Mrinal K. Sen
Invited Lectures
2008
“Density Estimation from seismic reflection data”
Reliance India Limited,
“Recent
advances in seismic inversion technology” Society of Petroleum Geophysicists,
“Joint
inversion of seismic and fluid flow data for dynamic reservoir
characterization” Aramco EXPEC advanced research center,
“Inverse Methods, Geostatistics and Neural Networks
for Geophysical Analysis” Aramco EXPEC advanced research center,
“Recent Developments in Inversion Technology”,
Aramco EXPEC advanced research center,
“Seismic Modeling and amplitude versus azimuth in
fractured media” Aramco EXPEC advanced research center,
“Recent
advances in seismic inversion technology” Exxon Production and Research,
“Joint inversion
of seismic and fluid flow data for dynamic reservoir characterization”
Inverse Methods, Geostatistics and Neural Networks
for Geophysical Analysis, Exploration Geophysics Seminar,
Recent Developments in Inversion Technology, Key-note speech – joint session of SPG, APG, EAGE, SEG at the Society of Petroleum Geophysicists conference at Hydearabad, India, Januray 2008.
Seismic Modeling and amplitude versus azimuth in
fractured media, Key-note speech – session on “AVO, modeling and inversion” at
the Society of Petroleum Geophysicists conference at
2007
Pre-stack Full Waveform Inversion for Estimating
Elastic Properties of Marine Sediments, Acoustical Society of
Estimation of uncertainty in some geophysical models, Sandia Workshop on uncertainty estimation in large scale inverse problems, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 2007.
Bayesian Geophysical Inversion, Department of
Physics, UT
New trends in seismic inversion for reservoir characterization, 4th ENAEP Ecuador (4to Encuentro Anual de la Energia y el Petroleo), August 2007.
New trends in seismic Modeling of fractured reservoirs, 4th ENAEP Ecuador (4to Encuentro Anual de la Energia y el Petroleo), August 2007.
Seismic Inversion for Reservoir Characterization, Key-note sppech, First International forum on oil and gas for doctoral students, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China, August 2007.
Seismic Inversion and fracture characterization,
BGP,
Need for seismic analysis in reservoir
characterization, Oil India Limited,
Seismic Inversion for Reservoir Characterization: Current Status and Future Direction, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, May, 2007.
Seismic Modeling of Fractured Reservoirs: Failure of
AVOA? Dept. of Geology and Geophysics,
New Results from Seismic Inversion in the Plane Wave
Domain, Sheriff Symposium,
Stiffness, Compliance and Tensor to Matrix mapping for Fracture Modeling, EGS Lecture, University of Texas at Austin, April 2007.
Seismic Inversion for Reservoir Characterization:
Current Status and Future Direction, School of Geology and Geophysics,
Anomalous AVOA in fractured media, Conoco-Phillips, Houston, March 23, 2007.
Elastic Modeling: Current Status and Future
Directions, Conoco-Phillips,
Some analytic results from AVOA over fractured reservoirs, EDGER forum, UT Austin, Feb 2007.
2006
Bayesian Geophysical Inversion, EGS Seminar, UT
Uncertainty Estimation in Geophysics, Invited lecture, Joint Statistical Society meeting (JSM), Seattle, Washington, August 7, 2006.
Seismic modeling and inversion: the state of the
art,
Seismic Modeling in 3D, SEG forum on new generation seismic models, April 2006.
AVOA for fluid detection in fractured resrvoirs, Edger forum, UT Austin, February 2006.
True amplitude migration-inversion, key-note speech
at the SPG conference, Kolkata
2005
Seismic Inversion for hydrocarbon exploration,
crustal structure, and whole earth modeling AGU-SEG joint session spring
meeting,
Seismic modeling of fractured reservoirs, School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Sep. 29, 2005.
Seismic waveform inversion and characterization of
gas hydrates offshore
AVO and Seismic Waveform Inversion: present and
future, Schlumberger workshop on AVO,
Fracture Estimation from seismic data: new ideas,
Conoco-Phillips,
Seismic Inversion for hydrocarbon exploration,
crustal structure and whole earth modeling, AGU-SEG joint session spring
meeting,
Constrained pre-stack waveform inversion, Western-Geco/Schlumberger Reservoir Services, Houston, Texas., April 8, 2005.
Free Gas and Gas Hydrate Saturation from
multi-component seismic data from offshore
Free Gas and Gas Hydrate Saturation from
multi-component seismic data from offshore
Seismic Inversion: State of the art, SPG Kolkata
chapter,
2004
Seismic modeling of fractured reservoirs,
Seismic waveform inversion and characterization of
gas hydrates offshore
Seismic imaging in heterogeneous, anisotropic media, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, April, 2004.
Seismic Inversion for reservoir characterization, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, March, 2004.
Analysis and interpretation of OBS and streamer data
from Hydrate Ridge, offshore Oregon EDGER forum meeting,
Seismic waveform inversion: Current status and
future directions Keynote address, Society of Petroleum Geophysicists (SPG)
conference,
2003
Seismic Modeling of fractured reservoirs, Industrial
Associates meeting, Institute of computational and engineering sciences, The
University of Texas at
Gas Hydrates: their resource potential and
geophysical characterization, Institute for Geophysics, UNAM,
Pre-stack Seismic waveform inversion: current status
and future directions, Mexican Institute of Petroleum (IMP),
Gas Hydrates: their resource potential and
geophysical characterization, Mexican Institute of Petroleum (IMP),
Synthetic Seismograms in layered fractured media,
FRACCITY annual meeting,
Pre-stack inversion and anisotropic velocity
analysis, Jason Geosystems,
Migration velocity estimation by non-linear optimization, Society of Industrial; and Applied Math conference on mathematical and computational issues in geosciences, March24, 2003.
Estimation of Vp and Vs of shallow sediments
offshore
Gas Hydrates: their resource potential and
geophysical characterization, Prof. Jagdeo Singh Memorial Lecture at
Gas Hydrates: their resource potential and geophysical characterization, Society of Petroleum Geophysicists, Kolkata chpater, January 2, 2003.
2002
Geophysical Inversion–An overview, Schlumberger
Oilfield Services,
Rock property estimation from reflection seismic data, Shell Oil Company, Houston, September 2002.
Techniques for pre-stack waveform inversion, R&D
Division, Western Geco,
Waveform inversion for reservoir characterization, BP Houston, March 2002.
Pre-stack inversion with adaptive regularization,
Society of Petroleum Geophysicists meeting,
2001
Seismic Processing in transversely isotropic media:
the tau-p approach, Section Mining Engg and Applied Geophysics, Delft
Unviersity of Technology,
Pre-stack inversion: Current status and future
directions, SBGF meeting, Bahia,
Pre-stack inversion: Isotropy and Transverse
Isotropy, EDGER Forum,
Air-borne GPR for the detection of underground
facilities, International workshop on GPR, TNO,
2000
Integrated reservoir characterization, Western
Geophysical ,
Integrated reservoir characterization, BP ,
Inverse Problems and uncertainty estimation in
Geophysics,
Seismic waveform inversion: from isotropy to
anisotropy, Shell Oil Company,
Normal moveout and Seismic waveform inversion in transversely
isotropic media, Conoco,
Parameter Estimation in Anisotropic Media, Phillips
Oil Company,
1999
Free surface multiple attenuation in reflection
seismic data, ONR Broadband Signal Processing Working Group Meeting, Applied
Research Laboratory,
Seismic Waveform Inversion and Tomography: Examples
of ill-posed geophysical inverse problems, PGS Series,
Processing of multi-component OBC data, PGS Houston, Sep. 16, 1999.
Geophysical Inversion and Uncertainty Estimation,
National Research Council Workshop on ‘How uncertainty is treated in ocean
science models?’ National
Inverse Problems, Statistics and a touch of philosophy, UTIG seminar, Sept. 9, 1999
Free surface multiple attenuation in the plane wave
domain, Upstream Strategic Research Division, Mobil Oil Company,
Application of active source Seismology in imaging of subsurface structures, DARPA Geophysics Seminar, March 1999.
Geophysical Inversion: Application to hydrocarbon exploration, DOE Workshop on Global inversion of Geophysical Data, Feb. 1999.
1998
Geophysical Inversion: Theory and Practice,
Southwest Research Institute,
AVO and Seismic Inversion in he Plane Wave Domain, Mobil Strategic Research Center, Dallas, Texas, March 1998.
AVO and Seismic Lithology, Oil and Natural Gas Commission,
AVO and Seismic Waveform Inversion in the Plane Wave
Domain: Application to Gas Hydrate Data, Society of Petroleum Geophysicists,
1997
Mapping of Elastic properties of gas hydrates, Amoco
EPTG,
Seismic Wave Propagation Modeling: Current Status
and Future Trends, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The
Practical Approaches to Uncertainty Estimation in
Geophysical Inversion, Sociedade
Brasileira de Geofisica,
To Bayes or not to Baye,” PPPG, Federal University
of Bahia,
1996
Global Optimization Methods and Migration Velocity
Analysis, Oil and Natural Gas Commission,
“To Bayes or not to Bayes,” Society of Petroleum
Geophysicists, Oil and Natural Gas Commission Dehradun,
Inverse methods and uncertainty estimation in
geophysics, Western Atlas Wireline Service,
1995
Gibbs’ sampler and its application to geophysical inversion, SIAM meeting on Geophysical Inverse Problems in Geophysics, Fish Camp, CA, Dec. 1995.
Optimization methods for automatic velocity
estimation,
Nonlinear geophysical inversion, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, Feb. 1995.
1994
Nonlinear geophysical inversion, Indian Institute of
Technology,
Global optimization methods in geophysical inversion and Seismic migration and modeling in 3-D, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderbad, India, July 1994.
Nonlinear geophysical inversion,
Nonlinear optimization methods in geophysics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, June 1994.
Nonlinear optimization methods in geophysics, University of Potsdam, GeoForschungs Zentrum, Potsdam, Germany, June 1994.
Global optimization methods in geophysical
inversion,
1993
Bayesian inference, Gibbs’ sampler and uncertainty estimation in nonlinear geophysical inversions, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
Geophysical inversion using global optimization, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Houston, Texas, 1993.
High resolution shallow water 3-D survey and
inversion for geophysical parameters, Acoustical Society of America,
1992
Nonlinear inversion of geophysical data, Department
of Geophysics, Center for Tectonophysics,
Genetic Algorithms, Naval Research Laboratory,
1990
Modeling of wave propagation in
Multifold path integral
synthetic seismograms, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology,
Kirchhoff-Helmholtz reflection seismograms, SOHIO
Petroleum Company,
