CES-student Ylona defends her PhD thesis at ETH Zurich, Switzerland on July 05

Prof. Mai gives a presentation as invited speaker at SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in Geosciences http://www.siam.org/meetings/gs13/

Prof. Mai presents the Leadship Retreat of the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) as Task Group Leader which takes place in Palm Springs, USA, June 03-05. Subsequently, he is going to give an invited talk at the Seismo-Lab at CalTech on June 07

The 4th QUEST Workshop to be held in Benodet, Brittany, France, May 19-25 http://www.quest-itn.org/events/4th-quest-workshop

CES-team presents the workshop on “Wave propagation through the Earth Interior” in Wuhan, China, May 18-21 http://marina.geo.umn.edu/wuhanwave/

Workshop on “Preperties and Progresses of Crustal Faule Zones” to be held in Eric, Italy, May 18-24 http://www.ccsem.infn.it/

Seismic Wave-Propagation Workshop on “Multi-scale Modeling, Simulation, and Inversion” will take place in KAUST on May 04-06 http://emang.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/Workshop.aspx

SIV workshop, in conjunction with SSA and coordinated by SCEC (Southern California Earthquake Center), to be held on April 21-22

SSA Annual Meeting takes place in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 17-19. CES-team present the meeting with several posters and oral presentations http://www.seismosoc.org/meetings/2013/index.php

Prof. Yann Capdeville of University Nantes visits KAUST and teaches a short-course on 'normalization of the seismic wave equation'

EGU General Assembly 2013 is held in Vienna on April 07-12. CES-team will actively participate through session organizations and several posters and oral presentations http://www.egu2013.eu/

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”