PHY495/PHY1495 Geophysical Research Methods, 2012

 

  News/Notice
  • Lecture hours have been moved to Tuesdays 4-5 pm (still at MP505).
  • If you intend to use taishan as your work environment, you need to upload the data files downloaded from this webpage to taishan through scp.
  • All final reports of the practicals need to be submitted as pdf files with file names such as your-email-name_pracN.pdf (e.g., liuqy_prac2.pdf)
  • This course was formerly called `global geophysical methods'.
  • Organizational meetings/introductory lecture on Sep 11, 2012

 

 Time
  • Lectures: Tuesday, 4-5 pm
  • Practicals: Thursday, 11-12 (mandatory, led by TA), 5-6:30 pm (optional, Qinya's office hours)
Lecturer
Instructor: Qinya Liu
Office: MP 504A
Phone: 416-978-5434
Email: liuqy AT physics.utoronto.ca

 

 

TA: Ramin Saleh
Office: MP 404
Phone: 416-978-3154
Email: rsaleh AT physics.utoronto.ca

 

 Course Schedule
Time Content Practicals Extra Reading
Sep 11 Organizational meeting/introductory lecture
Sep 13 Tutorial: Introduction to Linux OS Practical 0 (5%) Advanced Linux/Bash Programming
Sep 18 Earthquake Locations (loc_dat_1 codes) Practical 1 (10%) PS Page 127-133 or LW Page 217-235
Sep 25, Oct 2 Earthquake Focal Mechanisms (codes) Practical 2 (10%)
Oct 9, 16 Surface wave phase and group velocity (codes) Practical 3 (10%) LW, page 116-153
Oct 23 Seismic Tomography (A toy problem) (codes) Practical 4 (10%) LW 240-249
Oct 30, Nov 6 Seismic Tomography (global surface waves) Practical 5 (25%)
Nov 13, 20, 27 Simulations of seismic wave propagation in heterogeneous media with irregular interfaces (CUBIT 2D, 3D, export model, GeoScience cubit wiki) Practical 6 (30%) Many thanks to our guest lecturer Piero Basini!

 

Reference Books
There is no required text book for this class. However, you may find the following books/notes useful:

 

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