03 March, 2013
8th Gulf Seismic Forum takes place in Muscat8th Gulf Seismic Forum is held in Muscat, Oman.Prof. Mai presents recent results on receiver-function work http://conference.squ.edu.om/Default.aspx?tabid=407
25 February, 2013
SIAM conference in BostonSIAM conference is held in Boston Feb 25-Mar 01. During the conference, CES team participates in mini-symposium on earthquake modeling. Attached to the conference, we hold an IBM-LMU-KAUST project workshop http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse13/
29 January, 2013
Signing ceremony between the Saudi Geological Survey (SGS) and KAUSTProf. Mai helps to launch the Memorandum of Cooperation between SGS and KAUST
03 December, 2012
CES-members presents at the AGU Fall MeetingCES-members present in total six talks/posters at the AGU Fall Meeting http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/
01 December, 2012
SAHPC conference in KAUSTThe third Saudi Arabian High Performance Computing (SAHPC) conference is held December 1-3 at KAUST http://www.hpcsaudi.com/
12 November, 2012
Visit of Prof. Simon Klemperer to CES-groupVisit of Prof. Simon Klemperer to CES-group (and the Saudi Geological Survey). He gives a special seminar on “Rupturing Continental Lithosphere in the Main Ethiopian Rift: a hot plume meets a cold craton”, and discusses future cooperative work with us
11 November, 2012
Dr. sung-Joon Chang, UEA Norwich (UK) visits the CES-group, and presents his recent work at the Earth Science seminarDr.sung-Joon Chang, UEA Norwich (UK) visits the CES-group, and presents his recent work at the Earth Science seminar: “Mantle plumes and associated flow beneath Arabia and East Africa from joint tomography”. Future collaboration with Dr. Chang are being discussed during his visit
23 October, 2012
Italy scientists guilty of manslaughterVerdict of Italian court against seismologists who did not properly communicate earthquake risk and earthquake prediction related to the devastating M 6.3 L’Aquila earthquake of April 06, 2009 Click here!
22 October, 2012
Paper accepted in Geophys. J. Int. by Imperatori and MaiPaper accepted in Geophys. J. Int. by Imperatori and Professor Mai “Broadband Near-Field Ground Motion Simulations in 3D Scattering Media”
15 October, 2012
New visitor to CES groupDr. Yann Capdeville, Univ. Nantes (France) visited the CES-group, and gave an Earth Science seminar entitled “Non-periodic homogenization of the seismic wave equation”. Future collaborations with Dr. Capdeville were planned
15 October, 2012
PhD-student Ylona van Dinther at ETH Zurich visits the CES-groupYlona van Dinther, PhD-student at ETH Zurich visited the CES-group. She speaked at the Earth Science seminar, on “The seismic cycle at subduction thrusts: implications of geodynamic simulations validated with laboratory models”
02 October, 2012
Professor Martin Mai speaks on the SIV project at ECGS workshopECGS Workshop 2012, Luxembourg, on “Earthquake Source Physics on Various Scales”. Professor Martin Mai speaks on the SIV project. Other CES-Team members in attendance: M. Galis, J. Vyas, A. Gabriel. Y.van Dinthe http://www.ecgs.lu/source2012/
24 September, 2012
Professsor Martin Mai joins 15th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering (WCEE) in Lisbon PortugalThe 15th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering (WCEE) happened in Lisbon, Portugal. Professor Martin Mai co-organizes Special Session and gives a presentation http://15wcee.org/
17 September, 2012
Professor Martin Mai and Dr. Pelties organize KAUST-IBM-LMU workshop in MunichKAUST-IBM-LMU workshop in Munich, organized by Professor Martin Mai and Dr. Pelties. CES-members attending: M. Galis, L. Passone, J. Vyas, W. Imperatori
08 September, 2012
Professor Martin Mai leads the SIV workshop at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)2012 Annual Meeting of the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) in Palm Springs, CA. Professor Martin Mai leads the SIV workshop http://www.scec.org/workshops/2012/siv/index.html
01 September, 2012
Former PhD student A Gabriel starts her post-docFormer PhD student A Gabriel starts her post-doc at LMU Munich
24 August, 2012
Paper by Gabriel et al published on J.Geophys. Res.Paper by Gabriel et al published on J.Geophys. Res.
09 July, 2012
Alice Gabriel (ETH Zurich) defends her PhD thesisAlice Gabriel (ETH Zurich) defends her PhD thesis
25 June, 2012
Professor Martin Mai attends the 11th International Symposium in MunchProfessor Martin Mai attends the 11th International Symposium in Munch http://ispdc.cie.bv.tum.de/
06 June, 2012
Professor Martin Mai visits Stanford University and USGSProfessor Martin Mai visits Stanford University and USGS, Menlo Park