AI4Seismology Training School 2025

We are pleased to announce the upcoming International Training School “AI 4 Seismology”, scheduled for May 5-8, 2025. This training program aims to explore the synergies between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Seismology, and provide a comprehensive platform for knowledge sharing and skills development.

This training school is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and professionals in the fields of seismology, geophysics, computer science, and related disciplines who wish to enhance their expertise in AI applications for seismological research.

Program

Monday 05.05

14:00-15:30   Dr. Sven Schippkus
              Fundamentals in Earthquake / Environmental 
              Seismology & Instrumentation

15:30-16:00   30-min break

16:00-17:30   Dr. Robert Haase & Maximilian Joas
              Introduction to Machine Learning (supervised, unsupervised, deep learning)

17:30-18:00   Technical HPC set-up

18:00+        Icebreaker

Tuesday 06.05

08:30-09:15   Matthias Täschner
              Theory I: Transformers for time series ML

09:15-10:00   Matthias Täschner
              Theory I: Tutorial

10:00-10:30   30-min break

10:30-11:15   Prof. Dr. Tarje Nissen-Meyer
              Theory II: Physics Informed Neural Networks

11:15-12:00   Prof. Dr. Tarje Nissen-Meyer
              Theory II: Tutorial

12:00-14:00   2-hour lunch break

14:00-14:45   Dr. Martijn van den Ende
              Theory III: Graph Neural Networks

14:45-15:30   Prof. Dr. Andrew Curtis
              Theory IV: Advanced methods in probabilistic
              geophysical inversion (online)

15:30-16:00   30-min break

16:00-16:45   Dr. René Steinmann
              Theory V: Unsupervised Learning

16:45-17:30   Dr. René Steinmann
              Theory V: Tutorial

17:30+        Poster session + drinks

Wednesday 07.05

08:30-10:00   Prof. Dr. Marine Denolle
              Applications I + II: Earthquake seismology,
              phase picking, first-motion polarities

10:00-10:30   30-min break

10:30-11:15   Dr. Maria Tsekhmistrenko
              Applications III: UMAP

11:15-12:00   Dr. Han Xiao
              Applications IV: Denoising

12:00-14:00   2-hour lunch break

14:00-14:45   Prof. Dr. Jonathan Bedford
              Applications V: Neural Operators

14:45-15:30   Prof. Dr. Marine Denolle
              Dr. René Steinmann
              Dr. Josefine Umlauft
              Applications VI: Environmental signals (mass movements, 
              footfalls and vocalizations from wildlife, tree sway)

15:30-16:00   30-min break

16:00-18:30   Optional Tutorial ("Bring your own data")

19:00+        Scientific networking event at Moritzbastei

Thursday 08.05

08:30-10:00   Elias Werner
              Dr. Siavash Ghiasvand
              Dr. Christoph Lehmann
              Scaling workflows to Big Data

10:30-12:00   Elias Werner
              Dr. Siavash Ghiasvand
              Dr. Christoph Lehmann
              Scaling workflows to Big Data - Tutorial

12:00-14:00   2-hour lunch break

14:00-15:30   Dr. Robert Haase
              Data & Software Management, Open Source

Organizers

• Dr. Josefine Umlauft (ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Germany)

• Dr. Jannes Münchmeyer (ISTerre Grenoble, France)

• Dr. Martijn van den Ende (Université Côte d’Azur, France)

• Dr. Marius Isken (Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ Potsdam, Germany)

• Dr. Robert Haase (ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Germany)

Funding