Data Science and Machine Learning: Geophysical Inversion
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
About the Event:
Geophysicists are trained to conceptualize geophysical problems in detail. However, machine learning algorithms are more difficult to understand and are often thought of as simply “black boxes.” Brian Russell, Ph.D., will begin this lecture with a numerical example to illustrate the difference between geophysical and machine learning inversion, extending these methods to two real data examples. He will first perform post-stack seismic inversion and then predict density from multiple seismic attributes.
Speaker
Bio:
Brian
Russell
holds
a
B.Sc.
(Hons.)
from
the
University
of
Saskatchewan
(1975),
a
M.Sc.
from
Durham
University
(1978),
and
a
Ph.D.
from
the
University
of
Calgary
(2004),
all
in
geophysics.
He
joined
Chevron
in
Calgary
as
an
exploration
geophysicist
in
1975
and
subsequently
worked
for
Teknica
Resources
and
Veritas
Seismic
before
co-founding
Hampson-Russell
Software
with
Dan
Hampson
in
1987.
HampsonRussell
is
now
a
fully
owned
subsidiary
of
CGG,
where
Brian
is
vice
president,
GeoSoftware.
Brian
is
involved
in
the
research
of
new
AVO,
rock
physics,
inversion
and
machine
learning
techniques.
He
is
a
past
president
of
both
the
SEG
and
CSEG
and
has
received
Honorary
Membership
from
both
societies,
as
well
as
the
Cecil
Green
Enterprise
Award
from
SEG
(jointly
with
Dan
Hampson)
and
the
1999
CSEG
Medal.
From Noon - 12:30 p.m., the speaker will be available so that students may chat with him regarding their careers, skills and networking.
- Location
- Online streaming
- Cost
- You must sign into the Geophysical Society of Houston’s website in order to register for the event.
- Contact
-
Martin
Huarte
Espinosa
Associate Director
HPE Data Science Institute