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“There is a need for a radically new laboratory experimental approach for studying the interaction of seismic waves with the complex media of the Earth’s subsurface. I present here a fundamental new approach to seismic wave experimentation that involves fully immersing a physical seismic experiment within a virtual numerical environment. This enormously challenging endeavor, which I was undertaking with colleagues at ETH Zurich and the Scientific Research/Big Physics team at National Instruments, Austin, Texas, is relevant to many outstanding issues in seismology; it has not been previously attempted. A broad range of long-standing problems in wave propagation and imaging that have eluded Earth scientists and physicists for decades will be addressed. Synthetically produced complex models will be used in wavefield-focusing experiments and to achieve complete time reversal in 3D for the first time ever. Finally, the laboratory is highly relevant to applications outside geophysics such as non-destructive testing, medical imaging and lithotripsy.”

CIPR Colloquium is a weekly event of the Center for Integrative Petroleum Research of the College of Petroleum Engineering & Geosciences at KFUPM. It provides KFUPM, Saudi Aramco, and DTV researchers and scientists with the opportunity to get together and discuss upstream technical matters in a collegial relaxed setting. Students are encouraged to attend and engage.