8th 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

SIAM 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/

Prof. Mai helps to launch the Memorandum of Cooperation between SGS and KAUST

CES-members present in total six talks/posters at the AGU Fall Meeting http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/

The third Saudi Arabian High Performance Computing (SAHPC) conference is held December 1-3 at KAUST http://www.hpcsaudi.com/

Visit 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

Dr.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

Verdict 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!

Paper accepted in Geophys. J. Int. by Imperatori and Professor Mai “Broadband Near-Field Ground Motion Simulations in 3D Scattering Media”

Dr. 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

Ylona 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”

ECGS 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/

The 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/

KAUST-IBM-LMU workshop in Munich, organized by Professor Martin Mai and Dr. Pelties. CES-members attending: M. Galis, L. Passone, J. Vyas, W. Imperatori

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

Former PhD student A Gabriel starts her post-doc at LMU Munich

Paper by Gabriel et al published on J.Geophys. Res.

Alice Gabriel (ETH Zurich) defends her PhD thesis

Professor Martin Mai attends the 11th International Symposium in Munch http://ispdc.cie.bv.tum.de/

‪Professor Martin Mai visits Stanford University and USGS, Menlo Park‬