WEDNESDAY JUNE 17, 2009  
Times Events / Titles of Talks Locations / Presenters
8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration and Breakfast (Pastries, Juice & Coffee) Quadrus Breezeway
WELCOME
9:00 am - 9:20 am Gary Mavko Co-Director
9:20 am - 9:40 am Mark Zoback Co-Director
9:40 am - 10:05 am Quantifying spatial trends of sedimentological parameters in a channelized turbidite, West Africa Tanima Dutta
10:05 am - 10:30 am Integrated analysis of seismic and multitransient EM data Carmen Gomez
10:30 am - 10:50 am Investigating Thomas-Stieber model for property estimation of thin-bedded shaly-sand reservoirs Piyapa Dejtrakulwong
10:50 am - 11:10 am Geologically consistent matching of time-lapse seismic signatures and production data using spatial principal component analysis: A synthetic test case Tapan Mukerji
11:10 am - 11:35 am Seismic inversion using low-frequency seismic impedance trend computed from CSEM resistivity Carmen Gomez
11:35 am - 12:00 pm Quantum rock physics Jack Dvorkin
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch Deck
1:15 pm - 1:35 pm Quantum rock physics continued Jack Dvorkin
1:35 pm - 2:00 pm Depth trends of anisotropy in laminated sandstone Kaushik Bandyopadhyay
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm Impact of carbonate cement on seismic response: combing sequence stratigraphic surface and rock physics model Tanima Dutta
2:20 pm - 2:45 pm Break Breezeway
2:45 pm - 3:05 pm Accuracy of DEM and SC estimations of elastic properties of complex rock matrix using composites as analogs Franklin Ruiz
3:05 pm - 3:30 pm Estimating Brown-Korringa constants for fluid substitution in multi-mineralic rocks Gary Mavko
3:30 pm - 3:50 pm Model for elastic properties of rocks with pressure solution Kaushik Bandyopadhyay
3:50 pm - 4:20 pm The emergence of computational rock physics Amos Nur
5:30pm RECEPTION / APPETIZERS Stanford Faculty Club
6:30pm DINNER Stanford Faculty Club
  THURSDAY JUNE 18, 2009  
Times Events / Titles of Talks Locations / Presenters
8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration and Breakfast (Pastries, Juice & Coffee) Quadrus Breezeway
8:30 am - 8:55 am Equivalent elastic models Franklin Ruiz
8:55 am - 9:15 am Heavy-oil reservoir monitoring utilizing P-to-S converted wave elastic impedance: A synthetic case study Kevin Wolf
9:15 am - 9:35 am Transport properties of fluvial channels Ramil Ahmadov
9:35 am - 10:00 am Kozeny-Carman equation revisited Jack Dvorkin
10:00 am - 10:30 am Break Breezeway
10:30 pm - 10:45 pm Introduction to Carbonates and Fluids Tiziana Vanorio
10:45 am - 11:10 am Quantitative study of microporosity in carbonates by mercury porosimetry Stephanie Vialle
11:10 am - 11:30 am How micrite content affects the transport, seismic, and reactive properties of carbonate rocks: Implications for 4D seismic Tiziana Vanorio
11:30 am - 11:55 am Porosity, permeability, resistivity and velocity relations  Carmen Gomez
11:55 am - 12:15 pm Monitoring the change of rock properties upon injection of reactive fluids Stephanie Vialle
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Deck
1:30 pm - 1:55 pm Elastic properties of unconsolidated packs using granular dynamics simulation and theoretical models Ratnananbha Sain
1:55 pm - 2:20 pm Stress induced anisotropy in unconsolidated sandstone Kaushik Bandyopadhyay
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm Effect of diagenesis on elastic and transport properties using computational rock physics in realistic pore microstructure Ratnananbha Sain
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm Break Breezeway
3:10 pm - 3:35 pm Sub-seismic lithofacies prediction in the Puchkirchen formation, Upper Austria Lisa Stright
3:35 pm - 3:50 pm Custom software interfaces used in the SRB Laboratory Kyle Spratt
3:50 pm - 4:15 pm Interpreting the seismic response of rocks saturated with multiphase, CO2-rich fluids: Pitfalls and progress Tiziana Vanorio
4:15 pm - 4:35 pm Break Breezeway
4:35 pm - 4:55 pm Evolution of acoustic properties of tuffs and organic-rich shales under CO2 exposure Danica Dralus
4:55 pm - 5:20 pm Elastic properties of source rocks Ramil Ahmadov
5:20 pm - 5:40 pm High-temperature, high-pressure ultrasonic measurements of bitumen sands Kevin Wolf
  FRIDAY JUNE 19, 2009  
Times Events / Titles of Talks Locations / Presenters
8:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast (Pastries, Juice & Coffee) Quadrus Breezeway
8:30 am - 8:50 am Overview of shale gas and tight gas research Mark Zoback
8:50 am - 9:10 am Integrated laboratory, microseismic, geomechanics, and flow study of the Barnett shale John Vermylen
9:10 am - 9:30 am Laboratory studies of the adsorption, flow, static and dynamic moduli of low-rank coal samples from the Powder River Basin, Wyoming Paul Hagin
9:30 am - 9:45 am Effects of adsorbed methane on the physical properties of low-rank coal samples from the Powder River Basin, Wyoming Yi Yang
9:45 am - 10:10 am Laboratory studies on the mechanical and constitutive properties of gas shale Hiroki Sone
10:10 am - 10:30 am Break Breezeway
10:30 am - 10:50 am Coupled flow-geomechanical-geophysical-geochemical (F3G) analysis of tight gas production Rob Heller
10:50 am - 11:10 am Geomechanics of fault zone damage zones and flow Madhur Johri
11:10 am - 11:30 am Identifying fracture fairways in Niobrara shale play in North-Western Colorado: A geomechanically constrained interpretation of seismic anisotropy data Indrajit Das
11:30 am - 11:50  am An integrated geomechanical approach for simulating flow in a tight gas reservoir using a discrete fracture network model Owen Hurd
11:50 am - 12:30 pm Seismic detection of CO2 leakage along monitoring wellbores Marco Bohnhoff
12:30pm Lunch Deck