GEO9620 – Seismic Waves and Seismology
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
This course gives a basis for understanding how elastic waves, generated by earthquakes or controlled sources, propagate through the earth and thus provide information about its interior.
Learning outcome
When you have completed this course, you will be able to
- explain how elastic waves propagate through the Earth
- quantify how interfaces reflect, refract and convert seismic waves
- quantify how elastic properties like attenuation and anisotropy affect the waveforms
- use numerical modelling to simulate wave propagation
- use ray theory and discuss its strengths and limitations
- explain the basic principles of seismic tomography
- read and present recent publications on wave propagation
Admission to the course
PhD candidates from the University of Oslo should apply for classes and register for examinations through?Studentweb.
If a course has limited intake capacity, priority will be given to PhD candidates who follow an individual education plan where this particular course is included. Some national researchers’ schools may have specific rules for ranking applicants for courses with limited intake capacity.
PhD candidates who have been admitted to another higher education institution must?apply for a position as a visiting student?within a given deadline.
Recommended previous knowledge
- MAT1100 – Calculus
- MAT1120 – Linear Algebra
- IN1900 – Introduction to Programming with Scientific Applications / MAT-IN1105 – Programming, Modelling and Computations (discontinued) / INF1100 – Introduction to programming with scientific applications (continued)
- FYS-MEK1110 – Mechanics (discontinued)
- GEO2140 – Solid Earth Geophysics / GEL2140 – Geophysics and global tectonics (continued)
- GEO2300 – Geophysical Modelling
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with GEO4620 – Seismic Waves and Seismology.
Teaching
Teaching in the course consists of lectures/colloquia, including problem-solving. The students will present articles elaborating on subjects in the course. There are up to 4 mandatory exercises. The presentations and the mandatory exercises have to be approved before you can sit the final exam.
Attendance at the first lecture is compulsory. Students who fail to meet are considered to have withdrawn from the course unless they have previously given notice to the Student administration (studieinfo@geo.uio.no).?
We reserve the right to change the teaching?form and examination of the course in semesters where 5 or fewer students have been admitted.
Examination
Up to 4 mandatory exercises/presentations must be approved before you can sit the final examination.
A final oral examination counts 100% towards the final examination.
Mandatory assignments are valid for 5 semesters starting from the semester they were approved the first time.
It is possible to take the exam up to 3 times. If you?withdraw from the exam?after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.
It will also be counted as 1 of the 3 attempts to sit the exam for this course if you sit the exam for the following course:
Examination support material
Language of examination
Courses taught in English will only offer the exam paper in English.
You may write your examination paper in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.
Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass, the original examination.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.