Convenor(s)

Title

Day/Time/Room

Mrinal Sen

W-5 Full Waveform Inversion: Beyond the Phase of Direct Acoustic Arrivals

Thursday
1:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
214C

Core organizing committee: Dan Ebrom, Azra Tutuncu, Ali Mese, Stephanie Nowak
Extended organizing committee: Stephan Gelinsky, Cengiz Esmersoy, Jacques LeVeille, Robert Tatham, Ivar Brevik

W-12 Fundamentals of Shale Reservoir Characterization: Why Shales Are Different From Other Formations

Friday
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
217A

Presenter(s)

Title

Workshop

Day/Time/Room

Hongliu Zeng

Benefits of displaying and interpreting in flattened, relative geologic-time domain: cases in Tertiary GOM

W-11 Case Studies and Methods in Computational Seismic Chronostratigraphy

Friday
08:50 AM
214A

Sergey Fomel

Predictive painting and stratigraphic coordinates

W-11 Case Studies and Methods in Computational Seismic Chronostratigraphy

Friday
10:50 AM
214A

Jeffrey Paine

Assessing collapse risk in evaporite sinkhole-prone areas using gravimetry and radar interferometry

W-13 Geophysics Applied to Geohazards and Public Safety

Friday
12:00 PM
214C

Julia Gale

Fracture propagation in shales

W-12 Fundamentals of Shale Reservoir Characterization: Why Shales Are Different From Other Formations

Friday
02:55 PM
217A

Author(s)

Title

Session

Time/Room

MONDAY

Meijuan Jiang* and Kyle Spikes

Pore-shape and composition effects on rock-physics modeling in the Haynesville Shale

RP 1 -- Numerical Modeling

2:20 PM
216B

William Burnett*, Sergey Fomel, and Rishi Bansal

Diffraction velocity analysis by path-integral seismic imaging

SVE 1 -- Migration Velocity Analysis

3:35 PM
214B

Puneet Saraswat and Mrinal K. Sen

Artificial immune based self organizing maps for seismic facies analysis

RC 1 -- Lithology I

4:25 PM
217A

Tuesday

Corey Joy* and Mrinal K. Sen

Differentiating chemical effects and pressure effects on the elastic properties of the Lower Tuscaloosa sandstone in Cranfield, Mississippi by injecting carbon dioxide rich brine

RP 2 -- Laboratory and Computational Methods

9:20 AM
216B

Hongliu Zeng, Xiaomin Zhu, Rukai Zhu, and Qingshi Zhang

Ultra-thin, lacustrine sandstones imaged on stratal slices in the Cretaceous Qijia Depression, Songliao Basin, China

INT 1 -- Strategies and Techniques I

9:20 AM
217B

Matthew J. Hornbach, Paul Mann, Cliff Frohlich, and Kathy Ellins, and Lyndon Brown

Assessing Geohazards Near Kingston Jamaica: New Results from Chirp Seismic Imaging

HA -- Humanitarian Applications of Geosciences

9:45 AM
218

Parvaneh Karimi* and Sergey Fomel

Stratigraphic coordinate system

INT 1 -- Strategies and Techniques I

10:10 AM
217B

Mohammed Alhussain*, Kyle T. Spikes, and Mrinal K. Sen

Sensitivity study of fracture parameters in a carbonate oil reservoir

RC 3 -- Fractures

2:45 PM
217A

Ranjana Ghosh and Mrinal K. Sen

Effective medium modeling of fluid-filled fractured-porous medium

RP 3 -- Attenuation, Dispersion, and Fluids

3:10 PM
216B

Yang Liu and Mrinal K. Sen

Finite-difference modeling with variable length spatial operators and time steps

SM 1 -- Finite Differences

3:10 PM
214C

WEDNESDAY

Reynam C. Pestana, Bjorn Ursin, and Paul L. Stoffa

Separate P- and SV-wave equations for VTI media

ANI 1 -- Wave Propagation

8:30 AM
217C

Ge Zhan, Reynam C. Pestana, and Paul L. Stoffa

An acoustic wave equation for pure P wave in 2D TTI media

ANI 1 -- Wave Propagation

8:55 AM
217C

Alireza Shahin*, Paul L. Stoffa, Robert H. Tatham, and Roustam Seif

Accuracy required in seismic modeling to detect production-induced time-lapse signatures

SM 2 -- Case Studies

8:55 AM
214C

Yi Tao*

Seismic interferometry in the plane-wave domain

ST 1 -- Interferometry

11:25 AM
218

Siwei Li* and Sergey Fomel

Improving wave-equation fidelity of Gaussian beams by solving the complex eikonal equation

ST 2 -- Wavefield Approximation and Diffraction Separation

1:30 PM
218

Tariq Alkhalifah and Sergey Fomel

A stable implementation of the prestack exploding re ector modeling and migration

ST 2 -- Wavefield Approximation and Diffraction Separation

3:10 PM
218

Jonas D. De Basabe, Mrinal K. Sen and Mary F. Wheeler

Seismic Wave Propagation in Fractured Media: a discontinuous Galerkin approach

SM 3 -- Finite Elements

3:10 PM
214B

THURSDAY

Chunlei Chu and Paul L. Stoffa

3D frequency response modeling with spectral accuracy by REM

SPMI 6 -- Novel Methods

8:30 AM
214A

Zhiwen Deng, Mrinal K. Sen, Yang Xue*, Uxin Wang, and Xuming Bai

Prestack PP & PS wave joint stochastic inversion in the same PP time scale

MS 2 -- Case Histories

8:55 AM
217A

Rui Zhang and John Castagna

Sparse-layer Inversion with Basis Pursuit Decomposition

SI 6 -- Miscellaneous Applications

8:55 AM
214D

Yang Liu, Liang Ding, and Mrinal K. Sen

Comparisons between the hybrid ABC and the PML method for 2D high-order finite-difference acoustic modeling

SM 4 -- Reflections and Boundary Conditions

9:20 AM
214B

Xiaolei Song*, Anatoly Baumstein and Partha Routh

Resolution Analysis for Full Wavefield Inversion and its Application to Time-Lapse

SI 6 -- Miscellaneous Applications

11:00 AM
214D

Terence Campbell** and Robert H. Tatham

Correction for distortion in polarization of reflected shear-waves in isotropic and anisotropic media

MS 2 -- Case Histories

11:25 AM
217A

German Garabito and Paul L. Stoffa

Slowness-driven Kirchhoff prestack depth migration: Application in synthetic OBS data

SPMI 6 -- Novel Methods

11:25 AM
214A

Author(s)

Title

Session

Time/Room

MONDAY

Nicolay M. Tanushev, Richard Tsai, Sergey Fomel and Bjorn Engquist

Gaussian beam decomposition for seismic migration

SPMI P1 -- Theory

1:30 PM
Ballroom C

Rui Zhang, Mrinal K. Sen, and Sanjay Srinivasan

CO₂ pre-injected reservoir characterization on Cranfield with basis pursuit inversion

SI P1 -- Case Studies

2:10 PM
Ballroom C

Xiaolei Song*, Sergey Fomel, Lexing Ying, and Tian Ding

Lowrank finite-differences for wave extrapolation

SPMI P1 -- Theory

2:30 PM
Ballroom C

Christos Saragiotis, Tariq Alkhalifah, and Sergey Fomel

Automatic traveltime picking using local time-frequency maps

PSC P1 -- Events Locating and First Break Picking

3:10 PM
Ballroom C

TUESDAY

Chunlei Chu and Paul L. Stoffa

Derivation and numerical analysis of implicit time stepping schemes

SM P1 -- Wave Modeling and Ray Tracing

9:40 AM
Ballroom C

Son Phan* and Mrinal K. Sen

Reservoir Evaluation for Carbon Sequestration at Dickman Field, Kansas

RC P1 -- Attribute Applications I

10:00 AM
Ballroom C

Lesli Wood

Imaging the structure and sedimentary fill of northern South America's Tertiary margin: no pain, no gain

SGS 1 -- Caribbean Petroleum Systems

10:10 AM
217D

Hongliu Zeng

Value of instantaneous-frequency spikes in thin-bed and stratigraphic interpretation

RC P2 -- Attribute Applications II

3:10 PM
Ballroom C

WEDNESDAY

Yi Tao*, Kyle Spikes, and Mrinal K. Sen

Stochastic seismic inversion using both fractal and low-frequency priors

SI P4 -- Stochastic Inversion

9:20 AM
Ballroom C

Yang Xue*, Mrinal K. Sen, and Zhiwen Deng

A new stochastic inference method for inversion of pre-stack seismic data

SI P4 -- Stochastic Inversion

11:0 AM
Ballroom C