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UTIG Seminars

Current Seminar Schedule

SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Spring 2003

Date/Time Speaker, Affiliation Title of Talk

 24Jan/4PM
 

Mark Simons, California Institute of Technology "New Perspectives on Large Earthquakes from Geodesy"

 31Jan/4PM
 

Moritz Fluegel, Texas A&M University "The Role of Stochastic Forcing in Modulating ENSO Predictability"

 7Feb/4PM
 

Andre Droxler,             Rice University "Miocene Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy Pattern and Oxygen Isotope Records as Sea Level Proxy: A Happy Reconciliation "

 14Feb/4PM
 

Yosio Nakamura, UTIG "Searching for Deep Moonquakes in the Backside of the Moon"

 21Feb/4PM
 

Randy Keller, UTEP "Continental Rifts: Some New Geophysical Data and Interpretations"

 28Feb/4PM

Gail Christeson, UTIG "Correlation of Seismic and Geologic Structure at Hess Deep and the Blanco Fracture Zone"

 7March/
9:00-4:30
 at BEG

Dietrich Roeder,
Murnau Geodynamics Inc.
"Fold-Thrust Belts: Petroleum Potential, Global Setting, Geodynamics" shortcourse"
more info

 21March/4PM

Jay Pulliam, UTIG "The State of the Art of Ocean Bottom Seismology: Toward a Strategic Plan for UTIG’s OBS Program"

 28March/4PM

Cindy Evans, NASA "Human activities and coastal dynamics in Asia:  regional change documented from space"

 31March/11AM

Evelyn Price, University of Alaska, Fairbanks "Watching the Ground Go Up and Down: Measurements of Crustal Deformation by Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry"

 4April/4PM

Lopamudra Roy and Ranjit Shaw, UTIG "Inversion and Uncertainty analysis of Gravity data: An application over Lake Vostok, East Antarctica" and "Linearized Reflection Coefficients for Weakly Anisotropic Media for AVO / AVOA
Analysis"

 7April/11AM

Prof. K. K. Roy, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India "Magnetotellurics and its application in mapping crust and upper mantle along the Eastern Ghat Mobile Belt, Eastern India"

 11April/4PM

Mike Ritzwoller, University of Colorado at Boulder "Thermal Evolution of the Pacific Lithosphere"

 25April

Celebration! Dedication of the Jackson School of Geosciences Building
and 50th Anniversary of the Geology Foundation

 1May/4:00PM
 

Young UTIG Researchers Talks by undergraduates and a high school student on their UTIG research

 2May/2:30PM
 

Student Fellowship Talks Titles

Seminars are usually held on Fridays at 4:00 p.m. but check the day of the week on your calendar to be certain. There are exceptions. The Institute's seminars are held at:
4412 Spicewood Springs Rd.
(Office complex behind Walgreen's at the corner of Spicewood Springs Rd. and Mesa Dr. in northwest Austin.)
Building 500, Upstairs
Austin, Texas 78759
(512) 471-6156

Previous Seminar Schedules
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Fall 2002
Spring 2002
Fall 2001
Spring 2001
Fall 2000

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