SINBAD Consortium Meeting - 2012 Fall - Program

Program for Sunday December 2nd (Spirit Room)

06:00-07:30 PM    Icebreaker

Program for Monday December 3rd (Empress Ballroom)

08:00-08:30 AM    Registration and coffee &pastries
08:30-09:00 AM    Felix J. Herrmann. Welcome and roadmap for the meeting

SINBAD Meeting Compressive sensing: theory &applications (Chair: H. Mansour)

09:00-09:45 AM    Ozgur Yilmaz. Weighted methods in sparse recovery
09:45-10:15 AM    Haneet Wason. Ocean bottom seismic acquisition via jittered sampling

10:15-10:30 AM    Coffee Break

10:30-11:00 AM    Enrico Au-Yeung. Compressed sensing, random Fourier matrix and jittered sampling
11:00-11:45 PM    Tim Lin. An introduction to cosparse signal reconstruction
11:45-12:15 PM    Navid Ghadermarzy. Non-convex compressed sensing using partial support information

12:15-01:45 PM    Lunch

SINBAD Meeting Compressive sensing: extensions, recent insights &applications (Chair: O. Yilmaz)

01:45-02:30 PM    Hassan Mansour. Seismic trace interpolation via sparsity promoting reweighted algorithms
02:30-03:00 PM    Brock Hargreaves. Analysis versus synthesis in weighted sparse recovery
03:00-03:20 PM    Felix Oghenekohwo. Assessing the need for repeatability in acquisition geometry of 4D (time lapse) seismic data

03:20-03:35 PM    Coffee break

SINBAD Meeting Compressive sensing: matrix &tensor completion (Chair: O. Yilmaz)

03:35-03:45 PM    Introduction (Da Silva / Herrmann)
03:45-04:15 PM    Rajiv Kumar. Seismic data interpolation using SVD-free Pareto Curve based Low-Rank Optimization
04:15-05:00 PM    Curt Da Silva. Hierarchical Tucker Tensor optimization - applications to 4D seismic data interpolation
05:00-05:30 PM    Okan Akalin. Large scale seismic data interpolation with matrix completion (via web-link)

05:30 PM              Dinner and activities on your own

Program for Tuesday December 4th (Empress Ballroom)

08:00-08:30 AM    Registration and coffee &pastries

SINBAD Meeting: Wave-equation based inversion: time-harmonic Helmholtz (Chair: A. Aravkin)

08:30-09:00 AM    Tristan van Leeuwen. 3D Frequency-domain waveform inversion using a row-projected Helmholtz solver
09:00-09:30 AM    Art Petrenko. CARP-CG: a computational study
09:30-10:00 AM    Bas Peters. Frequency domain 3D elastic wave propagation in general anisotropic media

10:00-10:15 AM    Coffee break

SINBAD Meeting: Wave-equation based inversion: fast and robust FWI (Chair: T. van Leeuwen)

10:15-11:00 AM    Michael Friedlander. Randomized sampling: How confident are you?
11:00-11:30 AM    Sasha Aravkin. Estimating nuisance parameters in inverse problem
11:30-12:00 PM    Anais Tamalet. Variance parameters estimation - application to full-waveform inversion

12:00-03:30 PM    Break on your own

SINBAD Meeting: Wave-equation based inversion: sparsity promotion (Chair: T. van Leeuwen)

03:30-04:00 PM    Felix J. Herrmann. Fast sparsity-promoting imaging with message passing
04:00-04:30 PM    Xiang Li. Fast Gauss-Newton full-waveform inversion with sparsity regularization

SINBAD Meeting: Wave-equation based inversion: image volumes (Chair: F. Herrmann)

04:30-05:00 PM    Tristan van Leeuwen. Yet another perspective on image volumes
05:00-05:30 PM    Lina Miao. Acceleration of sparsity-promoting recovery and its benefits in seismic application

SINBAD Meeting: Wave-equation based inversion: multiples (Chair: F. Herrmann)

05:30-06:00 PM    Tim Lin. Recent developments on the robust estimation of primaries by sparse inversion
06:00-06:30 PM    Ning Tu. Fast imaging with multiples

07:00-11:00 PM    Bus leaves for dinner at the Pony in Pemberton (http://thepony.ca)
11:00-11:30 PM    Bus ride back to the hotel

Program for Wednesday December 5th (Empress Ballroom)

08:00-08:30 AM    Registration and coffee &pastries

SINBAD Meeting: Large-scale optimization (Chair: M. Friedlander)

08:30-09:00 AM    Sasha Aravkin. Generalized SPGL1: from theory to applications
09:00-09:30 AM    Nathan Krislock. Wireless sensor network localization

SINBAD Meeting: Case studies and recent developments (Chair: F. Herrmann)

09:30-10:00 AM    Xiang Li. Wave-equation based inversion with joint sparsity promotion

10:00-10:15 AM    Coffee break

10:15-10:45 AM    Felix J. Herrmann. Our findings on the Chevron benchmark dataset
10:45-11:15 AM    Mike Warner. Anisotropic 3D full-waveform inversion of the Tommeliten Alpha field

Working Lunch Symposium - High Performance Computing

(Format will be open with a speaker panel and a buffet lunch sponsored by our guests)

11:30–11:45 PM    SLIM's perspective on HPC &big data by Felix J. Herrmann, Tristan van Leeuwen, and Tim Lin (SLIM)
11:45–12:05 PM    High performance data-intensive computing in oil &gas: the fusion of HPC and Big Data by Geert Wenes (Cray Inc)
12:05–12:25 PM    IBM forecast for HPC in seismic data processing by Peter Madden (IBM Canada)
12:25–12:45 PM    The fastest way to Elastic FWI and RTM through Dataflow computing by Bob Clapp (Maxeler)
12:45–01:00 PM    Matlab as a key development tool for research and production algorithms by Andrew Willard &Jill Reese (Mathworks)
01:00–01:10 PM    Presentation tba by Shane Story (Intel)
01:10–01:35 PM    Panel discussion moderated by Ian Hanlon (SLIM)

STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING (OPEN FOR SINBAD II CONSORTIUM MEMBERS AND INVITEES ONLY)

01:35–02:30 PM    III–International Inversion Initiative by Felix J. Herrmann and Mike Warner (via videolink)
02:30–03:00 PM    Steering committee meeting with SINBAD Consortiums members only

CONCLUSION OF CONSORTIUM FALL MEETING