Seminar Schedule
The BSL Seminar regularly takes place Tuesdays at 4:00pm (PST) unless otherwise noted. Seminars will be hybrid with in-person people joining from the BSL Conference Room (220 McCone Hall) and many others joining virtually. Please email Weiqiang Zhu (zhuwq@berkeley.edu) to be added to the mailing list to receive the Zoom link.
Fall 2026 Seminars
| Name | Affiliation | Title | |
| August 25 | Ares Rosakis | Caltech | The Destructive Power of Supershear Ruptures as Observed in the Devastating, Feb 6th, 2023, Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaras/Pazarcik, Türkiye/Syria Mega-Earthquake: A lesson in Mechanics |
| September 1 | Malcolm Sambridge | Australian National University | Some emerging directions in geophysical inversion |
| September 8 | Linxuan Li | Caltech | Are there upper and lower bounds on earthquake magnitude? From observations to mechanics |
| September 15 | Chrysoula Tsogka | UC Merced | Enhanced Resolution Imaging in Strongly Scattering Media |
| September 22 | Kathryn Materna | CU Boulder | Transient slow slip and its role in earthquake processes |
| September 29 | Wenqiang Zhang | Stanford | Dynamic rupture simulation and inversion on geometrically complex faults: Numerical methods, adjoint-based FWI, and joint geodetic-seismic data integration |
| October 6 | Yijian Zhou | Caltech | Causal Mechanisms of Induced Earthquakes in the Delaware Basin Revealed by Cluster-Level Microseismicity Characterization |
| October 13 | Jeffrey Brooks | INGV Catania | Spatial and Temporal Variability of Fault Behavior on Mount Etna’s Eastern Flank from a Decade of Sentinel-1 InSAR |
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| October 27 | William Wilcock | University of Washington | Taking full advantage of the OOI Regional Cabled Array for Understanding Plate Boundary Processes |
| November 3 | Weiyi Liu | UCSD | Constraining the Composition and Thermal Structure of the Deep Earth Using Normal Modes |
| November 10 | Grace Parker | USGS | Methods to Reduce Tradeoffs Between Earthquake Source, Path, and Site Effects in Ground-Motion Models: Recent Examples from California |
| November 17 | Jeanne Hardebeck | USGS | A Hybrid Static and Dynamic Stress Change Triggering Model for Aftershock Forecasting |
| November 24 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| December 1 | Jin Zhang | TAMU | Davemaoite: the ultimate solution for lower mantle heterogeneities? |