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Scientific Programme

Sunday, 13th May 2007

Afternoon

Arrival
10:00 - 23:00 Welcome reception


Monday, 14th May 2007

Morning
08:30 Plenary session: SPICE Introduction (H. Igel)


Planetary and regional wave propagation
09:00 Mantle waveform tomography at the global and regional scale (B. Romanowicz)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Inversion of SPICE benchmark dataset and test of global tomographic models (Y. Qin)
10:45 Playing dice with the earth interior (Trampert)
11:45 Sensitivity to anisotropy of finite-frequency body waves based upon adjoint methods (A. Sieminski)
12:00 Discussion
12:30 Lunch

Afternoon

Dynamic rupture and strong ground motion
17:00 Robustness tests for reliably determining the earthquake rupture process (S. Das)
18:00 How can initial ground motion scale with final rupture size? (S. Murphy)
18:15 Dynamic rupture in a discrete element model of a rough fault (S. Abe)
18:30 Magnitude estimate from the energy measurements in the first seconds (G. Festa)
18:45 Green function interpolation: a useful tool toward fast kinematic source inversion (F. Pacchiani)

Evening
19:30 Icebreaker
20:00 Dinner free


Tuesday, 15th May 2007

Morning

Helio- and Astroseismology, Ocean and reverse acoustics
08:00 Time-reversal acoustics and imaging (M. Fink)
09:00 Simulated and analog results in Underwater Acoustics (P. Roux)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Helio and asteroseismology: some results, problems and prospects (M-J Goupil)
11:30 Medical Imaging (M. Fink)
12:30 Lunch

Afternoon
17:00 Poster session
18:00 Task group meeting:small scale, planetary scale, local scale, numerical methods, digital library

Evening
20:00 Dinner free


Wednesday, 16th May 2007

Morning

Inverse problems, computational methods
08:00 Imaging and monitoring with coda waves and microseisms (M. Campillo)
09:00 Studying the Earth's interior based on correlations of ambient seismic noise (N. Shapiro)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Adjoint methods, imaging & migration, Part I (J. Tromp)
11:00 Adjoint methods, imaging & migration, Part II (Q. Liu)
11:30 Towards a better description of subsurface heterogeneities (G. Caumon)
12:30 Lunch

Afternoon

Planetary
17:00 Towards higher-resolution tomography at the global and regional scales (L. Boschi)
18:00 Time reversal imaging of seismic sources (Montagner)

Evening
20:00 Dinner planned at the Institute


Thursday, 17th May 2007

Morning

Inverse problems, computational methods (continued)
08:00 Prospects for seismic inversion on petaflops systems (C. Burstedde)
09:00 Overlapping multidomain chebyshev method: accuracy analysis (P. Danecek)
09:15 Discontinuous Galerkin methods for wave propagation in poroelastic media (J. de la Puente)
09:30 DFT modal analysis of spectral element methods for the elastic wave equation (S. Pomponet)


Planetary and regional wave propagation (continued)
09:45 Finite-frequency kernels for surface waves based upon adjoint methods (D. Peter)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Investigating the lowermost mantle using migrations of long period S-ScS data (J. Woodhouse)
11:30 Assessment of the tomographic mantle models using SEM seismograms (E. Bozdag)
11:45 Surface wave synthetic data in heterogeneous regions (D. Acarel)
12:00 Reflection of seismic surface waves at the Northern Apennines (D. Stich)
12:30 Lunch

Afternoon
17:00 Poster session
18:00 Discussion

Evening
20:00 Dinner free


Friday, 18th May 2007

Morning

Dynamic rupture and strong ground motion (continued)
08:30 A method for simplifying crustal structure for the purpose of three dimensional wavefield modelling (E. McManus)
08:45 Modelling seismic wave propagation using coupled local modes (L. Guillot)
09:00 Traction-at-split-node method for dynamic rupture propagation: numerical comparison of the finite-difference and finite-element implementations (M. Galis)


Volcanology and exploration seismic
09:15 The role of volcanic structure in the generation of long period signals (S. Cesca)
09:30 Wave reflection at an anelastic transversely isotropic ocean bottom (R. Sidler)
09:45 Modeling of Scholte wave transmission through the corrugated interface (X. Nhi Nguyen)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Images of hydraulic fractures (L. Eisner)
11:30 SPICE Final (H. Igel)
  Discussion
12:30 Lunch

Afternoon
  Free afternoon

Evening
20:00 Workshop finale: Corsica dinner at the Institute


Saturday, 19th May 2007

Morning

Departure