surveys in Western Europe, Kenya, and Alaska. After high-school he worked in a subsurface coal-mine. His 1999 PHD thesis on detecting faults in seismic 3-D images is programmed in Java and is reproducible. 

'''Randy Selzler''' is currently President of Data-Warp, Inc. It was founded in 1999 and provides consulting services for seismic imaging software on High-Performance Computers (HPC). Randy has a BSEE from SDSU. He worked for Amoco at the Tulsa Research Center in the Geophysical Research Department for 24 years. This provided valuable exposure to bleeding edge geophysics, seismic processing and the people that make it happen. Randy’s primary interests include advanced processing architectures, High-Performance Computing and seismic imaging applications. He designed and implemented the Data Dictionary System (DDS) in 1995 for Amoco. It was released by BP in 2003 under an open-source license at [http://www.freeusp.org www.FreeUSP.org]. DDS continues to provide the software infrastructure for advanced seismic imaging at one of the world’s largest geophysical HPC centers.

'''Bill Spotz''', PhD, University of Texas 1995, is a computational scientist at Sandia National Laboratories.  His thesis area was computational fluid dynamics with a focus on high-order numerical methods.  He was a postdoc in the Advanced Studies Program and then a Project Scientist in the Scientific Computing Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.  In 2001, he accepted his current position, where he works to apply high performance computing techniques to climate modeling and is the lead developer of PyTrilinos, a python interface for selected packages from the Trilinos Project, which are object-oriented PDE solvers.

'''Bill Symes''', BA, UC Berkeley 1971, PhD Harvard 1975, both Mathematics. Joined Rice University in 1984, currently Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathemaics. Director of The Rice Inversion Project, a university-industry research consortium for research on seismic inversion. Recipient of SIAM's Kleinman Prize in 2001, for contributions to analysis and numerical analysis of inverse problems and scientific software engineering. Managing Editor of Inverse Problems.

'''Jeff Thorson''', a PhD graduate of Stanford University, was a participant
in the Stanford Exploration Project in the early 1980’s. He has worked for
Getty Oil, Sierra Geophysics and Amerada Hess Corp. in interpretation and
processing program development. Since 1993, he and his wife, Marilee Henry,
have been independent consultants based in Seattle, WA, specializing in
seismic processing design and development.