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Session Proposal: Advancing Theoretical and Computational Seismology (AGU25)

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Advancing Theoretical and Computational Seismology

Session ID#: 250834

Session Description:
Recent breakthroughs in Earth sciences are increasingly driven by the rapid evolution of computational capabilities and developments in seismology and in numerical simulations. This session offers a forum for presenting cutting-edge theoretical and computational developments, with a strong emphasis on global collaboration and the open exchange of knowledge. We invite innovative contributions that explore strategies for achieving more accurate and efficient forward modeling, robust solutions to (nonlinear) inverse problems, and scalable methods for handling the ever-growing volume of seismic data. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, fiber-optic seismology, multi-scale and multi-parameter tomography, advances in effective medium theory, uncertainty analysis in both data and model space, machine learning approaches to data mining and modeling, seismic interferometry, and leveraging emerging hardware architectures and programming languages.By bringing together diverse perspectives and approaches, this session aims to foster discussions that will shape the future of theoretical and computational seismology.
Index Terms:

7260 Theory [SEISMOLOGY]
7270 Tomography [SEISMOLOGY]
7290 Computational seismology [SEISMOLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Conveners:  Monica Maceira, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland and Bryant Chow, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Bryant Chow, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States
 
Joint Inversion of Seismic and Gravity Data to Image Seismic Velocity in the Iran Region (1846494)
Jenna Caylor, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Ellen M Syracuse, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Ambient Noise Full Waveform Inversion with Neural Operators (Invited) (1848854)
Zachary E. Ross, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Caifeng Zou, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, United States, Robert Clayton, CalTech Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Fan-Chi Lin, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
 
Bayesian Inversion with Competing Assumptions (Invited) (1865305)
Malcolm Sambridge, Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia, Andrew P Valentine, University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom and Juerg Hauser, CSIRO Canberra, Mineral Resources, Canberra, ACT, Australia
 
Optimizing Seismic Velocity Model Resolution for Frequency-Dependent Applications (1879363)
Emmanouil Parastatidis, The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, United States and Alexandros Savvaidis, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States
 
Large-Scale Ambient Noise Cross-Correlation Across California using Cloud Computing (1882749)
Chris Lin, National Taiwan University, Department of Geosciences, Taipei, Taiwan, Weiqiang Zhu, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States and Taka'aki Taira, Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
 
Enhancing the Quality of Ambient-Noise Empirical Green's Function Using the Adaptive Progressive Denoising Method (1889427)
Kunpeng Yu, China University Of Petroleum (east China), School of Geosciences, Qingdao, China and Yang Jidong, China University of Petroleum (East China), Geophysics, Qingdao, China
 
Bayesian Time-lapse Full-Waveform Inversion Informed by Fluid Flow Priors (1895820)
Haipeng Li1, Nanzhe Wang2, Louis J Durlofsky2 and Biondo Leonardo Biondi3, (1)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States, (3)Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Seismic Tomography using Automatic Differentiation: Application to the San Francisco Bay Region (1901078)
Ziyi Zhao1, Ling Xia2, Weiqiang Zhu3 and Chunquan Yu1, (1)Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Shenzhen, China, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of California, Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
 
A New Crustal Velocity Model for North-Western Himalayas and Siwalik Basin using Kriging Interpolation (1905268)
Varun Sharma, Maheshreddy Gade and J Dhanya, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Scholl of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mandi, India
 
Leveraging Multi-Component Full Waveform Inversion: A Tour of Polarization-Based Strategies (1908389)
Serge Sambolian, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, Romain Brossier, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, ISTerre, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, Ludovic Metivier, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, ISTerre; CNRS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, LJK, Grenoble, France and Andrzej Górszczyk, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
 
Incorporating Topography and Finite-Frequency Effects into Ambient Noise Tomography for Complex Terrains (1908524)
Po-Li Su, Hsin-Hua Huang and Hung-Yu Yen, Academia Sinica, Institute of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Imaging the crust and upper mantle of the greater Alpine area from the dense AlpArray seismic network using teleseismic full waveform inversion: theoretical, numerical and practical considerations (1917113)
Najmieh Mohammadi, Géoazur, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Valbonne, France, Stephen Beller, Géoazur, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, IRD, OCA, Valbonne, France, Vadim Monteiller, LMA, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France, Anne Paul, ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Martin d'Hères, France and Stephane Operto, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France; CNRS, Geoazur, Valbonne, France
 
A transdimensional framework for array-based seismic phase detection and characterization (1920477)
Ziqi Zhang1, Vedran Lekic1, Jessica C E Irving2, Doyeon Kim3, Ross Maguire4 and Nicholas C Schmerr1, (1)University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States, (2)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (3)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Earth Science and Environmental Change, Urbana, United States
 
CoFI - A Common Framework for Inference. (1922689)
Malcolm Sambridge1, Jiawen He1, Juerg Hauser2, Fabrizio Magrini1, Augustin Marignier3, Andrew P Valentine4 and Michael Koch1, (1)Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (2)CSIRO Canberra, Mineral Resources, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (3)Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, United Kingdom, (4)University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom
 
Synthetic Rayleigh Wave Tomography of the Northern Appalachian Mantle Anomaly (1924846)
Eva Cullen, Columbia University of New York, New York, United States, William H Menke, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, United States and Andrew Lloyd, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, United States
 
Increasing the Spatial Resolution in Physics-Based Site Term Estimates: Results from Southern San Andreas Ruptures (1931715)
John Rekoske1, Dave May1, Alice-Agnes Gabriel1,2 and Scott Callaghan3, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (2)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany, (3)Statewide California Earthquake Center, Los Angeles, United States
 
Beyond 1Hz global high-frequency elastic seismic wavefield modeling in heterogeneous Earth on a single computer (1937383)
Hao Hu, University of Houston, EAS, Houston, TX, United States, Ying Zhang, USGS Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, United States and Yingcai Zheng, University of Houston, Houston, United States
 
A Global-scale Database of Seismic Phases from Cloud-based Picking at Petabyte Scale (1938925)
Yiyu Ni1, Marine Denolle1, Amanda Thomas2, Alex Hamilton3, Jannes Münchmeyer4, Yinzhi Wang5, Loïc Bachelot6, Chad Trabant7 and David Mencin8, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States, (2)University of California, Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, (3)EarthScope Consortium, Data Services, Washington, D.C., United States, (4)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Geophysics, Potsdam, Germany, (5)Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, United States, (6)University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States, (7)EarthScope Consortium, Data Services, Remote, United States, (8)EarthScope Consortium, Data Services, Washington, DC, United States
 
Advancing 2.5D Frequency-Domain Full Waveform Inversion in Viscoelastic Anisotropic Media for VSP Applications (1940271)
Seda Rouxel, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES and Fateh Bouchaala, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
 
The Incompleteness of the Normal Mode Basis – An Assessment of the Error in Normal Mode Coupling and Its Resolution (1947768)
Alex Myhill, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom and David Al-Attar, University of Cambridge, Bullard Labs, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Robust Clustering of Ambient Noise Correlations Using Symmetric Variational Autoencoders for Enhanced Surface-Wave Imaging (1953308)
Sanket Bajad, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Centre for Earth Sciences, Bangalore, India and Pawan Bharadwaj, Indian Institute of Science, Centre of Earth Sciences, Bengaluru, India
 
Triple-Difference Travel Time Adjoint Tomography: the Application of Apparent Anisotropy Observables (1955174)
Qicheng Zeng, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, Fan-Chi Lin, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States and Victor C Tsai, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
 
Enhancing the Accuracy and Stability of Seismic Wave Simulation Using a Genetic Algorithm Based Optimized Staggered Grid Finite Difference Method (1961395)
Mounika Vanga1,2 and Maheswar Ojha1,2, (1)CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India, (2)Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad, India
 
Magmatic system of Axial seamount revealed by high resolution hybrid optimization based full waveform inversion (1961697)
Zeyu Zhao, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, Yang Jidong, China University of Petroleum (East China), Geophysics, Qingdao, China, Hejun Zhu, Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Shenzhen, China, Shuoshuo Han, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, Junlin Hua, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, Mrinal K Sen, Univ Texas Inst Geophysics, Austin, United States, Adrien F Arnulf, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Chang Gong, University of Science and Technology of China, Laboratory of Seismology and Physics of Earth’s Interior, School of Earth and Space Sciences, HeFei, China
 
Stochastic Seismic Response Analysis of Soil-Fault-Tunnel Systems Using the Modified Domain Reduction Method (1967622)
Bhavesh Banjare, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India and G R Dodagoudar Dr., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Civil Engineering, Chennai, India
 
Elastic wavefield modelling on a discontinuous staggered grid with a variable time step (1968285)
Sai Adari and Tarun Naskar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
 
Uncertainty quantification of ground motions and wave radiation patterns from a chemical explosion in highly faulted testbed: Applications to the Nevada Rock Valley Source Physics Experiment (1969625)
Souheil M Ezzedine1, Oleg Vorobiev1 and Modeling and Simulation Working Group, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Tandem - A 2D/3D HPC-Enabled Volumetric Software for Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS) Across Complex Fault Systems (1972516)
Jeena Yun1, Dave May1, Piyush Karki2,3, Yohai Magen1, Bar Oryan1, Thomas Ulrich4 and Alice-Agnes Gabriel4, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (2)Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (3)Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (4)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany
 
Distinguishing sub-Moho earthquakes at low frequencies using the Sn/Lg method (1976422)
Emmanuel Zheng, Xiaohan Song, Simon L Klemperer and Junyi Gong, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States
 
Population-based diffusion methods for full waveform inversion and uncertainty estimation (1976466)
Mrinal K Sen, University of Texas at Austin, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States; University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, Shuhua Hu, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States and Zeyu Zhao, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Simulating Seismic Wavefields using Generative Artificial Intelligence (1984322)
Nori Nakata1, Rie Nakata2, Pu Ren3, Zhengfa Bi2, Maxime Lacour4, N. Benjamin Erichson2 and Michael Mahoney5, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
 
Structural Health Monitoring of Buildings Using Machine Learning (1985733)
Caifeng Zou, CalTech Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Robert W Clayton, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Monica D Kohler, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States and Zachary E. Ross, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
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