Presentation
Over the past twenty years, observations of geohazards—earthquakes, landslides, and glacier collapses—have evolved from sparse measurements to spatially resolved time series generated by diverse sensors (boreholes, seismic networks, satellites). Laboratory experiments reproducing hazard initiation have also advanced, aided by new sensors and large facilities like synchrotrons, producing large datasets. Recent machine learning techniques can extract tiny signals from noise and simulate the progression of rock and ice toward system-scale failure. Fran?ois will review these developments, focusing on how AI has advanced understanding of geohazard onset and propagation in a context where climate change and human activities affect their occurrence.
Speaker
Fran?ois Renard is Director of the Njord Centre, a cross?disciplinary geoscience–physics environment at the University of Oslo. He has extensive expertise in geophysics and geochemistry, focusing on how fluids circulate in the Earth’s crust and interact with rock deformation in contexts such as earthquakes, landslides, glacier dynamics, and carbon?dioxide storage. In recent years he has initiated partnerships with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and other large user facilities to develop rock?deformation and fluid?flow apparatuses that replicate conditions at depth in the Earth. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and a recipient of the Louis Néel Medal from the European Geosciences Union.
Program
12:00?– Doors open and lunch is served
12:15?– "Earthquakes, landslides, glaciers instabilities: toward an AI revolution" by Fran?ois Renard (Professor,?Department of Geosciences)
13:15 – Mingling (and goodbye)
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