MIT ERL Annual Founding Members Meeting 2022: New subsurface technologies and inference methods

Each year MIT ERL invites representatives of our Founding Member companies to the MIT campus to hear about our latest research. Our agenda for this year will be slightly different than in years past, with a full day of talks by students and postdocs for representatives of our Founding Member companies, followed by a half-day of talks by our principal investigators open to all in academia and industry. After two years of online-only meetings, we are thrilled to once again offer a Charles River dinner cruise. If you are interested in joining us and have not yet received an invitation, please contact erl-info@mit.edu.

Our talks will also inlude two special plenary sessions:

5/25: Prof. Yunyue Elita Li, Associate Professor at Purdue and Research Affiliate at MIT: “Carbon sequestration in the subsurface: the atlas and the monitoring”

5/26: Dr. Dirk Smit, Vice President at Shell and ERL Fellow at MIT: Perspectives on CCS beyond Scope 1 and 2

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Zoom Link for 5/25 Presentaions

Zoom Link for 5/26 Presentations

Agenda (subject to change):

Date	Location	Time	Session	Speaker	Title (Subject to change)
Wednesday, 5/25/2022	66-110	9:00	Welcome	Laurent Demanet
		9:10	FWI, Imaging,and Machine Learning	Hongyu Sun	A field-data case study of extrapolated full-waveform inversion
		9:30		Sarah Greer	Superresolution with the zero-phase imaging condition
		9:50		Brindha Kanniah	Deep Learning with SymAE to Correct Deepwater Statics
		10:10	Break	`
		10:40	CO2 Storage and Hazards	Lluis Salo	Managing CO2 Fault Migration Hazard for Safe, Large-Scale Geologic Carbon Storage
		11:00		Josimar Alves Da Silva	The impact of energy production at the Wilmington oil field, California, on seismic hazards: A coupled multiphase flow and geomechanics perspective
		11:20		Omar AlDajani and Randy Pietersen	Quantitative Image Analysis of Fracture Propagation
		11:40		Rafael Villamor Lora	Experimental investigations on flow and transport in stressed, rough fractures using 3D-printing and milifluidic experiments
		12:00	Student and Postdoc Introductions	Borjan Geshovski, Eve Meltzer, Mathilde Wimez, Tiange Xing
		12:20	Lunch
		1:40	Plenary Session	Yunyue Elita Li	Carbon sequestration in the subsurface: the atlas and the monitoring
		2:10	Acquisition and Processing for Passive Seismicity I	Hilary Chang	The DAS experiment using MIT telecommunication dark fibers
		2:30		Tong Bai	A “sliding box” automated earthquake relocation method based on GmRTM
		2:50	Break
		3:20	Acquisition and Processing for Passive Seismicity II	Zhendong Zhang	Characterizing Microseisms Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing with Hybrid Borehole DAS and Three-Component Geophone Data
		3:40		Malcolm White	FastMapSVM: Classifying Complex Objects Using the FastMap Algorithm and Support-Vector Machines
	MIT Boathouse	6:00	Charles River Cruise
Thursday, 5/26/2022	66-110	9:00	Plenary Session	Dirk Smit	Perspectives on CCS beyond Scope 1 and 2
		9:30	ERL Principal Investigors: Overviews and Perspectives I	Laurent Demanet	Research perspectives for ERL
		9:50		Brad Hager	Chemo-thermo-geomechanical implications for monitoring CCS and geothermal reservoirs
		10:10		Ruben Juanes	Photoporomechanics
		10:30	Break
		11:00	ERL Principal Investigors: Overviews and Perspectives II	Herbert Einstein	Energy storage in artificial subsurface openings – construction, operation, risk and decision making
		11:20		Camilla Cattania	Induced fault slip: fast or slow?
		11:40		Michael Fehler	Machine Learning for Identifying Subsurface Targets Using Small Datasets: Applications to Geothermal Energy and Carbon Sequestration
	54-209	12:00	Business Meeting and Lunch	(for ERL Pis and representatives of Founding Member companies)