Mauricio Sacchi, PhD

Area of Study / Keywords

Geophysics Inverse Problems Seismology

About

Education/Positions

• BSc (1988), UNLP, Argentina
• Ph.D. (1996), UBC, Canada
• Assistant Professor, UofA, 1997-2001  
• Associate Professor, UofA, 2001-2005
• Professor, UofA, 2005-
• Chair of Physics, UofA, 2010-2015
• Chair of Physics, UofA, 2016-2021
• Editor-in-chief, Geophysics, 2015-2017
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020-

Recognitions

• 2012 CSEG Medal
• 2014 SEG Honorary Lecturer for Central and South America
• 2015 CSEG Distinguished Speaker
• 2018 CSEG Symposium in honor of M D Sacchi
• 2019 Vigil Kauffman Gold Medal Award  
• 2023 Killam Annual Professor

Research

In collaboration with graduate students, I have been researching in the area of statistical and transform methods for seismic data processing, waveform imaging and inversion in applied and global seismology. Over the past ten years, we have become recognized for the development of algorithms for multi-dimensional seismic data reconstruction, de-noising and the application of sparsity promoting methods to seismic data processing. We are currently studying problems of optimal acquisition design for simultaneous source acquisition, imaging, and full waveform inversion.

• Google Citations
• Signal Analysis and Imaging Group
• Personal Website

Teaching

• GEOPH 326 (Introduction to Seismic Imaging) Winter 2019
• PHYS 699 (Advanced methods for geophysicists) Winter 2019
• GEOPH 326 (Introduction to Seismic Imaging) Winter 2018
• GEOPH 326 (Introduction to Seismic Imaging) Winter 2017
• PHYS 699 (Full waveform inversion) Winter 2017

• Careers in Geophysics
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PHYS 420 - Computational Physics

Basic principles; computational methods selected from finite-differences, matrix manipulation, variational techniques, discrete transforms, stochastic methods, lattice techniques; as applied to topics selected from nonlinear mechanics, chaotic systems; electrodynamics; wave propagation; statistical physics; quantum mechanics; condensed matter. Prerequisites: PHYS 234, 244, PHYS 381, MA PH 251 or MATH 337 or ECE 341 or equivalent. Recommended pre- or corequisites: MA PH 343, PHYS 311, PHYS 372, PHYS 472, and PHYS 481. Familiarity with a programming language strongly recommended.

PHYS 580 - Computational Physics

Basic principles; computational methods selected from finite-differences, matrix manipulation, variational techniques, discrete transforms, stochastic methods, lattice techniques; as applied to topics selected from nonlinear mechanics, chaotic systems; electrodynamics; wave propagation; statistical physics; quantum mechanics; condensed matter. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor.

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