Invited Talk @GFZ
Invited Talk @ Cambridge-Oxford
Invited Talk @ Gordon, 2025
Invited Talk @UMD
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Invited Talk @GFZ
Rifts and Rifts Online Seminar https://www.gfz.de/sektion/geodynamische-modellierung/projekte/rift-and-rifted-margins-online-seminar -
Invited Talk @ Cambridge-Oxford
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Invited Talk @ Gordon, 2025
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Invited Talk @UMD
Department of Geology Lunchtime Seminar (Feb. 24 2021) Submarine Detection of the Bottom of Oceanic Plates: Silencing the Singing of Sediments
Invited Talks
—Upcoming Talks—
- IASTG Conference, Accra Ghana (July 22-24, 2026). Africa Reassembled.
—Distinguished Lectures—
- Study of Earth’s Deep Interior (SEDI) (Jun 23-28, 2024). A Global Taxonomy of Upper Mantle Layering
- Imaging Science & Technology (IS&T) (Jan 25, 2024). Taking Pictures of Planetary Interiors using Powerful Computers
- Syracuse, Nelson Lecture (November 14, 2019). The Softness in Earth’s Stiffest Rocks from Probabilistic Earth Imaging with Ground Vibrations
—Other Notable Lectures—
- Gordon Research Conference (June 25, 2025). On the Structure and Evolution of the Oceanic Plate
- University of Oxford (June 20, 2025). On the Detection of Mantle Stratification with Sparse Transforms
- University of Cambridge (June 18, 2025). On the Nature and Origin of Global Mantle Discontinuities
- Wayne State University (Nov. 20, 2024). On the Study of Planetary Vibrations: Earth Imaging Signals and Algorithms
- University of Delaware (Sep 26, 2024). On the Study of Planetary Vibrations: Earth Imaging Signals and Algorithms
- University of Rochester (Aug 14, 2024). On the Study of Planetary Vibrations: Earth Imaging Signals and Algorithms
- University of Memphis (March 22, 2024). Earth Imaging with Noisy Signals: Algorithms and New Insights on the Crust, Mantle and Core
- NorthWestern University (Jan 5, 2024). Africa Whole & In Parts: Crustal Taxonomy from Machine Learning on Ground Vibrations
- Virginia Tech (Nov 3, 2023). Africa Whole & In Parts: Crustal Architecture & Taxonomy from Ground Vibrations
- Solid Earth Doctoral School, Barcelonnette France (Oct 3, 2023). Seeing into the Mantle by Sifting through Echoes, Reverbs & Noise
- AGU Fall Meeting (Keynote), Chicago, USA (December 2022). Africa Whole & in Parts: Crustal Architecture & Taxonomy from Machine Learning on Noise Maps
- Meliora Talk, University of Rochester (Oct 13, 2022). On Quakes, Bombs, & Earth’s Anatomy
- University of New Mexico (Nov 4, 2022). Stochastic Imaging of Africa’s Lithosphere: ADAMA
- Carnegie Institute of Washington (May 12, 2022). Seismic Imaging of Ocean Plates in a Water World: Waves, Echoes, and Tides
- Florida International University (Nov 5, 2021). The Structure of Oceanic Plates using Machine Learning on Seafloor Vibrations
- McGill University (Oct 22, 2021). The Structure of Oceanic Plates using Machine Learning on Seafloor Vibrations
- Cornell University (Oct 13, 2021). Stochastic Imaging of Africa’s Lithosphere: ADAMA
- AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (December 1-17, 2021). Origin of Mid-Lithosphere Discontinuities in the South-Eastern US
- UTexas at Austin (April 23, 2021). Submarine Seismic Imaging of the Ocean Plate: Silencing the Singing of Sediments
- UCSB (April 15, 2021). Submarine Exploration of Ocean Basins: Silencing the Singing of Sediments
- Lamont Columbia University (April 7, 2021). Submarine Exploration of Ocean Basins: Silencing the Singing of Sediments
- Univ of Buffalo (Mar. 31, 2021). Machine Learning on Ground Vibrations
- University of Hawaii (Mar. 19, 2021). Why are Hotspot Islands Subaerial?
- Tulane University (March 12, 2021). The African Lithosphere with Probabilistic Seismology
- UCL (Mar 5, 2021). Submarine Detection of the Bottom of Oceanic Plates
- University of Maryland (Feb. 24, 2021). Submarine Detection of the Bottom of Oceanic Plates
- University of Cambridge (Nov 25, 2020). How Sharp is the Bottom Boundary of the Oceanic Plate?
- MIT (Nov. 6, 2020). On the Origin of Orphan Tremors and Intraplate Seismicity in West Africa
- Georgia Tech (Sept, 2020). On the Origin of Orphan Tremors and Seismicity in West Africa
- University of Kentucky (August 5, 2020). A Geophysical Investigation of the Puzzle Within Continental Lithosphere
- AGU Centennial (December 16, 2019). Regionalized Properties of the Lowermost Mantle from Spherical Slepian Analysis
- Brown University (October 31, 2019). Probabilistic Earth Imaging with Ground Vibrations: Explaining the Softness in Earth’s Stiffest Rocks
- Brown University (October 21, 2019). The Puzzle Within Cratonic Lithosphere: Inferences from Ground Vibrations and Rock Rheology
- Africa Science Week, Abuja Nigeria (October 23-25, 2019).
- UR Georgen Institute of Data Sciences (June 26, 2019). Probabilistic Earth Imaging with Ground Vibrations: Explaining the Softness in Earth’s Stiffest Rocks
- IRIS REU Education and Outreach Talks (May 26-29, 2019). Introduction to Seismology
- SSA, Seattle Washington (April 23-26, 2019). Slepian Functions
- Colgate University (Feb 5, 2019). Understanding the Softness in Earth’s Oldest Rock
- AAAS Annual Meeting Flash Talk (Feb. 16, 2019). Building a Seismic Network in Africa
- NEF Fellow Spotlight Session, Kigali Rwanda (March 26, 2018).
- Nifty Fifty Talk at Mount Eagle Elementary School ( March 9, 2018). Ears to the Ground: Seismic Spectrum and Its Applications
- Binghamton University, Geology, New York, USA (February 9, 2018). Structure of the US Continental Crust from Probabilistic Imaging Using Earth-Scope Data
- George Mason University, New York, USA (February 1, 2018). Structure of the US Continental Crust from Probabilistic Imaging Using Earth-Scope Data
- Yale University Career Panel (November 3, 2017). The Path to Tenure Track
- Gordon Research Seminar (June 3, 2017). Connecting Plates to the Deep Interior
- MIT – FISH (Spring, 2017). Crustal Structure in the US: A Bayesian Approach
- University of Rochester (April 5 -6, 2017). Probing the Crust with Seismology: A New Approach
- UC Los Angeles (March 20-22, 2017). Probing the Crust with Seismology: A New Approach
- UC Santa Barbara (March 16, 2017). Probing the Crust with Seismology: A New Approach
- Georgia Tech (Feb. 23 – 24, 2017). Regionalization and Composition of the US Crust by Probabilistic Seismic Fingerprinting
- Virginia Tech (Feb 3, 2017). The Structure of the US Crust: New Insights from Probabilistic Seismic Imaging
- Oklahoma State University, Boone Pickens School of Geology (Jan 27, 2017). Understanding the Softness in Earth’s Lithosphere
- AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, USA (December 12, 2016). Multi-scale probabilistic imaging with the USArray
- AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, USA (December 12, 2016). The “Seismic LAB”: A test for the grain boundary-sliding model
- The Geological Society of Washington (September 14, 2016). Mapping the Crustal Structure of the Conterminous USA Using Surface Waves
- DTM, Carnegie, Washington DC (July 28, 2016). A Re-appraisal of Crustal Structure in North America using Probabilistic Seismic Imaging
- Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA (Feb 15 & 16, 2016). Seismological Investigations of the Crust and Ears to the Ground: Seismic Spectrum and its Applications
- University of Maryland, College Park (Feb 5, 2016). Seismological Investigations of the Crust
- IRIS Minority Recruitment Speaker Series – Howard University (Jan 27, 2016). Ears to the Ground: Seismic Spectrum, Applications and Careers
- Princeton University, New Jersey, USA (April, 2015). The Composition of the Continental Crust: A Transdimensional Approach
- Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA (September 17, 2014). The Bottom Boundary of Earth’s Tectonic Plates: A view from Teleseismic Scattered Waves and Anelastic Behaviour of Mantle Minerals
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, USA (April 2, 2014). The Lithosphere Asthenosphere Boundary: Mineral Physics Modeling, Seismological Signatures, and High Resolution Receiver Function Methods
- AGU fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (December 11, 2013). Structure of the Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary: Seismological Constraints from Receiver Functions
- Yale University, Bouchet Seminar (Fall 2012). Earth Hubble Telescope: Methods for Investigating Planetary Interiors and Prospecting Earth’s Resources