Area of specialization Geophysics
Contact:
P. Tackley
Please comment on your experience with these courses
below under the corresponding headings. Always specify the semester and the name of the lecturer. In particular mention what you have perceived as prerequisites and dependencies.
General Remarks
There are some recommended combinations in the CSE guidelines. It’s a good idea to choose such a combination because the courses in a combination do either overlap a bit or complement each other. However, you can also choose a not recommended combination and you won’t have much of a disadvantage.
Specific Remarks on Courses
Continuum Mechanics
Numerical Modelling I and II
Dynamics of the Mantle and Lithosphere
Spring semester 2021:
(Lecturer: A. Rozel)
This is an interesting standalone course that can be taken outside of any recommended combination. There is no exam but there are 4 mandatory homework sheets, all at the beginning of the semester. The exercises are about applications of a wide theory, covered in the lectures, that doesn’t go too deep into detail. There are also some Matlab programming exercises involved, mostly about plotting some curves in the Mantle / Lithosphere. The exercises do require some time and effort but they aren’t too hard and don’t require any prerequisite courses.
Numerical Modelling for Applied Geophysics
Tomographic Imaging
Seismology of the Spherical Earth
Spring semester 2021:
(Lecturers: M. van Driel, S. C. Stähler)
This course is all about seismology and wave equations. You should have some knowledge about wave equations already before you take this course. It’s also good if you’ve heard of p-waves and s-waves already but they will also get introduced again in this lecture. The exercises and the exam are mostly about applications and finding solutions to such wave equations. But you should also focus on the theory behind it because some of the exam questions might be different to the ones covered in the exercise sheets. There are few programming exercises (in Matlab) and the exam doesn’t involve any programming.
Inverse Theory I
Inverse Theory II
Numerical Modelling in Fortran
Seminar in Geophysics for CSE
