Ludek Klimes
Minor biographical details

Selected international conferences and lectures

1994:

• EGS General Assembly, Grenoble, France, 1 oral presentation

1995:

• Elf Geoscience Research Centre, London, United Kingdom, 1 lecture
• Institut Francais du Petrole, Pau, France, 1 lecture
• University of California at Santa Cruz, USA, 1 lecture
• Western Atlas, London, United Kingdom, 1 lecture
• EGS General Assembly, Hamburg, Germany, 1 oral presentation
• 57th EAGE Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom
• 65th SEG Annual Meeting, Houston, USA
• Karlsruhe Workshop on Effective-Media Concepts for Seismic Wave Propagation, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Workshop Meeting on Seismic Waves in Laterally Inhomogeneous Media 4, Trest, Czech Republic, 1 oral presentation

1996:

• 58th EAGE Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2 posters
• Computation of Multi-Valued Traveltimes, Rocquencourt, France, 2 oral presentations

1997:

• INRIA, Rocquencourt, France, 1 lecture
• 59th EAGE Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1 poster
• 67th SEG Annual Meeting, Dallas, USA, 3 oral presentations

1998:

• 60th EAGE Conference, Leipzig, Germany

1999:

• 69th SEG Annual Meeting, Houston, USA, 1 oral presentation

2000:

• 70th SEG Annual Meeting, Calgary, Canada, 3 oral presentations
• Workshop Meeting on Seismic Waves in Laterally Inhomogeneous Media 5, Zahradky, Czech Republic, 3 oral presentations

2001:

• Geometrically Based High Frequency Wave Methods with Applications, IPAM, University of California Los Angeles, USA, 1 invited lecture
• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, 1 lecture
• 965th AMS Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• 71st SEG Annual Meeting, San Antonio, USA, 4 oral presentations

2002:

• 10th International Workshop on Seismic Anisotropy, Tutzing, Germany, 1 oral presentation
• Optical Society of America (OSA) Annual Meeting 2003, Orlando, USA
• 11th Venezuelan Geophysical Congress, Caracas, Venezuela, 4 presentations (3 oral, 1 poster)
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA Intevep), Los Teques, Venezuela, 1 lecture
• GO++ Winter School on Numerical Methods for HJ/HJB Problems, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France, 1 poster presentation

2003:

• 27th International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging, Saarbruecken, Germany, 1 poster
• EAGE/SEG Summer Research Workshop on 'Processing and imaging of seismic data' Using explicit or implicit velocity model information?, Trieste, Italy, 2 oral presentations
• 8th SAGA Biennial Technical Meeting and Exhibition, Pilanesberg, South Africa, 4 oral presentations

2004:

• URSI 2004 International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Pisa, Italy, 1 invited oral presentation

2005:

• Schlumberger Cambridge Research, United Kingdom, 3 lectures
• Relativistic Coordinates, Reference and Positioning Systems, Salamanca, Spain, 1 oral presentation
• Workshop Meeting on Seismic Waves in Laterally Inhomogeneous Media 6, Hruba Skala, Czech Republic, 1 oral presentation, 1 poster

2006:

• 6th international conference on Stereology, Spatial Statistics and Stochastic Geometry (S⁴G), Prague, Czech Republic

2007:

• Workshop on Finsler geometry and its Applications, Balatonfoldvar, Hungary, 1 oral presentation

2008:

• Finsler Extensions of Relativity Theory (FERT - 2008), Cairo, Egypt, 1 oral presentation

Papers in non-reviewed journals

• V. Cerveny, L. Klimes & I. Psencik (2004): Propagation of shear waves in inhomoheneous weakly anisotropic Earth interior (in Czech). Cs. Cas. Fyz., 54, 179-181.

PhD theses supervised

• Petr Bulant: Calculation of multivalued ray-theory travel times in complex 3-D structures (1994-1997; one of the winners of the 1999 Young Physicists Poster Prize Competition by European Physical Society; 1999 Van Weelden Award from European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers)
• Karel Zacek: Gaussian packet prestack depth migration (2001-2005)

Master theses supervised

• Petr Bulant: Two-point ray tracing in 3-D (1992-1994)
• Karel Zacek: Smoothing the Marmousi model and optimization of the shape of Gaussian beams for Gaussian packet migration (1999-2001; Award of the Minister of Education awarded annually to the best 5 university students in the Czech Republic; Award of Merit from Society of Exploration Geophysicists for the Best Student Paper presented at 2001 SEG annual meeting)
• Libor Sachl: Inversion using ray methods (since 2009)