News & Events

June 2012: Farewell to our postdoc Piero Basini, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada. Good luck in the Great White North!

Feb. 2012: Silvia Salas Romero joined our group as a M.Sc. student in Applied Geophysics. She is working on modeling the Christchurch earthquake of Feb. 2011 in 3D complex media.

Jan. 2012: We welcome visiting Ph.D. student Max Rietmann. Max is a member of Petaquake and enrolled in Computational Sciences at the University of Lugano under the supervision of Olaf Schenk. He will be a resident in our computational seismology group for 2 years, working on GPU-accelerated seismic wave propagation and local timestepping, co-supervised by Tarje Nissen-Meyer.

Dec. 2011/Jan. 2012: Congratulations to our new Ph.D. graduates, Dr. Julie Verbeke and Dr. Steve Della Mora!

Nov. 2011: We welcome our new Ph.D. student Ludwig Auer. He will be working with Lapo Boschi (and Tarje Nissen-Meyer) on global-scale tomography with a focus on anisotropy and consistency with geodynamics & mineralogy.

Oct. 2011: We welcome our new Ph.D. student Martin van Driel. He will be working with Tarje Nissen-Meyer (and Lapo Boschi) on computational aspects of global tomography such as finite-frequency tomography for anisotropic structures and scattering approaches for efficient global-scale wave propagation.

Aug. 2011: Congratulations to Dr. Julia Schaefer and Andrea Tesoniero (M.Sc.) for successfully defending their theses!

July 2011: We are organizing the 2nd QUEST workshop in Iceland, July 12-19, 2011. Scientific sessions will focus on (1) seismic data analysis, (2) source modeling and (3) probabilistic inverse theory & uncertainty analysis.

April 2011: Ph.D. position available in global seismology/geophysics.

Sept. 2010: Our project Petaquake has been featured in an ETH Life article, appearing on the ETH main webpage and a number of other online media.

Weekly Events

Seismology and Geodynamics Group meeting (Wednesdays, 4pm, NO H 32)

Computational Earthquake Physics Discussion Group (Thursdays, 12:00pm, NO F 47)

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics & Numerical Modelling (Wednesdays, 12pm, NO F39)

Geophysics Colloquium (Fridays, 11:45am, NO C 44)

Departement event list

Meetings & workshops

We are presenting our research at the following meetings/workshops in 2012 (amongst others):

EGU general assembly, Vienna, Austria (April)
SSA annual meeting, San Diego, USA (April)
3rd QUEST workshop, Slovakia (May)
ECCOMAS 2012, Vienna, Austria (September)
AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, USA (December)

Previous years:

EGU general assembly, Vienna, Austria (April)
Helioseismology workshop, Princeton, USA (May)
CTBT Science & Technology conference, Vienna, Austria (June)
IUGG XXV Assembly, Melbourne, Australia (June/July)
2nd QUEST workshop, Iceland (July)
Swiss National Supercomputing Center user day, Luzern (September)
Lorentz Center workshop on uncertainty analysis, Leiden, Netherlands (November)
AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, USA (December)