News
Apr 16, 2014
Computational record on SuperMUC
Scientists at LMU and TUM have optimized the SeisSol earthquake simulation software on the Supercomputer SuperMUC to push its performance beyond the “magical” 1 petaflop/s mark – one quadrillion floating point operations per second.
Mar 26, 2014
Welcome to Velotiana Jean-Luc RALAIARISOA
Velotiana Jean-Luc RALAIARISOA, Master's Student in Paris 7 (Institute of Earth Physics of Paris IPGP) is commencing a two-months internship in seismology at LMU from March 24th until May 21st as part of a new exchange program available to LMU and IPG geophysics masters students.
Jan 16, 2014
Short Visit of Prof. Cristobal Castro 16./17.01.2014
Prof. Cristobal Castro from Universidad de Tarapacá (Chile) is visiting the SeisSol team for 2 days. He will introduce us in his recent work on 17.01., 10:15 in a Geocomputing Seminar entitled "FROM TSUNAMI PROPAGATION TO THREE DIMENSIONAL INUNDATION".
Dec 28, 2013
Research Visit by Dr. Giampiero Iaffaldano
The geodynamics group is pleased to welcome Dr. Giampiero Iaffaldano from the Australian National University, Canberra. Dr. Iaffaldano will stay for a 6 week research (December 2013 to Mid January 2014) visit.
Dec 28, 2013
Professors Seth and Carol Stein in Munich
Short Course in Tectonics and Geodynamics
Dec 15, 2013
Karin Sigloch wins faculty award for excellency in teaching
Karin Sigloch wins 'Fakultätspreis für exzellente Lehre im SS2013'.
Oct 22, 2013
Lorenzo Colli wins "Best SAGA Student Paper Award" at the 13th SAGA conference
At the 13th biennial conference of the South African Geophysical Association Lorenzo Colli presented a talk on the temporal changes in South Atlantic spreading rates and how they are linked to the history of uplift and subsidence of the surrounding continents via upper-mantle pressure-driven flow. For his presentation he received the Best SAGA Student Paper Award.
Oct 16, 2013
28.10.-30.10. Visit of Dr. van Dinther (ETH Zurich)
We will welcome Dr. Ylona van Dinther for a research visit to Dr. Alice Gabriel working on the coupling of geodynamic and earthquake source modeling. She will present her latest research on Tuesday, 29.10. in a lunchtime seminar entitled: "Seismo-thermo-mechanical modeling of subduction zone seismicity".
Oct 07, 2013
18.-22.11. Visit of Kenny Ryan (PhD candidate, UC Riverside, USA)
We welcome Kenny Ryan (PhD candidate, UC Riverside, Ca, USA) who will visit us from 18th to 22nd November. He will work together with Dr. Christian Pelties on dynamic rupture processes on complicated fault systems (like intersecting or even crossing faults) using SeisSol. On Tuesday 19th, he will present latest research results in the lunch time seminar at 12:30pm. The title of his talk is 'Modeling Dynamic Rupture with Implications for an Alaskan-Aleutian Megathrust Earthquake and Resulting Tsunami'.
Aug 09, 2013
Prof. Heiner Igel erhält ERC Advanced Grant
Professor Heiner Igel wird vom Europäischen Forschungsrat mit einem Advanced Grant in Höhe von rund 2,5 Millionen Euro ausgezeichnet. Igel wird mithilfe des Grants einen neuartigen Rotationssensor zur Messung von Bodenbewegungen entwickeln. ERC Advanced Grants ehren europäische Forscher, die bereits herausragende Leistungen in den Wissenschaften erbracht haben. Damit sollen sie für ihre hoch innovativen Forschungsvorhaben die nötigen Freiheiten erhalten.
Jul 11, 2013
Münchner Geophysik in "Faszination Wissen" (BR)
Das bayerische Fernsehen zeigt am 15.7.2013 um 22.00 in der Sendung "Faszination Wissen" einen Beitrag über das Erdmagnetfeld. Einige Aufnahmen und Interviews wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit unserem Institut gemacht.
Jul 09, 2013
Alternating gradient & vibrating sample magnetometer funded
The application for the funding of an alternating gradient & vibrating sample magnetometer was accepted by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and LMU. We are looking forward to this outstanding instrument to boost our research in rock magnetism.
Jul 02, 2013
Geophysikstudentin erhält Georg-Burg-Preis
Frau Sarah Hable ist für ihre Bachelorarbeit am Lehrstuhl für Geophysik mit dem Preis der Georg-Burg-Stiftung ausgezeichnet worden. Die Arbeit beschäftigte sich mit Fragestellungen aus dem Bereich Paläo- und Gesteinsmagnetismus.
Apr 04, 2013
Paper by Sigloch and Mihalynuk appears in Nature
Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of Cordilleran North America
Nov 26, 2012
TERRA-NEO proposal succeeds in SPPEXA Call
DFG funds TERRA-NEO project for the "Integrated Co-Design of an Exascale Earth Mantle Modeling Framework" as part of the German Priority Programme 1648 "Software for Exascale Computing" (SPPEXA).
Nov 26, 2012
TERRA-NEO proposal succeeds in SPPEXA Call
DFG funds TERRA-NEO project for the "Integrated Co-Design of an Exascale Earth Mantle Modeling Framework" as part of the German Priority Programme 1648 "Software for Exascale Computing" (SPPEXA).
Nov 01, 2012
Research visit of Dr. Alexander Mikolaichuk
The magnetism group is glad to welcome Dr. Alexander Mikolaichuk (Central Asian Geological-Geophysical Association, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). During the next month he will work with us on paleomagnetic and geologic projects in Central Asia.
Oct 08, 2012
Research visit of Prof. Dr. Jean-Paul Ampuero
The Computational Seismology group is glad to welcome Prof. Dr. Jean-Paul Ampuero (Caltech) from 8th -12th Oct. He will work with Dr. Christian Pelties on computational earthquake dynamics with a particular focus on the fault zone dimension using SeisSol. The research stay is funded by BaCaTeC grant Nr. 1 [2012-1] of Ampuero/Pelties.
Sep 11, 2012
IBM-KAUST workshop from 16.-21.9. at LMU
The Computational Seismology group of LMU is host for the joint IBM-KAUST workshop from 16.-21.9. The project aims to improve two codes (SORD based on Finite Differences and SeisSol - ADER-DG method) for dynamic rupture simulations with the help of IBM software engineers and make them accessible for users at the KAUST university.