Lectures	Monday,Wednesday, Fridays Room E213, New Howe-Russell Building  7.30-8.30 a.m. Saturday field day (voluntary)
Office hours	Mondays and Wednesdays by appointment For appointments and all correspondence e-mail: gllore@lsu.edu Subject:  PETSEIS
Required textbooks	Introduction to Petroleum Seismology.  Investigations in Geophysics Vol 12 by Ikelle and Amundsen, 2005. First Edition
Goals:	Fundamentals of mathematical physics, seismology and signal theory used to understand the first few kilometers of the shallow earth.
Course work	Weekly homework, readings from the research literature and one final group project (groups of 2+ people) Lectures will include but not be limited to topics covered by the course textbook.  Each group will make a preliminary (10-minute) presentation of their final project in the format of a PowerPoint Presentation. The final project will consist of an electronic document that is hyperlinked,  self-contained presentation of a seismology topic, with appropriate mathematical derivations, examples, plots and source code.  Students can choose topics covered in class and develop them to greater depth than covered in the text book.  Students will be evaluated on their course project at the midterm stage.  Students can generate this file with MSWord.  Student groups will be expected to present their final project orally. All homeworks, with the exception of the final project, are due one week after they are handed out, printed (no hand-written), at the beginning of each class.
Expected courses and experience	Two semesters of undergraduate science major mathematics--Algebra and Calculus.  Physics with Calculus, programming experience with a high-level language like Excel, Matlab or Maple or Mathematica
Course Grades	Final letter grades are calculated using the results of weekly lecture homework (50%) and class presentations (10%), and final written project (30%) -- 10% of the total grade is reserved for class participation during project presentations and discussions.  A (90-100%) , B (80-89.5%), C (60-79.5%) D (50-59.5%), F (less than 49.5%)
Tentative	Lectures by industry geophysicist
COLOR CODES	In Powerpoint MSWord (BLUE) , and old html files, .
Program Downloads	SEA  (self-expanding archive)
Resources: old homeworks, lab exercises, tutorials	Matrix Multiplication in Matlab;   Matlab tutorial Xcel macro for Vrms,Vavg and Vbackus Class Notes:  Computational Tools for Geoscientists Class Notes: Reflection Seismology: General Properties of Waves Waves in Fluids Seismic Events Seismic Data Acquisition Seismic Processing Making CMP's  Hmk 1.  [docx file]  Answers*  Hmk 2.  [docx file]   Answers [1] [2] [3] Hmk.: consider Harmonic Plane Wave arriving from below at a 45 degree angle Hmk 3. [Q. 1,2,3] from book] Hmk. 4  Answers [1] [2] Past Presentations: Shear-Wave Splitting  [ppt] ref1, Automatic First-Break Picking Interferometry  Surface-wave Inversion * Courtesy Guofeng Yuan

Lectures and Homeworks

Wed 1
Fri 3
Mon 6
Wed 8
Fri 10
Mon 13
Wed 15	Deformation tensor (strain) [pdf file]	Diagonalization [.nb file]
Fri 17		1-page outline and references for paper due
Mon 20	no class: Mardi Gras Holiday
Wed 22	no class: Mardi Gras Holiday
Fri 24		Homework 1, Q.2 answer Homework 2
Mon 27	Elastic Wave Propagation [pdf file]	topic 1 presentation
Wed 29	Harmonic Plane Wave Motion [.nb file]

Lectures and Homeworks

Fri 2	Snell's Law, Energy Partitioning at interfaces
Mon 5	Reflection and refraction traveltimes during mode conversion	topic 2 presentation
Wed 7		[pdf] refs Cross-correlation notebook
Fri 9	Ray parameter-traveltime equations
Mon 12	Vrms, hyperobolic approximation to reflection traveltime	topic 3 presentation
Wed 14
Fri 17
Mon 20	Surface Waves	topic 4 presentation
Wed 21	Reflection Coefficients	Zoeppritz Explorer Applet
Fri 23
Mon 26		topic 5 presentation
Wed 28
Fri 30

Lectures and Homeworks

Mon 2		topic 5 presentation
Wed 4
Fri 6	no class - spring break
Mon 9	no class - spring break
Wed 11	no class - spring break
Fri 13	no class - spring break
Mon 16		topic 6 presentation
Wed 18
Fri 20
Mon 23		topic 7 presentation
Wed 25
Fri 27	Class presentations
Mon 30	Class presentations

MAY

Wed 2	Class presentations
Fri 4	Class prsentations
Sat 5	Classes end
Fri 11	Last day to submit project	4.30 p.m. Leave hardcopy in mailbox (E235 Howe-Russell) AND e-mail a digital copy by the same time.
Tue 15, Wed 16	Grades Due