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SEG Seismic Working Workshop - Reproducible Tutorials - August 9-13, 2017

Working Workshops as opposed to "talking workshops" are meetings where the participants work in pairs or small teams to develop new software code or to conduct computational experiments addressing a particular problem. In this workshop participants will work in small groups to create short, reproducible, geophysical tutorials. These tutorials are inspired by The Leading Edge geophysical tutorial articles. Groups will make lightning talks (a five minute presentation) at then end of the workshop. An open repository will be created to share presentations and code after the workshop.

Objective

Groups of two or three participant will be formed at the working workshop for create reproducible tutorials. The tutorial should be on a topic of interest to seismic interpreters, applied geophysicists, and general earth scientists. It should be about 1500 words, two or three figures, and code to makes the figures. Groups can use any system to create and share the code that allows the tutorial figures to be reproduced by readers after the workshop. The tutorials may be candidates for publication (eg The Leading Edge geophysical tutorial articles or the software section of Geophysics). Come up with your own ideas or read previous TLE tutorials, Geophysical Image Estimation by Example (http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/prof/), Seismic Unix demos, Madagascar reproducible documents, or Geophysical Society of Houston “Tutorial Nuggets”. Study, extend, or translate some of this material to another system. Collaborate and share your experience in a lightning talk (a five minute presentation).

Participants are expected to bring laptops with the software they will use create a tutorial during the workshop. Wifi internet access will be available.

This working workshop hopes to provide a forum for geophysicist to learn, contribute, and network.

Registration

The workshop participation is free but requires an application. Space is limited. The application deadline is August 1, 2017. Link to the application form

Draft agenda

• Wednesday afternoon August 9, 2017 3:00-6:00 PM. Optional work session to configure your computer and install open seismic software
  • Do you want help getting your computer up to speed before the working workshop? Come for informal, one-on-one assistance to:
    • Install Linux on your computer.
    • Configure Linux/OSX on your computer.
    • Install Seismic Unix on your computer
    • Install Madagascar on your computer.
    • Install Jupyter and python on your computer.
    • Install a virtual Linux system on your Windows computer that will allow you to experiment with a Linux development environment.
      
      

• Thursday August 10, 2017 (working workshop starts)
  • 8:30-9:00 Coffee
  • 9:00-10:00 Introductions, project proposals, and team formations
  • 10:00-12:00 Breakout into work teams
  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided)
  • 1:00-2:00 Group discussion
  • 2:00-5:30 Breakout into work teams

• Friday August 11, 2016
  • 8:30-9:00 Coffee. Reform teams.
  • 9:00-12:00 Breakout into work teams
  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided)
  • 1:00-2:00 Group discussion
  • 2:00-5:30 Breakout into work teams
  • 6:00-8:00 Dinner

• Saturday August 20, 2016
  • 8:30-9:00 Coffee. Reform teams.
  • 9:00-12:00 Breakout into work teams
  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided)
  • 1:00-2:00 Finalize lightning talks
  • 1:00-3:00 Lighting talks

Contact us

If you have some ideas about working workshops, tell us about it! Send email to seismic.working.workshop@gmail.com.

download seg tutorials

You can download the 2016 tutorials into a subdirectories with:

git clone https://github.com/seg/tutorials-2014
git clone https://github.com/seg/tutorials-2015
git clone https://github.com/seg/tutorials-2016
git clone https://github.com/seg/tutorials-2017

Location

Rm 223, Science & Research Bld1
University of Houston
3507 Cullen Boulevard
Houston, TX 77204-5007

Use these maps to the location of the school:

• Nearby hotels

Supporting Organizations

SEG Wavelets

SEG Wavelets is the University of Houston's SEG student chapter. It is devoted to promoting education in exploration geophysics. We work with professional organizations, industry professionals, University of Houston faculty, and other student organizations to bring students educational, social, and possible future employment opportunities. More details can be found on our website.

The Rice Inversion Project

Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University